have
composed an epitaph which would have moved others to tears for my
untimely fate. But there was really not impairment of my constitution,
and after a while I began to ebony ayes pics be better, and little by little the health
which has never since failed me under any reasonable stress of work
established itself.
I was in the midst of this unequal struggle ebony ayes pics when I first ebony ayes pics became
acquainted with the poet who at once possessed himself of what was best
worth having in me. Probably I knew of Tennyson by extracts, ebony ayes pics and from
the English reviews, but I ebony ayes pics believe it was from reading one of Curtis'
s
"Easy Chair" papers that I was prompted to get the new poem of "Maud,"
which I understood from
the "Easy Chair" was then moving polite youth in
the East. It did ebony ayes pics not seem to me ebony ayes pics that I could very well live without that
poem, ebony ayes pics and when ebony ayes pics I ebony ayes pics went to Cleveland with the hope that I might have
courage to propose ebony ayes pics a translation of Lazarillo to a publisher it was with
the fixed purpose of ebony ayes pics getting &ebony ayes pics quot;Maud&ebony ayes pics quot; ebony ayes pics if it was to be found in any book-
store
there.
I do not know why I was so long in reaching Tennyson, and I can only
account ebony ayes pics for it by the fact that I was always reading rather the earlier
than the later English poetry. To be sure I ebony ayes pics had passed through what I
may call a paroxysm of Alexander Smith, a poet deeply unknown to the
present generation, but ebony ayes pics then acclaimed immortal by all the critics, and
put with Shakespeare, who must be a good deal astonished from time to
time ebony ayes pics in his Elysian quiet by the companionship thrust upon him. I read
this now dead-and-gone immortal with an ecstasy unspeakable; I raved of
him by day, and dreamed of him by night; I got great lengths of his
"Life-Drama" by heart; and I can still repeat several gorgeous passages
from it; I would almost have been willing to take the life of the sole
critic ebony ayes pics who had the sense to laugh at him, and who made his wicked fun in
Graham's Magazine, an extinct periodical of the old extinct Philadelphian