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... .aott = = THE BRIDEGROOM TO HIS BRIDE. PFHOS THlE POETICAL iRMAINS OF THE LATE IRS. GRAY.] TuRss years ago, mine Own, And we had inet-'t was bat acquaintallceship; There was no tretuer iII the courteous tonle Which, grecting thee, itow'd freely to my lip At calt inowifterview. Thy beutty seem'd Indeed tite very vision I had dream'd Of wvointl's loveliest form ;but that it slirined So brri ...

Poetry

... Rostra. A SONG 'FOR THE TIMES. DLEDCATED TO THiE OPPONENTS or SANATORY XtEEOu M. (FROM TUE SIAN IN TUE MOON.] CLosEyour eyelids and fold your arms, eood, easy people abliot; In filth ald stench, from sever and trench, Have your limp securely out. Cran; your dead into reekin vaults, As herrings are crnmn'd hil a;ll rels; Then cheek by jowl, with the dendlnen foel, (.o oel with your loves sud ...

Poetry

... ? jooctr._V. IJIELANDe6 DISTRESS. '~'ttNCF that wild cry'? hlarboeir'tl are all our ablpm, (to r meeetof-witi prepare not jor' the flegitt Whenre itht ?? Cry', thien, from it thitsinjad lilis, Lotllct'ao condortitee, piercing dleptth anti height Out' erotica moren to, neither, tramp of Inca Nar toll tel druetar Is board hat town or glen Why (1i011-0, n'Iv~ that shout-tilai W-rotelleet wail? ...

Literature

... 31ittrattive. '/lie 'letynitstei aunit Foreign Quaerterly Revietv.-G. Luxford, Vhitefriars-street, London. The Westminster for October contailnsa pleasing mingling of the useful and the agreeable. TIIe opening article, onl the 'Improvemnent. of Lanled Property, will be found to contain many valuable hints bearing on a question which is now of vital importance to the agriculturist, viz , the ...

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... Plato observed that the minds of children were like bottles with very narrow mouths; if you attempted to fill them too rapidly much knowledge was wasted, and little received. Wo5sAN.-One of the most important female qualities is sweetness of temper. Heavendidnotgive to women insinuation ?? persuasion in order to be surly; it did not make them weak ein order to be imperious; it did not give ...

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... BEAUTIFUL SAYiNG.-While we wrangle here in the dark,we are dying, and passing to the world that will decide all our con- troversies, and the swiftest passage thither is by peaceable holiness.-Bauter. EFFECTS oF NEwSPAPERS ON ORDINARY CONVERSATION.- It is not to be doubted that the conversational power, as well as the graceful craft of letter-writing for which the last century was limous, has ...

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... MORAL TnovIGHTFULNEss.-When I look round uponboys and men, there seems to be some one point or quality which distin- guishes really noble persons from ordinary ones; itis not reli- gious feeling, it is not honesty or kindness, but it seems to me to be moral thoughtfulness, which is at once strengthening, and softening, and elevating-which makes a man love Christ instead of being a finatic, and ...

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... CoReRUPIOaN is like a ball of snow, when once set rolling it maust increase. it gives ?? to Cite activity oft ?? knave, but it chills tile honiest men, anti makes him almost wearyof hs culingand nil1 that cnrruptioh attracts;, it also re- tarinsyfor it is easr not to fall than Only to fall once, and not to yield a single inch than having yielded to regain t. PA! NrUL DUrIES OF 'rILE ...

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... MODERN ROME.- Modern Rome occupies but a small portion of tile original city; it may be a fifth that is eniclasedhly the wall which still remains, though It Is difficalt upon this subject to speak with absolute certainty. The presentt city touches the wall only at the north, where it declines to the Tiber; but in some other points it does not approach nearer to it than two miles; thle ...

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... ?? Deairigs wvith tie Fires of' Domailol and Soni. By Cus'srles Dickeni. No. XIV.-Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, London. Carker ' the manager shows Ihis teeth more than ever in the present number, whiio lie winds his artful meshes round the ill-fated Dombey, the haughty Edith, and the gentle Florence. Amongst the subordinates there ire some ehauges. The traitor IBob the Grinder is in ...

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY

... Materials of light colours arc confined to in-door dresses; Fekinecs, with alternate satin and silk stripers, or stripes cspou. indes, brocldes, &c., poults do soie, plain velvets, ottomans, or ninWglds, are fashionable for high dresses; rediugotes, cavalieres, Vitehouras, for carriage, visiting, or promenade dresses; gi6p, lace, and fur, form at this moment thle usual trimmings, except. ing ...

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... | Vo~eNI-No man ever spoke contemptuously of women with- out having a bad heart as well as bad head. A CONsOLATORY PEcEcDeNT.-All degrees of nations begin with living in pigsties. The king or the priest first gets out of' them; then the noble, then the pauper, in proportion as each class becomes more and more opulent. Better tastes arise frout better circumstances; and the luxury of one period ...