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He had, in fact, found out a way of escape just as he had abandoned all hope of doing so, and carefully extricating himself from his uncomfortable position, he pursued his way by Masson's shadowy heights, boiling over with rage against his ruffianly captors, and made the best of his way to the nearest inn to secure a horse to carry him home.
He had begun the rebuilding in 1840; the work went on for about a year; but in 1841 the builders had to stop their operations, as the Abbe Masson's funds were entirely exhausted. What was he to do now? He suddenly remembered the barber of Agen, who was always willing to give his friendly help. He had established Mdlle.
'This should shew us, says Dr Lindley, 'that it is not sufficient to supply ships' crews with preserved meats, but that they should be supplied with vegetables also, the means of doing which is now afforded. Generally speaking, the flavour of preserved vegetables, whether prepared on Masson's or on any other process, is fresher than that of the meats especially in the case of those which abound in the saccharine principle, as beet, carrot, turnips, &c.
The study of Milton's poetry compels the study of his time; and Professor Masson's six volumes are not too much to enable us to understand that there were real causes for the intense passion which glows underneath the poet's words a passion which unexplained would be thought to be intrusive.
"What papers are they?" cried I. "San Francisco papers," said he. "He gets a bale of them about twice a week, and studies them like the Bible. That's one of his weaknesses; another is to be incalculably rich. He has taken Masson's old studio you remember? at the corner of the road; he has furnished it regardless of expense, and lives there surrounded with vins fins and works of art.
The historical exposition must be gathered from the English history of the period, which may be read in Professor Masson's excellent summary. All I desire to point out here is, that in Lycidas, Milton's original picturesque vein is for the first time crossed with one of quite another sort, stern, determined, obscurely indicative of suppressed passion, and the resolution to do or die.
Dowden's Puritan and Anglican Studies in Literature. Froude's John Bunyan. Brown's John Bunyan, his Life, Times, and Works. Macaulay's Life of Bunyan in Encylopaedia Britannica or in his Essays. Macaulay's Essay on Southey's Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress. Masson's Poetical Works of John Milton, 3 vols., contains excellent introductions and notes, and is the standard edition. Raleigh's Milton.
Hutton's Literary Landmarks in London. Lucas's A Wanderer in London. Shelley's Literary By-Paths in Old England. Baildon's Homes and Haunts of Famous Authors. Bates's From Gretna Green to Land's End. Masson's In the Footsteps of the Poets. Wolfe's A Literary Pilgrimage among the Haunts of Famous British Authors. Salmon's Literary Rambles in the West of England. Winter's Shakespeare's England.
Without a complete Milton he could not be content. He would like to have Masson's Life too in 6 vols.
Essays, by L. Stephen, in Hours in a Library; by Woodberry, in Makers of Literature; by Saintsbury, in Essays in English Literature; by Courthope, in Ward's English Poets; by Edward Fitzgerald, in Miscellanies; by Hazlitt, in Spirit of the Age. Macpherson. See also Beers's English Romanticism. Chatterton. Life: by Russell; by Wilson; Masson's Chatterton, a Biography.
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