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The appearance of this work was heralded some three months since, as divers of our readers may possibly remember, by a species of puff-preliminary, for which even the annals of Great Marlborough Street afforded no precedent being nothing less than the appearance of Mr Colburn, in propriâ personâ, at the bar of the police-office adjoining his premises, to answer the complaint of the gallant and irate author for what he was pleased to consider the unwarrantable detention of the MS. from which his narrative had been printed.
As with many moderns his love for Horace did not grow less as old age crept on, for the De Vita Propria is perhaps fuller of Horatian tags than any other of his works.
Dearer now, after seeing his sister in propria persona she whose portrait had so much impressed his fancy the impression now deepened by the thought that to her he has been indebted for his life. Naturally enough, the young Kentuckian is desirous of knowing all, and is anxious about the fortunes of his Mexican friend, that for the time seem adverse.
Summing up, as it were, in propria persona the impersonality of Japanese speech, the word for "man," "hito," is identical with, and probably originally the same word as "hito," the numeral "one;" a noun and a numeral, from which Aryan languages have coined the only impersonal pronoun they possess.
Compare De Vita Propria, chaps. iv. and xxxi. pp. 13 and 92. De Vita Propria, ch. xxxi. p. 92. In taking the other view he writes: "Vitam ducebam in Saccensi oppido, ut mihi videbar, infelicissime." Opera, tom. i. p. 97. De Utilitate, p. 235. He gives a long and interesting sketch of his father-in-law in De Utilitate, p. 370. De Vita Propria, ch. xxvi. p. 68; Opera, tom. i. p. 97.
. . . . Qui propria voglia, Son capo, son qui duce, son lor Prence. And another: . . . Whom shall we find Sufficient? . . . This enterprise None shall partake with me. A chi bastera l' anima di voi? . . . certo che quest' affare A la mia man s' aspetta. Milton's Terror is partially taken from the Megera of the Italian poet.
But he threw off then the trammels of the text, and continued in propriâ personâ, violently gesticulating with his fists, and steadily advancing all the time, while Salvé prudently retreated before his advance down to the boat.
Budæus adversus Erasmum, Fuchsius adversus Cornarium, Silvius adversus Vesalium, Nizolius adversus Maioragium: non tam credo justis contentionum causis, quam vanitate quadam et spe augendæ opinionis in hominibus." Opera, tom. i. p. 135. He writes in this strain in De Vita Propria, ch. xiv. p. 49, in De Varietate Rerum, p. 626, and in Geniturarum Exempla, p. 431.
Yet to express "ce que tout le monde pense" which was Boileau's version of Horace's "propria communia dicere" is only part of the function of lyric poetry. To give the body of the time the form and pressure of individual feeling, of individual artistic mastery of the language of one's race and epoch; this, no less than the other, is the task and the opportunity of the lyric poet.
The author of this work, whoever he may be, argues out both these points with great force and ingenuity, and with a thorough-going vehemence, which perhaps we may refer to the circumstance, that he wrote, not in propriâ personâ, but in the professed character of a Scotch Episcopalian. His work had a gradual, but a deep effect on my mind.
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