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Updated: May 15, 2025
The greater part of the time, till now, one o'clock, spent in foolish reveries about balloons. p. 12. It is remarkable that so good a Latin scholar as Johnson, should have been so inattentive to the metre, as by mistake to have written stellas instead of ignes.
From all this it may be understood that Carlos heard of the Baron's passion with a glow of sombre satisfaction, while he perceived in a single flash all the advantage a man of his temper might derive by means of a hapless Esther. "Go on," said he to Lucien. "The Devil is mindful of his chaplain." "You are smoking on a powder barrel." "Incedo per ignes," replied Carlos with a smile.
Literature has no names of any eminence except that of Young; for Savage and Whitehead, Mallet and Benjamin Hoadly, are certainly ignes minores. Pope is conspicuous for his absence; so also are Horace Walpole and Gray, while Richardson, of course, is wanting.
These are the soulless, irresponsible "goblins" and "gnomes," "Fire spirits" and "ignes fatui" of the nether world. All human beings who progress at all have to deal with one or more of these forces. Beginning in blind ignorance, through struggle, the mortal will is developed and the mere animal man has set his foot upon a low rung of the ladder of the ascending series.
But the final result was reached by Schiaparelli of Milan, and remains deservedly associated with his name. The idea prevalent in the eighteenth century as to the nature of shooting stars was that they were mere aerial ignes fatui inflammable vapours accidentally kindled in our atmosphere.
He was mistaken, certainly, in the temper of the English nation; he believed what the friars told him; and trusting to the promises of disaffection, insurrection, invasion those ignes fatui which for sixty years floated so delusively before the Italian imagination, he imagined, perhaps, that he might trifle with Henry with impunity.
They refused Truth when she came; and now Truth knows nothing of them. All stars, and heavenly lights, have become veiled to such men; they must now follow terrestrial IGNES FATUI, and think them stars. That is the doom passed upon them. Italy too had its Protestants; but Italy killed them; managed to extinguish Protestantism.
He was mistaken, certainly, in the temper of the English nation; he believed what the friars told him; and trusting to the promises of disaffection, insurrection, invasion those ignes fatui which for sixty years floated so delusively before the Italian imagination, he imagined, perhaps, that he might trifle with Henry with impunity.
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