What he does is to portray the original genius which no absurdities could cover, and no obstacles could restrain.

Disraeli the "Imperialist" had no more to do with building empires than with building churches, but he was twice Prime Minister of England.
-- * Disraeli's contempt for italics is well known.

He called them "the last resort of the forcible Feebles." -- Froude's Sea Studies in the third series of his collected essays are chiefly a series of thoughts on the plays of Euripides.

But, like so much of his writing, they are redolent of the ocean, on which and near which he always felt at home.

The opening sentences of this fresh and wholesome paper are too characteristic not to be quoted.
"To a man of middle age whose occupations have long confined him to the unexhilarating atmosphere of a library, there is something unspeakably delightful in a sea voyage.