ADVERTISEMENT. The Compiler of this Miscellany, in making a first adventure in the commerce of literature, has attempted to guide himself after the example of young traders in other departments, who endeavour to attract customers by the variety of their stock, and the taste displayed in the selection, and to make up in this manner for its deficiency in extent. The object being to produce a book suited for the parlour window, or to form a companion on a journey, the Editor was desirous that it should contain so much variety as might present to every reader something suited to his particular taste. It contains extracts of striking passages from the most popular authors, – mingled with pieces less known, some of which are not, on that account, the less deserving of attention. The light and gay will be found mingled with what is grave and instructive, so that readers of different natural dispositions, or the same person in a various mood of mind, may select what will best suit the humour of the moment. Many pieces will be found of a religious and moral character; and the Editor has carefully excluded such as inclined in the slightest degree to the opposite tendency. It only remains that the Compiler offer his respectful thanks to the friends who have assisted his first attempt to enter on the business of life, and to submit his Miscellany to the candour of the Public. . . . Extract from the Course of Time, Farewell, Byron 168 Anon. 199 Milman 160 Glenara, Campbell 247 Heaven, Knox 48 Sir W. Scott 185 Imaginary Apostrophe of Buonaparte, J. Malcolm, Esq. 220 Job's Complaint, Dale 71 Hogg 141 Landing of the British Army in Portugal, Sir W. Scott 97 Lines on the blank leaf of a Bible, . Byron 49 Lines written on the Author's Birth-day, : C. Lloyd 74 Lord Byron, Pollok 56 Love of God, Kelly 229 Mortality, Knox. 19 |
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