CONTENTS.

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Joy and Sorrow[1]
Anne of Austria[2]
Maternal Love[2]
Anecdote of Cardinal d’Estrées[3]
The Cemetry at Pisa[3]
Lady Vane[4]
Benevolence[5]
Woman’s Pride[5]
Sir Walter Raleigh[5]
Poverty[6]
Atheism[6]
Detraction—Montesquieu[6]
Temper[7]
Set forms of expression—Philips[7]
Henri Quatre[8]
A Parliament Heel[9]
On a new-born Child—Sir W. Jones[9]
Speech of Mr. Cuffe[9]
Woman’s Devotion[10]
Savage the Poet[11]
A Fable—The Hon. Henry Erskine, late Lord Advocate of Scotland[11]
Poverty[17]
Charity twice blessed[18]
Portrait of Charles I.[18]
The Ballad[19]
On a Lady not celebrated for cleanliness—The late Lord Chancellor, The Lord Erskine[19]
Lady M. W. Montague[20]
Inscrutable Providence[20]
The Mother of the Cagot[21]
Virtue of Absence[21]
Overstrained Feeling[21]
The Essex Ring[22]
A Prayer[23]
Letter from his late Majesty, King William IV.[24]
Joan of Arc[25]
Bear and forbear[26]
A Gentleman[26]
The awakened Idolater[27]
Henry IV. of France[28]
Time[30]
Charles I.[30]
Merit and good Fortune[31]
The Petition of a Monkey—Lord Erskine, late Chancellor[32]
Taste and Custom[35]
Filial Duty[36]
King of Prussia and Voltaire[36]
To a Daughter, on her Marriage[37]
James I.[37]
On the Death of the Hon. John Gore[38]
Abraham to Isaac[39]
Zarapha to Rebecca[39]
The Mansion of Rest[40]
National Taciturnity[42]
Election by Balls[42]
Anecdote of Robespierre[43]
The Old Woman and her Ass—The Hon. Henry Erskine, Lord Advocate of Scotland[44]
Life a mingled Yarn[46]
Henry VIII. and Francis I.[47]
Anecdote of Torregiano[47]
Decline of Families[48]
Robert Bruce[49]
How to meet Afflictions[49]
Soho[50]
Loss of a Parent[51]
Fruit[51]
Anecdote of Frederick the Great[52]
Equity[53]
Mussulman[54]
Matthias, Count Thurnes[54]
Sir Thomas More[55]
Key to Happiness[55]
John de Pelham[56]
Prayer on the Prospect of Death[57]
Whitehall[58]
Adieu[59]
Indifference[59]
Unrequited Love[60]
The Cross[60]
Solitude[60]
Prayer—Voltaire[61]
Method of preserving a Plant[61]
Misfortune a Crime[61]
Grecian Tablets[62]
Christmas Day[62]
George IV.[62]
Ton of the French[63]
Frederick the Great[63]
The Widow of Barnevelt[64]
Filial Love[64]
Submission to Providence[66]
A Gentleman[66]
Love silent[66]
The Wandering Jew[67]
Statues[67]
Charles, Prince of Wales[68]
Affliction[68]
Philadelphia[69]
Tradition[72]
Sicilians[73]
Ancient Poetry[74]
The Hottentots[74]
Sedley[75]
On the Loss of a Watch—Lord Erskine[75]
L’amicale Persévérance[77]
Epigram[77]
To the May Fly[78]
From my Mother[79]
To revive a Flower[80]
Scenes from the Life of Titian[81]
Trees for my Cottage[93]
The Hand of Heaven[94]
Effects of Sorrow on the Mind[94]
Bayle and his Mother[94]
Traditions[95]
The Graves of the Departed Loved[96]
Eyes of the Mind[96]
Philosophy[96]
Refinement[97]
Sea Bathing[97]
Effect of Scenery[98]
Inscription on a Sun Dial[99]
Law of Jury[99]
Tradition[100]
Tobacco[100]
Duchess d’Abrantes[101]
Philip II. of Spain[102]
Beauty[102]
Jacobite Poetry[103]
Ill-placed Confidence[104]
Charity of Mind[104]
Bells[104]
La Mélancolie[105]
A Fire Screen[105]
Banquo’s Son[106]
Uncertainty[106]
The Drowning Fly[107]
The Mulgrave Family[107]
Le Bonheur[108]
Catherine de Medicis[109]
Epitaph[109]
Prosperity and Adversity[110]
The great Condé[110]
Resignation[110]
Le Tems[111]
A Reflection—Seneca[111]
Maréchale de Luxembourg[112]
The Spider[112]
On Fenelon[112]
Flowers[112]
To-morrow[113]
Letter of Marian Delorme[113]
Physiognomy[116]
A Father’s Death Bed[117]
The Plague[118]
Trifles[121]
Margaret of Anjou and Renè of Sicily[122]
To Julia[123]
Good Nature[123]
Welsh Air[124]
Lines by Henry VI.[124]
Manner[124]
Lines by Raleigh[125]
Speech of a Shawanese Chief[125]
Greek Costume[126]
On a Rose growing in a Skull—Gen. Carrol[127]
A fearful Witness[127]
Thirteenth Century[128]
Game of Cassino[128]
