Category: British Literature
The reader will, perhaps, remember that we brought our last year’s ramble amongst British Lands and Letters to an end--in the charming Lake District of England. There, we found Coleridge, before he was yet besotted by his opium-hunger; there, too, we had Church-interview with...
For many a page now we have spoken intermittently of that extraordinary man and poet--full of power and full of passion, both uncontrolled--whose surroundings we found in that p...
11. CHAPTER IV.We have wandered much in our two last chapters beyond what may be reckoned strictly English lands, into that pleasant region lying between the Tweed and the Firth of Forth; and...
13. CHAPTER VI.Our last chapter brought us into the presence of that vivacious specimen of royalty, George IV., who “shuffled off this mortal coil” in the year 1830, and was succeeded by that...
9. CHAPTER II.In our last chapter we took a breezy morning walk amid the Lake scenery of England--more particularly that portion of it which lies between the old homes of Wordsworth and of So...
8. CHAPTER I.The reader will, perhaps, remember that we brought our last year’s ramble amongst British Lands and Letters to an end--in the charming Lake District of England. There, we found...
12. CHAPTER V.We opened our budget in the last chapter with the _Quarterly Review_, which was just getting upon its legs through the smart, keen, and hard writing of Mr. William Gifford. It t...
10. CHAPTER III.Our last chapter was opened by a rather full sketch of Professor Wilson, and a briefer one of Thomas Campbell--who though of higher repute as a poet, was a far less interesting...
4. CHAPTER IV.6. CHAPTER VI.1. CHAPTER I.7. CHAPTER VII.5. CHAPTER V.2. CHAPTER II.3. CHAPTER III.