Show ERROR ABOUT gy ims fralic Fratic ii jeffery ila lla has thus finely expressed hig his dissent from a vulgar error error that even byron condescends to sanction namely that genius is a source of peculiar happiness to its possessors t men len ien of ti giuly uly great powers rowers of mind have ge gen n orally been cheerful social and dulgen indulgent ln while a tendency lo 10 sei set tini sa whining binin gor wor or niel fielce ce intolerance uny nuy be ranked among the surest symptoms of litle letle li tle tie souls and inferior interior intellects in tile ile lie whole liba of our english poets we can c only olly lene jene I 1 jeraber iene M ber shenstone henstone hen stone slone and savage two certa certainly ihly iDly of the lowest who were querulous quer que relous elotis and discontented cowley ludt lude ed used to call himself melancholy but bill he lie was not in earnest ard at any rate was wits full of conceits aid aid affect udd ecta allous and iles lias liot liol nothing hilK to make us proud of ot I 1 lim am shakespeare Shak speare ll 11 e greatest of them all was evidently ol 01 a free and joyous temperament tempe ramen ard and so was C chaucer ha ulcer ticer their common master muster nt aster uster tile the same disposition appears to have predominated ili in fletcher Johi johl johnson ison lson and their great contemporaries the genius of milton something of the austerity of tiia ilia party to which 1 lie a belonged and of the contro verlis in in which he was involved even cieu when fallen fullen on evil das days and evil tongues his spirit seems to lwe liae ilae retained its serenity as well as its digneit di gnit and in in his private elifet life ilfe as well weli as in ia bis poetry the majesty of a agh character is tempered with great sweetness genial indulgences and practical wisdom in the tile succeeding age our poets were but too ga gay y and th though 0 ug L we e I 1 or nar boar to speak of levinz authors we know enough of them lo 10 say with confidence conn dence that to be m ser able abie or tobe obb obe fobe hated is not now dow any more than the common lot of those who ho excel |