Praeterita; Outlines of Scenes And Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life

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Whether in the biography of a nation, or of a single person, it is ahke impos- sible to trace it steadily through successive years. Some forces are failing while others strengthen, and most act irregularly, or else at uncorresponding periods of renewed enthu- siasm after intervals of lassitude. For all clearness of exposition, it is necessary to follow first one, then another, without con- fusing notices of what is happening in other directions.
I must accordingly cease talk of pictorial and rh
...ythmic efforts of the year 1835, at this point ; and go back to give account of another segment of my learning, which might have had better consequence than ever came of it, had the stars so pleased.
196. I cannot, and perhaps the reader will be thankful, remember anything of the VOL, I, ^57 ji 2 S 8 PR^TERITA.
Apolline instincts under which I averred to incredulous papa and mamma that, ' though I could not speak, I could play upon the fiddle.' But even to this day, I look back with starts of sorrow to a lost opportunity of showing what was in me, of that manner of genius, on the occasion of a grand military dinner in the state room of the Sussex, at Tunbridge Wells ; where, when I was something about eight or nine years old, we were staying in an unadven- turous manner, enjoying the pantiles, the common, the sight, if not the taste, of the lovely fountain, and drives to the High Rocks.


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