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What I have set down is in no way an autobiography. It is simply the presentment of the panorama of nearly fourscore momentous years as unrolled before one pair of eyes. Whether the eyes have served their owner well or ill the gentle reader will judge. I hope I have not obtruded myself unduly, and that I may be pardoned as I close, if I am for a moment personal.
This wearisome monotony of intense activity in nature is paralleled by all that is done by man under heaven, and the net result of all is 'Vanity and a strife after wind. The writer proceeds to confirm his dreary conclusion by a piece of autobiography put into the mouth of Solomon.
The three books he wrote while still working in the delicatessen store are indelibly stamped with the pathos of his environment "Thoughts in Vinegar," a bitter satire on bohemianism "Three Little Pickles," an autobiography of the Barrymores as children and "The lonely Anchovy," a whimsical fantasy which if we are to believe Town Topics made Sir James Barrie quite furious.
Almost solely by arranging and modifying what he has felt and seen, and scarcely at all by inventing, can he accomplish his end. An inquiry into the career of any first-class novelist invariably reveals that his novels are full of autobiography. But, as a fact, every good novel contains far more autobiography than any inquiry could reveal.
Shade of Franklin, where'er thou art, this is really a little bit stiff! A man may be excused even such infamies of priggishness, but truly he ought not to go and write them down, especially to his son. And why the detail about red ink? If Franklin's son was not driven to evil courses by the perusal of that monstrous Autobiography, he must have been a man almost as astounding as his father.
Autobiography, Rutt, vol i. p. 124. This was no doubt a lesson which they had been taught by their parents, and what they, I fear, had learned from their superiors." Appeal to the Public on the Subject of the Riots at Birmingham. First Series. On Some of the Peculiarities of the Christian Religion. Essay I. "Revelation of a Future State."
"She still talks to me as though I were her small brother. Next thing she'll be ordering me to wash behind my ears!" "Get out, and shut the door after you!" The reply was Dick's stately exit and the sharp closing of the door. "Has Dick been talking to you about himself?" asked Miss Sherwood. "Yes." "What did he say?" Larry gave the substance of the autobiography which Dick had volunteered.
This, however, did not justify Benjamin in his course, as he afterwards saw and frankly confessed. In his "Autobiography" he said: "At length, a fresh difference arising between my brother and me, I took upon me to assert my freedom, presuming that he would not venture to produce the new indentures.
Cellini's autobiography yields sufficient proof that such fears were not unjustified by practical experience; and Bramante, though he preferred to work by treachery of tongue, may have commanded the services of assassins, uomini arditi e facinorosi, as they were somewhat euphemistically called.
In Milton, as in Gibbon, the gratification of self-love, which attends all autobiography, is felt to be subordinated to a nobler intention. The lofty conception which Milton formed of his vocation as a poet, expands his soul and absorbs his personality. It is his office, and not himself, which he magnifies.
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