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titude of the count forsook him, and he burst into tears; it was with difficulty that he was separated from the body, and being at last carried back to his convent, he spent the remainder of his days in austerities which hastened his death.

Tit Bits.

SNUFF AND NOSES.

My nose is in great indignation.

SHAKESPEARE.

AS a friend to Noses of all denominations, I must here enter my solemn protest against a barbarous abuse, to which they are too often subjected, by converting them into dust-holes and sootbags, under the fashionable pretext of taking snuff, an abomination for which Sir Walter Raleigh is responsible, and which ought to have been included in the articles of his impeachment. When

some "Sir Plume of amber snuff-box

justly vain," after gently tapping its top with a look of diplomatic complacency,

embraces a modicum of its contents with his finger and thumb, curves round his hand, so as to display the brilliant on his little finger, and commits the high dried pulvilio to the air, so that nothing but its impalpable aroma ascends into its nose, we may smile at the custom, as harmless and not ungraceful foppery; but when a filthy, clammy compos is perpetually thrust up the nostrils with a voracious pig-like snort, it is a practice as disgusting to the beholders, as I believe it to be injurious to the offender. The nose is the emunctory of the brain, and when its functions are impended, the whole system of the head becomes deranged. A professed snuff-taker is generally recognizable by his total loss of the sense of smelling-by his snuffling and snoring--by his pale sodden complexion-and by that defective modulation of the voice, called talking through the nose, though it is in fact an inability so to talk, from the partial or total stoppage of the passage. Not being provided with an ounce of civet, I will not suffer my imagination to wallow in all the revolting concomitants of this dirty trick; but I cannot refrain from an extract, by which we may form some idea of the time consumed in its performance. "Every professed, inveterate, and incurable snuff

taker, (says Lord Stanhope) at a moderate computation, takes one pinch in ten minutes. Every pinch, the agreeable ceremony of blowing and wiping the nose, and other incidental circumstances, consumes a minute and a half. One minute and a half out of every ten, allowing sixteen hours to a snuff-taking day, amounts to two hours and twenty-four minutes out of every natural day, or one day out of every ten. One day out of every ten amounts to thirty-six days and a half in a year. Hence, if we suppose the practice to be persisted in forty years, two entire years of a snuff-taker's life will be dedicated to tickling his nose, and two more to blowing it." Taking medicinally, or as a simple sternutatory, it may be excused; but the moment your snuff is not habit which literally makes you grovel in to be sneezed at, you are the slave of a the dust; your suuff-box has seized you as Saint Dunstan did the Devil, and if the red-hot pincers with which he performed the feat, could occasionally start up from an Ormskirk snuff-box, it might have a salutary effect in checking this nasty propensity among our real and pseudo fashionables. But I apprehend that your readers will begin to think I haveled them by the nose quite long enough; and lest yourself, Mr. Editor, should suspect that I am making a handle of the subject, merely that you may pay through the nose for my communication, I conclude with a

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Translations.

FROM BOWRING'S RUSSIAN
ANTHOLOGY.

Evening Reflections on the Majesty of God,

on seeing the great Northern Lights.

Now day conceals her face, and darkness fills

The field, the forest, with the shades of night;

The gloomy clouds are gathering round the hills,

Veiling the last ray of the lingering light. The abyss of heaven appears-the stars are kindling round;

Who, who can count those stars, who that abyss can sound?

Just as a sand 'whelmed in the infinite sea, A ray the frozen ice-berg sends to beaven;

A feather in the fierce flame's majesty; A mote, by midnight's maddened whirlwind driven,

Am I 'midst this parade: an atom, less than nought, [thought. Lost and 'o'erpower'd by the gigantic

And we are told by wisdom's knowing ones, That there are multitudes of worlds like this;

That yon unnumber'd lamps are glowing

suns,

And each a link amidst creation is :There dwells the Godhead too-there shines his wisdom's essence

His everlasting strength-his all-supporting presence.

Where are thy secret laws, O Nature, where?

Thy north-lights dazzle in the wintry

Zone :

How dost thou light from ice thy torches there?

There has thy sun some sacred, secret throne?

See in yon frozen seas what glories have their birth;

Thence night leads forth the day to illuminate the earth.

Come then, philosopher! whose privileged eye

Reads nature's hidden pages and decrees: Come now, and tell us whence, and where, and why,

Earth's icy regions glow with lights like these,

That fill our souls with awe :-profound inquirer, say,

For thou dost count the stars and trace the

planets' way.

What fills with dazzling beams the illumiu'd air?

What wakes the flames that light the firmament?

