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Title: Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire: illustrative of the works of Robert Bloomfield: accompanied with descriptions: to which is annexed a memoir of the poet's life
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Subjects: Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823 England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London Vernor, Hodd, and Sharpe, Poultry
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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notice from beingthe place where Bloonifield commenced his humblecareer as the * Fanna-s Boy; a situation which in-troduced him to the knowledge of those rural em-ployments and occupations which he has delineatedwith so much felicity and correctness. Here his first thoughts to Natures charms iuclind.Which stamps devotion on th inquiring mind. It affords an instructive lesson, and is an agree-able retrospect, to trace the Poet from his presentcircumstances, as an author high in the public esti-mation, to the early years of his life, when he wasemployed in the field, which forms the foregroundof the annexed Print, to scare birds from the corn ;and where frequently, basking in the sun at thefoot of that aged, and now almost sapless, elm, bythe focus of a glass he consumed his paper, and histime, unconscious of the purposes to which theywere destined by futurity. The scenerj^ round thefarm has been greatly injured within the last twenty-five or thirty years, by felling most of the timber.
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