...circumstances, give us reason to doubt. He one day remarked to a friend in the library at Houghton : " I wish I took as much delight in reading as you do ; it would be the means of alleviating many tedious hours, but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." His son Horace also informs us that...

...friend reading in his own library at Houghton he expressed this xxvi. feeling. "I wish," he said, "I took as much delight in reading as you do ; it would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement ; but to my misfortune I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." And again in the...