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We must look for that if we have need, which happily all have not in its lighter literature. Nor with "Menagiana," or other 'ana's as vain and artificial as they are often foul; nor with novels and poems, long since deservedly forgotten. On the first perusal of this lighter literature, you will be charmed with the ease, grace, lightness with which everything is said.
Ep. 647. p. 951. Ep. 615. p. 944. Sent. des Theolog. de Hollande, p. 393. Menagiana, t. 2. p. 298. Vin. Grot. p. 506. Vin. Grot. p. 505. Tom. 4. p. 180. See Vie du P. Petau, Niceron, t. 37. p. 159.
It was afterwards issued, and the Queen gave him a vessel, on board which he embarked the 12th of August for Lubeck. The Menagiana contains an anecdote relating to the last audience that Grotius had of Queen Christina, which we shall relate rather to throw contempt on this kind of works, than to give weight to it.
She wrote also to himself , signifying to him her satisfaction with his fidelity and prudence, and making him the fairest promises: which confutes what we find in the Menagiana , that Queen Christina began her reign with recalling Grotius; since it is beyond doubt that it was Grotius himself who asked to be recalled.
How many authours are there, who are admired for their works, on account of the vast learning that is displayed in them, who are not able to sustain a conversation. Those who know Menage only by his books, might think he resembled those learned men; but if you shew the MENAGIANA, you distinguish him from them, and make him known by a talent which is given to very few learned men.
Marry, says I, if it be so, I am very well rewarded for all the Pains I have been at. But by Monsieur Gombaud's Leave, notwithstanding the Severity of the Criticism, the Verses were good. Vid. MENAGIANA. Thus far the learned Menage, whom I have translated Word for Word.
The anecdote is told in Menagiana, iii. 104, but not of a 'maid of honour, nor as an instance of 'exquisite flattery. 'M. d'Uzès était chevalier d'honneur de la reine. Cette princesse lui demanda un jour quelle heure il était; il répondit, "Madame, l'heure qu'il plaira
The bookseller knows that the majority of most people who live in houses want to have little libraries, that they need abridgments and new titles; he orders from the writer an abridgment of the "History by Rapin-Thoyras," an abridgment of the "History of the Church," a "Collection of Witty Sayings" drawn from the "Menagiana," a "Dictionary of Great Men," where an unknown pedant is placed beside Cicero, and a sonettiero of Italy near Virgil.
Bayle's account of Menage may also be quoted as exceedingly applicable to the great subject of this work: 'His illustrious friends erected a very glorious monument to him in the collection entitled Menagiana. Those who judge of things aright, will confess that this collection is very proper to shew the extent of genius and learning which was the character of Menage.
If we may believe the Menagiana, the Minister who came to wait upon him at his death, said to him what was very poor; and Grotius, to gain time, and let him know that he could well dispense with his exhortations, said to him, I am Grotius. To which the Minister answered, What! are you the great Grotius?
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