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Excerpt from Life of Agnes Strickland Agnes felt for her beloved parent alone checked her tears. She promised to obey him; and in after-life was grate ful to him for his wise and judicious criticism on her juvenile performance, though no harsh critique on her later works ever gave her so much pain as his had done. He rewarded her docility by putting the works of Mil ton, Gray, and Collins into her hands, the perusal of which inclined her to consign her immature attempt to the ames. Agnes, after this discouragement, exchanged her liter ary work for that of the needle, in which she greatly excelled. She was fond of owers, and took pleasure in cultivating them; but for reading she had an absolute passion. Books of mere amusement were interdicted; but as their father employed his daughters in reading history and biography to him, and discussed the events or lives of celebrated men with them, the want of lighter literature was hardly felt. 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."