Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-01-08
FECUNDITY OF WRITERS.

Is once achleTed, ana the way open, they f
go on rapidly. The first lines of the his +
tory Of II. de Thou cost han more roa-
bic than all the rest, bat that difficulty /
once surmouuted, he sped on with great
rapidly. Others have 4 great facility +
in writing, but take long time to polish /
their works Ia this category we may
class Horace against the Romans, II. de
Rabutin with ourselves; such, in fact, are
the greater number Of pradent people,
who, born writers, follow at first the i'm
pulse ofnaturc, which subsequently re-
quires both correction and finish. oh
ers, in fine, but that IS their misfortune.
write in a hurried manner, and do not
revise their works. NJ. dc Saumaisa was
Of thisidescription-a dangerous character
which uniformly suffers, but which serves
no point either as a model or example to
any one. Fabius Leonida, an Italian
poet, dwelt a long time on his works, and
re-touched them mere than tentimes. in
order to give the perfection he was de-
sirous they should possess. Pirre Mafee,
who has written so well in Latin, com-
posed only fourteen or fifteen lines a day.
Paulus Emilius Sanctorious, who had
undertaken to write a Latin history Of
his time, was so long polishing what be
did that another would in less time hsae
written a history Of the whole world. NJ.
de Yaugelas was thirty years engaged in
the translation Of Quintius Curtius, chang
ing and correcting it increasingly. NJ
Halbert, Of the Academy author Of the
- Temple de la Mort, which is one ofthe
most beautiful pieces of French poetry
changed and rechanged during three
years the metre of this work, in order
that it might attain the beauty, polish anc
elegance which he ambitoncd. 1t wa.
not without much vigilance and very
hard labor that Malherbe produced hi,
divine poetry. NJ. De Balzac passel
days and nights arranging his thoughts /,
attain that perspicuity Of style and choic,
of words for which we admire him at tin
present day.
The manuscripts of Ariosto are full Q
erasures. This may be seen in the au
tograph manuscript preserved at Flo
renee, the celebrated stanza in which h.
described a tempest, written in sixteer
different ways.
- Petrarch re-made one Of his verse
forty-six times.
The manuscripts Of Tasso are illellig
ble in consequence of al the corrections
Pascal re-made as often as six:ee
times one Of his Provineiales."
Il Button re-copied eleven times til
manuscripts Of. the Empoqaes de
'i Noiurs."
Rncouet an ernd;,e Fren.r,,a, IF n
Il .;.btaentb cant,rv ra-raoa ee, ,;ms
; and copied himself fourteen times, one
Sc his works, .Sar Ia Justice"
In the dictation of the first book Of Il
,e " ~ Silyes." addressed to Stella, the auth,
dwelt with complacency on the rapid
!" with which he had composed these poem
"a rapidi.y," writes he, which was p
to me without pleasure none had Cd
me more than two days some even
~ the most imaginative but one day.
y feared much that they would not car
81 with them ha proc. which | advance
~ The lines On the colossal statue Of Don
tian, for which the Emperor had The G
, IRENE condescension 10 solicit nay mu
T. had to deliver the next day, which w
: Inauguration. The epifhaIamium viii
you have commanded, you know shol
II be an affair Of two days. AssuredIy
+. is a great undertaking, seeing that th,
are in the piecetwo hundred ard seven
two hexameters."
If C.a=,er par,t;us "a C..rr.. s.v.