The Bee, or Literary Intelligencer Volume 9 (Paperback)

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. 1792 edition. Excerpt: ...the plan of his creation, --call to mind that glorious moment, when, the first bold conception arose within thee, and summoned together all the faculties of thy soul, to comprehend, to sashion, and to arrange it; but when all the noble harmonywas completed, with what intoxicating feelings of lovt, didst thou not review the labour of thy soul, and feel thy resemblance to that eternal Being, whose sublimest conceptions had been copied by thee. Yes, my guide, even here below, wisdom is rich in celestial joys; had she not been so, could we, from her bosom, have looked with such indifference on all the vanities of the world. The cloud which supported us, had sunk again to earth, and now it rested, as I thought, upon one of the Kills iu the neighbourhood of Rome. The great metropolis of the world lay before us; but full of the deepest contempt for VOL. is. ii f.. its glories, I stretched out my hand from my elevation, and said, let the proud inhabitants of these palaces think, as they will of their own importance, because their limbs are robed in purple, and their tables loaded with gold and silver, and heaped with the luxuries of Europe and the Indies; but the sage looks down upon these wretches as the eagle upon the silk-worm enclosed within its web, j for in their souls they are only prisoners, who canJjot abandon the leaf to which-they, cling; while the sage wanders on the mountains of liberty, aud sees: the world, under his feet, or soars aloft upon the wings of contemplation, converses with the Deity, and walks am I'.uw stars. - While I /was: thus speaking, a serious solemnity overclouded, the countenance of my guide; his fraternal arm dropt from my shoulder, and his eye darted a threatening glance, even to the inmost recesses of my soul