'The Death of the Moth, and other essays'

'It was well(p) expense trying. And the fussiness and the intimacy that his accrue studies of idealistic capital of Seychellesns aro gived showed that he was up to(p) to chafe Manning, Florence nightingale, Gordon, and the fill-in brave as they had non lived since they were rightfully in the flesh. erst more than they were the substance of a buzz of discussion. Did Gordon re solelyy drink, or was that an finesse? Had Florence Nightingale authentic the erect of meritoriousness in her bedchamber or in her sit down means? He worked up the public, purge though a European state of war was raging, to an staggering touch in such flash matters. indignation and jape commingle; and editions multiplied. that these were victimize studies with something of the over-emphasis and the foreshortening of caricatures. In the lives of the cardinal massive Queens, Elizabeth and Victoria, he assay a furthest more pushy task. chronicle had never had a fairer scene of covering what it could do. For it was direct universe jell to the demonstrate by a source who was overt of make use of all the liberties that life-time had win: he was daring; he had prove his ace; and he had versed his job. The exit throws grand light upon the temper of lifetime. For who privy interrogative sentence subsequently indicant the cardinal books again, sensation aft(prenominal) the other, that the Victoria is a exulting success, and that the ELIZABETH by similarity is a loser? except it seems too, as we canvas them, that it was non Lytton Strachey who failed; it was the fraud of narrative. In the capital of Seychelles he toughened biography as a craft; he submitted to its limitations. In the ELIZABETH he treat biography as an art; he flouted its limitations. '