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Page xvii - Gloster, that duke so good, Next of the royal blood, For famous England stood With his brave brother; Clarence, in steel so bright, Though but a maiden knight. Yet in that furious fight Scarce such another. Warwick...
Page 113 - ... his own observations on books and men. He was, in the truest sense, a man of original mind, that is, he had the power of looking at things for himself, or as they really were...
Page xv - The want of poetical power is the impelling force in the case of most versifiers. They would fain be poets, and imagine that the best way is to try to write poetry and to publish what they write. They will never see their mistake. Equus asinus still believes that the possession of an organ of noise is sufficient, with a little practice, to enable him to sing like a nightingale.
Page xviii - But so stubborn and chemically inalterable the laws of the prescription were, that now, looking back from 1886 to that brook shore of 1837, whence I could see the whole of my youth, I find myself in nothing whatsoever changed. Some of me is dead, more of me stronger. I have learned a few things, forgotten many ; in the total of me, I am but the same youth, disappointed and rheumatic.
Page viii - Ibsen's characters speak and act as if they were hypnotised, and under their creator's imperious demand to reveal themselves. There never was such a mirror held up to nature before : it is too terrible.
Page ix - There never was such a mirror held up to nature before: it is too terrible. ... Yet we must return to Ibsen, with his remorseless surgery, his remorseless electric-light, until we, too, have grown strong and learned to face the naked — if necessary, the flayed and bleeding — reality." — SPEAKER (London). VOL. I. "A DOLL'S HOUSE," "THE LEAGUE OF YOUTH,
Page 95 - ... not, physiognomically expressive of the man." " Old Noll, as he looked and lived ! " said Walter. " The armed genius of Puritanism ; dark in his inward light ; negligent, awkward, in his strength ; meanly apparelled in his pride ; base-born, and yet more than kingly Those bushy grizzled locks, flowing over his shoulders ; that high, care-worn brow ; the gleam of those eyes, cold and stern as the sheen of a winter moon ; that rude, roughhewn, battered face, so furrowed over with mad inexplicable...
Page 95 - ... laborious folly, in voluntary or involuntary enigmas, but saw and acted unerringly as fate. Confusion, ineptitude, dishonesty are pictured on his countenance, but through these shines a fiery strength, nay, a grandeur, as of a true hero. You see that he was fearless, resolute as a Scanderbeg, yet cunning and double withal, like some paltry pettifogger. He is your true enthusiastic hypocrite ; at once crackbrained and inspired ; a knave and a demigod ; in brief, old Noll as he looked and lived...
Page 71 - But the most important element in Davidson— and one to which attention should be directed most strongly if justice is to be done to him at last and his influence brought to bear effectively where it is most needed— is expressed in the following passage from A Rosary. It re-echoes for today what...