and imagination. In addition to his native qualifications, Mr. Richardson brings to his verse a delightful acquaintance with Indian scenery, which forms, to us homely Europeans, a novel charm."News of Literature and Fashion, February 5, 1825. "There are persons who under such restraints (the narrow limits of the sonnet) produce some very charming things, and among those we hesitate not to class Mr. Richardson. Several of his sonnets, 38 well as his other pieces, are highly poetical, and breathe of nature and good feeling."-Literary Chronicle. February 12, 1825. "We have glanced at the pages of this newlypublished volume, and have seen enough of its contents to convince us it is a work of a superior character."-Kaleidoscope. February 17, 1825. "The language is often impassioned, and entirely free from affectation. The following sonnet to a child has true tenderness, and the concluding poem (a war song) shews that the Author's spirit is equal to his feeling."- Phanix, and Literary Olio, September 17, 1825. "A volume of miscellaneous poems, many of which possess much beauty."-Star, January 29, 1825. "The author of these poems has been too modest in his choice of a morto, as he possesses, among the essential ingredients in the composition of a Poet, imagination and sensibility. There is no gaudy embellishment in his productions. They seem to result from genume feeling, and are characterized in general by an interesting simplicity. Mr. Richardson, it appears, wrote many of his poems in India, and his fancy seems to have been touched by the fervour of the climate, yet not so as to betray him into the extravagant flights of the Oriental Muse. He not only displays the talents of a Poet, but in many, indeed most of his compositions, proves that he feels strongly as the friend, the parent, the patriot, and the moralist."-Sun, April 19, 1825. "This series of poems is obviously the production of a cultivated and imaginative mind, imbued with a strong feeling of susceptibility to the charms of nature, and the vicissitudes of passion and condition."-Sunday Times, June 12, 1825. "Some of these poems are particularly beautiful.” -British Traveller, January 18, 1826. "Mr. Richardson evidently possesses much of the genuine spirit of poetry. His mind is of a cultivated and amiable cast, his susceptibilities are strong, and he is ardently attached to the loveliness of nature." -Edinburgh Observer, September 27, 1825. "In the last number of the Northern Whig,' we selected from Mr. Richardson's interesting volume a specimen of his abilities, which could not have failed to excite in the minds of our readers a desire to peruse some other effusions of the same accomplished writer. In discharging the pleasing duty of enforcing Mr. Richardson's claims to the admiration of our poetical friends, we shall only communicate a gratification which we have felt in common with all those who have read his feeling and elegant productions."........" The descriptions of Indian Scenery are sketched with great felicity of language and beauty of imagery." .." The Soldier's Dream' possesses a boldness of conception, and a harmony of measure, that would not disgrace the pen of the first Poet of modern times." The poems of a more plaintive and less aspiring description are not deficient in feeling and taste. They seem to flow with a kind of melancholy music from the fountain of a tender and affectionate heart."-Northern Whig, October 20, 1825. "We have perused the volume with delight, and cannot too earnestly recommend it to our readers. The taste and genius which it displays will be readily acknowledged by every admirer of unaffected and genuine poetry."-Waterford Mail, October 19, 1825. "A beautiful Collection."-Glasgow Free Press, February 22, 1825. "A very delightful little volume.". ......" If the character of an author may be read in his books, and if language, as is suspected by some, has not been invented to conceal men's thoughts and real dispo. sitions, we should say, that the Author of this little work possesses not only fine taste, but exquisite feeling, and that there have not been wanting in his journey through life incidents well calculated to affect the latter. Many of the poems were written in India, and pourtray the feelings of a sensitive heart while dwelling upon home, and absent friends, and days that are gone. The Author's descriptions of Indian Scenes are very beautiful."-Edinburgh and Leith Advertiser, October 1, 1825. "This is a sweet and unpretending little volume, which contains many bijoux of delightful poetry.”— Telescope, May 29, 1825. "We have rarely met with a more interesting little volume than the one at present before us. It is full of chaste and pleasing imagery, and occasional passages evince poetical genius of the highest order. The sonnets are particularly pleasing, and are distinguished for pathos and elegance of style. The giving an extract or two from the volume itself will do more to recommend it to those who can relish genuine poetry than the most laboured panegyric. We cannot close our review of this little volume without strongly recommending it to the notice of our readers as a gem worthy of a distinguished place in their cabinet of poetry."-Manchester Mercury, August 23, 1825. "There is scarcely one of the Sonnets which does not contain either a very pleasing or a very beautiful touch of a Poet's pencil."-Bridgewater Herald, September 15, 1825. It has "This is a modest unassuming little volume, evidently the production of a man of talent. already extorted considerable praise from some of our ablest and best conducted periodicals, and we it can boldly say that the encomia bestowed upon have not been unmerited. We extract the little piece entitled The Day of Life,' for the gratification of our readers, concluding with this short notice of a work which any one may read with pleasure and advantage, as, in addition to the beauty of the poetry, a vein of the strictest morality runs throughout it, and it contains no line which the author need wish to blot."