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42 Mode ef Writing in the Dark .
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On seeing' the Name of Robert Emmet written , in his own Hand , upon one of his School-books ,
FTP * HIS was written , when he was alight gay boy , JL Whose voice was to fire the listening band Of the brave who arose , with tearful joy , For the rights of their desolate father-land . Ah , little he thought , when he traced those words , That his sun should go down in a sky so dim , That a scaffold should break his heart ' s fine chords , And the grave of the felon be dug for him ! Ah , little he thought , when he wrote that name ,
It ever would act as a talisman spell , To awaken the blush of his country ' s shame , That in vain , the Wallace of Erin fell 1 Yet happy in death—since he now no more Shall gaze , with a heart to madness stung , On the curse that withers his parent shore , And the tears from her friendless millions wrung ;—Since he now no more can share or see The chains from the depth of his soul abhorred
m . The chains of the race , whom he rose to free , When he drew in their name the sacred sword ! Could he now return , and behold the land For which he had felt with a lover ' s love—Could he hear a nation in vain demand The mercy denied , except above;—Could he feel the weight of his country ' s load—See her fields of dearth , and her homes of pain —• He would hate the light for tlie scenes it showed , And kneel for the boon of a grave again !
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\ apparently devout of interest , and uy paper is really devoid of more pace than just to allow roe to express my thanks to you , Sir , for the ittention you- have bestowed on vaious papers that have appeared in he Monthly Repository with and vithout the signature of W . H .
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Sir , BELIEVE there are few persons I of observation who are not aware that the mind is more capable of ratiocination when awake in bed than at any other time , and who frequently regret their not being able to remember the ideas that have crossed their minds when undisturbed by visible objects . I apprehend this to be particularly the case with authors and men of letters ; and in enabling them to write down their ideas in bed with the least possible trouble , and no risk from fire , I shall , perhaps , render an acceptable service to some of your readers .
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ThQ proposed method is , to take a slate of the smaller size used i Q schools * and rule parallel lines across at about three-fourths of an inch distant . At the end of each of these lines perforate a small hole in the slate , and through these pass a piece of strong pack-thread , pulling it as tight as it will hear . In the snar ^ o
between these , as guides to the hand a person with a little practice will soon be able to write legibly with his eyes shut , and he will then find no difficulty when in bed to write under the bed-clothes , without the trouble of dressing , or the fear of taking cold .
I was induced to practise this method from seeing Mr . Holman , the blind traveller , write . A sharp pointed piece of pencil is necessary , and by boring holes in the frame of the slate for a moveable pin , the writer may always ascertain where he leaves off , and not write twice in the same place . T . ^ m ^ mmm .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 742, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/42/
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