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But they were not poets; they were only poetical curiosities. Darley, Beddoes, and Horne belong in the main to the same class, but rise high, in one case immeasurably, above them. In him, however, the generation of the critic did not wait for the corruption of the poet.
His efforts in it, however, no doubt assisted, and were assisted by, that alteration of the fashionable Popian couplet which, after the example partly of Churchill and with a considerable return to Dryden, he attempted, made popular, and handed on to the next generation to dis-Pope yet further.
And at this little turn they both laughed, and went on, with memory of ancient days, to church. The fine young parsons of the present generation are too fond of asking us why we come to church, and assigning fifty reasons out of their own heads, not one of which is to our credit or theirs; whereas their proper business is to cure the fish they have caught, instead of asking how they caught them.
One could almost see a small throng of serious men and women wending their way up the still plainly marked path to the chapel, and catch the measured tones of the lecturer as he expounded theories too recondite for this practical age and generation.
He was also Commander of the Order of the promotion of 1688. Merit, aided by the chances of fortune, made out of an obscure family of the Boulonais country, a singularly illustrious race in the fourth generation, of which Mademoiselle de Tourbes alone remains.
If he had to have an official Aristocracy, he would insist on a brand new one with each generation; or more likely that it should be re-elected every four years.
There seems but little doubt that "Son of Man," which in Greek is an unintelligible phrase rather than a title, was quite as obscure to the generation of Greek Christians which produced the present gospels as it is to ourselves. It was to them merely the strange self-designation of Jesus.
"I didn't think it out at the time. I didn't evolve my theory until after I had fled. Naturally, I wasn't able to get back." "But suppose somebody finds it?" Norine was aghast at the thought. "Not much chance of that. The treasure has lain there for a generation, and the story itself is almost forgotten." Esteban turned triumphantly to O'Reilly, saying, "Now then, do you think I'm so crazy?"
She had been badly dealt with by her allies, but forbearance was her rule of living. For nearly a generation she had been a partner of the two militarist States, yet she shrank from severing her connection with them, even when they deliberately broke their part of the compact.
Hodder congratulated them. There was a brief silence, when Nan said tremulously: "We're coming to St. John's!" "I'm very glad," Hodder replied, gravely. It was one of those compensating moments, for him, when his tribulations vanished; and the tributes of the younger generation were those to which his heart most freely responded.
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