A book of memories of great men and women of the age, from personal acquaintance (1877)
Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo, Wordsworth Collection · London, Virtue · leaf 272
as he lived. = 54 MEMORIES. ^ Just two months before completing his seventy-fifth year he quietly sank torest. The oil was exhausted, the light had burned gradually down.*- When I saw him last he was yielding to the universal conqueror. His loose andstraggling white hair thinly scattered over a… … THE HOUSE IN WHICH LEIGH HUNT DIED. speaking yet, in sentences eloquent and impressive ; his form partially bent, butenergetic and self-dependent, although by fits and starts—Leigh Hunt gave me theidea of a sturdy ruin, that wears the mossy vest of time, but which, in assumingthe graces that belong…
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