“Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to greet the new light. It had hardly done so, when a recollection of the opening chapter of 'Genesis'… — 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 moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne,… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share
“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
