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Sacred Records, Etc.: In Verse (1872)

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Sacred Records etc. In Verse

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Legends And Records, Chiefly Historical

Legends and Records, Chiefly Historical

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... the lady lisle. The last faint flush of sunset had faded away, and the frame-work of the casement which had been darkly opposed to the sombre sky, gradually blended with the blackness of night. A servant entered, and lighting a lamp which hung in the farther end of the chamber, was about to light several others, when his Lady said to him with a sad, but gentle voice, "Leave me at present, Richard, and light no more." The servant obeyed, after heaping a pile of pine-wood on the ample fire-place. The lady, who sat alone and mournful, soon relapsed into a mood of deeper abstraction. The light of the single lamp shadowed out the graceful folds of her dress from the prevailing gloom: but as the fire, which had before almost died away, burst out into flame and brightness, its reddening glow played over her cheek, a cheek which had been pale for many months. The lady shivered, as she felt, for the first time, the slight warmth; but still her mind's anxiety so absorbed every outward sense and feeling, that she thought not on the coldness of the night. An hour had passed away before the meditations of the lady were again disturbed, and the same domestic announced her husband's approach. She raised her eyes as he entered the apartment, and started when she beheld him. He was followed by others of his servants; but at his look they forthwith departed. The lady had risen partly from her chair to welcome her husband; but feelings, which she could not repress, stopped her. She shrunk back, as if unable to look upon him: yet she tried to conceal the shuddering that crept through her every vein; and, leaning her arm on the carved frame-work of her chair, she covered her eyes with her hand. "Art thou not well, Alice?" said the gentleman; and his wife...

Sermons for All Seasons: Chiefly on the Subject of Tractarian Error (1850) (Hardback) - Common

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Legends and Records, chiefly Historical
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Charles Tayler

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clergyman writer

Background

The son of John Tayler, he was born at Leytonstone, Essex, 16 September 1797 and baptised at Street Botolph Bishopsgate 11 November following.

Education

He was educated at Guildford under the Review William Hodgson Cole, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a fellow commoner on 23 October 1815, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1819 and Master of Arts

Career

In 1822. He left Hadleigh in 1826, and successively served, each for a short time, curacies in Kent, in Surrey, and in Hampshire. From 1831 to 1836 he had the sole charge of the parish of Hodnet in Shropshire. In 1836 John Bird Sumner, bishop of Chester, presented him to the living of Saint Peter"s in Chester, where he was also evening lecturer at Saint Mary"s, a large church in which he usually preached to twelve hundred persons.

While at Chester he published from 1838 a series of Tracts for the Rich.

In 1846 he was appointed rector of Otley in Suffolk, which he resigned shortly before his death. Here he specially laboured among the young.

He died at Worthing on 16 October