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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1922. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Jeffrey on the daffodils, Mrs. Barbauld on The Ancient Mariner, Mr. George Brimley on Mariana "tell us a lot "--about themselves, if not much about their subjects. Others, or the same (for Jeffrey and Brimley at least were not bad critics), tell us a great deal about both when subject and reagent are working properly on each other. But I doubt whether any critic who starts with a notion of what the significance of his subject ought to be can ever be worth much, except by the special blessing of Providence. For his notion will prevent his seeing anything but that notion clearly, and will also tend to misrepresent such critical power as he might have shown without it. XLI. Little Necrologies: III. William Ernest Henley.--As was hinted above, it is of hardly more than a single episode or chapter in Henley's life that I propose to write, though I saw him occasionally, and had letters from him more frequently, till the end of that life, and my ageing feet "stumbled at graves" in the crypt of St. Paul's when the monument was put up to him.1 At about the time when I was " commencing journalist," one of those quaint chevauchees or raids, which alternately enliven and mortify aspirants, was started. As usual, if not always, the starter was a person with some mystery about him. He was a youngish man; rather goodlooking; accustomed to wear the most beautiful striped silk socks, with very low shoes and rather short trousers to show them off, and muni (there is no exact English equivalent) on the occasion with the name of Caldwell Brown. But the late Lord Ardwell, better known in the north as Sheriff Jameson, told me that in a previous stage of existence as a student at Edinburgh he was known as Glasgow Brown. At that period he had acquired a rather brilliant reputa...
| ISBN-13 | 9781443294416 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1443294411 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.29 In |
| List Price | $8.46 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 122 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-07-01 |
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