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mi 4 . ..j i 'i ,1 . v i. . i. u Oil u x i x.iuir. OXPORD, N. C. MAT 13, 1858, YOL. 1 -NO. 14. F K. STROTHEB, Proprl$t tor. f 4 r$ It l?Z tltT 1f 4, i ; V : ! - - t M . !' ' . :,-i ':.V-- f--- ! ;. - r- "'-! :: 11 '"'S.-: -l 'r :---,' - ' ; 1 . , ';;- i' ! - , , - -i-.M 'i'i.-; 'i-.-i : . , p.,-. ' :. i -- - I . TL'u rare bat exqauite poem is from the pen tCthat gcaiil m&n, now, dead Horace Smith. It ia one of the most aoirersally admired poems In our language. Ed. i l Hymn to thd flowers, j Dot stars 1 that ope your frownlcsseres to twinkle ' From rainbow galaxies of earth a cfeation, And dew drops on her loncir altars epnakle As a libatkin. Ye mfitin worshippers I whcrycndlng lowlj Before the npnae-i sun, Gcd's lidlcss eye, Throw from your chalices asweet and holy ' Ye bright Mosaics! that with storied beauty, The lloor of Nature's temple tesselate, What numerous emblems oflnstructive duty Your forms create I t Ml 'Neath cloistered boughs, each floral bell that i swinjreth. . 'I " i I ' And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth 'I A call to prayer. j, Not to tho domes where1 crumbling arch and column -' Altcat the f'oeblcnc3s of mortal hand, Hut to thatfane, most catholic and solemn, Which God hAth planned: To that calhcdfal, boundless as our wonder. Whose fjuenchless lamps the sun'ttud moon supply; ; xis choir tad wnvu ana waves iu organ luundur .!"'. Its domo the sky. ' Therci as in solituJo and shade I wander , Through the green aisles, or stretched ; upon me siki, , Awed by the silence, reverently ponder ; Tho ways ot Uod, j Your voiceless lips, 0 Tlowers! are living prcaencr l'ach cup a pulpit, every le.if a book, Supplying to my luncy numerom teachers From loneliest nook. with the window, I seized ja portion of loose rope which j had somehowj formed a running knot about the: lightning ; rod,, and .by which alone she was detained, wound it firmly around one of the low rafters In the roof, and then proceeddd to assist Julia and Col. Richardson into her We were not a whit too hasty. The sea, for several minutes past, had been rushing in irregular streams from the front entrance, and the whole party ; excepting' Julia, whom we had enthroned upon a pile of chairs placed crosswise againnt the walls, were waist deep in water. I . ' ; i r': I. ! : j --. I Buonarottl and myself stepped into the skiff at the same moment. The storm had perceptib" ly moderated. The solid mass of cloud dis- ruptured, and broken into gigantic fragments, foiled heavily dow;a towards the west. But the same ghostly, light enveloped the scene, and likq a mighty shroud hung over the face, of nature. ! . S -I : ' I ' j Col. Richardson took the hel m, whilst I and the Italian assumed each an oar.! I severed the rope, and we swung slowly, out into the open water. V We had Vowed scarcely fifty yards from the house before I felt that I had utterly miscalcu lated bo tli as to the strength of the boat and the degree) of subsidence , in the gale. We were in thej'midst of what is called a " chopp1 ing aea, ' and alreauy the skill had sprung a- leak. She could notions live in such a sea of that I was assured. I "i-.-i, 'However,' it was our last "chance, and so worked away with a wlllj. and Buonarotti, though an unskillful oarsman, dtd the same. All ut once')! the wind veered sndicnly, and Floral Apostles I that in dewy splendor' " Ween without woe, aud' blush without a crime, " , : O may I deeply Uarn, and noVr surrender Your lore sublime I j- ergized the relaxed sinews, and braced op the whole system for the terrific contest the life and death straggled which was close at hand. i cannot dwell upon the horrid- particulars of the strife, but there in the dull gray dawn,' on the foothold of a sinking skiff, alone on a waste of sea yet swollen and, tumultuous, from ' the dying throes of the tempest, I grappled with the- murderer, his hot breath upon my brow, and his great wolfish eyes glaring into mine with the glare of hell. Twice I felt the cold steel cut into my flesh, and twice the arms of the foe, lithe and sinewy were twined round me in a deadly embrace-, but I conquered con quered in might of a holy fufy, for the air was thick with the old man's blood, and the one groan hejuttered in - falling pleaded trumpet tongued for retribution: 1 I