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[293] Slain in a duel.

[294] Webster was parish-clerk at St. Andrew’s, Holborn. The anxious

recurrence to church-matters; sacrilege; tomb-stones; with the

frequent introduction _of dirges_; in this, and his other tragedies,

may be traced to his professional sympathies.

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