Identifier: talesofadventure00lond (find matches)
Title: Tales of adventure and stories of travel of fifty years ago
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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rough Europe: nor the more expected, but not less solemn and strongly recognised departure of Sir Walter Scott: but neither of these exceeded that with which the news was received of the sudden decease of the still young and popular poetess, L. E. L. The apprehensions which the climate suggested, on the first tidings of her going out to Cape Coast Castle, did not even abate the abrupt effect of the news of her death. The mysterious circumstances attending it threw a tragic horror around it, and kindled an intense eagerness to penetrate their obscurity. The strange contrast between the youthful and buoyant spirit of L. E. L.s genius, and the sombre tone of her views of life and human nature, were not more startling and stimulant than that between her popularity and her fate. It is not our intention here to pause over this sudden quenching of so lovely and brilliant a luminary, nor to attempt to dissipate a single mystery which hangs over it. The subject of L. E. L.s first volume was love—a subject
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LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON (L.E.L By Daniel Maclise, R.A. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON 175 which we might have supposed, in one so young, would have been clothed in all the gay and radiant colours of hope and happiness; but, on the contrary, it was exhibited as the most fatal and melancholy of human passions. With the strange wayward delight of the young heart ere it has known actual sorrow, she seemed to riot and revel amid death and woe, laying prostrate hope, life, and affection. Of all the episodical tales introduced into the general design of the principal poem, not one but terminated fearfully or sorrowfully: the heroine herself was the fading victim of crossed and wasted affections. The shorter poems which filled up the volume, and which were, mostly, of extreme beauty, were still based on the wrecks and agonies of humanity. It might be imagined that this morbid indulgence of so strong an appetite for grief was but the first dipping of the playful foot in the sunny shallows of that flood of mort

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