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. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter VIII A Scholar's Dream THE delicate hands of the little clock on the mantel indicated that thirty minutes had passed since the musical chimes within had rung eleven. The open fire below was burning brightly, for the flame had eaten into the heart of the back log, and was transmuting its slow, ...
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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. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter VIII A Scholar's Dream THE delicate hands of the little clock on the mantel indicated that thirty minutes had passed since the musical chimes within had rung eleven. The open fire below was burning brightly, for the flame had eaten into the heart of the back log, and was transmuting its slow, rich growth into a warm glow that touched the outlines of the room with a soft splendour and made a charming picture of its mingled lights and shadows. The learning of the world rose tier above tier on the shelves that filled the space between floor and ceiling, and following the lines of gold lettering along the unbroken rows one read august and imperial names in the kingdom of thought. An ample writing-table, piled high with pamphlets and books, stood in the centre of the room, and the loose sheets of paper carelessly thrown together gave evidence of a work only recently interrupted. Without, the solemn silence of midnight and the radiantstars brooded over the stainless fields, white with freshly fallen snow. Ralph Norton had been looking into the fire these thirty minutes, in a meditation that was almost wholly pathetic. His seventy years passed in swift procession before him, coming up one by one out of the invisible past, and pronouncing an inaudible judgment upon his career. There was a presence of indefinable and unusual solemnity in the time, for it was the close of a century, and in a brief halfhour another hundred years would be rounded to completion. By the common judgment of the thinking world, Ralph Norton was the foremost man of his age; no other had felt its doubts so keenly, or drank in its inspiration with such a mighty thirst as he. His thought had searched into its secret places and mastered all its wisdom; his heart had...
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1st edition. Hardback. Good+ condition. iv, 204pp with tissue guarded frontis. & three other illustrations by W. Cubitt Cooke. Top edge gilt, foredge untrimmed. Green covers with delightful gilt embossed vingnette to the front & spine. Faint red mark on front cover, corners bumped. Contents include essays on nature, art, scholars and philosophy.
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