The Harvard Lyceum (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. 1811. Excerpt: ... ed with the initials of the Dear one in question. OAs and Ahs, Deaths, Hopes, Fears, Flames, Nevers, &c. next appear. As the disease advances, the letters of the Lady's name begin to arrange themselves in a perpendicular line, under each other, and we soon behold the rudiments of the incipient Acrostick. Succeeding days witness the gradual developement of this embryo, and it is not long before the Acrostick is completed, and one sheet of paper by its eternal emendations, together with other scrawls, has fallen a victim to the gnawing canker of the disease. Sometimes the malady will discover itself by more hieroglyphical manifestations. Seraphs, and angels, flying over the paper, cupids, bows and arrows, death's head and marrow-bones, obtenebrate the purity of the sheet. If a scholar labour under the affection, you will see that his scrawlings are of a more classical nature. His paper will be covered with Amors, Pereos, Fulcherrimasy 0 lux vitas, or perhaps with rxavxasvses, "Af jeJ/ms, &c. Nay, it is said that J. C. Scaliger, wrote a Hebrew distich to his mistress'es shoe-latchet. Courage is another symptom of love. The most mousehearted and pusillanimous acquire a degree of confidence, the well-collected grow forward, and the bold become impudent, to every one but the bright star that enkindles all this assurance. "But if he be the favourite of the fair, "Loved by the first of Caledonia's maids, "He'll turn upon me, as the lion turns "Chafed on his hunter," &c. DOUGLAS. We must mention the immortal instance of love-inspired courage, that now occurs to the mind. We must commemorate thee, Leander Brave man The stormy sea presented no obstacle to thy meeting with Hero. Over thy coral grave the Mermaids still love to weep, and not a fish swims fey it, but ...