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[4] "_Very nearly forgotten_. "--Not quite however. It must be hard uponeighty or eighty-five years since she first commenced authorship--aperiod which allows time for a great deal of forgetting; and yet, in thevery week when I am revising this passage, I observe advertised a newedition, attractively illustrated, of the "Evenings at Home"--a jointwork of Mrs. Barbauld's and her brother's, (the elder Dr. Aikin. ) Mrs. Barbauld was exceedingly clever. Her mimicry of Dr. Johnson's style wasthe... best of all that exist. Her blank verse "Washing Day, " descriptive ofthe discomforts attending a mistimed visit to a rustic friend, under theaffliction of a family washing, is picturesquely circumstantiated. Andher prose hymns for children have left upon my childish recollection adeep impression of solemn beauty and simplicity. Coleridge, who scatteredhis sneering compliments very liberally up and down the world, used tocall the elder Dr. Aikin (allusively to Pope's well-known line-- "No craving void left aching in the breast") _an aching void_; and the nephew, Dr.
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