Far Off Things by Arthur Machen, History, Biography & Autobiography, Literary

ISBN-13: 9781606644904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 140 str.

Arthur Machen

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Well, as I say, I found myself on a certain night a partaker of all this cheerfulness. I was one guest among many; there were explorers and ambassadors and great scientific personages and judges, and the author who has given the world the best laughter that it has enjoyed since Dickens died: in a word, I was in much more distinguished company than that to which I am accustomed. And after dinner the Persians (as I will call them) have a kindly and courteous custom of praising their guests; and to my astonishment and delight the speaker brought me into his oration and said the kindest and most glowing things imaginable about a translation I once made of the -Heptameron- of Margaret of Navarre. I was heartily pleased; I hold with Foker in -Pendennis- that every fellow likes a hand. Praise is grateful, especially when there has not been too much of it.