traits, that by a glimpse, however slight and fleeting, could not but make a favourable impression, and now elaborate a more finished portrait, reflected in the mirror of memory, which distance renders more distinct and faithful, and in the words of Salvator Rosa, may add,

Dica poi quanto sa rancor severo,
Contra le sue saette ho doppio usbergo,
Non conosio interesse, e son' sincero,

SONNET

ON SHELLEY.

FROM THE GERMAN OF HERWEGH.

WITH agony of thought, intensely striving
To work out God, his God was doubly dear:
A faith more firm had never poet here,
A brighter pledge of bliss immortal giving:
With all his pulses throbbing for his kind,

Hope steered his course thro' the world's stormy wave If anger moved, but ruffled his calm mind,

A hatred of the tyrant and the slave.

In form of man a subtle elfin sprite

From Nature's altar pure a hallowed fire

A mark for every canting hypocrite

Yearning for Heaven with all his soul's desireCursed by his father-a fond wife's delight

Starlike in a wild ocean to expire!

THE AUTHOR.

WRITTEN UNDER DRYDEN'S EPIGRAM :

"Three poets in three different ages born."

Stars of a later age, two poets shine,
And with a radiance scarcely less divine:
This waged with human systems deathless strife,
War with himself consumed the other's life:
One died for Greece, her freedom both had sung,
And perished, as the great should perish, young.

THE AUTHOR.

FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO.

Thou wert a morning-star among the living,
Ere thy fair light was fled;

Now having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving
New splendour to the dead.

SHELLEY.

Tu vivens, vivis, fers lucem, ut stella diei,
Ast nunc, heu! moriens, Hesperus, Aster eris.
THE AUTHOR.

THE LIFE

OF

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

SUSSEX boasts of two great poets, Collins and Otway it may pride itself on a third and a greater. Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Field Place, on the 4th of August, 1792. His sirname of Percy being derived from an aunt, who was distantly connected with the Northumberland family, and that of Bysshe from the heiress of Fen Place, through whom that portion of the estate was derived.

The family of Shelly, Shellie, or Shelley, as the name has been spelt at different epochs, is of great antiquity in the above county, and is descended from Sir William, Lord of Affendary,