_The Grand Style_.--Is it not extremely probable that Bonaparte
plagiarised the idea of the centuries observing the French army from
the pyramids from these lines of Lucan?--
"_Sæcula_ Romanos nunquam tacitura labore, _Attendunt,
oevumque sequens speculatur_ ab omni Orbe ratem."--_Phars._
viii. 622.
One of the recent French revolutionists (I think Rollin) compared
himself with the victim of Calvary. Even this profane rant is a
plagiarism. Gracchus Baboeuf, who headed the extreme republican party
against the Directory, exclaimed, on his trial, that his wife, and
those of his fellow-conspirators, "should accompany them _even to
Calvary_, because the cause of their punishment should not bring them
to shame."--_Mignet's French Revolution_, chap. xii.