They near'd; each vessel burden'd with its group Of savage warriors at the shielded poop; Tall fire-eyed men, like the Athlete we Feed for the Arena's sportive butchery:
And still they swarm'd, and anchor'd, and outpour'd On wailing shores that devastating Horde! And a red haze swept o'er the groaning hills, And every sound and sight, whose horror thrills Perception, seem'd, by Hell's own black decision, Roll'd on my soul in one chaotic vision!
Jove! what a blinding scroll was there unfurl'd, The last wild throes of my own Roman World! The ravaged Province-slaughter'd people-Fanes Blazing and tumbling on the famish'd plains;
Even Rome, the god-built, belted round with war
And lo! the worse than Gauls burst through her every bar! And, 'mid the Plague's rank steam, mad Famine's roar, And woman ravish'd and man's rushing gore,
The savage feasted in our palace halls
Aye, by the jasper founts, whose lulling falls Bless my Velitrian villa with their rain,* Beneath its shadows of luxuriant plane
Grim Scythia styed and quaff'd each priceless cup The Scipios' suppliant children proffer'd up!- It was too much—a whirling in my brain— A snapping of each hot distended vein- And then oblivion-and that hour of fear Was o'er-and thou, dull prophet, thou art here! Aye, I remember all-while I have spoken, Back on my sense reality has broken.
I have but dream'd-and yonder guarded shades Shroud in 'mid Rome those glittering colonnades: And I am safe-have called thee, crafty Greek, To read the purport of my vision-speak!"
Slowly that bow'd and listening sage arose, And, though a century's consecrating snows Had whiten'd o'er his head, he stood as tall In the rich shadows of that sinful hall, And with as dauntless look, as he who read The words Jehovah the Avenger traced Before Belshazzar, in the hour the Mede Burst in red valour on that godless feast.
"Caïus!" thus calmly spoke the prescience-gifted, In accents solemn as sepulchral breeze
Through some lone cypress, while his hands uplifted Seem'd to attest immortal witnesses:-
"Caïus! my words are few; but, though the gloom Enwraps me of inexorable doom;
Though to my searching eye thy stern intent, Fang'd with all tortures tyrants can invent, Is not unknown, as I have yet conceal'd
No truth thy wilful race would see reveal'd;
The Imperial Villa at Velitræ was his favourite retreat. It was celebrated for its gigantic plane-trees; one of which was capable of containing in its branches a large table, with the Emperor, attendants, &c.-PLINY.
So do I now unshrinkingly to thee
Pronounce my last and parting prophecy :-
SIN STALKS THE LEP'ROUS EARTH FROM SHORE TO SHORE, HER BUBBLING CHALICE WILL CONTAIN NO MORE ;
THE SHUDDERING GODS YIELD their derided power
To THE GREAT ANGEL OF THE COMING HOUR ;
SOME ONE ALMIGHTY, THAT FROM COUNTLESS ELD HIS FACE IN CLOUDLESS DARKNESS HAS WITHHELD ;
HIS WRATH SHALL SWEEP THE NATIONS, AND THE SEA
BE THE STERN SERVANT OF THAT MINISTRY!*
IN BLOOD SHALL SINK EACH CAESAR'S BLOOD-STAIN'D FORM-
YE SOW'D THE WHIRLWIND-GO REAP THE STORM!
* The first serious irruption of the barbarians took place by sea. They descended the Ister to the Euxine, and pouring through the Hellespont, inundated the coasts of Greece, Africa, and Italy.
Adolphus, John, Esq., his memoir of John Bannister, comedian, reviewed, 392. Eschylus, his Eumenides, translated by Mr Chapman, 695.
Afghanistan, India, and Persia, 93.- Alcove, Christopher, in his, 538. Alderley, the Iron Gate, a legend of, 271. Ancient Scottish Music, the Skene MS., an account of, 1.
Angelo, Michael, remarks on the peculiari- ties of thought and style in his picture of the last judgment, 267. Assassins and Bull Fights, 656. Australia, Major Mitchell's, expeditions into that country, reviewed, 113. Aytoun, William E., his translation into English Trochaics, of the twenty-second book of the Iliad, 634.
Christopher in his Alcove, 538, Client, my first, 733.
Consciousness, Introduction to the Phi- losophy of, Part VI., Chap. I., 201— Chap. II., 205-Part VII., The Con- clusion, Chap. I., 419-Chap. II., 424 -Chap. III., 426.
Corn-law question, dilemmas in regard to it stated, 170.
Cornwall, Barry, his edition of Ben Jonson, reviewed, 146.
Dauney, Mr, his edition of the Skene MS. of Ancient Scottish Music, reviewed, 3. Desultory dottings down upon Dogs, 475. Dii Minorum Gentium, No. I., Carew and Herrick, 782.
