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A. W. Kinglake |
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Subtitle
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A Biographical and Literary Study
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Rev. W. Tcikwell
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| Category
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Criticism
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| Language
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English
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| Published
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1902
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European life; {6} longed with all his soul for the excitement and stir of soldiership,
from which his shortsightedness debarred him; {7} rushed off again and again into
foreign travel; set out immediately on leaving Cambridge, in 1834, for his first
Eastern tour, "to fortify himself for the business of life." Methley
joined him at Hamburg, and they travelled by Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Vienna,
to Semlin, where his book begins. Lord Pollington's health broke down, and he
remained to winter at Corfu, while Kinglake pursued his way alone, returning to
England in October, 1835. {8} On his return he read for the Chancery Bar along
with his friend Eliot Warburton, under Bryan Procter, a Commissioner of Lunacy,
better known by his poet-name, Barry Cornwall; his acquaintance with both husband
and wife ripening into life-long friendship. Mrs. Procter is the "Lady of
Bitterness," cited in the "Eothen" Preface. As Anne Skepper, before
her marriage, she was much admired by Carlyle; "a brisk witty prettyish clear
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