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G | aid / tidings bad coma to the old Eorfor-oh j joy ! a tetter from - Aiiiijtb ^ fjbmther was alive and iimoeenkr-he-was ^ nei ther tlif : slayer > nor the « lain * He bad foughkandhad been pounded in 1 &&&riaj he wasr almost well again * and lie wasoon the point of embarking for Portugal , as a volunteer under * Colonel T /¦ : * : "f ? . 'He w # s going to fight for Donna Maria * v : ; ^ v ^ e ^ J tixfem'for « 0 me > tirnev . 'tbey ; hea'td nothing of Stephen , but ^ e ^ iwere uot uiwjh surprised at this , as he was known to be ripeit the ; seas . It was an anxious time with the people of the FoFtHTiStiepliesi # as on his way to the theatre offwar ^ and the yoJimg : s ^ iei * was in ^ deadly peril . Not one of the party all thi $ ti ^^ e iiad the courage to look into a newspaper , Qge * -diay some of the sisters were walking towards the island ^ p ilal . It was a fine summer eveiling , and as they turne d their faces towards the west , ascending a lofty hill , theyybefeeld the bright sun setting redly into the se § . — What a strange black bar that is across the sun ' s face ! " said one of th ^ sistersv < f Itis like a coffin—oh ! just like a coffin ! " said another , as she looked at the dark narrow cloud which intersected the sphere of the sun . ' "Oh ! mercy—it is Stephen ' s coffin ! " exclaimed a third . f Something tells me that our brother is dead . " And jipon that very day , and almost at that very hour , Stephen Cameron was slain fighting in the ranks beside his Colonel in the neighbourhood of Oporto . He was killed the day after his arrival .
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Amidst the glare of carved and gilded frames , the splendour of colours , and the noisy hum and heartlessness of fashionable admiration , pleasant it is to sit abstracted from the scene and iix the eyes— -as offcm as the intervals in the crowd permiton a favourite picture , and devote the imagination and feelings in accordance with the , painter ^ soul . We often hear it said—* The . best time to see the pictures , is early in the morning > vhen very few visitor ** ar < e th ^ re ^ To je * n artist who goes to istudy how to produce icertai ^ c ^ lpurs arid effects > or to a mere critic wj ^ O goes to $ ep , what ; bg ^ ^ ca ^ 'detect / it is , doubtless , the best jtiins * b ' pt to tbips ^ vwha v ^ ish to fe ^ l and admi re all the
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ROYAL ACADEMY . Critique on Six Pictures .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1837, page 376, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1832/page/58/
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