Poetical Works and Remains (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Poetical Works and Remains She was an excellent woman, and he describes her with affection in his poem upon Childhood. At a very early age his love of reading was decidedly manifested; it was a passion to which everything else gave way. ´I could fancy,´ said his eldest sister, ´I see him in his little chair, with a large book upon his knee, and my mother calling, "Henry, my love, come to dinner," which was repeated so often without being regarded, that she was obliged to change the tone of her voice before she could rouse him.´ When he was about seven, he would creep unperceived into the kitchen, to teach the servant to read and write; and he continued this for sometime before it was discovered that he had been thus laudably employed. He wrote a tale of a Swiss emigrant, which was probably his first composition, and gave it to this servant, being ashamed to show it to his mother. The consciousness of genius is always at first accompanied with this diffidence; it is a sacred solitary feeling. No forward child, however extraordinary the promise of his childhood, ever produced anything truly great. When Henry was about six, he was placed under the Rev. John Blanchard, who kept, at that time, the best school in Nottingham. Here he learned writing, arithmetic, and French. When he was about eleven, he one day wrote a separate theme for every boy in his class, which consisted of about twelve or fourteen. The master said he had never known them write so well upon any subject before, and could not refrain from expressing his astonishment at the excellence of Henry´s. It was considered a great thing for him to be at so good a school, yet there was some circumstances which rendered it less advantageous to him than it might have been. Mrs. White had not yet overcome her husbands intention of breeding him up to his own business, and by an arrangement which took up too much of his time, and would have crushed his spirit, if that ´mounting spirit´ could have been crushed, one whole day in the week, and his leisure hours on the others, were employed in carrying the butcher´s basket. Some differences at length arose between his father and Mr. Blanchard, in consequence of which Henry was removed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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