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He realized, too, that his blind egotism had served merely to prove the truth of the author's criticism and to emphasize his own shortcomings. The idea enraged him, but the spectacle held him enthralled. Norma Berwynd was not slow to appreciate the truth.
Seneca regards both these opinions as founded upon principles inadequate to the advancement both of public and private happiness, which ought ever to be the ultimate object of moral speculation. The last of the author's discourses, addressed to Aebucius, is on Benefits, and continued through seven books.
I have here before me an edition of the Pilgrim's Progress, bound in green, without a date, and described as 'illustrated by nearly three hundred engravings, and memoir of Bunyan. On the outside it is lettered 'Bagster's Illustrated Edition, and after the author's apology, facing the first page of the tale, a folding pictorial 'Plan of the Road' is marked as 'drawn by the late Mr.
Before he died Scott had paid 70,000 pounds of his debt, an enormous sum for one man to make by his pen in six years. He died in the happy belief that all was paid, as indeed it all was. For after the author's death, his books still brought in a great deal of money, so that in fifteen years the debt was wiped out.
"The author's view of life," said Davis, "as expressed in these beautiful lines, will help us to fit our shoulders for the heavy burden of life, by bringing to our realization those profound truths of philosophy which find hope in despair and pleasure in pain.
But what or whose was the pastoral poem of 'Thealma and Clearchus, which thou didst set about printing in 1678, and gavest to the world in 1683? Thou gavest John Chalkhill for the author's name, and a John Chalkhill of thy kindred died at Winchester, being eighty years of his age, in 1679. Now thou speakest of John Chalkhill as 'a friend of Edmund Spenser's, and how could this be?
On the announcement by "Scribner's" of the coming publication of this author's novel, the firm who had published her prior works announced that they would not respect the agreement with the author, but would pirate the story. As the result of the quarrel, "Scribner's" resigned the story to its rival on payment to the lady of the sum agreed on.
Matter enough, and even more than enough, will be found in them for illustrating whatever we may find to say respecting the author's powers and attainments.
A Scotchman, by the name of Watson, has paid seventy-five thousand dollars for rare autographs. Rev. Dr. Sprague, of Albany, has a collection marvelous for interest. After we read an interesting book we want to see the author's face and his autograph.
Not one word was written but I put my very life-blood into it. The arrival of tea put a temporary stop to the author's self-revelation, and his host busied himself with his hospitable duties. Selwyn passed his hand querulously over his face. The clergyman looked at him with a feeling of pervading compassion. 'I was going to ask about Gerard Van Derwater, said Selwyn, 'How is he?
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