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| 454,53,, To seek the general mart of Christendom;," From Waller's myrtle shades retreating,",0,297.0 | |
| 455,243,243.0,"As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the | |
| love of novelty, and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility. Let him who | |
| has work to do recollect that the object of clothing is, first, to retain the vital heat, and secondly, in | |
| this state of society, to cover nakedness, and he may judge how much of any necessary or important work may be | |
| accomplished without adding to his wardrobe. Kings and queens who wear a suit but once, though made by some | |
| tailor or dressmaker to their majesties, cannot know the comfort of wearing a suit that fits. They are no | |
| better than wooden horses to hang the clean clothes on. Every day our garments become more assimilated to | |
| ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer’s character, until we hesitate to lay them aside, without such | |
| delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies. No man ever stood the lower in my | |
| estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have | |
| fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.","""All visible things are emblems; what thou seest is not there on its own account; strictly taken, is not there | |
| at all: Matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth. Hence Clothes, as | |
| despicable as we think them, are so unspeakably significant. Clothes, from the King's mantle downwards, are | |
| emblematic, not of want only, but of a manifold cunning Victory over Want. On the other hand, all Emblematic | |
| things are properly Clothes, thought-woven or hand-woven: must not the Imagination weave Garments, visible | |
| Bodies, wherein the else invisible creations and inspirations of our Reason are, like Spirits, revealed, and | |
| first become all-powerful; the rather if, as we often see, the Hand too aid her, and (by wool Clothes or | |
| otherwise) reveal such even to the outward eye? | |
| ""Men are properly said to be clothed with Authority, clothed with Beauty, with Curses, and the like. Nay, if | |
| you consider it, what is Man himself, and his whole terrestrial Life, but an Emblem; a Clothing or visible | |
| Garment for that divine ME of his, cast hither, like a light-particle, down from Heaven? Thus is he said also | |
| to be clothed with a Body.",3, | |
| 456,54,54.0,"The two Platonic particles, after roaming in quest of each other, from the time of Saturn and Ops till now;they came together before Mrs. Tartan’s own eyes; and whatmore could Mrs. Tartan do toward making them forever oneand indivisible?","Every one of us is thus the half of what may be properly termed a man, and like a pselta cut in two, is the imperfect portion of an entire whole, perpetually necessitated to seek the half belonging to him.",3, | |
| 457,17,,By virtue's holiest Powers attended.," From many a cloud that dropp'd ethereal dew, ",1, | |
| 458,50,50.0,"Still, are there things in the visible world, over which evershifting Nature hath not so unbounded a sway. The grass is an- nually changed; but the limbs of the oak, for a long term of years, defy that annual decree. And if in America the vast mass of families be as the blades of grass, yet some few there are that stand as the oak; which, instead of decaying, annually puts forth new branches; whereby Time, instead of subtracting is madeto capitulate into a multiple virtue.","Generations passe while some trees stand, and old Families last not three Oakes.",4, | |
| 459,35,,"Now let us, as we float along,"," Thy life, shall mourn thy early doom;",2, | |
| 460,174,174.0,"and the hermit-sun, hutted in an Adullum cave, well towards the south, according to his season, did little else | |
| but, by indirect reflection of narrow rays shot down a Simplon pass among the clouds, just steadily paint | |
| one small, round, strawberry mole upon the wan cheek of northwestern hills.","David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's | |
| house heard it, they went down thither to him. And every one that was in distress, and every one that was | |
| in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them ",4, | |
| 461,19,,"Now let us, as we float along,","The genial meads, assign'd to bless",2, | |
| 462,189,189.0,"Nearly a score of the negroes were killed. Exclusive of those by the balls, many were mangled; their | |
| wounds —-mostly inflicted by the long-edged sealing-spears, resembling those shaven ones of the English at | |
| Preston Pans, made by the poled scythes of the Highlanders. On the other side, none were killed, though | |
| several were wounded; some severely, including the mate. The surviving negroes were temporarily secured, | |
| and the ship, towed back into the harbor at midnight, once more lay anchored.","We have not rightly ascertained what number of slaves v/ere killed; but we believe seven, and a great number | |
