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- . J ¦ • ^ ttXj a lie in his moutjtu ' . But the , ^^ y ^ qa ^ , ^ pJic | dioa . ancl practical working out ot tl ^ is moral require ^ tfre f <^ o * vjag ( . quali fication . Hte suffered persecution and poverty all his life for a literary hoax committed when a boy ; and , now lie is deadj certain folks are starting up to insist that he . never wrote the papers in question ,, and that his last declaration , to the effect that he did write them , was dying with a lie in his mouth . '
Father Zodiac . Finding him no longer open to persecution on the first count , the very opposite is now to be brought to bear against him ., so as to induce the execration of his memory for falsely pretending to have done that which when alive he paid the penalty for having done . Malignity will thus feed upon the poor man for telling the truth about a lie , and for not having sworn that his lie was the truth .
Mr . Albion . There is another cause for the unmanly exultation , which is not very indirectly shown , at his having clied in obscure lodgings in the greatest distress . Since so many meti' of acknowledged high intellect and morality have died in / just the same circumstances , there is a wish to show—putting the exception for the general principle—that his bad conduct induced it , and the ingratitude of the world's common practice of neglect to its noblest benefactors is thus to be flattered with the notion of
poetical justice . Mrs . Albion . But was Ireland without any ability ? Harry of Newmarket . For my part , I always thought him a very clever fellow . Angus . He mistook extravagance for originality , and wild absurdity for genius , as his romances amply testify . They are
outrageous vapidities . He was , however , a man of great general information , and wrote—when not employed in booksellers' piecework—a good , sterling , unaffected prose , very superior to the premature , unpractised , mawkish amateurisms of the host of lady and gentlemen scribblers who are now incessantly * taking up their pens / Mfcs . Albion . What a pity that such a man was not properly
applied ! How serviceable he might have been to a newspaper , a iiiagaziiie , or in various useful departments of literature ! M' 5 . Albion . To obtain these engagements depends as muchgenerally much more—on private interest and acquaintance , where
3 , man lias not already a popular position , as on positive ability . Blit , besides this , nobody could trust Ireland ; they knew his love of a hoax , and feared his ingenuity . Independent of his necessities he appears to have had a natural penchant for the thing .
Harry of IMewmarket . I can . tell you of one which I believe is not at all known or suspected by , the public . Sonae elegant Frehch ^ poems were discovered in manuscript , evidently written by Chaielat , to ^ fttary Queen , of Sfcots , and were published as nuch . Tneet ^ raviji ^ wjucti tyts so , IpngbeejaabpuVUwpb of M * ry leaning
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 384, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/20/
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