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I VISITED Naples in the year 1818.
In the flattest and least ageeable part of the country of Essex, about five miles from the sea, is situated a village or small town, which may be known in these pages by the name of Longfield.
The opening scene of this tale took place in a little village on the southern coast of Cornwall.
Scene; a beautiful plain, shadowed on one side by an overhanging rock, on the other a chesnut wood.
Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable.
After a long series of civil dissension-after many battles, whose issue involved the fate of thousands-after the destruction of nearly all the English nobility in the contest between the two Roses, the decisive battle of Bosworth Field was fought on the 22d of August, 1415, whose result was to entwine, as it was called, the white and red symbols of rivalship, and to restore peace to this unhappy country.
THE other nations of Europe were yet immersed in barbarism, when Italy, where the light of civilization had never been wholly eclipsed, began to emerged from the darkness of the ruin of the Western Empire, and to catch from the East the returning rays of literature and science.