Paul Clifford, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Paul Clifford, Vol. 1 of 3

Nor is this, as at the first glance it may appear, owing to the fault or the unimportance of the writings themselves. 'vhile The Sketch Book is found in every young lady's dressing-room; and Bracebridge Hall is still in high request, in every country book-club The Life of Columbus, invalua ble, if only from the subject so felicitously chosen; The Wars of Grenada, scarcely less valuable from the' subject so consum mately adorned, and so stirringly painted; are, the one slowly passing into forgetfulness, and the other slumbering, with uncut leaves, upon the shelf. Compare the momentary sensation produced by the first appearance of Lord King's Life of Locke, with the sensation, durable and intense, which, replete' as it is with the treasure of Locke's familiar thoughts, it would have produced twenty years ago! Godwin's History of the Commonwealth, one of the most manly and impartial records ever written, lives less upon the memory than Almack's and Cyril Thornton, produced some four years since, is in more immediate vogue than the admirable history by the same Author but the other day. True, that among a succeeding generation, there may possibly be a re-action_lethargic octaves be awakened from their untimely trance, and enlivened quartos take up their~ beds and walk But now when people tie/ink as well as feel, and the present is to them that matter of refer ence and consideration which the future was with their more dreaming forefathers - the fame that is only posthumous, has become to all, but to poets, a very frigid and impotent induce ment.

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