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One of these was to take a certain great pipe from the wall, and ask the newcomer to smoke; and according to the way he blew his "rings" he was pronounced a "colourist" or "classicist." The two friends blew the smoke, and at once the other artists were able to place Jacque. He was a colourist; but what were they to say about Millet who blew rings after his own fashion. "Oh, well!" he cried.
And he has proved it by the absolute fearlessness of his judgments on art; for not only has he reasoned soundly against Wagner, but dared to criticise the weaknesses of Gluck and Mozart, the errors of Weber and Berlioz, and the accepted opinions about Gounod; and this classicist, who was nourished on Bach, goes so far as to say: "The performance of works by Bach and Händel to-day is an idle amusement," and that those who wish to revive their art are like "people who would live in an old mansion that has been uninhabited for centuries."
To this charge Hobbes returns again and again, even declaring that "the universities have been to this nation as the Wooden Horse was to the Trojans." And the uncompromising monarchist of the Leviathan, himself a classicist of no mean attainments, as may be known by his translation of Thucydides, was not deceived in his accusation.
All Romanticists have consciously or unconsciously attempted to satisfy Friedrich Schlegel's demand for anew mythology: Fouqué's earth, air, and water spirits people the elements with graceful forms from the world of nature; the nymph Undine in the form of a flowing stream embraces even in death the grave of her lover. He is called "the classicist of Romanticism," and with justice.
The events of 1560-62 forced Buchanan, as they forced many a learned man besides, to choose whether he would be a child of light or a child of darkness; whether he would be a dilettante classicist, or a preacher it might be a martyr of the Gospel. Buchanan may have left France in "The Troubles" merely to enjoy in his own country elegant and learned repose.
Porson, the brilliant but bibulous classicist, has left behind him many sad stories of his pranks during his residence in Essex Court, where he had chambers immediately above those occupied by the future Baron Gurney, whom, in one of his debauches, he came near burning in his bed.
But at least the example of these Classicist writers has proved that literature itself is not only profoundly affected, but made and unmade, by theories of literature.
Of a truth his Codas often seem to crystallize in a dramatic, though serene and sustained way, the truths of his subject they become more active and intense, but quieter and deeper. Then there comes along another set of cataloguers. They put him down as a "classicist," or a romanticist, or an eclectic.
You remember 'The Greatest Story in the World; the reincarnated galley slave? Now as to this Colonel Graeme; has he ever published?" "Yes. Two small pamphlets, issued by the Classicist Press, which publishes the Classical Weekly." "Supporting his fads, I suppose." "Right. He devoted one pamphlet to each."
It must be difficult for a great classicist to be at the same time a believer in the divine right of kings; and it was a new idea for the mediæval Scot accustomed to reverence the name, but to criticise in the sharpest practical way the acts of his sovereign.
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