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Art thou a dumb wrong'd thing that would be righted , Entrusting thus thy cause to me ? forbear ; * No tongue can mend thy pleadings ; faith requited With falsehood , —love nt last aware Of scorn , —hopes early blighted , —
We have them—but I know not any tone So fit as thine to fa her forth a sorrow : Dost think men would go mad without a moan If they knew any way to borrow A pathos like thine own ?
Which sigh would ' st tnock of all the sighs ? that one So long escaping from lips starv ed and blue , Which lasts while on her pallet-bed the nun Stretches hei length—her foot comes through The straw she shivers on ,
You had not thought she was so tall , —and spent , Her shrunk lids ope , and her lean fingers shut So close , their sharp and livid nails indent The clammy palm : then all is mute — That way the spirit went .
Or would ' st thou rather that I understand Thy will to help me—like the dog I found Once pacing- sad the solitary strand , That would not take my food , poor hound , But whined , and licked my hand ?
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In these degenerate days of literature , when book-making is generally conducted on the principle of Peter Pindar ' s razorseller , it is truly gratifying to the feelings of all real lovers of fine genius and talent , to discover and make known the various exceptions that occasionall y appear . If certain authors deserve a high meed of praise for thus endeavouring to raise the literature of their time , and the mind of the reading public , so also do those publishers who have risked the loss of labour
and capital , by the introduction of their works . The fate even of books which are calculated to be extensively popular—if not eminently and lastingly so—is almost always precarious . The difficulty is not in finding the proper writer , so much as the taking subject ; but granting both these , the grand difficulty of all is that of getting the public to * take it up ! ' This is the problem which publishers have in vain attempted to solve . Some by a resolute regularity in advertising have thought to weary out the indifference of the million , till
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Spirit of Modern Publishers . TJl
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SPIRIT OF MODERN PUBLISHERS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/7/
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