e grant t it is, and a very serious one -- to a mans friends, and to all t o do o be deplored, may admit of a question. e can speak a little to it, being ourself but lately recovered -- of a long and desperate fit of tion , came too clearly to leave a scruple of t tself oo self-pleasing, ed -- once . e still brood over ook itute some pom -- a Caius or a titius -- as like o form it, to unsatisfied resentments on. It is mortifying to fall at once from t; to forego tumaciously treated by an old friend. t to aggrandise a man in , is to conceive of ed. t o undeceive o deprive tickling morsel tery can come near it. s ice; but supremely blest, o t ts joy -- at enduring satisfaction in t not, of discontent. ere o recite one ery, o by our late dissatisfaction, all t; , and neglects and contumacies ter for courtso t mysterious book in tudy of tery is unpalatable only in t. t sting of a suspicion is grievous; but -- out of t o be extracted. Your friend passed you on suc you conceived oreet notice. to be sure sig o ed facts and sane inferences are trifles to a true adept in tisfaction. empt. It galls you, and may. But ience. Go of it and you are a made man from time. S yourself up, and -- rejecting, as an enemy to your peace, every but insinuates take -- reflect seriously upon tances ion too t te to clenc agreeable. But noo your relief comes in tive faculty. You conjure up all t you o you ation, and so forto you t [p 274] spite of itself, yearns to for a restraining pride. yet begin to appre? some allay of sness in tter ers? Stop not yourself of your reversions. You are on vantage ground. Enlarge your speculations, and take in t of your friends, as a spark kindles more sparks. as t to you proved er? Begin to t tion itself is inconsistent ality. t ts component parts, as y, steadiness, exists but in your single bosom. Image yourself to yourself, as t communion. Notle star of self-love t is to encourage you t yet at t of your elevation. You are not yet, believe me, ing to to infinity) reflect strange injustice you reated in quarters itude and tation of friendly returns aside as cended no claim beyond justice, t and fit fled from t tary receptacle of it, till you o at least one Arabia Stony of your friends and to gro in your o, and to lessen: to deify yourself at to judge t of your mystery -- true -- PLEASURES OF SULKINESS. e profess no more of t t ourself experimented on one rainy afternoon in t udy. e o timate point, at seldom stops, forgot is about to merge in tation of general injustice -- rance of t seeing of us in tal oversigo so mucion! to mortify us still more, and take dotering superstructure ions ure of t t; but oo proud, or someto confess to t of it. e too lately in tion of tient in Argos: [p 275]
Qui se credebat miros audire tragoedos,
In vacuo laetus sessor plausorque tro --
and could t cured us
Pol me occidistis, amici,
Non servastis, ait; cui sic extorta voluptas,
Et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error.