United States or Czechia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Belfair, for example, desires to look upon the author of those wonderful tales, yet modestly shrinks from being seen herself. She therefore implores that he will walk at an hour named in St.
She knew that her own heart was throbbing in its pages, and wondered whether the great world- pulses would beat in unison. Instead of a preface she had quoted on the title-page those pithy lines in "Aurora Leigh": "My critic Belfair wants a book Entirely different, which will sell and live; A striking book, yet not a startling book The public blames originalities.
You must not pump spring-water unawares Upon a gracious public full of nerves Good things, not subtle new, yet orthodox; As easy reading as the dog-eared page That's fingered by said public fifty years, Since first taught spelling by its grandmother, And yet a revelation in some sort: That's hard, my critic Belfair!"
Indeed, we may have appeared to falsify in classifying their enemies under general heads, when for Christopher North, Judson, Belfair, Friend Naddo, Richard Bame, we substituted faces of cipher foolishness, abstractions which we named the puritan, the philosopher, the philistine.
Word Of The Day