Villiers De Lisle Adam His Life And Works From the French of Vicomte Robert D
Villiers De Lisle Adam His Life And Works From the French of Vicomte Robert D
Robert Du Pontavice De Heussey
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But we who were acquainted with his inner life, and have watched him through the hard trials of his laborious existence, know how little he deserved the reproaches of these wiseacres. We knew the nobility of his nature, the innate delicacy of his tastes, his passion for work, his scorn of material enjoyments. And we know how, little by little, this gifted being was driven by evil fortune to live in an atmosphere unworthy of him, and how, too, little by little, and after many a revolt, he grew a...ccustomed to it. May I be permitted, then, within the space of a few lines, to attempt the justification of the slipshod and Bohemian manner of life of Villiers de 1'Isle Adam. It will give me an opportunity of showing the original and com- plex character of the artist in a new light. The faithful autobiography of a writer living in Paris during the last twenty years, without any other means of support than his own talents, would be a gloomier and a sadder 170 VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM. book than Dante's " Inferno.
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