The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781154298208
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1852. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... MEMOIR OF REV. RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM. CHAPTER I. Mr. Barham's Family -- Reginald Fitzurse and Thomas a Becket-- Tappington--Serious Accident--Strange Conduct of the "Next of Kin "--St. Paul's School--Dr. and Mrs. Roberts--Poetical Criticism ---Brazenose College--Theodore Hook's Matriculation--Regular Habits --Determination to enter Holy Orders--Melancholy Death of an Undergraduate--" My Cousin Nicholas "--Mr. Barham presented to the Curacy of Westwell--Anecdote of one of his Parishioners--His Marriage--Inducted to the Living of Snargate--Smugglers--Romney Marsh and its Clergy--Anecdote--Ghost Story--"Baldwin"--Journey to London--Elected Minor Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral. T is hardly to be denied, that, though sought after with considerable avidity, memoirs of literary men form the least satisfactory portion of biography; either being, for the most part, deficient in point of incident, or exciting a painful interest by disclosures of a melancholy and forbidding cast. We shall here find no exception to the general rule: if the subject of the present sketch was removed from the daily struggles and temptations of those unfortunate or improvident sons of genius whose necessities compel them to "forestall the blighted-produce of the brain," his career, on the other hand, was unmarked by events of a more animating and romantic turn. His course, indeed, resembled one of those unnumbered, nameless streams, which pass from the springhead into ocean without a "rapid" and without a check. To this easy flow of life, his sacred calling naturally contributed; but, as the grave details of his professional experience could not with propriety be introduced in a work of this description, the reader must, once for all, be requested to bear in mind, that it is intended in the...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154298208 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154298205 |
| Weight | 0.63 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 190 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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