Dilemmas on the corn-law question, 170. Dogs, desultory dottings down upon, 475. Domett, Alfred, his poem from Lake Wal- lenstadt in Switzerland, entitled Kate, 301.
Education, religious and secular, 275. Egypt the Trojan horse-Homer, 366. Elections, France and her, 431. English language, the, 455.
Family, Prospectus of a history of our, 669.
Farewell to England, by Louis de Chemi- nant, 586.
France and her elections, 431-the defeat of Louis Philippe would be the defeat of the French monarchy, ib.- -a rapid review of the events of the last nine years taken, ib. fickleness is the characteristic, and no reliance can be placed in French assur-
ances and conduct, 436-What are the reasons of this fickleness? First, moral, 487-second, political, 438-the French have always prepared themselves most for revolution when most prosperous, ib.- their situation now is precisely similar to that in 1830, 439-the coalition now formed is against monarchy, proved—first, by the address of the 221 deputies in 1830, 440-by the alteration, made in 1830, of the charter of 1814, 441-by the restraints imposed on royalty at, and since 1830, 442-by the complaints made by the coalition against Louis-Philippe in 1839, 443-of his wishing to form a part of the European family of sovereigns, ib.-- of maintaining peace, ib.-of wishing to establish an absolute monarchy, 443—of wishing to perpetuate a line of policy fatal_ to the liberties of the country, 445-the coalition have adopted the same cant phrases as the English Radicals in regard to elec- toral reform, 477-the elections of 1839 the most momentous that ever occurred in France, 452-its evil consequences de- scribed, 453-all parties seemed to have combined for the purpose of attacking Louis Philippe, and, through him, the throne, 454.
Gardiner, William, his work of Music and Friends, or Pleasant Recollections of a dilettanti, reviewed, 480. German, the life of a speculative, 837 Gods, hymns to the, No. I. To Neptune, 819-No. II. to Apollo, 820—No. III. to Venus, 822-No. IV. to Diana, 824 -No. V. to Mercury, 825-No. VI. to Bacchus, 826.
Goethe and the Germans, a discourse on them, 247.
Hallowed Ground, a poem by George Paulin, parish schoolmaster of Newlands, Part I., 595- Part II. 598. Herrick's poetry, characterised, 791. Homer-Egypt-the Trojan horse, 366. flouse on the Hills, the, a tale in verse, 654.
Hymns to the Gods. No I. To Neptune, 819-No. II. to Apollo, 820-No. III. to Venus, 822-No. IV. to Diana, 824 No. V. to Mercury, 825-No. VI. to Bacchus, 826.
Iliad, the twenty-second book of it translated into English Trochaics, by William E. Aytoun, 634.
India, Persia, and Afghanistan, 93. Ireland under the Triple Alliance-the po- pular party, the Roman Catholic priests, and the Queen's Ministers, 212 — the agrarian calendar of crimes furnished by this alliance is, 1st, Enforcement, &c., of the rights of property, 214-landlords,
ib.-agents, 218-bailiffs, 219-tenants, 220-Unpopular exercise of elective fran- chise, 222-evidence, ib.-jury, obnox- ious verdict, 223-Protestantism, 224- refusal to enter secret societies, 227- 2d, proofs of agrarian crimes continued, Baron Richard's charge, 341-elective franchise, 345-evidence in court of law, ib.-obligations of a juror, 346-the crime of Protestantism, or, conversion from Rome, 347-the landlord crime, 348 -elective franchise, ib.-evidence, ib.- jury, 359- Protestantism, 350-Rib- bonism, 352.
Iron gate, the, a legend of Alderley, 271. Italy as it was, 62.
Kate, a poem, from Lake Wallenstadt in Switzerland, 301.
Lamartine, Alphonse de, his life and literary character, characterised, 76. Legend of the Lido, the, 755. Legendary Lore, by Archæus, No. V., The Onyx Ring. Part III., Chap. I. 17- Chap. II., 20-Chap. III., 23-Chap. IV., 26-Chap. V., 27-Chap. VI., 30 Chap. VII., 35- Chap. VIII., 36— Chap. IX., 38- Chap. X., 40-Chap. XI., 43-Chap. XII., 46. Lido, the Legend of the, 755.
Manchester, a week at, 481.
Mathews, the comedian, his memoirs by Mrs Mathews, reviewed, 229.
Mérimée on oil painting, reviewed, 747. Mildmay, A. Murray, his letter to Chris-
topher North, Esq., on Scotch nationality, 643.
Milne's, R. M., on the Goddess Venus in the middle ages, 613.
Mitchell, Major, his second and third ex- pedition into the interior of Eastern Australia, reviewed, 113,
Moral songs and poems, on the earlier English, 303.
