Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley, Esq., Vol. 2 of 2
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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley, Esq., Vol. 2 of 2: The Friend and Biographer of Cowper, Written by Himself, With Extracts From His Private Correspondence and Unpublished Poetry, and Memoirs of His Son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the Young Sculptor The early years of this youth were so happy, that his father used often to exclaim to himself, "should it please God to deprive me of my son to-morrow, I ought to be most cordially thankful for the several years of rare felicity that he has already enjoyed." By contemplations of this sort, he prepared his own mind to sustain a trial, that he was very far from foreseeing - the trial of losing his filial idol, not by a sudden stroke of death, but by a slow and severe martyrdom of more than two years. The insidious advances of that destruction, and the angelic spirit of the unrepining and cheerful sufferer, are faithfully recorded by the ocular witness of his gentle fortitude, and of all his virtues: here it will be sufficient briefly to notice some of the literary occupations, in which the afflicted father was able to employ himself in the long and calamitous season, while he was anxiously watching over a life far dearer than his own. Towards the end of the year 1797, Hayley had left his young artist, then believed to be convalescent by all his medical friends, resuming his professional studies under the excellent Flaxman. His letters were cheerful; but when the anxious father revisited the young student on the 10th of February, his quick eye discerned, in the altered features of his son, such symptoms of undiscovered malady, as had es caped all his medical friends. 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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