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... aticraturr. 1. rra:er's ?? for October. London, G. 1T' Ivickisson. 2r, Blacktrood'sfagazine for October. Edinburgh, TV. Blarkivood and Sons. IVW class togetherthoesotwoporiodicals, becausethoyare rivals in tile same departments both of literature and poli- tics, and, also, because we have perused them consecu- tively in the order above enumerated. Now for a brief critical notico of their ...

Selected Poetry

... *cIrttria lJortrp. THE HOMEWARD AND THE OUTWARD BOUND. TiE flush of day had passed away, the sun had sunk to sleep, And the quiet of the twilight hour lay brooding on the deep; And the silver glory of the moon as yet. was faint and far, And through the fading crimson shone one solitary star. The silver glory brighter grew, the crimson passed away, And, one by one, each sister star came with ...

Literature

... aurrature. ulbliu Uairtsrhty 3Rykiaziinefor October. Dublin, 1P, Curry & Co. TIIE opening article in the University Magazine for is month is entiticia English aoid A~iicrican 7Tanslations -Schiller-a subject in which we honestly confess that . teel only a moderate degee ofinterest. This, we doubt t, is on our part, an instance of very indifferent taste, tile literary fashion of the day is ...

Selected Poetry

... Stlecter VI oetrv. THE LAY OF LYNEDOCH. '-Death hias bcen very busy, and lies cnrried off one or'two persons rif note; amongit the reat, the gallant old Lord i ynedoel. at the mature age of 94.-Few men liave titced death more frequenily, for his military career extended over the whole period of tbe Freunci revolutionary war, including, of course, the rise and downafl of Napoleon, and yet he ...

A GRAVE MEDITATION UPON THE DEVIL

... SUGGESTED BY A RECENT CASE OF POSSESSION. 0 THOU, whatever title suit thee, Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie, Wha in yon cavern grim and sootie, Clos'd under hatches, Spairges about the brunstane cootie, To scaud poor wretehes.-BuriNs. ING .JAMIES I. the British Solomon, as his flatterers chose to designate rim, once addressed to his Parliament a speech, in which he told that august ...

Selected Poetry

... -- Qt(rctclo vott?. TIHE MERCHANTS OF OLD ENGLAND. BY T111. ION. EORGoE SYDNEY SMIYTHE, SON OF LORD 5TRANGFORD. Tnil Land; it boasts its titled hosts,-they could not vie 'eith these, The Merchants of Old England, the Seigneurs of the Seas - In thie days of Great Elizabeth, whon they sought the Western Mlain, Mtaugro and spite the Ctesars' might, and the menaces of Spain And the richly ...

GLASSLOUGH FARMING SOCIETY

... GLASSI.OUGH FARMING SOCIETY. PCE5ENTATION 5OF PLATE TO CHAS. P. LESLIE ESQ. Ml. P. On Thursday. the annual show of the above society took place in Glasslough. The horned cattle exhibited were of excellent quality, and the pigs were decidedly the finest we ever saw. Mr Leslie and Lord John Beresford, accompanied by Mrs. Leslie, Lady Beresford, and their party, visited the show, and expressed ...

Selected Poetry

... ,Iclctcf voflra. THE ARTIST'S MORNING SONG. Mr dwelling is the Muses' home- What matters it how small? And here, within my heart, is set The holiest place of all. When, waken'd by the early sun, I rise from qumbers sound, I see the ever-living forms In radiance group'd around. I pray, and songs of thanks and praise And more than half my prayer, With simple notes of music, tuned To some ...

Selected Poetry

... c'.4letteD lpeirp. SWOE, WOE TO THEE, CULLODEN PLAIN. BY DELTA. IN spmindour glow'd the morning sun, As curb'd our chief his gallant grey; And from our ramparts peal'd the gun, While marched afield his proud array.: Yes ! rose to Heaven his wild huzza, ?? wohe the pibroch's strain- Blut ah ! they bade adieu, that day, That came not back again ! Woe, woo to the, Culloden Plain! Where noble ...

Original poetry

... Original VI ortrp. WHEN SEVEN YEARS OLD. AD)DRESSED TO SIR. J. FULLERTON, Author of ' Feudal Scenes, &c. BY TIHOMIAS BEGCS. AND dost thoa dream of early days, When, like the wild bird, free We wandered on the gowan braes, With comrades in their glee? Young life had then its joy and zest, Beyond the power of gold, And every heart was blythe and blest, When we were seven years old. The lust of ...

EXHIBITION OF THE HOLY TUNIC AT TREVES

... EXTIBITION OF THE HOLY TUNIC AT TREVES. _I (From a Foreign Correspondent of the Athencertum.) TUEVEs, SEPT. 29.-This ancient city, usually so quiet, and visited by the traveller chiefly on account of its Roman antiquities, has for the last six weeks present- ed an aspect of excitement, which merely wants the cos- tume of the 13th century to reproduce a picture of the middle ages, at the period ...

Original Poetry

... eiitainat lortrip. 'I'IE BEiACII BY TIE DEEP BLUE SEA. BY JADMEl:S WVATSON. Win tN 111C sun Sinlis far behind the bills, In the gorgeous and gslowing, wvest, And the fleecy cmlods, with crimson fringe, ?? the hill-tops gracefully rest, A iol softly melt through the azure skies, TIill a mellowed tinge is given To the airy veil that's thinly spread V ?? over the face of heaven; Oh ! int that ...