Excerpt from The Comforts of Human Life; Or Smiles and Laughter of Charles Chearful and Martin Merryfellow: In Seven Dialogues
It is the pleasing apologue of Trajano Boccalini; that, "to a famous Critic who presented all the faults of a celebrated poet to Apollo, - Apollo gave a sack of undressed wheat, - desired the Critic to separate the chaff from the wheat, - and when the good man had, with solemn and impatient industry, done so, bestowed on him, the chaff for his pains."
Nearly similar, I much suspect, is the fate of those who have peculiar quick-sightedness to discern the minute and evanescent miseries of human existence, that elude the grosser sense of the great body of mankind.
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