It is the struggle against retrenchment, the "paupertatis pudor et
fuga," which has caused hundreds of English families, of property and
consideration, to desert their family places, and to pass year after
year in residence abroad. At the close of each London season, the
question too often occurs as to the best mode of evading return to the
country; and the sun of summer, instead of calling back the landlord to
his tenants, and to the harvests of his own lands, sends him forth to
the meagre adventures of continental roads and inns.--_Quarterly Rev._
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SOLILOQUY.
THE KING OF DARKNESS.
_On the Fallen Angels._
They're gone to ply their ineffectual labour,--
To sow in guilt what they must reap in woe,--
Heaping upon themselves more deep damnation.
Thus would I have it.--Little once I thought,
When leagued with me in crime and punishment
They fell,--condemned to an eternity
Of exile from all joy and holiness--
And the first stains of sinfulness and sorrow
Fell blight-like o'er their cherub lineaments--
Myself the cause--Albeit too proud for tears,
Yet touch'd with their sad doom, I little thought
I e'er should hate them thus.
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