Excerpt from A Summer in Skye, Vol. 1 of 2Mr De Quincey maintains, in one of his essays, that dinner - dinner about seven in the evening, for which one dresses, which creeps on with multitudinous courses and efzz'rées, which, so far from being a gross satisfaction of appetite, is a feast noble, graceful, adorned with the pre sence and smile of beauty, and which, from the very stateliness of its progress, gives op portunities for conversation and the encounter of polished minds - saves over-wrought London from insanity. This is no mere humorous exag geration, but a very truth; and what dinner is to the day the Highlands are to the year. Away in the north, amid its green or stony silences, jaded hand and brain find repose - repose.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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