Salad for the solitary and the social: . s known to have beenerected for the especial benefit of the hapless author; and this,established by Pope Urban YIIL, bore the strangely signifi-cant name of the Eetreat of the Incurables, as if implying19 290- INFELICITIES OF AUTHORCRAFT. that its devotees were deemed irreclaimable alike from thecrime of poverty and authorship. Like many other works which have since become classics,Thomsons Seasons long in vain sought a publisher. Poetry is, according to Coleridge, its own exceeding greatreward, and this is, sometimes, about all that falls to its votari
Salad for the solitary and the social: . s known to have beenerected for the especial benefit of the hapless author; and this,established by Pope Urban YIIL, bore the strangely signifi-cant name of the Eetreat of the Incurables, as if implying19 290- INFELICITIES OF AUTHORCRAFT. that its devotees were deemed irreclaimable alike from thecrime of poverty and authorship. Like many other works which have since become classics,Thomsons Seasons long in vain sought a publisher. Poetry is, according to Coleridge, its own exceeding greatreward, and this is, sometimes, about all that falls to its endowments are of themselves too costly and rareto be vulgarized by sordid gains. Yet who does not compas-sionate the privations and poverty of the mighty minds, whosegenius has enriched the realm of thought with the bright crea-tions of fancy, or whose patient and laborious studies have re-vealed to us the great mysteries of science ;—a wealth so vast,that no pecuniary returns on our part could adequately ,„flIl11[illlll|nUi|:M
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