Rambles Roundabout: And Poems (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

George James De Wilde

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ISBN 10 : 1331702321 ISBN 13 : 9781331702320

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Mtraamm MF, according to the old proverb, those nations are the happiest which have no history, I think it may be stated with even greater truth that those lives are happiest whose records are least fnll of incidents. Each man seeks his oym happiness after his own fashion. But to me, from such observation as I have made, it does not seem that to have been an actor in great events; to have experienced many vicissitudes of fortune; to have known many men and many cities, adds much to the sum of, human happiness. Be this as it may, there were few lives more devoid of incident; more uneventful; more even in the tenor of their way, than that of the author of these Rambles Roundabout. Yet, looking back upon long years of intimate acquaintance and constant intercourse, I may say that I have never known any one to whom the epithet Happy might be more truly given. Such, I deem, must have been the impression lefb on the minds of all who knew him; and this record, brief and meagre as it necessarily is, would yet be wanting in its first duty, should it fan to convey if the metaphor may be pardoned me a certain reflection of the sunniness of a life so barren of events, so placid in its outward course. George James De Wilde was bom in London in the year 1804. His family wefre of Dutch origin, his grandfather having emigrated from Holland during the troubles in the close of the last century. His father was a painter of considerable reputation in his own line. The stage in the reign of George
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331702321
• ISBN 13: 9781331702320
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 283
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