A Drama on the Seashore
DEDICATION To Madame la Princesse Caroline Galitzin de Genthod, nee Comtesse Walewska. Homage and remembrances of The Author. A DRAMA ON THE SEASHORE Nearly all young men have a compass with which they delight in measuring the future. When their will is equal to the breadth of the angle at which they open it the world is theirs. But this phenomenon of the inner life takes place only at a certain age. That age, which for all men lies between twenty-two and twenty-eight, is the period of great thoughts, of fresh conceptions, because it is the age of immense desires. After that age, short as the seed-time, comes that of execution. There are, as it were, two youths,--the youth of belief, the youth of action; these are often commingled in men whom Nature has
GLASGOW, MANCHESTER, AND NEW YORK
1890
MORLEY'S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY.
1. _Sheridan's Plays._
2. _Plays from Moliere._ By English Dramatists.
3. _Marlowe's Faustus_ and _Goethe's Faust._
4. _Chronicle of the Cid._
5. _Rabelais' Gargantua_ and the _Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel._
6. _Machiavelli's Prince._
7. _Bacon's Essays._
8. _Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year._
9. _Locke on Civil Government_ and _Filmer's "Patriarcha"._
DEDICATION To Madame la Princesse Caroline Galitzin de Genthod, nee Comtesse Walewska. Homage and remembrances of The Author. A DRAMA ON THE SEASHORE Nearly all young men have a compass with which they delight in measuring the future. When their will is equal to the breadth of the angle at which they open it the world is theirs. But this phenomenon of the inner life takes place only at a certain age. That age, which for all men lies between twenty-two and twenty-eight, is the period of great thoughts, of fresh conceptions, because it is the age of immense desires. After that age, short as the seed-time, comes that of execution. There are, as it were, two youths,--the youth of belief, the youth of action; these are often commingled in men whom Nature has