conqueredand as the' wretch, riddled with wounds from his own poniard, followed his victim to the deep, another ghastly ace looked out ' upon me from the is sometimes plunged, I exclaim with the Eng- ish philosopher:" Death tee, can face, httA knowing as some of us do vhai Is human lye, which of us is it tliat without shuddering could (" consciously he were summoned) fact th hour of birth?" i leaden waters, and the propflecy o tom-mirror was fulfilled. the phan- 4Tbou wcrt not, Solomon 1 in all thy jrtory, Arrayed," the lilies cry ' iu robes like ours j JIow vain your grandeur I ah, how transitory Are human flowers 1" i ! In the sweft-sccntcd Pictures, heavenly artist I What transpired after this, 1 know not. They tell motliat we were rescued by a homeward bound merchantman, and brought in the next day, to C- . We had both been taken on board-insensible, and for many days Julia's life was despaired okj During jthis period she wandered in delirium, or relapsed into condir tions of appalling weakness, j But the resiliency of youth triumphed and when next we met, although her step was unelastie, and her look languid, her glorious beauty yas hot dimmed. Her eyes, largey . brilliant And expressive as before, shone with even an intenser light. There was something ; however, about' her whole appearance and manner which created within me 'undefined apprehensions. But in thejsunshine of our mutual love and hope they did 'not oppress me. r ' " ; When the allotted period t of mourning for Wier father (the manner of J whose death she never suspected) had past, we were, married and, soon after I removed to that delightful home among the mountains of which you have heard mej speak. There, I spent one rear of the 'purest happiness ever granted by heaven to a mortal. But .suddenly, from the serene sky sharply round; Col. Richardson lost for an in slant the command, of the rudder, and both the oars were whirled out of our hands, the shaft of , . ! -. 1 . . .!,.,- -I- " - .1 VI'. l:if a 1 me o.ie i nau unaertaicen to manage, KnocKing me 8en&eltsj across the; thwart". I must have remained for some time - in a m i i i state of- unconsciousness, for Upon recovery, the hist vestige of land had disappeared, and the boat was laboring fur out upon the ocean. Both wind and waves had astonishingly calmed down, and a sickly: glimmer eastward proved the approach of morning. Oar poor craft was a third full of water, and seemed to be in jra- of our joy, there fell a bolt which struck our minent danger of foundering. J ; ' : Having noted these things, I glanced towards hard fee. The rapkl appointed goal, tagohist a final hissed the heavy. quoit. The blow. r runneri has reached the M OninL With which thou paintestuaturc'a wide-spread my companions. JuliaJ h(Vll, 1 What a delightful lesson thou impartcst Of love to all I Not useless are ye, Flowers 1 though made for pleasure : Blooming ,o'cr field and wave, by day and t nhrht, ' - rrom everv source your sanction bids me trcasuro Harmless delight. Knhcmcral sages J what instructors hoary For mich a w rid " of thought could furnish scope ? - K'ach fading calyx a memento inoriy Yet fount of hope,, j . Posthumous glories 1 angej-like collection I Ufraistd from, seed or bulb in:erred iu earth, Ye are to me typo of resurrection, j And second birth, j Were I In churchless solitudes remaiuin, -Far from all voice of teachers and divines, Mj soul would find, in flowers of God's ordain- ingi - ". -' ' C . 1 Triests, Berraons, shriucs 1 "ONE TOO MANY." j A TALE OF THE EQUINOX. DT PAUL M. ItAYNt. in a fainting condition, reclined in the stern: Col. "Richardson and the Italian werej busily t)aihig with their hats. As soon as my eye fell upon' them, I was struck by something peculiar in Buonarotti's motions. While with one hand he continued-hailing" with frantic haste, he fumbled with the other in the folds of his coat, as if Seeking something for which there' was instani need. . j Thus occupied, he approached Ool. Richard- ton, whose .back was turned, lifted his arm rapidly, and struck the old man a fierce blow in fell overboard with a more to the ' surface, household peace, and withered it ' root and branch, i; Physically, my wife seemed ;to have wholly recovered from i the illness engendered by the horrors and the iexpof ure of the storm, but; the mind had been fatally