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When young Spohr showed him one of his compositions, he growled out, "There's time enough for that; you must learn something first." It may be said of Spohr, however, that his studies in theory were for the most part self-taught, for he was a most diligent student of the great masters, and was gifted with a keenly analytic mind.
Self-made and self-taught, he began the serious struggle of life when he was merely a boy himself; and reading, and writing, and spelling, and languages, and mathematics came to him by nature. He acquired by slow degrees a fine library, and out of it a vast amount of information.
Peter also learned Latin, German, and Dutch. He read much and widely, and learned a great deal, though without method. Like Ivan the Terrible, he was a self-taught man. He afterward complained of not having been instructed according to rule. This was perhaps a good thing.
At which she blushed and answered modestly, "Gracious Prince, I am only self-taught. No one here understands the lute except your Highness." "Does this employment, then, give you much pleasure?" "Ah, yes! If I could only play it well; I would give half my life to learn it properly. There is no such sweet enjoyment upon earth, I think, as this."
Both were self-taught men, and compensated for the lack of early education by extraordinary application. Although Scott did not pass through so terrible an ordeal as Newton, still he had a sufficiently large experience, both of the moral evils and outward hardships of life, to give him a very wide sympathy.
I had not the courage to tell her that they might be entirely self-taught under certain circumstances. "Such shameless, brazen things!" she persisted. "We have always been so careful of Euty striving to keep him well, wholesome and pure, you understand, Major Blake." "There are always dangers," I said, but only because she had stopped speaking, and not in any hope of instructing her.
Schuyler was born in St. Louis, May 4, 1855, and music has been his livelihood. He is largely self-taught, and has composed some fifty pieces for the piano, a hundred and fifty songs, a few works for violin, viola, and 'cello, and two short trios. In his setting of these lines of Crane's, Schuyler has attacked a difficult problem in an ideal manner.
The further progress of the self-taught artist is best narrated in his own words, as communicated by him in a letter to the author: "The next pictures I painted," he says, "were a Landscape by Moonlight, a Fruitpiece, and one or two others; after which I conceived the idea of painting 'The Forge. I had for some time thought about it, but had not attempted to embody the conception in a drawing.
Braefield also had the wit to discover that, under the infantine ways and phantasies of this almost self-taught girl, there lay, as yet undeveloped, the elements of a beautiful womanhood. So that altogether, from the very day she first re-encountered Kenelm, Elsie's thought had been that Lily was the wife to suit him.
It was as if they knew that our Lord at that moment was hovering over the parish on an evening cloud great and powerful and good breathing His blessing upon the whole community. None of your college-bred men had ever taught in that parish. The schoolmaster was just a plain, old-fashioned farmer, who was self-taught. He was a capable man who could manage a hundred children single-handed.
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