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-tfejs ^ i&cl wo d surely be effective And the world does , sym-? £ ftfc&sfcAtfifch sucii sufferings , but neves to -. vmy practicalpurpfrss ^ jaa rt ly because there is no unity of dehi ^ G aitioog those -yvbo < friH 3 keeuly alive to the fact * but also because there is an ^ i ^ te . g enera l feeling that genius is of so ethereal an e « 8 p » ce that it is not amenable to corporeal conditions . This * nay £ e some palliation of the world ' s inhumanity to all its greatest
benefactors hitherto ; it ought , however , to he brought home to the public mind that the man may starve though his soul be filled with lasting riches . We know that merit almost always finds its level eventually ; but how can he who has nothing , afford to wait , even were he sure of everything ? We have striven in a work published some few years gince , to give a full " exposition " of the causes of these lamentable circumstances of delay , and to propose to the dreamy world such a
unity of purpose as would prove a sufficient remedy ; but as yj ^ t iJi e " great baby " has not been awakened . 'A Day in the Woods' is capable of commumftytjng widely varying suggestions . We have known those whom jt ; inspired with nothing but thoughts of a pic-nic , or a tea party iu the shade s others who , recollecting- the rabbits and the squirrels l ^ iat l theresallied forthwith and ol iftu yvi tiieiesauieu luiiii wiui
iarboyr , dog gun , Qn ^ jur-; u , uog ana gun , Qn p ^ ur-^ erpus , tboi ^ ghts intent ; and we once met with an instance . w . fie ^ e the destructive propensity extended itself to recollections of , fr $ fce w ^ r in good earnest , and a precious half-hour of life rVf ^ ft Waste d in listening to an explanation of the plan on which i © nfc tree after another might be made a point of attack and deferoee ; ' 'Our author ' s associations with the woods are none of
th 66 fei 4 ) ttt ' Of ' 'the true poetic and religious cast , Po ^ wer and ^^ rid&Wf are enthroned in the deep gloom of faT-stretctiing fdf ^ tfe ; bttt itn ^ ges of peace and beauty should pervpd ^ 'ihe ^ 60 ^ . ' ; ' ^ Something , too , of melancholy will mingle with the ^^ and above all , the silence will make itself fejt / 3 th is
T ,, ^ pipr ^ ssion is evidently deepl y experienced b y our aut ^ pr ;^—¦ i' ^ Ill [ u ! f » l ohc ^; W says , " is over seated on her invisible throne fn the ( 'd £# jVbbsbth of the mute woods , and the far extending ' hifet of the low : H ^ i o ^ d leaves tell s by their smothered rustling , where strllftess' t ^ lfatis ; r ; ^ ery b rteat h that creeps , shadow-like , along the overhanging- foliage , - ' ^ i ^^ tjiroupli the green gloom , and makes the quietness more profound . ^ MjfftroughtliQ green gloom , and makes the quietness more profound
, ' fTSffteriti no tranquillity like that which settles upon the solitary forest ; ' r t 5 ^ 'tp ^ % of lonclj hills . are peaceful when they Vie far away from town or Jiyinlet ; but in the , curtained depths of dim glens where no sky is visile , ' , " tttS' ^ io ¦ pUtstretclicd landscape catches the wanderin ir eye , there alone < waw : & ^ toi * s ^^ UiM ' fta . ^^/^ . ^ YW does h # conveysu . uj fa Qf yr « M /?^^ wil ^^ wJ | ich in ^ mmt ^ i ^ 9 $ '* * i *** woods must be t » ru bej-f | n ge * e * t , ; T | iere <<* 4 ? AWtyb <> tf > lwl to that greeu ^ soft JigUt which c « m « a ^ Mrag
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 740, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/24/
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