The poor fight the rich and the employer fights
theemployed.
What could he do to make up for itall, he seems to
have asked himself.
He annotated, he edited, he set down what hecould
remember of the wonderful voice. The process of reading these essays was a process
ofrecantation. She made herself, she said, the housekeeper in that littered palace.
We shall not spoil the readers impressionof the superb passage describing a visit
arranged by Mrs.
The night is ill, seems to us a proof of
it.
Or again, politics interested herintensely, and
Turners pictures.
The lines which Professor Peck quotes with
admiration:Good night?
Shelley must be off at once to see that they
arecomfortable.
He proceeded toLondon, and took up his lodging with
a kind slim celibate, a Mr.
We can hardly say what reform in politics,society
and government they advocate.
Greville, friend of thesuper-eminent and priestess
at the different altars. Percy Lubbock in his introduction and connecting
pararaphs.
One must go on, said Shelley, until one is stopped.
All this personal exuberanceHenry James brings back in the figure of Mrs. The most
ethereal of poets wasthe most practical of men.
At first, as he owned, he had an elderly dread of a
waste of emotion. Greville toGeorge Eliot by revealing what happened on that almost
tragic occasion. Human relationships are too complex; human nature istoo
subtle.
The young poets,like Aubrey de Vere, sought her
out.
A strange formality stiffens his letters; there
isno intimacy in them and no fun. He recited LOCKSLEY HALL and Oh dear,
ohdear.
Greville, friend of thesuper-eminent and priestess
at the different altars.