...acorns and nuts by squirrels. TJnsJs a defect in his character, but one of his chief charms as a ^riter. Everything grows fresh under his hand. He delved in...impatient when any one else spoke of mountains, as if he had a peculiar property in them. And we can readily understand why it should be so : no one is...

...reading him. w° VM t.bnt g«"«™«ify nf " pnTnTnuni.. cation " which Johnson admired.: in.BurJifi^ De Quincey tells us that Wordsworth was impatient when any one else spoke of mountains, as if he had a peculiar property in them. And we can readily understand why it should be so : no one is...

...introduced him to it. This intellectual selfishness becomes sometimes almost painful in reading him. He 10 lacked that generosity of "communication" which Johnson...Quincey tells us that Wordsworth was impatient when anyone else spoke of mountains, as if he had a peculiar property in them. And we can readily understand...

...world, the hollowness of whose satisfactions he had never had the means of testing, and we recognise Apemantus behind the mask of Timon He had little active...impatient when any one else spoke of mountains, as if he had a peculiar property in them. And we can readily understand why it should be so: no one is...

...convincing, the sentimental melancholy of those poems should be conclusive of their modernness. 'Re had no artistic power such as controls a great work...impatient when any one else spoke of mountains, as if he had a peculiar property in them. And we can readily understand why it should be so: no one is...

...of those poems should be conclusive of their modernness. He had none of the artistic mastery which controls a great work to the serene balance of completeness,...impatient when any one else spoke of mountains, as if he had a peculiar property in them. And we can readily understand why it should be so: no one is...