and all good and noble feelings are awakened, and he sees and feels

what in life he could not or would not see; and then he has within him

the punishment, the gnawing worm, which will not die through time

incalculable. If on the glasses there stood written 'oblivion,' on the

barrel 'remembrance' is inscribed.

"When I read a good book, an historical work, I always think at

last of the poetry of what I am reading, and of the omnibus of

death, and wonder, which of the hero's deeds Death took out of the