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"He had catched a great cold, had he had no other clothes

to wear than the skin of a bear not yet killed"--FULLER

Young Ladislaw did not pay that visit to which Mr Brooke had invited

him, and only six days afterwards Mr Casaubon

relative had started for the Continent, seeueness

to waive inquiry Indeed, Will had declined to fix on any more precise

destination than the entire area of Europe Genius, he held, is

necessarily intolerant of fetters: on the one hand it must have the

utmost play for its spontaneity; on the other, it es from the universe which su itself in an attitude of receptivity towards all sublime

chances The attitudes of receptivity are various, and Will had

sincerely tried many of them He was not excessively fond of wine, but

he had several times taken too much, simply as an experiment in that

form of ecstasy; he had fasted till he was faint, and then supped on

lobster; he had inal had resulted from these measures; and the effects of the opium

had convinced him that there was an entire dissimilarity between his

constitution and De Quincey's The superadded circuenius had not yet come; the universe had not yet beckoned

Even Caesar's fortune at one tirand presentiment We

knohat a masquerade all developuised in helpless eies and handsoh the pitiable instances of long incubation producing

no chick, and but for gratitude would have laughed at Casaubon, whose

plodding application, rows of note-books, and s the tossed ruins of the world, seeenerous reliance on the

intentions of the universe with regard to hienius; and certainly it is noneither in self-conceit nor in hueneral, but so in

particular Let hi on his future Aratuitous

But at present this caution against a too hasty judgment interestscousin If to