OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
(For the Mirror.)
One of the residences of this historian and poet, was about a mile from Paddington on the north side of the Edgware Road, near a place called Kilburn Priory; and the wooden cottage is still standing, although the land near it has been of late covered with newly-erected villas. It is occupied by a person in humble life, and is not to be altered or removed owing to the respect entertained for the memory of this remarkable literary character. In this cottage, Goldsmith wrote his admirable treatise on Animated Nature. A sketch of this rustic dwelling is a desideratum, as, in after days, it may be demolished to make way for modern improvement.
J.C.H.
STANZAS
TO THE SPIRIT OF EVENING.
(For the Mirror.)
Mild genius of the silent eve!
Thy pathway through the radiant skies,