In spite of the unheavenly nature of invective, of something of a lurking conceit in the making an eclipse out of a blush, and in the positive bathos, and I fear almost indecent irrelevancy of the introduction of Beatrice at all on such an occasion, much more under the feeble aspect of one young lady blushing for another,this scene altogether is a very grand one; and the violence itself of the holy invective awful.

But he forgave the irrelevancy by taking no notice of it, and by doing full justice to that particular dish.

" Let me cite another more grotesque piece of irrelevancy with a similar drift.