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two years after Seltaa ' s marriage , her fortune of fifteen thousand pounds was dissipated . FeatheH after feather had lon g been falling from the jackdaw who had plumed himself upon her fortune , and palmed himself upon her credulity ; but , when the last guinea was gone , he stood before her in the unadorned dignity of his real character and name , which were Benjamin Button , a journeyman
tailor , the son of a travelling tinker and a gypsy fortune-teller , € Notwithstanding all this , Benjamin was a genius in his way ; and , had any sense or any strength of character existed in his deluded wife , their affairs mignt have been retrieved ; at least utter destruction averted . But such an issue to her visionary
hopes overwhelmed her ; her husband forsook her to seek his fortune on the Continent , and she , many years his senior , mortified and aimless , sunk into a consumption . A relation of her despiftd mother-in-law offered her , from motives of the purest pity , an asylum , and there the sentimental is dragging out the remainder of her days a miserable dependent . ' M . L . G .
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Mundi et Cordu Carmina . 453
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' Phosphor and Hesper / * The Copse , —to Alphonse de La martine / ' The Glowworm , ' 'To a Water-Drop , ' 'Nymphs / and ' The Life of Flowers ; ' and to these we may refer as specimens of its contents which will at once decide its character to all by whom they are remembered . Those who see nothing in them need look no further , for they will see nothing more . Let them
The appearance of this volume will be warmly greeted by all those of our readers whose poetical appreciation has been made a source of pleasure by the poems which have appeared in the c Monthly Repository' under the signature of * W * . The greater portion of it is original , but it includes , amongst others , the
and the author shake hands at the threshold , and port with a friendly de gustibus . Others we invite onwards to the gratification which awaits them in the expanse of the ' Templum Mundi / or the recesses of the Adyta Cordis / not pretermitting tbe occasional stimulus of the ' Temporalia . ' Under these titles has tile author distributed his effusions ; and , bating that we thimk the English language might have served his turn for the inscripticMi over the portal of the temple , as it does for the service withm its gates , the classification commends itself to us as made in a poeti cal spirit , and g iving a promise which is amply redeemed . To the further division , into € Poems * and * Sonnets , * we
decidedly object . Although many of the author s poems be aot sonnets , it would be difficult for him to produce a sonnet which should not be a poem . There is a rare felicity in his comporitinMi
* * MumH « t Cottli * : < le i + Uu mnptftmia * i tnfOMDM * CfcnMM ; Moms mm ! SoAnets ; by Tbomu W « k « *
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MUNDI ET CORDIS CARMIXA . *
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No . 103 . 1 L
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 453, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/17/
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