stricken. Upon the birth of her daughter,: the seeds of the latent disease blossomed into dreadful luxuri ance; ( i - - ' i I Ah ! my friend, had she died had the angels i Students in History. - ' ' ' Seeoditcb. j 1 , The summer sun heats down on the towers and domes of Pelopbhneshin Elis,and from that city heralds have gone forth to proclaim a ? sa cred tt-uce throughout Greece: during the ecle-: bration of the Olympic games. Soon every approach to tho capital is thronged, with men eager for the spectacle. " The warlike Macedo nian, the rugged Thessalian, the dull Boeotian, the stately Athenian, the .peaceful j Arcadian and the keen-witted Spartanj have alike' one common-object. -The iEgean and Ionian .seas are covered with gayly-decked vessels from the many islands of Greece. Lemnos, darkened by the huge shadow of Mount Athos, sends'up its representatives, on whose false hearts a still darker shadow rests. 'Chios.! not -unmindful: of that blind old man who. more than four hun dred years before had left its rocky shores to ! sing ot the siege ot Troy -and the wanderings of Ulysses, appoints deputies well skilled in commemorating the noble deeds of noble mienj Naxos, whose purple grapes the rich Athenian loves, and whose strength the Persian felt at' the battle of tPlataea, has trained a study "race who cah as easily win a chaplet as tread a wine press.' Paros has bidden its! sculptors mael ready their blocks and chiself-, for the victorsTR. lull uic men omvues ui uu UlUCI j 111 ill U1U 111. Ill that which is hewn from their quarries, which; is of so white ;a hue and so (close .a grain;-: Whilst, the bowmen and singers of Crete, the dyers orCythera, the inhospitable Ithacan, arid, the sea-faring Coreyrian, bend their sails to the' sacred city of Olympia. .'.---" t r f I j But among the nurbber of. the journcyers are? those that have made themselves a name for all! time generals, statesmen, philosophers, poets.? There is tho brave and handsome Cimon, whomr his ! JmpuUive countrymen have, just recalled, from that banishment to which their ingratitude had hurried him., He is talljknd majestic, and; his hair falls in clustering curls upon .his shoul ders.. By his side and . no . longer at' enmity : with him, is Pericles, distinguished' by a vigor-. ous frame, grave aspect, and jsimpU costume.' IILj head, carefully covered) is of unusual length and the. comic poets, in -allusion to. this defect; style him onion-headed. . That venerable look- iug man, a few paces trom.him, is Anaxagoras, boxer has dealt ni an-I Thh 6&satton nrtvJ ncA ha. Yn tr.. Hish I into the air has thing indescribable. I jhare lived he're half 07 The Javelin has sped V lif4 and lived throuch inanr a ao-talled histot- wondrous lengtli, Twjslve times has the cnariot ical event, bat I never Ww anythifigcome . circled the course. ' Already the Tictor wears to the ctnotlon .tauSed tjr that irjal and execo- the rown of sacred olive an hears his name Hon 0f OrsinU HUcripia itemed to U bUite- proclaimed aloud by the; herkld.1 Already hie rated from.etefy irriemory, and the impression sees the triumphal car which to bear him to only left of his dAuntless courore and Lis devo his native city the banquets pven in his honor, tiorjf to his" conntrW eahse. the statue raised in thpmark;t pUce,:and hw VfAs t told yon, tho difiicuny crihher tit. namf handed down to, a remote posterity by cutjfg or pardoning hiro was. so immense, that, the immortal verso of the boafy beaded Pindar in the end, a privy council was called the day himself. j Vi . j' , j j after the Court of Uasjsalion had refused te . Arid now begin the contests in eloquence, in quash the sentence--there being no legal res poetry) and music. 