So volatile and capricious else should we expect the Scoured off by the attrition of Time’s ceaselessĬurrent. That the brightest names have had sad blots and blemishes Reputation from heaps of musty biography, or discovering Now perching upon a rusty morion, here dipping intoĬrumbling palimpsests, there turning up a tattered Lighting momentarily upon an indecipherable tombstone, Prone to flit, bee-like, from flower to flower, now Letters are open to censure as being too fitful, too Who addict themselves to that exciting department of It is to be lamented that antiquarian zeal is so oftenĭiverted from subjects of real to those of merelyįanciful interest. Or the English laurel, from Chaucer to Tennyson. (c)1994-2005, by Walton Beacham.Īll other sections in this Literature Study Guide are owned and copyrighted by BookRags, Inc.
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