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So much is true of all art, which therefore requires always its logic, its comprehensive reason insight, foresight, retrospect, in simultaneous action true, most of all, of the literary art, as being of all the arts most closely cognate to the abstract intelligence.
If I desire to live long, it is that I may have the more to look back upon. Even to one, like the unhappy Duchess, "Acquainted with sad misery As the tamed galley-slave is with his oar," and seeing over the night of troubles no "lily-wristed morn" of hope appear, a retrospect of even chequered and doubtful happiness in the past may sweeten the bitterness of present tears.
There has been no blending of colours no dissolving views in the retrospect no opening or expanding ones in prospect. I have no difficulty in ascertaining the point where one terminates and the other begins. The change is sudden and startling. The last time I slept on shore, was in America to-night I sleep in England.
Her time had come. She would show that idiot Booth that Pilot was not to be insulted with impunity, and But here retrospect and intention became alike merged in the present, and in the single resolve to get ahead and stay there. Half a dozen of Pilot's great reaching strides, and she was in the next field and over the low bank without putting an iron on it.
She had an effect of being both shy and indifferent, in this retrospect; and when St. John put up the window, and led the way out to the women in the garden, and presented Hewson, she had still this effect.
Towards the end of the dinner conversation and hilarity were growing apace. Men were forgetting the scramble of existence in the recollection of old college days, when their blood was like wine and the world a thing of adventure. Mellowed by retrospect, they laughed over incidents that had caused heart-burnings at the time; and as they laughed more than one felt a swelling of the throat.
In the retrospect Port Burdock sparkled with the facets of quite a cluster of remembered jolly times.
Watching in it, in the way we have suggested, the contention of those two men, those two minds in him, and observing how the one might have ascertained and corrected the shortcomings of the other, we certainly understand, and can sympathize with Amiel's despondency in the retrospect of a life which seemed to have been but imperfectly occupied.
There had been compensations all through and were not the great passion of her Solesby days, together with the interest and novelty of her London experience, enough to give zest and glow to the whole retrospect? Ah! but it will be observed that in this sketch of Marcella's schooldays nothing has been said of Marcella's holidays.
No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action, and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity. And not only is such a study instructive: he who reads for amusement only, will find no chapter in the annals of the human mind more amusing than this.
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