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But it is not all the truth: if it were, it would be almost sufficient to point out that he outgrew the first of these faults completely, the second almost completely; and that from The Caxtons onward there is hardly any stain on his literary character in any such respect. But other faults or at least defects remain. They may be almost summed up in the charge of want of consummateness.
A sense of humor would have saved Bulwer from almost all his faults, and have endowed him with several valuable virtues into the bargain; but it was not born in him, and with all his diligence he never could beget it. The domestic series, of which 'The Caxtons' is the type, are the most generally popular of his works, and are likely to be so longest.
But the mind of Frederic William was so ill regulated that all his inclinations became passions, and all his passions partook of the character of moral and intellectual disease. His parsimony degenerated into sordid avarice. His taste for military pomp and order became a mania, like that of a Dutch burgomaster for tulips, or that of a member of the Roxburghe Club for Caxtons.
A note in one of the Althorp Caxtons records a more amicable arrangement. The book belonged to Mr. It passed into the great collection at White Knights, which then contained, in addition to some of the rarest English books, the 'Bedford Missal, another missal given by Queen Louise to Marguerite d'Angoulême, and a volume of prayers from the hand of the caligrapher Nicolas Jany.
Richard Smith was remembered as having started in the pursuit of Caxtons in the days of Charles II.; the taste was despised when Oldys wrote, but it eventually grew into a mania. 'For a person of an inferior rank we never had a collector more successful. No day passed over his head in which he did not visit Moorfields and Little Britain or St.
Such a splendid library as there is at Enckworth, Picotee quartos, folios, history, verse, Elzevirs, Caxtons all that has been done in literature from Moses down to Scott with such companions I can do without all other sorts of happiness.
He died in 1776, the master of a whole 'galaxy of Caxtons'; his library is said to have held the essence of poetry, romance and history; it was more precious in flavour to the new dilettanti than the copious English stores of James West, the judicious President of the Royal Society; it was far more refined than the 'omnium gatherum' scattered in 1788 on Major Pearson's death, or Dr.
He could, as in The Caxtons, be fairly true to ordinary life but even then he seemed to feel a necessity of setting off and as it were apologising for the simplicity and veracity by touches in fact by douches of Sternian fantastry, and by other touches of what was a little later to be called sensationalism.
It is perhaps improper to class all his novels together, as he wrote in varied manners, making in his earlier works, such as Pelham and Ernest Maltravers, pictures of a fictitious life, and afterwards pictures of life as he believed it to be, as in My Novel and The Caxtons. But from all of them there comes the same flavour of an effort to produce effect.
"Long ere the days when Lord Lytton and his Caxtons introduced us to the blessings of the printing press there were doubtless ladies who, like myself, could forget the treachery and the lies of men in silent communion with the brains of the departed. Far better to be Milton's 'Il Penserosero' than Lord Byron's 'L'Allegra!"
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