But he did one thing that was hardly fair- 66 Now, just to set them thinking, I'll bite this basket of fruit," said he, Brilliants. FRIENDSHIP. I HAD a friend that loved me; I was his soul: he lived not but in me: DRYDEN. THE RAINBOW. How glorious is thy girdle, cast CAMPBELL. ETERNITY. ETERNITY! thou holdest in thy hand BAYLEY. THE EYE. TAKES in at once the landscape of the world TO A GLOVE. THOU more than most sweet glove, This empty lodging, that now misses BEAUTY ASLEEP. YOUNG. BEN JONSON. DARK lay her eyelid's jetty fringe T. MOORE. DO GOOD. Do and suffer nought in vain ; If the salt of life is pain, Let e'en wrongs bring good to thee; Good to others, few or many, Good to all, or good to any. EBENEZER ELLIOTT. GENTLENESS. AN accent very low In blandishment, but a most silver flow Right to the heart and brain though undescried, THE EARTH AND THE MOON. WHEN the heart-sick Earth Turns her broad back upon the gaudy Sun, The Moon, that patient sufferer, pale with pain, ALEXANDER SMITH. GRANDEUR. COME, paint me earthly grandeur. So he dipp'd And on the canvass soon there shone and glow'd But, while I gazed, it faded from my view; A cloud, like that of night, came over it And left nought but a black, unsightly blot. Now paint me Heavenly grandeur. Straight he turn'd And with its rays he limn'd a radiant form Above all earthly glories, and the soul OLD PLAY. AS BEAUTIFUL POETRY is a good medium for Advertisements, and as only a few can be inserted, the following will be the Scale of Charges: Advertisements should be sent to the Office by the 20th of the month. FR RENCH ACQUIRED as on the CONTINENT, at Rugby, in MADAME BERARD'S ESTABLISHMENT (which offers all the comforts of an English home), for a select number of YOUNG LADIES. The family is Parisian. German and English Governesses reside in the house. 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In order to give freshness and interest to this popular work, numerous extracts have been expunged, and replaced by others of equal or superior merit; and specimens are introduced of the distinguishing styles of Jeremy Taylor, South, Barrow, Chalmers, Robert Hall, Foster and others. The work is without a rival in its own department in the whole range of school books."-Britannia, Oct. 30, 1852. OLIVER & BOYD, Edinburgh; SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & Co. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF "MARY POWELL." E COLLOQUIES OF EDWARD OSBORNE, YE Citizen and Cloth-Worker of London. "For truthful painting, exquisite touches of feeling, of quaintness, and of beauty-for power of delineating variety and distinction of character-and for sustaining interest without departing from nature and simplicity, this volume has probably, in its way, no superior."-Church and State Gazette. Recently published. YE HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THOMAS MORE, Libellus a Margareta More, quindecim annos nata, Chelsiæ inceptus. 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