At t t stands a portal, of some arcectural pretensions, to  present for an entrance to a printing-office. t knoical pit entrance to Old Drury -- Garricks Drury -- all of it t is left. I never pass it  sy years from off my so t to see my first play. ternoon , and tion of our going (t t a beating  did I cillness of icate tion! I seem to remember t spurt, and to announce it.

    e   us.  t tone- building, in all grave person, lofty in speecensions above ed in t and bearing o copy; if Joe as likely) did not rat of o, and visited by, S o  young Brinsley broug  Batiful Maria Linley. My parents  (over a quadrille table)  my godfatre at pleasure -- and, indeed, a pretty liberal issue of ts, in Brinsleys easy autograpion ion of tra and various avenues of t tre -- and ent it sy -- or supposed familiarity -- ter to my godfathan money.

    F.  gentlemanly of oilmen; grandiloquent, yet courteous.  matters of fact in  constantly in in from an oilmans lips!), . In strict pronunciation t in t from Seneca or Varro -- in ion, monosyllabically elaborated, or Anglicized, into sometorted syllables,  t tle) to t paroc. Andreow.

    due to  orders (little alismans ! -- slig to outo me more t by estamentary beneficence I came into possession of ty e near t Puckeridge, in fordso take possession, and planted foot on my oately s of trode (sy?) ment of ters of an acre, s commodious mansion in t,  all bet sky and centre ate o more prudent  an agrarian can restore it.

    In t orders. Besable manager ing at t t  bet and an inner door in ser -- O  again ! --  in t, tion of trical fruiteresses t;C; -- c  veiled a o my imagination, icipations I endured! I  in te prefixed to troilus and Cressida, in Ro scene  of t plate can al evening. -- t t time, full of y, protected over t; and ters reacering substance (I kno  seemed), resembling -- a  I judged it to be sugar-candy -- yet, to my raised imagination, divested of its ies, it appeared a glorified candy -- tra lig lengt;fair Auroras!quot; Once t o ring out yet once again -- and, incapable of ticipation, I reposed my s eyes in a sort of resignation upon ternal lap. It rang time. tain dre past six years old -- and taxerxes!

    I tle in tory -- t part of it -- and  of Persia. It ted to a sig I took no proper interest in tion going on, for I understood not its import -- but I  of Daniel. All feeling s, gardens, palaces, princesses, passed before me. I kne players. I ime; and tion almost converted me into a ions to be sometal fires. It  and a dream. No suced me but in dreams. -- ransformation of trates into reverend beldams seemed to me a piece of grave oric justice, and tailor carrying o be as sober a verity as t. Denys.

    t play to ion of some scenery, very faint traces are left in my memory. It omime, cal]ed Luns G -- a satiric touc long since dead -- but to my appreoo sincere for satire), Lun e a piece of antiquity as Lud -- transmitting re) tless ages. I saley come from  tomb in a gly vest of cion of a dead rainbow. So  I) look whey are dead.

    My t   at it as grave as a judge; for, I remember, teric affectations of good Lady is affected me like some solemn tragic passion. Robinson Crusoe folloic as in tory. -- taloonery of tomimes  of my  t to laug tesque Goto me te  meaning) t gape, and grin, in stone around templars.

    I sao seven years old. After tervention of six or seven ot sced) I again entered tre. t old Artaxerxes evening ed to come again   sixty and sixteen, tter does from six. In t interval ! At t period I kneood noted not all, loved all, wondered all -

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    I  temple a devotee, and urned a rationalist. terially; but tain o bring back past ages, to present quot;a royal g,quot; -- but a certain quantity of green baize, e time from certain of to come forend ts. ts -- tra lig ring, and t a trick of ters bell -- om of a voice, no  o its ors ed. I t t  it eration  in me. -- Per unate for me t t an indifferent comedy, as it gave me time to crop some unreasonable expectations, ions er enabled to enter upon t appearance to me of Mrs. Siddons in IsabelIa. Comparison and retrospection soon yielded to t attraction of tre became to me, upon a neock, t deligions.