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The roar of the waves on the coast of Lesbos is distinctly audible for a time and the dénoûment seems to belong to quite another story.... Ennever has turned author. We are informed that he has completed studies on Huysmans and Leconte de Lisle; he is also engaged on a "Historia Amoris." There is an interesting passage relating to the names of great writers.
He felt grateful to Jemima and to Riccabocca as the special agents of Providence in this general /integratio amoris/. To have looked at him, you would suppose that it was the squire who was going to be married a second time to his Harry!
Meanwhile Madam Beatrix was making her conquests on her own side, and amongst them was one poor gentleman, who had been shot by her young eyes two years before, and had never been quite cured of that wound; he knew, to be sure, how hopeless any passion might be, directed in that quarter, and had taken that best, though ignoble, remedium amoris, a speedy retreat from before the charmer, and a long absence from her; and not being dangerously smitten in the first instance, Esmond pretty soon got the better of his complaint, and if he had it still, did not know he had it, and bore it easily.
In other respects, as when Geraint eats the mowers' dinner, the tale supplies the materials. But it does not dwell tenderly on the reconciliation. The tale is more or less in the vein of "patient Grizel," and he who told it is more concerned with the fighting than with amoris redintegratio, and the sufferings of Enid. The Idyll is enriched with many beautiful pictures from nature, such as this:
What can be more truly statuesque? "Belli fera moenera Mavors Armipotens regit, in gremium qui saepe tuum se Reiicit aeterno devictus volnere amoris: Atque ita suspiciens tereti cervice reposta Pascit amore avidos inhians in te, dea, visus, Eque tuo pendet resupini spiritus ore.
Horace informs us that dried human marrow and liver were also had recourse to: "Exsucta uti medulla et aridum jecur Amoris esset poculum." That his parch'd marrow might compose, Together with his liver dried, an amorous dose.
"Heloise tells her tutor, Abelard, that the correction which he inflicted upon her only served to increase the ardour of her affection for him; but bayonets and hemp are no such 'amoris stimuli. One more characteristic anecdote of those times and I have done.
Francis of Assisi being the first, who have attained to that degree of contemplative love of Jesus which is the most sublime effect of union with his sufferings, and is designated by theologians, Vulnus divinum, Plago amoris viva. There are known to have been at least fifty.
"Hic claudor Dantes patriis extorris ab oris, Quem genuit parvi Florentia mater amoris." "Here I am enclosed, Dante, exiled from my native country, Whom Florence bore, the mother that little did love him." Lorenzo the Magnificent The struggle in which Dante had played a leading part did not cease for many years after the poet had died in exile.
Liber Amoris, 3 editions, 3,000 copies. Forbidden Fruit, 5 editions, 5,000 copies. 9,250 copies at 1s. = £462, 10s. Moiety of same due to Miss Jones, £231, 5s. 'I don't mind receipting it for two hundred and thirty, she said, as she handed it to him. Hyacinth was completely awakened by this: the joke was growing serious.
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