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1823 in literatureSee also: 1822 in literature, other events of 1823, 1824 in literature, list of years in literature.
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of my age. My father.html">father.html">father's opposition to my schemes was incited by a
efforts were secretly eluded or obstinately repelled, was a source
he called my incorrigible depravity, and encouraged himself to
overtake me if I were allowed to persist in my present career.
were equal to those which he inflicted on me.
In my fourteenth year, events happened which ascertained my
meadow, some miles distant from my father's mansion. My time was
to my custom, I should stay beyond the period assigned.
For some time these menaces rung in my ears, and I went on my
the fence and escaped. It was my duty to carry home the earliest
the cause and manner of this escape. The field was bounded by
post.html">post to post. The upper one had been broken in the middle, but the
with their ends on the ground. The means which had been used for
uppermost, how a pair of horns could be so managed as to effect
theme of meditation.
Some accident recalled me from this reverie, and reminded me
consequences of my delay, and sought with eagerness how they might
than that by which I had come. The beaten road was rendered
stream, and closed up a passage by which the length of the way
water was of considerable depth, and agitated by an eddy. I could
but I was resolved to make the attempt. I have reason to think,
fatal, and my father, while he lamented my untimely fate, would
occasioned it.
I turned my steps towards the spot. To reach the edge of the
and gloomy hollows were interposed. I had frequently skirted and
in the maze as now: hence I had remained unacquainted with a
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