... Xollekerns had no love of nature-he was never known to seek it or to adinre it; he never read, and did 'not knowv wilhat poetry was; lie hald o0 information to draw subjects fromn: and yet, when lie wanted fornis, forms camne. His muisons would pile ...

... d and the frf c uese of hih ' s. hs. VEaSE NOT PorTnRY .-Wfe don't pretend to any very deep kinoudedge ofwht const.tutes Poetry, hut with all due deference to th1 Rhygning smon who has honoured us with asn epistle, we cannot see mc ch merit in such ...

... cotimlmercimel , mrbhss tmdor agrect, anti our poet atten let. Dumrimg dinimer the rider w :s in his elemmoent. t uikel of poetry ani Peg sus t is fmmmmi-i:cr y :s :f they had )iecn spinnitog-jelinies,; ani, i turning to Biurs, requestel to have a simp ...

... of being able to insert it in a Week or twvo, When the Isso zes are okcr, and ite have more spice at command. E. S. G.'s poetry is again obliged to give 1voy to the re- cord of debates and trials. A Co17resp9ond7enlt in2 iridge-street, complains of als ...

... allowed, that poets were born, not emade. Sonie persons night rliyme without that organ, but every one would distinish between poetry adll riiyiie. Hle did not mean to say that organ would make a poet, unless n'ith certain other combinations, but hle contended ...

... tile mind with dry amd un- interrupted details of facts exclusivelv-or turn it ffrom the bcauty, and fervour, and pathios of poetry, or from arial excursions into the delightful regions of liction-b(rt Whiat was evidently intrended for tire gninrnishing ...

... ofimy~,boyhood,-the study of my mranhood, ; 'perhaps (Tlallowed' imsto attain it) he m ay he the consolation -or muyage. 'His poetry lathe Book'of'~ife. 'Without cantitig, and eyetwifthutfnegleettngreligxon' be has assemibled altlthat a .good: L endgreatman ...

... popularity unparelleled In itmoments of sad_ ness it cheers tile heart, and points to ftture blessedness; ivtlilst ftle music, the poetry, and the tales ierd the imagi. n.ttsn captive.. * Taa'PERsACli.-Professor .Etgamr has- been in town thais week, 'anli has ...

... which has been coamit ted upon the-property of the same person. . I LszcauRzs o0$ PDIZTsrT.-We understand that a leetalt on- poetry w9il be deliveredl nett Saturday evening to the mnemherspf tihe Mechanics' Institutionr by Mr. Jolla Mackay Wilsron, the author ...

... many empty seats. He gsrve evidence, however, of acute critical judgment, and delivered with much effect, specimens of the poetry of Eng- land and Scotland. On Wednesday night an increased at- tendance gave increased energy to the lecturer, and he shew- ...

... o ACKAy WILSON'S LECTURES ON JIL POETRY. [ From a Correspondent.] 'Jr WlSonrslect ures on poetry anrd thle ports or Britisn, h b tsrClllitaionsoviliclh were delivered inthe Me- si ,IrntitutiOn, Cooper-street, on the evenings of the6 14thinsat, vvere ...

... Ma. Jo}{N MIACKAY WILSOa, whose lecture on temper. ance societies was so well received the other evenling, will lecture on poetry. in the lecture room of the literary and philosophical society, Grorge-street, on MoIdayw Wedse, ddy, and Thursday evenings ...