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The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis (Volume 2); With Many Pieces in Prose and Verse, Never Before Published

The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis (Volume 2); With Many Pieces in Prose and Verse, Never Before Published

Lewis, Matthew Gregory

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ISBN10: 1150788666
ISBN13: 9781150788666
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.39 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1889. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. Acts of charity and kindness--Anecdotes-- The White Cottage --Its mistress and its guests--A pordigal protege DEGREES There is no period of Lewis's life, in which we do not discover a rich vein of feeling running, like the golden ore in the mines of Golconda, through the hidden recesses of his heart. The large fortune which came into his possession on his father's death, made no alteration in his habits or character. He still continued to occupy his cottage at Barnes, and his apartments in the Albany; his mode of life was the same, and the only increase of pleasures which his fortune afforded him, was the means he acquired by it of adding to the happiness of others. He allowed his mother one thousand a year, a sum which he also secured to her on his death; and he was equally beneficent to others in the proportion of their claims upon his bounty. No man could be more charitable and humane; the poor man's appeal never fell coldly upon his ear, and all his acts of kindness had the merit of being without ostentation. He was in the habit of falling into deep trains of thought during his walks, and on these occasions any interruption very much disconcerted him. He was well known to all the mendicants frequenting the places which he usually passed, and having found their lengthened expression of thanks nearly as inconvenient and perplexing to him as the appeals themselves, he was in the habit of carrying loose sixpences in his pocket, and when beset by these troublesome applicants, he thrust the douceur upon them, with No more words! and hurried on with the most whimsical dread of further molestation. In one of these solitary wanderings, he was overtaken by a thunder-storm, and the violence of the rain obliged him to take shelter without ceremony at a...

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