The Life of John Banim, the Irish Novelist: Author of Damon and Pythias (Classic Reprint)

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Sir Walter and Southey - so bright in intellect, and so dauntless in labour once, but so crushed and broken at the close of life - come before us, all teaching great truths in the moral of their lives, and proving, too, that Old Burton judged rightly when, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, he quaintly wrote, that the Destinies of old put poverty upon Mercury as a punishment 3 since when, poetry and beggary are Gemini, twin-born brats, inseparable companions. Mercury can help them to knowledge, but not to money.

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