Biography, September 22nd, 2005
I feel no ennui, for I find full employment in my Reminiscences, which make me live over again my very inactive and inert life; but it is still my life ... --(letter of 5 August 1851) There is an infinity of relations as well as of modes of viewing things, and all in their place and way may be true. It is a great defect when the mind begins to ossify, and to be confined to certain fixed ideas as not to be able to shift its position, and see things from all sides. --(diary entry of 7 January 1839) To the student of British Romanticism, the name Henry Crabb Robinson registers mostly as that ...
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