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. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...world. 'The ludicrous now rarely troubles me, ' he says: 'all is awful.' He sympathised also with the variations of Wordsworth's heart between democracy and aristocracy. 'Wordsworth's tastes, ' he says, 'were all on the side of conservatism, his convictions all on that of democracy. Such a man, when it ...
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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. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...world. 'The ludicrous now rarely troubles me, ' he says: 'all is awful.' He sympathised also with the variations of Wordsworth's heart between democracy and aristocracy. 'Wordsworth's tastes, ' he says, 'were all on the side of conservatism, his convictions all on that of democracy. Such a man, when it comes to the vulgarities of life, shrinks from democracy--expects that all shall be as lofty as himself. Wordsworth was too fastidious. The only remedy was a less contemplative and theoretical life, and more work among the workers.' The last portion of the lecture, in which he dilates on Wordsworth's love of England as the guardian of liberty, was written out of his own heart. Robertson was a man whose patriotism was based, not on the 'blind hysterics' of feeling, but on the faith that England was the witness to the world of the glory of duty fulfilled even to death--of freedom poised between Conservatism and Liberalism--of truth in business and purity in domestic life. His voice, when it most truly expressed his devotion in England, would have said of her--I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. The following are the only passages in his letters which relate to this lecture: --January 25. I have no journals of books read, or thoughts matured, to send you; for my whole journal has been thinking, --thinking--thinking about Wordsworth. I wish I had written the lecture, but I had not time; it takes so long in the mere act of penmanship. It is all in my brain somehow or other; whether it will come out orderly or tremblingly, I do not know. Then there is the question whether health or strength will be such as to give a command of words, and these two questions make the whole experiment a hazardous one. However, I must shut my...
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