The Victim of Intolerance; Or, the Hermit of Killarney, a Catholic Tale .. 1
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we on all occasions think and feel A NOVEL. 133 alike ; it must have been yourself." " Not so, I assure you ; you know, Julia, I am not one of fancy's children/* " You have frequently told me so ; but though judgment, and a delicate sense of propriety, are the predominant fea- tures of your mind, I am convinced you have a lively relish for the pleasures of imagination/' " Yes^ my dear girl, I can relish, but I cannot execute. I have taste rather than genius ; while I receive a very lively grati...fication from the splendid combinations presented by the poet, I am myself, unable to give to 1 airy nothing a local habitation and a name/ M 11 I am sorry for it/' said Julia, while her mutable countenance assumed an expression of tender regret. " Th; it" resumed her friend, " is not spoken with 134 VICTIM OF INTOLERANCE, the benevolence which characterises Julia. If I am susceptible of the plea- sure which works of genius are calcu- lated to impart, why should you regret that I am exempt from the prolonged sorrows, and self-created miseries, which associate with the higher powers of ima- gination, and too often render genius wretched." "0/' cried Julia, while her countenance became illuminated by a divine enthusiasm, "there is a joy in grief, there are delicious tears which give ima- gination's lengthened sorrows and self- created miseries a charm that cannot be described.
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