Letters of James Smetham
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M. C. TAYLOR.
Since portraiture went down, it has taxed my wits to the utmost to till the more poetic side of my calling. Parnassus was ever barren, I suppose ; only if a man by circumstances is left high and dry on it he must get what he can out of it. I have to keep hold — by correspondence as well as by painting — of a great many threads ; first this, then that, and by this means get along somehow ; but it leaves me often devoid both of time and energy to have the converse I should like with... even my best friends. I some- times feel ludicrously like a street musician who plays drum and bagpipe, pan's pipe, and cymbals all at once with mouth, fingers, elbow, and knees. It is a good thing that it answers somehow, and that people 158 LETTERS OF JAMES SMETHAM 1865 throw pennies enough out of the Avindow to keep us all alive.
To HIS Brother.
10th February 1865. Nothing can be more enchanting than the method of study which I have practised for nearly twenty years. Whatever it may be for others, for an artist it is a glorious way : (And now they never meet in grove or gi'een But they do Square.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
M. C. TAYLOR.
Since portraiture went down, it has taxed my wits to the utmost to till the more poetic side of my calling. Parnassus was ever barren, I suppose ; only if a man by circumstances is left high and dry on it he must get what he can out of it. I have to keep hold — by correspondence as well as by painting — of a great many threads ; first this, then that, and by this means get along somehow ; but it leaves me often devoid both of time and energy to have the converse I should like with... even my best friends. I some- times feel ludicrously like a street musician who plays drum and bagpipe, pan's pipe, and cymbals all at once with mouth, fingers, elbow, and knees. It is a good thing that it answers somehow, and that people 158 LETTERS OF JAMES SMETHAM 1865 throw pennies enough out of the Avindow to keep us all alive.
To HIS Brother.
10th February 1865. Nothing can be more enchanting than the method of study which I have practised for nearly twenty years. Whatever it may be for others, for an artist it is a glorious way : (And now they never meet in grove or gi'een But they do Square.
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