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“Earth is less fragrant now, and heaven more sweet.”
— LXI. "A Maiden's Epitaph", line 4.
“Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.”
— "England to Ireland", line 17; p. 55.
“Sea that breakest for ever, that breakest and never art broken.”
— "Hymn to the Sea", Part ii, line 5; p. 21.
“Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.”
— "Hymn to the Sea", Part iii, line 8; p. 27.

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Sir William Watson (1744–1824) was an English physician and naturalist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767 and knighted in 1796. He was mayor of Bath in 1801. He was the son of Sir William Watson the physicist, educated at Charterhouse School, and Queens' College and Gonville and Caius College of the University of Cambridge. He graduated M.B in 1766 and M.D. in 1771, and went into practice as a physician in Bath. Watson was a friend and associate of William Herschel, whom he met by chance in Bath in 1779. Notes

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