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from "embarrassed circumstances," witted fellow, who never could be plunges into the Thames, how many brought to comprehend why he hundreds perish by the pleasant and might not be as free with the King, tardy, but sure and certain, poison as with any other person for whom of exquisite cookery. he had been used to work. day, finding what he thought a proper opportunity, he grinned in the face of his Sovereign, and with great earnestness demanded "something to drink."

It was the observation of a physician, who was remarkable for his practice in cases of insanity, that the South-Sea year had supplied him with an amazing increase of patients, but that among them all there was not one whose delirium was brought on by the loss of his money; they were all to be numbered among the fortunate stock-sellers.

Displeased at the boldness of the request, yet ashamed to deny it, the King machanically employed both his hands in search of coin, and finding none, replied with dignity, and his usual German accent, "I have no money in my pockets."-" Nor I neither," returned the ideot, "I can't think where it is all gone, for my part !"

The purses of the apparently wealthy are frequently as ill-provided as those among the lowest of their inferiours. In short, as the follow ing tale will prove, a man may be ac- The Sovereign frowned at the tually too great to have a penny in repartee, which, like many another his pocket. About sixty years ago, joke, was prejudicial to its maker, some alterations were making in a and the fool was employed no longer part of Kensington Gardens, and near the palace. Had he lived a the good old George the Second couple of centuries earlier, his bufused to take pleasure, at times, in foonery might have gained him a overlooking the workmen. Among place about court. these, there chanced to be an half

THE

ADVENTURES

POETRY.

From the Edinburgh Magazine, for June 1818.

SCHMOLKE AND THE SCHOOLMAS

TER BAKEL.

(Translated from the German of Langbein.)

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MR. EDITOR,

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OF PARSON pression, for the incidents can scarcely fail to amuse, even under the disadvantages of an imperfect translation. If your are of the same opinion, the piece may per haps find a place in your interestTHE poem, of which the following Miscellany. The original has ing is a translation, appears in been strictly adhered to, except in the postponement of the denouement "Deutsche Blumenlese," or, "Collection of the Flowers of Ger- for a few stanzas, to continue lonman Literature," and is ascribed ger the interest of the story. to "Langbein." The original is I am, &c. happily conceived, and exquisitely expressed. In vain would I attempt to imitate the rich humour, serious drollery, and close condensation of Langbein's style, in a translation. The interest of the story, however, does not consist entirely in the ex

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"WHERE are we now? See nought ap

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pears

But cattle on the hill;
told you oft to shun the left,

But you would have your will. as he You've brought us here:-now

both

save us

"Proh dolor,' Sir; but still there's hope, We're not in Charon's barge; :

How sweet their potent ale will Still may some good Convivia,

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LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JAMES HOGG.

From the Edinburgh Magazine.

TOTHING is so destructive of a listless lethargy, and be degraded that spirit of adventure, which in his own eyes, and in those of his leads the mind into new and unex fellows, as an incorrigible dunce. plored regions of intellect, as the Wo to the poor child whose fancy pride of learning, which considers wanders to the clear waters where its own attainments as the limits of the little fishes twinkle in his menhuman knowledge, and looks down tal vision like beams of light, in from its fancied elevation on all freedom and in beauty, or to the those who have not been taught to heathery slope where his soul dances prate, in trim phrase, of the philoso- to the melody of the lark overhead; phical creed that happens to be in he will soon be recalled from the fashion, or of certain books written dream of delight, in bitterness and in languages that have ceased to be tears, to the hated volume from spoken for many centuries. To an which he is doomed to hear one acquaintance with them every one dull sentence rung in his ears a must be trained, and on them his hundred times. By this mode of opinions must be formed, or he can treatment, the soul is stunted, and hardly expect to be admitted into prevented from putting forth its good society any more than he shoots and blossoms in the unconshould if his coat were not in fashion. trolled energy of nature; and rather Nothing is so rare as originality of resembles a tree which creeps along genius; and, according to the modes a garden wall, than the magnificent of education that have long prevail- oak that has not been profaned by ed, and are still in use, in our pub- the axe of the woodman. Men bred lick institutions, the little that exists under such discipline, are precisely is in danger of being extinguished what education has made them. in its very dawning. Every boy is They passively receive what is required to perform the same tasks, poured into their minds, and give it and in the same manner, without out again unchanged by meditation the slightest regard to the original and reflection; or, if any change bent of the mind; and if, unfortu- has taken place, it is a weakening nately, he is either unfit or disin- and dilution. Their intellectual clined, he must be breached into the range is confined to the narrow knowledge of what he justly per- circle that has been trode on by the haps considers useless, or sink into men of many generations; yet they

fold the academick stole around of the brooks, and the winds, and their infirmities, and pace it with a the thunders, with which he held degree of self importance that is mysterious communings;-that he quite ridiculous. By their own unaid- was nursed in the solitude of the ed strength, they would never have deep glens, and amid the sublime raised themselves above the level of drapery of the mists and the clouds, hewers of wood, and drawers of where nature and superstition alike water; and those unascended steeps dispose the mind to lofty musings; where alone true science is to be and that he was left undisturbed found, have never once entered to the wildness and the grandeur their minds. Yet their vanity is of his own imaginations, where eveharmless, and might be tolerated, if ry object administered to his favouthey did not imagine themselves rite propensities, and, where he equal to the great poets of antiqui- moulded each into a thousand.comty; because they understand the binations that ever existed but in structure of their verse, and have his own mind. He was in truth a sometimes feloniously dared to student of nature, before he was substitute their own worthless dross aware of her influences, or could for their fine gold; or deem them give utterance to his feelings in selves the rivals of the father of language; and fortune placed him Greek philosophy. because tey in a situation where she was unhave learned from him to construct veiled to his eye in all her infiniá syllogism. It is not such men, tude and omnipotence.

that, by the ingenuity and the splen- But, fully to understand the cir dour of their inventions, shed a cumstances that kindled his genius lustre on our common nature, or by the originality of their imaginations, add to the stock of immortal poetry. Bacon looked through the philosophy of his age only to discover its utter worthlessness, and to substitute something better in its place; and the gigantick genius of Shakespeare was never subjected to the shackles of the schools.

into activity, and developed the ex-
traordinary powers of his mind, it
will be necessary to make a few re-
marks on the features of the coun-
try where he was born, and the moral
and intellectual character of the
people among whom he passed his
early days. The glens and the
mountains of Ettrick and Yarrow
combine almost all the soft beauty
and wild sublimity that Highland
scenery exhibits.. In the lower
district of Yarrow,
that lovely

It is not our purpose to lament that Mr. Hogg was denied the advantages of a school education, which he could not have enjoyed stream winds among hills of no great but at such a risk, but to trace the height, gently swelling, and green progress of his genius in what we to the summits; in some places conceive to be the most favourable finely wooded, but generally naked, situation for its developement. It and well suited to the pasture of was his high privilege, that, even in flocks. This is their common chaboyhood, his eye was familiar with racter, but some miles from the the elenients of poetry that even mouth of the valley, dark heathy then, his soul soared to heaven on mountains are seen towering to a the wing of the eagle, and grew gid- considerable height above, the surdy over the cataract, and drank in- rounding hills, and give an interestspiration in the breezes of the hill, ing variety to the scene. Towards and worshipped nature on her moun- the head, the glen widens, and emtain throne that the first musick bosoms St. Mary's Loch, and the to which he listened was the sound Loch of the Lowes; and above

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