Memoirs of the Notorious Stephen Burroughs,: Containing Many Incidents in the Life of this Wonderful Man, Never Before Published

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Cornish, Lamport & Company, 1852 - Americans - 299 pages

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Page 13 - Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Page 195 - O ye blest scenes of permanent delight ! Full, above measure ! lasting, beyond bound! A perpetuity of bliss, is bliss. Could you, so rich in rapture, fear an end; That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy, And quite unparadise the realms of light. Safe are you lodged above these rolling spheres ; The baleful influence of whose giddy dance Sheds sad vicissitude on all beneath.
Page 132 - The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
Page 250 - Sure to receive and whehu them in their fall. Such, Britons ! is the cause, to you unknown, Or, worse, o'erlook'd ; o'erlook'd by magistrates, Thus criminals themselves. I grant the deed Is madness, but the madness of the heart. And -what is that? our utmost bound of guilt.
Page 193 - Above, below, aerial murmurs swell, From hanging wood, brown heath, and bushy dell ! A thousand nameless rills, that shun the light, Stealing soft music on the ear of night.
Page 48 - ... than run the risk of the dangers which were before me. But upon more mature reflection, I found the hard hand of necessity compelled me to stay. When I awoke the next morning, my heart beat with anxious palpitation for the issue of the day. I considered this as the most important scene of my life — that in a great measure, my future happiness or wretchedness depended on my conduct through this day. The time for assembling approached! I saw people began to come together. My feelings were all...
Page 210 - Bent on destruction ! and in love with death ! Not all these luminaries, quench'd at once, Were half so sad, as one benighted mind, Which gropes for happiness, and meets despair.
Page 143 - Reason progressive, instinct is complete ; Swift instinct leaps ; slow reason feebly climbs. Brutes soon their zenith reach ; their little all Flows in at once ; in ages they no more Could know, or do, or covet, or enjoy, Were man to live coeval with the Sun, The patriarch-pupil would be learning still ; Yet, dying, leave his lesson half unlearnt.
Page 158 - I would only reply, in the words of Philip to Nathaniel, " Come and see ;" make the trial and then judge for yourselves. By making the trial, understand me to mean, that you look into the spirit of that temper which the world holds up to view, and let your hearts be fully reconciled to such a spirit, and governed by such a temper, and I well know you will want no other evidence to convince you, that in this wisdom there is such a treasure, that all the things you can desire are not to be compared...
Page 100 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. And let her prophecy be soon fulfill'd : Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more.

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