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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. 1890. Excerpt: ... later death-stricken Calvert which had been part of his uncle Raisley's possession of soul. The old Quaker stock is still in him; with the desire that was at bottom of Raisley's heart when he made it possible for Wordsworth to help his age; the desire which was, as Carlyle tells us, at the root of Sterling's being, to know 'by what means is a noble life still possible for us here.' What Sterling found to be the characteristic of John Calvert, till 1842, all those who have known John Calvert's sister, Mrs. Stanger, of Fieldside, till 1890, have found to be hers also. If one wanted words to paint the character of that venerable friend whose loss we now deplore, one would surely say that 'simplicity, benevolence, practical good sense, and moral earnestness ' were her unfailing characteristics also. To return to that little happy child community that blessed the Keswick Valley in the first decade of this century. We must remember that the same year that the guns were heard roaring off the Isle of Man, and Southey and the apothecary and the eighteen sworn men were like to have stood to arms in the Keswick market-place, for fear of the French--if only the poet had not been too sorely busy in his newly plastered library, correcting the proofs of 'Madoc'--there was born, as the April night faded into May, a little daughter into the home of Greta Hall. 'I had a daughter, Edith, hatched last night, for she came into the world with not much more preparation than a chicken, and no more beauty than a young dodo, ' wrote Robert Southey to Miss Barker on March 1,1804. And thus Sara Coleridge, sixteen months the senior, for she was born at Greta Hall, December 22, 1802, had a baby cousin for her playmate. In the following August, the two Keswick infants were to be blessed...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154304909 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154304906 |
| Weight | 1.51 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.04 In |
| List Price | $33.12 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 468 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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