Note book of An English Opium-Eater
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Yet, when one examines thiscase, the crime consisted by no means in doing it, but in _not_ doing it;by no means in getting into the bottle, but in _not_ getting into it. Theforeign contractor would have been probably a very unhappy man, had hefulfilled his contract by over-colonizing the bottle, but he would havebeen decidedly a more virtuous man. He would have redeemed his pledge;and, if he had even died in the bottle, we should have honored him as a'_vir bonus, cum mala fortuna compositus_;' ...as a man of honor matched insingle duel with calamity, and also as the best of conjurers. Over-colonization, therefore, except in the one case of the stage-coach, isapparently no crime; and the offence of King Gebir, in my eyes, remains amystery to this day.
What next solicits notice is in the nature of a digression: it is a kindof parenthesis on Wordsworth.
'_Landor. _--When it was a matter of wonder how Keats, who was ignorant ofGreek, could have written his "Hyperion, " Shelley, whom envy nevertouched, gave as a reason--"because he _was_ a Greek.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Yet, when one examines thiscase, the crime consisted by no means in doing it, but in _not_ doing it;by no means in getting into the bottle, but in _not_ getting into it. Theforeign contractor would have been probably a very unhappy man, had hefulfilled his contract by over-colonizing the bottle, but he would havebeen decidedly a more virtuous man. He would have redeemed his pledge;and, if he had even died in the bottle, we should have honored him as a'_vir bonus, cum mala fortuna compositus_;' ...as a man of honor matched insingle duel with calamity, and also as the best of conjurers. Over-colonization, therefore, except in the one case of the stage-coach, isapparently no crime; and the offence of King Gebir, in my eyes, remains amystery to this day.
What next solicits notice is in the nature of a digression: it is a kindof parenthesis on Wordsworth.
'_Landor. _--When it was a matter of wonder how Keats, who was ignorant ofGreek, could have written his "Hyperion, " Shelley, whom envy nevertouched, gave as a reason--"because he _was_ a Greek.
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