| wounded. Our people brought the ship in, and came to nearly where she first anchored, at about two o'clock | |
| in the morning of the 21st.",5, | |
| 463,76,,May know that Poet's sorrows more. ," No sedge-crown'd sister now attend,",2, | |
| 464,37,,"Now let us, as we float along,",Now waft me from the green hill's side,2, | |
| 465,187,187.0,"Both the black’s hands were held, as, glancing up towards the San Dominick, Captain Delano, now with scales | |
| dropped from his eyes, saw the negroes, not in misrule, not in tumult, not as if frantically concerned for | |
| Don Benito, but with mask torn away, flourishing hatchets and knives, in ferocious piratical revolt. Like | |
| delirious black dervishes, the six Ashantees danced on the poop. Prevented by their foes from springing | |
| into the water, the Spanish boys were hurrying up to the topmost spars, while such of the few Spanish sailors, | |
| not already in the sea, less alert, were descried, helplessly mixed in, on deck, with the blacks. | |
| Meantime Captain Delano hailed his own vessel, ordering the ports up, and the guns run out. But by this time | |
| the cable of the San Dominick had been cut; and the fag-end, in lashing out, whipped away the canvas shroud | |
| about the beak, suddenly revealing, as the bleached hull swung round towards the open ocean, death for the | |
| figure-head, in a human skeleton; chalky comment on the chalked words below, “Follow your leader.”","The Spaniards, who remained on board, hurried up the rigging, as high aloft as they could possibly get, and | |
| called out repeatedly for help —-that they should be murdered by the slaves. Our captain came immediately on | |
| board, and brought the Spanish captain and the men who were picked up in the water; but before the boat arrived, | |
| we observed that the slaves had cut the Spanish ship adrift. On learning this, our captain hailed, and ordered | |
| the ports to be got up, and the guns cleared; but unfortunately, we could not bring but one of our guns to | |
| bear on the ship. We fired five or six shot with it, but could not bring her to. We soon observed her making | |
| sail, and standing directly out of the bay.",5, | |
| 466,169,169.0," | |
| Very majestical lounge, indeed. So much so, that here, as with the reclining majesty of Denmark in his orchard, | |
| a sly ear-ache invaded me.","What art thou that usurp’st this time of night, | |
| Together with that fair and warlike form | |
| In which the majesty of buried Denmark | |
| Did sometimes march? By heaven, I charge thee, | |
| speak.",4, | |
| 467,58,58.0,"looking in each other’s eyes, lovers see the ultimate secret of the worlds; | |
| and with thrills eternally untranslatable, feel that Love is god of all. | |
| Man or woman who has never loved, nor once looked deep down into their own lover’s eyes, | |
| they know not the sweetest and the loftiest religion of this earth. ","His power and sovereignty is expressed by | |
| the poets, in that he is held to be a god, and a great commanding god, | |
| above Jupiter himself; Magnus Daemon, as Plato calls him, the | |
| strongest and merriest of all the gods according to Alcinous and | |
| Atihenaeus. Amor virorum rex, amor rex et deum, as Euripides, the | |
| god of gods and governor of men",3, | |
| 468,48,48.0,"Among those ruins is a crumbling, uncompleted shaft, and some leagues off, ages ago left in the quarry, is the crumbling corresponding capital, also incomplete.These Time seized and spoiled; these Time crushed in the egg; and the proud stone that should have stood among the clouds. Time left abased beneath the soil. Oh, what quenchless feud is this, that Time hath with the sons of Men!","There, now, the mossy column-stone, | |
| Indented by time’s unrelaxing grasp, | |
| Which once appeared to brave | |
| All, save its country’s ruin, - | |
| There the wide forest scene, | |
| Rude in the uncultivated loveliness | |
| Of gardens long run wild, - | |
| Seems, to the unwilling sojourner whose steps | |
| Chance in that desert has delayed, | |
| Thus to have stood since earth was what it is.",3, | |
| 469,78,, Nor leaves her Speech one word to aid the sigh," As once,if, not with light regard,",0,761.0 | |
| 470,235,235.0,"What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation | |
| even in the West Indian provinces of the fancy and imagination, -— what Wilberforce is there to bring that | |
| about?","The beautiful fables of the Greeks, being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy, are | |
| universal verities.",4, | |
| 471,252,252.0,"In the savage state every family owns a shelter as good as the best, and sufficient for its coarser and simpler wants; | |
| but I think that I speak within bounds when I say that, though the birds of the air have their nests, and the | |
| foxes their holes, and the savages their wigwams, in modern civilized society not more than one half the | |
