Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-09-17
MISCELLANEOUS.
'ilgr,mage to the IICme of Sir Thomas
Mere.
DY MRS. ). {. HALL.

While living in the neighborhood OF
Chelsea, we determined to look upon the
few broken walls hat once lnciosed The
residence of Sir Thomas More, man
who, despite the bitterness inseParable
iIom a prosecuting age, was OF most won
Lerlul goodness as well as intellectual
power. We first read over The memoirs
Of him preserved by Erasmus, lloddesdon,
Roper, Aubrey, his own namesake, and
others. Itis pleasant to muse over the
past; pleasant TO know that much of NAL
ice and bigotry has departed, 10 return no
more, that the prevalence Of spirit which
could render even Sir Thomas More un-
lust and, to seeming, cruel, is passing
away. Though we 10 implicitly believe
lhere would be no lack OF great hearts,
and brave hearts, at the present day, II II
were necessary to bring Them to the test,
still there have been few men like unto
him. Ilis a pleasant and a profitable
task, so TO siGt through past ages, so to
separate the wheat from the chaif, to see.
when the feelings of party and prejudice
sink 10 their proper inslgnlicance, how
The morally great stands iorlh IN lis own
dignity, bright, glorious, and everlasting.
ST. Evremnnd sets forth the hfmness anu
constancv of Petronius Arbiter IN his las'
moments, and imagines he discovers III
them a loftier nobility of mind and res0'
lutiop, than in the death of Seneca, CATO
or Socrates himself; but Addison says
and we cannot but think truly, that II he
was so well pleased with gayety OF huI
NOR, in dying man, he might have iouno n.
= much more noble instance OF 1t IN oil
Thomas More, who died upon point ol
religion, and is respected as a martyr oy
the side of which he suffered. " "a
was pious philosophy in this eX'raor0'nar!
man. mioht seem frenzy in any one VINO
do. not resemble him as well Ill 'he
cheer(ulness of his temper as III 'AS sane
tl,v of his life and manners.
oh. that some such man as he were 10
sit upon our woolsack now ; what "o'uo
,he world think, if when the mighty oracle
commanded the next cause TO come Oh
The reply should he, Please GG"r goo"
IordsLiD. there is no other! Wen m'Sh'
the smart epigrammatlst write:
When i?oRE some time had chancellor oee"'
NoMoRE suits did remain;
The same shall never MORE be seen,
Till More be there again.
We mused over the history OF ms lime
until we slept, and dreamed and hrSi l"
onr dream we saw fair meadow, ana i
,,,s sprinkled over with White DAISIES
and bull was feeding therein; and as
we looked upon him he grew laIirt an1
la,ter. and reared i'll the wantonress o.
power and strength, 50 tbat lie '9rih irenl.
bled: and he p!uckcd tie branches Oh
,he trees, ard irampled ON the arc'cpi IN
ensures orthe mtadow, and as he SIornitu
and beloved, and desire! ed, lie oa'sIe'
bccame human heads, AMI the creature
flung them about, and warmed his hoo''
N 16s Lo, plood lhal flowed from thcm
and we grew SICK and sorry al heart ;"'
1hrrnEt. is there no ere TO slay the dee
,rover! And VIXEN we looked again. u't
EiGhth Harry WIS alone II the meadow
and. while many hrads we're !lmg "p"I
Tie grass, some kep, rerrc'""'Iy h"" '"S
before blm. While UIhcfS surg t!s PRAISES
IS wise, iusl, anI merciIuI. lhth VIC
heard uomgc,rngirg lis scarlet music I'
through he AIR, and We stood IL 'he oio
uIt,vaid at WhitthlI, and :hc Pompon'
Nolscv, the bloatrd king. tie at4'i n'lne
Unl5oln, tic picturesque Surrey, tie ar
sgonan CatheIirc, tie genie Jane u.
NlraAy Anne Bullen. tie coarse'see'ni"s
Cul wise-ilinking Ann of Cieves, the pc
else Catherine Howard, and the stout
leared Catherine Parr, passed US so close
" BY. that We could have lopched lhelI