HORACE SMITH. 1779-1849. [AUTHOR of several novels and verses. In connection with his brother James he wrote clever parodies and criticisms in the Picnic, the London Review, and the Monthly Mirror. In the last appeared those imitations from his own and his brother's hand which were published in 1813 as The Rejected Addresses, one of the most successful and popular works that has ever appeared. Besides these he wrote Brambletye House, in imitation of Scott's historical novels; also, Tor Hill, Walter Colyton, The Moneyed Man, The Merchant, and several others. His best performance is the Address to the Mummy, some parts of which exhibit the finest sensibility and an exquisite poetic taste.] REV. GEORGE CROLY. 1780-1860. CUPID CARRYING PROVISIONS. THERE was once a gentle time Then a rosy, dimpled cheek, But that time is gone and past, EBENEZER ELLIOTT. 1781-1849. [BORN 17th of March, 1781, at the New Foundry, Masbro', near Rotherham, Yorkshire; wrote in his seventeenth year The Vernal Walk; worked in his father's foundry until 1804; made trials of business in Sheffield, of which the first failed; published his first volume of verse, 1823: Village Patriarch, 1829; Corn Law Rhymer, 1831; retired from business, 1841; died 1st of December 1849.] CHILD, is thy father dead? Why did they tax his bread? God's will be done! SONG. Mother has sold her bed: Where shall she lay her head? |