Solitarius to His Daemon; Three Papers (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. 1889 Excerpt: ... Sol It art us comments /- j r- on tne modern --txOOd IJaemOn, Sit yOU /c- 0/ Disenchant. ... j. ment, and proceeds here. 1 his is our feast thence to affairs ofa, .. -n. A more genial nature, hour: let US be filled. A sorry symposiarch, you, with these sweet features awry, and the cup of grace--this genial oblation to the friend-proving gods--rattling timorously on the parted teeth as if 't were some martyr's hemlock you would to pledge me to heaven, rather than the peace-offering nectar we have brewed from the sweets of every zone, from the deeps of every sunken age, from the capping heights of every Utopian dream within our striving reach. Come; is not the great, quivering heart of man large enough for a symposium of kings and patriarchs, though we be but poor craving beggars at the huge board, praying and thankful for the merest crumbs that fall from the laps of poet, soldier, prophet, --all whose province is to think, whose duty is to act? Why not indeed flatter existence into living--this hardened fact into a mellow rhapsody--this bodiless fiction into a living homily--this stern Buddhist's hell into a dreamer's heaven, if thereby we may find happiness for others and ourselves? Let us at least be optimists--we poor 'churchyard game'--since this is the least tribute of gratitude that mortal can offer up in homage to a beneficent Hand, --the most insubstantial of cloaks to obscure our shrunken shapes from the eyes of a commiserating world that has quite enough of a task to keep its own volcanic heart from bursting the narrow confines, and setting free a volt of moulten pessimism that would immolate a race and sadden ten thousand eras of the recovering good and true. We have looked the great globe over for that 'coming man ' which we will no...