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THE FAIRY'S RING

... Ahi bonne fie, enseignez nous, Oi wous cachez votre baguette !-DE BERAXGER. Once a Fairy, in a bower, So I beard my Nurse relate, Governi'd wilh a ring of power All the turns of human late: Many a quaint trick, day by day, Play'd the Sprite by grave or spring Tell me, tell me, gentle FPy, Where you hide your ring! She could quell a Galway riot, She could open Kentish eyes; She could keep ...

Poetry, Original and Selected

... Avortv, 6o.rigintal aub3 acvivja, I EPITAPH ON AN INFANT. lie taolk the bitter cup to-sip- 'Too bitter 'twas to drain- lie plt it Inckely fromu his lip, And went to sleep again. ?? TIlili; SEAR OF' $UAL1IER TIJe verdure ol hill and in vallcy declines; The flowers of garden aind heather decay No longer tlie sitbeam with checringglow shines; All Nature's bright beauty is Il1eting away. Soon the ...

POETRY

... LINES TO I. F. h OH! had I butknoin theein moments gone by, ir When my hopes and my sorrows were young; p When o'er the enchantment of beauty's bright eye, t With a feeling of rapture I hung. I then might have lov'd, as I cannot love now, With the ardour and fondness of youth J The wild tones of passion might breathe in my vow, E And lay life be all fervour and truth. a 2lut-now, since the ...

Poets' Corner

... i5cetz, carrier. W THLE COTTAGER'S SONG. Aiviy with grandeur, pomp, and gold; Away with childish ease; Give me but strength my plough to hold, And !'lI find means to please. ' l'is sweet to toil for those we love alv wife and darling boys But tend to make my latmisr prove The sweeteft of my joys. The humble morsel I procure, When labour makes it sweet, Is eaten wifh a taste more pure Than meat ...

STANZAS

... S r AN Z AS. BY IHORACE S3ITI1, ESQ. (Fromt t2v Gen, vdite'd by Th'onirs 1lnds, Ecq.) Sisrey mortals arre aill both great and smanll, Created by their dresses, A nd lfilks will scan the worth of a man By thirt whichl he possesses,- ?? they wish to dravw respect and awe From ignorant beho'ders, The rich must wear their virtues rare Upon thetr backs and shoulders. Yet the eye that probes thro' ...

LITERATURE

... (' The London publishing season has commenced earlier than usual. Among the miscellaneous books which have al- ready appeared, the reader will be greatly attracted by the Memoirs of Nollekens and his Times, a Biography, by Mr. .Smith of the British Museum, which, in piquancy of nar- ration and fertility of anecdote, may rank with the Lives of Benvenuto Cellini, and Colley Cibber. The fourth ...

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE

... COVENT-GIRDEN THEATRE. | ,te musicrsl entertainment, called The Sublime and Beauti- - batis, Mr. WOOD for the Sublime, and Madame VEs- sa, l5 she herself tells us in the piece more than once, for the .laitiful), went eff with good applause last night. The bill irms as that it is founded upon Tfhe Sultan, a piece by BicK- :IAIF, produced in 177 5, and since often acted; the principal ,1,g ...

MOST EXTRAORDINARY STORY

... MOST Er.TRAORDINARIY STORY. t (From the York- flerald.) A very remarkable instance of' lic depraivity of the human P heart, and of the evil propensitics, even in deliance of the y refinemient of education, is said to have lately been cvin- Yr ?? in a grcat commercial and nmianufacturing town of a if neighbour.ng county, where this paper is extensively cir- of cu ated. Tnle occurmenec has ...

Poetry

... 3)ottro. 'TIS HOME WHERAEER THE HEART IS. ?? ?? Aileefe Wreath.) 'Til Home where'er the heart is. Wherever its loved ones dwell, In cities or in cottages, Thronged baunts or mossy dell: The heart's a rover ever, And thus on wave and wild, The maiden with her lover walks, The mother with her child. 'Tis bright where'er the heart is: Its fairy spells can bring Fresh fountain to the wilderness, ...

THE WINTER CRUISE

... - - (Zatlricted fromie tJ, 4ethty .Magwi'ie for DV emliri.) A ctsTOtS (.YIsosa among tfi smugglels aid, fiseh ono), in the t W ?? LI(1 vili ges on the IKeititli coIist, of ?? Iging with * ehipnonera residing there for the peiilous aovelltures of a ci.uf qoelfect the lfiidiviigO' of'l6itrtabanld gjiiia% oin s1lme '1fl tlit shol-l. 1i -lelavid is chiefly the coursui theve expedltionsa are ...

THE MIRROR OF FASHION

... THE MIRROR OF FASHION, [rROM THE CoURT CIRCULAR.] The Duchess of Kent, the Princess Victoria, and the b of the Royal Duchesss H-usehold, attended Divine Servce yesterday, in the Private Chapel, in the King's Palace, JtS slngton. The Service was performed by the Rev. Mr. D;v, The Neapolitan Minister transacted business at the COI0i I Office, Downing-street, on Saturday. Sir George Murray and Mr ...

ANNUAL LITERATURE

... ?? AdNVAZ LBIY:5U3:. - - -- I THE GEffe hige b-y TiSOirAS Hood, -sq.-Mr Hood I is so celebrated in the circle of literary humour, that we wer I rather disappointed, by the modesty which has led him to be, sparing of his own effusions in this selection. The hook is Somewhat larger in size than most of its contemporaries of the same class, is superbly bound in crimson silk, and con- tains, ...