Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-10-21


set wool gathering. E n
"l'hs mauw who writes single llne,
And hear9 II often qu0Nai ~ ~
Will III hlB lifetime surely sllne'
Aud be thoi ealter noted,
II every printing office had q case filled with pop.
uloT phT0ses arranged IN lhe lanhsi OF types IL
would save much manual libOr, and the compost.
tot would be suTO1isod 10 find how often he had
occasion iU use II. Pot 30 lns&lnoablY qTU these
"shorl sentences dawn from long experience en-
tangled In the meshes OF Language, lh"l 70 elllnl'
nate them would be like drawing OUT 0lF carpet
the threads thai (ormt the phllerh' lew OF These
phrases, usually found iipnVllB ln tne olIIsnw
slider in naptT like thisi il we were To include
those ehbiaced in lileTaluttand OInlOfy, u would
require loo soap enough 10 cnysT mo snhls OF
Egypt, and an inksIanl as large as one Of The
py:amilB. MOI being disposed 10 make such nh
investment In stationary Of present. we snail Ohy
play tile lileraTy ChilIOneb anu no X lew scraps
from The heAps Of talk we meet with sYeiy DAY. MT'
John rimmins, the broken says VI that Nlook,
'thrrs iSg eAseL ,Ditbjn a whsel'I without Swing
Paradise Lost, Yuungs Night Thoughts and tile
Prophet Ezekiel credit lot q nliE0se Which may
have saved him some thOushndsi and When bel
lellI bis boon comr0 Mons at The CLUB mat as lOt
his wife, che i0OuM deny hsr nothHg'" no does
not say how much he owes 10 Samson AgOnisles
IN the words he makes use Of When he reaches
his house MH. Timmins takes him 10 tuski "lor
coming home at such lale loliT Of the night IN
such a slAle," 10 which lie ltpliesin a gay aud
festive manner "My deaf tIO'err 10 huRdp--t0
Iorkips diUins," from POpe's ESsay on OnliCisni
10 which Mrs, II. answers ~ 2 snuppisl way
| nIimmins, II'heye lie medium IN all MingOp"
(from Hoface.) Mr. H.. dSliking the tone in
which the latter quotation Il delivered, "sHHtehsS
a|sorG,I joy,n ((rom Tue node. on Distant PfO'
lessor Of Zion COllege,') by saying that he does
not intend, IN his house, 10 have 'The gray mars
prOUs The better hOrSs," iron P[OIs Eplogue.)
This only "dddt fuel 70 The fIns," QIOm MiII9n's
Salnson,) and Mrs. u. observes TINT u "~s eohl
only see OutSsluss az 0iher zee u.s." u'Om BuTns')
II would bs better lor some peoples that ever since
he had Joined that club "a ehange had come Ger
ths spiit Of her dream" (from ByEon,) that When
size trusted her happiness 10 HIM she hal "Iedn
ed upon Orerd," (IROm YOungs Night ifh1ugmS'
Ill, and Isaiah 36i 81 aud winds up long lecture
with the / Election that "tUiI eOnmunicdiiONs COR
ruDt rood NaMmrrS" (rrom list Corinthians 10; 49,
| riis last exp,esslon exaspeTples MI 'Elnmus,
and he asks MEs. ~, ns no takes OF Ills susneil.
deTS, 40 whom she RludssH otlS IL ~ Perkins,
who stood by him "in eVilrEpOri and gOOdrSpJri2"
(2d Cor 6'sj, lsittO Paplsyi "a man, taks him
iOraH IN ALL" (HaInlst aetl, SEQ Jlsr his gpn
heart" (ACls 1920 and as lQI Budger, who had
extended TO him, in the tight times OF 'S8 aud 31,
The right hdmd Of EsilOlDShip." (uHl 2;9,) no was
as honest man as ever bteaileti und here Mr..
Iimnins, with one boot IN his hand and tile OTHER
in the boot lack, eoQuenlly adds "Hn honest nuH'S
The uCblesl tbork of Co.," (ltom POpe's Essay)-
lie was proud Of the friendship oil such men, II
she meant them. Mrs. T., not u oil carried awny
by such a flood OF authorities, rather sCofhluily
says, 40, Timmins "lOhdt 10 6isndShip but a
nGms7" (from GUldsmilhs HeTmltD at which elr.
| r., who by this time is undEessed, and "as mad
a March hdrs," (lron the old English suleEstItiol)
puts out the candle "in The Il0iHktHg Of an eye"
list Coz. 1880 lies down os lar as possible IIom
the "O'uksr vessel" list Bpiste oil Peter 2:l7,)
couTly "Iirsd Natures SWsCl rsStOrer, blLay Slstp"
(Young's Night ThOughts) and wakes next morn
ing "a Saddsr and wiser man" tColeTidge's An.
