Lusiad, and author of the ballad Cumnor Hall); Armstrong; Dr. John Langhorne; Dr. Thomas Percy; Michael Bruce; the two Wartons; Dr. Blacklock (the blind poet); Glover, etc. The tragic dramatists are Moore, Home, Mason, Mallet, etc. A longer catalogue adorns the literature of comedy; of these Sheridan and the Colmans are the most distinguished names.] REV. JAMES GRAHAME. JAMES GRAHAME exchanged the profession of a Scottish barrister for that of a curate in the Church of England. Amiable, modest, pious, and assiduous in his ecclesiastical ministrations, he was deeply regretted on his death in Scotland in 1811. His poetry consists of a drama, "Mary Queen of Scots;" "The Sabbath," with which his name is chiefly associated; "The Birds of Scotland," "British Georgics," etc. writing is moulded on that of Cowper, full of Scottish associations, earnest and beautiful in spirit. It is, however, somewhat deficient in compactness and harmony of numbers. THE SCOTTISH SABBATH SERVICE. SOLEMN the knell, from yonder ancient pile, Slowly the throng moves o'er the tomb paved ground; Led by the thoughtless boy, and he who breathes With pain, and eyes the new-made grave well pleased; His THE SABBATH OF WAR. Yes, make the widow's heart to sing for joy; THE SABBATH SERVICE OF THE SHEPHERD BOY. In some lone glen, where every sound is lull'd And wonders why he weeps; the volume closed, Where humble lore is learn'd, while humble worth THE SABBATH OF WAR. Of all the murderous trades by mortals plied, 'Tis war alone that never violates The hallowed day by simulant respect, By hypocritic rest: no, no, the work proceeds. That give the sign to slip the leash for slaughter.1 369 Pealing with sulphurous tongue, speak death-fraught words :2 1 "Church steeples are frequently used as signal posts." Slip the leash; comp.— "I see you stand, like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start."-Shakesp. Hen. v., Act iii. Sc. 3 "Let slip the dogs of war."-Julius Cæsar, Act iii. Sc. 1.. 2 Alluding to church bells melted for French cannon. 8 "After a heavy cannonade, the shivered branches of trees, and the corpses of the killed, are seen floating together down the rivers." Q SCOTTISH SABBATH EVENING PICTURE. Oh Scotland! much I love thy tranquil dales; To commune with his God in secret prayer,— SAMUEL ROGERS. (1763-1855). MR. ROGERS was brought up as a clerk in his father's banking-house in London, and afterwards inherited a large share of the business. He soon, however, ceased to take an active part in the bank, and gave himself up to the study of literature and art. Mr. Rogers, during his long life, was always the judicious and generous patron of struggling genius. His larger works are, "The Pleasures of Memory," ""Human Life," "Columbus," and "Italy." His writings are remarkable for elegance of diction, purity of taste, and beauty of sentiment. publications range from 1786 to 1822. FROM PLEASURES OF MEMORY. POWER OF THE CHARM OF EARLY ASSOCIATIONS. Ask not if courts or camps dissolve the charm: His 1 "This emperor, according to Suetonius, constantly passed the summer in a small villa near Reate, where he was born, and to which he would never add any embellishment; ne quid scilicet oculorum consuetudini deperiret "—Suet. in Vit. Vesp., c. ii.— See Author's note, where many other examples will be found. 2 "Henry IV. of France made an excursion from his camp, during the siege of Laon, to dine at a house in the forest of Folambray, where he had often been regaled when a boy with fruit, milk, and new cheese."-Mém. de Sully.-Author's note. FROM HUMAN LIFE. When Diocletian's1 self-corrected mind Say, when contentious Charles' renounced a throne, FROM HUMAN LIFE. A MOTHER'S LOVE. Her, by her smile, how soon the stranger knows ;3 What answering looks of sympathy and joy! When rosy sleep comes on with sweet surprise. FROM COLUmbus. THE ANGEL TO COLUMBUS IN HIS DREAM. The wind recalls thee; its still voice obey: The vain to dream, the wise to doubt shall cease; 371 1 The Roman emperor Diocletian retired into his native province (Dalmatia), and there amused himself with building, planting, and gardening. His answer to Maxi mian is deservedly celebrated. "If," said he, "I could show him the cabbages which I have planted with my own hands at Salona he would no longer solicit me to return to a throne."-Author's note. 2 Charles V. after his abdication, on his way to his Spanish monastery, stopped at Ghent, his birth-place, to indulge the feelings described in the text.-See Robertson, Book xii. 3 Virg., Eclog. iv. 4 The evil spirits of the storm. The admiral's voyage home was so extremely tem To rock the globe with elemental wars, Not then to leave thee! to their vengeance cast To other eyes shall Mexico unfold * Her feather'd tapestries and her roofs of gold: What though thy grey hairs to the dust descend, Not thine the olive but the sword to bring; Not peace but war! yet from these shores shall spring Hence, and rejoice. The glorious work is done; pestuous, that, in despair, he "committed his secret to the deep;" viz., an account of the discovery enclosed in a cask, in the hope that fortune might convey it to a civilized shore. 1 See Eschylus Eumenid., v. 246.-Columbus was doomed to much subsequent affliction. 2 Cortez was the discoverer and conqueror of Mexico; Balboa of the Pacific.-See Robertson's America. 3 See Robertson, Book ii.; and Washington Irving's Columbus. "There go the sons of him who discovered these fatal countries."-History by Don Ferdinand, the son of Columbus.-Author's note. 5 The Florentine Amerigo Vespucci.-Robertson. Bloodhounds were employed by the Spaniards in tracking the "rebel" Indians. |