Reviews, Essays, and Poems

Thus from subject to subject we ran,

And the journey pass'd pleasantly o'er, Till at last Dr. Humdrum began:

From that time I remember no more.
At Ware he commenced his prelection,

In the dullest of clerical drones:
And when next I regained recollection
We were rumbling o'er Trumpington stones.

VALENTINE.

TO THE HON. M. C. STANHOPE,

HAIL, day of music, day of Love,
On earth below, in air above.
In air the turtle fondly moans,
The linnet pipes in joyous tones;
On earth the postman toils along,
Bent double by huge bales of song,
Where, rich with many a gorgeous dye,
Blazes all Cupid's heraldry---

Myrtles and roses, doves and sparrows,
Love-knots and altars, lamps and arrows.
What nymph without wild hopes and fears
The double rap this morning hears!

Unnumbered lasses, young and fair,

From Bethnal Green to Belgrave Square,

With cheeks high flush'd, and hearts loud beating,

Await the tender annual greeting.

The loveliest lass of all is mine

Good morrow to my Valentine!

GOOD morrow, gentle child! and then

Again good morrow, and again,

Good morrow following still good morrow,

Without one cloud of strife or sorrow.

And when the god to whom we pay

In jest our homages to-day

Shall come to claim, no more in jest,
His rightful empire o'er thy breast,
Benignant may his aspect be,
His yoke the truest liberty:
And if a tear his power confess,

Be it a tear of happiness.

It shall be so.

The Muse displays

The future to her votary's gaze;
Prophetic rage my bosom swells-

I taste the cake-I hear the bells!
From Conduit Street the close array
Of chariots barricades the way

To where I see, with outstretch'd hand,
Majestic, thy great kinsman stand,
And half unbend his brow of pride,
As welcoming so fair a bride.

Gay favours, thick as flakes of snow,
Brighten St. George's portico:
Within I see the chancel's pale,
The orange flowers, the Brussels veil,
The page on which those fingers white,
Still trembling from the awful rite,
For the last time shall faintly trace
The name of Stanhope's noble race.
I see kind faces round thee pressing,
I hear kind voices whisper blessing;
And with those voices mingles mine-
All good attend my Valentine !

ROSAMOND.

Он Rosamond! how sweet it were, on some fine summer dawn,
With thee to wander, hand in hand, upon the dewy lawn;
When flowers and heaps of new mown grass, perfume the morn

ing breeze,

And round the straw built hut resounds, the murmur of the bees;
To see the distant mountain tops, enpurpled by the ray,
And look along the spreading vale, to the ocean far away;
O'er russet heaths and glancing rills, and massy forests green,
And curling smoke of cottages, and dark grey spires between.

And oh! how passing sweet it were, through the long sunny day,
To gaze upon thy lovely face, to gaze myself away;
While thou beneath a mountain ash, upon a mossy seat,
Should'st sing a low sweet song to me, reclining at thy feet;
And oh to see thee in some mood of playful toil, entwining
Round the green trellics of our bower, the rose and eglantine;
Still laying on my soul and sense, a new and mystic charm,
At every turn of thy fairy shape, and of thy snowy arm!

INDEX.

ABSALOM and Ahithophel, Dryden's, 464,
731.

Aberdeenshire, 740.
Abbeville, 564.

Academy, the, of Berlin, of Paris, 672.
Achilles, 737.

Act, Habeas Corpus, 839.

of Parliament prohibiting the prac-
tice of taking presents from Asiatic
sovereigns, 530.

Act, Oxford, 752.

Regulating, 612, 619, 623, 625.
Stamp, 835, 839, 840.

Toleration, the, 364, 839.

Actor, Pitt an, 313, 921.
Adam, court architect, 825.
Addington, Mr., 653.

