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Here the contrast between his theoretic worship of his idol and his own practice reaches a climax. If, as he professed to believe, "the best poet is he who best executes his work," then he is hardly a poet at all. He is habitually rapid and slovenly; an improvisatore on the spot whore his fancy is kindled, writing currente calamo, and disdaining the "art to blot." "I can never recast anything.
And these things he had achieved currente calamo, "wielding his pen," as Scott said of Byron, "with the easy negligence of a nobleman." He was now in his third year of residence, and was reading, a little, for Literae Humaniores. There is no doubt that but for his untimely death he would have taken a particularly brilliant First in that school also. For the rest, he had many accomplishments.
The streamlet "Calamo" flows through the valley I ascended from Acri, and at its side, a little way out of the town, stands the fountain "Pompeio" where the brigands, not long ago, used to lie in wait for women and children coming to fetch water, and snatch them away for ransom.
Though the grandiose airs and sham tragedy of 'Lucia' have long since ceased to impress us, we can still take pleasure in the unaffected gaiety of 'La Fille du Régiment' and 'Don Pasquale. These and many similar works were written currente calamo, and though their intrinsic musical interest is of course very slight, they are totally free from the ponderous affectations of the composer's serious operas.
The style of this letter is undoubtedly very different from that of Cicero's letters generally so as to suggest to the reader that it must have been composed expressly for publication whereas the daily correspondence is written "currente calamo," with no other than the immediate idea of amusing, instructing, or perhaps comforting the correspondent.
'The Excursion' is accused of being lengthy, and so you will tell me that I convict myself of plagiarism, currente calamo. I have just finished a poem of some eight hundred lines, called 'The Vision of Poets, philosophical, allegorical anything but popular. It is in stanzas, every one an octosyllabic triplet, which you will think odd, and I have not sanguinity enough to defend.
Three months communing with nature, three months solitude on the pure mountain heights, three months calm discipline of the soul that was what he needed. Then to work, and in another three months, currente calamo, the book would be written. "And what is Doria going to do on top of the Matterhorn?" asked my wife. Doria cried out, "Oh, don't tease. We're not going near the Matterhorn.
Please understand that the story is giving at great length incidents that passed in fractions of a minute incidents Time recorded currente calamo for Memory to rearrange at leisure. The incident of the tea-cups was easily slurred over and forgotten. Adrian Torrens saw the risks of attempting too much, and gave up pretending that he could see.
I wrote it currente calamo, and my object was to attack the existing system upon many points at once, in order to carry some just as an army besieging a town may make half a dozen attacks, of which three, being feints, give a better chance of success to the other three.
Ravenscroft thus proceeds against Mr. Dryden: 'That I may maintain the character of impartial, to which I pretend, I must pull off his disguise, and discover the politic plagiary that lurks under it. I know he has endeavoured to shew himself matter of the art of swift writing, and would persuade the world that what he writes is extempore wit, currente calamo.
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