The Pleasures of Memory. Samuel Rogers

The large Illustrations in this volume are produced by a new method, without the aid of an engraver; and some little indulgence is asked for them, on the plea of the inexperience of the Artists in this process.

The drawing is made with an etching-needle or any suitable point, upon a glass plate spread with collodion. It is then photographed upon a prepared surface of wax, and from this surface an electrotype is formed in relief, which is printed with the type. By these means the Artists' own work is preserved; and though it may be impossible for this process to rival the delicacy of a good engraving upon wood, yet it can lay claim to an accurate fidelity which can only be equalled by etchings upon copper.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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	ARTIST	PAGE
Mark yon old Mansion, frowning thro the trees	Samuel Palmer	10
And orphan-sorrows drew the ready tear	J. D. Watson	11
The tangled wood-walk, and the tufted green	W. S. Coleman	13
The Gipsy's faggot, there we stood and gaz'd	Alfred Cooper	15
But hark! thro' those old firs, with sullen swell	E. M. Wimperis	17
The smoke's blue wreaths ascending with the breeze	W. S. Coleman	19
The hoary grandsire smiles the hours away	Charles Green	21
Then did his horse the homeward track descry	Alfred Cooper	23
When o'er the Hasted heath the day declin'd	E. M. Wimperis	25
Like yon fair orb, she gilds the brow of Night	E. M. Wimperis	30
And the bald veteran glowes with wonted fire	J. D. Watson	35
As the stern grandeur of a Gothic tower	E. M. Wimperis	37
High on exulting wings the heath-cock rose	J. W. Keyl	39
And on the moor the shepherd penn'd his fold	E. M. Wimperis	47
The wild deer, starting thro' the silent glade	J. W. Keyl	48

Analysis of the First Part

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PLEASURES OF MEMORY.

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ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST PART.

THE Poem begins with the description of an obscure village, and of the pleasing melancholy which it excites on being revisited after a long absence. This mixed sensation is an effect of the Memory. From an effect we naturally ascend to the cause; and the subject proposed is then unfolded with an investigation of the nature and leading principles of this faculty.

It is evident that our ideas flow in continual succession, and introduce each other with a certain degree of regularity.

They are sometimes excited by sensible objects, and sometimes by an internal operation of the mind. Of the former species is most probably the memory of brutes; and its many sources of

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