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Title: Literary by-paths in old England
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Shelley, Henry Charles
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ofthe nightingale heard among these trees in thetwilight to-day is the same that oft-times hathCharmd magic casements, opening on the foamOf perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. In the one long straggling street of the villagewe draw nearer the present age; but not much.Away towards the east a few monstrosities ofbrick and slate blot the old-time landscape withtheir hideous straight lines and discordant roofs. How nice it would be, exclaimed an admirer, if we had a long row of houses like that! Ruskins life-work has borne no harvest in thatstony soil. But to the west, there, where theroad bends towards the old church, stand cot-tages out of which Anne Hathaway or MasterWilliam Shakespeare might step at any moment.Lovingly the weather-stained thatch has growninto harmony with the old walls over which itspreads its mantle, and the roses climb up frombeneath to kiss the ancient roof-tree with theirblushing petals. But thatch is so unhealthy,you know, suggests a Girtonian hygienist. 128
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IN OLD ENGLAND Mollycoddles that we moderns are! Even if itwere — what then ? Life is vastly overrated inthese days ; too much is done for the survival ofthe unfittest. But is it ? Those heroes who laidthe proud Armada low were bred under roofs ofthatch. What walks there are in this old-world village!There are footpaths everywhere, and none of

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