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The Bachelor's Wife, a Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts
The Bachelor's Wife a Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts Author:John Galt General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: " But this sublime paroxysm did not last long. The soldiers soon recovered their wonted self-possession, ar. d cried out, ' Long live Odoacer, king of Italy !' to which the crowd, as if suddenly transmuted from the Roman into another character, answered, with a .-magnificent shout, that reverberated through the empty halls of the Capitol, ' Odoacer, king of Italy!' Thus was the very name of Rome expunged from, the sovereignties of the world; and all her glory, her greatness, and her crimes, reduced to an epitaph." CHAP. XIV. NEGLECTED POETS. Our Bachelor and his Egeria seldom differed, in opinion, but when, as such things sometimes happen in the best-regulated families, a discord chanced to disturb the harmony of their conjugal duets, -- if the gentleman was ever positively in the right, the lady certainly was rarely in the wrong. The only occasion on which any thing like a durable controversy arose between them, was one evening when, conversing, with their wonted taste and acumen, on the com-' parative merits of the ancient and modern poets of England, the nymph remarked, that no improvement had been made in our poetical phraseology since the age of Shakspeare, notwithstanding the manifest advancement of the language generally for every - other purpose of communication. " I do not know," said she, " any poet of our own time that, in the music of his numbers, excels Richard Lovelace for example, especially in those effusions which he appears to have written from the immediate impulse of his feelings. Tommy Moore himself has given us nothing more melodious than some of his songs ; indeed, the Iris...« less