Shakespeare's England . IN HONOUR OF EXALTED VIRTnES ADORNING A HFK OF NOBLE ACHIEVEMENT AND lATIENT KINDNESS AND IN REMEMBRANCE OF UD FAITHFUL AND GENTLE FRIENDSHIP CD I DEDICATE THIS BOOK Turn meae, si quid loquar audiendum,Vocis accedet bona pars 259154. PREFACE. Beautiful and storied scenes that havesoothed and elevated the mind naturallyinspire a feeling of gratitude. Promptedby that feeling the present author haswritten this record of his rambles in Eng-land. It icas his wish, in dwelling uponthe rural loveliness and the literary andhistorical associations of that delightfulrealm, to aff
Shakespeare's England . IN HONOUR OF EXALTED VIRTnES ADORNING A HFK OF NOBLE ACHIEVEMENT AND lATIENT KINDNESS AND IN REMEMBRANCE OF UD FAITHFUL AND GENTLE FRIENDSHIP CD I DEDICATE THIS BOOK Turn meae, si quid loquar audiendum,Vocis accedet bona pars 259154. PREFACE. Beautiful and storied scenes that havesoothed and elevated the mind naturallyinspire a feeling of gratitude. Promptedby that feeling the present author haswritten this record of his rambles in Eng-land. It icas his wish, in dwelling uponthe rural loveliness and the literary andhistorical associations of that delightfulrealm, to afford sympathetic guidance anduseful suggestion to other American travel-lers who, like himself, might be attractedto roam among the s}iri7ics of the motherland. There is no pursuit more fascinatingor in a high intellectual sense more remu-nerative ; since it serves to define and regu-late knowledge, to correct misapprehensionsof fact, to broaden the mental vision, to 7 8 PREFACE. ripen and rejine the judgment and thetaste, and to fill the memory with ennoblingrecollections. These papers commemoratetwo visits to England, the first made in1877, the second in 1882; they occasion-ally touch upon the same place or scene asobserved at different times; and
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