Life Volume 3; As Related in Her Letters and Journals (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...for anything except the "Traviata." Rigoletto is unpleasant, but it is a superlatively fine tragedy in the Nemesis. I think I don't know a finer. We are really going to buy The Priory after all. You would think it very pretty if you saw it now, with the roses blooming about it. July i2.--I am now in the middle of G.'s "Aris-journal, totle," which gives me great delight. l863' July 23.--Reading Mommsen, and Story's "Roba di Roma"; also Liddell's "Rome," for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis. July 29.--In the evening we went to Covent Garden to hear "Faust" for the third time. On our return we found a letter from Frederick Maurice--the greatest, most generous tribute ever given to me in my life. I have wanted for several days to make some Letter to feeble sign in writing that I think of your trouble. Taylor, But one claim after another has arisen as a hin-63.JuIy drance. Conceive us, please, with three boys at home, all bigger than their father It is a congestion of youthfulness on our mature brains that disturbs the course of our lives a little, and makes us think of most things as good to be deferred till the boys are settled again. I tell you so much to make you understand that "omission" is not with me equivalent to "neglect," and that I do care for what happens to you. Renan is a favourite with me. I feel more kinship with his mind than with that of any other living French author. But I think I shall not do more than look through the Introduction to his "Vie I regret that I have not been able to find this letter. Letter to de Jesus"--unless I happen to be more fascinated xayioret.r by the constructive part than I expect to be from 3J'y the specimens I have seen. Fo...