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LORD BYRON.

On his brow

The thunder-scars are graven.

Manfred.

His face

A prior publication, which we
shall avoid repeating, saves us the
trouble of transcribing some of the Deep scars of thunder had intrenched.
most commonly known of Lord
Byron's plagiarisms.

Out upon Time! it will leave no more
Of the things to come than the things be-
fore!

Out upon Time! who for ever will leave
But enough of the past for the future to
grieve

O'er that which hath been, and o'er that
which must be:

What we have seen our sons shall see;
Remnants of things which have past away,
Fragments of stone reared by creatures of

Milton

The Devil............very often waits,
And leaves old sinners to be young one's

baits.

Beppo.

An old dram-drinker's the devil's decoy.
Bacon.

But Hassan's frown and furious word
Are dreaded more than hostile sword.

Giaour, p. 33.

clay! Siege of Corinth, p. 28. The thing that hath been it is that that shall be......there is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any He makes a solitude, and calls it peace. remembrance of things that are to come, with those that shall come after.

Effecitque ne hostis maxime timendus militi esset. Liv. v. 19.

Eccles. c. 1.

Hark to the trump and the drum,

Bride of Abydos. Faciunt solitudinem, atque pacem appellant. Tacitus.

And the mournful sound of the barbarous Love's image upon earth without his wings.

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To such resign the strife for fading bays; Ill may such contest now the spirit move, Which heeds nor keen reproof, nor partial praise;

Since cold each kinder heart that might approve,

The bright sun was extinguished, and the And none are left to please, when none are

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left to love.

Childe Har. c. 2.

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Man's love is of man's life a thing a part; "Tis woman's whole existence; man may range

The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart,

Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in ex-
change

Pride, fame, ambition to fill up his heart,
And few there are whom these cannot
estrange;
Men have all these resources, we but one,
To love again, and be again undone.

Don Juan, c. 1. Ed se per quegli alcuna malinconia mossa da focoso disio sopraviene nelle lor menti, in quelle conviene che con grave noia si dimori......Ilche de gl'innamorati huomini non aviene, si come noi possiamo apertamente vedere. Essi, se alcuna malinconia o gravezza di pensieri gli affligge, hanno molti modi da alleggiare, o da pas sar quelle, perciò che allor, volendo essi, non manca l'andar atorno, udire ed vedere molte cose, uccellare, cacciare, pescare, cavalcare, giucare, o mercatare. De quali modi ciascuno ha forza di trarre, o in tutta o in parte, l'animo a se, e dal noioso siero rimuoverlo almeno per alcuno spatio di tempo, appresso il quale, con un modo o con altro, o consolation sopraviene, o diventa la noia minore.

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This description Lord Byron tells us was drawn, not from imagination, but memory, &c.; which we shall see is perfectly true; imagination painted to a real face. having merely transferred it from a

Celui de tous les peintres qui s'eloigne le plus dans ses tableaux du genre de la sculpture, et dont le clair obscur rappelle les vagues et delicieuses impressions de la melodie. penCorinne, 32.

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But most the modern Pict's ignoble boast, To rive what Goth, and Turk, and Time hath spared. Childe Har. c. 2.

It is cruel to think that Alaric and Mahomet the 2d. respected the Parthenon; and that it was demolished by Morosini and Lord Elgin. Chateaubriand, i. p. 38.

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle, &c.

The spirit of this striking opening of the Bride of Abydos was contributed by Goethe;-not that we accuse Lord Byron of reading the German, for he had Madame de Stäel's translation of the first line, which, to his quick apprehension of the beautiful, would be quite sufficient to suggest the spirit of the whole. She is giving an account of the character of Mignon in Wilhelm Meister:

Elle exprime ses regrets pour l'Italie dans des vers ravissants que tout le monde sait par cœur en Allemagne : "Connois-tu cette terre où les citronniers fleurissent," &c.

L'Allemagne, c. 28. We take the opportunity of translating this song for the sake of its beauty, though it has little further relation to the business of our article, which we here close. We may say that our translation is not a free one.

Know'st thou the land where the citron-trees grow,
And like gold in the dark leaves the oranges glow,
Where softer winds faint from the blue heavens breathe,
And the laurel and myrtle stand stirless beneath-
Know'st thou that land-so transcendantly fair?-
Oh would, my beloved, that we could go there!
Know'st thou the mansion, with column propped roof?
Its saloons are resplendent, and towering aloof
The marble-form'd images look in my face-
Where art thou, poor child of an ill-fated race?
Know'st thou that mansion?-Oh might I but be
Back, back in its shelter, and live there with thee!

Know'st thou the mountain,-its cloud-path sky-kissed,
Where the mule seeks his road through the deep-rolling mist,
Where the dragon's brood dwell in the caverns that bore them,
And the vast rocks dash down, and the torrents dash o'er them,→
Know'st thou the mountain-and dost thou not know

That our way lies there?-my beloved, let us go!

