I am a poor nameless egotist, who have no vanities to consult by these confessions. I know not whether I shall be laughed at, or heard seriously. Such as they are, I commend them to the reader's attention; if he finds his own case any way touched, I have told him what I am come to: let him stop in time. MARY STUKELEY. My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, And all my goods is but vain hope of gain: The day is fled-and yet I saw no sun, And now I live-and now my life is done! CHIDIOCK TICHEBOURNE. I AM no fatalist; but if ever individual was subject to the influence of a prevailing destiny-a destiny which has blighted his hopes, and run counter to all the views and prospects of his life, and changed completely his situation, habits, feelings, and almost transformed him into a different being-I am that one. B |