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"Very true, sir," cries the author; "very fine, indeed. Not only the father of his country, but the husband too; very noble, truly!" "Pardon me, sir," cries Booth; "I do not conceive that to have been Lucan's meaning.
Had he been really capable of anything of the kind, he might have taken a lesson from Richelieu. Of the remaining pieces in which Corneille has painted the Roman love of liberty and conquest, the Death of Pompey is the most eminent. It is full, however, of a grandeur which is more dazzling than genuine; and, indeed, we could expect nothing else from a cento of Lucan's hyperbolical antitheses.
Nash's words, 'wiser than their neighbours. Lucan's words are singularly clear and strong, and serve well to stand as a landmark in this controversy, in which one is sometimes embarrassed by hearing authorities quoted on this side or that, when one does not feel sure precisely what they say, how much or how little; Lucan, addressing those hitherto under the pressure of Rome, but now left by the Roman civil war to their own devices, says:
At this juncture another of the ten knights, Sir Uwaine, came up, and seeing Sir Lucan's misfortune, rode furiously against the victor. His luck was no better, for he was hurled to the ground with a sorely wounded side. Having thus revenged his comrades, Tristram returned to the castle. Meanwhile a damsel from the Castle of Maidens had come thither, and told Sir Darras a woeful story.
The strange reserve of this dialogue left upon the mind of Monsieur de Moras an impression of surprise and uneasiness. He was unable to withstand the feeling, and two hours later he returned to Lucan's. As he went in, preparations for traveling greeted his eyes on all sides. Lucan was engaged writing in his study.
If he had not told us, he had left the Muses; we might have half suspected it by that word, ubi, which does not any way belong to them, in that place. The rest of the verse is indeed LUCAN's: but that ubi, I will answer for it, is his own. Yet he has another reason for this disgust of Poesy.
If Lucan's claim to the name of poet be disputed, what shall we say to the so-called poets of the Flavian age? to Valerius Flaccus, Silius, Statius, and Martial? In one sense they are poets certainly; they have a thorough mastery over the form of their art, over the hackneyed themes of verse.
He smiled rather sadly, took Monsieur de Lucan's arm, and leading him through the meandering paths of the garden: "Voyons, mon cher," he said in a suppressed voice, "between you and me, what is Julia?" "How, my friend?" "Yes, what sort of a woman is my wife? If you know, do tell me, I beg of you." "Excuse me, but it is the very question I would like to ask of you myself." "Of me?" said the count.
It is no solitude, this place. We have got Onslows and Jeffreyes's, Mr. Walpole, &c., &c., and if Mr. Cambridge would permit it, I could be sometimes, as I wish to be, alone. On Monday Mie Mie and I shall go to town for one night. I am to meet Me de Bouflers at Lady Lucan's. I think that if this next winter does not make a perfect Frenchman of me, I shall give it up.
August 30, 1835. "When Lucan's age is considered, it is impossible not to allow that the poem is a very extraordinary one; more extraordinary, perhaps, than if it had been of a higher kind; for it is more common for the imagination to be in full vigour at an early time of life than for a young man to obtain a complete mastery of political and philosophical rhetoric.
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