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The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey. Ed. by C.c. Southey (5)
The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey Ed by Cc Southey - 5 Author:Robert Southey Volume: 5 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1850 Original Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 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 ... more »Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XXXVI. PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS. -- MODE OF TUITION. -- MY Mnm :!(': ILLNESS AND REMOVAL TO YORK. -- FEELINGS UNDER AFFLICTION. -- EVIL EFFECTS OF ANXIETY UPON HIS HEALTH. -- CORRESPONDENCE WITH SIR H. PEEL CONCERNING THE OFFER OF A BARONETCY. JOURNEY TO SUSSEX. HE- TURN TO KESWICK. GRANT OF AN ADDITIONAL PENSION. -- LITERARY EMPLOYMENTS. THE DOCTOR. DEATH OF MISS HUTCHINSON. MR. WYON's MEDALLIONS. PRESENT FEELINGS AM) EMPLOYMENTS. -- SPANISH LITERATURE. -- WESTMINSTER SCHOOL. CAUSES OF ITS DECLINE. -- STATE Of His Spirits. -- Jackson's Wokks. -- Feelings or ThankFulness FOR HIS NEW PENSION. -- NOVEL MODE OF BOOKBINDING. LITERARY EMPLOYMENTS. RECOLLECTIONS OF C. LAMB. -- SINGULAR EFFECTS OF SOUND AND LIGHT. STATE OF THE CHURCH. -- LIFE OF COWPF. R. -- DIFFICULTY OF LEAVING HOME. -- IS SUBPOENAED TO A TRIAL AT LANCASTER. -- 1834 -- 1836. As my task draws nearer to its conclusion, it becomes naturally more painful; and the more so, because, in chronicling the events which darkened my father's later years, they rise up so vividly before my own sight. " It is my youth, that where I stand Surrounds me like a dream. The sounds that round about me rise Are what none other hears; I see what meets n0 other eyes, Though mine are dim with tears." A happier home or a happier boyhood than mine had been, it would not be easy to conceive. My Henry Taylor. father had so strongly imprinted on his memory the sad changes through which his own "gentle spirit" had to pass in childhood and boyhood; " The first grief he felt...« less