... originality. Y. u mght aleays know him, like Gibbon, by his style. Then loy, he was a mere prosaic swindler. with nothing of the poetry of the art about him. He seldom soared above oyster-shaps, but it must be added to his credit, that “ within that circle none ...

... piece m,..mfl,:;:.m:,l'h\,v.:(m m;;].:' ;‘:,‘;:»f::‘,:‘.m.l:mm the gomerie, who commanded them has reported in the highest 'of poetry with these words: - The following lin's were writ- Retur:s of the Tnspectors in the Maritime Cities and Towns in England ...

... living poets. Those eriticisms might lessen the dislike or enlighten the ignorance of the lettered and the leisured, as to the poetry of the Sheffield bard —but his works, mostly appearing at intervals in various periodicals, have hitherto remained difficult ...

... pens so eminent be procured on such easy terms !—The No. opens with -Wh-nl\owfiwnh . “(orn-law Rhymer,” fall of his usnal fine poetry and passionate politics. Thus he opens :— * Queen of onr hearts! true marriage Is made of slil bread. Want's many.childed ...

... Webster's excellent Tale of ¢ Ingliston,” Mr. Hill's Lecture on the Management of Lunatic Asglums, Mr. T. Aird’s new volume of Poetry, and Buxton's “ Remedy for the Slave Trade,” are all, in their turn, made the subject of articles replete cither with amusement ...

... entitled to something more than an exemption from “ abuse ;’ for, though eminent success in so difficult a department as sacred poetry is not 4o be expected, he at lemst shows himself possessed of tastes and eapabilities bighly honourable to him. Tue Lamp ov ...

... Bosoms,— The 2% v#lind Transcript, in publishing a little poem, prefaces it with these words :—* We have read some little poetry in our day, and have been variously afected by it, but our feelings were never so wronght upon as in reading the foliowing ...

... Miiton are, os s O e e | that agitation in n.r‘rh a measure ‘:a«.‘\:\;l;';l['l)r:,)‘ll .ol' truly, the founta ns of nationzl poetry to the ¢itizen 2 8 : L tha : 3 'd cause its | ¢ ihe United S - > oalis olar NTS, MAPS AND PLANS, &, &, & | immediate cemation ...

... analogous to the circulation of .he blood in animals, and there are innumerable natural analogies to be found in the language of poetry. We speak of the fury of the tempest—the war of the elements—the melancholy of the sra—the modesty and purity of a snowdrop ...

... after which, the scholars were catechised, examined as to their knowledge of the sacred Scriptures, and several pieces of poetry were recited; all of which exercises were gone through in a manner highly creditable to themselves and their teachers. From ...

... of songs and ballads, stated on the title-page to have been written, and set to music, by Princes Albert and Ermest. The poetry is chiefly by Prince Ernest, the musie by Prince Albert. In three of the songs, Prince Eruest is the author both of words ...

... Devotion! When he writes thus there iz no trace of the condescension or the deliberate quaintness which generally makes dialect poetry a word of fear. Burns, though a peasant, was really an educated man, and his intel. Joct was of a colossal nature, and though ...