To private interest dead, and public care.
So lived he; so he might have died.
"But now,
To the wide world's astonishment, appeared
A[130] glorious opening, the unlooked-for dawn,
That promised everlasting joy to France![BO]
Her voice of social transport[131] reached even him!
He broke from his contracted bounds, repaired
To the great City, an emporium then
Of golden expectations, and receiving