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Mr. Southey has fallen, it seems, into a mournful condition: oblivion, mute hebetation, loss of all faculty.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas