Excerpt from The Old English Gentleman, Vol. 1 of 3: Or the Fields and the Woods It is partly to give vent to the overflowings of this feeling in himself, partly to communis. Cate it to others, that the writer of these pages has endeavoured to depict the scenes amid which alone it can be born; though happily it may be cherished and kept intact, even in the most artificial scenes of the most high-viced city. 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.