From the Porch
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781152250734
Paperback|9781152250734
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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. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...Anna Seward herself must have trod this classic ground--one can almost see them all once more. Every day one reads of meaningless apparitions and passing visions. How much more to be realised and welcomed are the presentations of loving kindnesses not past, of fancy and fun and noble enthusiasm not over It was to witness no witchcraft, no raising of shadows, that we all assembled at the old hall at Lichfield on September 15, 1909. The Mayor and Corporation, the reporters, the Bishop and Chapter, the townspeople, all were there, to hear of Samuel Johnson once more, and in some mysterious way moved and responding at the same moment to the generous vibration which affected the orator, Lord Rosebery, and his charmed listeners when he spoke to them of the great man who had once dwelt in the old city, and who for the moment was present again. The Swan of Lichfield did not belong to the great; she was not of the order of Johnson and his compeers; but among all her absurdities and exaggerations a true note of human feeling exists in her letters and poems which will perhaps affect those who may not study her works, yet who cannot but recognise her warm-hearted sympathies, from which Johnson and Mr. Edgeworth alone were excepted. MRS. JOHN TAYLOR, OF NORWICH This paper was published in Macmillans Magazine some years before Mrs. Ross brought out her most interesting history of Three Generations of English Women. I In the earliest years of the present century, when Norwich was in its ascendant and giving its intellectual supper-parties; when the learned Dr. Sayers was sitting for his likeness to Opie; when Mrs. Barbauld had retired from Palgrave to the suburbs of London; when Elizabeth Gurney and her beautiful sisters, no longer galloping about the...
| ISBN-13 | 9781152250734 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1152250736 |
| Weight | 0.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 86 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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