The Virginia Historical Register And Literary Advertiser Vol 1 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...last touch fihish the picture It seems to me that nothing in the whole compass of language could have done it so well. It is the classic fancy--so natural to a Greek--of an island of the blest, (manifestly a reflection of Paradise, ) only subtilized and refined. placed not at the far-ofl' end of the earth, but raised and sublimed above it; and not anchored in the water, but set floating through the air--the azure air;--so etherealizing the thought into a delightful abstraction, for imagination to enjoy. It suggests, too, the very association, that, somehow or other, I have always had in looking upon that pure and placid orb, the sight of which naturally melts my heart into a tenderness of emotion Soft as the memory of buried love. For indeed I can never see the full-orbed Moon, when I am alone, without immediately thinking of some absent friend whom I have loved and lost, and whom I hope to see again in another and better world. I do not mean, however. to assert that the moon is actually the very place of departed spirits; for the Bible, I know, does not authorize me to say so; and I must take care not to be wise, or romantic, above what is written; but I only mean to say that, somehow or other, there is some sort of connection, or association, in my own mind at least, between the lovely orb and that happy region, wherever its ubi, or particular locality may be. I do not, of course, dogmatize on this point, or even care to descant about it. I only desire to dream. MAXIMS, BY HOWARD. Our superfluities should be given up for the convenience of others; Our conveniences should give place to the necessities of others; And even our necessities should...