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And read their annals on that brow of care! Earth's brightest pathway led him to de- Trust not the glance that fain would yet in The buoyant energies of days gone by; PRICE 8d. O'er features, where the fiery spirit's trace, When glowing morn in bloom and radiance Nor dreamt how near the dark and frozen Which hears not Glory call, nor Anguish weep, And all within is shame. is agony! Away! the tear in bitterness may flow, But there are smiles which bear a stamp of But slowly fade the stars-the night is o'erdeeper woe. Morn beams on those who hail her light no more; The second is from "The Abenof the last Moorish king of Granada. cerrage," which pourtrays the downfall Where the loud cries of conflict rung so late; There is deep stillness in those halls of state, Stillness like that, when fierce the Kamsin's REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. Tales, and Historic Scenes, in Verse. By Felicia Hemans, Author of the Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy, Modern Greece, &c. &c. London, 1819. 12mo. pp. 256. THESE pieces unquestionably display very considerable talent; and had we read them singly, at separate times, we are sure that we should have thought still more highly of them. But it is their misfortune to dwell much on the same set of, objects, suggesting the same sort of ideas, and eternally compelling the fair author into the same reflections upon the perishable and imperishable, the same contrasts between nature and art, Hath o'er the dwellings of the desert pass'd.* Fearful the calm-nor voice, nor step, nor between animate and inanimate existence, breath, and between art and humanity. That Disturbs that scene of beauty and of death: these views are often eminently beautiful Those vaulted roofs re-echo not a sound, no one will deny, and it is only their repe- Save the wild gush of waters-murmuring tion that cloys-a repetition which no In ceaseless melodies of plaintive tone, variety of verse, nor difference of style Throngh chambers peopled by the dead alone. can disguise. We shall copy but two O'er the mosaic floors, with carnage red, specimens as a proof of their merits, aud Breastplate, and shield, and cloven helm are we will not destroy the effect by copy-In mingled fragments-glittering to the light spread ing any other of the numerous passages Of yon still moon, whose rays, yet softly in the same tone. The first is a scene from the poem, entitled, "The last Their streaming lustre tremulously shed, Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra." And smile, in placid beauty, o'er the dead: And soft and clear that wavering radiance play'd O'er sculptured forms, that round the pil- In god-like beauty, awfully serene. But the proud spirit's veil thrown o'er the Their brows are bound with wreaths, whose transient bloom May still survive the wearers and the rose Perchance may scarce be wither'd when the tomb Receives the mighty to its dark repose! Despair is fearless, and the Fates e'en yet Its joys! oh! mark yon proud triumvir's mien, blast round, bright, Slumberers who ne'er shall wake on earth Mourners, who call the loved, the lost, in vain. O'er the cold urn the beam of summer glows, And skies arch cloudless o'er a world of woe, As we have said, we will not dwell on the reiteration of these sentiments, which are so well expressed, that, perhaps, less fastidious critics might dissent from our opinion, that they are too often expressed, and proceed to offer a few further extracts, which appear to us to display * Of the Kamsin, a hot south wind, common most forcibly the talent of Mrs. Hemans. in Egypt, we have the following account in We Volney's Travels: "These winds are known may premise that, besides the poems in Egypt by the general name of winds of fifty we have already quoted, there are seven days, because they prevail more frequently in other tales and historical scenes, of the fifty days preceding and following the which “the Widow of Crescentius, Alaequinox. They are mentioned by travellers under the name of the poisonous winds, or hot tic it Italy, the Wife of Asdrubal, Heliowinds of the desert: their heat is so excessive, dorus in the Temple, Night Scene in that it is difficult to form any idea of its vio- Genoa, the Troubadour and Richard lence without having experienced it. When Cœur de Lion, and the Death of Conrathey begin to blow, the sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy; din," are the titles. The imitation of the sun loses his splendor, and appears of a violet colour; the air is not cloudy, but grey which penetrates every where: respiration beand thick, and is filled with a subtle dust, dry, the lungs are