The Yale Literary Magazine Volume 18, No. 4 (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. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... Ambitious men are men of action; dreamers are men of thought. The one class are positive beings, injuring or benefiting mankind, according as a pure or selfish motive actuates them: the others are negative beings, injuring none save themselves. Dreamers resemble those little angels, who, according to tradition, were generated every morning among the flowers of Paradise, who warble forth melodious sounds until sunset, and then sink back without regret into nothingness. Ambition's votaries must needs be of a sterner stuff, able and anxious to be the slaves of its illimitable hopes, its indomitable will. For its course is ever onward. The embodiment and the source of brave endeavor, unwearied effort, it rouses the energies of thought and being in their might, it sends them tingling along every nerve of sensation, it concentrates them upon its own object, until opposition is futile, success inevitable. w. w. G: EI)rrnobii. i. Soft be thy pillowed rest And undistuibed thy sleep; Though dark with storms the clouded West, And white with foam the billow's crest, Thy quiet slumbers keep. II. Thy voice will sound no more Like music o'er the wave; The tones which rang from shore to shore And stilled the tempest's angry roar, Are stifled in the grave. III. Statesman and leader, thou Hast reached the mystic bourne; With years and honors on thy brow, Thy destined work is done, and now Are millions left to mourn. IV. But great examples, aye 1 Like monuments sublime, When dust to dust has passed away, Majestic tower amid decay, Beyond the reach of Time. J. K. L. flJamtntg emir Joetrn ompartir as HcVa of Ci-pvrssion. Man has been his life-long, looking on a painting, and listening to a poem. We write first of the Painting, lie lias seen the landscape...