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P- Of another poet, Shelley, who later wrote the significant sentence, "the savage is to ages what the child is to years," it is similarly written: ... he suffered torments at the hands of his rough schoolfellows . . . they chivied him like dogs around a little coon that fights and cries defiance to the end (Long, op. cit., p. 413). Charles Lamb in "Poor Relations" tells of an Oxford scholar who so feared the teasing of his fellows when they learned that his father was not in the professions, but only a humble house painter, that he left school and home both. Truly, teasing, when not inspired by a wise and kind heart, is a fearful instrument. |
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