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Often Pegasus does his work with panting sides and trembling knees , and not seldom gets a cut of the whip from his driver . Do not let us , however , be too prodigal of our pity upon Pegasus . There is no reason why this animal should be exempt from labor , or illness , or decay , any more than any of the other creatures of God 's world . If he gets the whip , Pegasus very often deserves it , and I for one am quite ready to protest with my friend , George Warrington , against the doctrine which some poetical sympathizers are inclined to put forward , viz. , that men of letters , and what is called genius , are to be exempt from the prose duties of this daily , bread-wanting , tax-paying life , and are not to be made to work and pay like their neighbors . Well , then , the `` Pall Mall Gazette '' being duly established , and Arthur Pendennis 's merits recognized as a flippant , witty , and amusing critic , he worked away hard every week , preparing reviews of such works as came into his department , and writing his reviews with flippancy certainly , but with honesty , and to the best of his power . It might be that a historian of three-score , who had spent a quarter of a century in composing a work of which our young gentleman disposed in the course of a couple of days ' reading at the British Museum , was not altogether fairly treated by such a facile critic ; or that a poet , who had been elaborating sublime sonnets and odes until he thought them fit for the public and for fame , was annoyed by two or three dozen pert lines in Mr. Pen 's review , in which the poet 's claims were settled by the critic , as if the latter were my lord on the bench , and the author a miserable little suitor trembling before him . The actors at the theaters complained of him woefully , too , and very likely he was too hard upon them .