Historical Sketches of the Reign of George Second
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He had made his business great and flourishing, and, with a natural regret, lamented that he had no son to leave it to. He had been long subject to in- firmities which are vaguely described as nervous disorders, one of which was a shaking hand, which made him unable to write. These weaknesses increased with age ; and in the year 1761, when he had attained the age of seventy-two, a stroke of apoplexy put an end to his blameless homely life. He left four daughters behind him, all that remained of... his family, and a reputation quite unique in history. It seems needless to repeat the description of an anomaly so w^ell known and fully acknowledged. He was a respectable trades- man, distinguished by no aspirations (so far as is apparent) beyond his peers ; a good printer, entering with all his heart THE NOVELIST. 415 into his business ; a comfortable soul, fond of his fireside and his slippers, and his garden and all homely pleasures ; never owing a guinea nor transgressing a rule of morality, accord- ing to the dreadful accusation we have elsewhere quoted ; and yet so much a poet that he has added at least one char- acter to the inheritance of the world, of which Shakespeare need not have been ashamed — the most celestial thing, the highest imaginative effort of his generation.
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He had made his business great and flourishing, and, with a natural regret, lamented that he had no son to leave it to. He had been long subject to in- firmities which are vaguely described as nervous disorders, one of which was a shaking hand, which made him unable to write. These weaknesses increased with age ; and in the year 1761, when he had attained the age of seventy-two, a stroke of apoplexy put an end to his blameless homely life. He left four daughters behind him, all that remained of... his family, and a reputation quite unique in history. It seems needless to repeat the description of an anomaly so w^ell known and fully acknowledged. He was a respectable trades- man, distinguished by no aspirations (so far as is apparent) beyond his peers ; a good printer, entering with all his heart THE NOVELIST. 415 into his business ; a comfortable soul, fond of his fireside and his slippers, and his garden and all homely pleasures ; never owing a guinea nor transgressing a rule of morality, accord- ing to the dreadful accusation we have elsewhere quoted ; and yet so much a poet that he has added at least one char- acter to the inheritance of the world, of which Shakespeare need not have been ashamed — the most celestial thing, the highest imaginative effort of his generation.
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