[About Mayday, 1746, Seizure of Travenol; Pleadings are in vigor
August, 1746; not done April, 1747. In Voltairiana, italic> ii. 141-206, Pleadings, &c., copiously given; and most of
the original Libels, in different parts of that sad Book (compiled
by Travenol's Advocate, a very sad fellow himself): see also
OEuvres de Voltaire, lxxiii. 355 n., 385 n.;
IB. i. 97; BARBIER, ii. 487. All in a very jumbled, dateless, vague
and incorrect condition.] Olympian Jove in distressed circumstances
VERSUS a hungry Dog who had eaten dirty puddings. Paris, in all its
Saloons and Literary Coffee-houses (figure the ANTRE DE PROCOPE, on
Publication nights!), had, monthly or so, the exquisite malign
banquet; and grinned over the Law Pleadings: what Magazine Serial
of our day can be so interesting to the emptiest mind!

"Lasted, I find, for above a year. From Spring, 1746, till towards
Autumn, 1747: Voltaire's feelings being--Haha, so exquisite, all
the while!--Well, reader, I can judge how amusing it was to high
and low. And yet Phoebus Apollo going about as mere Cowherd of
Admetus, and exposed to amuse the populace by his duels with dogs
that have bitten him? It is certain Voltaire was a fool, not to be
more cautious of getting into gutter-quarrels; not to have a
thicker skin, in fact."

PROCES-TRAVENOL escorting one's Triumphal Entry; what an adjunct!
Always so: always in your utmost radiance of sunshine a shadow;
and in your softest outburst of Lydian or Spheral symphonies
something of eating Care! Then too, in the Court-circle itself, "is
Trajan pleased," or are all things well? Readers have heard of that
"TRAJAN EST-IL CONTENT?" It occurred Winter, 1745 (27th November,
1745, a date worth marking), while things were still in the flush