The lightnings flash;—there is no thunder there

And earth and heaven with fiery sheets

are blent:

The winter night now gleams with brighter, lovelier ray,

Than ever yet adorn'd the golden summer's day.

Is there some vast, some hidden magazine, Where the gross darkness flames of fire supplies?

Some phosphorus fabric, which the mountains screen,

Whose clouds of light above those moun

tains rise?

Where the winds rattle loud around the foaming sea,

And lift the waves to heaven in thundering revelry?

Thou knowest not! 'tis doubt, 'tis darkness all;

Even here on earth our thoughts benighted stray,

And all is mystery through this worldly ball.

Who then can reach or read yon milky way?

Creation's heights and depths are all unknown-untrod;

Who then shall say how vast, how great creation's God.

Trifles.

LINES INTENDED FOR A WATCH CASE. Onwards for ever moving,

These faithful hands are proving,

How quick the hours steal by;
This monitory, pulse-like beating,
Is constantly methinks repeating,

Swift, swift, the moments fly: Reader be ready, or, perchance, before These hands have made one revolution more, Life's spring is snapp'd,—you DIE!

On reading some "Lines to Mr. BARTLEY," on his Astronomical Lecture, by JOHN TAYLOR, Esq.

What Orator on Orreries soars higher Than GEORGE BARTLEY, who (excuse a pun)

With bold Promethean powers can draw down fire,

Extracted from a TAYLOR in the Sun!

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To JESSY. Lord Byron.

There is a mystic thread of life,

So dearly wreathed with mine alone, That destiny's relentless knife

At once must sever both or none. There is a Form on which these eyes

Have fondly gaz'd with such delight; By day that Form their joy supplies, And dreams restore it through the night.

There is a voice whose tones inspire

Such soften'd feelings in my breast,
I would not hear a seraph choir,
Unless that voice could join the rest.

There is a face whose blushes tell
Affection's tale upon the cheek;

But pallid at our fond farewell,
Proclaim'd more love than words could
speak.

There is a lip which mine has press'd,
But none have ever press'd before;
It vow'd to make me sweetly bless'd,
That none but mine should press it more.

There is a bosom all my own,

Has pillow'd oft my aching head; A mouth that smiles on me alone; An eye whose tears with mine are shed.

There are two hearts, whose movements thrill

In unison so closely sweet,
That pulse to pulse, responsive'still,

They both must heave, or cease to beat.

There are two souls, whose equal flow
In shining streams so gently run,
That when they part,-they part-ah! no,
They cannot part whose souls are one!

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THE TICKLER MAGAZINE.

THE FLOWERS. By Theophilus Swift, Esq. These violets to my fair I bring, The purple progeny of Spring; Nor thou, dear girl, the gift refuse, Love's earliest tribute to the Muse. Whate'er has beauty, worth, or power, Or grace, or lustre, is a flower: Wit is a flower; and Bards prepare The flowers of fancy for the fair. In flower of youth the loves appear, And lovelier blooms when thou art near, The flower of health. The dancing hours Earth's joyful bosom dress with flowers, And beauty's flow'ry fetters bind, In sweet captivity, the mind. With flowers the Graces Venus deck, And these adorn a fairer neck; That neck, whose Paradise to range, A flower I'd prove, and bless the change: One little hour I'd live, then die, A violet in that heav'n to lie. Of violets kisses first were made, And Venus swore they ne'er should fade; She swore, and by the oath she swore, The spell improv'd and charm'd the

more:

Purpling it rose, the fairest flower
That ever grac'd the poet's bower;
To Laura's lips in haste it flew,
And, blooming there, delights in you.
Still as you charm, some flower we trace,
Some blossom of the mind or face.
When graceful Laura leads the dance,
We cry, the flower of elegance!
Does fashion's wreath her brow adorn ;
We know the flower of taste is born:
As the soft hyacinth is seen,

The flower of breeding marks her mien.
Yon lily, symbol of her youth,
Blooms near her heart, the flower of
truth:

And well these violet buds express
Her beauty's spring of tenderness.
But not the brightest flowers of spring,
Whose odours charge the zephyr's wing,
Not all the vernal sweets that blow,
The violet's grace, the lily's snow,
Like thee in lustre can compare,
Or breathe so fresh, or bloom so fair;
For in thy bosom dwells a flower,
Not time shall taint, nor death devour;
A flower that no rude season fears,
And virtue is the name it bears.

THE LILLY OF THE VALLEY.

White bud, that in meek beauty so dost lean

Thy cloister'd cheek,as pale as moonlight

snow;

Thou seem'st, beneath thy huge high leaf of green,

An Eremite beneath his mountain's brow.

White bud! thou'rt emblem of a lovelier thing;

The broken Spirit, that its anguish bears To silent shades--and there sits, offering To Heaven the holy fragrance of it's

tears.

