PATIENT VIRTUE.
. There is, I know not why, something | peculiarly pleasing to the imagination t in contemplating the Queen of Night f when she is wading, as the expression I is. among the vapours which she ha* j not power to dispel, and which on their I side, arc unable entirely to quench her 1 lustre. It is the striking image of I patient virtue, calmly pursuing her I path through good report and bad re- l port, having that excellence in herself*J which ought to command all admira- . tion. but bedimmed in the eyes of thqjJ world by suffering, by misfortune, calumfiy.—Sir Walter Scott. i
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18045, 4 January 1927, Page 4
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