Petri de vanite il avait encore plus de cette espece d'orgueil qui fait avouer avec la ???? indifference les bonnes comme les mauvaises actions, suite d'un sentiment de superiorite, peut-etre imaginaire. Tire d'une lettre particuliere [PREFATORY PIECE] Not thinking to amuse the haughty world, having grown fond of friendship's heed,
I wish I could present you with a gage 4 that would be worthier of yoube worthier of a fine soul full of a holy dream, of live and limpid poetry, 8 of high thoughts and simplicity. But so be it. With partial hand take this collection of pied chapters: half droll, half sad, 12 plain-folk, ideal, the careless fruit of my amusements, insomnias, light inspirations, unripe and withered years, 16 the intellect's cold observations, and the heart's sorrowful remarks.