[710] The Four Ages.
[711] The poem of the Emigrants, which was dedicated to Cowper.
[712] Mrs. Charlotte Smith is well known as an authoress, and particularly for her beautiful sonnets. She was formerly a great eulogist of the French Revolution, but the horrors which distinguished that political era led to a change in her sentiments, which she publicly avowed in her "Banished Man." There is a great plaintiveness of feeling in all her writings, arising from the unfortunate incidents of her chequered life. We remember this lady, with her family, formerly resident at Oxford, where she excited much interest by her talents and misfortunes.
[713] Samuel Roberts, his faithful servant.
[714] Private correspondence.
[715] Count Gravina, the Spanish Admiral.
[716] These illustrations are executed in outline, and form one of the most beautiful and elegant specimens of professional art.
[717] 'The Rose had been washed, just washed in a shower,' &c.
[718] The lines here alluded to are entitled, "Inscription for an Hermitage;" and are as follow:—
This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears,
Built as it has been in our waning years,
A rest afforded to our weary feet,
Preliminary to—the last retreat.