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As EURIPIDES is the most sententious among the Greek poets: so is WARNER among our English poets. As the soul of EUPHORBUS was thought to live in PYTHAGORAS: so the sweet witty soul of OVID lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued SHAKESPEARE. Witness his VENUS and ADONIS; his LUCRECE; his sugared Sonnets, among his private friends; &c.
Danvers and his wife sat down upon the sandstone steps leading, in bygone days, to the wide hall door. The three little girls were at play in the paths of the ruined shrubbery; Evaleen's baby boy lay asleep on the lap of Lucrèce.
He secured Shakespeare's Sonnets and the first edition of the Rape of Lucrece for two guineas, and accounted half a crown a fair average price for quarto copies of Elizabethan plays. Malone was a truly amiable man, of private fortune and endearing habits.
By 1595 S. was famous and prosperous; his earlier plays had been written and acted, and his poems Venus and Adonis, and Lucrece, and probably most of the sonnets, had been pub. and received with extraordinary favour. He had also powerful friends and patrons, including the Earl of Southampton, and was known at Court.
The two princes spoke to me at length about literary matters, about "Les Burgraves," "Ruy Blas," "Lucrece Borgia," Mme. Halley, Mlle. Georges, and Frederick Lemaitre. Also a good deal about Spain, the royal wedding, bull-fights, hand-kissings, and etiquette, that M. de Montpensier "detests." "The Spaniards love royalty," he added, "and especially etiquette.
Thus introduced, Lucrèce, raising her head, bestowed a modest smile of welcome on her father's guests and divided between them a coy courtesy. She could not elude the pardonable glances cast upon her by the strangers glances which left in their memories the form and face of a dainty brunette with large and very brilliant black eyes.
'Sir D'Anvers Osborne, Bart., Governor of New York, soon after his arrival there; in his garden. Solamen miseris, &c., is imitated by Swift in his Verses on Stella's Birthday, 1726-7: 'The only comfort they propose, To have companions in their woes. Swift's Works, ed. 1803, xi. 22. The note on Lucrece was, I conjecture, on line 1111: 'Grief best is pleased with grief's society.
"Lucrèce!" she cried, grasping the French girl by the wrist. "We are lost! We shall drown! The men can do nothing! How the boat creaks and trembles!" Lucrèce was preternaturally calm. She took Evaleen protectingly in her arms. "Have no fear, my sister. Mon père shall not let us perish he has the strong rope. And see! see, is there not somebody who could come to our aid?"
His pleasant temper and the vivacity of his wit had drawn him early into contact with the young Earl of Southampton, to whom his "Adonis" and "Lucrece" are dedicated; and the different tone of the two dedications shows how rapidly acquaintance ripened into an ardent friendship. Shakspere's wealth and influence too were growing fast.
Her acquaintance with him dated from the first representation of Hugo's Lucrèce Borgia, February, 1833, when Bocage and the author of Indiana, then strangers to each other, chanced to sit side by side. In their joint enthusiasm over the play they made the beginning of a thirty years' friendship, terminated only by Bocage's death in 1862.
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