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Yorick And Eliza.
YORICK AND ELIZA .
THE variety of surface g ives a charm to the landscape , the change of seasons adds beauty to the year . The dress that covers Eliza would , without its folds , despoil the perfect symmetry of her form . The stiff , unruffled , encircling robe may do well enough for a Queen of Sheba in a Dutch puppet show , but it will not become Eliza . Even her angelic face , were it always gay with smiles , though they are the smiles of a cherubwould cease to lease .
, p The same variety , my dear girl , is necessary to mind ,. character , and existence : what is called evil is as essential to the general system of life as good . Sorrow is necessary to our joy , and misery to our happiness . The hemlock yields medicine , and he is a poor chemist who cannot extract it . The science of happiness is no secret;—for that which is intended for the good of allis withheld from none : —we are
, involved in a grand , incomprehensible , but perfect system of things , of which our very sufferings are not only a necessary , but a beautiful part . The laurel is not worth the wearing , if it is not obtained by contest : an unopposed victory gives but a tinsel honour . Golive beneath the genial clime where winter freezes you not with
, cold , and summer melts you not with heat;—where the earth gives its harvest without culture , and nature hangs her garlands on every thicket . Attune your lyre beside the stream , which the rude wind never
ruffles—crown your brow with the myrtles of your own bowers , while evening sheds spontaneous roses on your couch , and let unarmed Cupids draw the purple curtains of night around you . I envy not your calm , unvaried , tiresome joys : —give me hopes and fears , the bitter anxious pang , the starting tear , and the throbbing heart . It is thus , my Eliza , that I pour forth my rhapsodies before you—The animate and inanimate world are types of each other .
How sweet is the landscape before , us!—the distant mountains mingle with the azure , and all between is the finest pencilling of nature . The verdant lawn , the tufted grove , the dusky tower , the hanging wood , the winding stream , and trembling waterfall , compose the lovely picture before you . The air is perfumed , and gives the ' senses new power to enjoy the inanimate scene . —Bend thenElizafor a
, , moment over the crystal fountain , and , in the reflection of your own form , behold the loveliest picture of animated nature . But the black clouds gather together—the forest bencls berieath the blast—the rain descends—and nature ' s dusky mantle o ' erspreads the prospect . This scene too has its beauties , this also has its resemblance in intellectual nature .
Behojd that faithful youth , clasping the marble urn of her whose memory fills his heart . Think you , that the vigils of his mourning love . have no pleasure in them ? Eliza ! those fond , faithful duties are worth a world of joys , and turn his tears to rapture ! VOL . VIII , N
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Yorick And Eliza.
YORICK AND ELIZA .
THE variety of surface g ives a charm to the landscape , the change of seasons adds beauty to the year . The dress that covers Eliza would , without its folds , despoil the perfect symmetry of her form . The stiff , unruffled , encircling robe may do well enough for a Queen of Sheba in a Dutch puppet show , but it will not become Eliza . Even her angelic face , were it always gay with smiles , though they are the smiles of a cherubwould cease to lease .
, p The same variety , my dear girl , is necessary to mind ,. character , and existence : what is called evil is as essential to the general system of life as good . Sorrow is necessary to our joy , and misery to our happiness . The hemlock yields medicine , and he is a poor chemist who cannot extract it . The science of happiness is no secret;—for that which is intended for the good of allis withheld from none : —we are
, involved in a grand , incomprehensible , but perfect system of things , of which our very sufferings are not only a necessary , but a beautiful part . The laurel is not worth the wearing , if it is not obtained by contest : an unopposed victory gives but a tinsel honour . Golive beneath the genial clime where winter freezes you not with
, cold , and summer melts you not with heat;—where the earth gives its harvest without culture , and nature hangs her garlands on every thicket . Attune your lyre beside the stream , which the rude wind never
ruffles—crown your brow with the myrtles of your own bowers , while evening sheds spontaneous roses on your couch , and let unarmed Cupids draw the purple curtains of night around you . I envy not your calm , unvaried , tiresome joys : —give me hopes and fears , the bitter anxious pang , the starting tear , and the throbbing heart . It is thus , my Eliza , that I pour forth my rhapsodies before you—The animate and inanimate world are types of each other .
How sweet is the landscape before , us!—the distant mountains mingle with the azure , and all between is the finest pencilling of nature . The verdant lawn , the tufted grove , the dusky tower , the hanging wood , the winding stream , and trembling waterfall , compose the lovely picture before you . The air is perfumed , and gives the ' senses new power to enjoy the inanimate scene . —Bend thenElizafor a
, , moment over the crystal fountain , and , in the reflection of your own form , behold the loveliest picture of animated nature . But the black clouds gather together—the forest bencls berieath the blast—the rain descends—and nature ' s dusky mantle o ' erspreads the prospect . This scene too has its beauties , this also has its resemblance in intellectual nature .
Behojd that faithful youth , clasping the marble urn of her whose memory fills his heart . Think you , that the vigils of his mourning love . have no pleasure in them ? Eliza ! those fond , faithful duties are worth a world of joys , and turn his tears to rapture ! VOL . VIII , N