Anthony Trollope: Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

any reader? I have betrayed no woman. Wine has brought me to no

sorrow. It has been the companionship of smoking that I have loved,

rather than the habit. I have never desired to win money, and I

have lost none. To enjoy the excitement of pleasure, but to be free

from its vices and ill effects,--to have the sweet, and leave the

bitter untasted,--that has been my study. The preachers tell us that

this is impossible. It seems to me that hitherto I have succeeded

fairly well. I will not say that I have never scorched a finger,--but

I carry no ugly wounds.

For what remains to me of life I trust for my happiness still

chiefly to my work--hoping that when the power of work be over with

me, God may be pleased to take me from a world in which, according

to my view, there can be no joy; secondly, to the love of those who

love me; and then to my books. That I can read and be happy while

I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I remember, as some men

do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated

man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always

left,--something dim and inaccurate,--but still something sufficient

to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is

so with most readers.

Of late years, putting aside the Latin classics, I have found

my greatest pleasure in our old English dramatists,--not from any

excessive love of their work, which often irritates me by its want

of truth to nature, even while it shames me by its language,--but

from curiosity in searching their plots and examining their character.

If I live a few years longer, I shall, I think, leave in my copies

of these dramatists, down to the close of James I., written criticisms

on every play. No one who has not looked closely into it knows how

many there are.

Now I stretch out my hand, and from the further shore I bid adieu

to all who have cared to read any among the many words that I have

written.

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