Copley Society (Boston, Mass.) · [Boston, Press of G.H. Ellis, etc. · leaf 122
is life and work alike requireto be summed up in contradictory and complex terms.Sprung from the humblest class, the son of simpletillers of the soil,^ he grew to be a courtier and thepampered confidant of princes; and yet he neverweeded out the primitive rudeness from his peasanttemper. A coarse,… … o alternately by generous and by ignoble feeling. Hissense of humor was inherently profound; but it ob-tained together with a rooted disbelief in humangood, so that a mingled and discordant bitternessattends his very laughter. This taint of pessimismcaused him to bestow his preferential notice on…
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