In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
“The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.” — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
“I soon discovered that they were absorbed in a silly kind of amorous correspondence with the girls of a neighbouring academy, but " what… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
“Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to greet the… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
