The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827

An author, as too often happens, was very irritable in his disposition, and very unfortunate in his productions. His tragedy and comedy had both been rejected by the managers of both theatres. "I cannot account for this," said the unfortunate bard to his friend; "for no one can say that my tragedy was a sad performance, or that my comedy was a thing to laugh at."

notes

1

Poems, by John Keats, p. 93.

2

MIRROR, Vol. viii., p. 324.

3

Their part in the procession formed to welcome our monarch to his Scottish metropolis, should be excepted.

4

About twelve of these rafts annually arrive at Dort, in July or August; when the German timber merchants, having converted their floats into good Dutch ducats, return to their own country. When the water is low, those machines are sometimes months upon the journey.—Campbell's Guide.

5

There are the ruins of fourteen castles on the left bank, and of fifteen on the right bank of the Rhine, from Mentz to Bonn, a distance of thirty-six leagues.