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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...his insanity to disappointment. "The poetical disappointments of Collins were secretly preying on his spirit, and repressing his firmest exertions.... None but a poet can conceive, for none but a poet can experience, the secret wounds inflicted on a mind of romantic fancy and tenderness of emotion, which has staked its happiness on its imagination; for such neglect is felt as ordinary men would feel the sensation of being let down into a sepulchre and buried alive.... Collins's was a life of want, never chequered by hope, that was striving to elude its own observation by hurrying into some temporary dissipation. But the hours of melancholy and solitude were sure to return; these were marked on the dial of his life, and when they struck, the gay and lively Collins, like one of his own enchanted beings, as surely relapsed into his natural shape. To the perpetual recollection of his poetical disappointments are we to attribute this unsettled state of his mind, and the perplexity of his studies." I may add that Dr. Johnson seems to attribute his attack of insanity to the death of an uncle who left him a legacy. He had now no occasion to study to live, but only to live to study, and he appears to have drunk too freely. "His health continually declined, and he became more and more burdensome to himself." Langhorne, himself a poet, puts the blame on imagination or fancy. Indulging in this, he fell a prey to its bewitching and then destructive influence. His lines run thus:--"Sweet bard, beloved by every muse in vain! With powers whose fineness wrought their own decay; Ah! wherefore thoughtless did'st thou yield the rein To fancy's will, and chase the meteor ray? Ah! why forget thy own Hyblaean strain, Peace rules the breast where Reason ru...
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