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Memoirs and poetical remains of ... Jane Taylor
Memoirs and poetical remains of Jane Taylor Author:Jane Taylor Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MEMOIRS OF THE LATE JANE TAYLOR. SECTION I. Infancy and Cluldltood at Lavcnham. JANE, their second daughter, was born September 23, 1783, while he... more »r parents resided in London. From her birth, and during the first two years of infancy, her constitution seemed so delicate, and her health so precarious, that it was hardly expected she would survive this critical period of life. But happily, before she had completed her third year, Mr. Taylor removed with his family into the country, and from that time she appeared to take a new possession of life; and soon acquired the bloom and vivacity of perfect health. His engagements as an artist being such as allowed him to reside at a distance from London, Mr. Taylor gladly availed himself of this liberty to establish his fast increasing family where the same means would procure a much larger amount of comfort than in London; and where health, and all the best enjoyments of life are much more likely to be secured. It was in the summer of the year 1786 that my father and mother, with their two little girls, removed to Lavenham in Suffolk. Ann, the eldest, was then in the sixth, and Jane in the fourth year of her age; and were therefore able to enjoy with their parents the simple pleasures and extended comforts of their new habitation. Accustomed as she had been to the narrow bounds, and to the many restraints of a London house, Jane's spirits broke forth with unusual emotions of pleasure amid the ample space, and the agreeable objects that now surrounded her. Very soon after her removal to the country, Jane displayed, not merely a healthy vivacity and child-like eagerness in the amusements providedfor her by her fond parents, but an uncommon fertility of invention in creating pleasures for herself:—It was evident to those wh...« less