This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...influence on the whole civilisation of Europe.--I am, sir, your most grateful C. Csvoun. To Mr. Harrison, London. This long agitation, which had lasted from Easter till the November term, seriously interfered with my legal work. I was now having regular briefs, and I was in several spirited suits, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...influence on the whole civilisation of Europe.--I am, sir, your most grateful C. Csvoun. To Mr. Harrison, London. This long agitation, which had lasted from Easter till the November term, seriously interfered with my legal work. I was now having regular briefs, and I was in several spirited suits, and I remember being with John Duke Coleridge in Ponsford v. Langley. In this year we began to reside at Eden Park, Beckenham, which was my summer home until my marriage, eleven years later. CHAPTER XI l860--LITEB.ARY LONDON THIS year was that of my first appearance in regular literature, and of my intimacy with two of the greatest writers of our time---John Ruskin and George Eliot. It was in January, shortly after the publication of Adam Bede, that I first met "George Eliot." Mr. and Mrs. Lewes dined with Mr. and Mrs. R. Congreve at Wandsworth. She was then at the beginning of her left-handed marriage, and wholly unknown in general society, having only one or two intimate women friends, such as Madame Bodichon and Mrs. Congreve. She was, in 1860, nearly what she was in 1880--reserved, earnest, dignified, speaking with deliberate force, and wholly free from pretension or exhilaration with her success. He was, as ever, the brilliant and affectionate Bohemian--irrepressible and " caddish," and giving an impression of being far more superficial and mercurial than he really was. It was not for some years that I came to be intimate with them. Of her literary powers and of his I have spoken enough in several published essays. John James Ruskin My acquaintance with Ruskin arose out of our association at the Working Men's College. I was deeply stirred by his papers " Unto this Last" in the Cornhill Magazine, and...
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