Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... sent my readers with the following translation of it: "The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care: His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye: My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend. "When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant, To fertile vales and dewy meads, My weary wand'ring steps he leads; Where peaceful rivers soft and slow, Amid the verdant landscape flow. "Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, ' For thpu, oh Lord, art with me still: Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade. "Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious lonely wilds 1 stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile: The barren wilderness shall smile With sudden greens and herbage crown'd, And streams shall murmur all around." VERNAL DELIGHTS. "Nescio qua praeer solitum dulcedine laeti." VlR8. "Unusual sweetness purer joys inspires." In the opening of the spring, when all nature begins to recover herself, the same animal pleasure which makes the birds sing and the whole brute creation rejoice, rises very sensibly in the heart of man. I know none of the poets who have observed so well as Milton those secret overflowings of gladness which diffuse themselves through the mind of ihe beholder upon siirveyinglhe gay scenes of nature: he has touched upon it twice or thrice in his Paradise Lost, and describes it very beautifully under the name of vernal delight, in that passage where he represents the devil himself as almost sensible to it. "Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue Appear'd, with gay enamell'd colours mix'd: On which the sun more glad impress'd his...