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Pushkin , The Russian Poet.
PUSHKIN , THE RUSSIAN POET .
RUSSIA , the land of the knout , has its Siberia , the living tomb of st ; many of its honourable sons ; moreover , it is not the meridian of Freemasonry , although the Order is not altogether proscribed ; yet it has one redeeming quality , which it would be well were mighty England , with its colossal moral power , to imitate—even Russia , where serfdom is constitutional , can set one example to free a mightier power from a mental serfdom .
Pushkin , the Russian poet , whom when living all men , aye , and all women too , esteemed and loved ; whose sovereign shared in the respect and admiration bestowed universally on him , ancl who named him , " gentil homme de la chambre "—unfortunately was wounded in a duel , ancl died in consequence . A sketch of his life ancl works has been written by T . B . Shaw , B . A ., Cambridge ; these are pourtrayed with all the fervour of description and
sincerity , that stamps them with truthfulness ; but it is to the last hours of the Russian poet that the moralist ' s attention may be directed , when the generous words murmured in the grievous agony of dissolution" pardon and forget "—mark the power of nature over the heart of man , and teach him to look upward , with the hope which never deserts the true believer . But we had almost forgotten our theme—what English jioet enjoys
the sunshine of royalty , or what English poet on his death-bed would be surrounded by the good ancl the great , or at whose doors would the lamentations of a nation plead for his passport to heaven ?
College Musings.
COLLEGE MUSINGS .
THE STUDENT ' S DIARY , AND FARTHER RAMBLES TO ANCIENT MONA , OR ISLE OP MAN , IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE . ' Continued from page 105- ) ciur-TEii IV . IN the Midsummer recess of 18— I resolved to visit the Isle of Man , whose iron-stone-bound coast was visible across the Channel on a clear
offing from the window of my dormitory . The intervening time previous to my embarkation on this fresh expedition was employed in the manner recorded in the following diary , the incidents of which may furnish the southern reader with a sketch of life within twelve miles of the border . June loth . Awakened at three o ' clock this morning by my class-mate T whom I had promised the preceding evening to set—as the
, phrase is here—as far as Whitehaven . I coulcl not resist smiling , though "half awake and half asleep , " at his unprecedented early rising , but accounted for it by that ardent desire to reach " sweet home" which pulsates every schoolboy ' s breast . Being a rainy morning , I took one more turn upon my sleepy pillow until six o ' clock , when finding it still continued to pour o ' rain , " I endeavoured to prevail on the youth to
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Pushkin , The Russian Poet.
PUSHKIN , THE RUSSIAN POET .
RUSSIA , the land of the knout , has its Siberia , the living tomb of st ; many of its honourable sons ; moreover , it is not the meridian of Freemasonry , although the Order is not altogether proscribed ; yet it has one redeeming quality , which it would be well were mighty England , with its colossal moral power , to imitate—even Russia , where serfdom is constitutional , can set one example to free a mightier power from a mental serfdom .
Pushkin , the Russian poet , whom when living all men , aye , and all women too , esteemed and loved ; whose sovereign shared in the respect and admiration bestowed universally on him , ancl who named him , " gentil homme de la chambre "—unfortunately was wounded in a duel , ancl died in consequence . A sketch of his life ancl works has been written by T . B . Shaw , B . A ., Cambridge ; these are pourtrayed with all the fervour of description and
sincerity , that stamps them with truthfulness ; but it is to the last hours of the Russian poet that the moralist ' s attention may be directed , when the generous words murmured in the grievous agony of dissolution" pardon and forget "—mark the power of nature over the heart of man , and teach him to look upward , with the hope which never deserts the true believer . But we had almost forgotten our theme—what English jioet enjoys
the sunshine of royalty , or what English poet on his death-bed would be surrounded by the good ancl the great , or at whose doors would the lamentations of a nation plead for his passport to heaven ?
College Musings.
COLLEGE MUSINGS .
THE STUDENT ' S DIARY , AND FARTHER RAMBLES TO ANCIENT MONA , OR ISLE OP MAN , IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE . ' Continued from page 105- ) ciur-TEii IV . IN the Midsummer recess of 18— I resolved to visit the Isle of Man , whose iron-stone-bound coast was visible across the Channel on a clear
offing from the window of my dormitory . The intervening time previous to my embarkation on this fresh expedition was employed in the manner recorded in the following diary , the incidents of which may furnish the southern reader with a sketch of life within twelve miles of the border . June loth . Awakened at three o ' clock this morning by my class-mate T whom I had promised the preceding evening to set—as the
, phrase is here—as far as Whitehaven . I coulcl not resist smiling , though "half awake and half asleep , " at his unprecedented early rising , but accounted for it by that ardent desire to reach " sweet home" which pulsates every schoolboy ' s breast . Being a rainy morning , I took one more turn upon my sleepy pillow until six o ' clock , when finding it still continued to pour o ' rain , " I endeavoured to prevail on the youth to