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 .. . of sorrow,Makes the desolatest placeTo her presence be a grace, etc. 228 GOLDSMITH. Farewell, and oh! whereer thy voice be tried,On Tornos cliffs or Pambamarcas where equinoctial fervors glow,Or winter wraps the polar world in let thy voice, prevailing over the rigors of the inclement clime;Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain;Teac
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 .. . of sorrow,Makes the desolatest placeTo her presence be a grace, etc. 228 GOLDSMITH. Farewell, and oh! whereer thy voice be tried,On Tornos cliffs or Pambamarcas where equinoctial fervors glow,Or winter wraps the polar world in let thy voice, prevailing over the rigors of the inclement clime;Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain;Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ;Teach him that states of native strength possessed,Though very poor, may still be very blessed ;That trades proud empire hastes to swift decay,As ocean sweeps the labored mole away ;While self-dependent power can time defy,As rocks resist the billows and the sky. 418. Tornos cliffs. The poet probablyhas reference to the heightsaround Lake Torneo, in the ex-treme north of Sweden.—Pam-bamarcas side. Pambamarca is a mountain in South Americanear Redress . . clime. CompareGrays P^-ogress of Poesy, page207, lines 54-62, of this book. XIV. EDMUND BURKE. CHARACTERIZATION BY HAZLITT. I. There is no single speech of Burke which can convey a satis-factory idea of his powers of mind. To do him justice, it wouldbe necessary to quote all his works : the only specimen of Burkeis, all he wrote. With respect to most other speakers, a specimen 230 BURKE. is generally enough, or more than enough. When you are ac-quainted with their manner, and see what proficiency they havemade in the mechanical exercise of their profession, with whatfacility they can borrow a simile or round a period, how dex-terously they can argue and object and rejoin, you are satisfied ;there is no other difference in their speeches than what arisesfrom the difference of the subjects. But this was not the casewith Burke. He brought his subjects along with him;
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