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Title: Benjamin Robert Haydon : correspondence and table-talk ; with a memoir by his son Frederic Wordsworth Haydon
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846 Haydon, Frederic Wordsworth, 1827-1886
Subjects: Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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pupils, both young men whom he hadstarted in life, to put their names to bills of some 250?. and350/. respectively, for an extension of time. Considering thathe had almost fed and clothed these men during their pupil-age, had, I find, paid the rent for one, instructed them bothfor nothing, and set them both on their professional road, Imust confess I am not so much struck at the enormity of theoffence. I had very much rather Haydon had not done whathe did, but, having done it, I do not think he could have doneit under circumstances so favourable to palliation. It was areprehensible act, and Haydon regretted it all his life, because,by the time he was imprisoned, he had an impaid balance stillon each bill, which these lads had to pay, and they could illafford it. But most men, at some time or other of theirlives, imagine themselves to form an exception to the ordinaryrules of prudence and morality. It is this that leads men todo wrong with such excellent intentions. Such, however, was
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First Sketches for Figures in Lazarus, 1820-23. B. R. HAYDON. l?l the struggle in which he now found himself engaged. Theruin he had long foreseen was closing in more rapidly uponhim than he expected, and unless some extraordinary pieceof good fortune favoured him he would be crushed. But,crushed or not, he must finish the * Lazarus. He workedwith superhuman energy; he exerted himself beyond the limitsof ordinary human endurance — rising early to work at hispicture till office hours came, then rushing hither and thitherto pacify this creditor, quiet the fears of that, remove thejealousy and ill will of a third, borrowing money of a fourthand fifth, to keep his engagements with the attorney of asixth; then hastening home to paint in a wild tremor; tobe arrested while painting; to hasten off into the City forrelease; to fly back again to his picture, and so on from dayto day. For here there were— The thousand ills that rise when money fails,Debts, threats, and duns, bills, bailiffs,

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