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There indeed, James, was a beautiful exhibition of party politics, a dignified exhibition of personal independence." Noctes Ambrosianae.
The world is as obstinate as a million mules, and will not turn its head on one side or another for all the shouting of the critical population that ever was shouted. It is very possible that the world is a bad judge. Well, then appeal to posterity, and be hanged to you and posterity will affirm the judgment, with costs. Noctes Ambrosianae, Sept., 1825.
The "Noctes Ambrosianae" is the enduring monument of the way in which the Blackwood men passed their nights, and not the less so from the fact that they were for the most part written out by Wilson in sober solitude.
All men ever I knew are mad; and but for that law o' natur, never, never, in this warld had there been a Noctes Ambrosianae. North. Miss Mitford has not in my opinion either the pathos or humour of Washington Irving; but she excels him in vigorous conception of character, and in the truth of her pictures of English life and manners.
With all a boy's love of a good fight, he shared with youth its thoughtless indifference to the consequences. His not altogether unfriendly criticisms inspired one of Tennyson's lightest effusions The Noctes Ambrosianae is certainly a unique production.
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