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He is a great observer, and he looks

Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,

he hears no music;

Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort,

As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit

that could be

Such reater than themselves

JULIUS CAESAR

Montoni and his companion did not return home, till many hours after the

dawn had blushed upon the Adriatic The airy groups, which had danced

all night along the colonnade of St Mark, dispersed before the ,

like so ed; his soul was

little susceptible of light pleasures He delighted in the energies of

the passions; the difficulties and tempests of life, which wreck the

happiness of others, roused and strengthened all the powers of his

hest enjoyments, of which his nature was

capable Without so interest, life was to him little

more than a sleep; and, when pursuits of real interest failed, he

substituted artificial ones, till habit changed their nature, and they

ceased to be unreal

Of this kind was the habit of ga, which he had

adopted, first, for the purpose of relieving hiuor of

inaction, but had since pursued with the ardour of passion In this

occupation he had passed the night with Cavigni and a party of young

men, who had more money than rank, and reater part of these for the inferiority of their talents,

rather than for their vicious inclinations, and associated with the these, however,