Praeterita; Outlines of Scenes And Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life
The book Praeterita; Outlines of Scenes And Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life was written by author Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Here you can read free online of Praeterita; Outlines of Scenes And Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Praeterita; Outlines of Scenes And Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life a good or bad book?
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Whether in the biography of a nation, or of a single person, it is ahke impos- sible to trace it steadily through successive years. Some forces are failing while others strengthen, and most act irregularly, or else at uncorresponding periods of renewed enthu- siasm after intervals of lassitude. For all clearness of exposition, it is necessary to follow first one, then another, without con- fusing notices of what is happening in other directions. I must accordingly cease talk of pictorial and rh...ythmic efforts of the year 1835, at this point ; and go back to give account of another segment of my learning, which might have had better consequence than ever came of it, had the stars so pleased. 196. I cannot, and perhaps the reader will be thankful, remember anything of the VOL, I, ^57 ji 2 S 8 PR^TERITA. Apolline instincts under which I averred to incredulous papa and mamma that, ' though I could not speak, I could play upon the fiddle.' But even to this day, I look back with starts of sorrow to a lost opportunity of showing what was in me, of that manner of genius, on the occasion of a grand military dinner in the state room of the Sussex, at Tunbridge Wells ; where, when I was something about eight or nine years old, we were staying in an unadven- turous manner, enjoying the pantiles, the common, the sight, if not the taste, of the lovely fountain, and drives to the High Rocks.
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