text: " Happily for the literary fame of his country--for the solid exaltation in these latter ages of the sublime art which he cultivated--for the lovers of poetry who by inheritance or by acquisition speak the masculine and expressive language which he still ennobled--for the serene fame of the august poet himself--the political repose which a new change (the restoration of detruded and exiled royalty to its ancestral throne) spread over the land by shutting up the public hopes of the civil and ecclesiastical republican in despair and by crushing his faction in the dust gave him back in the visionary blindness of undecaying age to "the still air of delightful studies " in order that in seclusion from all "barbarous dissonance " he might achieve the work destined to him from the beginning--not less than the greatest ever achieved by man