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A sufficient estimate of his character has been apparent in the course of the narrative. Dying before he had quite completed his thirty-third year, he excites pity and admiration almost as much as censure. His military career was a blaze of glory.
She thought, and she was right, that she discovered pity, and not admiration, as he looked upon her. "You think me changed," she said. "Your ladyship has been ill and harassed." "Ah! we all change except Rose." "Ah!" replied the country bred husband, "she, indeed, is an exception; she could not even change for the better." And then the children, two such glorious boys, fine, manly fellows.
This done, he could distinguish objects, though dimly, from one apartment in the other, and thus introduced the parties to a somewhat nearer acquaintance with one another. Having done so much, he reposed from his labors, content with a sight of Lucy, on whom he continued to gaze with a fixed and stupid admiration.
Her sense of his love and generosity was as disinterested as if some other person had been their object. Her admiration was such as one feels for a hero of history or fiction. Often, when all within her seemed growing hard and still and dead, she felt that crying would make her feel better.
The artist begins the article by protesting that of all subjects in the world it is the one upon which he has the least and fewest ideas, and that such ideas as he has consist principally of his admiration for illustrations by others.
The whole assembly viewed me with admiration, and could not comprehend how it was possible that an ape should so well understand how to pay the sultan his due respect; and he himself was more astonished than any.
But perhaps pride is not the right word, it is rather the aversion to anything low or mean, the admiration for everything pure and high. Ah, how that very pride if pride it be will make her love you, my Helen!" "You need not tell me," said Helen, smiling seriously, "that I shall love your mother, I love her already; nay, from the first moment you said you had a mother, my heart leaped to her.
In the presence of this vivid nature petrified by art, we cannot feel that admiration is kindled into love, but, saddened and chilled, we are forced to acknowledge that love may be frozen into mere admiration. Brown and olive-hued Lelia! Dark as Lara, despairing as Manfred, rebellious as Cain, thou hast ranged through the depths of solitude!
We see it also in some of the criticisms which accompany his admirable working out of the resolve to justify his true natural admiration of the poetry of Milton, by showing that 'Paradise Lost' was planned after the manner of the ancients, and supreme even in its obedience to the laws of Aristotle.
If they represented the dissolution of a great political fabric, in which they once gloried with equal pride, they meant union here a oneness indissoluble in admiration for a great genius whose memory can no more be localised to a nation than the interest of his works. American names, both of the North and South, may be found on almost every page of the register.
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