The book The English Village; a Literary Study, 1750-1850 was written by author Patton, Julia, 1873- Here you can read free online of The English Village; a Literary Study, 1750-1850 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The English Village; a Literary Study, 1750-1850 a good or bad book?
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"He is a lying varlet who says I ever excited the poor to revenge. The single purpose of my writings is, to prevent the catastrophe which the oppressors of all are bringing on themselves and the nation." Here and there a touch of cynicism reflects his scorn of caste and oppression, as when f he thanks "two generous critics" who had praised his "little, unpufFed, unadvertised book" so highly that he was almost com- pelled to doubt whether he still Hved in England. "What! in the land of castes an...d cant, take a poor self-educated man by the hand, and declare to the world that his book is worth reading.?" But such cynicism is far less frequent than frank and sincere gratitude to critics and readers for their friendly reception and appreciation of his work. All through Elliott's childhood and youth he had the habit of running away from the foundries and factories of his native town and spending hours by himself, now delighting in the beauty of a little green snake curled up in the lee of a rock, and now studying the flowers of the * "When suicidal anti-profit laws speak to my heart from my children's trenchers — when statutes for restricting the industry of a population, which is only super-abundant because it is oppressed, threaten to send me to the treadmill, for the crime of inflicted want — ^when in a word, my feelings are hammered till they are 'cold-short' — habit can no longer bend them to courtesy; they snap— and fly ofiF in a sarcasm." Ibid.
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