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The publication of this first volume served to make Jasmin's name popular beyond the town in which they had been composed and published. His friend M. Gaze said of him, that during the year 1825 he had been marrying his razor with the swan's quill; and that his hand of velvet in shaving was even surpassed by his skill in verse-making.
I never ventured to read them to my Oread or fellow students. Thus I cherished two secrets and discovered that the private indulgence of verse-making is almost as sweet as a hidden love. The terms of the Academy and the Oread Institute ended on the same day, and I parted from my sweetheart never to meet again. What to do with myself during the long summer vacation was the next question.
Lescarbot was no common man, not that his abundant gift of verse-making was likely to avail much in the woods of New France, nor yet his classic lore, dashed with a little harmless pedantry, born not of the man, but of the times; but his zeal, his good sense, the vigor of his understanding, and the breadth of his views, were as conspicuous as his quick wit and his lively fancy.
She meant it for the mere indication of a friendly wish to suit his tastes, but it looked like the divine humility of love. Nobody wondered that General Trumble should fall to verse-making in his old age. She sketched magnificently. This is the very strongest support for the assertion: Frank Chenoweth and Tappingham Marsh agreed, with tears of enthusiasm, that "magnificently" was the only word.
"What is the name of the bonny maiden whose eyes have driven thee to verse-making?" "Mistress Dorothy Dawe," replied the forester a little sheepishly "a sweet wench, Sir Walter, as e'er the sun shone upon. And I thought her name as pretty as her face, but, plague on't, I cannot fix a rhyme to 't." "And there I sympathize with thee most heartily, Master Morgan.
Whether youths are to be taught Latin or verse-making will depend on the fact, whether these studies tend to mental culture; but, however this is determined, so far is clear, that in that mental culture consists what I have called a liberal or non-professional, and what the Reviewers call a useful education.
I wish Stjernhök would come here soon. Now there's a fellow! he will turn out something first-rate! I wish he were coming soon; perhaps he might influence Henrik, and induce him to give up this verse-making, which, perhaps, at bottom, is only vanity." Elise and the daughters were silent. For a considerable time now, Elise had accustomed herself to silence when her husband grumbled.
KENELM. "You know that I am not a poet, and I do not have much reverence for verse-making merely as a craft." THE MINSTREL. "Neither have I." KENELM. "But I have a great reverence for poetry as a priesthood.
You see, that kind of thing pays very well, and is read by the best people; whereas poetry, of course But you can always come back to the verse-making, you know " "If you ever let me," he said, with a flash of prescience. "And I don't believe you mean to let me. You are your mother's daughter, after all!
"Well, put aside the verse-making: don't you find a sensible enjoyment in those solitary summer walks, when you have Nature all to yourself, enjoyment in marking all the mobile evanescent changes in her face, her laugh, her smile, her tears, her very frown!"
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