. The pioneer : a literary and critical magazine . of fivehundred horsemen, with whom he resolved toattempt, on the ensuing night, a sudden onsetupon one of the gates, with the view of pene-trating to the palace of the pasha, which wasat no great distance from the city wall, andwhich a bold and unexpected attack might ena-ble him to reach, and for a short space hold inpossession. THE STREET BY JAMES R. LOWELL. They pass me by like shadows, crowds on crowds, Dim ghosts of men, that hover to and fro,Hugging their bodies round them like thin shrouds Wherein their souls were buried long ago ;They
. The pioneer : a literary and critical magazine . of fivehundred horsemen, with whom he resolved toattempt, on the ensuing night, a sudden onsetupon one of the gates, with the view of pene-trating to the palace of the pasha, which wasat no great distance from the city wall, andwhich a bold and unexpected attack might ena-ble him to reach, and for a short space hold inpossession. THE STREET BY JAMES R. LOWELL. They pass me by like shadows, crowds on crowds, Dim ghosts of men, that hover to and fro,Hugging their bodies round them like thin shrouds Wherein their souls were buried long ago ;They trampled on their faith and youth and love — They cast their hope of humankind away —With Heavens clear messages they madly strove And conquered, — and their spirits turned to clayLo ! how they wander round the world, their grave, Whose ever-gaping maw by such is fed,Gibbering at living men, and idly rave We only truly live, but ye are dead, —Alas, poor fools ! the anointed eye may traceA dead souls epitaph in every face. 132 THE JOHN FLAXMAN. EY W. W. STORY. Allan Cuxningham, in his Lives of theBritish Painters and Sculptors, has given us thefullest biography of John Flaxman, that wepossess, and in as far as was possible withinthe limits which he prescribed for himself, haswritten us an interesting and discriminating-book. It is. however, necessarily meagre ofanecdotes and conversation, and confines itselfto a mere outline of the plain facts of his is not exactly what we want, though it isfar better than nothing. The best of history isoiography. In the life of every man. the man-ners, customs, modes of thought, prejudices ofthe time, popular interests and current ideas arereflected, and in the biography of such a manas Flaxman, we are not content with a dry de-tail of incidents and circumstances, or a merebirds-eye view of his career, however well itmay be done. What we require is, the conver-sation of the youth and of the man, his alterna-tions and
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