1 The Arcaiian pipers meet sob fordoing so -and jho question of the nui. mciricnotts iu m tsuuuiiug siraim me 1 ui wuiuiuitiiun ui punisauieni v, ."s the guerdon from, 1 the J lengthily discussedthe Emperor trying l y The rhapsodists j every means to avoid the execution, i The d-r harpers of. olia win cunning; players' of Rhodes. of Corinth bear the palm jfron the minstrels of before (on theThursdsy) the Prefect deTolice. Argas. The poets of Atheng find in those of Pietrij came td General .spi&issc; tho Win- Lesbos and Teos not unworthy successors to istet of tho Interior, and saidt Now vcu SappW and Anacrcoa : Anop Sophocles mo, 'knor .my reasoning is a purely selfish one. . I tions to Herodotus 4o rise. A.rid the young am not a political man, I am simply anxioui 10 man,' roused by the grcatnessiof the occasion, preserve the Emperor's life, and it is my daty recites in stirring tones the history of his re- to declare that, if the head of Orsini falls. I ca a searches- the . river AiphseusJ which flows at no longer undertake to answer for the Emp2- hi3 feet, presenting an emblem of his career ror s safety; General Espinasso waxed wrt!;, awlule running on in Lbscurilyt but at length said thatj as.forhimj he houlddo everythir gfa emerging into light life and liberty; j - :'. n the world to insure the execution; but at lasV. , He tells how, after Uie Athe "Sardis, Dariu how, lafterSie1 Athiniaris had burnt PPreSi!ed by M. Pietrfs energetic expressions, rius UJok7 bw and irrows, arid, like hded saying t AVtll, yoa had teat f-o Israel s monarch, shot towards heaven saying s WS6 may I be aven;;edon my enemies.'' 'How the Pimreror and talk rtvpr lh mntf ip-hVi l.t t M.' Pietri did ao, and, by the Emperor's di &lr5 out of all usage-f-prese.nt atthecabinet coun cil of Friday. There to all the persons neo bledj he-repeated what he had said all along ' t beseech the council to think well over r-hzt Ke commanded one of hi3 attendantsi evarv time dinner was set before hirril to repeat thrwe: remember the Atheniaes," Howwiicn he sent heralds: into Greece ' to demand earth aud water; in token o subiedtion. the men 0f t about to do ji U is not a poIiUc 1 qutbc. Athens cast them into a deep pit, and the Spar- and 1 kmw nothinS of Pontics but the ques- tana threw them ind aideeb well,-and bade tn U: How, shall ihe Emperor's life be bei them carry earth andwaterilthe king from Preserved As Prefect de Poliec. 1 can; fur thence. How Xerxes, his so'n ' and successor Part oaZ declare at, should Owini be ex. in vision of thR nitt iw himself .euted 1 can no ,onS conscientiously ; re - witH the sprig of nn olive trer the branches of Wd M CaPaWe of protecting the Em. offer my resignationi'; , 'The. majority, of the couhcil, however, b ing Frenchmen, instead of Corbicans; and never having in their lives been the sworn asso. latcz of Carbonari, could not be brought to see tho translated her to that country where, we are who, poor and friendless, has had to remind told, "love becomes immortal," I might for a I his former, pupil that those Who have need of while-have murmured and repined, but the con- a lamp must take care to supply.it with oiL -victlon that to her had come 'Hhat peace of God Near the philosopher is a sculptor whom Peri the side. Tho victim slight groan, rose once presenting a countenance contorted by the death aiionvJ and then disappeared; forever, a few dark bubbles on the face of the Sea show ing where the corpse had sank. The deed was done with the quiet skill aud celerity of the practiced Bravo.- Julia? thank heaven! saw -it not. Uidcr(the pressure of terror and fatigue, she had become wholly insensible, f The cold sweat broke out upon ine and I. shuddered, in which passeth all understanding," would gra dually have subdued melo resignation and the quiet of a sacred trust.: :i '' ! -i:- Brantly paused, and then broke forth wildly: Think of it, Rliilipl think of it? Picture -to yourself the desolation of a wretch who, in the moment of his greatest security, f sees his bliss shattered; annihilated cast" like ashes upon the winds I Who is icwced to Denold a being dearer to him than health, youth, life, his cles has befriended, and whose works are of wonderful 'merit; for alt Greece has admired the: ivory and gold statue of Japiter- which stands in the temple of that .deity at Olympia ; and to compare this with his Jasti masterpiece is the chief, object of Phidias in that city. Therei too is one of noble bearing,; in the prime of iL j it. i. .. . x a.. . L.':' a .i. 7 uiauuuuu, iu greubesi. uagic poet men living, the wise and accomplished Sophocles. He is in eager conversation with a young man about CONCLUDED. Just then a strange grating sound, succeeded by several violent thumps against the ide of the hous recalled me to a sense of our posi tion,' Tho thumping seemod .to proceed from some solid body possibly the trunk of a tree uprooted by, tho gale, or a fragment of broken timber. ' I stopped to the window, andcarefu d