And every fleecy cloud for me,
That Kirktone wing is wrung for thee.
Lovely are thy mountain forms,

And Góbrows woods are nursed in storms ;
Rathe harvests greet thy fhepherds ftar,
Then think no more of ruddy Char.
"Winander's forrows are her own,
Still, ftill, I mourn my Roman town;
Low, low, dejected Dictis lies,
By Rothay's ftream with laughing eyes.
For Rydal's water flug-horns play,
And Ambleside like fhepherd gay,
Enchants her with his roundelay.
But Brathay on her Dictis calls,
With overflowing madrigals;
The trees in Brathay's valley lend,
Collected tears for Brathay's friend.
Her little earthern urn the fills,
With Elter waters lacrymals;

And Langdale gives her all his tears,
Enclosed in ice for chryftal fpheres."

With this volume there is another poetical tract the title of which is Black Agnes, or the defence of Dunbar by Agnes Countess of March. This appears to have been printed fome years fince, but the verfes record a splendid fact in British Hiftory, and record it with true British fpirit. Our fentiments are alfo in perfect unifon with this author in his dedication. This is not the first poetry that has been compofed beneath the fame hofpitable roof, and indeed there are numbers among the first literary characters of the age who will bear willing teftimony to, the tafte, the elegance, and the kindness of the prefent poffeffor of Cowley House.

ART. 15. Poems on various Subjects, including a Poem on the Education of the Poor, an Indian Tale, and the Offering of Isaac, Sacred Drama. 12mo. Es. Longman and Co. 1811.

Every page, and it may almost be faid, every line of this little volume demonftrate the writer to be poffeffed of the most amiable feelings, and to have a mind duly impreffed with fentiments of religion, and the warmeft propenfities of benevolence. We can not fay that his poetry is of the most exalted order, but it is always pleafing, often elegant, and never found to defcend to meannefs or debility. We think thefe parts and paffages most perfect and moft animated where religion is the principal theme, and ac cordingly are of opinion, that the poem in which the fuperior advantages of Chriftianity are stated and exemplified is the beft in the volume. From this therefore we shall take an extract. After a

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very excellent parody on the Orpheus and Eurydice of Virgil, The author thus prefents his fubject.

"Thus wrapt in deepest clouds of errors gloom,

Lay all the earth as dreary as the tomb ;

Save where the glimm'ring stars that beamed between,
Gleam'd o'er the horror of the dreadful fcene.
Save from the Eaft fome feeble ray difplay'd,
Its partial beams to fhow the deeper fhade;
The mind then fought in vain a place of reft,
The wifeft only knew their dark nefs beft.
Till o'er the hills arofe the radiant morn,
Smiled on the world, a dreary waste forlorn :
Angelic hosts the glorious Advent fung,
And Heaven refounding with the chorus rung.
Thus truth celeftial like a Seraph bright,
Chafed all the clouds, and put the fhades to flight;
Shook o'er the joyful earth her azure wing,
And breathed around an univerfal fpring.
Poured on the darkened mind her quickening ray,
And made mankind rejoice with perfect day;
Difclofed to mental minds the Almighty plan,
Heaven stooping here and God redeeming man.
Difplayed the world beyond the narrow tomb,
And gave us profpect of a LIFE TO COME:
Religion meek diffused her joys around,
And bade new flowers adorn the barren ground :
Then gloomy Superstition took her flight,
And flowly fought her native caves of night.
Envy and malice thuddering grimly fled,
And vice and rapine, luft and folly bled;
O'er every flower the poured a deeper bloom,
Increafed the fragrance of each fweet perfume:
Caufed hearts long funk in deep defpair to fing,
Brought equal joys to fubject as to king;
Hufh'd all the clangor of unruly ftrife,

And conquering death displayed ETERNAL LIFE."

The Indian Tale is related in a very interefting manner, and the Sacred Drama of the Offering of Ifaac with which the volume concludes, is equally creditable to the author's fenfibility and taste. We beg to enter our folemn proteft against the elaborate Eulogium paid to Mr. Lancaster at the expence of Dr. Bell, whofe plan we contend is no farther "different in its nature and object," from that of Mr. Lancaster than inafmuch as it makes the national religion the foundation of national education. Neither will we allow the credit of the invention by any means to this latter gentleman whofe zeal and diligence nevertheless we are ready to extol among the warmest of his friends.

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ART. 16. St. Michael's Mount, in Cornwall; a Poem. By Thomas Hogg, Minifter of the Free Grammar School, Truro. 4to. pp. 93. Rivingtons. 1811.

This poem confifts of four Cantos, in which we have fome pure defeription." Not that it "holds the place of fenfe;" for though the author be evidently a young poet, he is far (if we may quote again) from being idly eloquent." The fweeteft numbers" are mere tricklings, where there is no feeling to touch; no thought to awaken reflection. Mr. Hogg poffeffes an ingenuoufnefs; a fimplicity which goes to the heart. We are frequently pleafed with his unaffected morality, and we are ftruck by his religious fentiment.

The greatest objection to a local defcriptive poem is, that it conveys no exact or characteristic ideas of the fcenery which it profeffes to reprefent, unless it defcend to profaic minuteness. Almoft in the fame degree as it is difcriminative, or rather as it exhibits real likeneffes, it ceafes to be poetical. The more in. terefting parts of "Cooper's," or of " Cooper's," or of "Grongar-Hill," have no local peculiarities. A fimilar landfcape has been often contemplated by thofe who never vifited Grongar, or its vicinities. "The glistening meads were cloath'd with pearly dew; Along the fhores grey mifts of morning flew : The eaftern front fhone high with features bold; The radiant fun illum'd each tint with gold: The western rocks, wrapt in a foften'd shade Majestic rofe; a warmth divine display'd,

And, while its Gothic towers falute the day," &c. &c.

