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and most squalid of our dwellings afford evidence of pur , undying , though rarely gratified * | j $ ve of rural things ?\ Our * pots bfnjyiiili * , and geranium , and heart * s-eas < e , and our boxes of iriignonefte , do they say nothing in behalf of the taste which our necessary congregation in vast and ever-toiliiig' multitudes will not allo \ f
us more fully to indulge i * ' Mighty and marvellous London ! it is no reproach to the poe » t that fie dail y traverses thy thronged and interminable thoroughfares . EJartn has not another field so rife as thou art of food for ' sweet and bitter fancies / for the glowing thought of the poet to expatiate in , or for the saddened yet loving heart of the genuine philanthropist to love , to pity , and ' to throb for .
The stately procession has scarcely disappeared from before the eyes of hijn , ^ ij <> wanders , thou wondrous and proud Babyr Ion ! along thy . Ways ; the spirit-stirring music of the martial band has scarcely died away in . the distance , when the mean and sad funeral of the poor man , who has died in his fierce but bootless struggle against the many ills that poor humanity etfduras as its condition and as its test , calls back , with its spectral
dreariness and sombre solemnity , the living spirit to the living earth ; and the sob of the widow and her half-conscious orphans wrings with a bitter pang the heart which but a brief breathing space before was wild , bold , and soaring , as the blast which jjfcke i ( s energies and quickened its pulses . ¦ '' .-jtj > London ! thou thing of many , of strange , and of startling contrasts ; ttey reproach thy denizens unjustly . Man may dream
delightedly and purely among the lovely and pure things of the country , but in thee he must feel , love , pity , and marvel ; and , gazing on thine ever-changing features , and mixing in thine everhurrying crowds , he must feel and acknowledge the pettiness of humanity and the merely temporary and fleeting nature of 1 ^ earthly condition . W . T . H .
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Abd y * Residence and Twr in tfie JJnited States . 729
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Travellers in America , and books on the country , seem jijrfyi ^ e respect to resemble the nature of its forests ; they rambles en rn , qp $ through plains and over mountains , beside lakes or canalfl ^ iid of
c ^ ong tjfre verge torrents , and an incessant growth atten d ^ pihr ramld ^ ijg * There is no , end to them ., What wjtj * taurp , to Niag ^^ , Quebec * and the springs of Lebanon , B ^ Ustpn , Squanj . £ •* $ & , ft * ^ a ^ mtoga ; to the Catskill mountai n ^ Ticonderoga , Black ^ Jfcpplf , anil Buffalo ; what with the narratives df . back-w , pOfjUmen &nd
* jTonrhal of a Residence atod Tbur in the United StAlds of NbrAk Att »« ka ^ tVinpa Ap ^ l , 1833 , / to October , 1834 . By E » Sw Abtly , FetWw of , J + tnuf QyHto «? V C * x *~ l >^«© r M In ^ re « yulumva . : , . . ; ^ ,, , ( ^ -, ; , . tt , ,
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ABDY'S JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE AND TOUR IN THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA . * . . if
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 729, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/37/
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