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- well as the loftier touch; catch the rhythm of the waves of his seas of
invention; swim out there; in short, I did by implication say to myself
an insane thing--I will imitate the inimitable!
The issue of the temerarious resolve, how humiliating! And no wonder.
The inordinate aim, and the inadequate achievement! The soaring ambition
of the balloon, and its abrupt drop at a fatal puncture!
You who have basked in the vital beams of the Marquis, place not in
contrast his own radiant aspect side by side with the dim delineation of
him in the preceding sketch. And, for the attempted rendering of his
thought and style in the piece to follow, take charitable example from
the Persian, who in his comment upon the Icelandic version of the fervid
orientalisms of Sadi and Hafiz, made humane allowance for the inherent
difficulties and presumably numb fingers of the translator in penning
it.
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