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ence-his own worth. To put on the CART
of true and substantial knowledge;-n de
not mean that sort Of knowledge which
however fascinating it may be, yet II too
much wanting in practical utility--sueI
knowledge as is usually incident to mind.
floating in the region of transcendentahsm
or, as it has been defined, s'the most rarefeC
e;hercality of moral abstraction" But t.
put on the garb of true and substantial
knortedge is to disrobe ones self of what
ever i'll seeming Vestment of undue pre-.
sumption may chance to enfold the chaIac
ter. II pride may be deemed one and the
same thing with that pleasurable feeling
which is iLseparable from tho consciousness
Of ever striving to avoid the wrong, and cleave
to the right; Philosophy must Of course, adj
nit and approve it. Otherwise, there car
be nothing more true than that, as Pope ex.
presses it,
"Pr,de is the never failing vice of FOOLS.
So thought, perhaps, my hero. But lovers
seldom philosophers, unless, indeed, in the
spirit of the truthful, fascinating system OF
Epicurus. This system, am inclined to
think is more in unison with human nature
in the most enlarged view Of it, than any
other. At least, and to its credit do | say
so--the epicurean is the only system of phi.
losophy which seems to have and 20 incul-
cate due regard for that natural affection
called looe which exeEts so important and
extensive an influence on human happiness
Gall thoughts, all passions, all delights
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers Of love,
And feeds his sacred fame."
Love, either as our bane or as our anti.
dote, is ever present with us--from the dawn
of youth to the twilight of old age-perva.
ding ever the bosom alike OF. peasant and of
prince. It is one of those mysterious gifts
of nature which, invested with it's own pc.
culiar warmth, and ever surrounded BY its
own coBgenial, life.preserving atmosphere,
seems TO elude, oftener and with more rea.
diness and certainty, than any other of our
natural affections, the cold comment and in
Vestigation Of ordinary Philosophy.
But to return to our lovers. Whatever
the world and his family thought and f 1t a.
bout actresses, and more especially about
his marrying an actTess-he gazed on and
felt towards her, who was his souls devotion,
as being like that exquisite mournful flow.
er, so animated bv the genius Of Byron in
bis Bride of AbydOs-that, "single rose,'
"Which mocks the tempest's whitening
hour,
And buds unsheltered by bower;
Nor droops tho spring refuse her shower,
Nor woos the summer beam"
LAST StGnzG.)
BY the bye, do not remember to have
seen in any Of the published selections from
the poems of Lord Byron, with which have
met the last stanza of the Bride Of Abydos.
Nor do receolect ever to have heard even
one of the numberless deVntees of Byron, adj
vert at all to it. The whole stanza, with its
wild, expressive tenderness of measure, and
its affecting proprIety and naturalness Of en-
blematlc simile, constitutes throughout, a
specimen of exquisite pathos, not surpassed,
think, by aught else. either of prose or po.
etry, in any language. That it is not found
in the published selections of which have
spoken, does not, however, surprise me. Few
others than book manufacturers or illiterate
book sellers, would ever think Of putting
forth such volumes as the g Beauties of Shak-
speare,"-the Beauties Of Byron, - and the
like. No one who has really studied, with
an ordinary capacity of approaching. any
work Of genius, will deny that as often as he
laid the work aside, and took it up again,.so
often did his mind discover, and the more
keenly relish portions which it had previous
~ passed over without enjoyment or even
notice. Besides, to put forth such book
would seem to eVince on the part of its cdi:
tor, an assumption to himself of critical
taste and decernment, superior to that of, at
least, his readers generally. Publications Of
this sort, moreover, frequently serve, to en-
ourage, in ordinary minds, mere superficial
reading; and only the few, who possess more
than ordinary intellect are ever by them indu
ced to drink more deeply from the primitive
fount. A task of this peculiar character has
hitherto, in most instances, of its perform
ance proved unsatisfactory, and, therefore,
vain. may except, as TO the last remark,
the selections from British Poets, made by
Aiken, and also those, by Hazlitt. But
really think that, all things considered, those
two gentlemen might have exeited sheIl
high mental attainments, IN manner both
more pleasing and more profitable.
.Crayingth pardon Of nv reader, should
this efTusior meet and hold for an instant the
glance Of such an in.lividual,) for this digres.
sion, let US again return to our hero ana ne.
roine, borne onward, as they were, on the
Ibillcws DC love. He felt that his hearts idol
had passed through the ordeal Of her pecul'
| lar life, whitening As il often j. 70 al Inc
finer sensibilities, and more delicately cor.
$50 moral. sentiments moi only unscathed