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DISTINGUISHED POETS AND DRAMATISTS.

TO MARY IN HEAVEN.

THOU lingering star with lessening ray,
That lov'st to greet the early morn,

Again thou usher'st in the day

My Mary from my soul was torn.

O Mary, dear departed shade!

Where is thy place of blissful rest?
Seest thou thy lover lowly laid?

Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?

That sacred hour can I forget,

Can I forget the hallowed grove,
Where by the winding Ayr we met
To live one day of parting love?
Eternity can not efface

Those records dear of transports past:
Thy image at our last embrace!

Åh, little thought we 'twas our last!

Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore,

O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green;

The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar

Twined amorous round the raptured scene;
The flowers sprang wanton to be prest;
The birds sang love on every spray;
Till too, too soon, the glowing west

Proclaimed the speed of winged day.

Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes,
And fondly broods with miser care:
Time but the impression deeper makes,
As streams their channels deeper wear.

My Mary, dear departed shade!

Where is thy place of blissful rest?

Seest thou thy lover lowly laid?

Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?

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DISTINGUISHED POETS AND DRAMATISTS.

GEORGE CRABBE.-1754-1832. "The Library," "The Village," "The Newspaper," "The Parish Register," "The Borough,' "Tales of the Hall."

THOMAS MOORE.- 1779-1852. Celebrated for his "Irish Melodies," "Lalla Rookh," "The Fudge Family in Paris," and "The Epicurean."

SAMUEL ROGERS. -1763-1855. The benevolent London banker and poet. "The Pleasures of Memory," "Columbus," "Human Life,” and “Italy.”

JAMES HOGG (the Ettrick Shepherd). 1770-1835. "The Queen's Wake," "Madoc of the Moor," "The Pilgrims of the Sun;" other poems, and several novels. JAMES MONTGOMERY.-1771-1854. "Greenland," "The Pelican Island," "The Wanderer in Switzerland," "The West Indies," "Prison Amusements," "The World before the Flood," and other poems.

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FELICIA HEMANS. — 1793-1835. "The Forest Sanctuary," "The Voice of Spring," "The Graves of a Household," "The Palm-Tree," "The Sunbeam,” and many popular pieces; "The Vespers of Palermo," a tragedy. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.- 1792-1822. Queen Mab," Alastor," "The Revolt of Islam," "Prometheus Unbound," "The Cenci," "The Cloud," The Skylark," and "The Sensitive Plant," are full of beauty of thought and expression.

JOHN KEATS. — 1795-1820.

"Endymion," "

""Lamia," Hyperion,"

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'Isabella,"

and "The Eve of St. Agnes." A young poet of high promise.
HENRY KIRKE WHITE. 1785-1806. A volume of poems.
LEIGH HUNT.-1784-1859. Genial and graceful poet and critic. "A Story of
Rimini," "The Palfrey,'
," "A Legend of Florence;" essays, sketches, and memoirs.
REGINALD HEBER. -1783-1826. "Palestine;" " Europe, or Lines on the
Present War; " hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains."
ROBERT TANNAHILL.—1774-1810. Some Scottish songs.

HANNAH MORE.

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1745-1833. "The Inflexible Captive," "Percy," and "The Fatal Falsehood," tragedies; Coelebs in Search of a Wife;" and many other popular tales and prose works.

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. — 1751-1816. Dramatist, orator, and statesman. "The School for Scandal;" "The Critic," a farce; "Speech in Trial of Warren Hastings."

JOANNA BAILLIE.— 1762-1851. Several volumes of plays, minor poems, and songs, among which are "De Montfort" and "Count Basil."

MICHAEL BRUCE.-1746-1767. "Lochleven," ," "An Elegy written in Spring." Sir WILLIAM JONES.-1746-1794. 'Song of Hafiz," "Hindoo Wife." JOHN LOGAN.-1748-1788. "The 66 Runnymede."

ROBERT FERGUSON.-1751-1774.

Bell."

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Cuckoo," "The Country in Autumn,"

"Guid Braid Claith," "To the Tron Kirk

1756-1826. "The Bæviad," "The Mæviad;" editor of

WILLIAM SOTHEBY.-1757-1833.

from Wieland, Virgil, Homer.

WILLIAM L. BOWLES.-1762-1850.

"Missionary of the Andes."

"Orestes," "Saul," "Italy;" translations

Sonnets," "Sorrows of Switzerland,"

JAMES GRAHAME. 1765-1811. "The Sabbath;"" Mary, Queen of Scots." ROBERT BLOOMFIELD. -1766-1823. "The Farmer's Boy," "Rural Tales," "Mayday with the Muses."

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MARY TIGHE. - 1773-1810. "Psyche, in six cantos.'

