Pictures in a Mirror
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217530811
Paperback|9780217530811
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MILTON'S GOLDEN LANE. Ax old Lincolnshire clergyman, who used to visit Milton, has preserved a pleasing picture of the blind poet sitting in the summer evening to enjoy the fresh air at the door of his house near Bunhill Fields, where he would sometimes receive the visits of people of quality or distinguished parts. At that time the Artillery Ground was not shut in with houses. There were the grounds next to it planted by the City with shady walks for the recreation of the citizens. There were gardens and a windmill or two. Bunhill Fields were fields then; so were Spitalfields; so were Moor- fields; so were Spafields. Hereabouts, from old times, was the favorite resort of the citizens of London. In Henry the Eighth's reign, the people?jealous of an attempt to stop pastimes in the fields on the north side of the city wall by digging deep trenches in various parts?sallied forth in a mass, and filled them up again. I had been thinking of these things one day not long ago; of the flowery rivulets and noise of water107 wheels, which an old writer describes, on the north side of the city wall; of certain springs about the neighbourhood once bubbling up clear and bright in the midst of fields, and credited with many cures. I had been wandering on the north side of the city wall, or rather of the site on which that wall formerly stood. I had bidden the streets with the carts and coaches and the busy crowd all vanish, and the meadows come again. I had replanted vineyards, restored trees, gardens, and public walks. I had particularly restored three windmills which stood close together on a certain mount near here. Dirty sewers I had turned again into the flowery rivulets of the old writer, and with my mind's ear I had listened for the drowsy murmuring of water-wheels. ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217530811 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217530818 |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 156 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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