A New Spirit of the Age
- ISBN-10
- 1458994937
- ISBN-13
- 9781458994936
- Pages
- 302
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-01
- Publisher
- General Books
- Author
- Richard H. Horne
Description
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng.? Miltob. Let 1 ' is Which charms the chosen Spirits of the Age, Fold itself up for n serener clime Of years to come, and fintl its recompense In that just expectation. ? Shelley. Walter Landor, when a Rugby boy. was famous, among other feats of strength and skill, f.ir the wonderful precision with which he used a cast net; and he was not often disposed to ask permission of the owners of those ponds or streams that suited his morning's fan- 'cy. One day a farmer suddenly came down upon him; and ordered him to desist, and give up his net. Whereupon Landor instantly cast his net over the farmer's head; caught him; entangled him; overthrew him; 'and when he was exhausted, addressed the enraged and 'discomfited face beneath the meshes, till the farmer promised to behave discreetly. The pride that resented a show of intimidation, the prudence that instantly foresaw the only means of superseding punishment, and the promptitude of will and action, are sufficiently conspicuous. The wilful energy and self-dependent force of character displayed by Walter Landor as a boy, and accompanied by physical power and activity, all of which were continued through manhood, and probably have been so, to a great extent, even up to the present time, have exerted an influence upon his genius of a very peculiar kind: ? a genius healthy, but the health- fulness not always well applied? resolute, in a lion-like sense, but not intellectually concentrated and continuous; and seeming to be capable of mastering all things except its own wilful impulses. Mr. Landor is a man of genius and learning, who stands in a position unlike that of any other eminent individual of his time. He has received no apparent influence from...
