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J's bloody march fhall never foil a flow’r 
That hangs its fweet head in the morning 
dew 
Of thy green village banks ! 
TER'D HOSTS, _ 
SHALL BE ROLL’D BACK IN THOUSANDS, 
AND THE SURGE 
Bury trem !——Then, when peage illumes 
once more, 
Thy country, thy green nooks, and inmoft 
vales, 
It will be fweet, amidft the foreft-glens, 
To ftray and think upon the diftant ftorm, 
That howl’d, but injur’d not.” 
His Mwvs- 
Mr. SIBBaLD’s “ Chronicle of Scotti/b 
Poetry, from ihe Thivteenth Century to the 
Union of the Crowas,” 1s a work of fin- 
gularcuriofity. ‘Thefe fragments of an- 
tiquity, he juftly obferves, ‘‘ we value 
as fo many data for the philofophy of 
the human mind ; as falient points from 
whence the curious and inquifitive may 
trace a gradual progreflion from rude- 
nefs to refinement, and mark the na- 
tional charafter in its feveral ftages, 
from its firft dawn of illumination, dif- 
covered in effays of fiétion and imagina- 
tion, ‘to its meredian altitude, crowned 
with the claffical-works of hiftory and 
judgment.” The gloflary is remarka- 
bly copious : indeed it may be rather 
confidered as a general gloflary of the 
language than a particular one of the 
poetry contained in thefe volumes, 
The “ Nuga Poetwz” of Dr. SAYERs, 
difplay the learning, tafte and wit of 
that fine {chelar and accomplithed gen- 
tleman. Dr, Sayers has Jately pub- 
lifhed a new edition of his ** Poems.’” 
To the fixth edition of his ‘¢ Infancy, 
er the Management of Children,’ Dr. 
DownmMawn has added fome Poems, ne- 
ver before publithed. 
“<< The Works of the Englifh 
With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 
by SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. Re-edited, 
suith new Biographical and Critical Mat- 
ter, by J. Atkin, M.D.” 
Dr. Johnion’s Edition of the Poets 
was publifhed by the bookfellers. Some 
few authors are admitted whofe merits 
fcarcely entitled them to a niche in the 
temple of the Mufes, and others are ex- 
cluded of much lefs queftionable pre- 
tenlions. The criticiims of Dr. John- 
fon, with all their brilliant merits, are 
not to be implicitiy relied on; his -pre- 
judices were ttrong, hisreligiongloamy, 
and his politics violent ; nor was he en- 
dued with that delicacy of feeling which 
makes us fenfible to every minor beauty 
or defett. The highly polithed pebble 
@nly can exhibit on its furface the foft, 
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Poets. 
hair-line touches of the artift. It is 
with great fatisfaétion, then, that we 
find this re-publication in the hands ef 
fo vigilant, correct, and elegant a critic 
as Dr. Aikin. The Prefaces of Dr. 
Johnfon are, of courfe, to be retained 
without alteration; but Dr. Aikin will 
add, in a feparate form, his own re~ 
marks; fupplying deficiencies and cor- 
recting inaccuracies. Many poets will 
be added to this national {crell which 
Johnfon omitted; and fomeerafed froma 
it which feemed unentitled to the ho- 
nour. Dr. Aikin has begun with Spen- 
fer, whofe biography is written with 
much neatnefs, and whofe charaéter as 
a poet is criticifed with ingenuity and © 
fairne(s. 
Mr. CAMBRIDGE has publifhed the 
< Works” of his father, RicHaRD OWEN 
CAMBRIDGE, _Efg. with an Account of 
his Lifeand Chara&ter. The biography 
is interefting, and does credit to the 
editor as a fon and an auther. Mr. 
Cambridge’s works have many of thems 
been printed before; his Scribleriad is 
the moft confiderable of his poetical, 
and his Hiftory of the War of Coroman- : 
del the moft extenfive of his profe, 
productions. 
The Powers of Imagination” is a 
poem, written by Mifé Seymour at the 
age of fixteen! The work certainly 
excites our aftonifhment, and every at- 
lowance will be made in confideration 
of the youth of the fair author. 
<<‘ The Poet's Day; or, Imagination’s 
Ramble, Ge.’ 
This fmall volume has much merit : 
the author has ftudied Thompfon, 
‘Young, and Cowper, with confidera- 
ble advantage. 
Mrs. SEWELL’s ** Poems’ are elegant 
and interefting. This accomplifhed la- 
dy is the widow of a clergyman, and 
an extenfive fale of this little volume is’ 
defirable on more accounts than one. 
“* Poems, by PETER BayLeY, Faz. 
They difplay confiderable powers of 
fancy and {cope of expreffion, but want 
the labour of the file. 
We have not room to enumerate the 
great number of patriotic poems which 
with infinite pleafure we have feen 
pouring from the pref$ on this important 
crifis of national affairs. We mu 
proceed, therefore, to 
NOVELS AND ROMANCES. 
“¢ The Tourification of MALACHI MEL- 
pruM, E/g. of Meldrum Hall, by Dr. 
RoBERT COUPER.” 
We know not how to charafterize 
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