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Poetry

... u.octrv, TE1E JEWISH PEOPLE. flow ereat the semblance between human life Alld latlolal cxistellc! ScoNVling raoge And suiloing peace, repose antd deadly strife, Prevltl by turns ol earth's uncertain stage. Mtianl rises. olourishes, succumbs, and dies, And nations for tle meost part do the same; The difference only, that fewi ycars suftles To close the llue`of ma1l, adla shroud Ills name For ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... MIdUTIn IN MADNESS-In the first illness, WheCI Williq, who was a clergyman, entered the room, the king (George ItI.) asked him if he, who was a clergyman, was not ashamed of himself forexereidenp such a profession. it Sir. said Willis, our Saviour himself xent about healing the sick. Ad Yes, answered the king, --but lie had not £70 a year for ?? of the Eart of Malinesbury. TxIUoGT8 ON AN ...

Literature

... ttterature. 1ne History of Pendennis. By W. AIl. Thackeray. No. VIII. Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie-street, London. There is much good writingin this numsber. A great portion of it is devoted to an account of Miss Blanche Amory, lithe muse whose exquisitely fine feelings ooze away in her poetical effusions, leaving her a tyrant to her lady's maid, and hard and selfish in the concerns of ...

LECTURES ON ART

... LECTURES OX ART. Mr. Uippingille gave his first or introductory lecture on paint- ing and the fine arts at the room of the Bristol Athenueans, on Wednesday evening last. There was a highly respectable auditory, among whom we recognized many of our local artists. The Rev. E. Bromley introduced the lecturer as a pi-devant citizen of Bristol, and reminded the company that, three and twenty years ...

Poetry

... aoltr1I. THE DYING STUDENT. I Am. Ca, nln- mv sistor: I feel It nvs- Tbere '5 a terrible tirob on my actilig brow. Oh ! open tile window, let In the breeze Thult tO' iles1il has ganelboll'd o'er grassy leas- That lies chased the clouds of at smokeless sky- Thut has carried the thistle-down fair and high: Let elu breathe it a moatent before I die! Oh ! merrily, merrily, tell years back, I ...

Poetry

... jDottv)). TO SABRINA. CEASE, fond lady, vaitly biding Tblot which wve already scan . Though we lkonw nut thine abiding- Though thou hast pronounced a ban 'aninst the curlous, rasly seckiug To uInveil, to plubic gaee, Her ?? bot of late beel speaking In Subrhia's truttotul lays, Yet we know thee, past conjectllre, Better than thy name coutd tell, Or the most descriptive lecture Which could ...

Literature

... 'Efterature. igeland Sports and Highland Quarters. BIy Herbert B. Halt, Esq. 2 Vols.-Hurst, King William-street, London. These volumes, descriptive of exciting days and jovial nights spent in the country of the grouse, black-cook, ptarmigan, and wild roe and red-deer of the Highlands, will be found to fur- nish very agreeable reading. The style is indeed lax at times, and the matter ...

Poetry

... ?? THE LADY OF ENGLAND. Bly GEN. MORlis, EDITOR OF THE N'iV YORKJ MXRRos LADY of England, o'er the -ea6 Thy name was borse on esery breeze, Till all this s1a.seL ?? became Familiar with VIcCTonI'A name! Though seas sissido us many a mile. Yet, for the Queen of that psrnod Isle, Yrorn whence our fatlierha 5sprun5g there roves A blessing frsso this laild of graves! -Our father land! l it theme ...

Poetry

... lmtrt v. LIFE. b loRTA L 500n to be immortalI Look thlou forth npon the pl1~ai: See'st thou yonder Death's grim portal, That thou must at nightfall gain ? No, thou can'st not; Death is hidden t From thy eight by fairy scones; Though its thought oft comes unbidden, In the midst of thy gay dreams, Never fear it, thou shalt cherish Life in death, and faith in doubt; For the soulsalahl never ...

Literature

... Ei terat ure. New Holland. By T. Bartlett, Assistant-Surgeon, olst Light Infantry.-Longman and Co., London'. There have been few more productive sources of misery titan emigration, ?? a proyer previous inquiry and a judicious apportionment of me .ns to ends. Tbe present volume is intended to co.omunicate information respecting the colonization, pro- ductions, and resources of New Holland; with ...

FASHIONS FOR JUNE

... Foulards de Chine with barege are the most fashionabi materials; the prettiest are checked in shades of the same colour, violet and lilac, dark green on light, cerise and dahlia. they are trimmed with two wide biais put on a little full Or two deep flounces; but a mpre novel style is one very deep flounce put on at the edge of the skirt, which is necessarily very short and the transparency ...

THORNBURY DAHLIA SHOW

... I'-ORsNBURY D)AH-.LIA SHOW. The last floricultural eslilbitiun for the present seaeon, of 'til the Thorenbury Society, tool; place on W~ednlesday last, in the ruine of the ancient castle, inl that towvn. The day woea one in of the finest that the seasou has aff'orded, and the attendance . was, by far, more numer ous tnan on any previous o casonth and included nil the rank, fashion, and beauty ...