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There are a number of books, besides these, which make capital reading Clara Morris's "Life on the Stage," Joseph Jefferson's autobiography, Stoddart's "Recollections of a Player," and Henry Austin Clapp's "Reminiscences of a Dramatic Critic," among them. The material for the other chapters has been gathered from many sources, none of which is important enough to be mentioned here.
I was passing across the hall, following the "white wolf" to Mr Stoddart's room, when the drawing-room door opened, and Miss Oldcastle came half out, but seeing me drew back instantly. A moment after, however, I heard the sound of her dress following us. Light as was her step, every footfall seemed to be upon my heart. I did not dare to look round, for dread of seeing her turn away from me.
"I have got a key to the conjuring story of Alexandria and Grand Cairo. I have seen very distinct letters of Sir John Stoddart's son, who attended three of the formal exhibitions which broke down, though they were repeated afterwards with success. Young Stoddart is an excellent Arabian scholar an advantage which I understand is more imperfectly enjoyed by Lord Prudhoe and Colonel Felix.
Arnold writes: "Two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood, One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude." The young Stoddart's two desires were poetry and fishing. He began with poetry. "At the age of ten his whole desire was to produce an immortal tragedy . . . Blood and battle were the powers with which he worked, and with no meaner tool.
The two following works had the same object in view: 534. Knox's Tour in the Highlands of Scotland and the Hebrides. 1786. 2 vols. 8vo. Buchanan's Travels in the Western Hebrides, 1782-90. Lond. 1793. 8vo. Cardonnel's Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of the North of Scotland. 1798. 4to. Stoddart's Remarks on the Local Scenery and Manners of Scotland, 1799-1800. Lond. 1801. 2 vols.8vo.
My chief occupation has been driving with Frere. Dr. Liddell declines a handsome fee. I will want to send some oranges to the children. I am to go with Col. Bathurst to-day as far as to wait on the bishop. My old friend Sir John Stoddart's daughter is to be married to a Captain Atkinson. Rode with Frere. Much recitation. December 6.
Ever since one was a small boy, reading Stoddart's "Scottish Angler," and old Blackwood's, one had pined for a sight of "The Necromaunt," and here, clean in its "pure purple mantle" of smooth cloth, lay the desired one! "Like Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought, It gave itself, and was not bought," being, indeed, the discovery and gift of a friend who fishes and studies the Lacustrine Muses.
"Poor Stoddart's gone, for one!" "Poor fellow, I am sorry," exclaimed the captain with much feeling. "We couldn't have lost a better man, for he was about the best we had on board, poor fellow a good engineer, a good mess-mate, and good at everything he handled, besides being the finest fellow that ever wore shoe leather. How did it happen?"
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