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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 12: Inner traits. (search)
s present, his place was always on the Business Committee, usually at the head of it, and to him fell the task of drafting the resolutions. The amount of drudgery thus performed was enormous. He was entirely tolerant of criticism, not a stickler for Ante, 1.400; 3.127. phraseology, and disposed to keep in the background when others were ready to take the floor. Confidence in his judgment was universal, and I cannot do better than quote the words of John Bishop Estlin, in a letter to Crabb Robinson in 1847: Oct. 27. I am very glad to learn from you Dr. Boott's opinion upon Diary of H. C. Robinson, 3.301. the slavery question. In the infallibility of Mr. Garrison's judgment I certainly do not place full confidence, but unlimited in his singleness of purpose, his noble disinterestedness, and his indefatigable zeal in the anti-slavery cause. I am, however, compelled to confess that, as regards judgment on his subject, what he has effected by his fifteen years of labor ought to
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Wordsworth. (search)
s James Dixon (an old servant of Wordsworth) to Crabb Robinson, with a simple, one might almost say canine patwas always considerate and kind with his servants, Robinson tells us. Perhaps it is hardly yet time to take a n many years later that Wordsworth himself told Crabb Robinson, I have no respect whatever for Whigs, but I hautweighed all the evils of an establishment. Crabb Robinson, I. 250, Am. Ed. In December, 1792, Wordswo in company, he said, They ought to be liked. Crabb Robinson, 9th May, 1815. His ordinary answer to criticisew of these volumes not, on the whole, unfair. Crabb Robinson is reported as saying that Wordsworth was indig, even by his admirers. Miss Martineau said to Crabb Robinson in 1839, speaking of Wordsworth's conversation:deur, leaving a strong impression of inspiration. Robinson tells us that he read Resolution and Independence eigh Hunt's Autobiography. Wordsworth writes to Crabb Robinson in 1837, My ear is susceptible to the clashing
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Keats. (search)
d been. At any rate, they thought John would be a great man, which is the main thing, for the public opinion of the playground is truer and more discerning than that of the world, and if you tell us what the boy was, we will tell you what the man longs to be, however he may be repressed by necessity or fear of the police reports. Lord Houghton has failed to discover anything else especially worthy of record in the school-life of Keats. He translated the twelve books of the Aeneid, read Robinson Crusoe and the Incas of Peru, and looked into Shakespeare. He left school in 1810, with little Latin and no Greek, but he had studied Spence's Polymetis, Tooke's Pantheon, and Lempriere's Dictionary, and knew gods, nymphs, and heroes, which were quite as good company perhaps for him as aorists and aspirates. It is pleasant to fancy the horror of those respectable writers if their pages could suddenly have become alive under their pens with all that the young poet saw in them. There is