ENGLISH FIRESIDE. BY JOHN MILLS, Esq. AUTHOR OF THE 'OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN,' THE THESE volumes were designed to be dedicated to one lately passed to "that bourne from which no traveller returns" with the praise and the prayer of thousands. To that good old English Nobleman, the Right Honourable the Earl of LONSDALE, it was my hope to present this humble tribute of my deep admiration; and although the pulse is still and the tongue mute who, I am sure, would not have been regardless of the wish to make this acknowledgement, however inadequate, for his kindness and hospitality enjoyed by me in the sunset of his life, yet they shall be inscribed to his memory. "For while yet a nook is left, Where English minds and manners may be found, Hearts shall be constrained to love him." The Lawn, Twickenham, April, 1844. JOHN MILLS. |