Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-11-25

BdcOn'S UtSc0ufSeS.
From the Louisville Literary News Letter.
HUMAN HAPPINESS.
There is beautiful passage from
the German of Jean Paul Ritcher,
upon which we have often dwelt with
melancholy satisfaction---"Oh God
thou canst and wilt give us, hereafter,
REALITY, which shall embody, and |
exceed, and satisfy, all that is here
ideal -
This life is fevered, unsatisfying
state of existence, and man is rest
less creature. Be his rank, or station,
or circumstances what they may, it
matters not; there remains ever an OBJ
iect unattained, on which his eye rests,
| and for which his heart yearns with
Unsuitable craving. So long as that
object is unpossessed, he is an unhap-
py being yet, when gained, how often
is it flung aside as the useless toy of a
child? Splendor and affluence may
sprinkle his pathway with rose-leaves
---grati6ed ambition may fling its gold
: en- halo around his brow--pleasufe
may envelope him in her elysium Of
seductions---every department of ma
ture and arr may be ransacked for the
+ elements of happiness, and then from
all of them he may turn away, faintlng,
weary, sick at soul with unsatisfied as
piration!
|, Who has not, in the beautiful day
q dreams of excited fancy-when he ha
% cast loose the reigns of imagination
IT and, for brief season, has permltte'
his thoughts and feelings unresraine'
Oh to revel in the fairy realms Of the idea
VI worldwide at such an hour, has no
"a traced out upon the minds tablet tn
N outlines of. scheme of happiness
V which he may never enjoy; and,
u conception summoned up paradls
ne of bliss, of which this earth know moi
e Who in fancy has not spread out I
ne his greener fields than ever, even
as boyhood's hour, he has frocklicked O
ct bathed his fevered lip in fresher four
no tains than ever gushed from the rocl
lat and traced above him bluer skies an
TX richer sunlight, than ever canopie
III earth?
It's. All. could we scan the thoughts
; IL the hearts Of this varied multltud
est which in the busting scenes OF ordlr
ry existence, throng around us-cot
'ou we trace out the untold emotIo
me which agitate the unseen secrecies
uid their bosoms. how many a wild a
bitter thing should we there find RAJ
ling, which the beamy eye, and
:. finished cheek, and the sunny llp' I
lie never revealed! What unspeaka
zee, longing what intense sohcltude
uld what feverish aspiration what n
iof ancholy retrospection !---what tea
!. foreboding !---whatremorseiul med
one ton what wild hopes and vii
lFu- wishes should we not there beholt
he And thus it is: and, as the isatr
anu of the human face are the same IN
hoP' ~ countenance, so are the features
king the human heart in every breast
aiits' Thus has it ever been; nor, IN
our nature of moral, mental, or spur
OF existence, can it ever in this unsi
line' flied world, be otherwise. The
Eat II iects around us are designed to gr
ilh the mere demands of our physical
xury panization. In the wide-reaching
pro Gle of created things, there is ma
car to ouench the feverish craving o.
o ! !, soul. The phantasms OF nope
d Sill unreal mockery ofanlicipated tot
me -ah how they agitate the unsatl
Wlle, bosom, when contrasted with the e
M oil mess of reality There is with
Vhlch a fame, which the many waters O.
'gy 10 life cannot assuage! Where
nus asniration of the spirit. for who.
cm- things of earth are too mean "a
lbors. inc for Immortality which this ili'
Piase never crafty, and the desire OF a
wards istence beyond the bourne OF the
wealth sent which, if we would, we c;
. s'' away with.
pr1p the agitated pillows Of disquistsse
PUB ;ng never TO be claimed Al
wild aspirations of the heart ne'
their he hushed /? In the touching
gland beautiful language ofthe German
winters saaiv-s.TIere is a REA
thou fh,ll ao,bodv. and excee
decent WI. .:ef, Ill Iii lot : here IDEAL"
1t use, S1''7- -
ing out Drop a line if you want
educa- ~, tho fish said to the angl