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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III BERTRAND OAKLEIGH The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's, Is?not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be, ?but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means: a very different thing No abstract intellectual plan of life Quite irrespective of life's plainest laws, But one, a man, who is man and nothing more, May lead within a world which (by your leave) Is Rome or London, not Fool's-Paradise. Embellish Rome, idealize away, Make Paradise of London if you can, You're welcome, nay, you're wise. Robert Browning, Bishop Blougram's Apology. I LEFT Oxford with a sense of oppressive loneliness. It was not entirely the sorrow of parting from a place I had for four years loved but too well; it was not altogether the prospect of making a fresh start?I was pleas- urably excited by that; the feeling of forlornness arose, I think, from the recognition that the next step would have to be taken alone. I suppose I am shy; certainly I lack initiative. There had hitherto always been someone to keep me in countenance?Loring at my private school, at Melton and, later, at Oxford, and there had always been someone to act as a stimulus. At one time it was Burgess, who laidthe foundation of any knowledge I have gleaned, and made me as temperate, passionless and sterile as I have become? as deeply imbued, perhaps, with the indifference that masquerades as toleration. At another time I was stirred from philosophic doubt by the fanaticism of O'Rane. The fire he lit burned too brightly to last, but by strange irony as it began to flicker I came under the influence of my guardian Bertrand Oakleigh, a man so disillusioned that in very factiousness of opposition I was driven to fan the dying embers of my young enthusiasms. My intimate ac..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217054232 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217054234 |
| Weight | 1.00 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 In |
| List Price | $24.21 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 308 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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