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: nolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall, thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tap. ping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, ? the gigantic body, the huge, massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the lirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and n. juth movim with convulsive twitches; we see the heavy form rolling; we hear it puffing, and then comes the
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You don’t see your way through the question, sir ! What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man ! To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion ! ? To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity ! ? To be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries ! That kind of fame which is commonly the most transient is, in his case, the most durable. The reputation o’ those writings, which he probably expected to be immortal, is every day fading; while those peculiarities of manner and that careless table- talk, the memory of which he probably thought would die with him, are likely to be remembered as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe. JOHN BUNYAN. The Pilgrim’s Progress, with a Life of John Bunyan. By Robert Southf.v, Esq., LL.D. Poet-Laureate. Illustrated with Engravings. 8vo. London. 1830. This is an eminently beautiful and splendid editio…
