Yet we see them magnanimous, though defeated, proceeding with the public feeling against them.

At length we view them ranking with their rivals.

Without having yielded up their peculiar tastes or their incorrigible viciousness, they have, however, heightened their individual excellences.

No human opinion can change their self-opinion.

Alive to the consciousness of their powers, their pursuits are placed above impediment, and their great views can suffer no contraction; _possunt quia posse videntur_.