Concerning Lafcadio HearnG.W. Jacobs, 1908 - 404 σελίδες Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) wrote vivid accounts about life in New Orleans, the West Indies, and Japan. This appreciative 1908 biography discusses his birth to an Irish father and Greek mother, his work and travels, and the impact of poor eyesight on this poet of myopia. "Gould writes, Of Lafcadio Hearn there has been, and will be, no excuse for any biography whatever. A properly edited volume of his letters, and development of his imaginative power and literary character are, and still remain, most desirable." |
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Σελίδα 228 - His sanguine disk, enormously magnified, seemed barred like the body of a belted planet. A moment, and the crimson spectre vanished, and the moonless night came. Then the wind grew weird.
Σελίδα 172 - An artist must be in his work like God in creation, invisible and all-powerful; he should be everywhere felt, but nowhere seen.
Σελίδα 199 - He stands and proclaims his mysteries at the meeting of three ways. To the religious instinct of India,— Buddhism in particular, — which history has engrafted on the aesthetic sense of Japan, Mr. Hearn brings the interpreting spirit of Occidental science; and these three traditions are fused by the peculiar sympathies of his mind into one rich and novel compound, — a compound so rare as to have introduced into literature a psychological sensation unknown before.
Σελίδα 30 - He was as sensitive as a flower. An unkind word from anybody was as serious to him as a cut from a whiplash, but I do not believe he was in any sense resentful.
Σελίδα 221 - All the workmen wrought their tasks in silence; there was no sound heard but the muttering of the fires. And the muttering deepened into a roar like the roar of typhoons approaching, and the blood-red lake of metal slowly brightened like the vermilion of a sunrise, and the vermilion was transmuted into a radiant glow of gold, and the gold whitened blindingly, like the silver face of a full moon. Then the workers ceased to feed the raving flame, and all fixed their eyes upon the eyes of Kouan-Yu;...
Σελίδα 299 - To Heaven with all my soul I prayed to prevent your going; Already, to keep you with me, answers the blessed rain. So passes the period of illusion. The rest is doubt and pain; only the love remains to challenge even death: Parted from you, my beloved, I go alone to the pine-field; There is dew of night on the leaves; there is also dew of tears.
Σελίδα 313 - Now, — a ghost-light of vanished suns. Unknowingly .within that maiden-gaze we meet the gaze of eyes more countless than the hosts of heaven, — eyes otherwhere passed into darkness and dust. And if we turn to another and purer form of love, it is the same force we behold. So long as we supposed the woman soul one in...
Σελίδα 28 - One day there came to my office a quaint, darkskinned little fellow, strangely diffident, wearing glasses of great magnifying power and bearing with him evidence that Fortune and he were scarce on nodding terms.
Σελίδα 177 - But without the sacrifice can we hope for the grace of heaven ? What is the reward? The consciousness of inspiration only! I think art gives a new faith. I think — all jesting aside — that could I create something I felt to be sublime, I should feel also that the Unknowable had selected me for a mouthpiece, for a medium of utterance, in the holy cycling of its eternal purpose; and I should know the pride of the prophet that had seen God face to face.
Σελίδα 142 - I have remained faithful to the thought of you; My freedom has departed from me, I care no longer for all other negresses ; I have no heart left for them; — You have such grace and cunning; — You are like the Congo serpent. Miss Sinquier paused. " You need the proper movements ..." she explained. " One ought really to shake one's shanks ! " " Being a day of rest, my dear, we will dispense with it.