This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...time practising as a lawyer in Philadelphia, he "emigrated " to England, and entered the Church, having wedded a lady of Pennsylvania against the consent of her father, "a stern merchant." "She had Quaker breeding," and although of a proverbially "fierce race "--the Shewells--she was meek, kindly, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...time practising as a lawyer in Philadelphia, he "emigrated " to England, and entered the Church, having wedded a lady of Pennsylvania against the consent of her father, "a stern merchant." "She had Quaker breeding," and although of a proverbially "fierce race "--the Shewells--she was meek, kindly, and Christian; and from her, no doubt, the poet derived much of the gentle urbanity and generous sympathy that were essential features in his character. To her, also, he traces a "constitutional timidity " that " often perplexed him through life;" it is not so much seen in his books as it was in his conversation and conduct. This characteristic was noticed by many, who wondered that so " mild " a person should have embarked on the stormy sea of politics, and have become a fierce partisan of the pen. His father, not long after he made his home in England, took orders, and became tutor to the nephew of the Duke of Chandos, whose name was Leigh, after whom he called his latest-born, who was nine years younger than the youngest of his brothers, of whom there were several. His father had the spiritual cure of Southgate; and there, Leigh Hunt writes, "I first saw the light." Southgate was then "lying out of the way of innovation," with a pure sweet air of antiquity about it, on the border of Enfield Chase, and in the parish of Edmonton. The house is yet standing, and I have engraved it. The neighhourhood retains much of its peculiar character; it has still "an air of antiquity;" of old houses and ancient trees many yet remain; the forest is, indeed, gone, but modern " improvements " have but little spoiled the locality. In 1792 he entered...
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None Stated. Good. A selection of biographical monographs and intimate reminiscences of over 120 writers, artists and actors, Full calf leather prize binding with attractive gilt tooling to spine. Illustrated with many lovely black and white in text illustrations. Samuel Carter Hall was intimate with most of the well-known celebrities of his day. This book contains biographical monographs and intimate reminiscences of over 120 writers, artists and actors, including Thomas Moore, Maria Edgeworth, John Banim, Charles Maturin, Richard Lalor Shiel, John Constable, William Carleton, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wlliam Godwin, Jeremy Bentham, Washington Irving, Walter Savage Landor, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Southey and many others. The third edition. In a full calf binding. Externally, there is some wear to the extremities, particularly to the spine which is faded and becoming detached. The spine label is chipped and both boards are also faded. The front and rear hinges are strained but holding. The binding is tight and firm and both covers are attached. Internally, the book is clean and bright apart from some isolated spotting affecting the front and rear end papers only. Good.
