Lamartine, Alphonse de, 1790-1869 / 2008-07-23 00:00:00
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[Illustration: ALPHONSE DE LAMARATINE.]
RAPHAEL, or
PAGES OF THE BOOK OF LIFE AT TWENTY
BY ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
_ILLUSTRATED BY SANDOZ_
SOCIETE DES BEAUX-ARTS
PARIS, LONDON AND NEW YORK
1905
Comedie d'Amour Series
INTRODUCTION
It is all very well for Lamartine to explain, in his original prologue,
that the touching, fascinating and pathetic story of Raphael was the
experience of another man. It is well known that these feeling pages
are but transcripts of an episode of his own heart-history. That the
tale is one of almost feminine sentimentality is due, in some measure,
perhaps, to the fact that, during his earliest and most impressionable
years, Lamartine was educated by his mother and was greatly influenced
by her ardent and poetical character. Who shall say how much depends on
one's environment during these tender years of childhood, and how often
has it not been proved that "the child is father to the man?" The
marvel of it is that a man so exquisitely sensitive, of such
extraordinary delicacy of feeling, should have been able, in later
years, to stand the storm and stress of political life and the grave
responsibilities of statesmanship.
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