contracted and painful, and the body consumed with internal heat. In The fall of Granada in "the Abenvain is coolness sought for; marble, iron, wa- cerrage," is finely anticipated. ter, though the sun no longer appears, are hot: appears every where. The natives of towns the streets are deserted, and a dead silence and villages shut themselves up in their houses, and those of the desert in tents, or holes dug in the earth, where they wait the termination Woe to the traveller whom it surprises remote of this heat, which generally lasts three days. from shelter: he must suffer all its dreadful effects, which are sometimes mortal." comes short and difficult, the skin parched and Lord Byron is too palpable to require notice, and the poetical reader will obwhose thoughts and language the auserve, that he is not the only bard with thoress has made free. Fair city! thou, that 'midst thy stately And gilded minarets, towering o'er the plains, their wave,* * Granada stands upon two hills separated by the Darro. The Genil runs under the Thy citron-groves and myrtle-gardens lave; Mourn! for thy doom is fix'd-the days of fear, Of chains, of wrath, of bitterness, are near! Within, around thee, are the trophied graves Of kings and chiefs-their children shall be slave's. n; by one Fair are thy halls, thy domes najestic swell, But there a race who rear'd, them not shall dwell; For 'midst thy councils Without one generous thought, or feeling high, To teach his soul how kings should live and die. The following, from the same poem, strikes us as the most original and wellconceived passage in the whole volume: it paints a desperate warrior seeking death in battle, or rather in pursuit, after he tras unwillingly lived to be victorious. Yet he, to whom each danger hath become A dark delight, and every wild a home, Still urges onward—undismay'd to tread, Where life's fond lovers would recoil with dread; But fear is for the happy—they may shrink From the steep precipice, or torrent's brink, They to whom earth is paradise their doom Lends no stern courage to approach the tomb: Not such his lot, who, school'd by Fate severe, Were but too blest if aught remain'd to fear. This is an exquisite turn of Andromache's" Plût à Dieu que je craignisse," in the French poet; and the subjoined thought is not inferior to it in sentiment. -What earthly feeling, unabash'd, can dwell In Nature's mighty presence?-midst the swell Of everlasting hills, the roar of floods, And frown of rocks, and pomp of waving woods? · Hath more mysterious power, and birth more high; And the deep horror chilling every vein To Cæsar's camp exulting move along. spair and die!"* The fall of Rome, in "Alaric in Italy," is a good companion picture to the fall of Granada; and very spirited. Heard ye the Gothic trumpet's blast? The march of hosts, as Alaric pass'd? That fearful sound, at midnight deep,t Burst on th' eternal city's sleep: How woke the mighty? She, whose will So long had bid the world be still, Her sword a sceptre, and her eye Th' ascendant star of destiny! These their own grandeur on the soul impress, She woke to view the dread array And bid each passion feel its nothingness. Of Scythians rushing to their prey, The conclusion of the feast scene, To hear her streets resound the cries with the commencement of which we Pour'd from a thousand agonies! began our extracts, also affords a favour-A ruddy glow to Tyber's wave, While the strange light of flames, that gave able example of poetical imagery: it de-Bursting in that terrific hour scribes the prodigy which foretold the fall of Antony, when Bacchus, his god, and a Bacchanalian procession, were heard to quit Alexandria on the eve of the battle which gave the world to Augustus. The feast is o'er. "Tis night, the dead of night Unbroken stillness broods o'er earth and deep; From Egypt's heaven of soft and starry light The moon looks cloudless o'er a world of sleep: For those who wait the morn's awakening beams, walls. The Darro is said to carry with its stream small particles of gold, and the Genil, of silver. When Charles V. came to Granada with the Empress Isabella, the city presented him with a crown made of gold, which had been collected from the Darro.-See Bourgo "une's und 'other Travels. From fane and palace, dome and tower, རཱརཱ !༧ "and die! But hark! what wildly mingling cried 191 That it may not be imagined that Mrs. Hemans excels in the appalling alone, we subjoin, in conclusion, a short but pretty and pathetic sketch of nature from the Widow of Crescentius?! 