To us he is as much a moral as a literary teacher. We admire that Roman greatness of soul in a Greek, and the character of this unknown man, who carried the soul of a poet, the heart of a hero under the gown of a professor. He was one of those whom books cannot debilitate, nor a life of study incapacitate for the study of life.
A. L.
[I.1.] Longmans, London, 1836.
[I.2.] Etude Critique sur la traité du Sublime et les ecrits de Longin. Geneva.
[I.3.] See also M. Naudet, Journal des Savants, Mars 1838, and M. Egger, in the same Journal, May 1884.
[I.4.] Egger, Histoire de la Critique chez les Grecs, p. 426. Paris, 1887.
[I.5.] M. Anatole France.
[I.6.] The examples of bombast used to be drawn as late as Spurden’s translation (1836), from Lee, from Troilus and Cressida, and The Taming of the Shrew. Cowley and Crashaw furnished instances of conceits; Waller, Young, and Hayley of frigidity; and Darwin of affectation.
“What beaux and beauties crowd the gaudy groves,
And woo and win their vegetable loves”—