| families own a shelter. ","And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath | |
| not where to lay his head.",5, | |
| 472,21,21.0,"Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought","For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.",4, | |
| 473,47,, To their belovèd cells:or shall we say," I read aright that gifted bard,",0,382.0 | |
| 474,33,,The dripping of the oar suspended!,"O! vales and wild woods, shall he say",2, | |
| 475,160,160.0,"In summer, too, Canute-like, sitting here, one is often reminded of the sea. For not only do long ground-swells | |
| roll the slanting grain, and little wavelets of the grass ripple over upon the low piazza, as their beach, | |
| and the blown down of dandelions is wafted like the spray, and the purple of the mountains is just | |
| the purple of the billows, and a still August noon broods upon the deep meadows, as a calm upon the Line; | |
| but the vastness and the lonesomeness are so oceanic, and the silence and the sameness, too, that | |
| the first peep of a strange house, rising beyond the trees, is for all the world like spying, | |
| on the Barbary coast, an unknown sail.","What with the river, the battle-field, the orchard, and the garden, the reader begins to despair of finding | |
| his way back into the Old Manse. But, in agreeable weather, it is the truest hospitality to keep him out of | |
| doors. I never grew quite acquainted with my habitation till a long spell of sulky rain had confined me | |
| beneath its roof. There could not be a more sombre aspect of external nature than as then seen from | |
| the windows of my study. The great willow-tree had caught and retained among its leaves a whole cataract | |
| of water, to be shaken down at intervals by the frequent gusts of wind. All day long, and for a week together, | |
| the rain was drip-drip-dripping and splash-splash-splashing from the eaves and bubbling and foaming into | |
| the tubs beneath the spouts. The old, unpainted shingles of the house and outbuildings were black with | |
| moisture; and the mosses of ancient growth upon the walls looked green and fresh, as if they were the | |
| newest things and afterthought of Time. The usually mirrored surface of the river was blurred by an | |
| infinity of raindrops; the whole landscape had a completely water-soaked appearance, conveying the | |
| impression that the earth was wet through like a sponge; while the summit of a wooded hill, about | |
| a mile distant, was enveloped in a dense mist, where the demon of the tempest seemed to have his | |
| abiding-place and to be plotting still direr inclemencies. ",3, | |
| 476,10,, To scatter seeds of life on barbarous shores;, Breathed her magic notes aloud:,0,114.0 | |
| 477,17,,"Now let us, as we float along,", And Joy desert the blooming year.,2, | |
| 478,191,191.0,"To Captain Delano’s surprise, the stranger, viewed through the glass, showed no colors; though to do so upon | |
| entering a haven, however uninhabited in its shores, where but a single other ship might be lying, was the | |
| custom among peaceful seamen of all nations.","At sunrise, or about that time, the officer who commanded the deck, came down to me while I was in my cot, | |
| with information that a sail was just opening round the south point, or head of the island. I immediately rose, | |
| went on deck, and observed that she was too near the land, on account of a reef that lay off the head; and at | |
| the same time remarked to my people, that she must be a stranger, and I did not well understand what she was | |
| about. Some of them observed that they did not know who she was, or what she was doing; but that they were | |
| accustomed to see vessels shew their colours, when coming into a port. I ordered the whale boat to be hoisted | |
| out and manned, which was accordingly done. Presuming the vessel was from sea, and had been many days out, | |
| without perhaps fresh provisions, we put the fish which had been caught the night before into the boat, to be presented if necessary.",5, | |
| 479,39,,And pray that never child of song," And Truth, in sunny vest array'd, ",1, | |
| 480,27,, To seek the general mart of Christendom;," The whiles, the vaulted shrine around,",0,261.0 | |
| 481,67,,By virtue's holiest Powers attended.," Yon tented sky, this laughing earth,",1, | |
| 482,77,, To lead in memorable triumph home, Him whose school above the rest,0,535.0 | |
| 483,257,257.0,"if he resigned himself to their tender mercies, he would soon be completely emasculated.",A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.,5, | |
| 484,42,, To seek the general mart of Christendom;," In braided dance, their murmurs join'd,",0,276.0 | |
| 485,149,149.0,"He touched her heart —-“Dead! —-Girl! wife or sister, saint or fiend!” | |
| —-seizing Isabel in his grasp —-“in thy breasts, life for infants lodgeth not but death-milk for thee and me! | |
| -—The drug!” and tearing her bosom loose, he seized the secret vial nestling there. ","Come to my woman’s breasts | |
