Reminiscences . ave been : voix sombre et ma-jestueuse, Duvernet calls it. The culture and respective LORD JEFFREY. 321 natal scenery of the two men had been very different;nor was their magnitude of faculty anything like the same,had their respective kinds of it been much more identicalthan they were. You could not define Jeffrey to havebeen more than a potential Voltaire ; say Scotch Vol-taire ; with about as much reason (which was not verymuch) as they used in Edinburgh to call old Playfair the Scotch DAlembert. Our Voltaire too, whatever elsemight be said of him, was at least worth a large
Reminiscences . ave been : voix sombre et ma-jestueuse, Duvernet calls it. The culture and respective LORD JEFFREY. 321 natal scenery of the two men had been very different;nor was their magnitude of faculty anything like the same,had their respective kinds of it been much more identicalthan they were. You could not define Jeffrey to havebeen more than a potential Voltaire ; say Scotch Vol-taire ; with about as much reason (which was not verymuch) as they used in Edinburgh to call old Playfair the Scotch DAlembert. Our Voltaire too, whatever elsemight be said of him, was at least worth a large multipleof our DAlembert! A beautiful little man the former ofthese, and a bright island to me and to mine in the seaof things, of whom it is now again mournful and painfulto take farewell. [Finished at Mentone, this Saturday January 19, 1867 ;day bright as June (while all from London to Avignonseems to be choked under snow and frost); other con-ditions, especially the internal, not good, but baddish orbad.] 21.
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