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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 20 (search)
-- Did I displease you? But won't you tell me how? Or perhaps the announcement of some event, vast in her small sphere, as this:-- Amherst. Carlo died. E. Dickinson. Would you instruct me now? Or sometimes there would arrive an exquisite little detached strain, every word a picture, like this-- The humming-bird A route of evanescence With a revolving wheel; A resonance of emerald; A rush of cochineal. And every blossom on the bush Adjusts its tumbled head;-- The mail from Tunis, probably, An easy morning's ride. Nothing in literature, I am sure, so condenses into a few words that gorgeous atom of life and fire of which she here attempts the description. It is, however, needless to conceal that many of her brilliant fragments were less satisfying. She almost always grasped whatever she sought, but with some fracture of grammar and dictionary on the way. Often, too, she was obscure, and sometimes inscrutable; and though obscurity is sometimes, in Coleridge's ph