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Melmoth the Wanderer. E-book. Formato PDF Charles Robert Maturin - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Charles robert maturin was born at Dublin in 1782. He belonged to a family of exiled French Protestants who came over to Ireland after the revo cation Of the Edict of Nantes. His grandfather, Gabriel Jasper Maturin, was Swift's successor in the Deanery of St. Patrick's in 1745, and his great-grand father, Peter Maturin, had been Dean of Killala in the earlier years of the century. His father, Jasper Maturin, was well known in Dublin, where he held a Government appointment of sufficient value to enable him to live in af?uence. It is said that in his youth he had himself attempted a literary career, but had failed for lack of patronage. He held this post until after the marriage of his ninth son, Robert, but about the year 1808 he lost his appointment on account of an unjust charge of dishonesty. Though the case was investigated and his character cleared, he was not reinstated in his former position, and remained in poverty and neglect for some years.
The Albigenses: A Romance. E-book. Formato PDF Charles Robert Maturin - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
To understand the cause of the knight's career, which he pursued at full gallop among the rocky defiles at the risk of his life, we must retrograde a few steps, and return to the scene that passed in the cave of the Albigeois on the night we have before described. Genevieve had sat supporting her grandfather's head on her knees, after carefully spreading under his chilled limbs her mantle of woollen cloth, and gazed on a fissure of the cavern through which the moonlight streamed, and felt as she gazed the deep wish to solemnize her feelings, and abstract them if possible from anxious and troubled views of her earthly destination the solicitudes for that frail and feverish being, which though forced on her by no cessity, her pure heart felt it like a'crime to dwell on in her hours of lonely=re?ection.