back tho shutter. The room we fnow oc cupied was, as intimated before, in the-;Ieast exposed quarter of the building, so that I was enabled, by the exercise of tho necessary cau tion, to examine with more minuteness than had hitherto been possible, the condition of things without Tho sea was still rising rapid ly, but the portion below me, somewhat shel tered from the action of the wind, presented a comparatively calm appearance. Tho sky had considerably lightened, arid the influence of the moon's rays, stilt struggling and imperfect, im parted to the objects around a dull and ghastly vitality. By the aid of its partial gleams I saw directly beneath tho window-sill a small skiff, very sharp in the bows, which had become en tangled by some means with the lishtnin rod, and produced the grating and thumping sounds previously referred to.- My heart leaped up at the tight. ' Here, at last, 'was a chance of es ' cape slight, Indeed, but definite," and jmme diately all my constitutional energy;, nd. hope- - fulness revived. Tho litUe craft was evidently uninjured ; she floated with the buoyancy of a tird, Dd, what was yet more encouraging, I perceived that neither of her oars (she was a twroared boat) had been washed away. - f When th tido had lifted her nearly to a level second and purer self fall from the heights of I a manuscript which he carries in his hand, and rAAon Into such abvsses of distorting madness. whir-.Ti the latter intends tnrenri .it. thn smnrnnrK every limb. ; upon witnessing thn atrocious that be dares not look upon the change. They ing festival. , That manuscript is the first fa murder. But no leisure was granted me to de- say $hat the Deity is merciful merciful the: mous Grecian history which has been written, piore me late 01 anotner. i ne vaiam iiurnea we only pay the penalty of sm. -1 have been and that young man is HerodotusJ slowly round, and seeing that I was not dead, wjld, and Wicked, and disobedient, I know, but, stared at first in blank amazement, and then, oh I God! do I desei ve tliis?" - t 1 1 .-'"' ' 1 w 4 - "i -if.. - . with the same malignant smile : which 1 had h jt waslnow mv duty to soothe him. Ii at- once before observed upon his features, deliber- tempted to do so: "There is some consolation ately advanced to the boat's bow where, almost left; you still your daughter- helpless from the blowj of the oar, I could with yesl .difficulty support myself by clinging to a 6eat j mej with a m ironu ;, . . :i There could be no mistaking -his intent. iHe is about twenty-eight years of age, and was born at Halicarnassus, in Asia Minor, B. 0 484. The name of his father is Lvxes: of his mother, Dyros and he had an uncle who poa- my daughter I he said, interrupting b wbo was cra put to death by which covered the whole earth r and how. in obedience to tbi vision, he piepard to 'invade jrreece, wun an: immense army gain erca rrom many nations and tribes- Hovf bravely the Per- jd, with'i sians were( equipped, plates, vand ' bucklers ; i ... ' their tiara , breast- the Indians with their coloned tunics, bows of cane and ironlipped T - , ue uang arrows : the Uasbians With their eoat skin man- 1 -. r ties wit fonr-rnhitslor,--. tho PnhhlnrinlnnV wi.K alarm felt V his Imperial Majesty. nlkfl hptmPfs. ih rL.lnalrUK h.' ,w.M. cunooa anecdote, for which I cancroch,-. 1 1" l-" p.... .....u. s....v.. . . : . Of raw hides, the Thraclaris with4 their cloaks fe.,ouowing; .,une. oi . ine .magistrates. of many colors. I Howj seatedjjon a lofty throne tows; the Casplans with their goat skin man- nKU,u!'tu' "? esi and bright flashincimeters; the Ethiopian commutation of pumshmcnt, far the greater ct i th their panthers' arid Hons skins, and bows e two as at once reveahng the, intensity of tho Of white msrblel Xerxes beheld the whole host i ' .! . ; w. -I j . f . i - l - . -1 and ; how he wept at the thought ' that not . one of that countless number wodld survive to the hundredth year. ; Then the historian tells of highest placed on the bench and who was fore most in conducting the prosecution against the prisoner, (yon will easily see why I cannot give his name publicly,) had, both personally and ty teiter, held communication with Ofnini sines the trial and. Orsini having written to.tharic Grecian courage, r him for various good offices,- the maefctfate I and his eyes glisten