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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1878)
IHHflHHHflHHHHHH THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. Qui nnn Prollclt, Deficit. VOL. VII. DECEMBER, 1878. NO. 9. FKANGESGA. BV HONOKE rilANCIIXON. When you stood In silence smiling, All my henrt and hopes beguiling, Did you know tho sad undoing . Of my life and love, nccrucing from your wanton, willing trifling? When you sang In girlish gladness Freeing pain and soothing sadness, Did you dream the full oblation That I poured in Joy's station Each distrustful whisper stifling ? When you lent your lips to tempting No device or art exempting, Did you know tho sudden loathing All my thoughts and fancies clothing Of fair beauty and your charming! When yonr cyolids drooped in shyness, As you listened to my address, Did you dream the new creation Of my trust; and Hope's dilation All my scorn and wealth disarming? Thus I waver, often changing; From belief to scofllng ranging; Circe Una; which tho true one As one doubt dissolves a new oue hprings again my torments raising. Ah beloved, now unveiling (And my woe or 11ibs unsealing) Orant, I pray, a revelation That my tearful lamentation Hay be turned to tunclul praising. BOS WALL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON. Perhaps there never entered the streets of London, two such candidates tor fu. lure lame, us on the day when Samuel Johnson, and his pupil David Qarrick came up from their native town to win for themselves a place in the great city. Here tofore, we find Johnson struggling with adversity, with bodily disorders, disfigure, ment, disease and the most grinding pov erty. We sec the relinquishment of his degree upon the death of his father, his marriage to it widow older that himself, their failure to establish n school, and his departure for London, after sending his beloved " Tatty," to the earn of her friends. Here surrounded by the most trying and dishcartning circumstances, he meets Boswell his future servant, wor shiper, and biographer. The man, who by nature was impertinent, hallow, pe dantic, a bigot, a sot bloated with family pride, sevile crouching at the feet of his master, a vain coxcomb, who call all the printer boys to view his gay dress when he has come from being presented at court, one who proclaims himself to the world as a taller and eavesdropper. Johnson said of him that he missed his only chance ofbeing immortal by not liv. ing when the Dunciad was living-. Jin caulay denies to him the least particle of VHHHBHMM rowmgygaregss !'.''