With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.