'Tis morn, and Nature's richest dyes zus Are floating o'er Italian skies ;-tizwedt Tints of transparent lustre shine - yaihern Along the snow-clad Apennines or thikën The clouds have left Soracte's height, And yellow Tiber winds in light, fem svel Where tombs and fallen fanes have strew'd The wide Campagna's solitude. "Tis sad amidst that scene to trace Those relics of a vanish'd race Array the ruin and the tomb, i bistę malə After these attractive specimens, it is not without pain that we feel ourselves bound in justice to add, that besides the besetting sins of imitation and repetition, upon which we have already animadvert ed, the muse of our fair candidate for the laurel, is rather distinguished by words than by ideas. Musically and tastefully arranged those are, but om memory is not furnished with the 'impressions of these. To write sweetly and to perceive deeply, to paint gracefull and to bare the passions of the heart, lay open the inmost workings of the mind, and luxuriate in those recondite combi nations in which the essence of true poetry consists, are qualities widely dissi milar, and we cannot discover much in this lady's writings, to elevate her from the class of the ingenious and elegant, to that highly gifted order which claims genius as the gift of heaven. There are some blemishes of a minor kind, which she would do well to avoid in future compositions. We would recon-mark the excessive use of the word "stern," which, with sternly, sternness, "To-morrow in the battle think on me, And fall thy edgeless sword; despair sterner, &c. seems applicable to eyery Richard III. sense. In pages 163, 4, 5, 6, and 168 + At the hour of midnight, the Salarian gate for instance, it occurs five times; and was silently opened, and the inhabitants were we have "stern loftiness," "stern g awakened by the tremendous sound of the Go nius," stern courage," ""stern conflict, thic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the impe- and "stern augury." Indeed, it is du rial city, which had subdued and civilized so cult to pitch upon two pages together considerable a portion of mankind, was deli- without this omnipotent adjective, and vered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.--Decline and Fall of the we are quite offended with "stern soliRoman Empire, vol. 5, p. 311. tudes,"stern lessons," "stern smiles," 99.66 The land by conquest made his own, Can yield him now a grave-alone. quasi only. It is, however, with no sa- A preface relates the chief incidents walking through Ireland!! And if these tisfaction that we point out these little and melancholy termination of the life of things were said once they might be blots, and were it not that we look for Mr. Fox's Secretary and Biographer: pardoned, but they are repeated a hunfurther productions from the same pen, what it does state seems to be impartial-dred times; and a hundred times are all (encouraged as it must be by the ap ly done, but there is evidently more con- the puling reflections on the ages past, plause justly bestowed on these and pre-cealed than unfolded, and we have soon ruins remaining and races of men ceding efforts), we would not perform many effects without causes, as to ren- passing away, on what might once be the thankless office of friendly censure. der the whole worthless. The abject when so and so fought, or rested at such It is with this feeling that we annex, only distress and misery in which poor Trot-and such a place, added to the intermito blame, a metaphor too mixed to pass ter died, is not sufficiently accounted nable list; and the grains of wheat are muster, though its parts are exquisite. for. Without great criminality on his like Gratiano's so lost in chaff, that we part, it seems morally impossible that conscientiously believe we may find the private secretary and friend of a room for every one of them in the two secretary of state, the brother of a Bri- or three columns which we shall devote tish senator (the Member for Downpato their preservation. Before we protrick), and the nephew of a bishop (Dr. ceed to this task, however, we shall Dixon, Bishop of Down), should perish briefly notice that the style is bad and A broken gem, whose inborn light Within a populous city (Cork), absolutely for ungrammatical-that the views of chawant of sustenance-without a good Saracter are widely different from those of maritan to afford him succour, without Miss Edgeworth or Lady Morgan, but, friend to close his eyes, without one we are persuaded, upon the whole, more human being even of humble abilities to accurate than either; and therefore, we be interested in his fate. But it is not are sorry they are so thinly scatteredfor us to settle this dread account be- and that the remarks are occasionally Walks through Ireland, in the Years tween the deceased, and those who ought just, and as impartial as could be ex1812, 1814, and 1817. By John to have saved him from so calamitous a pected-that the reasoning is often illoBernard Trotter, Esq. Private Secre- death. Neither shall we rake his frail- gical and founded on erroneous bases. tary to the late Right Hon. C. J. Fox, ties, imprudences, or offences from the of these we shall not stop to give exam &c. London, 1819. 