The opening of Part I
=The Evening Walk.=
ON THE RIGHT USES OF LITERATURE.
Rede well thyselfe that other folke can'st rede.
CHAUCER'S Good Counsail.
=The Evening Walk.=
ON THE RIGHT USES OF LITERATURE.
It was on a fine autumnal evening, when the sun was setting serenely behind a thick copse upon a distant hill, and his warm tints were lighting up a magnificent and widely-extended landscape, that, sauntering 'midst the fields, I was meditating upon the various methods of honourably filling up the measure of our existence; when I discovered, towards my left, a messenger running at full speed towards me. The abruptness of his appearance, and the velocity of his step, somewhat disconcerted me; but on his near approach my apprehensions were dissipated.