and, his fop trembles. speak of paid him a last visit at the prison. of He tells or the reply ot the ipartan ambassa- La Roquette. Upon this occasion, he addressed dors to the Persian general who advised them . Orsini thus i I have no right to ask you what , to submit to his soverehm: ''"hTou kno'w well.n' J .m aWtt tn W. A Wn ovo i - said, they, M what it i to be a slave, but you refuse me an answer. Consequently; if try know not what -it is to be free; for had you qnestioo.be- Indiscreet remam'aileat;-' tThat is tried liberty, you would advise us to fight for your belief - with regard to further attempU it, not with .spears but jwitb hatchets. He upon the Emperor's lifet Will these continttel' tells of the saying of fhe Lacedasmonian sol- OrsinL looked him fall ro the faee, and an- dier who, wheri a faint hearled . ally declared gwered, slowly and very gravely: - I can have that the number of the Median arrows would J no reason for not answering you,- and for ttoi darken the sun, answered; . We will fight in J speaking the perfect troth it is impossible ho the shade.''- He. tells of the intrepid Spartans should escape he is losV-tlczt perdu.) at Thermopylae,-performing their exercise and Qrsini left a will, appomtinsr as his execu combing their hair aceording to their, custom tor, Count Camischi, one of the most famous of when about to hght forj life and home. He tells Uie Italbll refugees, and who has for some time of one of their j heroes who, being dismissed been lucratively placed in the bureau of 4he from his post on account, of sudden blindness, cu tfobUUn The London Times say that ordered his slave to lead him to the battle and, Qrsini's aister is here, but the frienda'of Orsiai He truly 1 and yet she has not crossed the thresh old of this house for- let ! me see -aye ! for Lyedamis, the tyrant of Halicarnassus.4 - At the age of twenty-five, Herodotus leaves the home, paused about half way .between Julia and my- eighteen' months. rThe truth iit'is self, and spoke in a peculiarly low, sweet voice, natural, I do not blame hersJie prefersher . Ir .u i. ia- i , ... ' v , , .j . ,,- l - r ' . . 1 J lus for the observation of men and manners in, llypush- looking me all the whie full m the face: ;. mother's society, i They.hve together in a; cer- ; iiUv;, WeU 1 my excellent friend, what 1 do you taiq charming. public establifhment-no matter tA. think of our chances now ? : Slim fare they where and I have no doubt are verycomfort- - , ,jA rushing .headlong on the foe, field of conflict' He tells of das and the Three Hundred, rUed to hia memory! at the pass, and of the inscription . i i ... : j i : a .in ji t.. .tu;i: t l the Colonel, (self-Sacnncmg man the Colonel!) let us talk of something else." . . . ! ! i - -- - . . ,. : -t 0 T , 7 ; - , , , and: measures two -of the pyramids, inquires left the bont forour benefit. He was a gentle I was inexpressibly shocked and could: not ! ... iT., V ' . , ' . , . j . - ,, --Ut - ';;'' j -:3 concerning the course of the JViIeV and sees the; man of weight, you knpw--carried a .hundred trust myself to reply. However, I determined , - i ... 4. v ' and ninety pounds at least, and although we to wean Brantly, if possible, from his " dark Itude may regret his'absenc, the boat, you sec, does thoughts, and the moody so not. Why. the. tune i creature is quite jony sent mode ot lite. since be took leave of her. 'But "there's some extra weight in her still ; more than we need for ballast ;' the5fac isj my dear friend, our force is too strong--we are one just oxe too . . , w - Presuming upon my fiend proceeded io the sarcasm, to comment upon the superior chances and there, year after yeSr, - of escape for himself and Julia- so soon, as I brood - oveT the. nast-a' lonelv" had been disposed ofcongratulated me upon hearted manv of his pre- 1 ear-ritiffs and bracelets oh their fore-nawswHei also visits f5yria and Palestine the; .northern; ' I carta ot Africa. Ebatana and Babvlon. ( After!: The experiment was trie U noer tne mnaence ot a. pammi lascmauon, 1;fe and his heart - Yearns towaf ds "his native- which it is the province of tne . psychologist top1ace; Bat Lygda mis still fives.fTho lover of exp ain, lirantly had sought tne scene,- aoove i nberty cannot breathe the same air as the op-. all others, fraurrht with terrible and ' mournful