Excerpt from Selections From Tennyson, Dickens, Keats, Lamb, Wordsworth, Byron, Goldsmith, Burns, Sir Roger De Coverley Papers, Milton, Bacon: With Portraits and Biographical Sketches These handsome children had, beyond most children, that wondrous toy at their command which some people call imagination. The boys played. Great games like Arthur's knights; they were champions and warriors defending a stone heap, or again they would set up opposing camps with a king in the midst of each. When dinnerotime came, and they all sat round the table, each in turn put a chapter of his history underneath the potato bowl, - long, endless histories, chapter after chapter, diffuse, absorbing, unending, as are the stories of real life of which each sunrise opens on a new part; some of these romances were in letters like Clarissa, Harlowe. Alfred used to tell a story which lasted for months, and which was called The Old Horse. 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.