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Excerpt from The Works of Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton), Vol. 1: The Last Days of the Pompeii; Harold: The Last of the Saxon Kings; The Caxtons: A Family Picture
The characters, therefore, are the natural offspring of the scene and time. The inci dents of the tale are equally consonant, per haps, to the then existent society; for it is not only the ordinary habits of life, the feasts and the forum, the baths and the amphi theatre, the common-place routine of the classic luxury, which we recall the past to be hold; - equally important, and more deeply interesting, are the passions, the crimes, the misfortunes, and reverses that might have chanced to the shades we thus summon to life We understand any epoch of the world but ill, if we do not examine its romance. There is as much truth in the poetry of life as in its prose.
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