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Yet he remains the greatest poete de l'amour, the most spontaneous, the most sincere, the most emotional singer of the tender passion that modern times has produced.
"This name at once reveals a deep design of flouting Boileau, whom I did not like then, but have since become reconciled to. Has not Nicholas said: "'O le plaisant projet d'un poete ignorant Que de tant de heros va choisir Childebrant!
In charity no one gave more liberally or with a worse grace. For the fine arts, and especially for the belles-lettres, he entertained a profound contempt. With this he had been inspired by Casimir Perier, whose pert little query "A quoi un poete est il bon?" he was in the habit of quoting, with a very droll pronunciation, as the ne plus ultra of logical wit.
But still the one image which reigned over her human heart moved beside her in the gardens of fairyland. Isaura was seated in her pretty salon, with the Venosta, M. Savarin, the Morleys, and the financier Louvier, when Rameau was announced. "Ha!" cried Savarin, "we were just discussing a matter which nearly concerns you, cher poete.
C'est bien payer un fou; jamais bouffon de grand seigneur n'eut de pareils gages. He declares that 'la cervelle du poète est aussi légère que le style de ses ouvrages, and remarks sarcastically that he is indeed a man extraordinaire en tout. Yet, while his opinion of Voltaire's character was rapidly growing more and more severe, his admiration of his talents remained undiminished.
I thought there was no hope left in me, but I have been cheating myself, it seems, for it fought hard, every inch of the ground, for survival that night, though now I am sure it will never lift its head again. "And now, as I said, there is nothing left in all earth for me but my sister and my Art. "Poëte, prends ton luth." "May 10, 18 .
But still the one image which reigned over her human heart moved beside her in the gardens of fairyland. Isaura was seated in her pretty salon, with the Venosta, M. Savarin, the Morleys, and the financier Louvier, when Rameau was announced. "Ha!" cried Savarin, "we were just discussing a matter which nearly concerns you, cher poete.
For twenty years before his death Alfred de Vigny wrote nothing. He lived in retirement, almost a recluse, in La Charente, rarely visiting Paris. Admitted into L'Academie Francaise in 1845, he describes in his 'Journal d'un Poete' his academic visits and the reception held out to him by the members of L'Institut. This work appeared posthumously in 1867. He died in Paris, September 17, 1863.
Chaucer has told the greater part of this story beautifully in his "Canterbury Tales;" but he had not the heart to finish it. He refers for the conclusion to his original, hight "Dant," the "grete poete of Itaille;" adding, that Dante will not fail his readers a single word that is to say, not an atom of the cruelty. Our great gentle-hearted countryman, who tells Fortune that it was
Thou hast not encountered, Master, in the Paradise of Poets, Messieurs Malherbe, De Balzac, and Boileau Boileau who spoke of thee as Ce poete orgueilleux trebuche de si haut! These gallant gentlemen, I make no doubt, are happy after their own fashion, backbiting each other and thee in the Paradise of Critics. What said M. de Balzac to M. Chapelain?
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