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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. 1818 edition. Excerpt: ...And whenever I got in a field, felt my soul in it--Spring, so that like a young horse I could roll in it, --My inclinations are much what they were, And cannot dispense, in the first place, with air; But then I would have the most rural of nooks Just near enough town to make use of it's books, And to walk there, whenever I chose to make calls, To look at the ladies, and lounge at the stalls. To tell you the truth, I could spend very well Whole mornings in this way 'twixt here and Pall Mall, And make my gloves' fingers as black as my hat, In pulling the books up from this stall and that: --Then turning home gently through field and o'er style, Partly reading a purchase, or rhyming the while, Take my dinner (to make a long evening) at two, With a few droppers-in like my Cousin and you, Who can season the talk with the right-flavour'd attic, Too witty, for tattling, --too wise, for dogmatic;--Then take down an author, whom one of us mentions, And doat, for a while, on his jokes or inventions; Then have Mozart touched, on our bottle's completion, Or one of your fav'rite trim ballads Venetian: --Then up for a walk before tea down a valley, And so to come back through a leafy-wall'd alley, In which the sun peeping, as into a chamber, Looks gold on the leaves, turning some to sheer amber: Then tea made by one, who (although my wife she be), If Jove were to drink it, would soon be his Hebe; Then silence a little, --a creeping twilight, --.... Then an egg for your supper, with lettuces white, And a moon and friend's arm to go home with at night. Now this I call passing a few devout hours Becoming a world that has friendships and flowers; That has lips also, made for still more than to chat to; And if it has rain, has a rainbow for that too. Lord bless...
| ISBN-13 | 9781151349422 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1151349429 |
| Weight | 0.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 104 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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