Come again into my study, having sat some time for greater comfort in the sunnier east room by an open fire, as needful in our climate, almost, as in that of changeable England. Busy days these last, with a little something to show for them. After all, I am here most at home, and myself surrounded by friendly pictures and books, free to follow the mood of the moment, -read, write, recreate. I wish more came of it all. Here are these voluminous diaries, showy seen from without, with far too little of life transcribed within. Was it the accident of being shown, when a boy, in the old oaken...
Come again into my study, having sat some time for greater comfort in the sunnier east room by an open fire, as needful in our climate, almost, as in ...
"Scorn not the sonnet," said Wordsworth, and then gave us at least fifty noble reasons why we should not, -for so many at least of his innumerable sonnets are above languor and indifference, and all of them above contempt. Milton was more self-restrained than Wordsworth, and wrote fewer sonnets, every one of which is a treasure, either for beauty of verse, nobility of thought, happy portraiture of persons, or quaint and savage humor, -like that on "Tetrachordon," and the elongated sonnet in which he denounces the Presbyterians, and tells them to their face, "New Presbyter is but old Priest...
"Scorn not the sonnet," said Wordsworth, and then gave us at least fifty noble reasons why we should not, -for so many at least of his innumerable son...