Gathered Leaves From the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Gathered Leaves From the Prose of Mary E. ColeridgeFaded leaves are falling, Birds are on the wing, All that dies in Autumn Lives again in Spring.The quiet and distinction of her gift are as visible here as in her maturer work. There are no striking images, no youthful crudities. Restraint and discretion were her heritage.What was perhaps more remarkable than her imagina tion - for many children are imaginative - was her quickly developed power of scholarship. When she was about twelve, the shape of the Hebrew letters attracted her, and she begged her father to teach her the language. By the time she was nineteen she was well versed in it, as well as in German, French, Italian and a little later she became a keen reader of Greek. She was not one of those literary scholars who make only for a general impression, for colour more than for form. She was the most careful of students, allowing no detail to be neglected, accurate and reverentially cautious, with a real love for the niceties of learning.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.