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Fenland Notes and Queries (Volume 4); A Quarterly Antiquarian Journal for the Fenland, in the Counties of Huntingdon, Cambridge, Lincoln, Northampton, Norfolk, and Suffolk


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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.1900 Excerpt: ... That God's wise providence our lot hath thrown, And the disposal of it is his own. He once indeed was rich, and now he's poor, But yet he is, but what he was before. 215 And all his interval of plenty seems, As airy visions and delusive dreams. FINIS. Many notes are given. Some of these indicate the passage in Milton, Ovid, Horace, or Virgil, which the author has imitated. Some explain the mythological allusions, or some less familiar words. None of these need be printed here. Those that have more special interest for our readers are the following: --V. 27.--The patient fen-man, 3jo. This epithet is most strictly applied to him, since the life of a North-American savage is vastly preferable to his. They both live by their gun: the one traverses the woods and mountains in search of his prey, and retires at night to a warm cabin, with plenty of fuel to warm the rigour of the climate; the other in a little skiff, which a puff of wind would overset, paddles about the water till the evening, and comes home wet and cold to his miserable hut, and he's scarcely dry and warm all night in his bed. The American Indian also bears a near resemblance to our hero, as a fisherman, he has his canoe, and ventures upon the sholes in search of fish, he has also his favourite dog to attend him, and hopes that as he is his constant and faithful companion in this life, he will be in another. But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Ess. on Man. B. I, V. 62.--The red-brich'd front, the sashes' glitt'ring glass. This whole character is realized in one John Leaford: he was a common labourer in the fen, called a banker, and in drowned years, provided for his family, according to the custom of the country, by killing wild fowl. He was employed by...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154214758
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154214753
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 299 gr


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