This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...and Alfred Russel Wallace. John Ruskin observes especially that we first remember places. A parting, whether temporary or eternal, often makes the first deep impression on the mind of a little child. Alexandre Dumas remembers nothing before his father's death, neither does the godly Robert Blair, who says--poor baby!- ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...and Alfred Russel Wallace. John Ruskin observes especially that we first remember places. A parting, whether temporary or eternal, often makes the first deep impression on the mind of a little child. Alexandre Dumas remembers nothing before his father's death, neither does the godly Robert Blair, who says--poor baby!--that "at his interring, I used my bairnly endeavoring to be in the grave before him." Baron Marbot and Colonel Meadows Taylor, like George Sand, recollect a childish accident; and Josiah Flynt Willard's first memory is of the first manifestation of his life-long passion for running away. Sir Symonds d'Ewes, that learned lawyer, was not likely to pass over his first memory, for at three years old he crept into his grandfather's wine-cellar and drank himself into unconsciousness. "It brought me very near my grave," he declares, and, as a matter of reaction, caused him to loathe all liquor for the rest of his life. K Scott's friend, "Jupiter" Carlyle, remembers the drowning of a boy comrade, to whom he had confided his halfpence to buy some sweets. The loss of the sweets made an indelible impression. Alexander Bain remembers being at dame's school at three years old; and Massimo d'Azeglio remembers posing for a "putto" to a painter friend of Alfieri's, when he was a restless little child of four. It is rather curious to find the pains of childhood, persisting over and beyond the joys. There is not a single one among the memories just cited that is of a delight; in fact, the only definite case here of joyful first memory appears to be Goldoni, in whom the gift of a puppet-show, when he was four years old, produced transports of pleasure which have survived all other impressions. If we glance back over these ...
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8vo, pp. 451. Slight staining on some pages, notes on back endpapers, little marking in text, o/w VG. A study of the autobiography as a literary form, based on 260 examples.
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