Comforts of Old Age
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the subject can never fatigue or exhaust me. It is to me a source of health and comfort ; and my meditations on it produce those effects, which Lon- ginus ascribes to the true sublime ; cc It " elevates and affects me, swelling my " mind with transport and inward satis- N 178 THE COMFORTS ft faction, and supplying ideas more en- " larged and more exalted than the " mere sounds of words can convey/' You, Mr. Lyttelton, would have quoted the original : I can only give a transcript of the impressi...on left on my mind, when I read it ; having been too busy at the age of sixty, to follow Cato's example, and to devote my time to the study of Greek. Let me here observe to you, that the gratifications, which I now derive from reading, conversing, an&meditating, are of a different order from what I for- merly enjoyed in the active period of life. They have a calmness and tranquil- lity annexed to them, which more than compensates for the absence of many of the hurrying and bustling pleasures of youth.
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the subject can never fatigue or exhaust me. It is to me a source of health and comfort ; and my meditations on it produce those effects, which Lon- ginus ascribes to the true sublime ; cc It " elevates and affects me, swelling my " mind with transport and inward satis- N 178 THE COMFORTS ft faction, and supplying ideas more en- " larged and more exalted than the " mere sounds of words can convey/' You, Mr. Lyttelton, would have quoted the original : I can only give a transcript of the impressi...on left on my mind, when I read it ; having been too busy at the age of sixty, to follow Cato's example, and to devote my time to the study of Greek. Let me here observe to you, that the gratifications, which I now derive from reading, conversing, an&meditating, are of a different order from what I for- merly enjoyed in the active period of life. They have a calmness and tranquil- lity annexed to them, which more than compensates for the absence of many of the hurrying and bustling pleasures of youth.
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