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Poetry

... jDottv)). TO SABRINA. CEASE, fond lady, vaitly biding Tblot which wve already scan . Though we lkonw nut thine abiding- Though thou hast pronounced a ban 'aninst the curlous, rasly seckiug To uInveil, to plubic gaee, Her ?? bot of late beel speaking In Subrhia's truttotul lays, Yet we know thee, past conjectllre, Better than thy name coutd tell, Or the most descriptive lecture Which could ...

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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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... Many (says Newton) have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I ?? that. Vtre is evil, and that there is a way to is escape it; and with this I begin and end. WIT AND JUDGMENT.-Wit is brushwood, judgment is timber; the first makes the brightest flame, but the latter giyes the most a, lasting heat. PoWER. -Many ?? assume power in the name of Heaven, are as severe In its exercise, and as ...

Poetry

... 190ttrjv. A STORY OF OUR COTTAGE HOMIES. 3lowN in n valley of our English land A peasant dwelt; around his cottage lay RIch 11el(1s, with shadowy treco (nn ancicut band) And sunny slopes. where browsing cattle stray B.y the clear hrooklet rurnrmlriog on its way; Bhlt of rough steno, ?? wasa the cot; The wide niteretlces fillcd tip withl clay; And olnoy sketch'd It there, aod most torgot- So ...

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... CHILDREN SOLD TO THEIR MOTriest.-With regard to mulat- toes, I have seen individuals sold at Vendue who were two or three shades whiter than mulattoe8-whiter, indeed, than many native Carolinians; bat who had, as it was expressed by their proprietors, a drop of the devil's blood in them. I saw a little boy and girl, of nine or ten years of age, sold one day, wvlio were exceedingly fail and ...

Literature

... Efteratuve. 1e The llisters, of Painting in Italy. By Abtate Lssigi Lanzi. Trans- tated ta Thoieas Roscoos-2. ockley's Histosy of the Saracens.- R. G. Bohn, York.strcet, Covent-garden, London. Lanzi's H History of Painting embraces the whole period from the revival of the fine arts to the end of the eighteenth century. h'lie present volume deals with the Florentine, Sienese, and Roman ...

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 ...

Poetry

... ]DOttt. SONNET. DEEM not, 0 gentle mniden, that, unmoved The lines thy hand had traced t-esld0 perses; Nor think that coldly I Lntithanlfutil proved For the sweet offering of thy tender jpuse. No, Ias I read, befbre my fancy's eye, II all thy bloom alnd yoathful beealty, thou Didst, as I oft have Keia thee, wander by Like a soft breeze; andi ol thy fitir smooth brow I prny'd that ever thus ...

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... RELIGION is the best armour, but the worst cloak. GOLDiEN TsioucarrS.-A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for, are commonly the most profitable, and should be secured, because they seldom return-LordBacofl. How TO AVOID THE PLAGUE-It is remarked of the Persiens, t that though their country is surrounded every ...