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NOTICES OF BOOKS/ 205
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been a youthin the young , ignorant , sense , reeling as Narcissus beneath the fell bliss , to hating of being the . image Like Narcissus he beheld he within gazed on He himself detested , and his unlike looks
his as rich name the and rich style to , lo his ok means down — on -just him sufficient as very to poor make . . His the ambition very poor was envy petty him , ,
not therefore of , and perilous no winged , for if impulse he longed drove to be him something to any it goal was . something From head he to knew foot
fire cased of , in jealousy the icy ever mail of fed scepticism that central , there heat yet . boiled Yet was a spring the brain at his heart sound — , the the mines of intellectual in
mind reserve without , and golden a flaw , veins and enriched there were the by working to the and uttermo resource and st . then And ever as woke for
the soulthere in its own home angel slept , now waking gently— , of gentl the y as angel Byron ' s slep a thrill t , under of hi the her muse life ' s — magnetic the sway hihest . — The to
gave gnay , g the imprisoned that of the nature musical ; voluptuary it distilled it throug broug h ht all the the music senses of the . To spheres his ear ; to ,
ever , his Elysian eye . it In shewe those d the angelical green moods repose , his of taste death was ' s illimitable turned as fields fever- , sick the from true iritual that it ified
the luscious fruits of pleasure , and the taste sptypyearned that in that frail the and man iritual thirst faithful can of bod materiall its at extremity the call y earthl embrace magnetic for y well , such the when . water sense Then soul as of the embraces was touch very promised was arm soul s sublimated we to then aried the the woman of very into all
spy we , ; and scent the fainted ball-room from wreath perception ; but of a rose artificial freshl essences y opened , , the or a green wall- - fiower room bouquet washed memoriestrouble of
in spring rains , suffused the soul with soft , sad , a poi delig " gnancy But ht . the to twin the - contrasting angel , far from torment making ; the the demon possessed -twin one raged been suffer and bound less tore , added him And ,
in lion mammon its revenge fiendish the ' s for p strength ower . the , He excellentl tran , in without sient alliance y hel fitted unmanl p with lessness him the for in cold which his common profession it could had sense , luck a of jackal the the mind literary . of that in , press , y flinching , p le its earliest
with weakling cries ; he hand from could that the cut quivered breast the gangrene that not nourished the of while vanity , and it from tortured mercifull the self y He strang -love could he wounded also have ,
a . bound ciating up majority the wounds ; he could which . have sensitive directed merit conscious ht had of the received yet Ol trembling from ian heaven a power misappre , and
hel have of medio ped taug none crity ht of the ; these he new could . -fledge He encourage could d muse approve the , but fli , g ever but it the was mind always ymp mim the etic prize ; he . could effort He
urge shore , to and fresh the essays dove to , but the it water was -waste then where as thoug her h he foot urged should the find swan no to rest the . He could condemn the nightingale to silence , and tempt the hedge-sparrow
bitter to " sing But sweet . he was —and a treasure taste them to his employers tooafter , those long who vitiation call sweet of the bitter mental , and
palate certainl . It holds has been good said of criticism that it wrong is easier A book , to unmake mav be th demolished an to make , ( as and to this its
y . have popul been ar and labored peculiar at character for ) in months half an . hour Just ' as s li a ght picture writing may , yet be itself despoile may d many
niche of not fame proved its b own y . being But pretensions hung who in looks mi a wrong ght for have proof light gained in , so such may for it a a , book case by a , be in false disp day design s laced when ascribed from time the is ,
th money " But ? Tims had funded his mental resources so wisely that difficult he lived well , in
e social sense , by means of a style of writing no more nor ex-
Notices Of Books/ 205
NOTICES OF BOOKS / 205
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/61/
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