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The Life and Correspondence of M.g. Lewis; With Many Pieces in Prose and Verse, Never Before Published
The Life and Correspondence of Mg Lewis With Many Pieces in Prose and Verse Never Before Published Author:Matthew Gregory Lewis General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: H. Colburn Subjects: Authors, English 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-... more »Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. Correspondence continued -- Visit to Scotland -- Contribution to newspapers -- Domestic matters. A Few months after his return to England, Lewis paid his first visit to Scotland, and passed some time at Bothwell Castle, the seat of Lord Douglas. His movements, about this time, seem to have been exceedingly erratic, and his attendance at the university most irregular. The letter next in order, although without date, appears to have been written early in December ; and as he had then been in the north for some time, it is evident that he had been residing there during a considerable portion of the Oxford term. After Christmas, however, he returned to college: but this circumstance, together with his repeated absence from the university, in London and elsewhere, at other times, and for shorter periods, only serves to render a record of his college career the more difficult and perplexing. As Lewis was intended by his father for diplomacy, his studies seem to have been directed rather to subjects likely to be of service to a statesman and man of the world, than to those scholastic honours so indispensable in the learned professions. Hence, instead of spending his vacations in reading Greek, he passed them abroad, in the study of modern languages ; and to the same cause may, in a great measure, be attributed this seeming neglect of his academical pursuits. " Bothwell Castle, Sunday, 12th. " My Dear Mother, " I shall just write a few lines to you, to thank you for your letter, and inform you of my future motions. I leave this place o...« less