Bolster's Quarterly Magazine. Volume 2 (1827) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in fits of unfnrthly splendour, and illuminating the sterile tract over which it is careering with a Hood of glory,?sometimes shrouding itself in unhallowed darkness,?now a pillar of %ht, now a shadow of desolation,? alternately filling us with rapture and astonishment, horror and admiration. But the pale light of Tasso's genius streams through a mist of sorrow, with a still and melancholy radiance, soothing the unquiet breast into a contemplative calm, and disposing it to receive visitations of hope and blessedness; and the very shadows by which it is crossed, are so far redeemed by the pervading purity of the moral atmosphere, that the darkness there, like the night of Milton's Heaven, "may well be deemed our twilight here." NIGHT THOUGHTS. BY THE AUTHOR OF " Z E D E C 11 I A S ." To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and felt, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwelt, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been; And if my voice break forth, 'tis not that now I shrink from what it suffered;?let him speak Who hath beheld decline upon my brow, Or seen my mind'a convulsion leave it weak;? But in this page a record will I seek. Childe Harold, By the still shore where every dying ware Singalike the swan, its own funereal lay ; In the lone midnight of the grass grown grave, I love to shape my solitary way: When twilight struggles with departing day, And the last shrieking sea-bird wings his flight To his far craggy home ;?whilst yet there stray Millions of sun-bora tints on Goula's height, That melt away unseen before the wings of night. . Zedechias, a Hebrew Tale, and other Poems. By P. I. Meagher. In one volume, foolscap octavo. In l/re Pros. And of the sunny bay, the deep deep blush Speaks its delight 'neat...