In offering this little
commentary to the Nietzsche student, I should like it to be understood that I make no claim as to its infallibility or indispensability.
I should never get to the bottom--were I to let myself go even now-- of the prodigious private
commentary, all under still more private correction, with which, in these days, I overscored their full hours.
At that I gave up all attempts at
commentary and read straight on:
'Must be gawky, I should think,' is Rosa's quiet
commentary.
Clare quietly made this
commentary to himself, and went on smoking, like a hard-hearted wretch of a man as he was, till a carriage drove up before the verandah, and Eva and Miss Ophelia alighted.
Yet he was a guide of no mean order, who made up for the poverty of what he had to show by a copious, imaginative
commentary.
heaps, heaps heaps!' All this was accompanied by a running
commentary of signs and gestures which it was impossible not to comprehend.
"And what a lofty carriage he has!" added Madame Cropole, already in promiscuous
commentary with her neighbors of both sexes.
The eagerness with which we have adopted it, partly on account of its flashiness, but principally on account of its greater rest, is a good
commentary on the proposition with which we began.
After this internal
commentary on the Prior's speech, he raised his eyes, and replied to the question which had been put.
"Then, I say," said Don Quixote, "the author of my history was no sage, but some ignorant chatterer, who, in a haphazard and heedless way, set about writing it, let it turn out as it might, just as Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda, used to do, who, when they asked him what he was painting, answered, 'What it may turn out.' Sometimes he would paint a cock in such a fashion, and so unlike, that he had to write alongside of it in Gothic letters, 'This is a cock; and so it will be with my history, which will require a
commentary to make it intelligible."
Aramis pleaded as his excuse a
commentary upon the eighteenth chapter of St.