Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Volume 18 (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. 1906 Excerpt: ...and then passed on, unwittingly, into the obscurity from whence he came. On this occasion the Right Honorable read an original paper on an Important Subject. Mrs. Taylor often gave receptions to eminent and learned personages because her heart was a-hungered to know and to become, and she vainly thought that the society of learned people would satisfy her soul. She was young. She was also impulsive, vivacious, ambitious, and John Stuart Mill says was rarely beautiful, but she was n't. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder All things are comparative, and John Stuart Mill regarded Mrs. LITTLE Taylor from the first night he saw her as the standard JOURNEYS of feminine perfection. All women scaled down as they varied from her. As an actual fact, her features were rather plain, mouth and nose large, cheek-bones in evidence and one eye was much more open than the other, and this gave people who did not especially like her, excuse for saying that her eyes were not mates. As for John Stuart Mill he used, at times, to refer to the wide open orb as her critical eye. Yet these eyes were lustrous, direct and honest, and tokened the rare quality of mental concentration. Her head was square and long, and had corners. She carried the crown of her head high, and her chin in. We need not dally with old Mr. Taylor here--for us he was only Mrs. Taylor's husband, a kind of useful marital appendendum. He was a merchant on 'Change, with interests in argosies that plied to Tripoli--successful, busy, absorbed, with a twinge of gout, and a habit of taking naps after dinner with a newspaper over his face. Moreover he was an Oxford man, and this was his chief recommendation to the eighteenyear-old-girl, when she had married him four years before S(c)- Sk But educat.