Publisher's Synopsis
"THE ASSIGNATION Stay for me there! I will not fail. To meet thee in that hollow vale. [Exequy on the death of his wife, by Henry King, Bishop of Chichester.] ILL-FATED and mysterious man!-bewildered in the brilliancy of thine own imagination, and fallen in the flames of thine own youth! Again in fancy I behold thee! Once more thy form hath risen before me!-not-oh not as thou art-in the cold valley and shadow-but as thou shouldst be-squandering away a life of magnificent meditation in that city of dim visions, thine ..."