[587]. Unless we group with it Hazlitt’s, which is, in this instance, for thoughts. Your pure man of letters often has a morbid love of mere force.
[588]. The touch of we do not quite know what personal soreness breaks in whenever “René” is mentioned, even much later than this.
[589]. I fear that terrible charge, “il n'était pas gentilhomme,” is a little borne out by his intromitting with Chateaubriand’s annotated copy of the Essai sur les Révolutions, which he uses to fix anti-religious and anti-monarchical opinions on the writer. You have no business, at any rate till centuries have passed, with a man’s private comment on his published writings. It is mere eavesdropping once removed.
[590]. i. 91.
[591]. i. 132.
[592]. Ch. et s. G., i. 233, 234.
[593]. ii. 37.
[594]. ii. 91.
[595]. Ibid., 97.
[596]. Ibid., 114.