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Dame Yearsley reminds me of the Troubadours, those vagrants whom I used to admire till I knew their history; and who used to pour out trumpery verses, and flatter or abuse accordingly as they were housed and clothed, or dismissed to the next parish. Yet you did not set this person in the stocks, after procuring an annuity for her!
"Stephen proposed that we should the next morning set out on our journey eastward; but as I thought it possible that Mr Yearsley would by that time have got back to the settlement, I undertook to go and search for him or to try and find any of the other people, and learn what had become of him. Stephen agreed to this; undertaking to look after the children and guard the waggon during my absence.
"O Betty, what have you done?" cried Kitty, growing quite alarmed. "Is she is she dead?" asked Betty in an awful whisper. "Who? Poor Aunt Pike? No; Dr. Yearsley told me she is just ever so slightly better." "Oh!" gasped Betty, a world of relief in her sigh, "I am so glad. Then I ain't a a murderess at least not yet.
Gloom and perplexities in quick succession oppressed the Bristol milkwoman, and her fall became more rapid than her ascent! The eldest of her sons, William Cromartie Yearsley, who had bidden fair to be the prop of her age; and whom she had apprenticed to an eminent engraver, with a premium of one hundred guineas, prematurely died; and his surviving brother soon followed him to the grave!
"`But these children, Mr Yearsley! You would not have us desert them! And my brother is too much injured, I fear, to accompany you, I observed. "He looked at the children for a moment. "`You are right, he answered. `Stay by them; or rather, make your way back eastward with them. Ignorant as you are of the habits of the savages, you could aid me but little.
Could such incongruous materials coalesce? Ann Yearsley's suit, no doubt was urged with a zeal approaching to impetuosity, and not expressed in that measured language which propriety might have dictated; and any deficiency in which could not fail to offend her polished and powerful patroness. Ann Yearsley obtained her object, but she lost her friend.
Death of Robert Lovell Mr. Southey's course of historical lectures Mr. Coleridge disappoints his audience Excursion to Tintern Abbey Dissension between Mr. Coleridge and Mr. Southey Incidents connected with Mr. Coleridge's volume of Poems Mr. Coleridge married to Miss Sarah Fricker Household articles required Notices of Wm. Gilbert, Ann Yearsley, H. More, and Robert Hall Mr.
Now lie still, and rest for a little while and have some food. You are exhausted, and I want strong reliable helpers, not any more patients," with a smile that robbed his words of any harshness. "You and I have our hands full." Kitty smiled up at him bravely. "I am ready to do anything I am wanted to. How is Aunt Pike?" anxiously. "May I see her? Is she very ill?" Dr. Yearsley looked grave.
Cowley, &c. are left like daisies, plucked from the greensward, to perish beneath unfeeling neglect. Who now reads the verses of Ann Yearsley, the poetic milkwoman, who was so lauded beyond her deserts, by Mrs. H. More? few or none. Why is this revolution in public taste?
The baneful effects arising from a charge of ingratitude in Ann Yearsley towards her benefactress, might be the proximate means of dooming to penury and death some unborn Chatterton, or of eclipsing the sun of a future Burns. Hannah More discovered that the woman who supplied her family daily with milk, was a really respectable poetess.
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