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    400 High and Jbow Life in Italy'• *

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    High And Low Life In Italy,

    for bev a portion of lhat ft > ve in which you have ever been so profuse to ¦ ^ ^ j Your most affectionate ' Son * EDWAKft TAtLBOVfe .

    THE REV , WILLIAM TALLBOYS TO HIS SON . Edward ! Edward ! The letter that begins with

    moralizing usually ends ill . You have resided two years in Italy , and ought to know something of the people . Do you know anything good of them ?

    Are the Italians frank , sincere * cordial ? are the men fond and faithful husbands ? are the women virtuous and modest wives ? If they never or rarely are so , is it reasonable to imagine that Providence has reserved for

    you the . solitary exception ? My son ! I judged for myself in my marriage ; you shall judge for yourself in yours .: By mine I thought I saw reared up to me a generous independent , high-souled Englishman ; and I am not so

    advanced in years as to have despaired of seeing in his children what was the pride of my Life in mine . Europe , my Ed * ward , has various races of men , endued witli various qualities . Some of us Englishmen are like the Germans , some like

    Jfche Scandinavians , and this perhaps from our qohsanjguinhy ; others again axq yeryji ^; the Spaniards ,: ;/ . w | l ^;) i . ^) ipiiit rrom our Gothic origin , we Mso have some affinity . But ilid » ypu pver see an English-WB . U XWe W Italian ? or , if you wm di < k « w .. ypu say * tort yw ..

    High And Low Life In Italy,

    chose him for k friend or an associate ? Refl & et on this , my Edv ^ ard , aiid ^ d ^ iiv your own deduction ; - Thin 3 £ how far less reaniy you should be to form in any Itkliati hdiis ^ a sacred and eternal urifott JJ ; speak not of

    the religion , the first thing perhaps of which I ought to have spoken : I placQ before you the social state , only : would you let priests and friars divide any secrets with ypu ? If not , would , you let such intruders

    divide them with your wife . Edward ! be your wife ' s sole guide and guardian , your children ' s sole father , and believe , that you will always have a friend , tho you may not always take an adviser , in

    \ our affectionate WlLLIAftf TaLI / BOYS . MR EDWARD TALLBOYS TO MR HENRY BEACONLEYJ ( Dear BeaeonlejV It is all over ^ tli h }? ., » ^ this very post I have ^ l ^ ^ X father's consent to i ^ arry ^ Never on earth w ; as , they ^ so beau ( iful r 8 o modest , a creature ^ I first saw her in th ^ ctjar ^ jq the Carinine , where . ^ . p a ^ j an hour occasionally in looking ^ t the fresqpes of Masaccio ^ S \\ e happened to be kneeling at tlie

    very altar that lie's between his tforo grand workk . I cannot wMtci or tliink ifr prose about * % gfc ! , ^ i ) d it g *^ Y $ 8 me that she cannot understand what reubQUttd ^ uiftio ^ ^ ffly 5 hWK 1 * in ver ^ e A' v ¦ f KI » e ^ fomty Hum ; w ^ re these . . tor the first movements of love aye half in joke ir ~

    400 High And Jbow Life In Italy'• *

    400 High and Jbow Life in Italy '•

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/32/