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There is no good poet so difficult to read through; his faults are not such as "plead sweetly for pardon;" they are obtrusive and repelling, and have been more in the way of his fame than those of any extant writer of equal genius. He was a devoted admirer of Virgil, whose poems he sketches in the following graceful lines: Cedite Romani seriptores, cedite Graii, Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade!
Contempt is to me a luxury. I would not lose the privilege of loathing for all the objects which fools ever admired. What does old Persius say on the subject? "'Hoc ridere meum, tam nil, nulla tibi vendo Iliade."* * "This privilege of mine, to laugh, such a nothing as it seems, I would not barter to thee for an Iliad."
Contempt is to me a luxury. I would not lose the privilege of loathing for all the objects which fools ever admired. What does old Persius say on the subject? "'Hoc ridere meum, tam nil, nulla tibi vendo Iliade."* * "This privilege of mine, to laugh, such a nothing as it seems, I would not barter to thee for an Iliad."
As SEXTOS PROPERTIUS said, Nescio quid magis nascitur Iliade: so I say of SPENSER's Fairy Queen; I know not what more excellent or exquisite poem may be written.
In that great city of nerves, through which electric vibrations pass, there are invisible currents of fame, a latent celebrity which precedes the actuality, the vague gossip of the drawing-rooms, the nescio quid majus nascitur Iliade, which, at a given moment, bursts out in a puffing article, the blare of the trumpet which drives the name of the new idol into the thickest heads.
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