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    which claims not only notice , but-a far greater share of praise than has yet been publicly awarded . We allude to the illustrations , many of which are engravings in the first style of art , and from the works of living artists . The design by Briggs for the extract from the i Poly-Olbion ; ' by Hayter for ' The Lover

    complaineth the unkindness of his Love , ' and that of * Fancy and Desire , ' by Westmacott , will have a strong tendency to show the advantageous and varied applicability of the talent of living British artists , when judiciously chosen , while , as a principle , the calling forth their services cannot be too highly respected and applauded .

    The encouragement of our own artists , however , by bringing their works fairly and frequently before the public , as a means towards their pecuniary advantage , forcibly suggests to us the recent melancholy fate of an artist of the finest talent in his peculiar line . Fairly and frequently were his productions

    before the public ; there wa 3 no heedless profusion , no headstrong intemperance in his practical conduct , and his industry , both of inind and hand , was incessant;—yet he died from the necessity of maintaining an unremitting struggle with the world for the means of subsistence . That high decree of

    nervous sensibility and excitement which is the usual concomitant of fine faculties , absolutely requires an occasional pause from its exertions , or an immunity from the necessity of working for its bare bread , if we would have the best results of which those talents are capable , and if we would see their possessor at all happy .

    We have previously done our best , elsewhere , to explain how these and other wretched results occur to nearly all men of superior attainments , and to give the first suggestions of the only remedy that can be found , now or in future ; and we think the readers of the Repository' will readily pardon the above digression . We will conclude v / ith observing , that although there is not at present the very slightest practical or moral

    sign , on the part of the Public , of a determination to adopt systematic measures for ameliorating the condition of the working-intellect classes , there is a manifest spirit abroad among the publishers , which will certainly help to reform literature and gradually bring about a disposition to treat men of ggnius with some little degree of consideration . To each and all of those who reclaim from undeserved obscurity any

    portion of the w orks of superior men , to whom fortune refused favour in their life-time , and fame neglects after their death , a practical sympathy is justly due , which the mere encouragers and venders of impertinent nonsense and pompous superficialities , will seek in vain to obtain . The Author of the Exposition of the False Medium , 8 fc .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/12/