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I have often found a great convenience in writing a bad hand; my letters are so little like what they are intended for, and have among them such equality of unintelligibility, that each seems either; and with the slightest alteration, each will stand and serve for the other.
The impulse which, we are told, is now strong in the mind of the United States to be quit of the turmoil, the complication, the violence, the expense, and, above all, the unintelligibility of the European problems, is easily understood.
Had he simplified truth for the masses his career would have been that of Erasmus. His safety lay in his unintelligibility. He was gracious, gentle, suave, with a calm self-confidence that routed every would-be antagonist. It was in his fifty-sixth year that the supreme change came over him. He was in London, in his room, when a great light came to him.
'If we can locate that, said Dick eagerly, 'it is bound to lead us into the French lines. 'Werry good, sir, said the groom, with an air of resignation. His contempt for maps and their unintelligibility was deep-rooted, but if his young master thought he could locate a river with one, he would keep an open mind on the subject until it had, at least, been given a fair trial.
To fancy yourself in such company is pleasant matter for a midsummer's night's dream. No poet has such a gallery as Shakespeare, but of our modern poets Browning comes nearest him. Against these dramatic pieces the charge of unintelligibility fails as completely as it does against the plays.
Frank Hill, of January 31, 1884. Dear Mrs. Hill, Could you befriend me? The 'Century' prints a little insignificance of mine an impromptu sonnet but prints it correctly. So does the charge of unintelligibility attach itself to your poor friend who can kick nobody. Robert Browning.
'Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the last farthing. ST. MATTHEW v. 26. There is a thing wonderful and admirable in the parables, not readily grasped, but specially indicated by the Lord himself their unintelligibility to the mere intellect. They are addressed to the conscience and not to the intellect, to the will and not to the imagination.
His pride in his crew on those occasions was delightful, and the conventional unintelligibility of his orders in the ears of uncommercial landlubbers and loblolly boys, though they were always intelligible to the crew, was hardly less pleasant.
The shooting, such as it was, went on, the sleeping and the eating, the walking and the talking. Long letters were written from the New House to female friends letters with the flourishes if not the matter of wit, and funny tales concerning the natives, whom, because of their poor houses and unintelligibility, they represented as semi-savages.
I had great difficulty in getting a place to stay. People allowed me to career about in search of a room, treating me with courteous indifference, but none offered to house me. At last the headman of the village appeared, and with many kindly expressions of unintelligibility led me to his house.
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