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Vernon Lee

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Essayist, short-story writer, activist (1856-1935)

Person · Open Library

Works
172

Top works

  • The Enchanted Woods
  • Miss Brown
  • Vanitas
  • Hortus Vitae
  • Laurus Nobilis

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1920-05-26
Active to
2002-01-21

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Listeners
146
Total plays
1,641

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Quotes

  • Having once seen Alice Oke in the reality, it was quite impossible to remember that one could have fancied her at all different: there was something so complete, so completely unlike every one else, in her personality, that she seemed always to have been present in one's consciousness, although present, perhaps, as an enigma.
  • "Have you any ghosts at Okehurst, by the way?" I asked. The place seemed as if it required some to complete it.""I hope not," answered Oke, gravely.His gravity made me smile."Why, would you dislike it if there were?" I asked."If there are such things as ghosts," he replied," I don't think they should be taken lightly. God would not permit them to be, except as a warning or a punishment."
  • There is no end to the deceits of the past; we protest that we know it is cozening us, and it continues to cozen us just as much.
  • Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. We speak of leisure time, but what we really mean thereby is time in which we can feel at leisure. What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
  • As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking.
  • Surely the excellence of all poetry — what puts Shelley above Keats, Goethe above Shelley (in his Lyrics), and English, German and Italian Poetry so incomparably above French—surely the great thing is the co-ordination into a total mood, as distinguished from the charm of detached metaphors or descriptions or verses.

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