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"I'm going to take most of them home, for I am sure Uncle Zed would not want them to fall into unappreciating hands; but there's no hurry about that. We'll just leave everything as it is for a few days." The next evening Dorian returned to look over again his newly-acquired treasures. The ground was covered with snow and the night was cold.
Why, there is not so poor a village in the United States, where they would not tell you that Robert Browning was an Englishman, and that they were sorry he was not an American." Very pretty of the American minister, was it not? and literally true, besides. . . . Ah, dear Sarianna I don't complain for myself of an unappreciating public. I have no reason.
"And D. has been under-working for himself ever since; drudging at low rates for unappreciating booksellers, wasting his fine erudition in silent corrections of the classics, and in those unostentatious but solid services to learning, which commonly fall to the lot of laborious scholars, who have not the art to sell themselves to the best advantage.
The smile of assumed gaiety faded from my lips, as his grave, earnest, sincere accents went down into my soul. Could I trifle even for a moment with an affection so true and constant? Oh, wayward and unappreciating heart! Why could I not return this love, which might have made me so happy? Why was there no spirit-echo to his voice; no quickened pulsations at the sound of his coming footsteps?
I am no poet; and if I were, better that the flame should go out vanish altogether in the smoke of its own delusions than burn with a feeble light, unseen, untrimmed, unhonored perhaps, beheld with the scornful eye of vulgar and unappreciating ignorance!"
However, I did not despair, for I was young and active, full of the hope so natural to a youth ere rough contact with the world has crushed his spirit. I was well aware of the fact that I was no fool, although I had often been called one by my hostile and unappreciating relatives, whose opinions I had ever held in most supreme contempt.
But as we intimated before, there is much gammon in the popular editorial cry of poverty. Just now we see a touching paragraph floating through the papers to the effect that editors don't live out half their years; that, poor souls! they wear themselves out for the benefit of a cold and unappreciating world. We don't believe it. Gentle reader, don't swallow it.
All I can say is, if it aint in you it will never come out of you," answered the unappreciating aunt. "Oh, if that's all, it is in me; there's a deal more in me than I can talk about; and so I believe I shall be able to make fine speeches like the professor some day." Morris certainly took great pains with his pupil; and Ishmael repaid his teacher's zeal by the utmost devotion to his service.
I must confess this romantic kind of fancy-sketching makes me feel rather oddly: very unlike what I felt a few months ago, when I was a mere coxcomb indifferent, unreflecting, unappreciating, and fit for nothing better than to hold pins at my lady's toilet. Well, it is now made evident to me that we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.
The name of Richard Clyde was to his impatient, jealous spirit, as is the rowel to the fiery steed. "And what will become of all our beautiful flowers, and our rich, ripening fruit?" I asked. "Must they waste their sweetness and value on the unappreciating air?" "I think we must make Dr. Harlowe and Mr. Regulus the guardians and participators of both," said Mrs. Linwood.
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