Familiar Studies of Men And Books
Familiar Studies of Men And Books
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And so with Pepys and his adored protagonist : adored not blindly, but with trenchant insight and enduring, human toleration. I have gone over and over the greater part of the Diary ; and the points where, to the most suspicious scrutiny, he has seemed not perfectly sincere, are so few, so doubtful, and so petty, that I am ashamed to name them. It may be said that we all of us write such a diary in airy characters upon our brain ; but I fear there is a dis- tinction to be made ; I fear that as ...we render to our consciousness an account of our daily fortunes and behavior, we too often weave a tissue of romantic com- pliments and dull excuses ; and even if Pepys were the ass and coward that men call him, we must take rank as sillier and more cowardly than he. The bald truth about oneself, what we are all too timid to admit when we are not too dull to see it, that was what he saw clearly and set down imsparingly.
It is improbable that the Diary can have been car- ried on in the same single spirit in which it was be- Digitized by Google SAMUEL PEPYS, 285 gun.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And so with Pepys and his adored protagonist : adored not blindly, but with trenchant insight and enduring, human toleration. I have gone over and over the greater part of the Diary ; and the points where, to the most suspicious scrutiny, he has seemed not perfectly sincere, are so few, so doubtful, and so petty, that I am ashamed to name them. It may be said that we all of us write such a diary in airy characters upon our brain ; but I fear there is a dis- tinction to be made ; I fear that as ...we render to our consciousness an account of our daily fortunes and behavior, we too often weave a tissue of romantic com- pliments and dull excuses ; and even if Pepys were the ass and coward that men call him, we must take rank as sillier and more cowardly than he. The bald truth about oneself, what we are all too timid to admit when we are not too dull to see it, that was what he saw clearly and set down imsparingly.
It is improbable that the Diary can have been car- ried on in the same single spirit in which it was be- Digitized by Google SAMUEL PEPYS, 285 gun.
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