The Journal to Eliza and Various Letters (Classic Reprint)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...may conceive others. / wish I was in Arno's Fa&t--This letter is probably lost. Consult Letter CXLI. July 2d--But I am in the Vale of Cox-would & wish You saw in how princely a manner I live in it--tis a Land of Plenty--I sit down alone to Venison, fish or wild foul--or a couple of fouls--with curds, and strawberrys & cream, (and all the simple clean plenty w a rich Vally can produce, --with a Bottle of wine on my right hand (as in Bond street) to drink yr. health--I have a hundred hens & chickens ab my yard--and not a parishoner catches a hare a rabbit or a Trout--but he brings it as an offering--In short tis a golden Vally--& will be the golden Age when You govern the rural feast, my Bramine, & are the Mistress of my table & spread it with elegancy and that natural grace & bounty w w heaven has distinguish'd You..--Time goes on slowly--every thing stands still--hours seem days & days seem Years whilst you lengthen the Distance between us--from Madras to Bombay--I shall think it shortening--and then desire & expectation will be upon the rack again--come--come--July 3? Hail! Haill my dear Eliza--I steal something every day from my sentimental Journey--to obey a more sentimental impulse in writing to you--& giving you the present Picture of myself--my wishes--my Love, my sincerity--my hopes--my fears--tell me, have I varied in any one Lineament, from the first sitting--to this last--have I been less warm--less tender and affectionate than you expected or could have wish'd me in any one of 'em--or, however varied in the expressions of what I was & what I felt, have I not still presented the same air and face towards thee?--take it as a Sample of what I ever shall be--My dear Bramine--& that is--such as my honour, my Engagements & promisses &..