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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...gone far along the road to Freshwater Bay some tree or plant will again stop him. Then he suddenly breaks off with: " But what is the good of speaking to you about this? You are as bad as your father, who noticed nothing, and did not even know his own fields from mine. You once took a lily of the valley for a snowdrop." And then the conversation passes to literature, or personal reminiscence, or poetry, or metaphysics. But soon the sound of the cuckoo, perhaps, brings it back: --" Do you hear that note? It differs from what we heard a week ago. If you want to remember when to listen for the cuckoo learn the lines I learnt in Lincolnshire as a boy." And he repeats the old verse: --" In April he opens his bill, In May he sings all day, In June he changes his tune, In July away he does fly, In August go he must." Conversation never flagged: neither did the rapid pace at which the poet walked--except when he would stand still for a minute to tell some story with particular emphasis. I remember his humorous satisfaction at Aldworth in 1881 because he and I had distanced Mr. (now Sir Richard) Jebb and another friend, who were detected sitting down to rest some hundred yards or more behind us. " I am over seventy and he is not forty, yet I can outwalk him," Tennyson said. The remarkable suppleness of his joints remained until a year before his death, and at Christmas, 1891, as we came home from our walk, he climbed a difficult gate without help; and as we approached Farringford he ran--literally ran--down a hill, as he had often done in earlier years. He was then eighty-two years old. Before passing to some of our talks on matters of deep and permanent interest, I must give as their setting some sayings and stories on various subjects which I noted down...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150473272
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 146
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150473274
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 272 gr


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