This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 Excerpt: ...mossy seats under several of the trees, so that it forms one of the happiest scenes for a rural fete imaginable. Pull-Court appears to me a place of superior beauty to Ragley or Lord Lyttleton's, and I wish it had a better name. Of late years the large old mansion has been modernized; and elegant furniture, a profusion ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 Excerpt: ...mossy seats under several of the trees, so that it forms one of the happiest scenes for a rural fete imaginable. Pull-Court appears to me a place of superior beauty to Ragley or Lord Lyttleton's, and I wish it had a better name. Of late years the large old mansion has been modernized; and elegant furniture, a profusion of fine engravings, metzo-tints, Little Mrs Dowdeswell, sensible and very lively, though twenty years younger than her excellent husband, loves him with animated tenderness, and alleviates the misfortune of long-extinguished sight by the most energetic and incessant attention, fche reads to him, she writes for him; and, when he is unemployed, she frolics about him with all the sweet-tempered gaiety of Rosalind. His own industrious ingenuity assists her affectionate endeavours to make him forget his calamity. He knotted all the fringe of his furniture himself; he hung all his pictures and prints; knows, and can point out the beauties and defects of each. He placed with his own hands every book in his noble library, and can fetch any volume that is wanted without assistance. He repeats the whole Sunday evening liturgy to his family, with solemn and harmonious accuracy. I was affected even to tears when I saw him stand up, and begin that sacred address. His fine height, majestic person, expressive features, and unaffected energy of tone and emphasis, combined with the consciousness of that darkness to which no earthly morning can come, thrilled my heart with blended sensations of pain and pleasure. Pull-Court has no gentleman's seat nearer than about five or six miles. Mr Dowdeswell's mother and sister were there; and, excepting the Bishop of Ely and his lady, who called one morning, we saw no other company while I staid. It is the custom of the...
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