« I, a desolate branch, * Left scattered in the high-way of the world, “ Trod under foot, that might have been a column “ Mainly supporting our demolished house." Massenger. The Fatal Dowry. 1 و باز کرده اند که می روند BARVARÐ COLLEGE LI PARTY W. M ́Dowall, Printer, Pemberton Row, Gough Square. PREFACE. THE design, (I hope a laudable one), with which I entered on the present “ Sketch” was an attempt to follow in the footsteps of our elder dramatists. The depths of that darkness which for a length of time overwhelmed the brilliant poetry of a past day, are happily disclosed in this: and unlike the fabled lamp, which, burning splendidly amid sepulchral glooms, became extinguished on the admittance of light and air-it shines brighter for the test. We have been long chilled by the frosty glitter of a winter's day; and however gayly it might sparkle to the eye, it threw no animating warmth upon the heart. We have indeed, been too long “ Women's poets," to adopt an idea from Ben Jonson, who “must flow, and |