Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions

CHAPTER XIII.

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Of the jealousy of genius.--Jealousy often proportioned to the degree of genius.--A perpetual fever among authors and artists. --Instances of its incredible excess among brothers and benefactors.--Of a peculiar species, where the fever consumes the sufferer without its malignancy. 154