This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... very nice letter from Wilkie Collins--and other missives.... The little book by T. H. Green 1 came three days ago; many thanks for it. I do not however as yet think that it suits my "fixings" as it does yours--which is a rare case regarding our inter-possessed notions. Perhaps the style confuses me; ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... very nice letter from Wilkie Collins--and other missives.... The little book by T. H. Green 1 came three days ago; many thanks for it. I do not however as yet think that it suits my "fixings" as it does yours--which is a rare case regarding our inter-possessed notions. Perhaps the style confuses me; or perhaps--which is much more probable--I, being an Ass, cannot well appreciate it. I cannot build up lines of Faitharchitecture (so to speak Ic ftrop Ifowiv (on a substratum of Dogma I can't believe, or understand. It is vexatious even to touch on subjects of this sort so flippantly: if you were here for about forty-eight years, and we were both well and illustrious and pomsidillious, --better times might happen. Regarding Tennyson and the Peerage. (Have you seen a perfect (and good-natured) caricature in Punch about it? It has been sent to me, and A's "Hat" is a miracle of absurd accuracy. How often have we jeered about that Hat!) You may suppose that I have had heaps of letters on the subject: one--from a person I shan't name, --nearly busts me with its folly--"What! make a man a Peer because he has written a few verses / / What enemy of his has persuaded the Queen to make him so ridiculous?" I don't envy your fogs. Figs--even frogs--would be better.... Once more (and it is high time) I paws. 8.50 P.M. 1 T. H. Green, the philosopher. Lear probably refers here to the "Prolegomena to Ethics," left incomplete at Green's death, and published in 1883. He married a sister of John Addington Symonds, who still lives at Oxford. 8 p.m. 21 January, 1884. If you will start off at once so as to get here while this weather lasts, you shall have my two volumes of Lodge if you are a good boy to read all day, which you can do in your room, looking out on...
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Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 392 pp. Original purple cloth covers w/ gray cloth spine. Gilt title on spine. Lightly soiled. Corners bumped. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Endpapers browned. Contents nice.
