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LITERARY VARIETIES

... XXTEAILY ~.WAILIETZES. a SecREcsr.-What is mine, even to my life, issbers I love; . but the ses-crt of my friend is not mine-SW?- P. Sideiey. f AN AUTLOENTIC JOE MIILLEM.-As if to redeem the habitual dtilness of Joe Miller, one solitary joke of his stands on respectable aithority. Joe, sittiug at the window of the Sun 0 Tavern, in Clare-street, vhile.a fish-woolan was crying, {' Boy my soles! ...

DAHLIA SHOW

... DAR78ZA SHOW. Tile annual show of the Bristol and Clifton Dahlia Society e took place on Alolinday last, in the large room of the Fa'll AlMoo I iTaern, Broadlstrect. r The show of blooms was remarkably good-tildeed, we heard , it stated by judges to lie the best that has taken place in this i part of the cottatri. The room was decorated in the usualt eancer, %vith devices ingeniously ...

Poetry

... vottrL).. A L E G E N D--BY WM. C. BRYANT. UPoN a rock that, high and slicer, RBse irom the mouintalls's breast, A weary hunter of the deer Had sat him down to rest, And bared, to the soft sunmer air, His hot red browe and sweaty hair. All dim in haze the mountains lay, With dimmer vales between, And rivers glimmer'd on their way By forests, Faintly seen While ever rose a murmauring sound From ...

Poetry

... Jo DE t rp - WE ARE LO\YLY.-B1 R01BERT NICOLL, [FRlOM TAIT'S aMAGAZINE.] x Is ore lowyV-sery llssvly, We tire lowly-very lowly hiisfortune is our crintie Andsvetthefairostflowers, Ceyes, We haive beern troddeit tinter foot, That ly the Wiy.side raise their From all recorded time. Thankl God they still are ours! A yoke UPOR Oer lleeks is laid- Ours is thc strcamle's mellowe A burdern to enidure ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... LITERAny VARIXETZS. ISGI;N'UITY WAsTED.-It is no merit to accomplish an ob- ject by ditficult icstrunientS when easy ones are at hand, or to reach an clld by at circuitous road rheln there is a straight road. Michael Angolo, being told of an artist who painted wvith hle lingoers, exclaimed, hVby does not the blockhead make use of his pencils i 1)JESTiUCTIOM OF PAINTINGS AT TilE NATIONAL ...

Literature

... 1Ot e at It r e + Poeftr; by Josseph Jaines.-Bristol: Alirrar-office. It affords us much pleasure to aid in drawing attention to the lmerits of this nnprsctnding volume. The author is ccrtainly not, locally, ounkolnown to tfume, for the eifusions of his muse have, from time to time, been widely disseminated through the columns of the provincial press; but this, we believe, is tho first tinq ...

FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER

... P'ASHIONS Po1m SB1PTXNBzR. BomNeras,-Drawn bonnets of apple green poen do soie, with the exterior ornssamensted with a demi wreath of velvet foliage, ii vcarioes shades of greeu, and the interi(trof the brimntrimnsed witb roass rnse bads, and rose coloured ribbon brides are faslsi- enable. Lace retains its vogue; it is adopted for bonnets of every difl'erent material; thus we see those of ...

Poetry

... ;.. XA Oct rv - 4w WILKJI E.-ByF. W. N. BAYLEY. ANOTenw master stit is at rest, Wii thle imlisoet;,l great gone up from strife; One o1f the nigh ty few wholot cGsiuih blest, Halowig in eathll wham olo $he had crown'd in life! Wilkie, the ps,etilainter of thle poor, Wi gather'd to te'Igrave with hoiiour'd name; Todvell hii the Ork rtt'. memory evermore, a And shine-bc5o0d the tomb- a star of ...

GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL

... - U CGZOVSTE1 MTUSXZCAM.!1BTSV.. . LFRO31 THE G.LOBE. The one hundred and eighteenth meeting of the three clhoirs of Gloucester, Worcester, and Heieford, for the be- nefit of the widows and orphans of the clergy in the three dioceses, commenced on Tuesday morning at the cathedral. ..It was generally supposed in the city that the present festival twould have been a failure, principally founded ...

Poetry

... loottrp. T'H'E FORSAKEN TO THE FALSE ONE. sT1ase thee to forget me, go. wander where thou wilt, Thly' tsaus upon stie vessel's heinit or oen the sabire's hilt Asljsv th0u 'Cti free! on ]aos sdt ad sea go resh to danger's brini, But oilt! thou tDCast not fly from tougstythy curse will be to t ihi its, kember thmer rerembler all smp long endearing love, Glott link'd itself to Perfldy the vulture ...

Charles O' Malley, the Irish Dragoon; No. XVIII.—William Curry, jun. & Co., Dublin.

... Charls 0' Malley, the frish Dragoown; No. XVIII.-Wiain Cairry,jun. & &o, Dublin. . 0 For interest, drollery, vigoaro, and. variety, this is decidedly a tho best number (and thnt is saying a good deal) of the Irish e Dragoon setilo, has appeased for many months. The sketches ill C sidad Rodrigo, after its capture, ere exceeditagly grapihic, 0 0a(d the lespietcli front Mr. Frock Webber (osn of ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... Z.ZTZEAP.Y VAaMIETZIs, As a prevention to anger, banish all tale-bearers and slan- deters froll your conversation, for it is these that blow the devil's bellows, to raise up the flames of rage and fury, by first abusing your ears, a0(d then your credulity, and after that steal away ):our patience ; and all this probably a lie, for a professed tale-bearer has more sympathy with falsity than ...