. The works of Thomas Carlyle .... ourt,namely, was at length vouchsafed him:—uncertain; for the Most 1 Battle of Piacenza (Prince Lichtenstein, with whom is Browne, versusGages and Maillebois), 16th June 1746 (Adelung, v. 427) ; Battle of Rotto-freddo (Botta chief Austrian there, and our old friend Barenklau getting killedthere), 12th August 1746 (tb. 462): whereupon, Jth September, Genoa (whichhad declared itself Anti-Austrian latterly, not without cause, and brought thetug of War into those parts) is coerced by Botta to open its gates, on grievousterms (ib. 484-489) so that, November zoth,
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. The works of Thomas Carlyle .... ourt, namely, was at length vouchsafed him:—uncertain; for the Most 1 Battle of Piacenza (Prince Lichtenstein, with whom is Browne, versusGages and Maillebois), 16th June 1746 (Adelung, v. 427) ; Battle of Rotto-freddo (Botta chief Austrian there, and our old friend Barenklau getting killedthere), 12th August 1746 (tb. 462): whereupon, Jth September, Genoa (whichhad declared itself Anti-Austrian latterly, not without cause, and brought thetug of War into those parts) is coerced by Botta to open its gates, on grievousterms (ib. 484-489) so that, November zoth, Browne, no Bourbon Army now onthe field, enters Provence (crosses the Var, that day), and tries Antibes : t, th-llthDecember, Popular Revolt in Genoa, and Expulsion of proud Botta and hisAustrians (ib. 518-523); upon which surprising event (which could not bemended during the remainder of the War), Brownes enterprise became impos-sible. See Buonamici, Histoire de la derniire Revolution de Gines; Adelung, V. 516; vi. 31 ; etc. etc.. /(. ™ (.Zr , :/rmpfn/r//. CHAP. II.] VOLTAIRE AND HIS DIVINE EMILIE 209 1746-1747] Christian Majesty always rather shuddered under those carbuncle eyes. under that voice sombre and majestious, with such turns lying in it:—some uncertain footing at Court; and from the beginning of 1746, hisluck, in the Court spheres, began to mount in a wonderful and world-evident manner. On grounds tragically silly, as he thought them. Onthe Dauphins Wedding, —a Termagants Infanta coming hither asDauphiness, at this time, —^there needed to be Court-shows, Dramaticules, Transparencies, Feasts of Lanterns, or I know not what. Voltaire wasthe chosen man; Voltaire and Rameau (readers have heard of EameausNephew, and musical readers still esteem Rameau) did their feat; wemay think with what perfection, with what splendour of reward. Alas, and the feat done was, to one of the parties, so unspeakably con-temptible ! Voltaire pensively surveying Life, brushes the sounding