8vo. pp. 599. tomb where they now repose, to balance ples-they will strike every reader, if THERE are few books, with the excep- with their heavy weight the cruel neglect any reader has patience to peruse this tion of novels and poetry, from which which he must have experienced. It volume: such as may be satisfied with we cannot glean something amusing; seems that he travelled on foot more an acquaintance with its most striking few, with the exception of professed than a thousand miles through Ireland, contents, will find them in our annexed works of instruction, which do not afford chiefly in Wexford, Meath, Munster, and miscellaneous selections. us some facilities for picking out intelli-Connaught; and though it is asserted gence from them; few, with the excep- that the letters of which this publica tion of tragedies, that we cannot sorrow tion consists, were written by himself, it rons, &c.; it Trampled manding a fine view of Dublin, its envi- and arches afford beautiful specimens of the deal to meliorate the country. They raised many other Gothic. The windows we thought remark- up the prostrate people, and restrained the ing object. The very celebrated character closed, and good gates at different entrances. who resided there, became the subject of A very ancient tomb is to be seen near the our conversation had often heard and entrance of the abbey. The figure of a man admired, his eloquence, and been diverted in armour is seen on it, and is said to be by his sportive pleasantry and wit, Yet he Lord Galmoy's. He is reputed, I know not to me happy too great a why, to have been a son of queen Eliza desire for admiration, and a temper which beth!!! had undergone early melioration and subjugation, were his greatest enemies! He did not read enough to fully cultivate his mind and supply him with sufficient home charming villas and ints, a pleas-ably handsome. The abbey was well en selfish despots, who had lonMSTER them on their native soil, or made them unhappy instruments of blood and rapine. Antiquities near Carne in Connaught. We rode to the spot, through great sandhills and bollows, on Atlantic coast; and, in a grea; andy plain, were first ducted by Mr. N. to a circular pot, in lat years stripped of great heaps of incumbent sand. There we saw vestiges of stonecottins, formed by placing large stones con It is stated elsewhere, on the authority of a parish priest, Mr. Ferral, as a curious circumstance connected with abbeys, That in France they are all placed on high at the sides, bottom, and head, in a stone resources, and, perhaps, his company was ground; in Ireland on low, and near water, a coffin, and there had been se lid. When first discovered, some years observations we try-seat of an flights, but manner of mentioned, with a sinile, the three curses of ago, the skeletons of the dead were in them. sequently, objectionable. Natural History. Play of fishes on the They were scattered afterwards. Several 1983-a al We then proceeded a quarter become a very good fisher, from the stupen- farther in the vast plain of sand, 9 a in his career. Of Irish genius, it may be said, if I be permitted to compare it to a flower, that it blows too soon, and its fruits are consequently too f frequently immature! Yet, what is wanting but due culthe brightest springs every where, and has tints. They certainly do not read enough in Ireland, and generally leave dous rocks on the east-side, and sallies out large place, once inclosed by a wall, some off at the time study becomes most useful. frequently before dawn with the large long of which remained, about three hundred They decide too rapidly,—often do not rod and strong line they use here. He re- feet in circumference. A division had been think, but pronounce, and sometimes lates to me an extraordinary and interesting made into two parts of this spot, and one lose the benefits of well-considered argupiece of natural history, with which he be head, or grave-stone, stood in it. Skulls ments and clear reasoning, by disdaining came acquainted yesterday morning. He were scattered around. At some distance the one, not having patience for the set out to fish while twilight was going, and we observed another circular buryingother. Nor is the distinguished character he scarcely discerned his path. Arrived at ground, about one hundred and twenty feet just t mentioned an exception to these