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...life with little or no pay, while the Master was writing tomes about the exploitation of the working class. Friend Engels was at Manchester holding down a job and scheming how to get hold of more and more money. Marx's letters to Engels had one refrain: "Lend me???" Eventually Engels sold his interest in a textile business, settled an annuity of £350 on Marx, moved to London to help him still more...
...erratic and melancholy, visited by visions of a strange beauty with which he informed his gay or bitter verses. As he waited for the death that teased him like an urchin, remembering all the treacheries of his heart and the triumphs of his mind, he said: "God will forgive me???that is His business!" Admired by many while he lived, he was never so sympathetically, hence so completely, comprehended then as he is now by Biographer Browne, who, with the able research assistance of Elsa Weihl, has written a book, more arrowy in its understanding than his famed This Believing...
...done?the golden sun Is sinking behind the blue, And on its way it seems to say I'm glad that my work is through. Night is drawing near, Stars will soon appear. Buildings are beginning to light up their windows. And as for me???I'm glad to be At peace with the world...
...denied his hand. He left his illustrations for the Century Magazine far behind, but he could never express himself perfectly. A certain crabbedness entered his nature through his sense of frustration. On a small scale he had the Michelangelic misanthropy. He said of his teacher, Duveneck "He liked me???which most people...
...statuet which those in the first ten rows pronounced to be an excellent likeness of herself. Mlle. Parisys announced loudly and stridently in argot that she would tell the world it was a good likeness: "Et maintenant, Messieurs! Combien pour moi (holding up the statuet)? How much for me???stiff like this...