The digressions of V., written for his own fun and that of his friends (1910)
Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Co. · leaf 403
and filled manysquares and note-books. Sometimes, when beaten, a new ad-vance in thought or science showed him a weak point in his ene-mys armour, and to it again. I presume that there were thou-sands of wars commenced which were never settled, and couldwe but open those dust-covered mute volumes,… … THE NINTH HOUR MY PLACID FRIEND D. 363 quered beneath its dark cloud. His was the end of Ruskin -the end of all squarers of the circle, and the circle yet remainsunsquared. An American is always something of a foreigner to an English-man, but to himself when in London he can never feel that he isa…
Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 · Artists
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