THE

CABINET;

OR

THE SELECTED BEAUTIES OF

LITERATURE.

"Say what abridgement have you for this evening?
What mask? What music? How shall we beguile
The lazy time, if not with some delight ?"

EDINBURGH:

SHAKSPEARE.

PUBLISHED BY

JOHN AITKEN, ST. ANTHONY'S PLACE;

JOHN LUMSDEN, GLASGOW; HODGES & M'ARTHUR,
DUBLIN; AND KNIGHT & LACEY, LONDON.

1824.

Stanzas. "The turf shall be my fragrant shrine." Moore

The Cacique of Ontario

.

94

Elegant Tales

95

from being Hanged

they shewe."

Song. "The fountaines smoake, and yet no flames Garden of Delights(1610) 126

M'Diarmid

127

The Grave of Anna

Erin Mavourneen, Farewell!

Happiness

The Tropical Night

Evening Thoughts on Death

Trinity College, Cambridge, Forty

Trinity Galley Capeday fo}

Page.

New Mon. Mag.

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Stanzas written at the Close of a Year Edin. Mag.