The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics (1824) (14594682959)

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Title: The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics

Year: 1809 (1800s)

Authors: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834

Subjects: Fashion Art, Decorative

Publisher: London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ...

Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ay be said to belong to StokePark. Here all is solemn, still, re-mote from the busy hum of men;and here, beneath the yew-treesshade, is the spot consecrated by theinterment of Gray. It is immedi-ately beneath the eastern window,where his mother and his aunt werepreviously buried. MARTHA THE GIPSY. (From Sai/i7igs and Doings, attributed to Mr. Thkodoue Hook.)(Concluded from p. 275.) Assistance was promptly procur-ed, and the wounded sufferers werecarefully removed to their respectivedwellings. Frederick Langdales suf-ferings were much greater than thoseof his companion; and in addition tosevere fractures of two of his limbs,the wound upon the head presenteda most terrible appearance, and ex- cited the greatest alarm in his medi-cal attendants. Mr. Harding, whose temperatecourse of life was greatly advantage-ous to his case, had suffered com-paratively little: a simple fracture ofthe arm and dislocation of the collar-bone (which was the extent of hismisfortune) were by skilful treatment

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MARTHA Tin: gipsy-. 315 and implicit obedience to profession-al commands soon pronounced in astate of improvement: but a woundhad been inflicted which no doctorcould heal. The conviction that thewoman whose anger he had incurredhad, if not the power of producingevil, at least a prophetic spirit; andthat he had twice again to see herbefore the fulfilment of her prophe-cy, struck deep into his mind; andalthough he felt himself more at easewhen he had communicated to Mrs.Harding the fact of having seen thegipsy at the moment of the accident,it was impossible for him to rally fromthe shock which his nerves had re-ceived. It was in vain he tried toshake off the perpetual apprehensionof again beholding her. Frederick Langdale remained forsome time in a very precarious state.All visitors were excluded from hisroom, and a wretched space of twomonths passed, during which his af-fectionate Maria had never been al-lowed to see him, nor to write to,nor to hear from him; while her con-stitution, l

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