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TO WORDSWORTH

... the glare This life's decelts,and follies wear, Exalted, and yet mild; Conscious of those diviner powers It Brought from a better world than ours. Thou hast not chosen to rehearse ( The old heroic themes; Thou hast not given to thy verse al The heart's ...

Poetry

... Good-in Got confde, And IHla will suctour thee. Kircudbrigbt. fi. a. THE PRINCESS VICTORIA. (Erom Fisher's Drawing-Rooan Scrap-Book.) A fair young face o'er which is only cast The delicate hues of spring, Though round tier is the presence of the past, ...

A RIDDLE.—By LORD BYRON

... dimness and night shall be known no more. 'Tis true that the world has a woe and a charm, Whereby we feel a joy anda pain, But the Son of God has a conqueror's arm, That can sever us from the twain. Why when we nauseate earthly things, Have we ...

THE ANNUALS* (Continued)

... satiric-stories written with the praise~worthy intention of reforming the world by means of a small edition of five shilling books- stories einbracing every tribe of the supernatural world-stories of ghosts, fairies, pixies-stories for children, stories for ...

LITERATURE

... purify feeling, and, for a time at least, pro-. duce a rare and sweet abstraction from the grosser pur- suits of life. Under such influences we can pity the mee t man of the world. His importance dies with him. His occupations, enjoyments7 passions-are com ...

The Brival Day

... obrighter days to come0- Yoaringt to di bo the darkened meorrow. Aud he calm-hurled near thy ?? ?? Shalt thou, to this strange world Oo eorpent slander Escaping alt its venoms rnd deep shande, In tranquil pathls obscuroly happy wanider. h o Where nonue shall ...

Literature

... selected were-No. 1, -Burwell-No. 2, Red Cliam. pion, both from Liverpool; No. 3, Britannia, from Lord Duie; No. 4, Mr. Fisher Hobbs's Red Marigold, from Mr. Pusey; and I No. 5, Old Red L:tmntas, from Wilts. The experiment was made by Mr. WVm. Miles in a field ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... case, we believe, left to the poet's choice. It is a yearly collection, or scrap-book, of prints already used in other ways by the publisher; por- traits, landscapes, scenes from history, and fanciful designs-selected for anything, we should say, rather ...

Selections

... might:ti I have partaken his meridian hour. Could I forsake when all was lost in night? Yes, I am captive in a desert isle, Far from my kindred, friends, outocst, forlornI Amid my griefs, hope seareely yields a smile, I For wish'dreturn, scenes of my youthful ...

The Magic Glove, or the Bottle Imp

... influence N of modern Popes-Musical Plagiarists'-.Home, sweel homaen -sAicha~el Jie~y, tic. i I have this instant learned from the French journals (said n Ferdinand) that his Holiness of Rome has: been at length ga-. 1 tiered to his Fathers; and the ...

Literature

... Vill each derive from it a fund of amusement mingled with instruction. We have already given several extracts from its pages,* but subjoin the following account of mGIMAND POACrRS. The life of a Highiand poacher is a far different one from that of an Englishman ...

HISTORY OF MODERN AUTHORSHIP

... inapposite epistle from Cbarlds Lamb to Bernard Barton:- Throw- yourself on the world without any rational plan of support, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford vou! Tirow yourself, rather, my dear Sir, from the steep Tar- peian ...

Published: Sunday 23 December 1838
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2157 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture