Morning herald., 1837-10-07


On iife--and could crown the purity
or ySuh with TIE s bright ra{' OF Loves hrs spring.
Its pure heart filled with holy Innocence!
Where thou lied thou peace of early childhood,
That rocked me IN light dreams!
Here is an avowal Of love-hear it:
julius Hear me, andthen decide my fate
Love grew iq our young hear, hearts, a. grows % doHer
Till the fragrance breahed arosnd dsclosedit
Till first parting, mid its sad iarewels,
With voiceleSs eloquence, twined a band betweenus
For ever
To nd in soma Maiden
Ofpurity and beauty and thus prove
What most holy thing our life may be-
Christopher has written upon Animal Magnetism
which is making some sensation in London. The
point at which the French arrived, upon examining
into is as follows:
|. Magnetism has effects upon persons in a
sound state of health, upon some diseased per-
sons.
2. In others its effects slight
3. The effects are sometimes produced genuine, by
monotony, by imagination.
4. We have seen them developed Independently Of
these last causes probably as the effects of mag
neusm acne.
North quizzes it finally
We can afford no more space to Blackwood.
From Colburn's New Menthly, we can take only
one extract, an ode by Herrck, on the immortal
Ben Johnson.
III,
Say how or whea,
shall We thy guests
Meet at those great feass-
The st"6s DosH,he 2. .as 1SI Triple Tun-
Where we srch clusters lad
As made US nobly wld-not mad
And yet each verse OF thine
Outdid the meat-ou:-did the froick wine.
My Ben
Or send 10 Us
Thy wits great overplus;
But teach US yet
Wisely 10 husband IL,
Lest We that talent spend
And. having once brought TO an end
That precious stock, the store
OF such wit the world should have
In the Metropolitan there is nothing more beautiful
than the following ode to Liberty, by Richard How
EFT -
Among the highest mountains did meet
A lovely creature IN her native home;
farer than ~ nse, IN he ocean s AZ ioanL o :
While shonc her eyes with love benignly sweet;
One seemed she formed no, land and sea 70 rsam s
Whence is this blood" 1 cried, oh, being fair'"
"They that adore me- shed II for my sake"
Sadly she spoke and sighed, Nor is il rare
Yet Love ana Truth alone my temples make.
These the pillars, that no storm can shake
OF Liberty, that loves the mountain bare
We take the following quaint morsel from Fra
ser -
John Reeve Oh reader, dream the Mummy, who,
when taken with fit OF coffin balanced pewter pot and
The porter pot the top ons head Remember not Johns
balanced the r. o. p. and that barring Byron, Il was
Ashes to ashes-why not lead to lead"
But still remember John Reeve as he implored you,
when he was IN America
Place It's bounds twxt thee and me;
Remember me with fond emotion,
Th0ugh am not sick 0tsea'
(which mention OF sea sickness reminds me OF
the sehoomaser, who, feeling himself uncomforta-
be upon bis first voyage and not altogether forget
ting his COPY books, hiccupped over the side of the
vessel" They say Brlttana rules the wayes-l only
xyf4n lQtrxt tsvIf al her
as Hoods notion of tie Schoolmaster conIugatlng
himself TO death witha ruler, as thus Il dle-thou
diest-he dles'-as fnis c0r0aet opus TO the
"Peccbook or as the boys, wishing 10 be fogged
upon the Italian system Of penmanshp, with TIC hsd-
ry strokes upcdrds and ne dorm ones light. by the
way, it's rather satire both upon Hood and Bull
wer, that the mans name should have been Eugene,
and tnat on The laundress bringing his sheets home
"on Saturday night" his anxious wife should have
said TO him, Eugene air 'em, before you put em on
Awful burlcsque upon Eugene Aram, the murder
er!'
The Gentlcmans Magazine is full of choice mat.
ter The character of VIM. Cavendish, DR.. Prlestly
Scheele, the elder Pliny, Bacon and Newton. by Sir
Humphrey Davy most interest u.s. Speaking OF New
ton, he says,
"There are, undoubtedly, in science fortunate com
.bnations, there are happy times in which new in
ventions bsstow new powers, and which men are az
ii were compelled 10 follow easy path to glory
but for all this occasional interference of accident la
bor steady and uninterrupted labor and the virtue OF
continued attention. are the essences Of noble and
happy discoveries and whoever possesses these envi-
able habits Of mind has the chief and most certain
elements of success In the study Of nature, there
con be no exertion thrown away.
When Newten was asked by DR.. Pemberton to
what he ewed his great discoveries, he said to his
habitua and patient attention. And the same great
man. in aconversation in his latter years upon the
progress ofdscovery having asked what was doing
at Cambridge, and being answered by DIR. Barrow,
that there was nothing doing, that he had occupied
all the ground ocosey said, " Beat the bushes, and
there is still plenty ofgame to be raised" Original pro-
fundy OF genius talents for absrac'ed research and
vigorous constitution ofmind, combined with sagacty
and acueness, are undoubtedly associated with the
powers by which lofty truths are attained and they
belonged in the highest degree to the author Of the
Pnucipa and the Optics; but these alone though es
sentia TO the development Of his abilities would have
accomplished nothing without the faculty of contn-
ued exerton, which indsced him TO pass succes sve
days and Hights in contemplation, inatenive to the
wants Of the body; which enabled him TO obtain that
sublime state OF intellect in which all sensible objects
are excluded, and in which the mind was nourished
by its own thoughts concerning tre laws O. the hea-
vens and the Garth made the subjects of active med
fatson.