Essays
Essays
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But it may perhaps be worth while to give a sentence or two to illustrate his habit of viewing himself. On settling in London he writes : '' I am just settled in my new habitation in Southampton Row ; and though a solitary and dispirited creature, not ungenial nor wholly un- pleasant to myself. I live in the Museum and write volumes of antiquity." That was the sort of life that suited him. Nothing tires him, he declares, more than being entertained. "I am come to my resting-place, and find it v...ery neces- sary, after living for a month in a house with three women, that laughed from morning to night, and would allow nothing to the sulkiness of my disposition. Company and cards at home, parties by land and water abroad, and (what they call) €lotng somethings that is, racketing about from morning to night, are occupations I find that wear out my spirits, especially in a situation where one might sit still and be alone with pleasure ; for the place was a hill like Clifden, opening to a very extensive and diversified land- scape, with the Thames, which is navigable, running at its foot." He does not indulge much in anecdote, nor indeed in witticisms of a direct kind, but when he met with a story that pleased him, he sent it on.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But it may perhaps be worth while to give a sentence or two to illustrate his habit of viewing himself. On settling in London he writes : '' I am just settled in my new habitation in Southampton Row ; and though a solitary and dispirited creature, not ungenial nor wholly un- pleasant to myself. I live in the Museum and write volumes of antiquity." That was the sort of life that suited him. Nothing tires him, he declares, more than being entertained. "I am come to my resting-place, and find it v...ery neces- sary, after living for a month in a house with three women, that laughed from morning to night, and would allow nothing to the sulkiness of my disposition. Company and cards at home, parties by land and water abroad, and (what they call) €lotng somethings that is, racketing about from morning to night, are occupations I find that wear out my spirits, especially in a situation where one might sit still and be alone with pleasure ; for the place was a hill like Clifden, opening to a very extensive and diversified land- scape, with the Thames, which is navigable, running at its foot." He does not indulge much in anecdote, nor indeed in witticisms of a direct kind, but when he met with a story that pleased him, he sent it on.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Benson Arthur Christopher to read onlineMoreLess
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