On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening

On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, - with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions

[Pg v] The following pages apply only to those English writers on gardening who are deceased. That there have been portraits taken of some of those sixty-nine English writers, whose names first occur in the following pages, there can be no doubt; and those portraits may yet be with their surviving relatives or descendants. I am not so presumptuous as to apply to the following most slight memorials, some of which relate to very obscure persons, who claimed neither "the boast of heraldry, nor the pomp of power," but whose useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure benefited society by their honest labour;I am not so vain as to apply to these, any part of the high testimony which Sir Walter Scott has so justly paid to the merit of Mr. Lodge's truly splendid work of the[Pg vi] portraits of celebrated personages of English history. I can only take leave to disjoint, or to dislocate, or copy, a very few of his words, and to apply them to the following scanty pages, as it must be interesting to have exhibited before our eyes our fathers as they lived, accompanied with such memorials of their lives and characters, as enable us to compare their persons and countenances with their sentiments:portraits shewing us how "our ancestors looked, moved, and dressed,"as the pen informs us "how they thought, acted, lived and died." One cannot help feeling kindness for the memories of those whose writings have pleased us.[1] ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 25773
Author: Felton, Samuel
Release Date: Jun 13, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English