. The works of Voltaire : a contemporary version with notes. Dictionary. The king-^to whomWaller, after the manner of kings and ppets, pre-sented a poem stufifed with panegyric—told him thathe had written more finely on Cromwell. Wallerimmediately replied: Sire, we poets always suc-ceed better in fiction than in truth. This replywas hot so sincere as that of the Dutch ambassador,who, when the same king complained to him thathis masters,had less regard for him than for Crom-well, replied: Ah, sire! that Cromwell was quiteanother thing. There are courtiers in England,,as elsewhere, and Waller wa
. The works of Voltaire : a contemporary version with notes. Dictionary. The king-^to whomWaller, after the manner of kings and ppets, pre-sented a poem stufifed with panegyric—told him thathe had written more finely on Cromwell. Wallerimmediately replied: Sire, we poets always suc-ceed better in fiction than in truth. This replywas hot so sincere as that of the Dutch ambassador,who, when the same king complained to him thathis masters,had less regard for him than for Crom-well, replied: Ah, sire! that Cromwell was quiteanother thing. There are courtiers in England,,as elsewhere, and Waller was one of them; butafter their death, I consider men only by their works;all the rest is annihilated. I simply observe thatWaller, born to an estate of the annual value ofsixty thousand livres, had never the silly pride orcarelessness to neglect his talent. The earls ofDorset and Roscommon, the two dukes of Buck-ingham, the earl of Halifax, and a great manyothers, have not thought it below them to become FIGHTfNG WITH WILD BEASTS TO MAKE A:)tROMAN HOLIDAY. ^Ufjl end U / Surionef ^ Dictionary. ig^ celebrated poets and illustrious writers; and theirworks do them more honor than their titles. Theyhave cultivated letters as if their fortunes dependedon their success, and have rendered literature re-spectable in the eyes of the people, who in all thingsrequire leaders from among the great—who, how-ever, have less influence of this kind in Englandthan in any other place in the world. WAR. All animals are perpetually at war; every spe-cies is born to devour another. There are none,even to sheep and doves, who do not swallow aprodigious number of imperceptible animals. Malesof the same species make war for the females, likeMenelaus and Paris. Air, earth, and the waters,are fields of destruction. It seems that God having given reason to men,this reason should teach them not to debase them-selves by imitating animals, particularly when naturehas given them neither arms to kill th
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