Professor Blackie, His Sayings And Doings a Biographical Sketch: His Sayings ...
Professor Blackie, His Sayings And Doings a Biographical Sketch: His Sayings ...
Howard Angus Kennedy
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"From the day I became acquainted with Words- worth/ ' he says,* " I regarded Byron only as a very sublime avatar of the devil, and would have nothing to do with him. With the years of riper manhood the • " Books Thab Have Influenced Me," in the " British Weekly." y Google 232 Professor Blackie. influence of Wordsworth passed away, because I had appropriated and turned into blood and bone all the nutriment he could give me. I now sought guidance from a man who could help me to achieve for what ...the Germans call the objective half of my nature what the Bible and Wordsworth had done for the subjective. I saw the necessity of getting out of myself and steering free of the besetting sin of thoughtful young men, viz., philo- sophising about life, instead of actually living. In this my need — as Shakespeare was still too big for me — what D&us ex machina could have come to my aid more effective than the sunny cheerfulness, strong healthy vitality, Catholic human sympathy, deep-rooted patriotism, fine pictorial eye, and rare historic furniture of Walter Scott?
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