Identifier: macliseportraitg00macl (find matches)
Title: The Maclise portrait-gallery of "illustrious literary characters", with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical & anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870 Bates, William, d. 1884
Subjects: Authors Authors, English Journalists
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Charles Lamb, and all the sons ofgenius, inheritors in common of the frailties of lesser mortals. FareVvell,then, to thee for a time, thou gentle spirit, in thy own words— Free from self-seeking, emy, low design,We have not met a whiter soul than thine \X LVIL—PIERRE-JEAN DE BERANGER. How like him, ejaculates )Maginn, in attitude, mien, figure, look!He is depicted just as he is. There he sits in the apartment of theprison to which the absurd policy of the Ministers of the restoredBourbons consigned him, while they overlooked the real traitors whowere undermining their throne; and he is shown in his usual simple, * See Barry Cornwalls eloquent defence of his friend from the charge (CharlesLamb: a Memoir, ist ed. 1866, pp. 122, 123). f Habet in picture speciem tola facies : Apelles tamen imaginem Antigoni lateretantum altero ostendit, ut amissi oculi deformitas lateret.—Quintil. Inst. Orator.,Lib. ii. Cap. xiii. X Epistle to Martin Charles Eurney, Esq., prefixed to Rosamund Gray.
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AUTHOR OF Les s&irvE:^frp..^ mnr FiisrpiLE ni:.RRE-^JEAX DE EERAAGER. 30j unostentatious garb, divested equally of the ostentation of extreme plain-ness as of dandyism. He looks to be what he is—a man. Under the simple name of Cha?ison7tic?,^^ wrote a great Frenchauthor, a man has arisen, who is one of the greatest poets that Francehas produced. With genius which assumes the manner of La Fontaineand Flaccus, he has sung, where he has chosen, as Tacitus has written, *The poet thus alluded to is P. J. De Beranger,—the great nationalsong-writer of France,—that most perfect master of the modern lyre,who, in these latter days, in the bright city of the Seine, has invested thesimple chanson with a dignity and grace unsurpassed by Horace, in hisfinest ode, on the banks of the Tiber, two thousand years ago. This illustrious man, whose father was a poor improvident tailor ofthe Rue Montorgueil, Paris, neghgent of his family, and lost in vaindreams of an illustrious ancestr)^, was bor

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