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Remenham, however, smilingly indicated that he had read them. Whereat Coryat rather comically remarked, "Oh, well! Yes! Perhaps then my poetry isn't quite good enough. But there's Shakespeare, and Milton, and I don't care who it is, so long as it has the essential of all great poetry, and that is to make you feel the worth of things.
And perhaps if you were to read poetry ... but, you know, you must not only read it; you've got to feel it." "Ah," said Audubon, "but that I'm afraid is the difficulty." "I suppose it is. Well I don't know that I can say any more." And without further ado he dropped back into his seat. SITTING next to Coryat was a man who had not for a long time been present at our meetings.
A modern Tom Coryat, instead of introducing the use of the fork among his countrymen, would find some excuse for thinking the Italians a nasty people because they used it.
The Dolphin that Coryat saw came to the throne, at nine years of age, in 1610, as Louis XIII. For a time the regent, Marie de' Medici, was content to suffer the great Sully to hold office, but soon favouritism and the greed of princes, to the ill-hap of France, drove him in the prime of life from Paris into the retirement of his château of Villebon, and a feeble and venal Florentine, Concini, who came to Paris in the time of Marie, took his place.
His pages may be said to supply a gloss to Longhi's paintings, and the two men together complete the picture of Venetian frivolity in their day and night. The well-head nearer the Giants' Stairs was the work of Alberghetti and is signed inside. Coryat has a passage about the wells which shows how much more animated a scene the ducal courtyard used to present than now.
The explorer and the poet, the adventurer, the prodigal and the earl's son, longed alike for foreign shores. What Ben Jonson said of Coryat might be stretched to describe the average Elizabethan: "The mere superscription of a letter from Zurich sets him up like a top: Basil or Heidelberg makes him spinne.
The two columns An ingenious engineer S. Mark's lion S. Theodore of Heraclea The Old Library Jacopo Sansovino The Venetian Brunelleschi Vasari's life A Venetian library Early printed books The Grimani breviary A pageant of the Seasons The Loggetta Coryat again The view from the Molo The gondolier Alessandro and Ferdinando The danger of the traghetto Indomitable talkers The fair and the fare A proud father The rampino.
For years the trophy was kept in the arsenal of that city, but it was removed by some means or other, purchase or theft, and now reposes in the tomb at which we are looking. This monument greatly affected old Coryat. "Truly," he says, "I could not read it with dry eyes." Farther on is the pretentious Valier monument, a triumph of bad taste.
It was while Coryat was in Venice that one of these giants, I know not which, performed a deed of fatal savagery. The traveller thus describes it: "A certaine fellow that had the charge to looke to the clocke, was very busie about the bell, according to his usuall custome every day, to the end to amend something in it that was amisse.
"In both these things," says Coryat, "they differ much from us Englishmen. For whereas they have but one color, we use many more than are in the rainbow, all the most light, garish, and unseemly colors that are in the world. Also for fashion we are much inferior to them. For we wear more fantastical fashions than any nation under the sun doth, the French only excepted."
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