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Yorick And Eliza.
Look now on that naked rock , where a forlorn shepherd searches in vain to pasture the only lamb the storm has left him . That is the cold , flinty heart , petrified by insensibility , which hears not the cry , nor heeds the tears of craving innocence . Let your eyes wander through the valley before you , rich in varied harvests , and glowing with all the splendour of cultivation . That , Elizais the generous mind whose joy is the communication of good
, , and would not suffer , if such a power could be given to human benevolence , a weeping eye , or an aching heart in the world . Turn , now , I beseech you , towards the desert thatforms the dreary landscape behind you , and behold a forlorn , solitary being who is wandering over it . The flints have wounded his feet , his staff scarce supports his steps , and the cutting blast pierces his tattered raiment .
He sometimes throws his meek eye to the gates of heaven , and , as if he received comfort from thence , he proceeds on his way . At this moment , a female form meets the weary traveller , turns him aside from the inhospitable path , and conducts him to a sunny hillock , where verdure springs , where the fountains murmur , and the myrtle grows . She covers him with her mantle , and washes his
wounds with her tears;—she opens her wallet , and , with a celestial beneficence , spreads a table for him in the desert . Am not I that mournful traveller ? and is it not Eliza who has guided my woe-worn steps to the sunny hillock , where I now place my weary spirits ? This is a strange rhapsody—is it not ? But some how or oiher , I love rhapsodies—for the best possible reason—because , with all their irregularities , their struts , and wild emotions , they come from the heart .
On The Impassibility Of Insects.
ON THE IMPASSIBILITY OF INSECTS .
FKOM M . LE V ^ ilLLANT . TDESIDES the experiments I prosecuted as to the power , more or - " - ' less extensive , that certain animals have of subsisting without food , I engaged in others as to the impassibility , so to express myself of certain kinds of insects , an impassibility by means of which beings , the term of whose existence is six months , or even less ,
appear to have received from nature the gift of being indestructible through the medium of those sensations commonly called painful ; which are ordinarily destructive of every thing that has life . I took a large red-winged locust of the Cape , opened its belly , and , pulling out its intestines , filled the cavity with cotton ; and in that state 1 fixed it to the bottom of a box with a pin , which passed through its thorax . It remained there for five months ; and at the end of this period it still moved both its legs and its antennae . I transfixed other locusts in the same manner , without , however .
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Yorick And Eliza.
Look now on that naked rock , where a forlorn shepherd searches in vain to pasture the only lamb the storm has left him . That is the cold , flinty heart , petrified by insensibility , which hears not the cry , nor heeds the tears of craving innocence . Let your eyes wander through the valley before you , rich in varied harvests , and glowing with all the splendour of cultivation . That , Elizais the generous mind whose joy is the communication of good
, , and would not suffer , if such a power could be given to human benevolence , a weeping eye , or an aching heart in the world . Turn , now , I beseech you , towards the desert thatforms the dreary landscape behind you , and behold a forlorn , solitary being who is wandering over it . The flints have wounded his feet , his staff scarce supports his steps , and the cutting blast pierces his tattered raiment .
He sometimes throws his meek eye to the gates of heaven , and , as if he received comfort from thence , he proceeds on his way . At this moment , a female form meets the weary traveller , turns him aside from the inhospitable path , and conducts him to a sunny hillock , where verdure springs , where the fountains murmur , and the myrtle grows . She covers him with her mantle , and washes his
wounds with her tears;—she opens her wallet , and , with a celestial beneficence , spreads a table for him in the desert . Am not I that mournful traveller ? and is it not Eliza who has guided my woe-worn steps to the sunny hillock , where I now place my weary spirits ? This is a strange rhapsody—is it not ? But some how or oiher , I love rhapsodies—for the best possible reason—because , with all their irregularities , their struts , and wild emotions , they come from the heart .
On The Impassibility Of Insects.
ON THE IMPASSIBILITY OF INSECTS .
FKOM M . LE V ^ ilLLANT . TDESIDES the experiments I prosecuted as to the power , more or - " - ' less extensive , that certain animals have of subsisting without food , I engaged in others as to the impassibility , so to express myself of certain kinds of insects , an impassibility by means of which beings , the term of whose existence is six months , or even less ,
appear to have received from nature the gift of being indestructible through the medium of those sensations commonly called painful ; which are ordinarily destructive of every thing that has life . I took a large red-winged locust of the Cape , opened its belly , and , pulling out its intestines , filled the cavity with cotton ; and in that state 1 fixed it to the bottom of a box with a pin , which passed through its thorax . It remained there for five months ; and at the end of this period it still moved both its legs and its antennae . I transfixed other locusts in the same manner , without , however .