possessor of the Estates, with a due respect for the memory of his ancestors, and a proper sense of the value and beauty of these remains of antiquity, has (I am told) given orders that they shall be preserved from all depredations. Page 155. 'Earth helped him with the cry of blood.' This line is from "The Battle of Bosworth Field," by Sir John Beaumont (brother to the Dramatist), whose poems are written with much spirit, elegance, and harmony; and have deservedly been reprinted lately in Chalmers' Collection of English Poets. Page 158. 'And both the undying Fish that swim It is imagined by the people of the country that there are two immortal Fish, inhabitants of this Tarn, which lies in the mountains not far from Threlkeld.-Blencathara, mentioned before, is the old and proper name of the mountain vulgarly called Saddleback. Page 159. Armour rusting in his Halls The martial character of the Cliffords is well known to the readers of English history; but it may not be improper here to say, by way of comment on these lines and what follows, that besides several others who perished in the same manner, the four immediate Progenitors of the Person in whose hearing this is supposed to be spoken, all died in the Field. Page 177. This poem began with the following stanza, which has been displaced on account of its detaining the reader too long from the subject, and as rather precluding, than preparing for, the due effect of the allusion to the genius of Plato : Fair is the Swan, whose majesty, prevailing He leaves behind a moon-illumined wake: An arch thrown back between luxuriant wings Vanish inverted hill, and shadowy wood, Showering down a silver light, From heaven, upon her chosen Favourite! Page 189. 'living hill.' 'awhile the living hill Heaved with convulsive throes, and all was still.' DR. DARWIN. Page 205. 'The Wishing-gate.' 'In the Vale of Grasmere, by the side of the old high-way leading to Ambleside, is a gate which, time out of mind, has been called the Wishing-gate.' Having been told, upon what I thought good authority, that this gate had been destroyed, and the opening, where it hung, walled up, I gave vent immediately to my feelings in these stanzas. But going to the place some time after, I found, with much delight, my old favourite unmolested. Page 283. Something less than joy, but more than dull content." COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA. Page 342. 'Wild Redbreast,' &c. This Sonnet, as Poetry, explains itself, yet the scene of the incident having been a wild wood, it may be doubted, as a point of natural history, whether the bird was aware that his attentions were bestowed upon a human, or even a living creature. But a Redbreast will perch upon the foot of a gardener at work, and alight on the handle of the spade when his hand is half upon it-this I have seen. And under my own roof I have witnessed affecting instances of the creature's friendly visits to the chambers of sick persons, as described in the verses to the Redbreast, vol. i. page 338. One of these welcome intruders used frequently to roost upon a nail in the wall, from which a picture had hung, and was ready, as morning came, to pipe his song in the hearing of the Invalid, who had been long confined to her room. These attachments to a particular person, when marked and continued, used to be reckoned ominous; but the superstition is passing away. END OF VOL. II. WIEN Sanson and Co., Printers, Edinburgh. POCKET EDITIONS. WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS. In six volumes, price 21s. cloth. ROGERS'S POETICAL WORKS. Price 58. cloth, CAMPBELL'S POETICAL WORKS. Price 3s. 6d. cloth. KEATS'S POETICAL WORKS. Price 38. 6d. cloth. SHELLEY'S MINOR POEMS. PERCY'S RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY. In three volumes, price 98. cloth. LAMB'S SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS. In two volumes, price 68. cloth. DODD'S BEAUTIES OF SHAKSPEARE. Price 3s. 6d. cloth. LONDON: E. MOXON, SON, & CO., DOVER STREET, W. |