Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With Lives
An anecdote told at large by Dr Beattie, Campbell's biographer (vol. I., pp. Illustrates the difference between the parents, and represents the future poet in a truly boyish predicament. Either Thomas or his brother Daniel was sent every morning a distance of about two miles, to inquire for a cousin of their mother's, a bedridden old lady, and the performance of this commission sometimes interfered with an intended blackberry-gathering, or other similar play. At length Thomas learned from Daniel the perilous art of deception, and, having gathered his blackberries, was in the habit of returning with a. Fictitious message to this effect.
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- PublisherAdamant Media Corporation
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1421272393
- ISBN 13 9781421272399
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages562