And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.

To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.