thoroughfares of a great city into what he himself has
called, with unexcelled imaginative justice of language, “the
huge and thoughtful night.” And his book in consequence,
whatever may be the final judgment of its merit, whatever may
mastery as in the lists of tournament, we are tempted to
think of the LARGE TESTAMENT as of one long-drawn epical
grimace, pulled by a merry-andrew, who has found a certain
despicable eminence over human respect and human affections
sing of poverty with a light, defiant note. Beranger waited
till he was himself beyond the reach of want, before writing
the OLD VAGABOND or JACQUES. Samuel Johnson, although he was
very sorry to be poor, “was a great arguer for the advantages
of poverty” in his ill days. Thus it is that brave men carry
their crosses, and smile with the fox burrowing in their
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