Victorian Prose Masters Thackeray Carlyle George Eliot Matthew Arnold Rusk
Victorian Prose Masters Thackeray Carlyle George Eliot Matthew Arnold Rusk
W C William Crary Brownell
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He inherited great wealth ; his literary gains were among the greatest of modern times ; he accumulated great treasures : and he died poor, having dissipated his whole substance designedly in the service and for the benefit of his fellow-men. To note the quixotism of his benevolence would be ungracious, were it not so strikingly the counterpart of the quixotism of his mind as to mark the singleness of his nature. His unselfishness was as notable as his self-will. He jpayait de sapersonne ; he g...ave everything, himself included — a procedure that, if not in every respect exemplary, is at any rate too exceptional to excite the uneasiness of even the wise and prudent. It is not, however, the way either to influence one's future fellow-men or to raise to one's self a literary monument perennim cere. 207 VICTOEIAN PROSE MASTERS He was twice elected Slade Professor of Poetry at Ox- ford. He founded the St. George Society — ^a kind of community in which, in accordance with his views of private life and political economy, human nature was to be ennobled by manual labor and eschewing manufactured articles.
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