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Updated: May 31, 2025
Such a priceless treasure as this might have been the quite unliterary and unromantic diary of any say, Mr. James Simpson of any house number in any respectable side street in Regents Park, or St. Johns Wood or Hampstead. One can easily imagine him, sitting in his small, comfortable parlour and bending over his blotting-pad in unilluminated cheerful absorption after his day's work.
They charge us, in their unimaginable stupidity, with failing to appreciate our lines, especially when they are Shakespeare's with being unliterary. You might good Heavens! as well accuse a painter of not being a musician? Our business lies behind the words they are our mere medium! Rosalind wasn't literary why should I be?
'I know it's very unliterary of me, but I enjoy reading newspapers better than reading anything else in the world. After all, it's contemporary history, that's my defence. But I suppose it is because I'm so intensely interested in life. 'Tell me exactly, what papers do you really read? She laughed. 'Well, I think it's wicked of you to encourage all this frivolity.
I wonder how it would strike a literary woman if she tried life in these circumstances with an unliterary man who, whilst clinging to leisure and having no inclination to forfeit an hour of it in a day, yet was bored extremely from lack of occupation and resource. The horrid intimacy of urban life for all poor and needy people must be very wearing. Its lack of privacy is most distressing.
Without detracting from Mrs Browning's "unliterary" merits, one may conjecture that the ladies who proved unexciting to Rossetti were Arabella Barrett and Sarianna Browning. On Milsand, the article "A French friend of Browning," by Th. By himself. Men and Women Rossetti expresses his first enthusiasm about Men and Women in a word when he calls the poems "my Elixir of Life."
Possibly he realised, as he had not realised before Tours being, as he says, a most unliterary town that there were people in the world who looked on things as he did, and who would understand, and not laugh at him or snub him. He always returned from these lectures, his sister says, glowing with interest, and would try as far as he could to repeat them to his family.
Unfortunately, while the scientific side of scholarship is thus becoming, if it has not become, wholly unliterary, the æsthetic side has shown signs of becoming, to far too great an extent, unscientific in the bad and baneful sense.
After some hesitation, he had agreed to make Odo acquainted with those who, like himself, were secretly working in the cause of progress. These were mostly of the middle class, physicians, lawyers, and such men of letters as could subsist on the scant wants of an unliterary town. Ablest among them was the bookseller, Andreoni, whose shop was the meeting place of all the literati of Pianura.
Baker glowed with delight that he had been able, from the unliterary center of Centerville to send so many candles to shine in the chandelier of Chicago. "All I had to do was to come. "As I said before, I came. "I went out to Mrs.
'I wonder if he would be of any use to us in the way of finding out about my brother? But eventually he decided that nothing ought to be done until they should see Sir John Falconer. 'We had rather a disappointment here, he wrote from Rio, in one of his unliterary letters, 'because the yellow fever is so bad that we are not allowed to land.
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