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The Pillow.
mind is in the same situation as at the time of writing , but sees itself much better , and can judge . If a man has lived in harmony , peace , and good order , he is pleased at the reflection ; whatever has been dictated by a momentary impulse appears wretched and puerile ; but if he is so fortunate to have sacrificed revengethe writing is consolatory and leasing ; one
, p readily forgives himself the errors he is only to blush for before the Muses . The author who has been good at one time will be so again ; he does not feel the uneasiness that awaits him whose work , stuffed with every- degree of malice , has torn his adversary in pieces with relentless ridicule .
The satirist and the misanthrope will never read over their most approved and applauded works with the same pleasure as the virtuousman will taste in reviving works which criticism may doubtless reprehend , but which sound morality will not be ashamed to own . The clock strikes twelve ' . Awful hour I Night , depriving me of the sight of the earth , seems to put me iu possession of the heavens . Those millions of suns and worlds which- the Eternal has strewed
with such profusion , give man the opportunity of observing the immutable laws by which they are -governed . It is to night that the Cassinisand the Galileos are indebted for their greatest discoveries . And thy vi gilant eye , indefatigable Herschel , meets the comet which would pass unperceived by a heedless world . AU privileged beingswho cultivate their mindsi watch more or
, less ; the silence and tranquillity of the night are favourable to their ' meditations , and supply the place of the voluntary darkness to which the Greek savages formerly condemned themselves for the discovery of truth .
Night is the common benefactress- of every thing that breathes ; it is during her reign that the greatest share of happiness is spread over the earth ; violent passions are lulled , the human race are relieved from labour ; the prisoner , loaded with the fetters of despotism , flits far from his dungeon , and accuses his tyrant before assembled worlds . / The inequality amongst men has , in a manner , ceased ; voluptuousness , with its charms , enraptures the young married pair , and repairs the devastations of " war . LE M < „
Bon Mot.
BON MOT .
A GENTLEMAN who resides in St . James ' s-street , happening to spend the evening in the city among some friends , was requested , in his turn , to favour the company with a song ; he politely declined singing , alleging that he-was so indifferent a performer in- that way , that- any attempt of his would rather disgust than entertain . One of the company , however , observed that he had a very good
voice , and , that he had frequently had the pleasure of hearing him sing . " That may be , " resumed the other ( wishing to get excused ) , but as I am not a freeman , I have no voice in the city , "
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The Pillow.
mind is in the same situation as at the time of writing , but sees itself much better , and can judge . If a man has lived in harmony , peace , and good order , he is pleased at the reflection ; whatever has been dictated by a momentary impulse appears wretched and puerile ; but if he is so fortunate to have sacrificed revengethe writing is consolatory and leasing ; one
, p readily forgives himself the errors he is only to blush for before the Muses . The author who has been good at one time will be so again ; he does not feel the uneasiness that awaits him whose work , stuffed with every- degree of malice , has torn his adversary in pieces with relentless ridicule .
The satirist and the misanthrope will never read over their most approved and applauded works with the same pleasure as the virtuousman will taste in reviving works which criticism may doubtless reprehend , but which sound morality will not be ashamed to own . The clock strikes twelve ' . Awful hour I Night , depriving me of the sight of the earth , seems to put me iu possession of the heavens . Those millions of suns and worlds which- the Eternal has strewed
with such profusion , give man the opportunity of observing the immutable laws by which they are -governed . It is to night that the Cassinisand the Galileos are indebted for their greatest discoveries . And thy vi gilant eye , indefatigable Herschel , meets the comet which would pass unperceived by a heedless world . AU privileged beingswho cultivate their mindsi watch more or
, less ; the silence and tranquillity of the night are favourable to their ' meditations , and supply the place of the voluntary darkness to which the Greek savages formerly condemned themselves for the discovery of truth .
Night is the common benefactress- of every thing that breathes ; it is during her reign that the greatest share of happiness is spread over the earth ; violent passions are lulled , the human race are relieved from labour ; the prisoner , loaded with the fetters of despotism , flits far from his dungeon , and accuses his tyrant before assembled worlds . / The inequality amongst men has , in a manner , ceased ; voluptuousness , with its charms , enraptures the young married pair , and repairs the devastations of " war . LE M < „
Bon Mot.
BON MOT .
A GENTLEMAN who resides in St . James ' s-street , happening to spend the evening in the city among some friends , was requested , in his turn , to favour the company with a song ; he politely declined singing , alleging that he-was so indifferent a performer in- that way , that- any attempt of his would rather disgust than entertain . One of the company , however , observed that he had a very good
voice , and , that he had frequently had the pleasure of hearing him sing . " That may be , " resumed the other ( wishing to get excused ) , but as I am not a freeman , I have no voice in the city , "