The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, volume 2 (of 2) By His Wife, Isabel Burton

"Because I'm with the swallow, however far he flies; Because the lark within me leaps upwards to the skies; Because, where'er there's singing of birds on hill or plain, We catch...

On the 24th of October, 1872, Richard left England for Trieste, to pass, though we little thought it then, the last eighteen years of his life. He was recommended to go to Tries...

"His fine wit Makes such a wound the knife is lost in it: A strain too learned for a shallow age, Too wise for selfish bigots. Let his page, Which charms the chosen spirits of t...

On the 2nd of January, 1889, we moved ourselves to the Hôtel des Alpes at Montreux. The journey is only an hour. It was bitterly cold, but the temperature rose fourteen degrees...

A change now came over our circumstances for the worse, and here we begin the last seven years of his life, three and a half years of long gout sicknesses, on and off, without a...

We embarked at once for India. Baron D'Alber, my husband's best friend, the local Minister of Finance in Trieste, and the Captain of the Port, came in the Government boat to tak...

"Oh, call it by some better name, For Friendship is too cold; And Love is now a worldly flame, Whose shrine is made of gold; And Passion, like the sun at noon, Who burns up all...

I think that these valuable letters written by Richard in 1886, a year before he became an invalid, are too precious not to be reproduced in this difficult crisis, regarding Hom...

And Shakespeare's spirit visits earth to tell How he and Washington are very well; And Lindley Murray, from the body free, Can't make his verbs and nominatives agree; Ben Frankl...

Early this year two sad things happened, which interested Richard very much--the death of Carlyle, 5th of February, with all the different opinions expressed at the time; the di...

index, etc.). It is profusely illustrated by the author's hand with maps and plans, genealogies and coats of arms, scenery and castles, costumes and portraits; and, lastly, with...

Dr. Baker had a most unpleasant journey. Not having done it before, he came with full confidence, without a greatcoat, without a brandy flask, without food, and as soon as he ar...

1887 opened with fearful weather, fog and snow. On the 5th of January we left London for good, and went to the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, where Richard could see his own relati...

"I have the honour to report that during a late excursion to the Natron Lakes, lying north-north-west of Cairo, I came upon the track of a small but vigorous branch of slave tra...

We made a pilgrimage to Hughenden to visit the grave of Lord Beaconsfield, and to put a wreath. We went to the Lyceum on the 10th of June, to see _Romeo and Juliet_, and had the...

On our return from India, Richard produced "Sind Revisited" (2 vols., 1877) and "Etruscan Bologna" (1 vol.), which had been some time in preparation, but had not found a publisher.

I am afraid all this "gup," as Richard would call it, will be considered rather light and frivolous about places so well known, but I want to give every word my husband has said...

Then Richard gave a lecture at the Architects', and we made up a party to go. We had a very curious visit one night from a gentleman who had occupied a position in one of the Go...

We meet by accident in Venice and go to Trieste--Richard as a "Celebrity at Home"--Articles by Alfred Bates Richards--Cicci--A wild race--Opçina--Trieste life--And environs--Rom...

Our last happy day--The sword falls--He is called away--The sixty hours between death and funeral--The funeral at Trieste--The dreadful time that followed--Colonel Grant attacks...

Diet for Ireland--Another postscript--Treatment of Catholics and loyalty--We winter in Marocco--Richard made a K.C.M.G.--A bad hurricane at sea--I have another fall--Naples--The...

Richard's first bad attack of gout--His leave of absence--We return to Trieste--Streams of visitors--Richard's second attack of gout--Gordon's death--Colonel Primrose's death--L...

Cannes and Society--The earthquakes--Riviera--Richard becomes an invalid--His own account of it--Our journey with Dr. Leslie--Drains--The Queen's Jubilee--Richard's speech--_All...

A remarkable visit--On leave in London--We leave London--I get a bad fall--The Austrian Scientific Congress--A ghost story--Excursions--Richard sends me home to a bone-setter--R...

Hyderabad in the Deccan--Elephant riding--Ostrich race--Hospitality--Eastern hospitality at Hyderabad--Golconda--The famous Koh-i-noor--Regret at leaving the Deccan--Towers of S...