| And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers, | |
| Wherever in your sightless substances | |
| You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night, | |
| And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, | |
| That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, | |
| Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark | |
| To cry “Hold, hold!” ",4, | |
| 486,130,130.0,"It is burnt, but not consumed; it is gone, but not lost. Through stove, pipe, and flue, | |
| it hath mounted in flame, and gone as a scroll to heaven!","Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, | |
| and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. | |
| And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: | |
| and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, | |
| and as a falling fig from the fig tree.",4, | |
| 487,151,151.0,"Thence took a ’buss with Adler down Newgate Street thro’ Holborn & Oxford Street to Paddington & Edgeware Road | |
| to St John’s Wood & so round Regent’s Park to Primrose Hill. The view was curious. Towards Hampstead | |
| the open country looked green, & the air was pretty clear; but cityward it was like a view of hell | |
| from Abraham’s bosom. Clouds of smoke, as tho’ you looked down from Mt Washington in a mist. (W15: 18)","There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: | |
| And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, | |
| And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: | |
| moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. | |
| And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: | |
| the rich man also died, and was buried; | |
| And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. | |
| And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip | |
| of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. | |
| But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, | |
| and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. ",5, | |
| 488,13,,May know that Poet's sorrows more. ," And holy Genii guard the rock,",1, | |
| 489,99,99.0,"The thieves’-quarters, and all the brothels, Lock-and Sin hospitals for incurables, and infirmaries | |
| and infernoes of hell seemed to have made one combined sortie, and poured out upon earth | |
| through the vile vomitory of some unmentionable cellar.","Even so late as Henry the Eighth's time there were no less than six lazar houses | |
| in the immediate vicinity of London, viz. at Knightsbridge, Hammersmith, Highgate, Kingsland, | |
| the Lock outside St George's gate, and at Mile End.",2, | |
| 490,26,,"Now let us, as we float along,", Him whose school above the rest,1, | |
| 491,87,87.0,"Strike at one end the longest conceivable row of billiard balls in close contact, | |
| and the furthermost ball will start forth, while all the rest stand still; | |
| and yet that last ball was not struck at all.","The stroke that came transmitted through a whole galaxy of elastic balls, | |
| was it less a stroke than if the last ball only had been struck, and sent flying? ",4, | |
| 492,32,,"How calm! how still! the only sound,",And see the fairy valleys fade;,2, | |
| 493,64,, Nor leaves her Speech one word to aid the sigh, Who feed on heaven's ambrosial flowers. ,0,810.0 | |
| 494,214,214.0,"I have forgotten whether the song of the cricket be not as early a token of autumn’s approach as any other, | |
| —that song which may be called an audible stillness; for though very loud and heard afar, yet the mind does | |
| not take note of it as a sound, so completely is its individual existence merged among the accompanying | |
| characteristics of the season. Alas for the pleasant summertime! In August the grass is still verdant on the | |
| hills and in the valleys; the foliage of the trees is as dense as ever and as green; the flowers gleam forth | |
| in richer abundance along the margin of the river and by the stone walls and deep among the woods; the days, | |
| too, are as fervid now as they were a month ago; and yet in every breath of wind and in every beam of sunshine | |
| we hear the whispered farewell and behold the parting smile of a dear friend. There is a coolness amid all the | |
| heat, a mildness in the blazing noon. Not a breeze can stir but it thrills us with the breath of autumn. A | |
| pensive glory is seen in the far, golden gleams, among the shadows of the trees. The flowers—even the brightest | |
| of them, and they are the most gorgeous of the year—have this gentle sadness wedded to their pomp, and typify | |
| the character of the delicious time each within itself. The brilliant cardinal-flower has never seemed gay to | |
| me. ","The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year. I please myself | |
| with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences | |
| of summer. To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, | |
