An Essay On the Manners And Genius of the Literary Character
An Essay On the Manners And Genius of the Literary Character
Disraeli Isaac
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Chance has preferved but a few of fimilar inftances ; this enthufiafm, in- deed, can only be obferved by men of genius themfelves ; but when it mod powerfully agitates them, they can leaft perceive it. At that moment of exqui- iite extravagance, like a religious vifi- onary, they pierce into " the heaven of " heavens, " * This Sonnet ftiall be given at the clofe of the volume. " heavens, " and when they return to their chair and their table, the effect has ccafed, and the golden hour of fublime... rapture muft terminate like other hours, in vulgar appetites that offend Fancy and gratify Nature. This irritability of mind has feme- times rendered focicty difpleaiing to fe- veral men of genius. Whenever Roiifleau pafled a morning in company, he (ays, it was obferved that in the evening he was ditfatisficd and difturbed. Roufleau may be confidered by fome, as a mind too peculiar, to be taken as a guide in our examination into the character of men of genius. If our young authors, however, would meditate on certain parts of his character, their virtues might be more elevated, and their ftyle more exquifite, than the model which any other literary character of this age pre- fcnts to them.
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