Studies and StoriesInnes, 1893 - 256 pages |
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Page 43 - A FLAT IRON FOR A FARTHING; or, Some Passages in the Life of an Only Son.
Page 31 - I believe it is no wrong observation, that persons of genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always most fond of Nature : as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature. On the contrary, people of the common level of understanding are principally delighted with the little niceties and fantastical operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least natural.
Page 58 - ... shone still, but it shone low down and made such splendid shadows that we all walked about with grey giants at our feet; and it made the bright green of the grass, and the cowslips down below, and the top of the hedge, and Sandy's hair, and everything in the sun and the mist behind the elder bush which was out of the sun, so yellow — so very yellow — that just for a minute I really believed about Sandy's godmother, and thought is was a story come true, and that everything was turning into...
Page 58 - There were cowslips all over the field, but they were thicker at the lower end, which was damp. The great heat of the day was over. The sun shone still, but it shone low down and made such splendid shadows that we all walked about with grey giants at our feet; and it made the bright green of the grass, and the cowslips down below, and the top of the hedge, and Sandy's hair, and everything in the sun and the mist behind the elder bush which was out of the sun, so yellow — so very yellow — that...
Page 31 - Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome: 'tis we musicians know.
Page 39 - novels " are as yet forbidden. There is, perhaps, in the first " remembrance " especially, " Mrs. Moss," a little too much of the old lady's reflections and philosophy, for which, by-the-by, she herself prettily apologizes — " ' Old people become prosy, my dear. They love to linger over little * " Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances.
Page 34 - She was also extremely unselfish, and her greatest joy was in devising kindnesses for others. Many years later she wrote a story called 'Madame Liberality' in A Great Emergency (1877) in which, so her sister tells us, she 'drew a picture of her own character that can never be surpassed. She did this quite unintentionally', but nevertheless so accurately that by reading the story we get a charming idea of what Juliana Gatty must have been like as a girl. If it were summer weather, 'Aunt Judy' would...
Page 58 - ... giants at our feet; and it made the bright green of the grass, and the cowslips down below, and the top of the hedge, and Sandy's hair, and everything in the sun and the mist behind the elder bush which was out of the sun, so yellow — so very yellow — that just for a minute I really believed about Sandy's godmother, and thought it was a story come true, and that everything was turning into gold. But it was only for a minute; of course I know that fairy tales are not true.
Page 46 - Sons,) despising interests that happen not to be ours, or graces which we have chosen to neglect, against the danger of satire, against the love or the fear of being thought singular, and, above all, against the petty pride of clique. " ' I do not know which is the worst...