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One thing Sir Thomas saw that Antwerp would no longer be the city it formerly was for commerce with England; and I may here remark, that he shortly afterwards wrote home, advising that in such brabbling times as these were, some other city should be fixed on, to which British manufactures might be sent. We had lately had a somewhat dull time in Master Clough's house.
I now wished that we had made some arrangement for changing our dresses, but it was too late to do that. Unwilling to return to Master Clough's house, we agreed that our best plan was to make our way direct towards the Water Gate, in which neighbourhood we hoped to fall in with Captain Radford and his party.
Paul's Cross pulpit was occupied one Sunday by a Lutheran, the next by a Catholic, the next by a Calvinist, all sides had a hearing, and the preachers knew that they would be pulled up before the same audience for what they might say." His own literary judgments were rather conventional. The mixture of classes in Clough's Bothie disturbed him.
More than this, it made Longfellow at once the most popular of contemporary English poets, Clough's "Bothie" a poem whose singular merit has hitherto failed of the wide appreciation it deserves followed not long after; and Kingsley's "Andromeda" is yet damp from the press.
We that is, the four members of our Oxford reading party were bathing in a deep pool in many-terraced Tees, and I was seated on a rock's edge, drying in the September sunshine, and quoting from Clough's 'Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich': 'How to the element offering their bodies, down shooting the fall, They mingled themselves with the flood and the force of imperious water,
There is the beautiful scenery of the "stripling Thames" to explore; the haunts of the immortal "Scholar Gipsy," and of Shelley, and of Clough's Piper, who "Went in his youth and the sunshine rejoicing, to Nuneham and Godstowe." Further afield men seldom go in summer, there is so much to delight and amuse in Oxford.
The reader will remember, as he reads it, that he is in the troubled year of 1848, with Chartism at home and revolution abroad. The "painful interest" with which the writer has read Clough's "Bothie" refers, I think, to the fact that she has recognized her second son, my father, as to some extent the hero of the poem. Fox How, Nov. 19, 1848.
Having a great deal to do, I took leave of her as soon as these arrangements were made, and hastened back to Master Clough's house. Here I was engaged till daylight in seeing his property packed, which was to be shipped in the morning, and in making arrangements with the clerks and servants who were still to remain.
"And to get your book. What book was it?" "The er Clough's poems." "How many copies have you? because one of them has been in my pocket for two days." "Well, I don't want it. Good-night!" She put out her hand. He took it and held it. The moonlight now was very bright, but not bright enough to reveal his smile or her blush. However, neither could be hidden from the second sight of love.
Andrew's, to Clough's reading party at Drumnadrochit in 1845, and their report of incidents which had happened to them on their way along the shores of Loch Ericht, which suggested the scheme of the "Bothie."
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