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BOLTON ABBEY IN THE OLDEN TIME

... I Upon ?? so called, nower/sibiting in the Royal Academy. BoLTro in olden time !-a glorious pile! Ancient, and ofan architecture rare, With turrets high, and fretted roof and aisle, And wassail halls, and chapels raised for prayer; Chambers with fair-wrought tapestry hung round. And secret treasure-rooms oF gathered gold, And lonely cells, and dungeons underground, Where peace was prayed ...

AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE

... AGRICULTURAL SNTLLLZGZNGZ. I IFw;XgaaL zn^ms-. CLEVEDON ANNUAL CATTLE SHOW. e The second annual exhibition ofthe Clevedon Agricultural e Society took place, on Wednesday last, in a field in front of the RoyalHotel. The attendance was unusually great, and ! fiacluded nearly all the resident gentry and farmers of the neighbourhood, as well as many from'more distant parts of the county, and from ...

DISSAPPOINTMENT

... A LOCAL LEGENI. Hn looked like a Squire of high degree When dressed hi his Sunday ?? Song. Too kitten lay purring before the fire, And the lap.dog bask'd onl thO capetted floor, And 'lissus' she dozed in her elbow-chair, Uncoescious of aught shat iras passing there, Whilst the forso of the voni and listless Squire The sobs's dossask cushions bore. 5'Oueen ?? is the fairins' midwife ...

MY OWN FIRESIDE

... MIY OWN FIRESIDE. Lsrrtox TAf-Vs EDIN-BuRGH MAGAZINE-] Trsoa 's a smiling spot in the poor man's horne, That is known not to pride in its gilded dobya X 'And he loveth it well fro 't is ,allow'dbal Thnadth atlh tufidt V ~lu ttO life oris dear to his soul: By the memory sweet of his boyish years- By a father's similes and a mnother's tears; And earth hath no spot on its sutfaCe! wide So dear to ...

MIRTH FOR OLD MAIDS!

... MIRlTI-H FOR OLD MAIDS! 'I Thoigh love he all thic world's pr(telace, Money's the mytiologie sense *-Ul-l Mu1fss. 1 love an old maid ! and shall I whisper why? She is cautious, not fickle-and modest, not shy: Ass caCt, on a wall with glass bottles, is seen A: jv alk circjmns;pectly-just such is her mien. I love an old maid! for the term, in my eyes, Is but a nick-namne for a woman that's wise ...

LITERATURE

... TuIE PODUCISI MAN' SCOMsiPANION. Wilson, London. Throughout the whole mass of society in this country, the elements of change have been widely disseminated but while the motional force has not been wanting, the regulating power has been almost totally lost sight of. To every one it is palpable that the old course of things has fallen into its dotage and cannot survive; but whi- ther will the ...

Poetry-Original and Select

... ?? alto Aptlect. THE MARINER. [1RODt ACKERMANN'S FORGET bE ROT.] SoFT glides the sea, Bounding and free, Dance thei blue waver as they rush to the shore: O'er vale and height Gleams the moon bright, Gaily the mariner plies the ?? oar, Singing ?? the sun lights the main, Laud of my birth, I shall greet the !gain! Night wears away, Sullen and gray, F'rom, the dark sly o'er the wild restless deep ...

ASMODEUS IN BRISTOL

... ASIMODEUSIX BRISTOL. CHAPTER IX. r Ale, marry, now thae plot begins to thicken, Aiid expertation sits o0X the lace of Au 1i Crying-l What next ?? Old Plag. ri ir I was anakened on the next morning by a strange noise it my e room, and on rising in mv bed, and withdrawing the curtains, the fj figure of a man was presented to my e)es, habited il the cxtrcme tlz of fashion. Fo wvas dressed in a ...

POETRY

... VPOETY. (Poma Murray's, Edition of the Life ant! Poems of the Rev. Ge.mrqe Crabbe, now Publishin.q-) LINES WRITTEN AT WARWICK. You that In warlike stories take delight, Ac. HAIL! centre-county of our land, and known For matchless worth and valour all thine own; Warwick I renown'd for him who best could write, Shakspeare the Bard, and him so fierce In fight, Guy, thy brave Earl, who made ...

Original Poetry

... ?? ?? . , 'Arigiital'obetryl. THE BANISHED LORD. ILLUSTRATION OF A SKETCH BY SIR JOS I0UA IREYNOLDS. LsxE the proud Roman on the hearth Of him that was his foe, The stern antithesis of mirth He stands: his pallid brow Than chisel'd marble seems more flihn; And yet the cankerous poison worm Has fasten'd on below; Its folds around the root hath clung, From whence that goodly tree has sprung. ...

PHILOSPHICAL INSTITUTION, PARK-STREET

... I PIIILOsPCAINSTTUTION, PARKESTREBT. I .- _ _ ?? AmE- Asv- alit. WESLEY'S LECTURtES ON MTUSIC. Mr1. W. commenced his second lecture with some observations on the soulrces aid efibts ofimusical prejudice. He read Locke's definitioli of prejudice, ndteprceeded to remark that no art or science was free ho~rn its influence. 1l akontosuet inl geomet~ry dispute the propriety of using the termn ...

THE EXILE

... T1HE EXILE. (FROM5 THE LA- aS OF ,e10. s joBY ;N DIS o ) Acnoss the sun-lit ocean, He gazed with tearfil eye, And oft, with sad emotion, He heav'd a trem'lous sigh: His sorrows were unlspoken, But he pined in silence onl For his heart was nearly broken, And his hopes of joy were gone. Those hopes which lie had cherish'd In his boyhood's eager day, Each aifter each had perish'd From his ...