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Almost exactly at the date when Ibsen was inditing the sharp couplets of his Love's Comedy, Tennyson, in Sea Dreams, was giving voice to the English abandonment of satire which had been rampant in the generation of Byron in the famous words: I loathe it: he had never kindly heart, Nor ever cared to better his own kind, Who first wrote satire, with no pity in it.
There are, peradventure, some of you who will say that I have used overmuch license in inditing these stories, as well as in making ladies whiles say and very often hearken to things not very seemly either to be said or heard of modest women.
'If your more important avocations should admit of your ever tracing these imperfect characters thus far which may be, or may not be, as circumstances arise you will naturally inquire by what object am I influenced, then, in inditing the present missive?
Not that the gift of decyphering written characters a gift among the commonalty of that day considered little less cabalistical than the art of inditing could, in strict justice, have been laid to the charge of either disciple of the sea; but there was, to say the truth, a certain twist in the formation of the letters an indescribable lee-lurch about the whole -which foreboded, in the opinion of both seamen, a long run of dirty weather; and determined them at once, in the allegorical words of Legs himself, to "pump ship, clew up all sail, and scud before the wind."
Yes! though it be doubtless true, in Mr. Kipling's famous phrase, that There are nine and sixty ways Of inditing tribal lays, And every blessed one of them is right, I think that the whole nine and sixty of them include somewhere in their method those sole preservative virtues of truth to life and passionate artistic integrity.
Ofttimes have I read verses by our most inspired poets telling of the delights of lying prostrate within the leafy fastnesses of the forest deep, but I am forced to believe these poets were elsewhere when engaged in inditing their immortal lines.
One morning, about the beginning of November, while I was inditing some business letters, shortly after breakfast, Eliza Millward came to call upon my sister. Rose had neither the discrimination nor the virulence to regard the little demon as I did, and they still preserved their former intimacy.
But Cerberus himself could not have stopped John Pike; his conscience backed him up in trespass the most sinful when his heart was inditing of a trout upon the rise.
As for the actual last words of the "Canterbury Tales" the so-called "Prayer of Chaucer" it would be unbearable to have to accept them as genuine. For in these the poet, while praying for the forgiveness of sins, is made specially to entreat the Divine pardon for his "translations and inditing in worldly vanities," which he "revokes in his retractions."
I've never yet been coward enough to lie about anything I wanted to do." "But, my dear" Penelope was openly distressed "we must send him a wire at once. I'd no idea you'd quarrelled like that! He'll be out of his mind with anxiety." "He deserves to be" in a hard voice "for distrusting me. No, Penny" as Penelope drew a form towards her preparatory to inditing a reassuring telegram.
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