cienl MaIlneT)
How much Language would be len us " these
eslEays were returned TO tleiE lawful OwneIS, Is
question. How could we console The dying II we
lmil 10 rive up 10 Gays 9th Fable the phase,
"Dhits there is life Msre's hOPs2" nnd what could
we snytO the good in misfortune II we had TO Te'
store 10 Prors Ode, "Pirtus is her OUn rstcardl"
| The sLopkeepeT who ends his long list OF lnncy
articles with "dnd other articles too tedious 10
MENTION" makes use Of a sentence ns old us lie
| Latin lnnguHgsi md we would lake the point IOn
ByTon's hit nj COleridge,if we were 10 replace III
'Ganiok's EpilUgue on leaving the Stage ga ttI'
Too frsiRg mdksS uS i00HdrOus kin~," So, TOO,
must GUldsmtl's Hermit lost "man tDaRts butht.
tie here brLOlO," II Young's Night Thought Nv.
mad its own properly, and "GN The jGTRWV the
schools" from Burns LIST ePislle To- j. LoOEaie,
must 10 rendered up TO PTiUr's "Ode on Exodus"
which las a prior claim 10 IT, Mt AclhOphel
SUapegIuce thinks The biggest STOCKHOLDERS u The
ROnnng River Canal Co., as sat the big bSh toiH
eat up tie Hks ones, (PeTIces, Prince OF Tyre, act
| ii. &C. y and MI l3onbastes Underwood talks Of
a ''Phlfyrn" in precisely The same sense as CEOn-
well did 200 years ago, Queries 10 Letter VI, Car
| lyle.) II is III CTomwelIS 1lh letter that we find
for the first time that apt conjunction, "a gente
man and u Chrstinn," now somewhat tlteadDnTe
from mlSuSej and If we want "mOlhfr IDiiS" we
must look for il in SpenseE's Panie Queen, Book
iV, Cunto 20, v. 2l Everybody hos seen the man
in Greek costume who sells soap by illu ball, but
nobody hut MI, LeRitCus Gaylord suggested "thul
II another Greek should meet ihtt Greek then
would be n tug Of war" aud he has no authority
for saying so in the Rival Queens, oct iv. So L.
We have 10 go hack 10 'lhOrnOs Ia Kemps for
"mdn proposal and Cod disPoStS." Ii we need
"tO pOiilt a moral or adOTn tale" we must 30 10
DR.. Johnsons "Vanity Of Human wishes" aud
he haI runs may redi,' CoOpeT's "IEOCiniun,"
and "hs may run that reGdsM IT," in HabbOkkukt
2: 2. lfuny person wish to "cOHSltne the midHigh
Oii' let him read Gays Shepherd and philosopher
AMI in CUDgTeVe'S "MOurni Bride" lie will
find Emusic hdth chdriRS to SoOh SdUIgs bfedSi.H
"T'ob in the rrOng cor" will occur 10 HIM who
has dipped into the sixth book OF "POX's Martyrs"
and Napoleon found fhdt from The sublime 10 The
ridiculous, there Is but one STEP" III Tom Pane's
woESs, translated and published in France, in
1891 We take "budS Of prOmiSs," from YOung's
"LoSl Day., "Gnd men tax only to conceal their
mind" hOrn his Glove Of Fame" although we
attribute the thought 10 Talleyund. "WhO shaH
decide tOhsn The doctors ShaH diS0Gres?" is CUES
lion we lnNY well ask between The AlIcpnIhSIs
and the Hom@opathsls, aud Pope puts IL in his
"Fouuh Moral Essay" In "LochePs Warn
ing" we fini looming sUsniS Gust their shddOt0S
bcfore." SO Tom TalTtla thinks as he sees The
shade deepen upon the Lrow nt h's creditor So
Dr., Sena thinfs as lie sees the pFemonitory symp-
toms Of coming apPleGy in tile fair round proper.
lions Of Aideman BrOndbulton; and so thinks
Peter Pipkln as The delicate adumbnlion is vish
BILE III MIS-. Plpkin's ''naluIe's lust best Ril,"
PARADISE Lost, Book ", line l9.) who finds her
self, "ds ,OOmcn tOsh to be DhO lore their lords"
douglas, act l., SC. ~ "nOt DSriy but too t0sH.
(Otello, aci ", sc. nst.) lis impOssible TO see
tile RavelsOn the the tightTope without thinking |
OF "lhe Hght fqniasEe loe," aid L'AllegEoi and
hO ghs that breathe and iOOrdS that burn" live in
the magic atmosphere that surrounds the oTnto, as
we'll us in "Gtay's Progress u Poesy"
10 IN AXE complete collection Of these phToses
would be the labor of life so numerous ate they
that il the door is once opened, they pour IN
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