THE AZURE BELL. Howwhite,sweet love,is the hawthorn bush! And bright is the Azure Bell! And fragrant the breeze As it sighs o'er the leas; And the song of the thrush Trills sweet from the trees,

As we rove through coppice and dell.

Thou art fair, sweet love, as the hawthorn is white;

And thy voice is a musical spell!
And fragrant thy breath

As the bloom on the heath;
And thy eye so bright

In its silken sheath,

Is as blue as the Azure Bell.

We must part, sweet love, at this hawthorn

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'Tis not the loud, obstreperous grief,
That rudely clamours for relief;
"Tis not the querulous lament,
In which impatience seeks a vent;
"Tis not the soft pathetic style,
That aims our pity to beguile,
Which can to Truth's keen eye impart
The REAL SORROWS of the heart.
No! 'tis the tear, in secret shed

Upon the starving orphan's head;
The sigh, that will not be represt,
Breath'd on the faithful partner's breast!
The bursting heart, the imploring eye,
To heaven uprais'd in agony,
With starts of desultory prayer,
While hope is quenching in despair;

THE TICKLER MAGAZINE.

The throbbing forehead's burning pain, While frenzy's fiend usurps the brain. These are the traits no art can borrow, Of genuine suffering and sorrow!

THE FORSAKEN HEART. My heart is like a lovely lyre, Whose melody hath died away; The flame of a neglected fire,

Burning away.

And thou art like the careless fingers, Which tore those tuneless strings away; The gale which, as the last spark lingers, Wastes it away.

The world, the senseless world remembers,
The music which hath passed away:
Its tears have steeped the cold, cold
embers;

But thou art gay.

HAPPINESS.

Oh! Happiness, thou airy sprite,
Thou spirit of the wind,
Swift passeth thou on pinions bright,
A faded vision of delight,

Leaving no trace behind.

A mortal scarcely hears thee sing,
When hov'ring o'er his head;
He scarcely tastes the joys ye bring,
He cannot see thy noiseless wing,

'Till far away ye've fled.

A sparkle on the scenes long past,
Brilliant ye smiling threw,
And from your glowing tresses cast,
Ere high ye mounted on the blast,
A beam of orient hue.

Yet ever with sweet warblings wild,
Like the mermaids of the sea,
Fair nature's unsuspecting child,
Long by thy angel voice beguil'd,
Ye still lure after thee.

Alas! in vain-he ne'er will find
The grotto of thy rest;
He turns and sees thee far behind,
Whence warblings come upon the wind,
To tell he once was blest.

But, ah! in grief his tears fast flow,
Those scenes ne'er come again,
And wand'ring onward, he must go
Where no more beams of beauty glow,
To glad his path of pain.

Perchance, subdued by length of years, He lingers to rejoice,

As on the murm'ring breeze he hears A sound which still his bosom cheersIt is thy hymning voice.

He sees the fount thy grotto lave,
A moment ere be dies;
He sees thee in thy fairy cave,
To him thy hand of beauty wave,
Ere his Spirit seeks the skies.

And this is all man e'er shall see,
Of thy all-hallowed haunt;
His only joy is tracing thee,
Thro' various paths where'er ye flee,
Warbling thy guileful chaunt.

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H. D. B.

BY THE LATE Mrs. ROBINSON. THE beautiful poem which was published in the Annual Register, and entitled, by Mrs. Robinson, "Lines to him who will understand them," evidently seems to have been composed at no very distant period from the date of her separation from the Prince. As these lines breathe a pensive spirit of tenderness, affection, and regret, we shall offer no apology to our readers for presenting them with an extract from them in this place :

"Thou art no more my bosom friend;
Here must the sweet delusion end,
That charm'd my senses many a year,
Thro' smiling summers, winters drear.---
O, Friendship! am I doom'd to find,
Thou art a phantom of the mind?
A glitt'ring shade, an empty name,
An air-born vision's vap'rish flame?
And yet, the dear deceit so long
Has wak'd to joy my matin song,
Has bid my tears forget to flow,
Chas'd every pain, sooth'd every woe;
That truth, unwelcome to my ear,
Swells the deep sigh, recals the tear;
Gives to the sense the keenest smart,
Checks the warm pulses of the heart,
Darkens my fate, and steals away
Each gleam of joy through life's sad day.
Britain, farewell!+ I quit thy shore-
My native country charms no more.
No guide to mark the toilsome road,
No destin'd clime, no tix'd abode;

Now his Majesty George the Fourth. +Mrs. Robinson, at this period, was about to set out to the Continent for the recovery of her health.

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