The Knickerbocker Volume 34; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ... in interest.' Very well, then we Ml 'change the tack' in regard to the present issue, and say: 'Reader, if you want a better number than this made in the oppressive month of August, going and coming to and from town and country, make it yourself ' How '11 //.'/ do?... A Writes in the ' London Quarterly Review, ' after remarking upon the generally indifferent character of Byron's juvenile productions, adds: 'There are, however, prose letters of Byron's, from his sixth year onward to his entrance at college, which, if ever they should be published, would claim a very different place among the examples of precocity. We never saw any thing to equal the contrast between the childish feebleness of the hand-writing (within pencilled lines, ) and the flow and pith of the language, in which thoughts and sentiments, often generous, sometimes fierce and scornful, but all unmistakably Byronic, are set down in some of the very earliest of these epistles.' Apropos: See the advertisement, in the present number, of Byron't Unpublished Letters, by his Son, Major Byron.... These are quaint thoughti from an old English collection, '/', '.-. Rural Friend' printed in 1632. They were copied by an esteemed friend in the British Museum some twenty years or more ago: Bur why Doe the winged minutes file So fast away t Stop your course, yee hastic bowers, And solicit all the poweri To let you etny: For the earth could ne'er shew forth An object of a greater worth. 'Bat why Doe the winged minutes file So fa-t away t It is because that they which follow Crowd on to have a sight as well as they: Barke how the ghosts of passed moments groane, 'Cause they are gone, And rayle at Fate, And curse the date Of their abort Urea, expired ao soone I 'Then atop your course, you hastic howers, A...