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Authors on Natural Religion
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Poets
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In relation to composers, he remarks,—‘musical composition demands extraordinary sensibility, an enthusiastic imagination, an instinctive taste, rather than deep thought. The same qualities differently directed make the poet. Is it, then, to be wondered at, that we should find the poets and the musical composers shorter lived than the followers of all other learned and scientific pursuits, whose sensibilities are not exercised by their studies, whose imaginations are not wearied by excessive application and enthusiasm?’ But Mr. Madden overlooks other causes quite as operative as those he enumerates.