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Excerpt from The Ocean Harp: A Poem, in Two Cantos, With Some Smaller Pieces, and a Monody on the Death of John Syng Dorsey, M. D There are situations in which man is sometimes placed where, whatever may be the native ardor of his imagination, the rigid intensity of feeling will so re press the workings of the fancy, and manacle the pro per disposition of the mind, as effectually to suspend the functions of the faculties of wit and intelligence. A crowd of images rushing simultaneously upon the sight, necessarily creates a confusion in the orb of vi sion, and renders its perception hurried and indistinct; so a ood of excited passions, precipitated from the re gion of the heart, deluges the retina of the brain, and destroys the clearness and harmony of its operations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.