“Temper and sharpen it as you may, your chisel cannot cut itself. We should therefore not expect too much.”
About Robert Bridges
23 October 1844–21 April 1930
Robert Seymour Bridges was born on 23 October 1844 at Walmer, near Deal in Kent, into a prosperous and cultivated English family whose security gave him both educational opportunity and, eventually, the independence to pursue literature without needing to earn his living from it. He was the fourth son of John Thomas…