This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... SOUR GRAPES. BY LAMAN BLANCHARD. "I have frequently observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the object of our desire begins to lose its attraction in onr eyes," Mr. Colling--PritU and Prejudice. Those tempting grapes!--how rich their hue, Amidst the green on which they rest! Their purple ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... SOUR GRAPES. BY LAMAN BLANCHARD. "I have frequently observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the object of our desire begins to lose its attraction in onr eyes," Mr. Colling--PritU and Prejudice. Those tempting grapes!--how rich their hue, Amidst the green on which they rest! Their purple blood seems bursting through, As eager to be pressed. A bunch of beauty!--hue and shape Combined to form the fair design; A group of fairy globes--each grape A little world of wine! Most beautiful to every sense; The heart drinks pleasure through the eyes; And now its longing grows intense--The hand would seize the prize. It seizes--no! but try again; Another catch--on tip-toe try; One effort more;--the hope is vain, They hang so very high. A dreary change--a chilling shade, A sudden breath of blighting power, Falls on the grapes--their colours fade--The fruit, in fact, is sour! So is it with us; hour by hour, Age after age; and this were meet, If calling sweets beyond us sour, Could make our sours more sweet. It may be wise to scorn the prize, For which in vain we read or wrote; But wiser far to see a star Still radiant, though remote. If happy he, who, should he miss The fruit, can pass it as pernicious, More bless'd his lot, who, losing bliss, Still thinks the grapes delicious;--Who sees the crowning cluster--where His hand may reach in two more summers; And laughs, and leaves its sweetness there, A feast for after-comers. SOME ACCOUNT OP THE ISLAND OF JERBI, AND THE TOWER OF HUMAN HEADS. From information obtained on a visit to that Island during the Summer of 1833, BY THOMAS KERHICH. It will doubtless sound rather singular to the reader, that a person should undertake a voyage to the coast of Barbary, beginning in June and continuing...
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