A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698)
Series Three: Essays on the Stage No. 1 A LETTER TO A.H. ESQ; CONCERNING THE STAGE (1698) and THE OCCASIONAL PAPER: NO. IX (1698) With an Introduction by H. T. Swedenberg, Jr. The Augustan Reprint Society September, 1946 Price: 75c Membership in the Augustan Reprint Society entitles the subscriber to six publications issued each year. The annual membership fee is $2.50. Address subscriptions and communications to The Augustan Reprint
NAZARETH.
"Mr. FELSENBURGH stood so a moment longer, then he turned down the
steps, passed across the platform and disappeared.
"Of what took place outside we have received the following account from
an eye-witness. The white volor, so well known now to all who were in
London that night, had remained stationary outside the little south door
of the Old Choir aisle, poised about twenty feet above the ground.
Gradually it became known to the crowd, in those few minutes, who it was
who had arrived in it, and upon Mr. FELSENBURGH'S reappearance that same
strange groan sounded through the whole length of Paul's Churchyard,
followed by the same silence. The volor descended; the master stepped on
board, and once more the vessel rose to a height of twenty feet. It was
thought at first that some speech would be made, but none was necessary;
and after a moment's pause, the volor began that wonderful parade which
London will never forget. Four times during the night Mr. FELSENBURGH
went round the enormous metropolis, speaking no word; and everywhere the
groan preceded and followed him, while silence accompanied his actual
passage. Two hours after sunrise the white ship rose over Hampstead and
disappeared towards the North; and since then he, whom we call, in
truth, the Saviour of the world, has not been seen.
"And now what remains to be said?
"Comment is useless. It is enough to say in one short sentence that the
Series Three: Essays on the Stage No. 1 A LETTER TO A.H. ESQ; CONCERNING THE STAGE (1698) and THE OCCASIONAL PAPER: NO. IX (1698) With an Introduction by H. T. Swedenberg, Jr. The Augustan Reprint Society September, 1946 Price: 75c Membership in the Augustan Reprint Society entitles the subscriber to six publications issued each year. The annual membership fee is $2.50. Address subscriptions and communications to The Augustan Reprint