Then may we be found when the day is revealing, TO HIM, who hath watched o'er our sleep as we lay." If his imagination do not take any very lofty flights, yet he is not destitute of fancy, as too many rhymsters have been. Greater names have been subjoined to worse verses than the following: "In this remote sequester'd bower, While harshly from yon Cloister's tower For true devotion-it is here. Here will I bend, while Day's bright beam And night-dews deck the verdant ground, There's not a sound can now be heard, O'er pine-clad hill, and moon-light glade, Seems in a death-like slumber laid. sea, Life's sea to regions of the blest, VOL. I. PART I. R The aim of the author is praiseworthy throughout, and the moral and religious tendency of his volume unexceptionable; and it may be read by a father to his family, with pleasure and profit. From the miscellaneous pieces which close the book, we present our readers with the following. It affords a fair specimen of the author's style and manner. "When shall we three meet again? — Shall be mine, Ere we three shall meet again. To wake it from its depths of sadness. We wish the few brief remarks we have made on the above themes, may have the effect of inducing some genius, eminently qualified, to strike the sacred harp; and we are sure its chords would not be swept in vain. We will not-we cannot believe that there is not in religion an ample field for poetry, and that too of the highest order. Never let it be called a barren or unpoetical theme, while there are presented to it the highest glories of Omnipotence; the noblest attributes of Deity; the boundless theme of eternity; the chief aim and end of creation; and the only finally important interests of man: interests that will survive, when this globe, which we now imprint with our wandering feet, shall have dissolved, and left "Not a wreck behind." 243 LITERARY NOTICES. BIBLIOTHECA Biblica. 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It is impossible to meet such an assembly as this, on an occa sion so interesting, without suffering ourselves to be carried back two centuries, when Galileo was twice imprisoned for attempting to emancipate philosophy from the trammels of superstition; and was compelled to repress the researches of a comprehensive mind, directed to those objects, which have since given birth to scientific associations throughout the civilized world. Had that great man flourished in the present day, when literature and science are not merely tolerated, but are stimulated by every encouragement of which the human mind is most susceptible, it is impossible to conceive the extent to which that ardent love of knowledge would have carried his investigations, when we behold it kindling into so bright a flame amidst the palpable obscure, and shining with inextinguishable lustre, in defiance of the combined and malignant influence of ignorance and tyranny. It ought not to be forgotten, that the patron of this persecuted philosopher was a Grand Duke of Tuscany; and that, when he fled from the thunder of the Altar, his retreat was to the shadow of the Throne. If it must be allowed, that the shelter so promptly afforded was unavailing, it ought also to be conceded, that the character of the times, in which ecclesiastical_authority overawed royal liberality, must bear the censure. The meeting of this day affords a contrast to these circumstances, so inauspicious to science, which cannot fail to be felt; but it presents its parallel also: the power of persecution is annihilated, but the princely patronage remains. Among the innumerable efforts which are made to promote the happiness of mankind, those which aim at the diffusion of VOL. I. PART II. S |