66 Say what abridgement have you for this evening ?
What mask ? What music ? How shall we beguile
The lazy time, if not with some delight ?”

SHAKSPEARE.

EDINBURGH:

PUBLISHED BY

JOHN AITKEN, ST. ANTHONY'S PLACE;
JOHN LUMSDEN, GLASGOW; HODGES & MʻARTHUR,

DUBLIN; AND KNIGHT & LACEY, LONDON.

1824.

CONTENTS.

[The articles in Italics are Poetical.]

THE Rainbow ....... Lights and Shadows.

The Lily of the Valley · .... Croly.

Love's Philosophy . . . . . . Shelley.

The Broken Heart ..... Sketch Book.

The Rose in January ..... Anonymous.

Life in the Country ...... Hermit in the Country.
Caroline . . . . . . . . . Campbell.

Maxims . . . . . . . . . Quarles, (1658.)

Truth . .,. . . . . . . . N. Breton, (1616.)

To Tr** L** H** during sickness . L. Hunt.

Sonnet. “ Eternal and omnipotent Unseen." . Horace Smith.

A Tale for a Chimney Corner ... Indicator.

The Soul's Errand . . . . . . Sir W. Raleigh.

Roman Gladiators ... ... Valerius.

Love and Reason . . . . . . . Moore.

A Rural Description . . . . . Bergerac, (1658.)

de

Hebrew Melody. “ When.com

« When coldness wraps this Byron.

suffering clay."

The Shrubbery . . . . . . . Potter

Lines written in Richmond Churchyard, Herbert Knowles

Ortogrul of Bazra . . . . . . . Johnson.

An Olde Tale . . . . . . . . Heptameron, (1597.)

Masaniello ......... Holford.

The Isles of Greece . .... Byron,

The Downfal of Holy Church ... Points of Humour.

Maternity · · · · · ·..

Hermit in London.

The Widow and her Son . . . . Sketch Book.

41

45

46

48

49

60

61

63

65

92

95

106

109

119

135

Fiammetta and Boccaccio ... London Magazine

The Youth of Genius .. .. . D’Israeli

Gilbert ! Gilbert ! . .. ... Indicator

Stanzas. “ The turf shall be my fragrant shrine.” Moore

94

The Cacique of Ontario . .... Elegant Tales

Fragment. “O leave the lily on its stem." .. Coleridge

Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's

· Exhibition . .... New Mon. Mag.

Evaline . . . . . . . . . . Druid

111

The Violet .. .. .. ... Sir W. Scott

114

Address to a Wild Deer in the Forest) Wilson

115

of Dalness .

On the Inconveniences Resulting C. Lamb

from being Hanged ....

Song. “The fountaines smoake, and yetno flames Garden of Delights(1610) 126

The Progress of Inconstancy ... M.Diarmid

127

Impromptu on the Helen of Canova . Byron

Lines to my Children . . . .. C. Lloyd

136

The Cavern of Hoonga ..... Mariner's Tonga Islands 138

The Too-early opening Flower ... Bovering

140

A Frenchman ...... Heylin, (1679) 142

Maxim .......... Warwick, (1637) 142

The Disinterment . .. .. · Ollier

Kilmeny ......... Hogg

148

Hell's Bridge ........ Anonymous

155

The First of March ... ... New Mon. Mag. 158

The Wife ...... ... Sketch Book

159

The Grave of Anna . .. . .. Gifford

164

Man . . . . . . . . ... New Mon. Mag. 165

Letter from the Countess Dowager of

Nithsdale, giving an Account |

Antig. Trans.

of the Earl's escape out of the

Tower in 1716 . . . . )

The Falls of Ohiopyle ..... December Tales

Stanzas from the Spanish .... Edin. Review

181

Erin Mavourneen, Farewell ! ... Europ. Mag.

181

Happiness · · · · · · · · · Colton's Lacon

183

The Tropical Night · · · · · · Anonymous

184

Evening Thoughts on Death ... Bowring

186

Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield, Johnson

188

143

166

175

Page.

196

201

251

Trinity College, Cambridge, Forty ? New Mon. Mag. 189

Years ago

. . . J

Stanzas written at the Cloke of a Year Edin. Mag.

192

Polycarpa Salabarrieta ..... Life of Sir G. M“Gregor 194

Dreams. ...... The Graces

195

Elegy, “Fair was thy blossom, tender flower.» Hogs

Peace and War . ......Prose by e Poet 198

The Voice of Spring . ... New Mon. Mag,

A True Story ........

Indicator

203

A Tale of True Love ... . . May You Like it

205

The Merchant of Venice .... Tales of Humour 221

Unforeseen Pleasures ..... Ravelin's Lucubration. 232

Templeton ......... Ravelin's Lucubrations 237

Remembrance .. .. ... Southey

249

The Pains of Sleep . ... . Coleridge

250

A Poet's Epitaph. .Wordsworth

The Stout Gentleman .. Bracebridge Hall 253

Mortality ......... Knox

260

The Last Hours of Sir W. Rawleigh. D'Israeli

262

Stanzas “ The gentle season of the yeere." Phønix Nest, (1593) 266

The Destruction of Sennacherib

Byron

267

Sonnet " Let me not to the marriage of true minds." Shakespeare

268

Leonora, a Recollection from my Travels Knight's Quart. Mag. 269

Noche Serena ........ New Mon. Mag. 272

The Battle of Albuera

Recollections of the Pen.

· · · · 3 insula

273

The Old Cumberland Beggar ... Wordsworth

278

A Good Old Man .. .. Bishop Earle, (1628) 282

Rosario .......... N. Buonaparté

283

Herod's Lament for Marianne .. Byron

291

Napoleon .......... Reveries of a Recluse 292

The Dirge of Alaric the Visigoth . Everitt

The Search after Happiness, or the

Sir W. Scott

299

Quest of Sultaun Solimaun

The Source of the Nile ..... Bruce's Travels 307

To a Tuft of Early Violets ... Gifford

308

To-Day ........New Mon. Mag. 310

Byrd's Psalmes, 8c.

1 (1588)

314

The Doomed Man ... .. London Mag.

315

297

My mind to me a kingdom is.”