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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
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