The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 17, No. 485, April 16, 1831 by Various
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admiration for the author's genius, and with regret for my petty mistakes
about it."--_Edinburgh Literary Journal._ J. SINCLAIR--the signature of the venerable Sir John Sinclair, Bart., who has written and edited upwards of 25 useful works. CAROLINE NORTON--the Honourable Mrs. Norton, author of the "Sorrows of Rosalie," the "Undying One," &c., and grand-daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Sheridan. This signature is from a superb portrait in a recent Number of the _New Monthly Magazine_: a lovelier and more intellectual head and front we never beheld. B.R. HAYDON--peculiarly characteristic of the writer's style of painting--large and bold. Whoever has seen his _Napoleon_, just opened for exhibition, must, we think, acknowledge the above identity. In our next Number we intend to notice the above triumph of art. ALARIC A. WATTS--an elegant hand, worthy of the editor of the most elegant of the Annuals: this, however, is not Mr. Watts's ordinary signature. J. MONTGOMERY.--This hand is far more redundant in ornament than one would have expected from so gentle and talented a Quaker; but the Quaker has been lost in the poet, as an old grey wall is concealed under a luxuriant mantling of ivy. The autograph now engraved is copied from the signature attached to the original of his beautiful poem on Night, beginning--"Night is the time for rest."--_Edinburgh Literary Journ._ CH. MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND--whose life will hereafter be traced throughout a volume of the history of the last and present century. His age is 77. This signature is copied from the Frontispiece to the last edition to the |
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