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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ... owls. The Indies' trains rustle like the rattle of the snake. Oh, what a hideous outcry! What bursts of laughter! What are they shouting out? The senator disgraced! disgraced! disgraced! (He rolls in anguish from his bed upon the ground. The next scene is the rhapsody of a youthful poet, driven to delirium by the persecution he has experienced. It is sublime as a mere composition, representing a poetic imagination, broken from the moorings of reason, and tossed about by all the fitful fancies of insanity--by the ambitious pride of the poet, and the harrowed feelings of the patriot, and exhaling itself in the wild and unmeasured melody of the seolian harp. It derives, however, a fearful and permanent interest, which can never attach to fiction, in being the representation of a terrible reality, --as expressing a state of mind which was common amongst the Polish youth of that period. Young men of ardent temperaments, pious, generous, studious, and devoted, witnessing so long the cruel persecution of the virtuous, and the triumph of glaring vice and oppression; when wearied out with humiliations and barbarous treatment, were driven to doubt and blasphemy: betwixt which, and a sense of the impiety of their despair, the noblest minds oscillated and were "hattered. The poet-student is dying in his dungeon at ilna; on each side of his pallet is a good and evil spirit; in his delirium he makes the following IMPROVISATION. Solitude! vet why the crowd! what is mankind to the poet? Where is he who will ever comprehend the full thought of my song; Whose glance will ever compass all its meaning? Oh, my song, --unfortunate! wasting thy voice and language upon men. Thy voice wants words, and yet thy voice suffices not to thy thought. Thousht iviiigs its way entire out of ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150143458
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 188
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150143452
  • Publisher Date: 13 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 345 gr

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