character by it, turned him back again to his first thought. He had latterly an eye toward the Lawn; and it was then that he began his

Evidences of Christianity,' and had a design of translating all the Psalms, for the use of churches. Five or six of them that he did translate, were published in the Spectator.'

"Old Jacob Tonson did not like Mr. Addison. He had a quarrel with him; and, after his quitting the Secretaryship, used frequently to say of him,'One day or other, you will see that man a Bishop: I am sure he looks that way; and, indeed, I ever thought him a Priest in his heart.'

SPENCE.

HENRY KIRKE WHITE.

HENRY KIRKE WHITE is a name that will be imperishable in the records of precocious talent. Pious, amiable, and learned, yet struggling against numerous evils which his limited means could not fail to entail on him, his fate awakens our regret, while the variety and the solidity of his acquirements excites exhaustless admiration for his genius, and the profoundest respect for his unwearied application and moral virtues.

His effusions breathe the pure spirit of Poetry. Many of his Poems are sacred, and eminently distinguished by fervent piety. He contemplated, and, indeed, commenced, a long "Divine Poem," entitled, "The Christiad," in the Spenserian stanza; and, from the specimen before us, we regret he did not live to conclude what he so well began.

If we may judge from the few productions which he left behind him, his genius was of the highest order, and he promised to be one of the brightest ornaments of British literature. The following short Poem possesses great beauty and simplicity.

"It is not that my lot is low,

That bids the silent tear to flow;
It is not this that makes me moan,-
It is that I am all alone.

In woods and glens I love to roam
When the tired hedger hies him home;
Or by the woodland pool to rest,
When pale the star looks on its breast.

Yet, when the silent ev'ning sighs,
With hallowed airs and symphonies,
My spirit takes another tone,
And sighs that it is all alone.

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The autumn leaf is sear and dead:
It floats upon the water's bed.
I would not be a leaf to die

Without recording sorrow's sigh.

The woods and winds, with sullen wail,
Tell all the same unvaried tale.

I've none to smile when I am free,
And, when I sigh, to sigh with me.

Yet, in my dreams, a form I view,
That thinks on me, and loves me, too;
I start, and when the vision's flown,
I weep that I am all alone."

INDEX.

ADDISON, JOSEPH, his interview with Gay, i. 188.

iii. 160.

Specimen of his Criticism, ii. 239.
when at College, ii. 243.

his opinion of Blank Verse, iii. 19.
description of "the Iliad" and the "Eneid,"

and the famous Duke of Wharton, iii, 238.
his destination for the Church, iii. 289.
Akenside, Mark, sketch of, iii. 247.
Alfieri, death of, iii. 87.

Ambree, Mary, curious ballad concerning, ii. 39.
Anagrams and Acrostics, several carious, ii. 59.
Andreini, Isabella, poetess and actress, i. 167.
Ariosto, and the Duke of Ferrara, i. 170.
Potter, i. 172.

Atkinson, Joseph, his biography, iii. 135.
Poetry by, iii. 136.

Avery, alias Bridgman, the pirate, his adventures, ii. 67.

his poetry, ii. 70,
Ballad singers, English, some account of, ii. 89.

Ballads, German, account of, ii. 119.

of the Spaniards and Moors, iii. 26.

sung in Spain on "The Day of John the Baptist,"
iii. 61.

Baraballo, Abate di Gaeta, his mock coronation, i. 69.
Bards, ancient Irish, some account of, ii. 92.

in the time of Queen Elizabeth, i. 4.
self-devotion of, i. 176.

Barton, Bernard, his autograph, as sent by himself, ii. 5.

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Baxter, Richard, his judgment of his poetical contempo-
raries, i. 233.

2 poetry by, i. 236.

Benlowes, Edward, account of, i. 225.
Benserade, the French Satirist, i. 119.

Berners, Lady Juliana, her biography, i. 199.
—, poetry by, i. 202.

Bilderdyck, his anonymous verses, i. 224.

Blackstone, Sir Wm., poetry by, ii. 45.
Bloomfield, Robert, biography of, i. 173.
Boccacio's heroic poem, "La Teseide," i. 112.
Bogdanovich, Hippolitus, the Russian Anacreon, i. 60.
specimen of his poetry, i. 61.

Boileau, his judicious revision, ii. 190.

villa at Auteuil, description of, iii. 70.
Boleyn, George, Viscount Rochford, slight account of, iii.
24.

Brandt, Gerard, remarkable resemblance of some of his pas-
sages to Shakspeare, iii. 148.

Brathwayte's description of the poverty of poets, ii. 230.
Brederode, Gerbrand, slight account of, ii. 263.
-, poetry by, ii. 265.

Buckhurst, Lord, his tragedy of "Gondibert,"ii. 10.
Burns, Robert, bis "Lines on a bank note," i. 116.

"Tam O'Shanter," the original of, i. 159.
Epitaph on Barton,” ii. 7.

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Butler, Samuel, his "Character of an Epigrammatist," i. 21.
and the Earl of Dorset, ii, 219.

his "Character of a play writer," iii. 222.
Byron, Lord, his "Manfred," Goethe's opinion of, i. 88.
Dog, i. 153.

swimming across the Hellespont, i. 154.

sums received by, for his poems, ii. 6.

his generosity, ii. 170.

death, as related by Captain Trelawny, in a

letter to the Hon. Col. Stanhope, iii. 39.

"Mazeppa," similar story to, iii. 243.

Cabestan, William De, a Troubadour, singular adventure of,