加里弗的历史-THE_HISTORY_OF_THE_CALIPH_VATHEK
96页1、THE HISTORY OF THE CALIPH VATHEKTHE HISTORY OF THE CALIPH VATHEK85INTRODUCTIONWilliam Beckford, born in 1759, the year before the accession of King George the Third, was the son of an Alderman who became twice Lord Mayor of London. His family, originally of Gloucestershire, had thriven by the plantations in Jamaica; and his father, sent to school in England, and forming a school friendship at Westminster with Lord Mansfield, began the world in this country as a merchant, with inheritance of an e
2、normous West India fortune. William Beckford the elder became Magistrate, Member of Parliament, Alderman. Four years before the birth of William Beckford the younger he became one of the Sheriffs of London, and three years after his sons birth he was Lord Mayor. As Mayor he gave very sumptuous dinners that made epochs in the lives of feeding men. His sons famous History of the Caliph Vathek looks as if it had been planned for an Aldermans dream after a very heavy dinner at the Mansion House. The
3、re is devotion in it to the senses, emphasis on heavy dining. Vathek piqued himself on being the greatest eater alive; but when the Indian dined with him, though the tables were thirty times covered, there was still want of more food for the voracious guest. There is thirst: for at one part of the dream, when Vatheks mother, his wives, and some eunuchs assiduously employed themselves in filling bowls of rock crystal, and emulously presented them to him, it frequently happened that his avidity ex
4、ceeded their zeal, insomuch that he would prostrate himself upon the ground to lap up the water, of which he could never have enough. And the nightmare incidents of the Arabian tale all culminate in a most terrible heartburn. Could the conception of Vathek have first come to the son after a City dinner?Though a magnificent host, the elder Beckford was no glutton. In the year of his first Mayoralty, 1763, Beckford, stood by the side of Alderman Wilkes, attacked for his No. 45 of The North Briton.
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