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as to the character of feeling to be elicited , which belong to this poetical tabling and foretelling of contents , are all pleasurable , and worth some care to a benevolent author . Even when the motto lacks the adornment and suggestiveness of poetical quotation , and only consists of some quaint and pithy saying , it may yet come under the description , ( which was once tendered as a literal version of the Maxima Felicifas on the Westminster Review medallion of
Jeremy Bentham , ) and be truly a Maxim-y Felicity . February ( the February of our book ) set in rainy . ' The frost appeared to be quite gone , although there were patches of snow still remaininsr under those hedsres which sheltered it from the
noon-day sun ; the roads were deep in mud , and the garden ground was soft ; the wind was blustering , and the weather altogether very unpleasant ; for the rain which came from time to time was cold , and now and then being mingled with small snow , rendered it extremely disagreeable to be out /
Extremely disagreeable ; we feel it now to our very skin ; and though we have a great respect for Mr . Stock , who , ' when there was any work to be performed , would not allow the weather to prevent him , and brought up Adam to care for it as little as he did himself , ' yet we cannot but feel some sympathy with the young gardener , who < at last became a little peevish , and said he hated rain / To be sure he did ; there spake the spirit of
old Adam in Adam the younger . But all hatreds are to be got over , by creating and multiplying pleasant associations with the object of hatred ; and Mr . Stock , being a philosopher , did not take the boy and c whip the offending Adam out of him , ' but lolls him pretty tales of ' fruit and flowers , and good eating of all sorts , ' to spring * from the fertilizing influences of this hated ruin , and sends his imagination far off into eastern countries , with their terrible drouth and refreshing dews ; and this was all
very good for the boy , for so they digged up a bed , and prepared it for some of their spring crops ; and the following day being fine , they sowed a fresh crop of beans in it ; ' all perfectly ri ght ; but for ourselves we overcome our hatred by a different process , albeit it is somewhat analogous . In February we prepare our spring crop too ; an editor always lives at least a month , and sometimes more , in advance of other p eople ; when his body is
in February , his soul is in March , or getting forwards to April , and so on , all the year round . And what can stimulate the imagination , or supersede the occasion for its being stimulated , like that glorious fire which is the necessary adjunct , complement , Jmd antidote of the chilly , drizzling , soaking rains of February ? That is the true fire of genius . If that be stirred , no matter that we stir not . As the foul weather is without , the fair fire must be within ; and only look at it , —the mere sight makes the nights of February Arabian nights . There should be a good solid
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j ^ dani the Gardener , 141
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1834, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2630/page/57/
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