The Principles of Success in Literature, I - VI within The Fortnightly Review, vol. 1, V - VI within The Fortnightly Review, vol. 2

The Principles of Success in Literature, I - VI within The Fortnightly Review, vol. 1, V - VI within The Fortnightly Review, vol. 2

Lewes, George Henry

London: Chapman & Hall, 1865. The Fortnightly Review, vol 1, August 1, pp. 85-95, 185-196, 572-589, 697-709. Vol 2, November 1, pp. 257-268, 689-710

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1865

"Copied stray pencilled notes. Began to read "Principles of Success in Literature". Feeling ill, unable to work at MS. Mrs. Flower (nee Rothschild) who has lately lost her husband sent me a basket of white flowers with a letter. Mrs. E. Gurney brought me 2 beautiful Arums. Mrs. B. Jones and the children a pot of white lilies. 'Whoso seeth me first on morrow May sayne he hath met with sorrow For I am sorrow and sorrow is I.' Chaucer "She being now removed by death a commensurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had done". Walton's Life of Donne Some little happiness have thou and I (Since we shall die ere we have wished to die.) For thou hast died ere thou didst wish to die. Kneeling before this ruin of sweet life, And breathing to his breathless excellence The incense of a vow, a holy vow, Never to taste the pleasures of the world, Never to be infected with delight, Nor conversant with ease and idleness, Till-Death Shall give thy will divineness, make it strong With the beseechings of a mighty soul That left its work unfinished. Trocknet nicht, trocknet nicht, Thranen der ewigen Liebe! Ach, nur dem halbgetrockneten Auge Wie ode, wie todt die Welt ihm erscheintl Trocknet nicht, trocknet nicht, Thranen ungliicklicher Liebe. Trocknet nicht! Ah, better to be drunk with loss To dance with death to beat the ground Than that the victor Hours should scorn The long result oflove and boast 'Behold the man that lov' d and lost But all he was is overworn." Diary 1879 155-156

Lewes, George Henry, The Principles of Success in Literature, I - VI within The Fortnightly Review, vol. 1, V - VI within The Fortnightly Review, vol. 2, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57314

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