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MEMS. OF A TOUR TO TINTERN ABBEY

... FROM THE NOTE-BOOK OF A COCKNEY TOURIsT. (August 1845.) V AT a certain tintinnabulary signal tile packet, With Ourself and U numerous passengers on board,wntsplashingoutintothe river. The morning was exquisitely sunshiny and calm, and, it being our first excursion by sea, we confietly predicted to ourself every-prospect of a ploasiut, and instructive voyage. On entering the river at Bristol ...

Poetry

... ;poetrp. PSALMODY. WsILE somletimeS, on my heart and car, That plaintive music sadly talls, Ilov many tender thoughts to mu The solomn psalmody recalls; How oft mlY listening spirit hero llas ki nided into estatcy. And every thing has been forgot Bat heaven, AlUmighty God, and Thee! Holy oft, within this Iallowed place, I've heard, with joy, that pious strain, From lips whose luelody on earth ...

Poetry

... voetrP. MIORTIFiCATION.-OLD POIEMi. BY GEORGE HERBERtT. HoW soon Ilothl man decay! Wheil clothes are taken from a Chest of sweets, To swaddle infunts, whoso y oung breath Scarce knonvs the Way. Those clouts aro little wvinding-sheets. Which do consign and senld them unto death. When boys go first to bed, Thoy step intO their voluintary graves; Slece binds them fltet; only their breath Vakes ...

The Drama

... --rDe lDaa. n ?? ulallb 0 l to ?? tsvec.Iatein tle 5lj dny to o0ffr thuo mnea d o' llraisiiinsl o tiprolqyior c proa 80 humbe all ours-to tilh I iaenilus ci 81 akeore1 i t It howover, dlullt towltnusa tIY lpro- auotlitn ol' tho Inunortal llard with~ut Ihlig congtrained to do homnage to that ?? t onlsca , l he power or wito-as Tlots been et woll reuarked by I `tller oo lmako Meraciftue 1augn1 ...

Poetry

... Poetrp. DO TAG E.-OLD PoM. BY GEOnGE HEnBEitT. FALS9E, glozinl picasures, casks of ha plness, Foolish1 night tires, wouelns end ehileren's wishes, Chases In arras, glded emptiness, Shadolws wyell niousted, streams in a career, Linbroider'd lies, nothing betweell two dishes; These are the pleasures here. True, earnest sorrows, rooted minseries, AngUiSil II graini vexations ripe and blown, Sure ...

Literature

... ~ml Ule 2yw ?? Review; No. XC.-G. Luxford, Whltefrinrs-st., cel London. an This able periodical is, this quarter, more political than lite- ho rary or scientific. In the latter departments, indeed, we have tri an article on the wonderful Revelations of the Microscope, be another on Architectural Study (with graphic illustrations), mi aud a third on David Hume , but those on subjects ...

Poetry

... vuotri.l. ELEGIAC STANZAS. I11SCI5CnlnD ON THE TOM1 OF' A YOUTH. STAY, troveller! !or unlheding PaSs T 'sI'olli9 lllililal S~tolle901, IVIi tch sepea s ot biried youth and worti, A td Iopcs Ibr ever cfSwn. Trite though tdhe tale it tells, it claims Fm''l kvZerv' eve a tear: Even Pit'v hta9 er ir opingform, Awl w veps ot1t d watches here. It tiols of oiew eli5so hcart was pure, From geib' sillS ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... No TIME TO UnDERSTAND.-A very quick and clever child made an observation to her governess before me the other day, which had a good deal of truth in it. .How is it, my dear, inquired the lady, that you do not understand this simple thing? I do not know, indeed, she answered,withaperplexed look, but I sometimes think 1 have so many things to learn that I have not time to understand.1-Mrs ...

VARIETIES

... LrTaEAR NoVZt. -lt is said that Smith O'Brien bas a new work in the press' eititked Every one bis own Cellarman., BLUSMiNG.-A practice least used by those who have most oocasion for it. A PRscocIoUS YoUrT.- Mother, said a little square- built urohin about five years old, why don't my teacher make me monitor sometimes? I can lick every boy in my class but one. PLAINTISI AND DAFB ANAT.-Dr ...

POETRY

... ae.. I *gig soang -splrt. By JDaeB HiAMMOND, O'e'r valley nnd height shono a flood of light Heaven amil'd upon the scene. Her emlpire gained, the bright moon reigned. All tranquil and serene! And I said, to rove In a night liko thin, What blight can there be upon human bliss. But a spirit pasa'd by, with a heavy sigh, And whisper'd my list'niig ear. can you hear the groln of a spirit lone, ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... LITERARY VAIUETIHS. Mml 'THOOMAI Mol01i'S DLIATII.-411 (1101101 woio Of 1& PIUOo ?? ife ?? thereoa ?? Inl It nowv, forotid, (II' ulfeotod. Ito (11(1 not look oit the sovorlog of Ils11010 1 fo Ill de( Uol. ?? whiel~l ought to (('IroIUm ally oh floll tiofl (if ?? f111101 and Ito flu 110d In it 1I1oId ?? K 1101d 0 of' Immnortality, Iho tllought miy naiuld(oUII ,1ro of A1ll10W and1 coIL' eu11 rn ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... LITERARY VARMf TIES. GENJIOs When a true genius appears inis the worl, You may si know hins by thlis ign, that thedunces are always inconfederacy hgainst him.-SwMff. - . Fight hard against a hasty temper. Anger will come, but iesist it stoutly. A spark will set a house on fire. A fit of pas- t, sion may give you cause to mourn all the days of your life. t. Lt w oi lKINDNEssfI are but ...