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Updated: May 28, 2025
Ah, something he should have sacrificed to the envious gods, some lesser joy, that the essential happiness of his life might be spared him. Wilfrid had yet to learn that every sun which rises for us in untroubled sky is a portent of inevitable gloom, that nature only prolongs our holiday to make the journey-work of misery the harder to bear.
In all the work of the time, however, great and small, from the half-unconscious inspiration of Burns and Blake to the common journey-work of book-making, we shall find the same character incessantly recurring, and unmistakable afterwards if not always recognisable at the time of transition, of decay and seed-time mingled with and crossing each other.
Elizabethan prose brings us face to face with a difficulty which has to be met by every student of literature. Does the word "literature" cover every kind of writing? Ought we to include in it writing that aims merely at instruction or is merely journey-work, as well as writing that has an artistic intention, or writing that, whether its author knew it or no, is artistic in its result?
He turned again to the later works, wrung forth as tasks for bread, the satires without moral grandeur, the politics without honest faith. He shuddered and sickened as he read. But alas! how different from that "mighty line." How all serenity and joy had fled from these later exercises of art degraded into journey-work!
He was put apprentice to a tailor with whom he served his time, and then came up to London to work journey-work, which he did in Monmouth Street, lodging at Mr. Hayes's and believed himself nearly related to his wife, who from the influence she always maintained over him, drew him to the commission of that horrid fact.
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