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<span style="color:Gray">And make us s is life.
ONE of t places to aken in Liverpool is t is establis contains a good library, and spacious reading-room, and is t literary resort of t ?lled udy of newspapers.
As I ing t of ttention tracted to a person just entering tall, and of a form t mig it tle boime--perhaps by care.
yle of countenance; a a furroing t ic soul. t indicated a being of a different order from tling race round him.
I inquired it ary feeling of veneration.
ty; to tudes of America.
Accustomed, as ry, to knoers only by t conceive of trivial or sordid pursuits, and jostling y pations like superior beings, radiant ions of terary glory.
to ?nd, t orian of traf?c, at ?rst sical ideas; but it is from tances and situation in o admiration. It is interesting to notice to create tage, and ary but irresistible acles. Nature seems to deliging ties of art, imate dulness to maturity; and to glory in tions. Sters to tony places of ty, yet otrike root even in ts of truggle bravely up into sunserile birties of vegetation.
Sucly ungenial to terary talent--in t-place of trade; fortune, family connections, or patronage; self-prompted, self-sustained, and almost self-taugacle, aco eminence, and, s of tion, urned talents and in?uence to advance and embellisive town.
Indeed, it is t trait in er interest in my eyes, and induced me particularly to point to my countrymen. Eminent as are erary merits, one among tinguisellectual nation. t for te ory presents no lesson to ting one of y or inconsistency. At best, to steal ale and commonplace of busy existence; to indulge in ttered eas; and to revel in scenes of mental, but exclusive enjoyment.
Mr. Roscoe, on trary, alent. , nor elysium of fancy; but o ted bo of tains, and of treams of kno;daily beauty in ; on e, and groter. It exs no lofty and almost useless, because inimitable, example of excellence; but presents a picture of active, yet simple and imitable virtues, ely, are not exercised by many, or this world would be a paradise.
But e life is peculiarly tention of tizens of our young and busy country, ure and t arts must gros of daily necessity; and must depend for ture, not on tion of time and itled patronage; but on c of erests, by intelligent and public-spirited individuals.
er-spirit, and ely it can give its oo surrounding objects. Like o iquity, erory of ory of ive toeps in all t is elegant and liberal. ide of raf?c; ed from it invigorating rills to refreserature. By ant exertions, ed t union of commerce and tellectual pursuits, so eloquently recommended in one of est ings;* and ically proved ifully t to o bene?t eacitutions for literary and scienti?c purposes, ly been originated, and ively promoted, by Mr. Roscoe; and toance ropolis, it in aion of mental improvement among its inants, ed a great bene?t to tiserature.
* Address on titution.
In America, old of unate in business. I could not pity y. t doy; but a man like Roscoe is not to be overcome by tune. t drive o ty of s; sometimes to neglect, and to roam abroad in searces.
of tiquity, and erity: iquity, in t communion of studious retirement; and erity, in ter future renoude of sucs state of enjoyment. It is ted by ted meditations from his world.
alive on t, it une to ligraces of Mr. Roscoe. I leman, to vieurned off, te, into some ornamented grounds. After riding a s distance, o a spacious mansion of freestone, built in tyle. It in t style, yet it uation udded rees, so disposed as to break a soft fertile country into a variety of landscapes. t s of er tains, blended ing into distance, bordered the horizon.
te residence during ty. It of elegant ality and literary retirement. t and deserted. I saudy, scenery I ioned. the library was gone.
tering about tured into retainers of t ing some classic fountain, t s pure ers in a sacred s ?nding it dry and dusty, oad brooding over ttered marbles.
I inquired after te of Mr. Roscoes library, ioneer, and try. ty to get some part of t of ludicrous associations, ion in t, and contending for t o ourselves some knot of speculators, debating ing bro binding and illuminated margin of an obsolete autense, but baf?ed sagacity, tempted to dive into tter bargain he had secured.
It is a beautiful incident in tory of Mr. Roscoes misfortunes, and one o interest tudious mind, t ting o oucenderest feelings, and to ance t could provoke tice of , yet eloquent, companions of pure ts and innocent y. is urns to dross around us, tain teady value. imates languiso vapid civility and commonplace, tinue tered countenance of true friendsed sorrow.
I do not , surely, if t o Mr. Roscoe and tless, be given for tance, to combat mig it certainly appears to me sucunity as seldom occurs, of cruggling under misfortunes by one of t delicate, but most expressive tokens of public sympat is dif?cult, o estimate a man of genius properly ies lose ty; oo familiar erials cer. Some of Mr.
Roscoes to amiable and unostentatious simplicity of cer, true ension. But tters, elligent traveller inquires ing its existence to tant sc Alexandria, toy.
t, addressed by Mr. Roscoe to ing o. If anyt to ted t is tion, t t a faitranscript from ters .
<span style="color:Gray">As one ,
<span style="color:Gray">Regrets hopes again erewhile
<span style="color:Gray">to sheir smile,
<span style="color:Gray">tes, c,
<span style="color:Gray">teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile
<span style="color:Gray">My tedious en every toil,
<span style="color:Gray"> I noing ;
<span style="color:Gray">For pass a few s years, or days, or hours,
<span style="color:Gray">And heir dawn unfold,
<span style="color:Gray">ed its powers.
<span style="color:Gray">Mind s communion hold,
<span style="color:Gray">And kindred spirits meet to part no more.