. In the old paths: memories of literary pilgrimages . oes not believe in Shenstones School-mistress, for, after all, Sarah Lloyd may have been atrifle antiquated in her methods. We forgive thePrincess for her imperfect sympathy ; it is greatly a SHENSTONE, A POET OF ARCADY 157 matter of temperament. And so once again I replacethe volumes, not this time in their temporary resting-place in Arden, but in their permanent home amid thegoodly fellowship of other dusty volumes in dim gold,written by Shenstones contemporaries, whose namesI have fondly mentioned in this paper, that gloriouscompany of
. In the old paths: memories of literary pilgrimages . oes not believe in Shenstones School-mistress, for, after all, Sarah Lloyd may have been atrifle antiquated in her methods. We forgive thePrincess for her imperfect sympathy ; it is greatly a SHENSTONE, A POET OF ARCADY 157 matter of temperament. And so once again I replacethe volumes, not this time in their temporary resting-place in Arden, but in their permanent home amid thegoodly fellowship of other dusty volumes in dim gold,written by Shenstones contemporaries, whose namesI have fondly mentioned in this paper, that gloriouscompany of the immortals who adorned an essentiallyliterary age. XII THE LADIES OF THE VALEMEMORIES OF LICHFIELD J? A city of Philosophers. Dr. Johnson. Freedom I love, and form I hate,And choose my lodgings at an inn. Shenstone. THE LADIES OF THE VALE MEMORIES OF LICHFIELD TJALF-PAST ten, a fine night, alls well!X X Such was the cry that rang out into the even-ing air as a figure with a lantern hurried round theCathedral close and stopped now and again to pro-. DISTANT VIEW OF LICHFIELD. claim the hour and the weather to no one in was a survival of times past, an answer to theold,old question, Watchman ! what of the night ? After busy days in the metropolis, I seemed to be M i6i i62 THE LADIES OF THE VALE suddenly carried back into the eighteenth century atleast. On a Saturday evening in late October I arrivedat the Trent Valley Station, and, picking out theSwan Inn coach, we rumbled slowly along through theshadows until, like Johnson and Boswell, we camewithin the focus of the Lichfield lamps. Two atleast of the old inns of Lichfield were associated withJohnson, The Three Crowns and The was to the former that Johnson brought Boswell in1776, when, after a comfortable supper, Boswell tellsus that he felt all his Toryism glow in the old capitalof Staffordshire, as he offered incense genio loci in theform of libations of that ale which Boniface, inThe Beaux Stratagem
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