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By a curious irony, two verse-makers and admirers of George Sand made it possible for the would-be man of action to find his way. The poetess, recalling the trip afterwards, wrote that she liked the prophet more than she expected, finding his "bitterness only melancholy, and his scorn sensibility." Browning himself continued through life to regard Carlyle with "affectionate reverence."
The sun shone as lovingly upon the swart face of the blacksmith in his shop-door, as upon the scholar at his library-window. "Poetry was an angel in his breast," making his heart glad with her heavenly presence; he did not "make her his drudge, his maid-of- all-work," as professional verse-makers do. Mr. The toil and privations of frontier life soon wrought their natural effects upon Mrs.
"What! all those mighty painters were verse-makers?" "Verse-makers so good, especially Michael Angelo, the greatest painter of all, that they would have had the fame of poets, if, unfortunately for that goal of fame, their glory in the sister art of painting did not outshine it.
The first sold prodigiously, the event being recent, and having made a great noise. This success flattered my vanity; but my father discouraged me by criticising my performances and telling me that verse-makers were generally beggars. Thus I escaped being a poet, and probably a very bad one." From the time that Mr.
"What! all those mighty painters were verse-makers?" "Verse-makers so good, especially Michael Angelo, the greatest painter of all, that they would have had the fame of poets, if, unfortunately for that goal of fame, their glory in the sister art of painting did not outshine it.
The large-meaning but never fully-accomplishing Emperor K'ong reigned for yet another year, when he was deposed by the powerful League of the Three Brothers. To the end of his life he steadfastly persisted that the rebellion was insidiously fanned, if not actually carried out, by a secret confederacy of all the verse-makers of the Empire, who were distrustful of his superior powers.
Now, taken nakedly, abstractly, and immediately, you see that mere ideals are the cheapest things in life. Everybody has them in some shape or other, personal or general, sound or mistaken, low or high; and the most worthless sentimentalists and dreamers, drunkards, shirks and verse-makers, who never show a grain of effort, courage, or endurance, possibly have them on the most copious scale.
"I was only trying to string together some ideas that came into my head this fine morning." "You are a poet, then?" said Kenelm, seating himself on the bench. "I dare not say poet. I am a verse-maker." "Sir, I know there is a distinction. Many poets of the present day, considered very good, are uncommonly bad verse-makers.
A wild, sickening sense of what might have been struggled up: she thrust it down, she had kept it down all night; the old pain should not come back, it should not. She did not think of the love she had given up as a dream, as verse-makers or sham people do; she knew it to be the quick seed of her soul.
These ballads, which the author frankly, and no doubt truthfully, describes as "wretched stuff," were printed and hawked about the streets by the boy. "The Light-House Tragedy" at least sold prodigiously, and the boy's vanity was correspondingly flattered; but the father stepped in and discouraged such work, warning Benjamin that "verse-makers were generally beggars."
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