Music and friends, or Pleasant recollections of a Dilettanti, by William Gardiner, re- viewed, 480.
My after-dinner adventures with Peter Schlemihl, 467. My first client, 733.
Nationality, on Scotch, in a letter to Chris-
topher North, Esq., 643.
Notes of a traveller-leaving London, 682 -Dover, the reveillé, 683-Dover, the detenu, 685-concerning parrots, and our parrot, ib.-cheap French dinners, 687-wet weather in Paris, 689—a dog-day in a diligence, 691-souvenirs of Baden, 693.
Old Roger, a poem, 106.
Our pocket-companions, 130-descriptive poetry, No. I. Dyer's poems, 573- Chambers,
Oyster-Eater, some account of himself by the Irish, 47, 177, 358, 463, 618, 761.
Painting, oil, Mérimée on, 747.
Paulin, George, parish.schoolmaster, New- lands, his poem of Hallowed Ground, 598. Persia, Afghanistan, and India, the reason- ings on the attempt of Russia to gain our Indian territories, as being Quixotic, some years ago, are now inapplicable, 93- the position and influence of Russia now, on the borders of Europe and Asia, have been vastly increased within these few years, ib. the geographical obstacles to the march of Russian troops to India examined, and proved to be not insur- mountable, 95-the siege of Herat un- dertaken by the Persians through Rus- sian influence, 96-its avowed object the reunion of Khorassan to Persia, 97-a historical sketch of the fall of the dynasty of the Afghans, who occupy the mountain country between Persia and India, given, 98-the re-establishment of that dynasty the object of the movement of our troops in India, 99-but it is questionable whe- ther the same object of defending our Indian frontiers, may not have been attained by an alliance with Dost Mahommed of Cabul, ib.-the difficulty of reviving a a fallen dynasty, shown, 100-difficulties pointed out in dealing with the claim of Kamran, 101-our advance into Cabul will also place us in a new position with the Seiks of the Punjab, 102-whatever may be the fate of the Punjab, the shock of war will fall on its soil rather than on our Indian possessions, 103-this deter- mination has been wisely acted on, for in case of a foreign armed power advancing beyond the Indus, many tribes would, it is feared, join them against us, as for instance the warlike tribes of the Raj- pootana, 104-in short, the first footing of a foreign power in India, would be the signal for a general rising and arming for plunder, ib.-on the success of the Cabul expedition will depend the main- tenance of peace on the frontier of Nepaul, 105-Lord Auckland not equal to his critical situation, ib.
Peru as it is; a residence in Lima, &c., by Archibald Smith, M.D., reviewed, 287. Photography, engraving, and Burnet's cartoons, 382.
Picture Gallery, the, No. VI. 319, the week of pleasure, a tale, Chap. 1. 321- Chap. II. 325-Chap. III. 327-Chap. IV. 331-Chap. V. 333-Chap. VI. 338--No. VII. 688, Castle-building, or the modern Alnaschar, 590.
Pike, Albert, of Arkansas, his hymns to the gods, 819.
Poems and moral songs, on the earlier Eng- lish, 303.
Poetical description, what is it? 529. Poetry, our Descriptive, No. I., Dyer's poems, 673.
Political events, the late, the momentous importance of them to the character of all parties in the state, 715-the facts in connexion with them truly stated, ib. -extract given of Sir Robert Peel's letter to the Queen, in which he traces the steps of his negotiations to form a new ministry, 717-as admitted by the Melbourne ministry, their relinquish- ment of power was occasioned by the withdrawal of confidence from them in House of Commons; and their resump- tion of it was in consequence of the changes contemplated in the ladies of the household, 718-the clamours and un- truths of the Liberal press, condemned, 719-extract of Sir Robert Peel's speech in the House, given, wherein the diffi- culties attending his government, whilst the nearest connexions of the late minis- try were retained in the household, are fully and satisfactorily explained, ib.— the reflections which these events gave rise to are, that no deviation from that respect and devotion due to the sovereign was attempted by the Conservatives on this trying occasion, 722-the conduct of Sir Robert Peel considered and vindi- cated, ib.-the grave allegation brought against him of the desire to remove all the ladies of the household, contra- dicted by Sir Robert Peel's own decla- ration, 725-by the probabilities of the case, ib.-by the whole conduct of the parties, ib.-and by the letter of the Queen, who only refers to the ladies of the bedchamber, ib.-the conduct of the Melbourne cabinet in this business se- verely condemned; because, after de- claring themselves defunct, and making way for a new ministry, they threw in- surmountable obstacles in the way, by advising her Majesty to make unreason- able demands, in regard to the house- hold, 726-because, while they retired themselves, their wives and daughters were to retain their places as channels of in- trigue, ib.-because they have endea- voured to fasten upon Sir Robert Peel the charge of usurpation, 727-the pro- ceedings of their inferior colleagues, in this particular, exposed and condemned, ib.-because they left office in conse- quence of the withdrawal of the confidence of the House of Commons, and resumed it when no change towards them in that respect could have taken place, 728- the position of the ministry is now despi-
cable and ludicrous, ib.-there is no doubt of the ultimate triumph of Conservative principles, ib.-speech of the Duke of Wellington in the Lords, on the subject, quoted, 729.
