The vision still
lives. The friend who stood by my side is still with me, although
he died years and years ago. What was true of me was true of half a
score of my friends. If it is true that the Victorian time was ugly
and vulgar, it was the time of the Virginians, of David Copperfield,
of Tennyson's Poems, of Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, of the
Letters and Life of Lord Bacon, of Emerson's Essays, of Festus, of
the Dramatis Personae, and of the Apologia. We were at the Academy
at eight o'clock on a May morning to see, at the very earliest
moment, the Ophelia, the Order for Release, the Claudio and
Isabella, Seddon's Jerusalem, Lewis's Arab Scribe and his Frank
Encampment in the Desert. The last two, though, I think, were in
the exhibition of the Old Water Colour Society. The excitement of
those years between 1848 and 1890 was, as I have said, something
like that of a religious revival, but it was reasonable.
These notes are not written for publication, but to please two or
three persons related to me by affection.
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