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Rh he was continually striving to get beyond its narrow circle of ideas. Nor does he belong to the modern time, for he merely felt a foreboding of that which was to come, without being able to take a share in it. Few poets have contained a larger number of contrasts or been less able to control them, notwithstanding the great versatility of mind, which was ever at his service. But perhaps the latter was the very cause of the former phenomenon.