This was the reason why my father wroteby snatches.
Hedoes not rhapsodize, but at the same time he does not scold. Coleridge was already
incapable of movement.
Why has he no home to offer his son, no table
towhich Hartley could bring his friends uninvited?
Sara went to balls, and watched him dancewaltz
after waltz.
Ah, but a diseased body feels the stab ofanguish if
only a corn is trod upon.
Ah, but a diseased body feels the stab ofanguish if
only a corn is trod upon.
But he uses words most often to express the
crepitations ofhis apprehensive susceptibility. He had chosen his part and he played
it to perfection. She was learned he knew,and he was proud of it; but he was
unprepared, Mr.
Like herfather she had a Surinam toad in her head,
breeding other toads.
Thevisit was full of such contrasts and conflicts.
In letters thoughts need not be broughtto a conclusion. Ah, but a diseased body
feels the stab ofanguish if only a corn is trod upon. When she was a child the
handkerchiefvanished and her father with it. A wholedays work would result in one
erasure. After that he became the champion of every down-trodden cause and person.
He is singularlydispassionate, and yet not colourless. Lord Sheffield and his sister
Serena startedimmediately for London. Here, he seems to say, is all that isactually
known about Shelleys life.
Perhaps wecould spare the careful analysis of so
many poems.
Bourton unexpectedly on Sundays with the intention
ofdining here. Like herfather she had a Surinam toad in her head, breeding other
toads.
Many such changes of orientation toward Shelley
have been recorded.
She was one of those, he said,whose thoughts are
growing while they speak.
Past, present, future dappled her with a strange
light.
For a moment, a cloud crosses thataugust
countenance. Here, he seems to say, is all that isactually known about Shelleys
life.
But the effect on the man of his two incompatible
auntsdeveloped a conflict in his nature.
In the sameway his eyes were brown to some, grey to
others, and again a very brightblue. In her desolation it was her solace, her opium
perhaps.