Kennst du das Land? wo die Citronen blühn,
Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-orangen glühn,
Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht,
Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht;
Kennst du es wohl ?

Dahin, Dahin,

Möcht' ich mit dir, o mein Geliebter ziehn !

Kennst du das Haus? auf Säulen ruht sein
Dach,

Es glänzt der Saal, es schimmert das Gemach,
Und Marmorbilder stehn, und sehn michan:
Was hat man dir, du armes Kind gethan?

Kennst du es wohl ?

Dahin, Dahin,

Möcht' ich mit dir, o mein Beschützer, ziehn !

Kennst du den Berg, und seinen Wolken-
steg?

Das Maulthier sucht im Nebel seinen Weg,
In Höhlen wohnt der Drachen alte Brut,
Es stürzt der Fels, und über ihn die Fluth.
Kennst du es wohl ?

Dahin, Dahin,
Geht unser Weg! o Vater, last uns ziehn!

ADVERTISEMENTS EXTRAORDINARY.

In the year 1785, appeared a singular pamphlet entitled "A Guide to Health, Beauty, Riches, and Honour." London, Printed for S. Hooper, &c. 8vo. This was a collection of popular advertisements selected from the Newspapers of the day by Francis Grose, Esq. a gentleman well known to the literary world as the author of several works on English antiquities, many of which (although now in some measure superseded by publications of greater accuracy as well as more elegant embellishment) retain a certain degree of celebríty at the present moment.

Captain Grose has prefixed to his collection of advertisements a preface written with much humour, in which he endeavours to prove the superiority of our national taste and acquirements over those of our neighbours, and triumphs in the compari

son: at the same time, he extols the laudable benevolence of those amiable individuals, who, regardless of time or trouble, expence or inconvenience, devote the fruits of their labour to the benefit of their fellow creatures, and promise them long life, robust constitutions, and continual enjoyment; nay every thing the world holds dear, as health, beauty, riches, and honour, in some instances (if you may believe the advertisers themselves) for the mere pleasure of doing good, or, at least, for a consideration very inadequate to the proposed advantage.

It is to be hoped, indeed, that some few of the advertisements alluded to are the productions of Captain Grose's own fertile imagination; for, licentious as we are always told the public press is and has been, we can hardly fancy that two or three, of those given as authentic extracts from the

daily journals, ever could have obtained insertion in a public newspaper. These, however, are few in comparison with the general contents of the pamphlet in question, from which we now proceed to extract some half dozen, as most calculated to afford amusement to our readers. We may add, that such is the rarity of Grose's Guide, although a tract of modern date, that we have never met with more than half a dozen copies of it, in a long and pretty extensive acquaintance with the book rarities of this description.

One of the most extraordinary advertisers in the year 1776, was Patence the dentist, who assured the public, through the Morning Chronicle, that he constantly took his medicines to preserve his own health, and that they bring those afflicted, or not afflicted, to perfect health, colour, and complexion.

Was mankind (he cries) to be made perfectly acquainted with its compositions, and process of making, which is so easy that the most stupid may prepare them, men, many of them, would not have such spindle-shank legs to walk upon, scarce able to carry their bodies; children would not be half destroyed before they are born, neither would you be plagued with dogmatical Latin, as Pul. Rad. Rhoi. or Pome; solve in aqua font, or Hord. m.f. a little fountain or sugar-apple-water, mixed with rhubarb; or destroyed with medical poison, or corrosive sublimate mercury: therefore as my scheme and motive is to relieve all mankind, and never add cruelty to affliction, so neither do I care who is angry or displeased.

Of Mr. Patence's proficiency in, and command of, the English language, the following is no mean specimen; and to this superiority we are perhaps to ascribe his contempt of the more ancient tongues.

Mr. Patence, Surgeon and Dentist to many thousand persons of all ranks and ages, having had twelve years practice on the teeth and gums, and practised anatomy and physic from his youth; whose superlative artificial and natural teeth, single ones, and whole sets are universally acknowledged throughout all Europe, to be not equalled for their formation, geniculation, longinquity of colour, never turning black, use in manducation, commonly called chewing and eating, perfectly perfecting pronunciation, impressing honour on themselves, felicitating exultation on

the wearers; for even his upper sets alone, he secures to the gums without springs, and when neither tooth nor root left, he being mechanically and anatomigraphically acquainted with the whole structure (probatum est). Likewise his convail anocoretal annexation in astringing the gums, or to cause them to grow firm, and unite for life; instantaneously by an obstrusive to the teeth, by which he preserves them method cleanses them, and eradicates from the mouth and parts appertaining all inflammatory and morbulent matter, without the use of an iron or steel instrument, curing pains, fractures of the jaws and bones, and every exuperable acrimoniated affliction in

cident to the whole machine, of which the public have had multitudes of instances: therefore for the good of mankind only he humble servant to command, Patence, publishes this advertisement: by your No. 403, Strand, near Southampton-street. His universal medicine, 3s.

