_For the Table Book_
As the pent water of a mill-dam lies
Motionless, yielding, noiseless, and serene.
Patience waits meekly with companioned eyes;
Or like the speck-cloud, which alone is seen
Silver’d within blue space, ling’ring for air
On which to sail prophetic voyages;
Or as the fountain stone that doth not wear,
But suits itself to pressure, and with ease
Diverts the dropping crystal; or the wife
That sits beside her husband and her love
Subliming to another state and life,
Off’ring him consolation as a dove,--
Her sighs and tears, her heartache and her mind
Devout, untired, calm, precious, and resign’d.
*, *, P.
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~British Portraits.~
CATALOGUE OF PAINTED BRITISH PORTRAITS, comprising most of the
Sovereigns of England, from Henry I. to George IV., and many
distinguished personages; principally the productions of Holbein,
Zucchero, C. Jansen, Vandyck, Hudson, Reynolds, Northcote, &c. _Now
selling at the prices affixed, by_ HORATIO RODD, _17, Air-street,
Piccadilly_. 1827.
This is an age of book and print catalogues; and lo! we have a picture
dealer’s catalogue of portraits, painted in oil, from the price of two
guineas to sixty. There is only one of so high value as the latter sum,
and this is perhaps the most interesting in Mr. Rodd’s collection, and
he has allowed the present engraving from it. The picture is in size
thirty inches by twenty-five. The subjoined particulars are from the
catalogue.
[Illustration: ~Simon Lord Lovat.~