fe reach'd ten o'clock: and while a glow,
ectic and brief as summer's day nigh done,
spreads the cheek which seems too pure for The lawyer and the critic but behold
clay,
[they! The baser sides of literature and life,
usands blaze, love, hope, die-how happy
Juan was not meant to die so soon. We left him in the focus of such glory may be won by favour of the moon Or ladies' fancies--rather transitory,
haps; but who would scorn the month of June,
Because December, with his breath so hoary, ast come? Much rather should he court the
> hoard up warmth against a wintry day.
esides, he had some qualities which fix
Middle-aged ladies even more than young :
he former know what's what; while new-
fledged chicks
Know little more of love than what is sung
n rhymes, or dreamt (for fancy will play tricks)
In visions of those skies from whence Love
sprung.
Some reckon women by their suns or years:
I rather think the moon should date the dears.
And why? Because she's changeable and chaste.
I know no other reason, whatsoe'er
Suspicious people, who find fault in haste,
May choose to tax me with; which is not fair,
Nor flattering to their temper or their taste,'
As my friend Jeffrey writes with such an air:
However, I forgive him, and I trust
He will forgive himself:-if not, I must.
Old enemies who have become new friends,
Should so continue-'tis a point of honour :
And I know nothing which could make amends
For a return to hatred: I would shun her
Like garlic, howsoever she extends
[her. Her hundred arms and legs, and fain outrun Old flames, new wives, become our bitterest foes
Converted foes should scorn to join with those.
ere the worst desertion :-renegadoes,
shuffling Southey, that incarnate lie,
scarcely join again the 'reformadoes,"
he forsook to fill the laureate's sty;
est men, from Iceland to Barbadoes,
er in Caledon or Italy,
ot veer round with every breath, nor
And nought remains unseen, but much unt
By those who scour those double vales of
While common men grow ignorantly old,
The lawyer's brief is like the surgeon's k.
Dissecting the whole inside of a question,
And with it all the process of digestion.
Query: suit?-Printer's Devil.
The Brig of Don, near the Auld Toun' of Aberdeen,
with its one arch and its black deep salmon stream below, is in
my memory as yesterday. I still remember, though perhaps
I may misquote, the awful proverb which made
cross it, and yet lean over it with a childish d
only son, at least by the mother's side. The
he moment when you cease to please.lected by me, was this, but I have never!
, or rather 'Reformed.' The Baron Brad
verley is authority for the word.
I was nine years of age:
Brig of Balgounie, black's
Wi a wife's ae son, and ai
Doun ye shall fa'!'
Of life reach'd ten o'clock: and while a glow,
Hectic and brief as summer's day nigh done,
O'erspreads the cheek which seems too pure for The lawyer and the critic but behold
[they! The baser sides of literature and life,
clay,
Thousands blaze, love, hope, die-how happy
This were the worst desertion :-renegadoes,
Even shuffling Southey, that incarnate lie,
Would scarcely join again the 'reformadoes,"
Whom he forsook to fill the laureate's sty;
And honest men, from Iceland to Barbadoes,
Whether in Caledon or Italy,
And nought remains unseen, but much untold,
By those who scour those double vales of strife.
While common men grow ignorantly old,
The lawyer's brief is like the surgeon's knife,
Dissecting the whole inside of a question,
And with it all the process of digestion.
Query: suit ?—Printer's Devil.
The Brig of Don, near the Auld Toun of Aberdeen, with its one arch and its black deep salmon stream below, is in my memory as yesterday. I still remember, though perhaps [seize I may misquote, the awful proverb which made me pause to cross it, and yet lean over it with a childish delight, being an Should not veer round with every breath, nor only son, at least by the mother's side. The saying, as recol To pain, the moment when you cease to please.lected by me, was this, but I have never heard or seen it since I was nine years of age:
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