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Updated: June 10, 2025
When Porphyro looked upon Madeline at her prayers in the chapel, it was too much for him: "'She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: Porphyro grew faint, She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from earthly taint.
But these are trivial, compared with Rodomant and Porphyro. It was daring enough, when Beckendorf mimicked Prince Metternich; but to undertake and to contrast Louis Napoleon and Beethoven, without belittling either, pales every other performance.
He looked on beautiful things with the intense devotion of the temple-worshipper rather than with the winged pleasure of the great poets. He was love-sick for beauty as Porphyro for Madeline. His attitude to beauty the secret and immortal beauty is one of "love shackled with vain-loving." It is desire of an almost bodily kind.
On the return journey an accident happened which sent grief to Barn-dale's soul. Five or six years ago, wandering aimlessly in Venice, Barndale had an adventure. He met a sculptor, a young Italian, by name Antoletti, a man of astonishing and daring genius. This man was engaged on a work of exquisite proportions 'Madeline and Porphyro' he called it.
Porphyro got over his faintness before he ran away with Madeline, and Cesar Birotteau was an accepted lover when he swooned with happiness: but many an officer has been cashiered, and many a suitor has been rejected, because the centre of inhibition has got the upper hand of the centre of stimulation.
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