iperfccthelplessness,tne mei,orhad purchased t and Jre-hulltitlie same vein of diabolical house whichformerly belonged to CohRichard- continue to lonely I" and ' broken the" opportunity which ;was loflered';to; display: 7Mn hJch my devotion 1 and heroism in the cause of love . ,u - n V - . s J. - . . ' i i - . he lives increases.. But among themi not of i f' .. . themtbfc victim of a cruel fatality moves id his epitaph, and to take the best possible care of - v , ; , . ' ' : , . -. - . - a , . J owh sombre sphere of enef. and is more- and rrlr- - m flinated from Ihel th'nt Tentertained a manlv WniRKinn ! Tint God strengthened me in.tbat hour of triat A fierv -iii???? Wn, t hisw; which indignation: rushed through my veins, and; like Ks irremediable, and reflecting now. upon the I a penetrating cordial, invigorated the will, en- 1 depths of thatrwo into '.-wbtca ir.poor humamty pressor; 4 so he' turftsside tojfhe: friendly isle; of Samos, and carries on a secret commonica-j. tiori' with bis adherents. ' At length the tyrant is dethrcne'd, and the bio od 'of Panyasfs Is avenged;. Yet Halicarnassus is'not free. X The nobles, fondef of power than justice, seize the the belm of governme cannot prove a second time the deliverer of his country, he.leayes it fof eveiy and how seeks at the Olyraphian '-"festival the honor which he is denied at home; i Xvvl ; p: ,'' -1 The games have corameneed when that good-; ly company ari f e- a t the , scene of their ibefe braUoru : The - wrestler has thrice -thrown, his perished on the he fall of Leoni bf the tone lion entrance to the placed over .all: jLacedsimonians that we say it is his wife,' Their version is, that a few years back be secretly married an Italian lady, by whom be has two infant children, and that three years ago be left her,- saying i ' I have tha deiiveranee of Italy before me ; that iu what I consecrate l my enftrgies to and my late is to die oa the scaffold. -' -- c r r ? V Tlie Peer and the Painter;' ; " The Duke of Somercst (a Seymonr), coci monly called "the proud duke; n enlpltfyed Sey mour the artist 'to paint the portraits of his horses at PetwoTtlL'i One day, Vt dinner'the duke filled bis glass; and saying with a sneer -iMCcjuafn Seymour, jour health'". drank it qt"'v"v'l5-t;- 'i- -Mttj iordV kld' the'artist,'" I believe I hare Stranger, go tell the lie here, obedient to their commands.' When he pronounced these words, there went up a shoui from the assembled mnltitude which rent the air. ' The marines in charge of the ves sels catch up the cheer. Tho aeighboring islan ders echo it back. The Ionian, sea rings again. Herodotus fame is wool-cr, I i : t' : ii ' But of the succeeding years of bis life what other -triumphs he acchieveditwhat other coun tries he yUited-i-liitlc w recorded. . We know; however, that he traveled through he Grecian provinces for the purpose oft improving: his 1 Uie honor of being related toVour craceJ great workVjhat he again, repteoj itat one of : TTlie proud peer rose from the table a cd thetrieriLrn ffstivalstliat jhe was presented ordered his steward to dismiss the presuraptu by the assembly with ten talefcts of the public oo painter; and employ an humbler brother of money ; that, he at length settled "in iulya'fed the irastL-i " '' . '', died, full ordayX,,sometime lubsequent to tte "This was accordingly ,doref but wheh tha year 403 B.C. illis mUumenVPlaced outside new painter aa'r the spirited w orks "of bis pre mie: of the gates of Athens, sopn fell into decay? J decesor, he shook his head, and retired, saying : iajEje..Se'ymoaf.w . - ' - V The ddko now condescended to recall his dis- earded eooaitf.'. 1'.-j'-:;' ' ":'.' rt My" ior, was Uie answer of Seymour,' t will now prove to the world that I am of "your blojd I wont corse I , -" - - . Upon receiving this" laconic rt ply, the dnk one oi me gaiesoi auico?, jyp wiu uecay; cct butl there is , one, raised r in the heart of eery ; io'vrof jiieroisai, hbertyj f and-learning which itajr 'will endure' : X r- H r I? l'r ' 1 4 :l)--H-jf yon'il ge t - 1i,V my coat? done by Saturday,-1 shall be; f orever indebted to yOtvr f'lf that's, your game7ii won't edoVe." said tho 5- -Ukr- 'if' I . . i-' a - 3
The Leisure Hour (Oxford, N.C.)
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May 13, 1858, edition 1
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