FROUDE’S ASPIRATION.
‘Oh, how I wish 1 could write ! I try sometimes, for I seem to feel myself over-flowing with thoughts, and I cry out to be relieved of them. But it is so stiff and miserable when I get anything done. What seemed so clear and liquid comes out so thick, stupid and frost-bitten that I myself who put the idea there, can hardly find it for shame if I go to look for it a few days after.’ The man who could write thus (observes A. Birrell in Harper’s Magazine) was bound ultimately to succeed and by dint of taking pains Fronde obtained the mastery of his pen, and for the last forty years of his life was a great, though careless, artist in words.
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Southern Cross, Volume 3, Issue 2, 13 April 1895, Page 7
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127FROUDE’S ASPIRATION. Southern Cross, Volume 3, Issue 2, 13 April 1895, Page 7
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