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Updated: May 10, 2025
He carries about him in his manner and conversation more of the sailor than the author, has nothing student-like in his appearance, and savours more of the binnacle lamp than of the study."
If Andrew again presented himself at the house he should be given plainly to understand that his visits were something less than welcome, if necessary, a downright blunt word must effect their liberation. Godwin felt strong enough for that, musing here alone. And, student-like, he passed on to debate the theory of the problem.
Turning to those nearest, he begged for an explanation of what they saw before them: "Some one here must be able to tell me. Let that some one speak." At this the quietest and least conspicuous person present, a young man heavily spectacled and of student-like appearance, advanced a step and said: "I was the first person to come in here after this poor young lady fell.
The impression one gets of him gathered from his recorded acts, from his own writings, from the writings of those who fought with him, is of a silent, student-like young man believing religiously in his "star of destiny"; but, in all matters that did not concern himself, possessed of a grim sense of fun.
As there are fools to be found who have the ignorance, as well as the effrontery, to declare that the obfuscated, ill- expressed, and ephemeral productions of Browning are equal, if not superior, to the clear, majestic, matchless, and immortal utterances of Shakespeare, ye gods! the force of asinine braying can no further go than this! ... even so there are similar fools who say that the cold, correct, student-like playing of Joachim is superior to that of Sarasate.
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