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BOLTON ABBEY IN THE OLDEN TIME

... I Upon ?? so called, nower/sibiting in the Royal Academy. BoLTro in olden time !-a glorious pile! Ancient, and ofan architecture rare, With turrets high, and fretted roof and aisle, And wassail halls, and chapels raised for prayer; Chambers with fair-wrought tapestry hung round. And secret treasure-rooms oF gathered gold, And lonely cells, and dungeons underground, Where peace was prayed ...

AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE

... AGRICULTURAL SNTLLLZGZNGZ. I IFw;XgaaL zn^ms-. CLEVEDON ANNUAL CATTLE SHOW. e The second annual exhibition ofthe Clevedon Agricultural e Society took place, on Wednesday last, in a field in front of the RoyalHotel. The attendance was unusually great, and ! fiacluded nearly all the resident gentry and farmers of the neighbourhood, as well as many from'more distant parts of the county, and from ...

DISSAPPOINTMENT

... A LOCAL LEGENI. Hn looked like a Squire of high degree When dressed hi his Sunday ?? Song. Too kitten lay purring before the fire, And the lap.dog bask'd onl thO capetted floor, And 'lissus' she dozed in her elbow-chair, Uncoescious of aught shat iras passing there, Whilst the forso of the voni and listless Squire The sobs's dossask cushions bore. 5'Oueen ?? is the fairins' midwife ...

MY OWN FIRESIDE

... MIY OWN FIRESIDE. Lsrrtox TAf-Vs EDIN-BuRGH MAGAZINE-] Trsoa 's a smiling spot in the poor man's horne, That is known not to pride in its gilded dobya X 'And he loveth it well fro 't is ,allow'dbal Thnadth atlh tufidt V ~lu ttO life oris dear to his soul: By the memory sweet of his boyish years- By a father's similes and a mnother's tears; And earth hath no spot on its sutfaCe! wide So dear to ...

Poetry

... ZVI 0 et rp - THE FLOWERS. L[Y w. If. PRIDFAUX ] Tiun owrb that deck this earth of oura, lhowm eloquent are they! ?? to the human heart they snlijiagly convey i And jt how pgrent :tle we to plsso their oire mninitions ily, Aldlitgazo %with listleisness of heart and inadvertent eye: To Childhoo, arce tiley tlot as hsopes Whlieh faoscinate the mind, And. Ieads1 thc yanolg hesrt gaily on1, with ...

Poetry

... Ia a r t q) - POETRY.-By T. R. J. POLSON. Es titwrraO within thy silent home, Thy slumber who shall treak? What eurthly voice can reach thy ear, Or thy repose awake p Not many days since thou wert clad,. Io Youth and Beauty's prime; How trarisient was thy stay on earth * Ho' very short thy time! Thy father, sorrowing at thy grave, Bedews it with his tears- -He sighs and weeps but there no ...

Poetry

... jDortrv- OLD ENGLAND.-By MARnY HOvITT. OMD England I thou ibast greea and pastoral hills Fanit'd by delicious gales, And living voices of harmonious rillis Sound inL tby sylvas vales. Ujnder tile shadow of primeval trees, 'Mid whispering of green leaves, Stand cheertul groups of whito-wall'd cottages, Flowerrniantled to the eaves, And thou hast lovinig hearts, both h;ig and low, And homes ...

Poetry

... POMP-. SUNSET. See shere rtt' horizon shines with tints of gold, The sun bath set, and villagers behold The gorgeous colours of the glowing WVest, Where he had sunk into tile occalt's breast' The pevae3at nowr his dally laboar leaves, And seeks contentment and Isis household eaves; The partner of his love, his hopes, and fears, With tender care the social ev'nig cheers, Spreads choicest fare ...

Literature

... ?t'ra, UTI.C,-, 0? ?? The first paper consite of soms SPIrite extrelo. from 6ther correspondence of teeebte nd m tis ?? stanllope--ti, lady, ?? It her from English Polsed e ey r E~ 'It asen Queen Amongst ?? ftl eet isted ?? sa f colliection, of stornes an ncdts 'oiteetcd r wtthth l~er'a of that amusing PerO~e~ -lbt ?? Som ofb the f sketches are Well toltcul5 hi~mrl be~avhing is: byn means ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... XXTEAILY ~.WAILIETZES. a SecREcsr.-What is mine, even to my life, issbers I love; . but the ses-crt of my friend is not mine-SW?- P. Sideiey. f AN AUTLOENTIC JOE MIILLEM.-As if to redeem the habitual dtilness of Joe Miller, one solitary joke of his stands on respectable aithority. Joe, sittiug at the window of the Sun 0 Tavern, in Clare-street, vhile.a fish-woolan was crying, ?? Boy my soles! ...

MIRTH FOR OLD MAIDS!

... MIRlTI-H FOR OLD MAIDS! 'I Thoigh love he all thic world's pr(telace, Money's the mytiologie sense *-Ul-l Mu1fss. 1 love an old maid ! and shall I whisper why? She is cautious, not fickle-and modest, not shy: Ass caCt, on a wall with glass bottles, is seen A: jv alk circjmns;pectly-just such is her mien. I love an old maid! for the term, in my eyes, Is but a nick-namne for a woman that's wise ...

THE THEATRE

... THE TREATRE. he Among the many events which characterize the growing ty refinement of the age, maybe instanced the revival of the h Shaksperian drama. To Mr. Macready is due the honour Iw of the first attempt to reform the public taste. Deyoted to I lit his art, lie saw with pain the inglorio usses to which the stage had been degraded; and it is notorious that his bold th ...