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But, if the last speaker will permit me to take my text from him, I would ask him, is it not a curiously indiscriminate procedure to affirm indifferently value in all life? A poet surely and Coryat's practice, if he will allow me to say so, is sounder than his theory a poet seeks to render, wherever he can find it, the exquisite, the choice, the distinguished and the rare.
The first edition of old Burton's Anatomy, printed at Oxford in a small quarto in 1621, rises to the surface as a rule no less than four times a year; so, too, does Coryat's Crudities, hastily gobbled up in five months' travels in France, Savoy, Italy, Germany, etc., 1611. What a seething, restless place this world is, to be sure!
Not life, but beauty is his quest. He does not reproduce Nature, he imposes upon her a standard. And so it is with every art, including the art of life itself. Life as such is neither good nor bad, and, Audubon's undistinguishing censure is surely as much out of place as Coryat's undistinguishing approval.
If my friends and acquaintances ever go to Venice, let them read their Ruskin, their Goethe, their Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth, their Rogers, Gautier, Michelet, their Symonds and Howells, not forgetting old "Coryat's Crudities," and be thankful I spared them mine. It was the eve of Ascension Day, and a yellow May moon was hanging in the blue.
In Coryat's "Crudities," 1611, we have an Englishman's contrast of the dress of the Venetians and the English.
We are able to give the impression which the Paris of Henri Quatre made on an English traveller, a friend of Ben Jonson and author of Coryat's Crudities, hastily gobbled up in five months' Travell. The first objects that met Coryat's eye are characteristic. As he travelled along the St. Denis road he passed "seven faire pillars of freestone at equal distances, each with an image of St.
Another inference as to the table manners of the period is found in Coryat's "Crudities" . He saw in Italy generally a curious custom of using a little fork for meat, and whoever should take the meat out of the dish with his fingers would give offense.
In Coryat's "Crudities," 1611, we have an Englishman's contrast of the dress of the Venetians and the English.
If the reader would know what that means to a Somersetshire man, let him turn to Coryat's Crudities and see what the Elizabethan tourist says in his Introduction as to the possession of a Manor in the county aforesaid. But I must be careful not to give a false impression.
Then we retired, having done our part, as good Americans, to swell the French revenues, and that was the end of our day in Pestalozzi-town; not the end, however, of the lemonade glass episode, which was always a favourite story in Salemina's repertory Coryat's Crudities: 1611 VENICE, May 12 HOTEL PAOLO ANAFESTO I have always wished that I might have discovered Venice for myself.
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