The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-07-02
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and crushed.
Whatever your necessities MAJ
be remember that honesty is your only
wealth.
: Guests should be neither loquaciou'
nor silent; because eloquence is fol
the forum, and silence for the bedcham'
Der.
How TO coNvERsE.-The thread oil
conversation is sustained among several
persons by each knowing when to take a
stitch in time.
-GooDNEss.-If good people would
but make goodness agreeable, and smile,
instead of frowning in their virtue, how
many would they win to the good
cause
-TRUE PHILosorHY.eA noble heart,
like the sun, shows its brightest counte-
nance in it's lowest estate. We start in
life with a great stock of conceit hut it
grows Less the farther We go.
There are persons who speak a mo-
ment before they have thought; there
are others with whom you have TO I'M
dergo in conversation all the labor OF
their minds-they talk correctly and
wearisomely.
Mans love is but one of his many
feelings; in the scholar, it is subservi-
ent to his thirst for knowledge; in the
patriot it yields to the worship of coun-
try; glory haloes the heart of the soldier !;
but with women the affections arc om-
nipotent; they absorb all other thoughts,
and make all others passions their
slaves.
Find fault, when you must find
fault, in private, if possible; and some
time after the offence, rather than at the
time. The blamed are less inclined to
resist when they arc blamed without
witnesses. Both parties are calmer, and
the accused party is struck with the for
| bearance of the accuser, who has seen
the fault, and watched for a private and
proper time for mentioning it.
Actors should remember that ap-
plause is as often bestowed upon the
sentiments they deliver as upon the
manner of delivery. A mediocre per
former often ~arrogates to himself the
praise which is really given to the u
thor. Perhaps this is one reason why
even the most stupid actors are 30 foad
of Shakespeare. Acting his characters,
they can hardly fail to attract sympa-
thy, 4. e., admiration for him and COM
passion for themselves.
The most inconsiderablo men arc
the men, usually, of the most eminent
gravity. We have seen a eonceited
blockhead who out shone an owl in his
looks of wisdom. We have seen a fourth
rate lawyer whose nearest approach to
mirth was a grim smile, while Choate is
the soul of hilarity. We have seen a
solemn pharisee who was constantly sur
rounded by a frigid atmosphere, and
whose most cheerful conversation sour
dedlike q voice from the tombs, while
some eminent divines carry with them
an atmosphere like spring, and their
conversation is simple, unrestrained and
joyous.
Moore AT FAULT IN HIS SCIENCE
In one of his Irish melodies, so familiar
to all lovers of poetry and music, Moore
has tho following limos -
had we some bright little isle of our own, |
In a blue summer ocean far off and alone,
Whers n leaf never..dies in the still blooming
And the bee banquetsIop through a whole year
of flowers |
Where the sun loves TO pause
With so fond q delay
That the nigh only draws
A then veil DER the day
Where simply to feel that we breathe, that we
live,
Is worth the best joys that life elsewhere can
give"
Now, this is good poetry, but bad sci
ence. An "isle" in which ga leaf never
dies" and in which the flowers bloom
through the year, must necessarily be
within the tropics-a latitude to which
the succeeding lines about the "fond de-
lay" of the SUD, and the night which on
ly "draws a thin yell DER the day."
which produces, in other words, only a
few hours of twilight, are utterly map
plicable. > Having had the pleasure
Of the personal acquaintance of the au-
thor of the Melodies, I once pointed out
to him these scientific incompatibilities
in his lines. He replied, good-humord-
ly;g that it wasi lucky when he wrote
the song that such Inconsistencies did
not occur to him, for, if they had, some
pretty thoughts would inevitable have
been brought knowingly to take such
liberties with the divinities of AstroDo-
my and Geography.
-PoETRY.--Dy poetry we mean GER
tain feelings expressed in certain Ian
guage, Poetical feelinge are merely, in
other words, all the highest and purest
feeling of four nature {; feelings, there
fore, which, considering what we gener-
ally are, connot but be of rare occur
rence. It has been truly said that