Visited by Kinglake, who gives an account of the city in 'Eothen.'
One may take as a sort of bourne, the two great books Macaulay's History and Kinglake's, for an earlier and a later limit.
Taunton was an innutrient foster-mother, arida nutrix, for such young lions as the Kinglake brood.
There are those who term Kinglake's volumes romance rather than history—or, more mildly, the romance of history.
I traveled over the Crimean battle-grounds with Kinglake's glorious books for reference.
