I mean that he is a very beautiful object to look at, and at the same time a frustrated and perverse nature.

Moreover his learning partakes of a drawing-room character, while his loftiness dwindles away to a point which affords no foothold for the sons of man.

One may look up to him now and again, but a constant regard would be rewarded by nothing more serviceable to the admirer than a stiff neck.

He points upward indeed, but to follow his direction is to discover only the void of etheric vacancy.

Like his learning, which may astonish the simple, but which hardly illuminates the student, his virtues leave one cold.