Ib.
Even so it was with Ambrose: he wrote indeed well and purely, was more serious in writing than Austin, who was amiable and mild. * * * Fulgentius is the best poet, and far above Horace both with sentences, fair speeches and good actions; he is well worthy to be ranked and numbered with and among the poets.
Der Teufel
! Surely the epithets should be reversed. Austin's mildness—the
durus pater infantum
! And the
super
-Horatian effulgence of Master Foolgentius! O Swan! thy critical cygnets are but goslings.
N.B. I have, however, since I wrote the above, heard Mr. J. Hookham Frere speak highly of Fulgentius.