Show BE NOT TOO FAST mr nir matthew arnold greatly offended the american portion ot of his boston audience by speaking of great intelligent sensual avaricious america the portion of eggs and the cah cab cabbages bages not already exhausted on the for saying that emerson was not a great eat philosopher or a great t boet bet was frught brought into requisition ut when the lecturer explained that this phrase was a quotation from one of emersons letters to carlyle the angry audience wanted to take it all back and naturally felt a good deal abashed abashed at not knowing their emerson any better they felt as did a class of college boys who greeted with shouts of laughter what they thou thought ht was too and go gorgeous ageous a composition that one of their number was reading after about ten pages of the brilliant rhetoric which provoked their mirth he ended by saying I 1 thus speaks macaulay in his immortal essay on history the boys laugh for a weel week the late dr kenealy the tichborne Tich bome bobe claimants counsel and subsequently a member of parliament was making a speech before that baay body when he said that something would like a dewdrop dew drop from the lions hons mane be shook to air As he was thought to be more or less a crank this remark was supposed to be some unusual idiocy of his own and the house roared in derision the other sides of their mouths were as visibly agitated agla agia ted td however when they learned that this ridiculous language was first uttered by another englishman named shakespeare detroit free press |