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Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms--

Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of

Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and

Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing

with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of

it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University

Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under

Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley--

His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull

People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My

Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in

Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

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