
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - If I were seeing over' a house, and found in every room an iron cage let into the wall, and were told by the caretaker that these cages were for me to keep lions in, I think I should open my eyes rather wide. Yet nothing seems to me mor...
Paperback: 108 pages
Publisher: Echo Library (October 15, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1846379547
ISBN-13: 978-1846379543
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 11332907
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I enjoyed these essays. Beerbohm could be rather distant, emotionally, from his subjects. I don't think Beerbohm strongly believed in anything. And yet, at his best, he's a masterful essayist. I prefer the wit of Chesterton and the manliness of B...
han a fire in the grate. oubtless, when I began to walk, one of my first excursions was to the fender, that I might gaze more nearly at the live thing roaring and raging behind it; and I dare say I dimly wondered by what blessed dispensation this creature was allowed in a domain so peaceful as my nursery. I do not think I ever needed to be warned against scaling the fender. I knew by instinct that the creature within it was dangerous - fiercer still than the cat which had once strayed into the room and scratched me for my advances. As I grew older, I ceased to wonder at the creature's presence and learned to call it the fire, ' quite lightly. There are so many queer things in the world that we have no time to go on wondering at the queerness of the things we see habitually. It is not that these things are in themselves less queer than they at first seemed to us. It is that our vision of them has been dimmed.