Schloss and Town (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... SCHLOSS AND TOWN. BY FRANCES MARY PEARD, AUTHOR OF "THE ROSE-GARDEN," "CARTOUCHE," "MOTHER MOLLY," ETC. COPYRIGHT EDITION. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LEIPZIG BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ 1882. The Right of Translation is reserved. Boswell.--Pray, sir, ' do you not suppose there are fifty women in the world with any one of whom a man may be as happy as with any one woman in particular? Johnson.--Ay, sir; fifty thousand. Boswell.--Then, sir, you are not of opinion with some who imagine that certain men and certain women are made for each other; and that they cannot be happy if they miss their counterparts? Johnson.--To be sure not, sir. I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter. Then he asked of a traveller passing by, "Pray, sir, what is that country yonder? There, where the hills are so blue and high?" And when the traveller had told him the name (-If the place where the blue hills now were seen, Alas, poor man 'twas the very same Where, till then, he had all his life long been: The country about his native town--His birthplace--whence he had just been banish'd. The blue hills there he had never known, And the blue hills here, which lie loved, had vanish'd. "And have I been living, then, all this while In a blue land--really and truly blue?" The exile sigh'd with a sorrowful smile, "And never dream'd of it? can it be true? Never dreamed of it All seem'd grey, Or dusty white, with a patch or two Of lean green grass, or raw red clay, To enliven the rest. But blue?... blue?... blue?" Robert, Lord Lytton. Love's not a flower that grows in the dull earth, Springs by the calendar; must wai...