Copy 1, Volume 2

The doctor &c / [Robert Southey].

  • Robert Southey
Date:
1834-1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The doctor &c / [Robert Southey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    undertaking of this, for my daring to enter either upon the one or the other. That very day wherein I first set pen to paper to draw up the description of the Temple, having but immedi¬ ately before laid aside my thoughts of the de¬ scription of the Land, I was necessarily called out, towards the evening, to go to view a piece of ground of mine own, concerning which some liti¬ giousness was emerging, and about to grow. The field was but a mile from my constant resi¬ dence and habitation, and it had been in mine owning divers years together; and yet till that very time, had I never seen it, nor looked after it, nor so much as knew whereabout it lay. It was very unlikely I should find it out myself, being so utterly ignorant of its situation ; yet because I desired to walk alone, for the enjoying of my thoughts upon that task that I had newly taken in hand, I took some direction which way to go, and would venture to find out the field myself alone. I had not gone far, but I was at a loss; and whether I went right or wrong I could not tell; and if right thither, yet I knew not how to do so farther; and if wrong I knew