The cabinet; or The selected beauties of literature [ed. by J. Aitken].

THE

CABINET;

OR

THE SELECTED BEAUTIES OF

LITERATURE.

"Say what abridgement have you for this evening?
What mask? What music? How shall we beguile
The lazy time, if not with some delight ?"

EDINBURGH:

PUBLISHED BY

1824.

SHAKSPEARE.

JOHN AITKEN, ST. ANTHONY'S PLACE;

JOHN LUMSDEN, GLASGOW; HODGES & M'ARTHUR,
DUBLIN; AND KNIGHT & LACEY, LONDON.

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[The articles in Italics are Poetical.]

CONTENTS.

Sonnet. "Eternal and omnipotent Unseen."

A Tale for a Chimney Corner

Lines written in Richmond Churchyard, Herbert Knowles

The Downfal of Holy Church

Maternity

The Widow and her Son

"When coldness wraps this
suffering clay."

Hermit in the Country. 25

Fiammetta and Boccaccio

Stanzas. "The turf shall be my fragrant shrine." Moore

The Cacique of Ontario

Fragment. "O leave the lily on its stem."..

Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's

Exhibition

Evaline

The Violet

Address to a Wild Deer in the Forest

of Dalness

On the Inconveniences Resulting

The Progress of Inconstancy

Impromptu on the Helen of Canova

Lines to my Children

The Cavern of Hoonga

The Too-early opening Flower

A Frenchman

The Falls of Ohiopyle

Letter from the Countess Dowager of

Nithsdale, giving an Account

of the Earl's escape out of the

Tower in 1716

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"The fountaines smoake, and yet no flames Garden of Delights(1610) 126

Mariner's Tonga Islands 138

Stanzas from the Spanish

Erin Mavourneen, Farewell!

Happiness

The Tropical Night

Evening Thoughts on Death

Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield

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Trinity College, Cambridge, Forty

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Years ago

Stanzas written at the Close of a Year Edin. Mag.

Polycarpa Salabarrieta

Dreams.

Elegy, "Fair was thy blossom, tender flower."

The Merchant of Venice

The Battle of Albuera

The Old Cumberland Beggar

A Good Old Man

Rosario

Herod's Lament for Mariamne

Napoleon

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Mortality

The Last Hours of Sir W. Rawleigh.

Stanzas "The gentle season of the yeere.”

The Destruction of Sennacherib

Sonnet "Let me not to the marriage of true minds." Shakespeare

Leonora, a Recollection from my Travels Knight's Quart. Mag.

Noche Serena

New Mon. Mag.

Recollections of the Pen-

New Mon. Mag.

Page.

Byron

Reveries of a Recluse

Everitt

Sir W. Scott

Bruce's Travels

Gifford

New Mon. Mag.

189

Books

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