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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 64 CHAPTER III. LAWRENCE IN LONDON DRAWING-ROOMS. We enter the Lawrence world on tiptoe, over carpets of three-pile velvet, softer than the flow- riest turf that fairy ever tripped on, in those moonlight games, where a mushroom was the maypole. .On the mantelpiece there is a clock of gold and amber, which ticks off the moments with a silvery chirrup, as if moments were not of the smallest consequence in fashionable life. There are gorgeous Titians on the wall, lapped in a luminous atmosphere of Venetian sunshine and sea air; there are Rembrandt scenes, where Jewish Rabbis and Dutch cavaliers seem holding some mysterious meeting in a cellar, where but one ray of light comes; there are radiantCuyps, and angelic visions of Murillo. As for the sofas, they are soft as clouds; and the curtains frame the windows with a rose-coloured light, as of sunshine penetrating through June flowers. It gives me rather a chill to step mentally out of this rose-leaf world, and to go back in memory to that faded genteel house in the parish of SS. Philip and Jacob, where the young genius was born. It is in the most wretched quarter of that city which the slave-trade enriched, that this raw brick house, with its square parallel windows and smoky walls, now stands. It is in the very centre of that whirlpool of mud that is called Bristol, far away from the stately streets where pompous merchants, fresh from the Exchange, talk over bygone business; far from the old mediaeval gateways and sculptured towers; far away from Chatterton's dim room above the porch; far from the silent quays and the old deserted squares, once the centre of wealth and fashion. The city that let Savage pine in prison, and Chatterton poison himself in Brook Street, is probably ignorant now that it ever gave birth to so small ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217729666
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 62
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217729665
  • Publisher Date: 09 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr


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