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... 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 

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 ...

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

... 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 ...

LITERATURE

... trust in God; who formed this world imperfect at the -best, Who gave us years of trial,-and only hours of rest; But left temn, emblems of that life of beauty and repose, Which shall follow, when the toil and care of this world's tumults close; When the digging ...