Notes Made During An Excursion to the Highlands of New Hampshire And Lake Winnip
Notes Made During An Excursion to the Highlands of New Hampshire And Lake Winnip
Nathan Hale
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European Literati would want employment, were there no ruins to explore, to describe or to quarrel about ; and as no age can be without such amusing speculations ; our succes- sors will probably invent antiquities ; poets will people the recesses of the forests with sprites, fairies, goblins and genii ; novelists will import fables ; historians will natu- ralize classic and gothic stories, and traditions, or assign periods of migration from the Asiatic shores, provided an age of fiction can by ...the force of genius, be made to su- persede the age of reason ; or if the routine of regular employment must be relieved by strange and marvellous recitals. Novelty we know is prodigiously fecundant, and he 56 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. who resuscitates the dead of an old country, or remote age, becomes the progenitor of an overflowing population in the new. These are as yet virgin woods : and it re- mains to be seen, whether the fictions, the fables, the goblins, the ghosts, the evil eye, the second sight, and all the host of vulgar superstitions, together with the decrep- it cupids, the stale venuses, vampyres, bowers of bliss, enchanted gardens, haunted castles, witching cells — sub- jects, that migrating from the east, have appeared in ev- ery quarter of Eurqie ; will be imported, naturalized and nourished, in a country that has not been darkened by ignorance, nor conquered, divided and parcelled out to chiefs, hierarchs, and conspirators, whose policy and interest silenced inquiry and interdicted knowledge.
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