Eminent VictoriansBarnes & Noble Publishing, 2003 - 293 pages |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 5 |
CHAPTER II | 10 |
CHAPTER III | 21 |
CHAPTER IV | 36 |
CHAPTER V | 50 |
CHAPTER VI | 64 |
CHAPTER VII | 80 |
CHAPTER VIII | 94 |
CHAPTER I | 115 |
CHAPTER II | 121 |
CHAPTER III | 139 |
CHAPTER IV | 159 |
CHAPTER V | 167 |
DR ARNOLD | 173 |
THE END OF GENERAL GORDON | 205 |
SUGGESTED READING | 293 |
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Page xvii - THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian — ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Page xviii - With us, the most delicate and humane of all the branches of the art of writing has been relegated to the journeymen of letters; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
Page xvii - It is not by the direct method of a scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope to depict that singular epoch. If he is wise, he will adopt a subtler strategy. He will attack his subject in unexpected places; he will fall upon the flank, or the rear; he will shoot a sudden, revealing searchlight into obscure recesses, hitherto undivined. He will row out over that great ocean of material, and lower down into it, here and there, a little bucket, which will bring up to the light of day...