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    and sentiments all the advantages which they can receive £ rottk an appropriate measure and correct expression . How successful he has been , the reader of taste will be convinced , if he turn to " The Grave "— ci The Ocean "—the Snow-drop : ' *

    the former a measure which Pope has used in hi $ admired cc Ode op . Solitude , " " The Qcean" is in a measure whick we have not met with in any other author , and displays at once the poet ' s command of language , and the delicacy of his taste and ear . Ci The Snow-drop " cannot be surpassed in the happytransitions , the appropriate adaptation of its measures to the

    alternate grandeur , and simplicity , and tenderness of its theme . We more cheerfully pay this tribute to his diligence and success in this particular , as we hope his example will have no » Small influence in correcting the slovenly and vitiated style in . wfrich much modern poetry is composed . /* The Wanderer of Switzerland / ' the principal piece in this little volume , to

    use the author's language , is a poem in which " an heroic sub- ? ject is celebrated ip a lyric measure , on a dramatic plan . Ta tmite with the majesty of epic song , the fire , rapidity , and coinpression of the ode , and to give to bath the grace and variety of earnest impassioned conversation , would be an enlargement of the boundaries of Parnassus . " Agreeably to thi § happy sug « -

    gestion of the poet ' s fancy , a venerable man , accompanied by his wife , his widowed daughter ^ and her children , who hav $ left their country to avoid the horrors of subjection to a cruel foe , are brought to our notice arrived at the cottage of a shep r Jierd beyond the frontiers . To the friendly inquiry of the shepherd the Swiss

    replies—€ c In the sun-set of my days , Strapger ! I have lost my homer—" &nd bemoans the sad state of his country enslaved ; upon which the shepherd , with characteristic hospitality , invites him to his cot . In this rustic abode the social circle is formed , and the fairy ring of bliss" calls to the depressed mind of the exile the home from which he had been driven . From this sad scene the shepherd tries to divert his thoughts in vain 3 he

    pleadstc 'Tis the privilege of woe , Thus her anguish to impart , AncJ the tears that freely flow Ease the agonizing heart . " Invited , however , to the refreshment which the shepherd ' s wift bad prepared ? _ , „ . , , tnitia porna Castaneae molles , et pressi copia lactis /'

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    $ 78 Montgomery's Poems .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/42/