Nature in Books
Some Studies in Biography (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Nature in Books: Some Studies in Biography

When youth's fiery ardour begins to show the first symptoms of decay , and the mind, like the joints, is losing its suppleness, the hue of Pleasure seems to undergo a corresponding change. In early days the bright-eyed, frank, and easy damsel had a rosy colour that suited her merry face. She hardly asked to be wooed, but of her own accord was a guest, not only

' - when to the trembling string
The dance gaed through the lighted ha','

but all the day every day. Nay, at times of blackest melancholy, when the young heart was whelmed in hopeless despair, did she not from some unseen corner launch her soft mockery What would we not give for that glimpse of her shining eyes, caught when, 'sighing like a furnace,' we bade her a solemn farewell; for during the heyday of youth she was a close and dear companion, who came alike to labour and to play, and whom not disappointment, nor sorrow nor hardship, nor defeat, could permanently banish.

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