Byron's Malach Hamoves (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Byron's Malach Hamoves

"You know what ills the author's life assail,
Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail."

The lives and reputations of most literary geniuses have been more or less haunted by a species of evil spirits and trouble-makers who, inspired by jealousy, acrimony, or an unworldly purity of mind, or some other incentive, are ever ready to cry down the characters of others, especially those above them. Indeed there was a time when certain anonymous scribblers earned their livelihood at this vocation, and persons who were capable of earning but a few shillings a week were given space in the magazines to rail at men of genius.

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