When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. STEVENSON-El Dorado. 20 I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water. SWIFT-Polite Conversation. Dialogue II. 21 "Tis a mad world (my masters) and in sadnes I travail'd madly in these dayes of madnes. JOHN TAYLOR-Wandering to see the Wonders of the West. 22 Let observation with extended observation observe extensively. TENNYSON, paraphrasing JOHNSON. See LOCKER-LAMPSON's Recollections of a tour with Tennyson, in Memoirs of Tennyson by his son. II. 73. See also Criticism by BYRON in his Diary, Jan. 9, 1821. Let observation with observant view, |