Visits To Remarkable Places Classic Reprint

Author : William Howitt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365246800
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Visits to Remarkable Places written by William Howitt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-20 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes Illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry These were exactly my feelings and ideas long before De Lamartine had thus penned them down; and who, indeed, has not experienced, more or less, the same impressions We need not visit the distant East to make the discovery; there is no country where the soil is more thickly sown with noble memories than our own, and those of the deeds, the sufferings and the triumphs of our own progenitors. It has long been my Opinion that to visit the most remarkable scenes of old English history and manners, and to record the impressions thence derived in their immediate vividness to restore, as it were, each place and its inhabitants to freshness, and to present them freed from the dust of ages and heaviness of antiquarian rubbish piled upon them, would be a labour responded to with emphasis by readers of the present day. The general approval of the experiment made in The Rural Life, by introducing visits to Newstead, Annesley, and Hardwicke, and the intimations of great interest in the announcement of this work, received from all quarters, convinced me that I was not mistaken. The field is a wide and a rich one. The present volume may be con sidered but as a precursor of others on this subject, in which I have long been engaged; and the plan of which will shortly be announced. I have to present my warmest acknowledgments, not only to many private individuals for valuable hints and information, but also to the possessors of places visited, for the very cordial and liberal manner in which they endeavoured to promote my object. 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.