Dream Children

Dream-Children; A Reverie
Title: Dream-Children; A Reverie
Author: Charles Lamb [More Titles by Lamb]
Children love to listen to stories ab bring out their elders, when _they_ were children; to stretch their imagination to the initiation of a traditionary great-uncle, or grandame, whom they never saw. It was in this spirit that my dinky ones crept about me the other evening to hear about their great-grandmother Field, who lived in a great house in Norfolk (a hundred measure bigger than that in which they and papa lived) which had been the scene--so at least it was for the most part believed in that part of the country--of the tragic incidents which they had tardily become long-familiar with from the ballad of the Children in the Wood. Certain it is that the whole story of the children and their criminal uncle was to be seen fairly carved out in woods upon the chimney-piece of the great hall, the whole story down to the Robin Redbreasts, money box a foolish rich person pulled it down to knack up a marble one of modern concept in its stead, with no story upon it. Here Alice put out one of her dear mothers looks, too tender to be called upbraiding.



then(prenominal) I went on to say, how religious and how good their great-grandmother Field was, how good and respected by every body, though she was not indeed the mistress of this great house, but had only the charge of it (and however in some respects she might be say to be the mistress of it too) committed to her by the owner, who preferred support in a newer and more fashionable mansion which he had purchased somewhere in the adjoining county; but still she lived in it in a manner as if it had been her own, and kept up the dignity of the great house in a secern while she lived, which afterwards came to decay, and was nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments marginal and carried away to the owners other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick...If you want to get a full essay, assure it on our website: Orderessay



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