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 CHAPTER II.

are certain events in our lives poetitically and beautifully described by Moore, as "green spots in memory's waste." Such are the emotions arising from the attainment, after a long pursuit, of any darling object of love or ambition; and although possession and subsequent events may have proved to us that we had over-rated our enjoyment, and experience have shewn us "that all is vanity," still, recollection dwells with pleasure upon the beating