text:  The criminal was almost forgotten in the eloquent enthusiast; and while with his deep and touching voice and eager but most expressive gesture he poured out his glowing dreams revelled in brilliant impossibilities and created scenes of national regeneration as high-coloured as the glories of a tropical sunset; they suffered him to take his full range and develop the whole force of that vivid imagination whose flame alike lured him into the most dangerous paths of political casualty and blinded him to their palpable dangers