...poetical temperament is of all others the least fitted to the world. Its inequalities, its transparencies, its frankness, its indignations, its ebbs and flows,...craft : and what but craft will the world be ruled by? " Well, then, if this be so," cry the censors, " let us have no more poetical temperaments." But the...

...my presages, my indignations, my regrets, hang like barbed arrows in my brain!" His belief is that "a poetical temperament is of all others the least fitted to the world." The Mare'chal de Bassompierre ends his gay insouciant account upon much the same note of querulous...