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« P ^ ' * fo ^ ffeiNffiVK ^| SMySSl 1 ^ 19 * 9 OH flfiOT TKY * W And hermhgsfiafi . hot yetjaljtea ^ ay . .. p /• r , - r Glimpses 4 > f £ lory , ne ' er forgot , That tell , hke gleams on a sun-set Ma , What onee hath been , what now is not , But , oh , what again shall brightly be !" - ~ P . 92 .
It is necessary to give an outline of the story . &lcinhrQi } 9 file ^ raan < narrator of the story , in the fourth year of the reigrj pf ^ ya ( erj | a 4 ^ Jya ^ ig :.. . ljia twenty-fourth year , and was , notwithstanding his ; y # u $ v appojinied i ^ the office of chief of the followers of Epicurus . We are \! avoii ^ e 4 With" a \ n * 9 s £ luxurious description of a . feast given by the young chief totH ^ V yotari ^ qt the garden , on the anniversary of the birth of their founder .: It j& m . vamid
attempt to quote any part of it ; for the work being , for the niost paj > , i ^ pjifirj posed of ' simil ar passages ^ we should be at a loss where to stop , ¦¦¦ y yf £ ' i " ? ? f | paused to give a specimen of the descriptive propensities of our ku ^ bpv ^ i ^ c&h tlie close of the festival ' , the mind of the Epicurean chief was assafleq f ^ l p ^ ihdancKol ^ t ^ o ughtewhich naturally follow an excess of luxurious e ^ " c | t ^ ment , and whfbh hltist ever be peculiarly depressing to the heart of an i ^ believer in a future state . Thoughts of death and annihilation weighed ^ own his st > iHts , arid save rise to the followinor beautiful asoiratioft : his spmts , arid gave nse to the following beautiful aspiration ;
^ ^ e ^ nipg ^ gaiftft the pedestal , I raised ray eyes to heaven , and fixing tieft ^ sad ^ y ^ and jn ^ tlj cfl the ever-burning stars , as if I sought to read the moiirnJ FuJsgcr ^ rm ^ ' e ^ B ^^ it that man alone must pefirfi ,, ^^ W ? 7 *^ l ! ffP ^^^ ^ ^ lorious tnan he > ^ on in light imebaa ^ ea ^ Metinp for ever !—^ OJi , that there were some spell , some talisman / , , | & £ 4 claim ^ d ^ ^ o ' maketHe' spirit within us deathless as those stars , an # briea tit l ] ta dgstfesWtf ^^ boundless throughout all ^ tmie )' ' '' -.
3 eing , at length y oyerpQwerejd by sleep , he sees in a dream a v ^ nejrabjte man . w ; th a ^ aper jiD liis hand , who thus addresses him ; " Thou who seejsejst ; eterpal life , gp unto the shores pf the dark Nile—go unto the shores of th § dark Nile , and thou wilt find the eternal life thou seekest ! ' * Bri g hter prospects acconipany the warning . The vision haunts the pro ^ lessor ' s n ^ ind ; a vague desire to search if anything more conducive to the rejpose of his spirit were really to be found in the land of antiquity , pf rays- * tepf , and , of wpnders , continually presses upon him , and at length , iix A . D , 257 , he sails for Alexandria . The charms of society , of pleasure and beauty , welcome the philosopher , whose fame travels with him . His visits give opportunity for glowing de-S 9 T'Bji 9 P 9 C ^ yiwly Festival of Serapis at Canppus , the Festival of Lamps ^^ ais ^ an ^ the , Qbelisks of Heliopolis . The island of the Golden Venus ^ is q ^ q MfWiih , the same poetic colour which , while it warms the
imagination , destroys , } t must be owned , in an equal degree , the historical truth of j ||| e ^ ut [}) 9 r ; a portraitures . The Pyramids of Memphis , the ' monumentB of ages past , the destined objects of wonder for ages to come , next awaken the p !} lo ^ opber , ' $ imagination , and when , in the shades of evening , he wanders mfm , rej } gipu £ glpom , of tb ^ ir shadows , the great mystery onue nioi ^ iT wrtjlps ^ . tee ^ t : ,, Jj ^ usl ; thpii i alon e then ^ perish ? Miist minds J and hearts tik fmm ^ ifet ^ whil ^ pyraiiiWs endure > lieatjh ^ d ^ t ^ « liren i < m * ese everlasting IWleJs ; $ > e only a ^ o ^ bJp ; jinf | n ^ orj ^ cbuld ^ ur ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1827, page 904, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1803/page/48/
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