EVERY ma, in every year, affects al duration. t ude of old observaom of solemnizing our proper birt to ot all about tter, nor uand any t beyond cake and e. But terest too o be pretermitted by king or cobbler. No one ever regarded t of January is t from ime, and t upon . It is tivity of our on Adam.
Of all sounds of all bell -- (bells, t b upon solemn and touc t a gato a tration of all t ted in t regretted time. I begin to knos takes a personal colour; nor a poetical fligemporary, when he exclaimed
I sas of ting Year.
It is no more t in sober sadness every one of us seems to aaking. I am sure I felt it, and all felt it niged rato ma an exion at tender regrets for ts predecessor. But I am none of those who -
ele ting guest.
I am naturally, beforeies: . io face tive. I ceased to s of otone visions and clusions. I enter pell-mell disappois. I am armour-proof against old discements. I five, or overe in fancy, old adversaries. I play ain for love, as ters p, games, for s as of my life reversed. I er ts of some rived novel. Met is better t I s years, so passionate a love-adventure s. It ter t our family s legacy, I s t t t specious ue.
In a degree be is my infirmity to look back upon t, skipping over tervention of forty years, a man may o love tation of self-love?
If I knoive -- and mine is painfully so -- for identity, to be ligorious * * * addicted to * * * * : averse from sel, aking it, nor it: -- * * * besides; a stammering buffoon; on, and spare not: I subscribe to it all, and muc be o lay at for t "ot; t take leave to c young master -- tle reference, I protest, to tupid cy, as if it of my parents. I cry over its patient small-pox at five, and rougs. I lay its poor fevered Cs, and in surprise at tle posture of maternal tenderness , t unkno sopicated. -- I kno some dissembling guardian, presenting a false identity, to give to my unpractised steps, and regulate tone of my moral being!
t I am fond of indulging, beyond a rospeay be tom of some sickly idiosyncrasy. Or is it oo anot being o project myself enoug of myself: and o daily urn back upon memory, and adopt my oions seem fantastical to tread out of ted only, I retire, imperable to ridicule, uom cloud of Elia.
t up, likely to let slip titution; and t of t by tances of peculiar ceremony. -- In t c seemed to raise y in all around me, never failed t a train of pensive imagery into my fancy. Yet I t it meant, or t of it as a reing t ed me. Not c till ty, never feels practically t al. indeed, and, if need not o Juo our imagination t nos but too poo t ties of my duration, and te at ture of moments a periods, like misers fartion as ten, I set more t upon tual finger upoo pass a;like a le." tap, nor sen table draugality. I care not to be carried ide, t smooto eternity: a at table course of destiny. I am in love ory; tudes, and t security of streets. I up my taber to stand still at to to be , as to teration, on t or in lodging, puzzles and disposes me. My a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up blood. t e of being staggers me.
Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary , and fireside versations, and i vanities, as, and irony itself -- t h life?
a g laug sides, h him?
And you, my midnig I part ense delig knoo me, if it e at all, by some a of intuition, and no longer by this familiar process of reading?
Sing tions o t;s assurance of a look" -- ?
Iolerable disination to dying -- to give it its mildest name -- does more especially a me. In a genial August nooering sky, deat problematic. At times do sucality. trong again, as valiant again, as deal taller. t t nips and ss me in ts of deato tantial, upon t master feeling; cold, numbness, dreams, perplexity; moonligself, s sral appearances, -- t cold g of ter, like t innutritious one denounced in ticles : -- I am none of he Persian.
soever ts, or puts me out of my o my mind. All partial evils, like o t capital plague-sore. -- I o life. Suce as a port e; and speak of t arms, in upon tom! I detest, abe, and (o six-score tao be excused or tolerated, but so be branded, proscribed, and spoken evil of! In no tion, or more frigive!
tidotes, prescribed against togeting, like t satisfa ;lie do; ly coveted ty of suc "so s face appear? " -- me, must Alice --n be a goblin? More t at ti and misbeing familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon o be lecturing me ruism, t "suc sly ; Not so sly, friend, per. In time I am alive. I move about. I am y of tters! t. I survive, a jolly didate for 1821. Anot turn-coat bell, t just noed, es lustily rings in a successor, let us attuo its peal ty, . -
thE NE YEAR.
star
tells us, t far;
And see w,
ern .
ith appear,
Peeping into ture year,
ito say,
t is not good t way.
ts to see,
And `gainst ourselves to prophesy;
ic fear of things
A more tormenting mischief brings,
More full of soul-tormenting gall,
t mischiefs befall.
But stay ! but stay! met,
Better informd by clearer light
Diss sereneness in t brow,
t all tracted seemd but now.
aste,
And fro;
But t whis way looks is clear,
And smiles upon the New-born Year.
oo from a place so high,
to his eye;
And all ts open are
to t discoverer.
Yet more and more he smiles upon
tion.
or fear
the influences of a year,
So smiles upon us t morn,
And speaks us good so soon as born?
Plague ont! t was ill enough,
t but make better proof;
Or, at t, as we brushrough
t, woo;
And t in reason shoud
Be superexcellently good:
For t ills (we daily see)
uity,
t fortu do fall;
hal
Loo support,
t:
And whree,
A repi destiny, [p 32]
Appears ungrateful in the case,
As not the good he has.
t us
ity brimmers of t;
Mirtu,
And renders een Disaster s:
And turn her back,
Let us but line ourselves h sack,
e better s,
till t Year s.
ty of t fortify like a cordial; enlarging t, and productive of s blood, and generous spirits, in tion? noed ? --passed like a cloud -- absorbed in t of clear poetry -- ers!
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