| every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again. The heavens change | |
| every moment, and reflect their glory or gloom on the plains beneath. The state of the crop in the surrounding | |
| farms alters the expression of the earth from week to week. The succession of native plants in the pastures | |
| and roadsides, which makes the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours, will make even the divisions | |
| of the day sensible to a keen observer. The tribes of birds and insects, like the plants punctual to their | |
| time, follow each other, and the year has room for all. By water-courses, the variety is greater. In July, | |
| the blue pontederia or pickerel-weed blooms in large beds in the shallow parts of our pleasant river, and | |
| swarms with yellow butterflies in continual motion. Art cannot rival this pomp of purple and gold. Indeed the | |
| river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. ",3, | |
| 495,40,,The evening darkness gathers round,"And, oft as ease and health retire",2, | |
| 496,121,121.0,"Feed all things with food convenient for them, —-that is, if the food be procurable. | |
| The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. | |
| But the food of thy body is champagne and oysters; | |
| feed it then on champagne and oysters; and so shall it merit a | |
| joyful resurrection, if there is any to be.",What the belly asketh is not all good for the ghost. What the soul loveth is not all food for the body.,3, | |
| 497,79,,"Now let us, as we float along,", Shall melt the musing Briton's eyes;,2, | |
| 498,20,20.0,the faith and the love and the hope,"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.",5, | |
| 499,188,188.0,"The fire was mostly directed towards the stern, since there, chiefly, the negroes, at present, were clustering. | |
| But to kill or maim the negroes was not the object. To take them, with the ship, was the object. To do it, | |
| the ship must be boarded; which could not be done by boats while she was sailing so fast. | |
| A thought now struck the mate. Observing the Spanish boys still aloft, high as they could get, he called to | |
| them to descend to the yards, and cut adrift the sails. It was done. About this time, owing to causes | |
| hereafter to be shown, two Spaniards, in the dress of sailors, and conspicuously showing themselves, were | |
| killed; not by volleys, but by deliberate marksman’s shots; while, as it afterwards appeared, by one of the | |
| general discharges, Atufal, the black, and the Spaniard at the helm likewise were killed. What now, with the | |
| loss of the sails, and loss of leaders, the ship became unmanageable to the negroes.","We dispatched two boats well manned, and well armed after her, who, after much trouble, boarded the ship and | |
| retook her. But unfortunately in the business, Mr. Rufus Low, our chief officer, who commanded the party, was | |
| desperately wounded in the breast, by being stabbed with a pike, by one of the slaves. We likewise had one man badly wounded and two | |
| or three slightly. To continue the misfortune, the chief officer of the Spanish ship, who was compelled by the slaves to steer her out | |
| of the bay, received two very bad wounds, one in the side and one through the thigh, both from musket balls. | |
| One Spaniard, a gentleman passenger on board, was likewise killed by a musket ball. We have not rightly | |
| ascertained what number of slaves v/ere killed; but we believe seven, and a great number wounded.",5, | |
| 500,71,71.0,"because still more mysterious attractions; and to fling, as it were, | |
| fresh fennel and rosemary around the revered memory of the father.","There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. | |
| . . . | |
| There’s fennel for you, and columbines.",4, | |
| 501,106,106.0,"For Pierre is a warrior too; Life his campaign, and three fierce allies, Woe and Scorn and Want, his foes. | |
| The wide world is banded against him; for lo you! he holds up the standard of Right, and swears | |
| by the Eternal and True! But ah, Pierre, Pierre, when thou goest to that bed, how humbling the thought, | |
| that thy most extended length measures not the proud six feet four of thy grand John of Gaunt sire! The stature of the warrior is cut down | |
| to the dwindled glory of the fight. For more glorious in real tented field to strike down your valiant foe, than in the conflicts of a noble soul with a dastardly world to chase a vile enemy who | |
| ne’er will show front.","Here, perched up in his high Wahngasse watch-tower, and often, in solitude, outwatching the Bear, | |
| it was that the indomitable Inquirer fought all his battles with Dulness and Darkness; | |
| here, in all probability, that he wrote this surprising Volume on Clothes.",3, | |
| 502,4,, Nor leaves her Speech one word to aid the sigh," And she, from out the veiling cloud,",0,797.0 | |
| 503,2,,And pray that never child of song," The whiles, the vaulted shrine around,",1, | |