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cold and famine fought over his body ; when even his 

 mind starved in those noontide twilights, without even a 

 rushlight to warm body and soul by ; when at night he 

 would shiver for hours till he fell asleep. Each day at 

 dinnertime he felt the want of the meal ; and though he 

 at first fought this off by trying to absorb himself in a 

 book, he found his mind wandering through faintness, 

 and he had to go and lie down till the hunger pang 

 passed off. Carlyle, in the inflated style of his youth, 

 feelingly says, ( Few things in nature have so much of 

 the sublime in them as the spectacle of a poor but 

 honourable-minded youth, with discouragement all 

 around him, but with never-dying hope within his 

 heart ; forging, as it were, the armour with which he is 

 destined to resist and overcome the hydras of this 

 world, and conquer for himself in due time a habitation 

 among the sunny fields of life.' The ancient Scandi- 

 navian spirit within him made Linnaeus ' firm to inflict 

 and stubborn to endure.' 1 



But the broad blaze of summer now coming, when 

 even beggars might be fed cheap and warmed for 

 nothing, would be all the more radiant for the long 

 howling darkness of six months. Even this dreary winter 

 stage had been sweetened to Linnaeus by youth's hopes 

 and friendship, the sweet savour of life, the peculiar 



boon of heaven, 



To men and angels only given, 

 To all the lower world denied. 



The friends inspired and warmed each other with fine 

 1 Southey. 



