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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...and hosts of others were associated with his daily life. His father's house in London was at this time a gathering-place for the best spirits of the day, and by these poet-friends this volume of the young aspirant was hailed as one of brilliant promise. Dante Rossetti, in particular, was delighted with it, and addressed him a sonnet which, in one of the letters before me, he says he sets great store by as being a sort of guarantee of his powers. Swinburne, too, at this time exercised a powerful influence over him, and he knew one of his volumes by heart; but this influence very much waned as his years went on. Not until after "Song-Tide" was published, and not usntil the light of his life was a second time quenched by the death of the lovely young girl to whom he was betrothed, did his natural sight utterly fail him. For up to this period he could indistinctly see the splendor of a brilliant sunset and enjoy the glory of a sunny day. But the grief incident upon so great a loss is supposed to have cost him the little sight he had left, so that henceforth to the end he walked his life-path in the "everduring dark." But then he had in possession That inward eye which is the bliss of solitude, which revealed to him a world of beauty, of fancy, and of spiritual imaginings which are denied to common eyes. Marston was a long time in recovering from this staggering blow, but his sister's constant companionship nerved and strengthened him; for she was in so many respects the twin sister of his soul--his very alter ego--that their sympathy in taste and occupation was perfect. She read for him, wrote for him, shared, as it were, her senses with him, till all her life seeemed merged in his. No page of literature presents us with a more beautiful typ...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130867943
- ISBN 13 9781130867947
- BindingPaperback
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