cautious

Our old friend Martin Van Butchell, whom many of our readers must remember mounted on poney, and taking the air on most a variegatedSundays in Hyde Park, was a formidable rival of Mr. Patence. Mr. Van Butchell lived in 1776 in the identical house, in Mount-street, Grosvenor→ square, in which, somewhere about 1815, he departed this life; and at the period of which we now speak, he not only advertised his own incomparable merits as a curer of all diseases, but pronounced to the world that he had restored the ancient and useful balming. As a proof of this, he emof emprocess balmed his own wife, an equal testimony of his skill and affection, and as an additional instance of liberality, exhibited the remains of his deceased consort to the admiring world. Such was the curiosity excited by this singular exhibition that Mr. Van Butchell found it necessary to limit the admissions, and in the St. James's Chronicle of Oct. 19, 1776, the following advertisement appeared:

Van Butchell (not willing to be unpleasantly circumstanced, and wishing to convince some good minds they have been misinformed) acquaints the curious, no stranger can see his embalmed wife, unless (by a friend personally) introduced to himself, any day between nine and one, Sundays excepted.

Whether Mr. Van Butchell the younger, who, we perceive, practises for the good of his fellow creatures to

the present moment, still retains the invaluable remains of his beloved mother, we know not; but if such a treasure is yet in his possession, we trust he will lose no time in forwarding the old lady to the British Museum, in order that upon a careful comparison between the merits of the oriental and English mode of human pickling, that patriotic body the Society of Arts may have an opportunity of honouring the memory of his illustrious father by adjudging the gold medal to his no less cele brated successor.

Among the numerous advertisements for facilitating a happy union between the two sexes, no plan could be devised more likely to attract the notice of gentlemen on 'Change, than that offered by the proprietors of a house in Dover-street, who very gravely propose to such gentlemen as have their time and their thoughts solely engrossed by the magnitude of their concerns, to carry on all courtships by proxy," at the moderate charge of five guineas en-, trance, and such a compensation, on the final termination of the affair, as may be reasonably expected, "where persons of condition and liberal sentiments are concerned." This plan is peculiarly adapted for such gentlemen as have neither time nor temper for the tedious forms of courtship, and to ladies whose personal charms appear to greater advantage in description than reality. Surely the members of the Outinian Society would do well to deliberate whether some such office might not once again be established, under the superintendence of their own president and committee; seeing that they could afford to do the business without the fee, and that the plan is quite as likely to bring about the great end of all their endeavours, as the learned and elaborate lecture they are so kind to deliver (gratis) to their admiring and fashionable audience.

In the Public Advertiser, April 16, 1776, appeared a matrimonial advertisement which exceeds, we suppose, any thing ever before or since made public:

A gentleman who hath filled two succeeding seats in Parliament, is near sixty years of age, lives in great splendour and hospitality, and from whom a considerable estate must pass if he dies without issue,

hath no objection to marry any widow or
single lady, provided the party be of gen-
teel birth, polite manners, and five, six,
seven, or eight months gone in her preg-
- Brecknock,
nancy. Letters addressed to
Esq. at Will's Coffee-house, facing the
Admiralty, will be honoured with due at-
tention, secrecy, and every possible mark
of respect.

The supposed author of this singular advertisement was Edward Wortley Montague, Esq. son of the well-known Lady Mary; and although the intelligent editor of the last Biographical Dictionary considers the story improbable, we confess we are not at all inclined to doubt its au thenticity. Mr. Wortley's father by his will not only empowered his son to make a settlement on any woman he might marry, of 800l. a-year, but devised a very large estate in York-shire to any son of such marriage.. In 1747, he sat in Parliament for the county of Huntingdon, and in 1754. for Bossiney, so that thus far the facts and the advertisement tally; nor will any conduct, however strange, appear improbable in a person who first abjured the Protestant, for the Roman Catholic, religion, and lastly, the latter for Mahometanism. Surely the odd stories told of Lady Mary and the seraglio could not be entirely fabrications, when her offspring savoured so strongly of the Mussulman?

We cannot quit this interesting. subject, without inserting an invitation to the fair sex from some very honest fellow, who has contrived to indite the only matrimonial adver tisement we ever yet saw that was not absolutely ridiculous:

Is there a girl of moderate fortune, who hath the good sense and generosity to prefer a good husband to a rich one, and whose delicacy is not so very refined as to prevent her answering this address? There is a young man of a liberal education, whose age is twenty-six, possessed of a sound constitution, a clear head and a kind heart, who would be happy in her acquaintance. Direct P. Q. at the Coffee-house in Castle-street, Leicester Fields-Morning, Post, July 5, 1777.

Perhaps, however, one of the most amusing in all Captain Grose's collection is an advertisement for a subscription for the purchase of a fireengine, which he declares was written by the mayor of a celebrated University:

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