text:  The profession did not appear uncongenial to my taste; and although from my classical education having been deplorably neglected there was no small share of grinding and fag before me I entered readily into my father's views; the more especially as in them was comprehended the preliminary visit to Germany the land of my early visions where I hoped to be on more intimate terms than ever with my old acquaintances the Spirit of the Brocken the Wild Hunter &c