Miscellaneous Prose Works - 1868 Author:Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: light is placed on the summit, leaving the shadow of the tower which it crowns stretched at length on the ground immediately below. But afar, where the ships mov... more »e through ocean, the shadow is invisible, the tower itself disappears, nothing is seen but the light. Reluctantly we close the pleasant retrospect of "Charles Lamb and some of his Companions," to which, first invited by Sergeant Talfourd, we have been re-attracted by the kindred genius of Mr. Procter. In his recent biography of Lamb, the Poet of " Marcian Colonna " has revived the sense of our own obligations to himself— "For heavenly tunes piped through an alien flute;" while in his simple and touching narrative he has added much of endearing interest to our knowledge of the exquisite writer whom he loves to honor. In listening as it were to the uttered thoughts of a spirit so gently attuned as that of " Elia," so humane, yet so elevating, the mind— " Tired Of controversy where no end appears"— feels that sense of repose, which, to quote the words of "Elia" himself, steals over him " Whom the Sabbath bells salute, Sudden ; his heart awakes, his ears drink in The cheering music ; his relenting soul Yearns after all the joys of social life, And softens with the love of human kind." Lamb's verses to the Author of Poems published under the name of Barry Cornwall. GRAY'S WORKS. [First published in utue Lonixn And Westminster Rkvikw," July, 1837.] GRAY'S WORKS. [ The Works of Thomas Gray. Edited by the Rev. John Mitford. 4 vols. Pickering. London, 1837.] Although Poetry be an art, it is not always, nor is it even often, that the Poet is aware of the steps by which he has passed to eminence. As springs, that supply the fountain, work under ground, so, latent and concealed, are the deep ...« less