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He next bestowed upon him the cure of Meudon, which he retained while he lived. One of the first of Rabelais' books was entitled "Lives of the great Giant Garagantua and his Son Pantagruel". To it he owes a great deal of his reputation and popularity. It created a vast deal of talk, and was both highly praised and bitterly attacked.
Some of the lines are very grossly applied. As You Like it, act iii. sc. 2. The giant's name is Gargantua, not Garagantua. Coriolanus, act iii. sc. 1. See vol. i. p. 498. See ante, ii. 236, where Johnson charges Robertson with verbiage. This word is not in his Dictionary. Pope, meeting Bentley at dinner, addressed him thus: 'Dr. Bentley, I ordered my bookseller to send you your books.
'Why, Madam, it has a reference to me, as using big words, which require the mouth of a giant to pronounce them. Garagantua is the name of a giant in Rabelais. BOSWELL. 'But, Sir, there is another amongst them for you: "He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder." JOHNSON. 'There is nothing marked in that.
What says the reverend critic to this? Will he not rise in wrath against the Barrister, he the Pamphagus of Homilitic, Liturgic, and Articular orthodoxy, the Garagantua, whose ravenous maw leaves not a single word, syllable, letter, no, not one 'iota' unswallowed, if we are to believe his own recent and voluntary manifesto? What says he to this Barrister, and his Hints to the Legislature?
Garagantua is the name of a giant in Rabelais. BOSWELL. 'But, Sir, there is another amongst them for you: "He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder ." JOHNSON. 'There is nothing marked in that.
No, Sir, Garagantua is the best. Notwithstanding this ease and good humour, when I, a little while afterwards, repeated his sarcasm on Kenrick, which was received with applause, he asked, 'WHO said that? and on my suddenly answering, Garagantua, he looked serious, which was a sufficient indication that he did not wish it to be kept up.
In his "Garagantua," he borrowed some of his descriptions from Rabelais; and this extravagant, satirical, and humorous book, though full of the uncouth and far-fetched combinations of words found in his other writings, contains many ludicrous caricatures of the follies of society in his age. His religious views in many respects correspond with those of the Society of Friends.
No, Sir, Garagantua is the best. Notwithstanding this ease and good humour, when I, a little while afterwards, repeated his sarcasm on Kenrick , which was received with applause, he asked, 'Who said that? and on my suddenly answering, Garagantua, he looked serious, which was a sufficient indication that he did not wish it to be kept up.
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