Addison, Joseph, Life and Writings of,
Review of, by Lucy Aiken, 724-763 ;
requisites for writing Addison's life,
724; character and birth of Addison,
725; at Oxford, 726; his classical
knowledge, his preface to Dryden's
Georgics, 729; chooses a diplomatic
career, 730; his residence at Blois, 731;
his voyage on the Mediterranean, 733;
at Naples, 734; prospects clouded
by death of William III., 735; The
Campaign, 737; travels in Italy, opera
of Rosamond, 739; Under-Secretary of
State, M.P. for Malmesbury, 740; cha-
racteristics of, 742; the Tatler and
Spectator, 744, 745; fine essay in, 749;
popularity with the Tories, 748; ver-
satility in his essays, 750; Cato, its suc-
cess, 752; Chief Secretary at Dublin,
754; estrangement between Addison
and Pope, 756; marriage with Lady
Warwick, 760; illness, interview with
Gay, 762; death, funeral, 763; Addi-
son's despatches, 754; mention of, 183,
289, 597.

Addison, Rev. Lancelot, 725, 729.
Adherbes, 737.

Adiaphorists, whence sprung, 254.
Administration, English war, policy of,

287.

George Grenville's, 831.
Jacobin, reaction of, 307.

Administration, of Justice, 367.

the "Drunken," 309.

Vices of, 395.

Eneid, Dante's estimate of the, 52; pas-
sage from, 729.

Eschylus, effect on the Athenians of his
Furies, 53; his school fading into the
critical, 56; swelling diction of, 64.
Afghanistan, 610.
Afghans, the, 539.
Afra Behn, 695.

Africa, 635, 647.

Aiken, Miss, 724; errors in her work,

736, 737, 740, 751, 752, 756.
Aix-la-Chapelle, 449.
Akenside, 307, 756.
Albemarle, Lord, 717, 763.
Albigensian heresy, 551.
Albigenses, the, 552, 565.

Albula, sulphurous stream of, 739.
Alcibiades, 871, 874, 877.
Alcina, palace of, 673.
Alderman Beckford, 846.

Alfieri, Vittoria, parallel between, and
Cowper, 187; his writings, 880; his
idolatry of Dante, 880; Philip and Saul,
880.

Algarotti, 672.

Allahabad, 609, 610, 630.

Allegro and Penseroso, Milton's, 6.
Allipore, 653.

All for Love, Dryden's, 61.

Alliance between Philip and Charles,
290.

Grand, the, 277.

- Triple, the, 449.
Almanza, battle of, 285.

Almanzor and Maximin, Dryden's, 64.

Alsau, 666.
Altea, 280.

Alzira, Voltaire's, 661.
Ambassador, French, 273.

French, M. De Guigues, 698.
to the Court of France, 274.
Lord Manchester, 731.

Mitchell, 685.

Prussian, the, 657.
Russian, 698.

Amelia, Fielding's, 697.

America, 535, 621, 626, 850.
Americans, the, 611.

American War, the, 850, 919.

Anabaptists, whence sprung, 256.
Anacreon's dove, 875.
Anacharsis Clootz, 912.

Anaverdy Khan, 514.

Ancient philosophers, 410.
Anecdotes of painting, 297.
Angria, 521.

Annus Mirabilis, Dryden's 61.
Anti-Machiavel, the, 661, 663.
Antrim, 740.

Appian Way, the, 734.

Aquinas, St. Thomas, 424, 491, 598

Arabs, fable of the, 566.

Arbuthnot's ridicule, 272.
Archangel, 604.

Archbishop of Toledo, 273.

Archduke Charles, 279; Castile, 284.
Arcot, capital of the Carnatic, 515, 516,
519, 546.

Arctic Circle, the, 601.
Argyle, Duke of, 316.

Arimanes, 878, 879.

Ariosto, 880.

his Fairy Story, 17.

tomb of, at Ferrera, 739.
Aristodemus, 549.

Aristophanes, his allusion to a change
in the Greek temper, 73.
Aristotle, his genius, 922.
Arithmetic, 413.

Arlington, Secretary of State, 446.
Armies, French, defeats of, 286.
Army, the Austrian, 664.

Babylonian bricks, writing on, 869, 878.
Bacon, Anne, 375.

