. The essays of Leigh Hunt. ing. Seest thou the crowded swards of gold ? They wave to us Rose and Ring. O death-white mouth ! O cast me down ! Thou diest ? Then with thee I die. Seest thou the angels with a Crown ? We twain have reachd the sky. The greater part of the essays which follow are takenfrom The Indicator, The Companion and The Seer; some fromThe Wishing-Cap Papers, a collection of essays from variousmagazines, made in America in 1872, and containing someemendations made by Leigh Hunt on his own copies of TheTatler and The Literary Examiner. One is taken fromMen, Women and Books (184
. The essays of Leigh Hunt. ing. Seest thou the crowded swards of gold ? They wave to us Rose and Ring. O death-white mouth ! O cast me down ! Thou diest ? Then with thee I die. Seest thou the angels with a Crown ? We twain have reachd the sky. The greater part of the essays which follow are takenfrom The Indicator, The Companion and The Seer; some fromThe Wishing-Cap Papers, a collection of essays from variousmagazines, made in America in 1872, and containing someemendations made by Leigh Hunt on his own copies of TheTatler and The Literary Examiner. One is taken fromMen, Women and Books (1849), and five are from the very viii PREFACE curious and interesting early volume of dramatic criticisms:Critical Essays on the London Theatres (1807). The essaysfrom The Indicator, The Companion and The Seer are re-printed in most cases from the latest editions published dur-ing the lifetime of Leigh Hunt; two, however, which henever reprinted, are taken from the original edition .of TheIndicator (1819-21). ARTHUR C O NX ENTS PAGE A Flower for your Window I A Dusty Day ..... 8 The East Wind ..... H Autumnal Commencement of Fires 20 Country Little Known .... 24 Far Countries ..... 27 The Old Gentleman .... 33 The Old Lady ..... 4i A Walk from Dulwich to Brockham 45 Sunday in the Suburbs .... 77 Advice to the Melancholy 83 Of the Sight of Shops . . . 87 A Nearer View of some of the Shops 96 Coffee-houses and Smoking 105 On Washerwomen ..... 116 xii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Headpiece to Sunday in the Suburbs . Headpiece to Advice to the Melancholy Headpiece to Of the Sight of Shops . Tailpiece to Of the Sight of Shops With an easy and endless exactitude of toe Headpiece to Coffee-Houses and Smoking Impatient waiting for the newspaper Headpiece to On Washerwomen Headpiece to The Butcher Walks through an endless round of noise Headpiece to Fine Days in January and February Headpiece to Bad Weather Headpiece to Rainy-Day Poetry Headpiece to English and French Females . They ran
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