Rambles Roundabout: And Poems (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Rambles Roundabout: And Poems If, according to the old proverb, those nations are the happiest which have no history, I think it may be stated with ven greater truth that those lives are happiest whose records are least full of incidents. Each man seeks his own happiness after his own fashion. But to me, from such observation as I have made, it does not seem that to have been an actor in great events, to have experienced many vicissitudes of fortune, to have known many men and many cities, adds much to the sum of human happiness. Be this as it may, there were few lives more devoid of incident, more uneventful, more even in the tenor of their way, than that of the author of these "Rambles Roundabout." Yet, looking back upon long years of intimate acquaintance and constant intercourse, I may say that I have never known any one to whom the epithet "Happy" might be more truly given. Such, I deem, must have been the impression left on the minds of all who knew him, and this record, brief and meagre as it necessarily is, would yet be wanting in its first duty, should it fail to convey - if the metaphor may be pardoned me - a certain reflection of the sunniness of a life so barren of events, so placid in its outward course. George James De Wilde was born in London in the year 1804. His family were of Dutch origin, his grandfather having emigrated from Holland during the troubles in the close of the last century. His father was a painter of considerable reputation ju his own line. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.