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Under the pretence, therefore, of reconciling the disputants, Vathek took upon him to decide; and with this view commanded the boys to be brought. It was not long before a troop of these poor children made their appearance, all equipped by their fond mothers with such ornaments as might give the greatest relief to their beauty or most advantageously display the graces of their age.
After his return home he wrote a new novel, "Contarini Fleming," a wonderful and poetical study of temperament, which Milman pronounced the equal of "Childe Harold," which Goethe and Heine and Beckford, the author of "Vathek," praised with delighted warmth.
All that need be said is that Anthony Hamilton and Voltaire are certainly not by themselves good as they are, and admirable as the first is enough to account for Vathek.
Through the great interest felt by Englishmen in the manners and customs of Eastern nations, Oriental novels have become a recognized department of English fiction. In the eighteenth century, Johnson, in "Rasselas," and Beckford, in "Vathek," had drawn on the romantic features of Eastern life.
Vathek, who was still standing on the edge of the chasm, called out, with all his might: “Let my fifty little favourites approach me separately, and let them come in the order of their success.
Take Beckford's millions away; make him coin his wits to supply the want of them; and what would have been the result? Perhaps more Vatheks; perhaps things even better than Vathek; perhaps nothing at all. On the whole, it is always wiser not to play Providence, in fact or fancy.
His chief claim to distinction is found in his carefully prepared and judicious 'History of the West Indies. Beckford, the author of 'Vathek, and Monk Lewis, christened Matthew, the patent ghost-story teller of half a century ago, and more honorably connected with the history of the island as a proprietor, whose inexperienced kindness toward his negroes had almost led to his prosecution, both resided in the island for a while.
A great number of torches lent a gloomy lustre to the hall, which, like those of the Caliph Vathek, was of large dimensions. At the upper end, however, they at length arrived, where a sword and horn lay on an antique table.
He'll be like that Indian in 'Vathek' who rolled himself into a ball; no one could resist kicking as long as the ball bounded before them, we, similarly, shall not be able to resist, if Dyceworthy's fat person is once left at our mercy." "That was a grand bit he told us, Errington," resumed Macfarlane.
The low sweet voice so musical, That with such deep and undefined delight Fills the surrender'd soul. It has long been known that Mr. Beckford prepared, shortly after the publication of his Vathek, some other tales in the same vein the histories, it is supposed, of the princes in his "Hall of Eblis."
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