The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829

Fall of the Staubbath

PSALMODY

THE THIEF

SHAKSPEARE

TO AN INFANT

THE RUINED WELL

THE SKETCH-BOOK

WRECK ON A CORAL REEF

MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS

SINGING OF PSALMS

SKIMINGTON RIDING

RECONCILIATION

ANCIENT SUPERSTITION RESPECTING FELLING OAKS

THE MODERN GREEKS

THE KING'S COCK CROWER

HERRINGS

CURING A SCOLD

THE SELECTOR, AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS

PICTURE OF SHEFFIELD

FUN

A REPORT FROM BELOW!

THE NATURALIST

MODE OF DESTROYING EAGLES

THE PIED OYSTER CATCHER

BUTTERFLIES

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

LADY MORGAN'S EGOTISM

CURE FOR SUPERSTITION

THE GATHERER

ADDISON

ST. MARTIN S LITTLE SUMMER

SCRAPS

WHEAT

DUTCH BUTTER

SIAMESE COMMANDMENTS

ANNUALS FOR 1830

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In the poet and the philosopher, the lover of the sublime, and the student of the beautiful in art—the contemplation of such a scene as this must awaken ecstatic feelings of admiration and awe. Its effect upon the mere man of the world, whose mind is clogged up with common-places of life, must be overwhelming as the torrent itself; perchance he soon recovers from the impression; but the lover of Nature, in her wonders, reads lessons of infinite wisdom, combined with all that is most fascinating to the mind of inquiring man. In the school of her philosophy, mountains, rivers, and falls not only astonish and delight him in their vast outlines and surfaces, but in their exhaustless varieties and transformations, he enjoys old and new worlds of knowledge, apart from the proud histories of man, and the comparative insignificance of all that he has laboured to produce on the face of the globe.

Few have witnessed the Staubbach, or similar wonders without acknowledging the force of their impressions. This Fall is in the valley of Lauterbrun, the most picturesque district of Switzerland. Simond,1 in describing its beauties, says, "we began to ascend the valley of Lauterbrun, by the side of its torrent (the Lutschine) among fragments of rocks, torn from the heights on both sides, and beautiful trees, shooting up with great luxuriance and in infinite variety; smooth pastures of the richest verdure, carpeted over every interval of plain ground; and the harmony of the sonorous cow-bell of the Alps, heard among the precipices above our heads and below us, told us we were not in a desart." "The ruins of the mineral world, apparently so durable, and yet in a state of incessant decomposition, form a striking contrast with the perennial youth of the vegetable world; each individual plant, so frail and perishable, while the species is eternal in the existing economy of nature. Imperceptible forests of timber scarcely tinge their inert masses of gneiss and granite, into which they anchor their roots; grappling with substances which, when struck with steel, tear up the tempered grain, and dash out the spark." This may be an enthusiastic, but is doubtless the faithful, impression of our tourist; and in descriptions of sublime nature, we should

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Here the true typical and prophetic meaning of the Old Testament is given.

The version used by the English church in the 5th Psalm is subject to the same observation as on the 4th.

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