Prospectus of a history of our family, 669. Punch, reflections on him, 190.
Raphael, on his genius, 809.
Reflections on Punch, morals, and manners, 190.
Religious and Secular education, 275. Kosenthal, Emily von, how she was spirited away, Chap. I. 490-Chap. II. 492- Chap. III. 494-Chap. IV. 496.
Schlemihl, Peter, my after-dinner adven- tures with him, 467.
Secular and religious education, intention of the government condemned, to introduce secular education detached from religious instruction, 275-the display of bene- volence for the promotion of education, to be rejoiced at, ib.-the conservatives perceive that the cry for secular education alone is to put a dangerous weapon into the hands of the destructives, ib.-the Liberal party are not insensible to the danger, but are unwilling to admit it in its full extent, 276-intellectual pur. suits, no antidote to the mass of the people against political and sensual degra- dation, ib.-the only power capable of contending against sin is religion, ib.- the examples of despotic states no rule by which this country can be guided, ib. -from the earliest times, the influence of education has been unable to present national degradation, ib.-France given as an example, 277 Scotland always held up as an example of an educated people, ib.-but there crimes of the deep- est dye have rapidly increased of late years, ib.-Moreau's tables quoted to show that a great amount of offenders are found amongst those who can both read and write, than those who can do neither, 278 Toqueville's representa- tion of American crime are to the same effect, 279-this does not arise from any deficiency of intellect amongst the lower classes, 280-but mere knowledge is per- nicious without a corresponding formation of character, ib. - hence the erroneous theory of those who hold that secular edu- cation would raise the taste of the lower orders, 281-the kind of books generally found in the libraries of the working orders, given to prove the fallacy of the theory, 282-the truth is, we have fallen on a superficial generation, ib.-in a political point of view, the spread of this secular knowledge is attended with the greatest danger, 283-it is no use arguing that the danger apprehended arises not
from education but from imperfect educa- tion, because working people have not time to attain a perfect system of educa- tion, 284-it is a fact that most of the prostitutes of Paris come from the best educated northern provinces, ib.-that education based on religion should produce a better result than without it, is evident, 285-it is also evident that secular liberty is more enticing than the restraints of re- ligion, 286-the union of both would be a blessed consummation, ib. Skene MS., the, an account of, 1. Sketcher, sonnets by the, 651. Smith, Dr Achibald, his residence in Lima, &c., Peru as it is, reviewed, 287. Some account of himself, by the Irish Oyster
Eater. Fasciculus the first, 47-Fasci- culus the second, 52- Fasciculus the third, 58-Fasciculus the fourth, 177- Fasciculus the fifth, 182-Fasciculus the sixth, 186-Fasciculus the seventh, 358 -Fasciculus the eighth, 360-Fasciculus the ninth, 463-Fasciculus the tenth, 471-Fasciculus the eleventh, 618-Fas- ciculus the twelfth, 628-Fasciculus the thirteenth, 761-Fasciculus the four- teenth, 771-Fasciculus the fifteenth and last, 776.
Song, translation of a cantilena, 537. Sonnets, by Washington Browne, of New
York. 300-a sonnet, 617-sonnets by the Sketcher, 651.
Talbot, H. Fox, his letter to the Literary
Gazette, with reference to the new disco- very of photography, quoted, 385. Taylor, W. B. S., his translation from the French of Mérimée on oil-painting, re- viewed, 747.
Traveller, notes of a, 682. Trojan horse-Homer-Egypt, 366.
Venus, the goddess, in the middle ages, by R. M. Milnes, 603.
Vision of Caligula, by B. Simmons, 849.
Week of pleasure, the, 321-one at Man- chester, 481.
What is poetical description? 529. Whig decline and degradation, 795-re-
markable coincidences between the affairs of France from 1789 to 1793, and those of Britain from 1832, the passing of the Reform Bill, to 1839, pointed out, ib. the enthusiastic feelings in regard to the Reform Bill at its passing, described, 796 -where are all those transports now? ib. -among the innumerable evils which that bill has brought upon the empire, that of exciting unreasonable and extra- vagant expectations of its benefits, is per- haps the greatest, 797-this excitement was maintained entirely by " enormous lying," ib.-the Whigs have been caught
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