Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843. Various

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 - Various


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the Far,

      Chasing his own dream for ever,

      On through many a distant Star!

      But Woman with looks that can charm and enchain,

      Lureth back at her beck the wild truant again,

      By the spell of her presence beguil'd—

      In the home of the Mother her modest abode,

      And modest the manners by Nature bestow'd

      On Nature's most exquisite child!

      Bruised and worn, but fiercely breasting,

      Foe to foe, the angry strife;

      Man the Wild One, never resting,

      Roams along the troubled life;

      What he planneth, still pursuing;

      Vainly as the Hydra bleeds,

      Crest the sever'd crest renewing—

      Wish to wither'd wish succeeds.

      But Woman at peace with all being, reposes,

      And seeks from the Moment to gather the roses—

      Whose sweets to her culture belong.

      Ah! richer than he, though his soul reigneth o'er

      The mighty dominion of Genius and Lore,

      And the infinite Circle of Song.

      Strong, and proud, and self-depending,

      Man's cold bosom beats alone;

      Heart with heart divinely blending,

      In the love that Gods have known,

      Souls' sweet interchange of feeling,

      Melting tears—he never knows,

      Each hard sense the hard one steeling,

      Arms against a world of foes.

      Alive, as the wind-harp, how lightly soever

      If woo'd by the Zephyr, to music will quiver,

      Is Woman to Hope and to Fear;

      Ah, tender one! still at the shadow of grieving,

      How quiver the chords—how thy bosom is heaving—

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      "Taille and the Gabelle." Sully thus describes these fertile sources of crime and misery:—"Taille, source principale d'abus et de vexations de toute espèce, sans sa repartition et sa perception. Il est bien à souhaiter, mais pas à espérer, qu'on change un jour en entier le fond de cette partie des revenus. Je mets la Gabelle de niveau avec la Taille. Je n'ai jamais rien trouvé de si bizarrement tyrannique que de faire acheter à un particulier, plus de sel qu'il n'en veut et n'en peut consommer, et de lui défendre encore de revendre ce qu'il a de trop."

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      Ulysses.

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      Need we say to the general reader, that Oileus here alludes to

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"Taille and the Gabelle." Sully thus describes these fertile sources of crime and misery:—"Taille, source principale d'abus et de vexations de toute espèce, sans sa repartition et sa perception. Il est bien à souhaiter, mais pas à espérer, qu'on change un jour en entier le fond de cette partie des revenus. Je mets la Gabelle de niveau avec la Taille. Je n'ai jamais rien trouvé de si bizarrement tyrannique que de faire acheter à un particulier, plus de sel qu'il n'en veut et n'en peut consommer, et de lui défendre encore de revendre ce qu'il a de trop."

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Ulysses.

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Need we say to the general reader, that Oileus here alludes to the strife between Ajax and Ulysses, which has furnished a subject to the Greek tragic poet, who has depicted, more strikingly than any historian, that intense emulation for glory, and that mortal agony in defeat, which made the main secret of the prodigious energy of the Greek character? The poet, in taking his hero from the Homeric age, endowed him with the feelings of the Athenian republicans he addressed.

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Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles.

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Cassandra.

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Literally, "A judge (ein richter) was again upon the earth." The word substituted in the translation, is introduced in order to recall to the reader the sublime name given, not without justice, to Rudolf of Hapsburg, viz., "THE LIVING LAW."

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This simile is nobly conceived, but expressed somewhat obscurely. As Hercules contended in vain against Antæus, the Son of Earth,—so long as the Earth gave her giant offspring new strength in every fall,—so the soul contends in vain with evil—the natural earth-born enemy, while the very contact of the earth invigorates the enemy for the struggle. And as Antæus was slain at last, when Hercules lifted him from the earth and strangled him while raised aloft, so can the soul slay the enemy, (the desire, the passion, the evil, the earth's offspring,) when bearing it from earth itself, and stifling it in the higher air.

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Hermes.


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