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must be felt io be by the majority , consists in having- given the names of dead authors to productions wWch the learned , as well as the public at large , have not been able to distinguish from the originals . Mrs . Albion . But surely the difference is plain enou gh ; otherwise he must have been a man of most extraordinary genius ? Father Zodiac . Not so plain , it would seem , except in the case of Shakspeare ; he never flew so high afterwards , but there the hoax is plain enough .
Harry of Newmarket . Only to a ' learned spirit / I fancy . Mr . Albion ( lookmg ' at his ivatch ) . Of course it is plain enough to every body now . It is getting late . SyRius . Mists arise—shades thicken—I see a glow-worm ! Angus . But , after all , what is there worse in this illusive lamp , as a principle , than the hoax of Chatterton , whose name is always spdkeri of with admiration and pity ?
Mr . Albion . And is it not said that Michael Angelo made a statue , and then buried it , first breaking off a limb , wnich he kept privafiely ? He , of course , manoeuvred to have it found in '< Aue season , and after he had suffered all the best judges to proclaim it a fine antique , probably by the hand of Phidias , from the
Parthenon , he then produced the broken limb , to show them how little they knew of the matter . Father Zodiac . The cases are different . Chatterton ' s deception gave no offence , because he did not attack a high and universal reputation , ( respect for Shakspeare ' s name must be taken
into the account in favour of the public ;) and because great scholars did not make themselves so prominently ridiculous on the occasion . The feeling towards Chatterton is chiefly owing to his untifriefy end ; but partly because his productions possess considerable original beauty , though their merit is over-rated . As to
Mfchafel Angelo , his inherent greatness entitled him to adopt sufrh means of correcting presumption and prejudice , and it came in thfc shape of a severe moral lesson . Michael Angelo knew his owh inferiority , as a sculptor , to Phidias ; but he was . willing to pi * ovfc to his critics that they did not know the difference .
Angus . How grand the shadows stride across yonder field / with the moon just rising over the trees in the outskirts ! The adumbrations of Phidias and Michael Angelo rise from the gra * e of ages at Father Zodiac ' s mention of their names . Father Zodiac ( rising ) . Mother earth renews the mighty past ; and all the glory it produced , in the imaginations of all the
worth y of subsequent generations . Our day is closed ; but it will not havfc"b $ en passed in vain if the noble hopea that have supned our * heftrts lead us to actions that may promote the fertility of fafUrtfttth ** . , [ Bcwnt emme * ,. ti ....- ¦ r ¦ ' *•
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/28/
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