...s of foppery and persiflage did but set off what was then regarded as the unsurpassable pathos of Violet Fane's death; and though the consummate dandyism of the companion book had no such relief, yet Bulwer amply made up for it by the rivers of tears that were shed over his Pilgrims of the Rhine. Not a young lover of the period who had acquired a decent sentimental education, but was sure to put a flo...