Critical and Miscellaneous Writings, Vol. 1
Of T. Noon Talfourd (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from Critical and Miscellaneous Writings, Vol. 1: Of T. Noon Talfourd WE regard the authors of the best novels and romances as among the truest benefactors Of their species. Their works have Often conveyed, in the most attractive form, les sons Of the most genial wisdom. But we do not prize them so much in reference to their immediate aim, or any indi vidual traits of nobleness with which they may inform the thoughts, as for their general tendency to break up that cold and debasing selfishness with which the souls Of so large a portion of mankind are encrusted. They give to a vast class, who by no means would be carried beyond the most contracted range of emotion, an interest in things out of themselves, and a perception of grandeur and of beauty, Of which otherwise they might ever have lived unconscious. Pity for fictitious sufferings is, indeed, very inferior to that sympathy with the universal heart of man, which inspires real self-sacrifice but it is better even to be moved by its ten derness, than wholly to be ignorant of the joy Of natural tears. How many are there for whom poesy has no charm, and who have derived only from romances those glimpses Of disinterested heroism, and ideal beauty, which alone make them less forlorn, in their busy career! The good house-wife, who is employed all her life in the severest.
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