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the human heart ; if these feelings and qualifications would hare accomplished the desired end , William Hazlitt would have been enabled , with devout ecstacy , to echo the words of Corregio , and feel that he also was a painter . But nature is not art ; the soul
is not the form ; the foundation is not the superstructure . Possessing continuity—practical continuity—to the utmost extent , Hazlitt was utterly incompetent to persevere in anything requiring elaborate mechanical industry . Writhing under his deficiency of means , he struggled to supersede practice , overreach time , and bound at once to the conclusion . That his intellect alone could
accomplish this , is proved by the profound theories he has given to the world , so far in advance of general knowledge and opinion ; but painting was not to be accomplished without the incessant labour of the hand in monotonous practice , and by slow and imperceptible progression . His imagination saw at once all that he passionately desired to produce ; his overexcited , incorrigible will , rushed forward towards the end to clasp the whole with Atlantsean arms ; his severe understanding and sensitive taste
destroyed the illusions of self-love and vanity , forcing the abortive effort upon his conviction ; and , after a few years , he relinquished the hope with an anguish that may be traced through his writings almost to the period of his death . I know not if the long grass would not sigh , and the earth heave above his grave , should I say that it is better for the world that he was not a painter ! ( To be continued . )
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On the Close of the Session . 637
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'Thank God we have a House of Lords' was the ejaculation of William Cobbett when the House of Commons persisted in passing the Poor Law Amendment Act against his existing opinion or expressed opinion . That changeable writer deemed that Lords were lovers of the poor like himself , or , like the ' Times / lovers of the
popularity arising from affectingto be the poor man ' s friend . But both William Cobbett and the ' Times' were disappointed in one of the few subjects on which they could agree . The House of Lords passed the Bill , not in any love to the people , but in love to their own property , which they could not protect without conferring a benefit on the people at large . The system of the old poor laws produced a constant increase of paupers , who were maintained on
the property of those who possessed , and on the earnings of those who produced . Therefore the evil fell heavier on the working classes than on the Aristocracy ; but if the Aristocracy had sustained no evil , they would have agreed with William Cobbett and the ' Times / and would have thrown out the Bill . The ' Times' and the Lords are much alike in their sentiments towards the working classes . It is not upon record whether William Cobbett withdrew his proffered thanks to the Lqrds ; b ^ it lM for one ,
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ON THE CLOSE OF THE SESSION .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 637, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/9/
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