The Poetical and Prose Remains of Edward Marsh Heavisides (Classic Reprint)

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My father has referred to a study that was fitted up for my brother Ned at home; that room it was my proud distinction to be allowed the key of, and to have full sanction to read any of the books there; some old tomes were there of antique make that Mr. Thomas jennett was said to have given Ned when he finished his apprenticeship, the English poets were there in all their glory and many a mental feast I had after tidying up the room and making the fire ready for lighting. Unlike Jack, my brother Ned was reserved and stately nevertheless, he would point out to me the beauties of the various works on his book-shelves. Well I remember how he explained to me the meaning of The Ancient M miner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and that it inculcated the lesson of humaneness by showing what sufferings were the result of one wanton act of cruelty. My father said truly that my brother's muse was pure and gentle; that is exemplified in his first poem, the Meeting of the Minstrels, where the contest is a bloodless one, and not the din of arms, but the melody of harps charm the ear. One verse always seemed to me peculiarly characteristic of its author, viz.

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