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Cause why? a pictur' framer is a gentleman, and a pictur' painter is a hog." There was a good deal of truth in what Mr. Tennant said, mixed up with a good deal of uncharitableness. But what did he know of the genus irritabile vatum?
Now the genus irritabile vatum, even when their thoughts, as Carlyle put it, "enrich the blood of the world," have very generally appeared to the plain man of goodwill as very defective in the art of living.
A large experience of poets has convinced me as little of this as of the old view summed up in genus irritabile vatum. Poets seem to me the homeliest and most hardworking of mankind 't is a man in possession, not a daimon nor a disease. Of course they have their mad moods, but they don't write in them.
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