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... I 1poetrtv. THE OTHER DAY. Upon the meadows spread below, Full softly fall the flakes of Enow, Yet choke they up the way That lately wound along the scene, 'Mid fields of gold and swards of green, Ay, but the other day. The sun bath shrunk into the soutb, And every bird hath shut its mouth, And broken off its lay; And yet with sultry beams the air, And yet with songs the woodlands fair, Were ...

Varieties

... varietiesz. -I Want of sense makes people obstinate, while principle makes thenm firm, since that which would be obsti- nacy in a wrong cause becomes firmness in a right one. To discriminate betaweca the two is often difficult. It is a fair step towards happiness aad virtue to delight in ithe company and conversation of good men, and where these cannot be hadl it is better to Ikeep no company ...

Poetry

... THE ANSWER OF SPRING. I come, I come I I heard the call Of earth, on every side; I saw the tears which the sky lot fall, And I'd fain those tears were dried I've struggled, and burst from the icy bond Which winter had o'er me cast; 1 hear sweet greetings, all loud and fond, And I come o'er the world at last I I smile, and the sunbeam broke forth, to shed A brighter and warmer ray; I smile, and ...

Poetry

... jortfp. HARROW REMINISCENCES-PEEL AND BYRON. Peel and I were at Harrow together. Peel is a know- ing fellow, and will get on in the world. He beat me at classics, but in declamation I was at least his equal.- Moore's Lifeof Byroi. Robert has doubled his fortune, and ruined his coun- ?? BRoert PeeV's father. !AU our happiness consists in being well deceived - English PObliW. BYRON. ...

Poetry

... poetrs. BEAUTIES OF BYRON. NO. xvirI. CHILDS HAROLD. We c ontinua o lt extracts from the fourth Canto i scr;itivC of lRome: here is a picture ot de5cri~t'v of TIIE PANTHEON. m de, orect, severe, austere, sublime- 9'1*l1l siis ud temple of al I gods, ?? Jove to Jeus~-sparvd ?? blest by time t eoh r tliquility, while ?? or nods Xr di elpireg eachll thing round thee, ani man plodls sr mitiough ...

Reviews

... 3Atbife)-+ I e- - ?? ?? THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES. A PRISON RHYmE IX TEN Boo-s. By Tuaw0XX COOPER, the Chartist. London: J. How, 132, Fleet-street. (Continued from the Star of Nov. Ist.) The Ninth Book is brief, consisting of but some fifty stanzas. The characters who figure therein aie exclusively female,-PORCIA, ARRIA, the wife of ASDRVBAL, the Carthaginian, SorHnoNiA, and BARux.t, the ...

Poetry

... jocarp4. ., I I -- ?? ?? THE SONG OF THE GALLOWS I (L1NES DROPPED BY CALCRAFT AT THE OLD BAILEY.). gurrah! hurrah i from the rabble rout, In their muck haunts, far away ! There rises a rude and a riotous shout, At the news of a holiday! 'Twill be a brave sight, a very brave sight, A real tragedy, The mob will see, with a strange delight, A fellow creature die! And 'tie I shall dance first in ...

SADLER'S WELLS

... Shialspeare's magnificent tragedy of Mfacbetd was | repeatcel at tiis theatre onl ionday and nfueday last, and w ill, we understand, be repeated on the Monday and Tuesday nights of every week fee soeio timc to come. Of these opportumities for wit- nessing one of the sublimest productions of our national poet, we hope our theatrical-lovii'g friends will take advantagc. Those of them l.all have ...

ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE

... ROYAL MARYLEBONE TIIEATRE. We must again accord our maeed of praise to the spirited lessee of this theatre (Mr. John Douglass), and his truly talented company. We marvel not at the in. creasing celebrity this temple of Thespis has recently obtained, seeing that Ro effort is wanting on the part of the conductors to gratify their numerous patrons, and sustain the high position they have attained ...

Poetry

... I oetrP. I TO TH E UNSATISFIED. Why thus longing, why for ever sighing, For the far-off, unattained and dim; while the beautiful, all around thee lying, Offers up its low perpetual hymn ? Would'st thou listen to its gentle teaching, All thy restless yearning it would still; Leaf, and flower, and laden bee are preaching Thine own sphere, though humble, first to fill. poor indeed thou must be, ...

Varieties

... I - 'F Good manners are the blossoms of good k sense, and, it may be added, of good feeling; for if the b law of kindness be written in the heart, it will lead to . that disinterestedness in little as well as in great things r- -that desire to oblige, and attention to the gratifica. tion of others, which are the foundation of good ' manners.-Locke. What sculpture is to a block of marble, l ...

Poerty

... h- oe rs' TIlE CIIARTER, AND NO SURRENDER ! The lords of tire soil claim the poor man's toil His labonur to them is given For a crust of bread and a str'atv-roofed shed, Though bleak as the winds of heaven. To sow and till, so that valley and hill May yield up their fertile store, Must the toiler slave, and at last receive The bust's, when his labour's o'er'. 11t the gloomy Mille, wvhlere no ...