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( not yet published . ) By the Author of ' Jerningham / 3 vols . Smith and Elder . 1837 . The most opposite thipgs in nature are not more opposite than are the impressions wnich one and the same thing will make on different minds , 'the loveliest scene which the earth can furnish .
with all its power of suggesting and of conferring enjoyment , is scarcely less appreciated by the animals which graze in the midst of it , than by a human being whose mind has never been awakened to a perception of beauty . Its elements impress his senses as they impress the senses of the poet ; the sam& materials of thought and feeling are there , but how different the result !
" The clown sees them , hears them , feels them no more than the herd he tends : yet in him whose mind has been cultivated and unfolded , how numerous and varied the impressions , how manifold the combinations , how exquisite the pleasures produced by objects such as these ! " * The perception of beauty in works of art and of imagination is necessarily still more rare
than in the great book of nature ; and though the one will ultimately lead to the other , yet there must always be great inequality of comprehension , according to the peculiar order of individual sympathies—and the highest efforts of genius will probably never meet With thorough comprehension except from a few minds , whose work it should be to expound for the good of the multitude those creations which are otherwise to them
as though " they were not . " This is the true end of the much abused office of criticism , an office which is at present very frequently undertaken by the clowns and the animals . We have been led into this train of thought by fancying the very different feelings with which this new novel , by the author
of * Jerningham' will be read by different people . Some will think it wanting in incident and excitenieht ; sortie , utterly wild and improbable ; some will shake their head is and say it holds out encouragement to romance and dreartiy abstractions ; while others will find in it the interest which attaches to the true
exposition of a peculiar order of mind , and will see in it several clever sketches of character , and some truths of our nature very clearly elicited . It is certain , that in ord ^ r to appreciate or enjoy it , the reader must be in a mood to look at the bright side of things , and be ready to let his feelings take the lead , and carry him on pleasantly out of the beaten tracks of this " woHcy-day world . " The hero , Gerard Doveton , is a kind of personation of the purely imaginative or poetical faculty ;
» ' Philofophy of Health / by Vt Southwood Smith .
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290 Doveton ; or , the Man of many Impulses .
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DOVETON ; OR , THE MAN OF MANY IMPULSES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1837, page 290, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1831/page/35/
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