Bacon, Lord, genius of, 720; his scorn of
Galileo's theory, 550; and mere nega-
tion, 564; at Westminster, 647.
Bacon, Lord, works of, 370-431; his
biographer, 150; life of Cicero, 171;
Sir Nicholas Bacon, 372; reformers,
373; Bacon's mother, 375; birth of
Francis, 376; prospects and conduct of
relatives, 377; M.P. for Middlesex,
379; Essex, 380; factions, 380; Bacon's
first volume, 382; fortunes of Essex,
382; conduct of Bacon, 381; ingrati-
tude, 384; editor's defence, 385; James
I., Bacon at court, 388; his defence,
389; King's Counsel, 390; Lord Chan-
cellor, 394; judicial capacity, 395:
created Baron and Viscount, 398;
alleged misconduct, 399; confession,
sentence, 401; mitigation, 407; services
to letters, 407; Baconian doctrine, 408;
the new leader, 413; philosophy, 409;
theologian, 421; induction, 423; tem-
per, 426; poetical faculty, 428; two
styles, 429; essays, 430; his life, 431.
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, 374.

Badajoz, 663.

Baden, Margrave of, 680.

Bahar, 521, 529, 539, 602, 624, 630.
Baillie, 627.

Balisarda, 724.

Banim, Mr., historical novel by, 358.
Barbadoes, 863.

Barbary, polity and religion of, 725.
Barcelona, 280; capture of, 281.
Barère, Bertrand, his memoirs, by M.
Carnot, and M. d'Angers, 764; his de-
pravity, 765; baseness and cruelty,
falsehood, 768; his writings, 769; mar-
riage, 770; appearance and character,
771; connected with the Orleans family,
772; and the Mountain, 777; a Giron-
dist, his contempt for Marat, 779; be

Benedict XIV., 690.

Bengal, 521, 527, 529, 606, 614, 615, 620,
624, 628, 642, 653; bay of, 622; trea-
sury, 529; wealth of, 521; threatened
invasion of, 530; famine in, 542.
Benjalee, the, 535, 606, 621, 624, 637.
Ben Jonson, 398, 613, 718, 729.
Bentinck, Lord W., statue of, 517.
Bentivoglio, Cardinal, his account of the
state of religion in England, 261.
Bentley, Richard, 473, 674, 722.

Berar, 620-622.

Berlin, 656, 663, 666, 674, 690.

Berwick, Duke of, 279.

Besborough, Lord, 846.

Bettesworth, 746.

Betty, Master, 699.

Blois, 731.

Bodley, Sir Thomas, 390.

Bohemia, 553, 562, 634.

Boileau, 69, 731, 732, 739, 760.

Bolingbroke, 752, 754, 758, 762, 817, 818.
Bombay, 614.

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 653, 738; First
Consul, 799; his opinion of Barère,
804.

Bonner, in the Marshalsea, 358.

Bonsla, House of, 621, 622.

Book of the Church, 139; of gold, 732.
Booth, 751, 752.

Borgia, 52, 528, 800.

Borodino, 663.

Bossnet, doctrine of, 564.

Boswell, his life of Johnson, 194, 703;
his character, 202; Grand-duke Peter
likened to, 692.

Boswelliana, Lues, 312.

Bourbon, Duke of, his access ion to power,
918; House of, 285, 566, 678, 692, 735,
798, 850; peace, 287; quarrel, 290.
Bourne, Vining, 601.

Vincent, 760.

Boyle, Charles, 473.

Henry, 727, 737.

Boyne, the, 738.

Bracegirdle, Mrs., 530; duel about, be-
tween Lords Mountfort and Mohun,
590; Congreve's bequest to 591.
Bradamante, 724.

Braganza, House of, 444.
Brahmin, a pious, 161.

Brahmins, the, 617; mythology of, 652.
Brandenburg, House of, 610, 656, 659,
663, 680, 692, 819.
Breda, Treaty of, 445.
Breslau, 664, 687, 689, 690.
Bribery in 1660, 459.
Bribes, government, 302.
Bridgewater, Duke of, 591.
Brihuega, capitulation, 286.
Brissotines, the, 776.
Bristol, 738.

Bristol Channel, the, 621.

British public, its periodical fits of moral-

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