A book of memories of great men and women of the age, from personal acquaintance (1877)
Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo, Wordsworth Collection · London, Virtue · leaf 266
ficulty.No doubt he had that lack of prudence which is so often one of the heavy drawbacksof genius—one of the penalties that nature exacts as a set-off against the largest andholiest of her gifts. It may not, and perhaps ought not, to be admitted as an excusein bar of judgment; the world is not… … LEIGH hunts cottage AT HAMPSTEAD. of genius who would suffer the extreme of penury rather than borrow—such, forexample, as I have elsewhere shown, was Thomas Moore, to whom the purses ofwealthy and high-born friends were as sacred as the Crown-jewels; but men ofletters arc for the most part less…
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