And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove.’
“I wish Hamlet would be still! I wish I could prove the sweets of forgetfulness! I wish Fechter would depart into infinite space, and ‘leave, oh, leave me to repose!’ When will this disturbing star disappear, and suffer the domestic planetary system to move on in the ordinary course and keep time with the old clock in the corner?”
[30] A contemporary definition of Cincinnati.
[31] Dr. J. Baxter Upham, the moving spirit in the building of the Music Hall and the installation of the organ. He presided at its dedication.
[32] See ante, [page 111].
[33] “A Newport Romance,” published in the Atlantic Monthly for October, 1871.
[34] Probably Gabriel Conroy and Two Men of Sandy Bar.
[35] See The Atlantic Monthly and Its Makers, pp. 73-75.