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EXTRACTS FROM ROKEBY, A POEM, BY WALTER SCOTT, ESQ

... steps restrain, Together they explored the page Of glosing bard or gifted sage, Oft, placed the evening'fire beside, The minstrel art altercate tried, While gladsome harp and lively lay Bide winter-night flit 'fast away: 'T'hus from their childhood blending ...

Original

... despots liberate mankind ; Ur ;s And here, unblushing Bard, we see th g The savage hordes extoll'd by thee: gr y But whether minstrels change with times, SI i, And scatter flowers o'er courtly crimes; tic Or Truth's firm sons imprison'd lie, fal Or priests ...

FASHIONABLE PARTIES

... young Artists in this department. Sir Roger de Coverley surrounded by his T2e nants in the Churchpyard, by Mr. LxSLIE:, an American Student, is full of interest; and 41 Scene at the Door of. a Post-o f e, with the groupes receiving and reading their letters ...

THE THEATRE

... to c'ast all his ionois in the dust; amid, from the cherished a;nd e'ho'ii'! poet f a nmighty people, to become the lewd minstrel of a brothel? ' It ic ; wit ifeliungs of the deepest regret, that wve have ?? to speak in such terms of the glreatest of ...

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... melt the icy breast of age, Can chase the glooms of doubt away5 And bind the unhallowed gust of rage; Oh! 'tis a voice, no minstrel's art, Such heavenly numbers can impart. There is a voice whose mellow tone Can touch the darkest, dullest soul, Dissolve ...

THE MIRROR OF FASHION

... l)nke of Wellington left town yesterday morning for the Royal Lsdge, Windsor Park, on a visit to the King. M r. Lawrence, the American Cbarg6 d'Affaires, transacted business with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the Foreign Office, D)owning-street. Lord ...

THE MIRROR OF FASHION

... aperac a tisutge; ebia, Slasn Cawer tar 'L-orw h Mi ?? wt atrsRval. ' ARGYLL ROOMS.-Re-appearance in London of C'rc' ?? Minstrels, THE RtAINER FAMILY.-The Tyrolese Family, ?? RAINERt langer thei'atronage oftile SlsJesty,&tc.), poin their r-ria in hiacontr ...

THEATRE ROYAL

... sat out. Paulo, as the ctneanch, made us laugh a little. He is certainly a good CIDele the afterpiece, Mr. Horn sang i' She Minstrel Boy. t hWD eneered.andl with the repetition we were well pleased. e house was very poorly attended considering the many ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... Regent's Park.-In addition tG the Dnumerous attractiens of this EXHIBITION, we have to annoesnce that the large AMERICAN ALOE (Asave Americanal Is now coining Into BLOOM, when more than 4,O0o FLOWERS will he produced. The Visitors to the other Exhibitions ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... Kate Plowden , Miss Taylor. Toconci;de with, a Afasqtae, written by Mr. Sheridan Knowles, tn in nour of tile Jenlus of the Minstrel of the North, nalled THE VISION OF, THE BARtD I The Scenery painted by Mr. Grieve, iltr.T. Grieve, Mr. W.Grleve, anid Assistants ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... Kate Plowden, Mits Taylor. To conclude with. a Mesque, written by hir. SherldonJ(nnowiee, In Honour of the Oenilos of the Minstrel of the North. calihd THE VISiON tOF THE1 BARD I The Scenery painted byr Mr. Grleve, htr. ?? Grleve. alr.W. Grieve, and Assistants ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... of the general features of this unique cemetery.-The Viewv of New Yortir remains oePn.- The Galleries are warmed by Nott's American stove. The THAMES TUNNEL, opposite the end of Old GrAvel-.sne, 1Vapping, but on the Rotherhithe side of the River. near the ...