text:  Shakspeare through whose recklessness originate half the commonplaces of our land's language thought proper to define such a condition as "SINGLE BLESSEDNESS"--though he aptly enough engrafts it on a thorn! For my part I cannot enough admire the theory of certain modern poets that an angel is an ethereal being composed by the interunion in heaven of two mortals who have been faithfully attached on earth--and as to "blessedness" being ever "single " either in this world or the next I do not believe a word about the matter! "Happiness " Lord Byron assures us "was born a twin!" I do not mean to complain of my condition--far from it