Fashion has times and seasons alter'd quite; And then, in spring, to town return together: There, while I chat, around my social fire; G ODE ON OUR LATE NAVAL ATCHIEVEMENT AT COPENHAGEN. ENIUS of Albion, still 'tis thine To wield the sceptre of the main; Ev'n tho' th' embattled world combine To wrest it, the attempt proves vain. Firm as an adamantine rock, Thy naval prowess meets the shock, And hurls, indignant, the recoiling blow, Aim'd at thy envied head, on the confounded foc. Thy valiant TARS no dangers dread: Still prompt to fly where glory calls, The canvass wing they proudly spread, That wafts along thy wooden walls: Nor castled streight, nor buoyless shoal, Their dauntless ardour can controul; Nor thund'ring batt'ries, whose tremendous roar Ev'n shakes the solid frame of the resounding shore. O'er the wide surface of the globe, Under each pole, beneath each zone, To realms of ev'ry hue and robe, Thy maritime renown is known. The trembling east, the humbled west, Have oft thy matchless might confess'd; And soon the truant north again shall melt To mildness, since her sons have NELSON'S Vengeance felt. Yet still the soul of pity shrinks When the dread stroke ev'n justice deals; Upon the widow's woes she thinks On all the hapless orphan feels. Amid the triumphs of the brave Death's sable flag is seen to wave; And dire misfortune mingles her alloy, To damp, in many a heart, the cause of general joy! D SONNET, BY R. B. SHERIDAN, ESQ. RY be that tear, my gentlest love, Dry be that tear, be hush'd that sigh, 1 And does that thought affect thee too, Literary Review. The Works of Hannah More, in Eight Volumes. Including several Pieces never before published. Cadell and Davies. 21. 2s. OUR prose UR fair authoress has been long known to the public, by her numerous publications in pre and poetry. She formerly kept a boarding-school, in conjunction with her sisters, at Bristol, whence were sent out several pupils who have distinguished themselves in society. From that situation she has long withdrawn herself, and, in her retirement, has produced pieces which do honour to her talents and piety. In the eighth volume of our Miscellany will be found her portrait and biography. To that article we refer our readers, where they will find many particulars gratifying to their curiosity. As Miss More's publications were brought forward in different sizes, her friends and the public naturally wished for an uniform edition of the whole, which is here accomplished. We shall apprise the reader of the contents of each volume- this, we presume, will form an acceptable article of information. Volume Ist. contains-Poetical Pieces, Epitaphs, Ballads and Tales, Hymns and Ballads. 2d. Sacred Dramas.-3d. Tragedies.-4th. Stories and Allegories. -5th. Stories for the Common People-6th. Thoughts on the Manners of the Great, and an Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World.-7th and 8th. Strictures on Female Education. The first volume is enriched with several small pieces of poetry never before published. Among these we find one, entitled Bonnor's Ghost, highly complimentary to the present Bishop of London. It is ingeniously imagined, and neatly executed. The Stories in the 4th and fifth volumes were published in the Cheap Repository, though they are here greatly amplified. The Tragedies, Percy, Fatal Falshood, and Inflexible Captive, are here introduced by a long prefatory apology, in which a reformation of the stage is inculcated with considerable ingenuity. These are the principal additions-and the entire publication forms an ample fund of entertainment and instruction. Whatever objections may be urged by some readers against Miss More's religious and political opinions, we must confess, that her talents are ingenious-her industry very great-and that her good intentions, in every subject on which she has employed her pen, deserve well of society. Few female authors have exerted themselves in a greater degree to advance the best interests of mankind. We are sorry to observe, that Essays for Young Ladies, have no place in this selection, chiefly, because they were a juvenile production. We recollect reading them some years ago with great pleasure, and therefore not meeting them in this edition of the authoress' works, we felt a disappointment. To the whole eight volumes is prefixed an introduetion of considerable length, written with her usual ability and modesty. We transcribe the following paragraph, as a specimen both of the sentiment and language "That I have added to the mass of general knowledge by one original idea, or to the stock of virtue by one original sentiment, I do not presume to hope. But that I have laboured assiduously to make that kind of knowledge which is most indispensable to common life, familiar to the unlearned, and acceptable to the young-that I have laboured to inculcate into both the love and practice of that virtue, of which they had before derived the principles from higher sources, I will not deny to have attempted." A portrait of this ingenious lady would have been a suitable embellishment to the work-but with this addition the public have not been gratified. We remember seeing a likeness of her in Lord Orford's Works-and surely the placing of it at the head of the present collection could not have been deemed a vio lation of modesty. Adonia, a Desultory Story; Inscribed by Permission to her Grace the Duchess of Buccleugh. 4 vols. Parry and Black. DONIA is confessedly the effusions of a young able one too. We are no less pleased with the chast ness of thought, than gratified by the energy of style. The various conversations are replete with spirit, and fraught with instruction. There is in the language a peculiar neatness combined with strength, and we easily discover the source from which the stream flows to be prolific. If we mistake not, the fable is taken in a great measure from a celebrated Italian author, yet rendered more subservient to virtue. In fine, this is one among the few novels which may be read with safety, and from which may be gleaned considerable improvement. There are but few seductive sentiments, and many edifying ones. Here vice is pictured in its native deformity, and virtue arrayed in the most lovely attire. We are frequently struck with the depth of reasoning, and as frequently pleased with a justness of decision. In De Bellefonde and De l'Avignon are nicely depicted the two opposite characters the former a generous man, an upright statesman—the latter, "wading from crime to crime in the mazes of a desolating revolution, with ambition for his pilot, and power the object of his pursuit." Lord Arunville and St. Loudon are excellent characters-and the heroine of the piece a young lady of noble accomplish ments. " |