COMPLETION OF VOL. XVI.
WITH THE PRESENT NUMBER
A SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER,
With a Portrait of the Queen, and a Memoir of her Majesty; with Title-page, Preface, and Index to Vol. XVI.
*** Books are flocking fast around us. Among them are Mr. Boaden's Life of Mrs. Jordan—the Romance of History—Vols. 13 and 14 of Lardner's Cyclopaedia—Dr. Dibdin's Sunday Library—Vol 1 of the Cabinet Library—and three other volumes of the periodical libraries. Our preference of Moore's Byron is, we hope, borne out by its paramount interest.
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Dent de Jaman.
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It is interesting to observe the use to which he afterwards converted these hasty memorandums in his sublime drama of Manfred:—
It is not noon—the sunbow's rays still arch
The torrent with the many hues of heaven,
And roll the sheeted silver's waving column,
O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular,
And fling its lines of foaming light along,
And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail,
The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death,
As told in the Apocalypse.
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Ye avalanches, whom a breath draws down
In mountainous o'erwhelming, come and crush me!
I hear ye momently above, beneath,
Crash with a frequent conflict
The mists boil up around the glaciers; clouds
Rise curling fast beneath me, white and sulphury,
Like foam from the roused ocean of deep hell!
MANFRED.
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O'er the savage sea,
The glassy ocean of the mountain ice
We skim its rugged breakers, which put on
The aspect of a tumbling tempest's foam
Frozen in a moment.
MANFRED.
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Like these blasted pines,
Wrecks of a single winter, barkless, branchless
MANFRED.
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Childe Harold, Canto 3.
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This book was printed at St. Albans in the year 1486, and afterwards reprinted by Wynkyn de Worde, in 1496.
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