Middlesbro' & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1868-01-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LBO. ruaga.—Last week We promised a short extract or two from the writings of G. IS. Mee, E-q., the gentleman fixed on to lecture next Friday evening, J inuary 31st., under the auspices of the Middlesbrough Young Men's Christian Association. The following extract is from one of his printed lectures, entitled, .` Want the source of Wealth ":—" Poetry and art afford a striking instance of how privation opens up and out the powers that find no sdope in pleasure and possession. When we possess what we delight in, the thing itself (while the delight lasts) is our sufficiency; but when it is debarred us, desire creates the thought of it for solace. Tbo gratification which desire finds in conjuring up its object, possess possession itself; for, whatever disappoints or palls in the object, may be left out in the image. Beauty may be represented with no deforming eircumstanoe. This is the genesis of art and poetry In all their forum Let a man who loves the sea be compelled to take up his abode in a crowded midland town for some years. such an one, pining for ocean scenery and freedom, will find no little relief in vividly picturing these to himself. He will recall the changeful moods of sky and water, his inventiveness mingling ever with his xseollectione, and- outstripping his experiences, anti' the creative soul within him emulates the grandeur and variety of nature. In fulness there is silence; but want is eloquent in word and deed. No one could write a love song in the presence of the beloved. Had H.onier been young and sighted, the soldier spirit of him would have urged him on to mix in the wars then waging, and this occupation would have satisfied him; he would have had no need to marshal opposing hosts, and enact the Fall of Troy in the chambers of imagery. For want of power to do opettal drw.4l*-149nartlitlhoul 130.Popledi ancrireheatlied them in the-Ifiad. So-With Shikeifikare llkd his mighty energies found adequate employment in cabinets, and courts, and cam" ' would then hive known no motive to treed those w in cancy, to Give the entire field of human life in and show it in his dramas. Blooomfield's , Was V' inspired by enjoyment of rural scenes, / a le for them; the Farmer's Boy was cow in Colman-street. Had Horace and C charm of fulness they often :feign they - have remained dumb. and singers They  mute . charm, and t eomstimes clinging illusions, left as with frank frank oenfessio, —that ringlor ever in the ing lean extract from one ot I "Humour and the•-eemW' referred, in severe terms, , sad President Lincoln mated 4111ek of Peach, and the fulsome wises dead, he says:-..." 'sash limit' in privileged murderess, I. then were creaturee to be Muscled and Slaveholders and Jturatioa.Plasters. belongs, like every weakling who wet the same set; the only differestos is is the whip is made. Another that has brought Pwich into • is, that by freeing his satire I it has allowed it to run to partieenvitipt. Bellingta _bee In hie sleneseistione. ossol of • hem; whisk monads with s Melt or seen:psi wields the bliscliesw 'abusive epithets. The e•-• genial humour has been ' realism of hard words, s in exaggerating some bodily  Attar having ' that Cobden hie at the  th4rlesohosot shot  th Oisa tm I luttbes  prowl he the uullsyto ie stuff of which the absolutism with absoluttii;s Of reservati,,n, of viokilL  -.wed razor sear_tely felt  or gig of • dm winos point Ins  not longing bustling found the Pursuits. 0.1.1.1E1 Jre _ fotu7 to limy it cfespetring tb-use nire sephisticstiontalter confession—. most musicsl, asostmelauelt 'Tor - world's tur.*.l—Tbe fe gw Mr Mee I lectures entitled, Press."  pimminumpiipimp , 1 ~., , , , i % i ) 0 t 1 ...it , J 10. .• ....... , 1 i ...,, : i t, .....,,.............• avan -4 SIIP k 44.4. 11111146. ( , . , .. -... 1., 1 • '' .! 1--'' 1 1 1 , . Ai e I.* ( 3 I , 'T # •-' . Je , . i r 0 .