...LONGMAN AND CO-PATERNOSTER ROW, AND CLEMENT, *01, iTBAND, LONDON. No. 13. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1809. It were a wantonness and would demand Severe reproof...misery Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw i A momentary pleasure, never mark'd By reason, barren of all future good. But we have known that there...

...yet probably much might be said in favour of this plan. A poet of the highest eminence has observed, that " there is often found In mournful thoughts,...always might be found, A power to virtue friendly." But we need say nothing more o» a subject which is, indeed, self-evident ; and shall only add, that...

...feriamur: at reclines quidem, at otiosas, at de his el illis inter se libere colloquentes. ESSAY I. It were a wantonness and would demand Severe reproof...contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never mark'd By reason, barren of all future good. But we have known that there is often found In mournful...

...But the poet is not a creature all of joyous fancies ; he knows, as Wordsworth has finely told us, ^ that there is often found In mournful thoughts, and...always might be found, ' . A power to virtue friendly." The stream of his heart is not always like those of spring, huddling and rapid, and telling out gladness,...

...return'd, And begg'd of the Old Man that, for my sake, He would resume his story. — He replied, " It were a wantonness, and would demand Severe reproof,...contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never mark'd By reason, barren of all future good. But we have known that there is often found c 3 In mournful...

...never mark'd By reason, barren of all future good. But we have known that there is often found c 3 In mournful thoughts, and always might be found, A power to virtue friendly ; were 't not so, I am a Dreamer among men, indeed An idle Dreamer ! 'Tis a common Tale, An ordinary...

...my sake, | lie would resume his story. — He replied, ! « It were a wantonness, and would dcm.ind Severe reproof, if we were Men whose hearts Could hold vain dalliance with the misery Kven of the dead , contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never mark'd Hy reason, barren of...

...fuse the indulgence of them when no purpose of improvement or usefulness sanctions their excitement. " It were a wantonness, and would demand Severe reproof,...dead ; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, uevcr marked By reason, barren of all future good." And he is right ; for if we wish that our actions...

...refuse the indulgence of them when no purpose of improvement or usefulness sanctions their excitement. " It were a wantonness, and would demand Severe reproof,...hold vain dalliance with the misery Even of the dead ; contenlcd thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never marked By reason, barren of all future good."...

...EVE. Go, haste unto thy sisters— hence— away — I, too, am sad, and now would be alone. POEMS. There is often found In mournful thoughts, and always might be found, A power to virtue friendly ; were *t not so, I am a Dreamer among men, indeed An idle Dreamer ! THE EXCURSION. TO THE MARTIN....