The cairn
THE CAIRN
A GATHERING OF PRECIOUS STONES FROM MANY HANDS.
LONDON: GEORGE BELL, 186, FLEET STREET.
1846.
My “ Cairn ” is principally raised by the hands of many friends whose honoured names are now with the dead, whose kind sympathies have cheered my checquered existence, and whose intercourse has often corrected and enlightened my mind, leading it to seek in occupation a refuge from painful feeling. These contributions, together with original thoughts, and the gleanings of my own reading, I presume to offer to the public; with the hope that where criticism finds ample cause to condemn, my acknowledged weakness may plead for indulgence. Several pages bear the record of memories associated with those dear to me, and of events long past. I presume to believe, that the perusal of the “ Cairn ,” cannot injure, and may not fruitlessly occupy or amuse an idle hour.
A Soldier’s Daughter.
Joy.
Joy paints with its own colours every act and thought. The happy do not feel poverty, for delight is a gold tissued robe, and crowns them with priceless gems. Enjoyment plays the cook to their homely fare, and mingles intoxication with their simple drink. Joy strews the hard couch with roses, and makes labour ease. Sorrow doubles the burthen to the beaten down, plants thorns in the unyielding pillow, mingles gall with water, adds saltness to their bitter bread, clothing them in rags and strewing ashes on their bare heads. To our irremediable distress every small and petty inconvenience comes with added force. We sink beneath the additional feather chance throws on us; The grass-hopper is a burthen.
Purgatory.
Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII. was extremely delicate in all that concerned the care of her person; it was scarcely possible to find lawn or cambric sufficiently fine for her use. Cardinal Mazarin used to say that her punishment in purgatory would be, her being obliged to sleep in Holland sheets!
The recollection of a Mother.
Lady Sarah Davison Nicolas
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THE CAIRN.
TO THE READER.
CONTENTS.
Joy and Sorrow.
Anne of Austria.
Maternal Love.
Anecdote of Cardinal d’Estrées.
The Cemetry at Pisa.
Lady Vane.
Benevolence.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
Woman’s Pride.
Poverty.
Atheism.
Temper.
Henri Quatre.
Woman’s pride.
A Parliament Heel.
Speech of Mr. Cuffe.
Woman’s Devotion.
Savage the Poet.
Reflection.
Poverty.
Thought.
Charity twice blessed.
The Ballard.
Thought.
Lady M. W. Montague.
Inscrutable Providence.
The Mother of the Cagot.
Virtue of Absence.
Overstrained Feeling.
The Essex Ring.
Reflections.
A Prayer.
Letter from his late Majesty, King William IV.
Joan of Arc.
A gentleman.
The awakened Idolater.
Henry IV. of France.
Time.
Charles I.
Merit and good Fortune.
Taste and Custom.
Filial Duty.
King of Prussia and Voltaire.
To a daughter on her marriage.
On the Death of the Hon. John Gore.
Abraham to Isaac.
Zarapha to Rebecca.
The Mansion of Rest.
National Taciturnity.
Election by Balls.
Anecdote of Robespierre.
Life a mingled yarn.
Anecdote of Torregiano.
Decline of Families.
Thought.
Confiance.
Robert Bruce.
How to meet afflictions.
Soho.
Loss of a Parent.
Fruit.
Thought.
Anecdote of Frederick the Great.
Thought.
Thought.
Equity.
Mussulman.
Matthias, Count Thurnes.
Sir Thomas More.
Key to Happiness
John de Pelham.
Thought.
Whitehall.
Adieu.
Indifference.
Unrequited Love.
The Cross.
Solitude.
Method of preserving a Plant.
Misfortune a crime.
Grecian Tablets.
Christmas Day.
Ton of the French.
Frederick the Great.
The Widow of Barnevelt.
Filial Love.
Politeness.
Submission to Providence.
A Gentleman.
Love silent.
The Wandering Jew.
Statues.
Charles, Prince of Wales.
Affliction.
Philadelphia.
Calumny.
Constancy.
Tradition.
Sicilians.
Ancient Poetry.
The Hottentots.
Sedley.
L’amicale Persévérance.
Epigram.
From my Mother.
To revive a Flower.
Scenes from the Life of Titian.
Trees for my Cottage.
Effects of Sorrow on the Mind.
Bayle and his Mother.
Traditions.
Eyes of the Mind.
Philosophy.
Refinement.
