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Poetry

... jDartr)). TUE VILLAGE SPRING. TnE stii Is yet bright, ald the evening is still, CO-io 0lo-n to the oring at the it;ot ot tile till, Thato btilt'lei fhrlh ever n enuotnst supply- -Not bii Winter oerflowing, ili Sttunmer el' zdry. JUlt close bv the roadl, i0 vo olU e thatt ureep. bnilt Where ate ditck leavii ttil thitlles ,antd irras growving ranlk? )lo you -'i' tho'so tough 3totlei. tind tho ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... WALKING-Walking is good; not merely stepping from shDop to shop, or fron neighbour to neighbour, but stretching out into the country, to the freshest fields, and highest ridges, and quiet lanes. However sullen the imagination may have been among its griefs at home, here it cheers up and smiles. However list- less the limbs may have been seotainiog a too heavy heart, here they are braced, and ...

Poetry

... joettrp. SONNET.-COMP'OSED AT BEnNE. SEs loine and dic, tis said; but 0, that hour When first I stood entranced beneath the powver Of yolsder mighty Alps, I could have wvish'd to die: For thoughts I never knew before that day Caine, like bright angels, from those summits high, And seenind to woo Ins from this world away. Evell aq yon glittering peaks the silent skies Plerce with their prcsenco ...

Poetry

... I3oetrp. BOOK-LENDING AND BOOK-KEEPING. How hard, when thosc who do not wish To aceLd-that's lose-tieIr books, Are snared by anglers-folks tleat fish With literary hooks; bWho call and takei some favourito tome, Blut never rcad it through: They thus complete their set at home, By making one at you. Behold the book-shelf of a dune, Wiho lorrows-never leads; Youn work, In twenty vouimes, osece ...

Poetry

... J?Ortrp- ENTSCHUL;DIGUNG (VINDICATION).-FROM BURGER. YEs, Bescy I granted that I swore 'To d(te Ipon thy charnms eternally; Blit since thc wlitchig time is o'er, Why fidsely tax my heart with perjury? IT is tr;e, no more tbr thee my fancy warms; But, Betty, where-oh! where are now thy chanats? AMO'R's PFEIL (CUPID's DsaT). CUPID voutids with BARBED dart; Should it pettetrate ithy hecart, There ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... Duxi: OF WELLINGTON.-No Man so little beloved was ever o well obeyed: and there is not a mnail in Eagland, of either party, citizen or soldier, who would not rather me than see him disgraced. His firmness, his moderation, his probity, place him more opposite to Napoleon then he stood in Itle field of Water- loo. These arc his lefty lines of 'forres Vedres, which no enemy dares assail ...

Poetry

... D@ottrp. SONNET, COMPOSED NEAR DOMO DIOSSOLA. Dowli, down, descending from the snowy height Of Alpine pcaks,v I wind my rapid wagy Through mountain gorges, which the light of day Scarce visits ; over crags that itako the sight Grow dim and dizzy, dowil I roll-still down, Escorted by tile avalatiche and the clolid- The sterile rock-tie snow and mnisty shroud, 'While chasnis yawn and gramite ...

Poetry

... IDW-OtP. TO M. L. R., AJn Aenswar to her rinuirgt-j- TWo is Sabrina PI LADY, lady! vainly seeking Title I may truly claim; rools seem large whence fogs are reeking; I (from misty mantle speaklng) Say, I will not tell my name. Small things, veil'd, have greater seeming; Night gives proose where Noon may blame; Barren hills, through blue mist gleaming, Are as land of poets' dreaminug: Thus I ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... SOCIETY is generally supposed to give the last polish to edu- cation; but, perhaps, there is nothing like a little adversity to bring about the healthiness of feeling which alone fits a man for society. THE. VIRGIoS OF T9iE SUN.-The great establislhments of Cuzco, consisted wholly of maidens of the royal blood, who amounted, it is said, to no less than fifteen hundred. The pro- vincial ...

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... SLANDER is 'THE TONGuE Or ENVY. -At the court of the lion Was a noble horse, who had long and faithfully served his kin-; - O and his master prized and loved his filitlilal servaist as U~ to deserved. This was distaeteful to tinecrowvd of inferior cour~tiers P' and the fox undertook to undermine the trusty servant and rob IV him of his mionarch's favour, But his insinuations were nobly and ...

Poetry

... l~octu). THE VILLAGE CHURCII -BY ELIZA COOs, TIM village chIurch Is Passing VY, Ihle bells gush out Ii merry tune, Atnla,' is oer tic tot ret grtty, The iorell holds oilt the ftluivr, of June; For N outh and beauty comee to wet, With bhoindings torte cilolt bca:iiitg eye- Withll alt te raptutre love call stied, And ill tIh hotp that gold calo hoy Asd Childlcet twiitlC with koiky glee, White ...

Literature

... Efteraturt. The Greatest Plrge of Life, or the Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Scrriet.-D. Bogue, Fleet-street, London. The plates by Cruikshank are rcplete with the humour of that genuine artist. In the one we have a legion of cats eating poultry, breaking china, and doing all that vast amount of mischief classified under the comprehensive head of The cat did it 1-aud in the other ...