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Early in life John Fiske aimed high and thought himself capable of great things. He also believed that the world accepted a man at the estimate he placed upon himself. Fiske was born at Hartford in Eighteen Hundred Forty-two. His mother's maiden name was Fiske and his father's name was Green, and until well-nigh manhood, John Fiske was called Edmund Green.
Malcolm, with his two eldest sons, Edward and Edmund, invaded England, and laid siege to Alnwick Castle, leaving the Queen at Edinburgh, seriously ill. At Alnwick the Scottish army was routed, and Malcolm and Edward were slain.
I am certain that when his better nature had the ascendency no one would have more generously acknowledged the merits of Kemble than Edmund Kean. It is idle to say that because his style was solemn and slow, Kemble was not one of the greatest actors that our stage has produced.
No detail was wanting, from first to last, to make the crime of the Acadian deportation perfect; and only an Irishman, Edmund Burke, lifted his voice to say that the deed was inhuman, and done "upon pretenses that, in the eye of an honest man, are not worth a farthing." But Burke was not in Parliament until eleven years after the Acadians were scattered.
Upon the subject of exaggerated praise I took the liberty to say, that I thought there might be very high praise given to a known character which deserved it, and therefore it would not be exaggerated. Thus, one might say of Mr. Edmund Burke, He is a very wonderful man. JOHNSON. 'No, Sir, you would not be safe if another man had a mind perversely to contradict.
"You may stand on very high ground, and it entirely depends on yourself whether you maintain that position, or sink down to their level." "O, but that is awful!" cried Marian; and then in a tone of still greater dismay, "and Gerald? O, Edmund, what is to become of him?" "I must trust him to you, Marian." "To me!" "You have great influence over him, and that, rightly used, may be his safeguard.
Edmund Melrose arrived in Pengarth by train from London, hired a one-horse wagonette, and drove out to the Tower. His manners were at no time amiable, but the man who had the honour of driving him on this occasion, and had driven him occasionally before, had never yet seen him in quite so odious a temper.
In the same play it cannot be by chance that at its commencement Gloucester speaks with the utmost carelessness and off-hand wit about the parentage of his natural son Edmund, but finds at last that this son is his ruin. Could anything be put more plainly than the moral lesson in this?
"Oh, limit not your boon, dear Edmund!" exclaimed the Countess "you once loved that I should call you so limit not your boon to reason; for my case is all madness, and frenzy must guide the counsels which alone can aid me."
Now they have given me time for preparation, and she will grow accustomed to the thought of losing me." "Then you think there is no hope? O Edmund!" "I see none. Sydney is unlikely to spare a friend of Prince Rupert's." Walter squeezed his hands fast together. "And how how can you? Don't think me cowardly, Edmund, for that I will never be; never " "Never, I am sure," repeated Edmund.
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