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aeus.
Where's that from?
It's a line from a celebrated poem in twenty-four cantos.
Celebrated?
Yes; andwhat is moreworthy of being celebrated; but to appreciate it one must understand the Mantuan
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dialect.
I could make it outif you could get me a copy.
I shall have the honour of presenting you with one to-morrow.
You will oblige me extremely.
We had to leave his room and spend two hours in the companytalking over all sorts of things. Voltaire
displayed all the resources of his brilliant and fertile witand charmed everyone in spite of his sarcastic
observations which did not even spare those presentbut he had an inimitable manner of lancing a sarcasm
without wounding a person's feelings. When the great man accompanied his witticisms with a graceful smile
he could always get a laugh.
He kept up a notable establishment and an excellent tablea rare circumstance with his poetic brotherswho
are rarely favourites of Plutus as he was. He was then sixty years oldand had a hundred and twenty thousand
francs a year. It has been said maliciously that this great man enriched himself by cheating his publishers;
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