Part 7
[63] Mr. Cook criticises this sentence. It is a point upon which friends may “_agréer à différer_.”
[64] Author of _Psychologie de l’Absurde_.
[65] Professor of Micro-graphy at Bonn.
[66] This was rather severe, as M. Bischoff had spent some years in a Maison de Santé.
[67] An example of these occasional difficulties in style, due to the eagerness of which I have spoken.
[68] The meaning of this sentence is made clear thus: They (subject) twitted (predicate), with-his-qualifications (adverbially “how”), over--the--port (adverbially “where and when”), him (object).
[69] Mr. Lambkin loved to pass a quiet hour over the MSS. in the Bodleian, and would quote familiarly the rare lines of Chaucer, especially, among the mediæval poets.
[70] This sentence is an admirable example of Lambkin’s later manner.
[71] Raphael.
[72] P. 347, “The impetuosity of the action ill-suits with what is known of Lambkin.” It is all very well for the editor of _Great Dead Men_ to say that this apologises for the misfortune; that apology does not excuse the imputation of impetuosity (forsooth!) to a man whose every gesture was restrained.
[73] Better known perhaps as an author than as a cleric. He met his end in a shocking manner in a railway accident. His life was, however, insured, and he had upon him a copy of _Golden Deeds_.
[74] Beeker’s _A Torch for the Chapell; or the Nonconformists out-done_. Folio, 1663, p. 71.
[75] Referring to the edict on Buttoned Boots of Romulus Augustulus: a very shameless injustice.
[76] Lambkin lived to see its almost universal adoption: a result in which he was no mean agent.
[77] “On fair Italia’s storied plains,” Biggin, xii., _l._ 32.
[78] I am assured by Mr. Venial that this well-known line originally took shape on Mr. Lambkin’s lips.
[79] This phrase he noticed early in his studies to be a rhyming catchword, and pronounced it so to the day of his death.
[80] Hobbes.
[81] Thus M. dè Bissac was the President of the Société Anonyme des Voitures-fixes.
[82] “Accuracy in the use of negatives,” Mr. Lambkin would say, “is the test of a scholar.”
[83] Changed to “le Destin” in the newspaper.
[84] M. de Bissac was a Catholic, but one of the most liberal temper. He respected the Pope, but said that he was led astray by his advisers. He voted every year for the suppression of public worship in France and the turning of the churches into local museums. He was in every way remarkably unprejudiced for a man of that persuasion. His indefatigable attacks upon the clergy of his country have earned him the admiration of part of the whole civilised world.
[85] The phrase is “return to her true self.” It was a favourite one of Lambkin’s, but is I fear untranslatable. The French have no such subtle ideas. The whole sentence was left out in the _Horreur_, and the final paragraph began with “Je reste.”
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