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The Anniversary; Or Poetry and Prose for Mdcccxxix.
The Anniversary Or Poetry and Prose for Mdcccxxix Author:Allan Cunningham General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1829 Original Publisher: Sharpe Description: Engravings by J.H. Robinson, W.R. Smith, C. Rolls, E. Goodall, E. Finden, W. Finden, B.P. Gibbon, R. Wallis, T. Crostick, S. Sangster, W. Greatbatch, H. Robinson, and J. Thompson, after Sir T. Lawrence, C. Stanfield, R.P. Bonnington, W... more ». Linton, Sir W. Beechey, M.A. Shee, W. Allan, W. Hamilton, E. Landseer, R. Westall, J.M.W. Turner, H. Howard, F. Danby, J. Hoppner, F.P. Stephanoff, T. Gainsborough, G. Barrett, and W. Harvey. Subjects: English literature English poetry Gift books Gift-books (Annuals, etc.) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: EPISTLE FROM ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ. TO ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. Well, Heaven be thanked! frieud Allan, here I am, Once more, to that dear dwelling place returned, Where I have passed the-whole mid stage of life, Not idly, certes, .. not unworthily,.. So let me hope ; where Time upon my head Hath laid his frore and monitory hand ; And when this poor frail earthly tahernacle Shall be dissolved . . (it matters not how soon Or late, in God's good time;) . . where I would fain Be gathered to my children, earth to earth. Needless it were to say how willingly I bade the huge metropolis farewell; Its dust and dirt and din and smoke and smut, Thames' water, paviours' ground, and London sky ! Weary of hurried days and restless nights ; Watchmen, whose office is to murder sleep, When sleep might else have "weighed one's eyelids down;" Rattle of carriages, and roll of carts, And tramp of iron hoofs ; and worse than all, (Coafttsion leing worse confounded then With coachmen's quarrels, and with footmen's shouts) My next door neighbours, in a street not yet...« less