... not many more conscious than Hugo. The passage at the head of these pages shows how organically he had understood the nature of his own changes. He h... ...painter; and, though the pleasure derived is in itself merely personal, it shows a man who is, to say the least of it, not pained by general attention... ...res, in at least one more letter, to spelling number two. And this, again, shows a man preoccupied about the manner of his appear- ance even down to t... ... tiffs, reconciliations, and expan- sions to the chosen confidant, as in a comedy of Marivaux. Here was a field for a man of Burns’s indiscriminate pe... ... gather their activities about some conception of human- ity that shall be central and normal, if only for the moment -the poet must portray that popu... ...synthesis, than any or than all of them put together. In feeling after the central type of man, he must embrace all eccentricities; his cosmol- ogy mu... ...ars; and their performances are thought to hail from the Owl’s Nest of the comedy. They have something more, however, in their eye than the dul- ness ... ...el gravely with the fashions not foppishly before, nor dowdily behind, the central movement of his age. For long he durst not keep a carriage; that, i...