The Convalescent
The Convalescent
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The romance of this offer (fvhich Taylor did not accept) /ortM with the oilier a beautiful exponent of ih$ whole impression of the man — the one a tribute to his personal character, the other to the character of his mind. There ia a unity between the two which it is the common draw* back of genius to lack. Among poets, particularly, Bay* ard Taylor will be remembered as the rare exception of consistency and completeness, ^fay God preserve him under the inclement skies to which he has now truste...d him- self, and bring him back to country and friends— to blesf us with the noon and evening of a career, of which, as yet, we have seen but the energetic morning I And so, dear reader, ends what you must allow is a gos- sip unusually confidential I I have had twenty turns of 196 The Coktalesckict.
Ummb and Soger to tear up what I have thus renture- somelj writtciL Not for any scruple of mj own, let me saj, however. Mj experiment in literature (as jou have probablj long ago discovered) is to portray what is present and paxsing — ^to copy what is memorable^ from my own seeing and knowing of (amous events and persons — to pluck the ripe apple rather than wait for the dried fruit— to have the relish of eating fresh the fish which Biograpliy» nistory and Fiction, are at such trouble to salt down.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The romance of this offer (fvhich Taylor did not accept) /ortM with the oilier a beautiful exponent of ih$ whole impression of the man — the one a tribute to his personal character, the other to the character of his mind. There ia a unity between the two which it is the common draw* back of genius to lack. Among poets, particularly, Bay* ard Taylor will be remembered as the rare exception of consistency and completeness, ^fay God preserve him under the inclement skies to which he has now truste...d him- self, and bring him back to country and friends— to blesf us with the noon and evening of a career, of which, as yet, we have seen but the energetic morning I And so, dear reader, ends what you must allow is a gos- sip unusually confidential I I have had twenty turns of 196 The Coktalesckict.
Ummb and Soger to tear up what I have thus renture- somelj writtciL Not for any scruple of mj own, let me saj, however. Mj experiment in literature (as jou have probablj long ago discovered) is to portray what is present and paxsing — ^to copy what is memorable^ from my own seeing and knowing of (amous events and persons — to pluck the ripe apple rather than wait for the dried fruit— to have the relish of eating fresh the fish which Biograpliy» nistory and Fiction, are at such trouble to salt down.
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