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... Versailles for the Parisians, hanging up fables of French battles, and delighting them, from the peer to the beggar, with the belief that they are the first populace in the world. A people of contradictions, they are now, with one hand trumpeting a challenge ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... -anAncient Form Nothing !-yet what more could Peered from out a gloomy deorwoy, Pity And with trembling croak, it said- Crave, for one about to die In the left-hand empty garret Than sweet words from one she wor- Yon will find a woman-dead; shipped ...