Poetry.
THE DYING BUDDHIST'S HYMN. I GO to Him in whom all is, The self-existent Perfectness; Who knows not of finality, The only Being that can be ; Who, without motion can create, Or,......
[*** A Correspondent Having Apparently Understood Our...
Suppose we had written, `Dr. Magee, though a Bishop, is a human being,' would that have meant that the rest of the Episcopal Bench were not human beings ?" as suggesting that we......
Pope's " Ode To Venus."
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I am reluctant to enter into a controversy with your kindly reviewer on what is, after all, a mere question of taste ; but as Pope's......
Misprints.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEETATOR."] SIR,—Nothing can be more true than what you say, that the most amusing misprints arise from what may be termed " printers' sense," which is......
1881.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — IS it worthy to be recorded in the last number of the Spectator for the year 1881, that this year is notable for the largest census......
Idylls Of The Iliad.—iv.
PATROCLUS. " ROUSE thee, Patroclus, fire is on the ships, And Hector's crest is flaunting in our lines ; Rouse thee, Mencetius' son ; thou hast thy wish ; Don thou my harness ;......
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