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... POMP-. SLtEP FOR THE HAPPY. SLEEP for the happy 1-cot for me, who watch ?? oeep the live-long night! Who svish at muorn the night to see, And psray at eve for morning light. No peace for me-no placid sleep, For nothing new has power totalease, While here, bereaved and lone, weep For him whose home is on the seas. Sleep for thehappy!-how can I Rest calmuly o( my couch of down, When the ...

Poetry

... i3ottrp. FAREWELL.-BY BISHOP HEBE11. WS;EN eyes are beaming What never tong'ue might tell, When teals are strearning From their crystal cell; When hands are link'd that dread to part, And heart is met by throbbing heart, OhI bitter-bitter is the smart Of them that bid Farewelil When hope-is chidden, That fain of bliss would tell, And love forbidden In the breast to d well; When, fetter'd by a ...

Poetry

... orCt1P. w - S LA RE RY MASSACHUSETTS TO VIRGINIA. [The! fllowig is a portion of a nervous and noble poem, con* lahed inoa olume9 entitled 1Lays of' my Romse, by John G. tained In a volueian poet, recently published at Boston, U.S. It is the supposed address of the free State f ylasoaohuootts to the slave State of Virginia. The former is famniliarly known as she Bsy State;` the latter has ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... LIZER.AD6Y VARXETIMS. Distrust all who love you extremely upon a very slight ac- ir quaintance, and without any visible reason. ki There is a small chance of truth at the goal; where there sl is not a child-like humility at the otarting-post.-Coleridge. 't There are many men who have a strong curiosity to know what is said, who have little or no curiosity to know what is P true.-Dr. Butter. eF ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... LITaRanY VARZYTZnS. The Rabbins say, An evil inclination is, at the beginning, like a finebair-string; but, at thefinishirsg, like a tbickcartrope.I He that never changed any of his opinions, never corrected any of his mistakes, and he who wvas never wise enough to find F any mistakes in himself, wvill not be charitable enough to excuseI what he reckons mistakes in ethers., APPROACH TO THE ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... LZTZMANY VARXEXTES. Where wit is ready, good sense should be nigh at hand. No evil action can be well done; but a good action may be ill done. PROCLAMIATION AGAINST WOMFNc.-In the year 1517 a proclamation wvas issued that women should not meet together to babble and talk, aud that all men should keep their wives in their ?? England. There is an anecdote related of Frederick of Prussia, that on ...

Literature

... Ei te atu te. .Colbiurn's .llenthtp11 '1'agazintc.- Celburm, London. an1tI The Talleyrand Papers comprise a variety of Interesting anecdotes, not only of thu prince of dliplomatists, but of the voic various characters who appeared on tbh political stafe during TI lils eventful career. Camipbell's FutneraI ' in a gratefulI tribute Mte to the poet's memory by Lis old friend, Htorace-Smith. 1 ...

Poetry

... 3nottr-po 40 FIELD FL0WErRS.-BY THomAs CAMPBELL, Esq. Y field llowversl the gardens eclipse you, 'tie trute, Yet, soildingO of nature, I doat upon yolk For yewaft oe to'tmmer tf old Wher the earth ?? arolund me with fairy delight, And when daisies and buttercups glndden'd my sight, Like treasur~es of silver and gold. I love you for lu liog ma baok into dreams Of the blue Highland iountains and ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... i.XTERAIRY VARIETIES. Unsupported by justice, power is an engine of oppression. Flattery is a sort of bad money, to which our vanity gives currency. THE BEST OF THE BAiRtAIN.-Whben I was called to the bar (said the late Lord Eldon to Mrs. Forster) Bessy and I thought all our troubles were over; business ?? i;, and we were to be almost riob immediately. So I made a bargain with her, that during ...

Literature

... E it er a t r C. hi AIerray's Colonial and Home Library; No. X.-Letters froee tl tfe Balticr-iMfurray, London. The Letters from the Baltio' excited general admiration on h their first appearance, a season or two ago-a feeling which is at likely to be inereased by re-perusat in tlheir present economical d: form. They are the produotion of a feminine pen, and are writ- a: ten with infinite ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... LZTERANT VARIXETIES. No man sympathisee with the sorrows of vanity. BITTER REVENGE OF THE FOURTH ESTATE.-In -i consequence of sonet insulting remarks which fell from Air. Pr Windham, unworthy of his gentlemanly bitt paradoxical genils, wI the gentlemen of the pless, considering theuselves personally ess insulted, came to a formal agreement that the speeches of their 6a. traducer should no ...

Poetry

... w'Allottr-p. SONG-WE N SHALL W EET AGAil? A lovely voice floets o'er the deep At night, when Sorrow wakes to weep, And plaintively it seems to say To one wbo wanders far away- When shall we meet again, my love? o when-when shall we meet again I Love did our hearts and bands unite, When life was young and hope was bright, And blessed was the lot we saw As heart could wish or fancy draw. And ...