JOHN LEYDEN.-1775-1811. "Scenes of Infancy," "The Mermaid," "Ode to a Gold Chain."

JAMES and HORACE SMITH. 1775-1839. แ

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ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.-1784-1842. "Scottish Songs," "Sir Marmaduke Max-
""The Maid of Elvan,"
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Life of Wilkie."

well,"

WILLIAM TENNANT.-1785-1848. "Anster Fair," Down of the Cathedral."

EBENEZER ELLIOTT.

"Thane of Fife," "Dinging

- 1781-1749. "Corn-law Rhymes."

RICHARD BARHAM.-1788-1845. "Ingoldsby Legends," "My Cousin Nicho

las."

JOHN KEBLE. — 1790. "The Christian Year."

CHARLES WOLFE. - 1791-1823. "Burial of Sir John Moore," "Jugurtha in Prison."

ROBERT POLLOK.-1799-1827. "The Course of Time."

RICHARD CUMBERLAND. - 1732-1811. "The West-Indian," "The Wheel of Fortune."

GEORGE COLMAN.-1733-1794. Marriage."

"The Jealous Wife," "The Clandestine

THOMAS HOLCROFT. — 1745-1809. "The Road to Ruin," "The Deserted Daughter."

GEORGE COLMAN the Younger.-1762-1836. "John Bull," "Heir-at-Law," "Poor Gentleman,' ""Newcastle Apothecary," Lodgings for Single Gentlemen." "Bertram," a tragedy; "Women."

CHARLES R. MATURIN. - Died in 1824.

EDMUND BURKE.

1730-1797.

One of the first of English orators and statesmen, author of the celebrated "Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful," "Reflections on the Revolution in France," and other essays and orations.

CHARACTER OF JUNIUS.

WHERE, Mr. Speaker, shall we look for the origin of this relaxation of the laws and of all government? How comes this Junius to have broken through the cobwebs of the law, and to range uncontrolled, unpunished, through the land? The myrmidons of the court have been long, and are still, pursuing him in vain. They will not spend their time upon me or you: no! they disdain such vermin when the mighty boar of the forest, that has broken through all their toils, is before them. But what will all their efforts avail? No sooner has he wounded one than he lays down another dead at his feet. For my part, when I saw his attack upon the king, I own my blood ran cold. I thought he had ventured too far, and that there was an end of his triumphs. Not that he had not asserted many truths: yes, sir, there are in that composition many bold truths by which a wise prince might profit. But, while I expected from this daring flight his final ruin and fall, behold him rising still higher, and coming down souse upon both Houses of Parliament! Yes, he did make you his

quarry, and you still bleed from the wounds of his talons. You crouched, and still crouch, beneath his rage. Nor has he dreaded the terror of your brow, sir: he has attacked even you, he has; and I believe you have no reason to triumph in the encounter. In short, after carrying away our royal eagle in his pounces, and dashing him against a rock, he has laid you prostrate. Kings, Lords, and Commons are but the sport of his fury. Were he a member of this house, what might not be expected from his knowledge, his firmness, and integrity! He would be easily known by his contempt of all danger, by his penetration, by his vigor. Nothing would escape his vigilance and activity: bad ministers could conceal nothing from his sagacity; nor could promises or threats induce him to conceal any thing from the public.

PERORATION IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS.

My lords, we have now laid before you the whole conduct of Warren Hastings, foul, wicked, nefarious, and cruel as it has been; and we ask, What is it that we want here to a great act of national justice? Do we want a cause, my lords? You have the cause of oppressed princes, of undone women of the first rank, of desolated provinces, and of wasted kingdoms. Do you want a criminal, my lords? iniquity ever laid to the charge of any one? must not look to punish any other such delinquent from India. Warren Hastings has not left substance enough in India to nourish such another delinquent.

When was there so much

No, my lords: : you

My lords, is it a prosecutor you want? You have before you the Commons of Great Britain as prosecutors; and I believe, my lords, that the sun, in his beneficent progress round the world, does not behold a more glorious sight than that of men, separated from a remote people by the material bonds and barriers of Nature, united by the bond of a social and moral community,—all the Commons of England resenting as their own the indignities and cruelties that are offered to all the people of India.

Do you want a tribunal? My lords, no example of antiquity, nothing in the modern world, nothing in the range of human imagination, can supply us with a tribunal like this. My lords, here we see virtually, in the mind's eye, that sacred majesty of the crown, under whose authority you sit, and whose power you exercise. We have here the heir-apparent to the crown. We have here all the branches of the royal family in a situation between majesty and subjection. My lords, we have a great hereditary peerage here, - those who have their own honor, the honor of their ancestors and of their posterity, to guard. We have here a new

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