Discipline

_With justice, therefore, you may cut me off, And from your memory wash the remembrance That e'er I was; like to some vicious purpose, Which in your better judgment you repent o...

_--There we Solicit pleasure, hopeless of success; Waste youth in occupations only fit For second childhood; and devote old age To sports which only childhood could excuse. Ther...

_Shift not thy colour at the sound of death! For death---- Seems not a blank to me; a loss of all Those fond sensations,--those enchanting dreams, Which cheat a toiling world fr...

Cecil's tale, which included all the evening festivities,--the ball,--the throwing of the stocking, and the libation of whisky, which was dashed over the married pair, detained...

_Hail awful scenes that calm the troubled breast, And woo the weary to profound repose; Can passion's wildest uproar lay to rest, And whisper comfort to the man of woes! Here In...

_For he has wings which neither sickness, pain, Nor penury can cripple or confine. No nook so narrow, but he spreads them there With ease, and is at large. The oppressor holds H...

_----Fruit----some harsh, 'tis true, Pick'd from the thorns and briars of reproof; But wholesome, well-digested; grateful some To palates that can taste immortal truth; Insipid...

_It is too late. The life of all_ her _blood Is touched corruptibly; and_ her _poor brain (Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling-house) Doth, by the idle comments which i...

Though I was no longer of a temper to reject the means of comfort which still remained within my reach, or scornfully to repulse the mercies both of God and man, I had accepted...

The next morning, on entering the breakfast-parlour, the first object which met my eye was Miss Mortimer, in a travelling dress. Notwithstanding our conversation on the precedin...

_His years are young, but his experience old. His head unmellowed,--but his judgment ripe. And, in a word, (for far behind his worth, Come all the praises that I now bestow,) He...

_Lamented goodness!--Yet I see The fond affection melting in her eye. She bends its tearful orb on me, And heaves the tender sigh; As thoughtful she the toils surveys, That crow...

_----And yet I breathed! But not the breath of human life! A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife. Alike all time! Abhorred all place! Shudd...

_A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid._ * * * * * _And seldom o'er a breast so fair Mantled a plaid with modest care; And never brooch the folds confined Above a heart more go...

_Lend me thy clarion, goddess! Let me try To sound the praise of merit ere it dies; Such as I oft have chanced to espy, Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity._

_In a dull stream, which moving slow, You hardly see the current flow, When a small breeze obstructs the course, It whirls about for want of force; And in its narrow circle, gat...

Though I resisted all idea of returning, even for an hour, to the control of Mrs Boswell, it was thought necessary, since I had been confined upon her authority and at her expen...

By some untoward fate, the government of husbands generally falls into the hands of those who are not likely to bring the art into repute. Women of principle refuse the forbidde...

_'Her reputation?' That was like her wit, And seemed her manner and her state to fit. Something there was--what, none presumed to say, Clouds lightly passing on a smiling day; W...

_----Every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And even those hills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. D...

_Here have I found at last a home of peace, To hide me from the world! far from its noise, To feed that spirit which, though---- ----linked to human beings by the bond Of earthl...

I have heard it remarked, that he who writes his own history ought to possess Irish humour, Scotch prudence, and English sincerity;--the first, that his work may be read; the se...

_--You squander freely, But have you wherewithal? Have you the fund For these outgoings? If you have, go on; If you have not--stop in good time, before You outrun honesty._

_Here eloquence herself might plead in vain, Nor one of all the heartless crowd could gain. And thou! O sweeter than the muse's song, Affection's voice divine! with cold disdain...

As soon as Miss Arnold and I were alone, she renewed the subject of the masked ball. 'Well, Ellen!' cried she, 'I protest, I never was so much astonished as at your simplicity i...

_He had the skill, when cunning's gaze would seek To probe his heart, and watch his changing cheek, At once the observer's purpose to espy, And on himself roll back his scrutiny._

_Next in the daunce followit invy, Fild full of feid and fellony, Hid malice and dispyte. For pryvie haterit that traitour trymlit; Him followit mony freik dissymlit, With fenye...

_Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While, proudly riding o'er the azure realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm...

For some hours I was inconsolable; but at length tired nature befriended me, and I wept myself to sleep. The next morning, before I was sufficiently awake for recollection, I ag...

_----She hath ta'en farewell.---- Upon her hearth the fire is dead, The smoke in air hath vanished. The last long lingering look is given; The shuddering start! the inward groan...