Jean Jacques Rousseau And the Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature a Study of the
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Not only is the author both vulgar and affected, but he is a pedant as well. When Clarissa is dying, Lovelace exclaims : " She is very ill ! " and adds sententiously : " What a fine sub- ject for tragedy would the injuries of this lady and her behaviour under them . . . Make. " 3 Then follow ten or twelve pages in 1 The novels of Samuel Richardson (BallantynJs Novelists' Library), vol. Ii. , p. 197. * Ibid. , vol. I. , p. 669. 3 Vol. Ii. , p. 565. Observe the curious footnote. DEFECTS OF HIS AR...T 167 which the author sketches the plot of this tragedy, and favours the reader with his reflections on the state of the drama, and on the causes of its decadence a digression which refreshes our interest, nevertheless. When he intends to be impressive, he is bombastic. Lovelace, in a passion, threatens Clarissa, and she exclaims, " For your own sake, leave me ! My soul is above thee, man ! . . . Urge me not to tell thee, how sincerely I think my soul above thee. " l This pathetic passage if they read it must have delighted the readers of La Vie de Marianne, but the translators were careful to tone down everything of this sort.
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