P. 6.

Thefe lines are fufficiently poetical. Not many other "western ́ rocks" are 66 wrapt in foften'd fhade;" and many other "Go. thic towers falute the day."

"A pebbly ridge, with cold difdain, divides
The tender friendship of the fifter tides;
They, forrowing, feel it interrupt their blifs,
And, frequent, turn to fnatch a parting kifs;
Inter murmurs, hear, how they complain;

See, how they ftruggle to embrace again.” P. 7.

Here, we think, we are reading Taffo: It is Italian" to the *ry bone."

"In fragrant beds all o'er the enamell'd ground

Gay goldcups fmile, and hy'cinths nod around;
From thefe, the fairy train, by fancy feen,
When tripping lightly up the dewy green,
Ere yet the morn arifes, æther quaff!

And foot it merrily, and fing and laugh." P. 9.

Prettily conceived, but transferable to thousands of other

fpots.

We have a much clearer idea of a melon-frame than of the Mount.

The defcription of a profpect at a distance has fome marked features; but it is tame, in proportion to its appropriation, "Lelant, here, with its catle-turrets flands; There, white as fnow, the hills of Phillack fands Here, from Hayle's vivid furnaces, arife

Thick clouds of fmoke that darken all the fkies.
Here, mid a copfe, the feat of truth and worth
Gleams, faintly ting'd with yellow light, St. Erth.

High, on a rifing ground of barren hue,

A black fteam engine tower arrefts the view;
Huge horizontal wheels fly, circling, round;
The loaded air conveys a crashing found,
While clouds of steam at intervals arise,
And difappear among the vaulted fkies!
Grand Apparatus! all the merit thine,

That Cornwall boafts of many a profperous mine."

The ftory of the Druidical facrifice on Carnbrae, which takes up the greater part of the fourth Canto, is lealt to our taste.

The Annotations and the Appendix (though chiefly extracted from well known hiftories) will furnifh entertainment to a great number, who may not relish the verfe. There are many poems, we believe, indebted for their circulation to the notes which ac company them. This production is dedicated to "Sir John Aubyn, Bart. M. P. one of its moft early and liberal patrons; as it gives a defcription of an object to the romantic and venerable appearance of which, his tafte and that of his fathers have most eminently contributed.""

ART. 17. The Modern Minerva; or the Bat's Seminary for young Ladies. A Satire an Female Education. By Queen Mabb.

pp. 21. Macdonald, 1811.

Since the appearance of the Peacock at Home, and the Batter fy's Ball, every fowl of the air and fifh of the fea appears to have been equally jealous of a reputation for hofpitality—the few birds not invited by the Peacock took dudgeon, and com bined with the Jackdaw to give a rural entertainment-bat ever the poor Bat, as a kind of anomalous animal, was neglected, and therefore determined, if not enabled in company to exhibit an example of elegant manners, to keep an academy, where good

breeding

breeding fhould be the foundation of modern education. This plan, it appears, met with due encouragement.

"All previous engagement at length being made,
And cards of the fchool regulations convey'd

To birds of all feather, they flock'd round the dame, Till her "limited number" near double became." P. 7. She then took upon her to ridicule the prevailing fashions of the day, but either her own fyftem was not calculated to carry this plan into execution, or this writer has performed his office in fo improper a manner, as neither to produce a book, the form of which was calculated for children, or the fubftance for grown people; in confequence therefore of this failure

"She dearly regretted her quiet old wall, Where, but for romantic ambition and pride, She might have lived happy, and quietly died." ART. 18. Poems on Subjects connected with Scripture, by Sarah Newman. Published by Subfcription, for her Benefit. pp. 60. 3s. 6d. Alton, Pinnock; London, Hatchard. 1811.

We are always anxious to promote the caufe of religion, and are therefore happy in an opportunity of recommending the prefent work, as a fuccefsful illuftration of many paffages of Scripture. Our thanks, together with thofe of every good man, are moft effentially due to Mr. Waring for the task of editing thefe Poems, as well as for the promotion of charity by obtaining fubfcriptions; and we may congratulate the public on fo long and refpectable a list of fubfcribers, demonftrating that the feeling of true piety and charity, notwithstanding the flippant remarks of the reformers of the prefent day, is ftill very far from being extinct. ART. 19. Lady Jane Grey, a Tale, in two Books: with mifcel laneous Poems, English and Latin. By Francis Hodgson, A. M. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, Author of a Tranflation of Juvenal. 8vo. 352 PP. 10s. 6d. Mackinlay. 1809. ART. 20. Sir Edgar, a Tale, in two Cantos: with ferious Tranf lations from the Ancients, and merry Imitations from a Modern. By Francis Hodg fon, A. M. Author of, 3c. c. 8vo. 318 PP. 10s. 6d. Mackinlay. 1810.

We fhould fooner have noticed this poet, had not he chofen to take fo much notice of us. Notwithftanding all his anger, we cannot think ourfelves at all wrong in preferring Mr. Gifford's tranflation of Juvenal to his, the publication of which, in oppofition to one of fuch acknowledged excellence, we cannot yet think either modeft or wife. That he has merits we neither did nor do deny ; but to celebrate them according to his own estimate of their amount is more than we fhall attempt,

The two volumes here announced contain a vaft variety of matter, fuited to all taftes, not excepting those who delight in angry fatire, who are perhaps the most numerous party. The

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