atic

POEMS,

ESSAYS AND OPINIONS;

BEING

SELECTIONS FROM WRITINGS IN THE “MIRROR OF THE TIME,"

FROM AUGUST 7th, 1850, TO THE END OF FEBRUARY, 1851.

BY

ALFRED BATE RICHARDS, ESQ.,

BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

AUTHOR OF CRESUS, KING OF LYDIA, A TRAGEDY; CROMWELL, A DRAMA;

VANDYCK, A PLAY OF GENOA; DEATH AND THE MAGDALEN, AND OTHER
POEMS; THE DREAM OF THE SOUL AND OTHER POEMS; OXPORD UNMASKED;
AND PART II. OF BRITAIN REDEEMED,

“The images we reflect will be varied as Time itself; but our opinion shall
be a Daguerreotype illumined by the sun of Truth alone."

-- IN TWO VOLUMES. --

VOL. I.

LONDON:
AYLOTT AND JONES, PATERNOSTER ROW.

R514

P P v.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY RICHARD KINDER,
GREEN ARBOUR COURT, OLD BAILEY.

TO THE

LIBERAL CONSERVATIVES OF ENGLAND,

These volumes

ARE INSCRIBED BY

THE AUTHOR.