Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . his horrd horrt, 75 Torrd an futherrd an corrd in a corrtBy the women o Morbleead ! 8. Hear me, neighbors ! at last he cried— What to me is this noisy ride ? What is the shame that clothes the skin go To the nameless horror that lives within ? Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck. And hear a cry from a reeling deck ! Hate me and curse me—I only dread The hand of God and the face
Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . his horrd horrt, 75 Torrd an futherrd an corrd in a corrtBy the women o Morbleead ! 8. Hear me, neighbors ! at last he cried— What to me is this noisy ride ? What is the shame that clothes the skin go To the nameless horror that lives within ? Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck. And hear a cry from a reeling deck ! Hate me and curse me—I only dread The hand of God and the face of the dead! 85 Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard and feathered and carried in a cartBy the women of Marblehead ! • 5°^ WHITTIER. Then the wife of the skipper lost at seaSaid, God has touched him !—why should we?Said an old wife mourning her only son, Cut the rogues tether, and let him run /So with soft relentings and rude excuse,Half scorn, half pity, they cut him loose,And gave him a cloak to hide him left him alone with his shame and Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart,Tarred and feathered and carried in a cartBy the women of Marblehead ! XXXIV. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. ^yT^ihf^^ /^^^i^/^ /Zk^^^^^</ CHARACTERIZATION BY J. G. WHITTIER. I. If any reader (and at times we fear it is the case with all)needs amusement, and the wholesome alterative of a hearty laugh,we commend him not to Dr. Holmes the physician, but to the scholar, the wit, and the humorist; not to the scien- 504 HOLMES. tific medical professors barbarous Latin, but to his poetical pre-scriptions, given in choice old Saxon. We have tried them, andare ready to give the doctor certificates of their efficacy. 2. Looking at the matter from the point of theory only, weshould say that a physician could not be otherwise than melan-choly. A merry doctor ! Why, one might as well talk of a laugh-ing deaths-head—the cachinnation of a monks memento life of our
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