Local Associations[128]
On the Choice of a Wife[129]
Henry IV.[129]
Prayer by Mary Queen of Scots[129]
Anecdote of the Duke of Suffolk[130]
To the Memory of Sir Thomas Picton[130]
True Magnanimity[131]
On a Music Master—The Hon. H. Erskine[131]
The Emperor and the Opera Dancer[131]
Gibbon[135]
Herveys[135]
Coquetry[135]
Charles V.[136]
Family MSS.[136]
Dirge[137]
Sir Thomas More[141]
Providence—Felicaii[142]
Cromwell[143]
Spanish Proverb[143]
Epigram—The Hon. H. Erskine[144]
Hyder Ali—Burke[144]
The Seal[148]
Thought[148]
Pride of Birth[149]
The Pretender[150]
Chloe—The Hon. H. Erskine[150]
Thought[150]
Duke of Buckingham[151]
A Portrait[152]
Churchyards in Denmark[152]
Machiavelli[153]
Dante[153]
Petition of the Wife of an Indian Chief[154]
Volcanos[157]
Saint George[157]
Poem[157]
Queen of Bohemia—Sir H. Wootton[158]
Thought[159]
Fire from Heaven[159]
Origin of Coats of Arms[160]
Lord Bacon[160]
Bells[160]
Arthur’s Round Table[161]
Sir Walter Raleigh[162]
Saint George[163]
Duelling[163]
Delight in Disorder—Herrick[164]
Lord Strafford’s Meditations[164]
Time[167]
Lamentations selfish[167]
Thought[167]
Lines from the Spanish[168]
Phrenology[168]
Stoves[169]
Christina, Queen of Sweden[170]
Sir Benjamin Rudyerd[172]
King of Prussia’s Guard[174]
Premature Judgment[174]
Benvenuto Cellini[175]
Thought[176]
Mind and Body[176]
Love[179]
Wedding Rings[179]
Hope and Grief—W. Maddocks[180]
Unjust Suspicion[181]
Thought[181]
Capucine Friars[181]
Arms of the House of Medici[182]
Michael Angelo[182]
Sir Sidney Smith[192]
Bees[192]
Bayonets[194]
Hope[194]
Oliver Cromwell[195]
Sandwiches[196]
Catherine, Empress of Russia[196]
The Milk Score[197]
Duke of Monmouth[197]
Death[199]
Origin of the Title of Earl[200]
Thought[201]
James II.[202]
Thought[202]
Thought[202]
Thought[202]
Sea-fire[203]
Lisez et Croyez[203]
To a Lady[204]
Troubadours[204]
Thought[204]
Letter from Mde. Du Duffand[205]
Thought[205]
Pride and Humility[205]
Thought[206]
Thought[206]
Voltaire[206]
Antipathies[208]
Anne of Austria[209]
The MSS.[213]
Thought[213]
The Nursing of Love—Hon. W. Spencer[214]
An Opera[215]
Calumny and Detraction[215]
Goût and Gout—Lord Erskine[215]
Les Lazzaroni[216]
Louis XVIII.[217]
Directions to a Porter[218]
Title of Sforza[219]
Duke of Calabria[219]
Love and Reason[220]
Clocks[222]
Tea and Coffee[222]
French and English[223]
Scandal[223]
Thought[223]
Thought[224]
Personal Beauty[224]
Daguerrotype[224]
Thought[224]
Thought[224]
Pyramids[225]
The Congress[225]
Sketch of our Saviour’s Person—Josephus[226]
Ennui[227]
Thought[227]
On an Infant[228]
English, French, and Germans[228]
Hôtel à Paris “à vendre, ou à louer”[228]
Epigram[228]
Russian Anecdote[229]
Russian Anecdote[230]
Hospitality of the remote Ages[231]
Turkish Anecdote[231]
Thought[231]
Anti-Moine, or Antimony[232]
Extract from Dr. Johnson’s Correspondence[232]
Earl of Buchan[233]
The State of Man[233]
Parfilage[233]
Taste[234]
Les Riens[234]
A Cottage in Scotland[235]
Linnæus[237]
Hortensia, or Hydranger[237]
Filial Affection[237]
Vestige of ancient Saxon Dialect[239]
The Torpedo[240]
Thought[240]
Wait and Hope[240]
Mother and Child[241]
Louis XVIII.[241]
Education[242]
Dr. Johnson on the loss of his Mother[243]
Recollections in the Cathedral at Malines or “Mechlin” in Belgium[243]
`A Madame Warner[244]
To change the Colour of a Rose[244]
Wholesome Truth[245]
Sir Sidney Smith[245]
Lines by Maucroix[245]
The Prisoner of St. Helena[246]
Children’s Shoes[246]
Brantome[246]
Hopelessness[247]
The Coffee Tree[247]
A Portrait[247]
A Key to the Thoughts[248]
Old China[248]
The Indulgence of Providence[248]
Les Assassins[249]
Pausilippo[250]
Gesner[251]
Futurity[251]
Death[252]
Ambergris[252]
Quinquina, or Peruvian Bark[253]
Critique on David’s Picture of the Deluge[253]

THE CAIRN
A GATHERING OF PRECIOUS STONES
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