The Carthusian A Miscellany In Prose And Verse PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... looked down; we mean, without further circumlocution, a dog and a spitting pan. Gentle, patient, enduring, (we hope not weary) reader! buoyed up, as we cannot allow ourselves to doubt, by the inspiriting hope of acquiring some definite information concerning the venerable Cole, you have journeyed on with us thus far with the mind of expectation stretched upon the tenter hooks of anxiety. " Whether," (we quote the language of the inimitable and immortal " Boz,") " whether it's worth while going through so much to get so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet," we humbly leave with you to decide. THE GIPSIES. In the following lines no attempt has been made to pursue the long-agitated inquiry into the origin of the singular race who form their subject; although, perhaps, a slight leaning to the opinion which assigns to them an Egyptian origin may be discoverable throughout. To the historian and the philosopher the duty of laborious and minute investigation belongs more properly than to the poet, to whom it must be more congenial to receive them as the wandering wreck of one of the mightiest nations of antiquity, than as the representatives of the most degraded class of a debased and contemptible people. For several parts of the Gipsy's speech the Author has to confess great obligations to Mr. G. P. R. James's admirable novel. Oh, Thou! who, careless of the outward frame, Still sway'st the Soul in ev'ry clime the same; Aw'd by no Power, by no Dominion quell'd, Crush'd, yet not slain; uptorn, yet unexpell'd; Great Nature, hear!--If e'er my raptur'd eye Hath lov'd to read thy page of mystery, -- Hath dwelt on bubbling fount or sunny hill The livelong day, yet dwelt unsated still; Hath mark'd full oft, with...