Thomas Campbell (English Authors S.) - Hardcover

Miller, Mary Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805767282 ISBN 13: 9780805767285

Publisher: Twayne Publishers, 1979

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...'In the name of Providence,' he demands in desperation, 'how much can you scrape out of my books in Edinburgh? If you can dispose of a hundred volumes at fifteen shillings each, it will raise me £t$. I shall require £25 to bring me down to Scotland... and under 50 I cannot furnish a house, which, at all events, I am determined to do.' This request was made only nine days before the marriage, which was celebrated at St Margaret's, Westminster, on the 10th of October 1803--not September, as Beattie and Campbell himself have it. After a short honeymoon trip, the pair returned to town and settled down in Pimlico, where the father-in-law had considerately furnished a suite of rooms for them. Campbell's idea had been to make his home in some 'cottage retreat' near Edinburgh. He did not want society or callers; he wanted to be sober and industrious; therefore he would live in the country if he should have to go ten miles in search of a box. He dwells lovingly on this prospect in letters to his friends; but although he did not abandon the notion for some time, it never came to anything. As a matter of fact, his new responsibilities led to engagements which practically chained him to London; to say nothing of the circumstance that he had joined the Volunteers, in view of the threatened invasion of which he sung. Moreover, he had got into some trouble with his Edinburgh publisher, and probably he felt that his presence in or near the capital would only add to his personal annoyance. How different his after life might have been had he carried out his original intention, it is useless to speculate. As it was, he had not been long married when financial difficulties began to bear heavily upon him. He started badly by borrowing money from one...

Edition details

• Publisher: Twayne Publishers
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805767282
• ISBN 13: 9780805767285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 166