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So that what is here written is but a transcript out of his own heart: for God who had much work for him to do was still hewing and hammering him by his Word, and sometimes also by more than ordinary temptations and desertions. The design, and also the issue thereof, through God's goodness, was the humbling and keeping of him low in his own eyes.
And that is no mere doctrine of the New Testament, but it is a transcript from the experience of every one of us. What then? You may say to me, 'Have you led me into a blind alley, out of which I cannot get? Here you are, insisting on an imperative necessity, and in the same breath saying that it is impossible. What is left for me? I go on to tell you what is left.
The difference is that The Professor is a transcript of reality, a very delicate and faithful transcript, and Jane Eyre is reality itself, pressed on the senses. The pressure is so direct and so tremendous, that it lasts through those moments when the writer's grip has failed. For there are moments, long moments of perfectly awful failure in Jane Eyre.
But if you can't, I am generally, not always, found after four. But if you could come on the 10th or 12th after nine we have a party. I am living at Mrs. Schwabe's just now till 16th this month. Pray write me a note, even If you can't come. "Yours ever, All the capital letters in the above transcript, except those in her name are mine, she uses none. The note is written in headlong hurry.
The latter part of the definition thus transcribed, has no justification in Hale's language, but is in conflict with the positions in his book. Upon the whole it can hardly be considered a fair transcript of Mr. Hale's account. He dismisses the subject, once for all, in a curt and almost disrespectful style "But thus much for this manuscript."
That is an authentic human document a transcript from the life of one among thousands who go down inarticulate into the depths, They die and make no sign, or, worse still, they continue to exist, carrying about with them, year after year, the bitter ashes of a life from which the furnace of misfortune has burnt away all joy, and hope, and strength.
And I believe that the philosophic reason of the disgust of Heine and of every critic with the English bourgeoisie novels, describing the petty, humdrum life of the middle classes, was simply the want of art in the writers; the failure on their part to see that a literal transcript of nature is poor stuff in literature.
In this age of the particular, let him remember the ages of the abstract, the great books of the past, the brave men that lived before Shakespeare and before Balzac. And as the root of the whole matter, let him bear in mind that his novel is not a transcript of life, to be judged by its exactitude; but a simplification of some side or point of life, to stand or fall by its significant simplicity.
Astonished and angry, he restrained his temper; he did not like to acknowledge to himself, far less to his daughter, that his commands had been disregarded by his wife. After he had enjoyed a comfortable repast, at which Gertrude presided, they both returned to Emily's room; and now Mr. Graham's first inquiry was for the Evening Transcript. "I will go for it," said Gertrude, rising.
"You talk like Hugh," she said, resting her hand on his arm, and looking out on the soft, still scene before them. "I would I could talk like him. While I admit no oracles, I confess I admire his views, and his life which is a perfect transcript of his theories." "He is a noble man, Herbert, and has done much towards my development.
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