...brow : Dream, dream, for this is also sooth. WB YEATS. s ^ IVAN TOURGEINIEV.* ' When you contemplate with your eyes the visible man, what do you look for? The man invisible.' — TAINE. GREAT and deserved as is his European fame, as artist, as belles-lettrist, as one who has...

...Michelet, and others. And now for the second step. II. When you consider with your eyes the visible inan, what do you look for ? The man invisible. The words...acts and deeds of every kind, are expressions merely ; somewhatis revealed beneath them, and that is a soul. An fnner man is concealed beneath the outer...

...the words of Taine he had to find behind the "fossil shell" the animal, behind the document the man. When you consider with your eyes the visible man, what do you look for?" asked Taine. The man invisible. The words which enter your ears, the gestures, the motions of his head,...

...beginning, and visible ending?'45 As Hippolyte Taine observed in his History of English Literature (1863): 'When you consider with your eyes the visible man, what do you look for? The man invisible.'46 Yet it would be wrong to assume an absolute acceptance by midVictorians of these populist...