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Troubadours; and by those who are familiar with the manners of chivalry, and with the history of the ancient Provençal poets, it will not be considered as an overcharged picture of the gallantry and fashion of that romantic period. Jeffrey Rudel has been celebrated by Petrarch.

A MORNING PIECE.

BRISK Chanticleer his matins had begun,
And broke the silence of the night,
And thrice he call'd aloud the tardy sun,

And thrice he hail'd the dawn's ambiguous light:
Back to their graves the fear-begotten phantoms run.
Strong Labour got up with his pipe in his mouth,
He stoutly strode over the dale;

He lent new perfume to the breath of the south ;
On his back hung his wallet and flail.

Behind him came Health from her cottage of thatch,
Where never physician had lifted the latch.

First of the village Colin was awake,

And thus he sung, reclining on his rake:
Now the rural Graces three

Dance beneath yon maple-tree;
First the vestal Virtue, known
By her adamantine zone;
Next to her, in rosy pride,
Sweet Society the bride;
Last Honesty, full seemly dress'd

In her cleanly home-spun vest.

The abbey-bells in wakening rounds

The warning peal had given;
And pious Gratitude resounds

Her morning hymn to Heaven.

STUDENT, vol. i. p. 274.

I have omitted the eighteen subsequent lines of this poem, as being much inferior to their predecessors. Smart, the author of this beautiful imagery, communicated several poetical pieces to the Student, of which I have inserted in this place and in No. 67, a portion of two hymns.

C. Baldwin, Printer,

New Bridge Street, London.

END OF VOL. I.

GENERAL INDEX.

ABAH RABIEH Story of...

Abuse of words, observations on

Academy for the cultivation of our language, re-
marks in favour of such an institution....
Acasto, a country gentleman, no great believer
in ghosts and spirits.....

Addison, his reflections on the tombs of Westmin-
ster Abbey

NO.

62

130

113 Note

3

23

his style criticised by Sir John Hawkins 115 Note
the Monthly Re-

view

ib.

vindication and character of his style..

115

Adventurer, remarks on a passage in No. 127 of 110

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Allegory on Wit and Beauty

Allen Brooke, a poem

Allusion, local, censured in poetry

Almond-tree described, with the operation of bees

in its flowers....

Amata, character of, how treated by Virgil....

52

....

175

107

54

99

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Animalcules in a pond of water

in frozen grass, viewed through a

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Aristotle, his criticism on the fable of tragedy..
Pye's translation of, quoted

NO.

154

187

73

58

46 Note

37 Note

166

79

ib. Noté

Artists, English, on the neglect of..

91

Arts, fraudulent, of dealers in pictures

Asinius Pollio, his custom of spending the day
Astronomical studies, pleasures and advantages of
Athenais, her story

Attachment to family, good effects of

ib.

14

57

15

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Reynolds's picture of ...

Beaumont and Fletcher, observations on a song

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Bees, their operation in the blossoms of the almond-

tree

54+

Beings, subserviency of the several series of, in the

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Blackmore, not inferior in his designs to the
poets of antiquity ..

107

Bland, Mr., his translation of a passage from Ca-

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Braminto, his history

Brewer's "Hours of Leisure," story from

British manners and customs described by Omai
Buckingham, Duke of, his custom.

Burton, his "Abstract of Melancholy" quoted..

NO.

62 Note

40

101 Note

158

158

101 Note

29

108 Note

127

17

98 Note

91

Canvas, Mrs., description of her and her family..
Carnation, with its insects, viewed by a microscope 84
Cartoons of Raphael commended

Cases, medical, on the marvellous and irrelevant

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115

123

Dr. Johnson by Cumberland

Eucharis

Chastity, that of women; the Eastern people, how

jealous of it, exemplified by a tragical story ..

ib. Note

143

62

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