The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-09

OF winch already the signs are apparent
viii, it is to be hoped, ere leng. con-
and to elevate the standard of French
morality. cfa9sll ,las'S an
mRTH AND MISERY. 5s5
Light words ana Heavy Hearts-..Tha
Two OnotIneompatlbIe- Con.
tradIcttOns Accounted for.
al (FfoHI Re1asys 4Ed6urhle.I
Says. Doctor Dove to Doctor Dense.
when the latter, true to his name, is ali
astonishment at the doctors egragiousi
fooling, and begins to suspect him OF
meet In this world with false mirthi as
often as with false gravity; the grinning
hypocrite Is, not more uncommon
character than the groaning one.n He
goes on to say that as much light dis
course comes from a heavy heart as
from a hollow one, and from a full
mind as trom an empty head And he
quotes Mr.. Dapby's g remark, that leyttyi
is sometimes refuge from the gloom
of seriousness; and that "a man may
whistle from want Of Thought or from
having too much of it. I, e, 20 f1n Z
Some one observed once to Doctor
Johnson, that Ii seemed strange that he,
who SO often deligh his Companyfby
his lively. eony ersatton, should say that
he was miserable. ssA1as, It Is all out-
side, replied the sage;F Imay be crack
ing my joke, and oursing the sun.
Sun, how i hate thy beamsIn Boswell
appends foot note, in which he re-
marks that beyond doubt q man NAV
appear very gayini company who is
sad at heart. His merriment is like
the sound of drums and trnmpets in 4
battle, to drown the groans .of, the,
wounded and dying. y lis we'll known
that Cowper was In a r1orbidly ly dispond-
ent state when he penned I'John Gill
pin,o of'which delectable ballad, and
its eongeners, he himself bears record:
Stfange as1t may seem, the most Luz
dicrous lines ever wrote have been
written in the saddset mood, and but
for that saddest mood, perhaps. had
never been written at all. - In the
hight of his ill=fortune, in 1923, Sir
Waiter Scott was ever giving vent, in
his diary or elsewhere, to some whfm-
sical outburst or humorous sally; and
after inditing an extra gay jett-d'eSp
in his Journal, just before leaving his
dingy Edtnburg lodgings for Abbots-
ford, he follows It up next day by this
t2it 1lt OF selt-p -portraiture: Anybody would
think, from the fal-de-ral conclusion of
my journal of yesterday, that I left
town in very gay humor; citjdS con-
trGTiitnn VeTltnI est. But nature has
given me q kind of .buoyancy-I know
not What to call IL that mihgles even.
with my deepest afflictions and most
gloomy hours. have secret pride-I
fancylftwilI be so most truly termed-
which impels me to mix with my dis
tress strange snatches of mirthi which
have no mirth in them.n FINALLY saws
Hartley Coleridge, in one OF those SON
nets he knew SO well to round into
grace OF form, and infuse with tender
All mel It is the saddest thing on earth,
TORe9 q change where uatlcl n ar m nFEn
Io mark race, not albefd, but estranged ~ T
From itso own Wonted self, by Its own hearth
80 sadly smiling like the ghost ofmif fth, ]! T
Ihat cannot quite deSertitB long abodaI -
IheNery Sigh that ltta theWeafyE load ~ =
OL pain, and looSenS the constraininR RiFth
Within the breast, q semi-tOne of langhter.
For in such case itmay be said with
Thomas Hood, wao but too well knew
the sensation, and dwinced under its cru
city, that = =
- upward griefIs writhing DER its task,
AS heart-stck jesters weep behind the mask,
In this way young werther, by his
own account, as recorded In his once
compasstonated Sorrows, declares of
himself, II affect mirth in my troubles, .
and could compose whole litany Of
anhtheses,n like that between grief and
gaYety5 mirth and gloom, a,weiRht at
the heart and fiighty fooling on the lips.
In the bitterness of his soul, Byron
protested, when that soul was perhaps
in its least spiritual, most SpiTitSteE mood
for he was writing Don Juan at the
time;s ig9it t1pn5fS - 81 .5s.i,-. b
- And 4 ! Iansh at any mortal thing,
mn It's that may not weep.
In a later canto, he harps on the same
string: Z, +, z i;es ~ lsi - iI7a
When We know what llare, we must bewail
But, nie'er the les, 1 hope 1t a no crime
no laugh atAll things; for wish 70 know
Whats atter AL are al things hut Q ahoW3
In the ninth canto, again, he laws stress
IN successestye Btanzas on the fact that
ADeath laughs, that is to say, the skele-
toms slipless mouth grins /. without
breath: HMark how It laughs and dscorns
at all you are ~ igi ~ ii.it. =. i55q3
And thus Death laughs IA sad nerrfnaenf
Bat Rsq stu Il e g; and yith such example
Mhy9honld not Lie be equally content,
" nm his supeEiorS In q smile % tElLnple
Upon the nothings which are daily spent
Like bubbles on an ocean, dc. i.I
1t was IN a precursor of his great satire
that Byron had said, much in the same
mood, though scarcely 50 heayy y--heart-
ed ,,7{ stsilfs 9I iafass 80 - 9.
Ifear I have q little turn for satire,
And yet me thinks the older that one grows
lncline4 qs more to laugh than scold, though
Leayes nsso doubIy rious shortly amer.
As usual, he WAS painting himself in
one Of his faVorite Rttitudes-in print AZ
least, and shorter meter-when he wrote
Oh ms, ,Glnour, .i't,s
N0t0tt to smile descendeth he.
+ And when he doth, It's sad to SEQ
~ That he but mOcls 1t misery.
In his ffiyming ietterto Mr.. HodRson,
written on board ship, dated Falmouth
when he left ENGLAND in 1909. occur the
char aeteristic lines, s2iii slli5
:, But, since lifa at nnoSt 4 lest IL
| lA.-s5 i As pllif0Soph allow,
afFr t3tLl to laugh t15t mr. the best fEs
ts.f Then hhsh on as LIDO now.
IAnyh AT MI tdiuRN - --ft t-i II
- t3feAt and small thfnRE
Sssgl's Sick or wen, al sea or shoEa:
Iiss sfas l7r. s.5si ~ lBe9ltLetfS 1Gd0uziae,
t4tsfIs. alis y ;! l7e----7--
AlBE0lEen Heart.
The following intefestinEsca of a
literally broken heart was related by q
late disttng guished medical professor Of
Philadelp elphia, 70 his class, whils Iectur-
ing upon diseases of the heart. 1t win
be seen on perusing It that the. axpres.
sion '.broken.h d''1 IS not merely
/ hguratfye. In the early part of his ca.
reer, DE-. Mitchell aecompahied, as sur.
J. geons q packet that sailed between Iiv.
erpoo1 and one Of tour soltharn ports
On the return xoya ase, soon afterleayine