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LITERARY VARIETIES

... LITERARY VAlIrETIES. LoRD KENYON AND THE CLERiK.-To a more humble class in the profession-attorneys' ?? Kenyon often showed forbearance and kindly feeling. He had been a clerk himself, L' and would venture to play with the cubs before their claws were grown. Soon after his appointment as Raster of the Rolls, he was listening attentively to a young clerk, on whom the duty had fallen ot reading ...

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... A BITTER TiUTH.c-We level the poor to the dust by our ge- neral policy, and take inflnite credit to ourselves for raising them up again with the grace of charity.-Fonblaaque. TIuE PLEASURE OF GIVING.-I am rich enough, and can aflbrd to give away £100 a year. I would not crawl apon the earth without doing a little good. I will enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it while alive, and ...

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... THE SABnATI.-The great Dr. Johnson on his death-bed Sl sent for his friend Sir Joshua Reynolds, and required of him, ti on the strength of their friendship, that he should promise three 1 things. The first and the hardest to be observed was, that Sir P Joshua would promise him that he would never paint again on o the holy Sabbath I V Music or NATURE.-Gardiner, in his Music of Nature, has put ...

Poetry

... poetry0i SONNET. now rosy fair my Ilody was to see C1,11of by my uancourtly wvorsd, ho told; Bather a 1hoping borrower let ia be-.- A debtor to the lloaster minds of old. Of golden wires, or capture I susbeams made, Hler lovely locks fell o'er her neck of snow; Her arched hro'vs Inelosed, in fringed shade, Two nurplo violots thlt slept el own .f rcddet cornl were her houeyed lips (anrdig the ...

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... POETIC Fleic.'-We should have a glorious conflagration if all who cannot put ?? into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire. That was a good remark of Seneca's, when he said Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate; and not less great Is the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthen- ware. LisEnRT.-Liberty is to the collective body what ...

Poetry

... p.oetry. SONG. THouGn far away from me you fly, To seek for bitss elsewhere- To 1!11 your heart land feast your eye Vith visions gav and iair- fitill 'illial tilt, fcst ve joy 3S011 feel Sgome panwse, 0 lot ?? be; Alid sometillios to past ptleasures steal And than remeniber ne. For 0, amid the glittering scene, Where pomip and pleasure dwell: Whose beauty bright-,whose dazzling sheen l)ellght ...

Poetry

... . 4ottrp. UTIIHTARIAN SONNET. WuAT are vain verses, flil of war Sitd love, Ble skies, and misty Idlls, said gentle g des, Anld dovwbeasprllkled elowers, ad grassy vales, And swaiis, love.wounded, phiing in a grove? T'ley are not poetry: tho fools, that rove In lilton's limbo, ract their shalalow brains To rave to ovory wind souh pullng strains; Not so those bards whos1e song is heard above. ...

Poetry

... liottrp* THE LORD OF GLOUCESTER. ?? following Incident is narreted by Miss Strickland ;whio also snaentions that Wilinam of Normandy being weary of Matudeyof Fl=a. .i 4ters repulsing his love, met her ir tic strect, threw her to the ground, 1Iat her, and spolld her rich array.) UteTo the court of Flanders a Saxen enVoY came- 'The white-brow'd Lord of GIloucester, young lirilitiriewaqlils ...

Poetry

... poftren. SUnftER THOUGHTS. I 'vE been where are springing the wood flowers wild, Where the greets leaves rasti eand sigh, Where the dragonfly flits stpon gauzy wiig, And the butterfly glancs by; Whiere the wild bee itslsoneyed banquet culls, As it skims on its gladsotmeo way, And kisses the sweet linde' perifined lips As it lights 011 each drooping spray; Where fairy-like creatares, ot ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... LITE'ORARY VARIETIES. THE BLUSHI OF MODESTY is nature'd alarm at the approach a of sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue. DR. ADAM CLAIucE's ADVICE TO ISI1 AmErICAN BRETHREN. -As a church, abide in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship. i As a nation, be firmly united; entertain no petty differences; totally abolish the slave-trade; abhor all offensive ware; never provoke even the ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... LITE RARY VARIETIES. I AIDS Tro REFLECTON.-An hour of solitude passed in eincere I and earnest prayer, or the conflict with, and conquest over, a esingle passion, or subtle bosom sin, will teach us more of I thought, will more effectually awaken the faculty, and form the e habit of reflection, than a year's study in the schools without o them.-Coteridge. I I3TELLECTUAL PRECOCITY.-A child ...

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... HINT TO THE L.ADiS.-Some of F'oster's peciliarties are amusing. lie disliked fancy work, and observed on being shown a bit of worsted work, with a great deal oftred In it, that i it was red with the blood of murdered time ; thus diffierng from John- son, who wished that gentlemen could be taught te useof tile needle.-Frasr., rAN UNLUCKY COLOUr IN SCOTLAND-FOr some reason, which has been ...