The Life of James Thomson B V With a Selection From His Letters And a Stu
The Life of James Thomson B V With a Selection From His Letters And a Stu
Henry Stephens Salt
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" We can well believe that these pessimistic convic- tions were in great part the result of some constitu- tional tendenc}' to melancholia ; though in stud3'ing the development of Thomson's unhappiness, it is im- possible to distinguish with an\' certaint}^ between consequence and cause. " What, " asks the writer of the passage just quoted, "could the fulfilment of one dream have availed against this curse ? It haunted him like a fiend. It sta3-ed for no invita- tion and consulted no convenienc...e. It often left him free and happy in untoward circumstances, and beckoned him forth to bondage and misery as he sat at the feast or glowed with pleasure in the revel. " Yet there were many hours when his mind recurred fondly to this " one dream, " in the belief that its realisation might have averted his subsequent mis- fortunes and errors. On three consecutive evenings in September 1878 he was engaged in writing the singularly interesting autobiographical stanzas already alluded to, commencing " I had a Love.
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