Address Delivered Before the Young Ladies of Greensboro Female College, 14th May, 1856 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the Young Ladies of Greensboro Female College, 14th May, 1856Young ladies In accepting your invitation to address you to-day, I could not promise to bring you any thing worthy of you, or of the occasion. The busy toils of active life - the galliugpf the professional harness - the daily fulfilment of the original curse, by the sweat of your brow - he who has these things -upon him, may gaze with longing eyes upon the pleasant paths of literature, but they are not for him. He has no inheritance in them. Rare and glorious holidays he may have - golden days, when he may walk for an hour in the sunshine with Milton or Shakespeare, with Spenser or Pope, with Addison or Steele, or, if of adventurous spirit, may dare the mountain teps with Bacon, Boyle or Locke - or may wander in the groves of Academe, drinking in divine philosophy, or in Arcadia, with Sidney, -listening with charmed ear to the sweet singers of poesie. But these are only dreams. The sunshine passes, and the work returns. The pressing N ow shuts out the Past and the Hereafter, and the man awakes to his man's destiny, happy if he does not altogether forget the lessons which these pleasant interviews have taught him.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.