rethe rocks, he waited farther light, as he had in circumference, in the centre of which was marks. In conversation I have never ob- come out so early. In some time, the sun a round kind of building, ten feet high, and served him profound, or demonstrative. peeped from the waves! This mighty orb full of sand. Round this, were stone-coffins, Ridicule was his favourite weapon, which is began faintly to redden the sleeping waves, skulls, and bones. Mr. N. said, that on the often a substitute for more powerful attack, distant from shore, startled and delighted ing away of the sand, the interior of the when suddenly a vast play of fish, not far first discovery of these places, by the blowor the shelter for ignorance. He frequently made speeches in private society, and serour fisherman. There was instantaneously coffins had the appearance of having mons in his speeches. This too was proof an innumerable concourse in motion, beat- scorched by fire. On digging a little in one of bad taste. ing the surface of the water, playing their of these coffins, a human rib was discovergambols, their silvery sides glistening in the able. related to me been rays of the dawn! The sun slowly emerged About a quarter or half a mile from these from his bed, and when he was a few mo- ancient remains, is the scite of the old city ments risen, this "play" (as it is termed by of Baldurrock. 90 Anecdote.-We were happy to learn that great harmony prevailed between all parties at Ferns. Accident introduced me to the All these cemeteries had Rev. Mr. Redmond, priest of the place, who a curious little anecdote. sea-faring people) suddenly ceased. This been covered with sand, which shifts greatly When pursuing his studies, and finishing singular mark of adoration to Heaven, paid here, and lying in that manner for a lapse his course of education in France, he had by animated and reviving nature, when of centuries, unknown, had been recently spent a summer in Bas Poictou, where Ge- less to very early risers, who frequent or History cannot account for these monudawn appears, is not commonly known, un- uncovered. They are near the Atlantic sea. neral Bonaparte, then a thin, slight young fish on solitary rocky shores like those of ments, as the mode of burying seems differboy, was. He had slept in the same room Hook. I regret greatly that I never wit ent from any thing ever known in this with him six weeks, and perceived nothingnessed this peculiar and pleasing phenome island. The Egyptians were fond of buryshining or engaging in him. He was ge- non. It may occur but rarely did Me nerally employed in making machinery, ing in stone caverns, receptacles, and coffins. which he placed on a small water-course. Of Tarah, the renowned in Irish song, and the mind staggers under conjecture as The antiquity of Ireland cannot be doubted, As the party were one day shooting, Bona- the following is a just picture;--we fear to these coffins. parte, who was not very active, fell into a it will take some of the gilding off "Tara glo moitadong brook five feet deep, which he endeavoured Hall.” Autos Tradition says, a king of Munster, forof 9269 109žerą odł ci to leap across. merly invaded Connaught, fought a great He was nearly drowned, The assembly when Mr. Redmond immediately discharged numerous petty despots and bards. We defeated with great slaughter, and that ly at Tarah was a meeting of battle with its king and his troops, was his piece, and presented the end to him, by find nothing done there to meliorate the these burying-grounds were then made for bards ministered to these tyrants' pride. would be interred with such care and recondition of the long-afflicted people. The the dead. It seems not likely that They regulated genealogies, and taught con-gularity, instead of being thrown into one The ancient city of Baldurrock, wisdom, and virtue hereditary, whilst many and these cemeteries, may have once been there is any truth in this story. The of them were the most worthless of man- in the centre of extended lands; for marks following fact is equally new to us. kind. Their numbers and rapacity made of the encroachment of the sea are evident The celebrated abbey of Graignamanah these bards, at length, quite intolerable, Ireland may have been joined to the now now struck our view. I cannot describe even to their patrons. distant islands, or how nobly venerable it looked. The aisles The ministers of Christianity did a greatlantic continent, which he saved his life. Thus, in the hands of a poor Irish priest, hung, for a moment, much of the future destinies of Europe. enemies We should be glad to be assured if gregated princes and nobles to fancy valour, large pistead of being thrown into one 16 |