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THE

Gentleman's Magazine:

AND

Historical Chronicle.

From JANUARY to JUNE, 1818.

VOLUME LXXXVIII.

(BEING THE TENTH OF A NEW SERIES.)

PART THE FIRST.

PRODESSE ET DELECTARE.

E PLURIBUS UNUM.

By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent.

LONDON: Printed by NICHOLS, SON, and BENTLEY,
at Cicero's Head, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street;
where LETTERS are particularly requested to be sent, POST-PAID.
And sold by J. HARRIS (Successor to Mrs. NEWBERY),
at the Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, Ludgate Street;
and by PERTHES and BESSER, Hamburgh. 1818.

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ONCE more the gentle airs of Spring The promise of fresh pleasure bring : Once more the minstrel of the grove Attunes new sonnets to his love:

Once more the fleret almost peeps
From moss which to the white-frost weeps.

And soon, to Flora's breath serene, That moss shall wear a softer green.

Ah! while such warblings wake the year,
Shall Marianne refuse to hear?
Amid such choral symphony
Is Marianne still deaf to me?
Ah, must I mourn (tho' every glade
Still bloom, in former hues array'd,
Tho' every lawn in floral gold
Again shall glow)-my true-love cold?-

Musœus.

Bur yester-morn was half-conceal'd
A timid violet from my sight,
The rosemary's pale shade had veil'd
Its glimmering leaves, its virgin white.

I stoop'd to taste the breathing spring,
So gentle in the recent flower,
And welcome the sweet tints that bring
The promise of a softer hour.
Some moments past, I hied to view
The little traits of yesterday:
But gone was all the illusive hue;-
The very leaves were shrunk away.

And is that violet's glance so coy,
Which fled, as if afraid of me,-
Say, is it like a dream of joy

That paints the air, but ne'er shall be ?

If I have hail'd thy vernal pride,

Say, is thy bower the rosemarine, That veils the blush thy scorn would hide, The blush I fondly fancied mine?

Musaus.

Musœus.

LIST OF PLATES.

Bradford Abbas Church, Dorset, 401.
Caerdiff Church, 9.

Dorchester Old Bridge, Oxon, 104.
Dublin, Tenter-house in, 113.
Earl's Shilton Church, co. Leic. 305.
Egham Church, Surrey, 577.

Harnham Bridge, Chapel, &c. at, 393.

Hatfield, co. Hertford, view of, 297.
Luther, Portrait of, 209.

Norton Church, co. Derby, 497.
Quatford Church, Salop, 17.
Salisbury, Poultry Cross at, 393.
Sherborne, New Inn at, 201.
Tewkesbury, Antient Building at, 489.

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PREFACE

TO THE

FIRST PART OF THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH VOLUME.

0 N the conclusion of each succeeding Volume, it has been customary to present to our Readers the most heartfelt thanks for their long and unabated patronage of our labours-and to assure them of our constant adherence to the genuine principles of the English Constitution, as established by Magna Charta, confirmed by the glorious Revolution, and strengthened and perpetuated by the mild Government of the illustrious House of BRUNSWICK. - To these principles we have uniformly and steadily adhered; nor, thanks to a beneficent Providence, have the principles themselves lost any thing of their value. They have been assailed with great violence; they have been confronted with unheard-of novelties; they have been branded with standing in the way of all those Utopian schemes of improvement with which the Publick has of late been nauseated. But we may venture to assert, that they have entered into the mind of no man among us by the avenues of considerrate examination and conviction, who has wavered in his attachment to them. They are the only principles recognized by our happy Constitution; under the shadow of which the Nation has so long reposed in safety, and flourished in character and dignity; they are those of the soundest and best Statesmen who have graced our councils, and who have left to us the fruit of their wisdom, their firmness, and their labours. These were the principles which opposed an effectual bar to the Revolutionary spirit of 1792, which kept up the spirit of resistance to Buonaparte through a long contest, and at length liberated Europe; and which, after having conducted us to a Peace which secures our glory and our greatness together, are, by their influ

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