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18: The horse-breeding centre at Newmarket.
19: Scott implies that he has influenced B.; see CHP II sts.56-66. He can not know that B. really had written to his mother on November 12th 1809, “. I shall never forget the singular scene on entering Tepaleen at five in the afternoon as the Sun was going down, it brought to my recollection (with Scott’s description of Branksome Castle in his lay, & the feudal system.” 20: Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, III iv 17-21. 21: This letter has not been found. 22: “Wondered at because unknown”. 23: James Hogg. 24: Southey had accepted the Laureateship after Scott had turned it down. 25: But B. writes at Beppo (1817), 75, 1-4: One hates an Author that’s all Author; fellows / In foolscap Uniforms turned up with Ink; / So very anxious, clever, fine, and jealous, / One don’t know what to say to them, or think … 26: The Giaour is at this time between its sixth and seventh editions; but Scott may know only the first edition. by one or two genius’s who run over poetry as a cat does over a harpsichord and they affect to complain of obscurity. On the contrary I hold every real lover of the art as obliged to you for condensing the narrative by giving us only those striking scenes which you have shown to be so susceptible of poetic ornament & leaving to imagination the “says I’s & says he’s” and all the minutiæ of 27 court of justice. The truth is I think poetry is most striking when the mirror can be held up to the reader and the scene kept constantly before his eyes for it requires most uncommon powers to support a direct and downright narrative nor can I remember many instances of its being successfully maintained even by our greatest bards. As to those who have done me the honor to take my rhapsodies for their model 28 I can only say they have exemplified the ancient adage “One fool makes many” nor do I think I have yet had much reason to on my letters and commendatory verses to which my sad & sober thanks in humble prose are deemd a most unusual and ungracious reply. Of this sort of plague your Lordship must ere now have had more than your share but I think you can hardly have met with so original a request as concluded the letter of a bard I this morning received who limited his demands to be placed on his due station on Parnassus & invested with a post in the Edinburgh Custom House. What an awakening of dry bones seems to be taking place on the continent! 29 I could as soon have believed in the resurrection of the romans as in that of the Russians – yet it seems vivid and active renovation of national spirit. It will certainly be strange enough if that tremendous pitcher 30 which has travelled to so any fountains should be at length broken on the banks of the Saale but from the highest to the lowest we are the fools of fortune. Your Lordship will probably recollect where the oriental tale occurs of a Sultan who consulted Solomon on the proper inscription for a signet ring requiring that the maxim which it conveyed should be at once proper for moderating the presumption of prosperity and comforting the pressure of adversity – the apothegm supplied for both purposes being comprehended in the words “And this also shall pass away” When your Lordship sees Rogers will you remember me kindly to him. I hope to be in London next Spring & renew my acquaintance with my friends there. It will be an additional motive if I could flatter myself that your Lordship’s stay in the country will permit me the pleasure of waiting upon you I am with sincere respect & regard Your Lordship’s truly Honoured & obliged humble Serv Walter Scott Abbotsford 6 [pencilled: 1813] I go to Edin.b. next week multum gemens Download 1.07 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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