Sea Bathing.
Effect of Scenery.
Law of Jury.
Tradition.
Tobacco.
Duchesse d’Abrantes.
Philip II. of Spain of Spain.
Beauty.
Jacobite Poetry.
Ill-placed Confidence.
Charity of Mind.
Bells.
La Mélancolie.
A Fire Screen.
Banquo’s Son.
Uncertainty.
The Drowning Fly.
The Mulgrave Family.
Le Bonheur.
Catherine de Medicis.
Epitaph.
Prosperity and Adversity.
The great Condé.
Resignation.
Le Tems.
Maréchale de Luxembourg.
The Spider.
On Fenelon.
Flowers.
To-morrow.
Letter of Marian Delorme.
Physiognomy.
A Father’s Death Bed.
The Plague.
Trifles.
Margaret of Anjou and Renè of Sicily.
Good Nature.
Welsh Air.
Lines by Henry VI.
Manner.
Lines by Raleigh.
Speech of a Shawanese Chief.
Greek Costume.
A fearful Witness.
Thirteenth Century.
Game of Cassino.
Local Associations.
On the Choice of a Wife.
Prayer by Mary Queen of Scots.
Anecdote of the Duke of Suffolk.
To the Memory of Sir Thomas Picton.
True Magnanimity.
The Emperor and the Opera Dancer.
Gibbon.
Herveys.
Coquetry.
Charles X.
Dirge.
Thought.
Thought.
Sir Thomas More.
Thought.
Cromwell.
Spanish Proverb.
The Seal.
Thought.
Pride of Birth.
The Pretender.
Thought.
Duke of Buckingham.
A Portrait.
Churchyards in Denmark.
Dante.
Petition of the Wife of an Indian Chief.
Volcanos.
Saint George.
Poem.
Thought.
Fire from Heaven.
Origin of Coats of Arms.
Lord Bacon.
Bells.
Arthur’s Round Table.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
Saint George.
Duelling.
Lord Strafford’s Meditations.
Time.
Lamentations selfish.
Thought.
Lines from the Spanish.
Phrenology.
Stoves.
Christina, Queen of Sweden.
Sir Benjamin Rudyerd.
King of Prussia’s Guard.
Premature Judgment.
Benvenuto Cellini.
Thought.
Love.
Wedding Rings.
Unjust suspicion.
Thought.
Capucine Friars.
Michael Angelo.
Sir Sidney Smith.
Bees.
Bayonets.
Hope.
Oliver Cromwell.
Sandwiches.
Catherine, Empress of Russia.
The Milk Score.
Duke of Monmouth.
Death.
Origin of the Title of Earl.
Thought.
Thought.
Thought.
Thought.
Sea-fire.
Lisez et Croyez.
"To a Lady.
Troubadours.
Thought.
Letter from Mde. Du Duffand.
Thought.
Pride and Humility.
Thought.
Thought.
Voltaire.
Antipathies.
Anne of Austria.
Thought.
An Opera.
Calumny or Detraction.
Les Lazzaroni.
Directions to a Porter.
Title of Sforza.
Duke of Calabria.
Love and Reason.
Clocks.
Tea and Coffee.
French and English.
Scandal.
Thought.
Thought.
Personal Beauty.
Daguerrotype.
Thought.
Thought.
Pyramids.
Ennui.
Thought.
English, French, and Germans.
Epigram.
Russian Anecdote.
Russian Anecdote.
Hospitality of the remote ages.
Turkish Anecdote.
Thought.
Anti-Moine, or Antimony.
Extract from Dr. Johnson’s Correspondence.
Earl of Buchan.
The State of Man.
Parfilage.
Taste.
A Cottage in Scotland.
Linnæus.
Hortensia, or Hydranger.
Filial Affection.
Vestige of ancient Saxon Dialect.
The Torpedo.
Thought.
Wait and Hope.
Mother and Child.
Education.
Dr. Johnson on the loss of his Mother.
Recollections in the Cathedral at Malines or “Mechlin” in Belgium.
`A Madame Warner
To change the colour of a Rose.
Wholesome Truth.
Sir Sidney Smith.
Lines by Maucroix.
Children’s Shoes.
Brantome.
Hopelessness.
The Coffee Tree.
A Portrait.
A Key to the Thoughts.
Thought.
Thought.
Thought.
Old China.
The indulgence of Providence.
Futurity.
Death.
Ambergris.
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