[1] Beattie.
[2] Tennyson.
[3] Thomas a Kempis.
[4] Gray.
[5] Shakespeare.
[6] Tennyson.
[7] Trench.
[8] Thomson.
[9] Ruskin.
[10] Shelley.
[11] Ruskin.
[12] _Ibid_.
[13] Wordsworth.
[14] Swinburne.
[15] Symonds.
CHAPTER IX.
THE TROUBLES OF LIFE.
CHAPTER IX.
THE TROUBLES OF LIFE.
We have in life many troubles, and troubles are of many kinds. Some
sorrows, alas, are real enough, especially those we bring on ourselves,
but others, and by no means the least numerous, are mere ghosts of
troubles: if we face them boldly, we find that they have no substance or
reality, but are mere creations of our own morbid imagination, and that it
is as true now as in the time of David that "Man disquieteth himself in a
vain shadow."
Some, indeed, of our troubles are evils, but not real; while others are
real, but not evils.
"And yet, into how unfathomable a gulf the mind rushes when the troubles
of this world agitate it. If it then forget its own light, which is
eternal joy, and rush into the outer darkness, which are the cares of this
world, as the mind now does, it knows nothing else but lamentations.
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