-Durham Chronicle, August 27, 1825. "A most interesting little volume."-Liverpool Mercury, April 29, 1825. "It does not contain a line but what reflects equal honour on the author, whether as a Poet or a Moralist."-Weekly Express, June 5, 1825. "Mr. R. invokes, for the most part, a melancholy and plaintive muse; but the chords he touches are invariably responsive to moral sentiment. His style is a correct and chaste one. The turns of thought And the are generally elegant, often affecting. predominant character of these effusions is that of a refined sensibility, so evidently emanating from the heart, as to excite a feeling of sympathetic respect for the Author himself, though personally unknown to us."-Norfolk Chronicle, November 19, 1826. "A small volume of charming sonnets, and miscellaneous pieces of great merit.", ...." A work which evinces poetical genius of the highest order." -York Chronicle, October 6, 1825. "In a series of sonnets and occasional short productions, the Author has displayed much poetical and amiable feeling-much true pathos and felicity of language, united to a deep and tender knowledge of the beauties of external nature. The sonnets form, unquestionably, the best and most valuable part of the volume, but the other poems are distinguished by the same purity of thought and diction." -Huntingdon Weekly Journal, September 3, 1825. "Delicacy of sentiment, chastity thought, and sublimity of conception, afford am e proof of his poetic powers."-Bath and Cheltenham Gazette, August 24, 1825. "Though a sombre tint of melancholy is, indeed, spread over nearly all the poems, yet, blended with delicacy and tenderness of passion, it does but make an easier way for them to the heart of the reader, and interest us the more in the fortunes of the Author. Few more elegant wreaths of flowers has fancy ever culled to amuse and adorn ingenuous sorrow, and seldom has the latter steeped her gifts in purer tears."-Reading Mercury, August 20, 1825. "Our attention has been directed to this beautiful volume by the frequent extracts that have been made from it, in almost every public journal which has come under our notice; and having been much delighted with those extracts, we procured a copy of the work itself. We are sure we cannot do better than introduce it to our readers by the selection of a few of the bright gems with which it is so profusely strewed."-Stockport Advertiser, September 23, 1825. "To say that many of the pieces are beautiful, is saying but little ;-there is a force and strength-a poetical freshness and vigour running through the work sufficient to captivate the man of taste, and arrest the attention of the admirer of genuine poetry." Westmoreland Gazette, September 24, 1825. "A charming little volume, which throughout evinces the stamp of poetic genius."-York Courant, September 5, 1825. "The subjects are well chosen, the versification is correct and musical; the language simple, elegant, and touching. We recommend the book to our readers as contaming much beautiful poetry."Leeds Independent, June 15, 1825. "A production that cannot fail to please those who read it with poetic taste, and evincing such talents, as we feel convinced would be adequate to the delineation of more important subjects."-Buth Journal, September 5, 1825. "It is a task of no small difficulty truly to charactetise this elegant petite bijou. The sonnet we have casually extracted contains an every-day sentiment, so beautifully retouched,-so consummately penciled, as to ensure a universal suffrage to the taste and senius of the author."-Leicester Chronicle, September 24, 1825. "We have perused with much pleasure this beautiful and elegant little volume. The language is highly poetical, and the book throughout bears internal evidence that it is the production of a richly endowed and cultivated mind. We heartily recommend it to the notice of our readers, as replete with good feeling and poetical beauties. It cannot, indeed, fail of being favourably received; and we hope its highly-gifted author will soon again appear before the public in a character he is so eminently qualified to fill with credit and success."-Bradford and Wakefield Chronicle, September 24, 1825. "A chaste collection of poetic gems."-Rochester Gazette, October 11, 1825. "This delightful little volume has only just fallen into our hands, and we hasten to notice it, that we may do our poetical readers the favour of putting them in the way of obtaining a real literary treat. The sonnets were principally written in India, that land of the sun;' not always a sun of inspiration to European intellect-but truly so it would appear to Mr. Richardson. The miscellaneous pieces amount to forty-two, and altogether belong t a very high order of poetry."- Cumberland Pacque, October, 1825. "There are several animated apostrophes to Free dom scattered through this volume. But after all, we think the Author is most successful in his pathetic strains; many of them must touch the feeling heart into the softest sympathy. We scarcely know which to select from the many plaintive effusions which are evidently the promptings of real feeling." -Kent Herald, June 23, 1825. feeling, genuine taste, and poetic talent are displayed, "Throughout this pleasing little volume so much that we can strongly recommend it to the attention of our readers."-Royal Cornwall Gazette, October 1, 1825. "We have great pleasure in adding our humble approbation of this little volume to the flattering testimonials it has already received from so many quarters of higher literary status. The versification is uniformly harmonious, and many of the pieces are written with exquisite pathos."-Ayr and Wigtonshire Courier, October 25, 1825. "The Author appears to possess more than a spark of the etherial flame of true poetic genius. The mechanical structure of his verse is musical, and his images are glowing and natural. Some of the poems are little gems of great beauty."-Maidstone Gazette, June 28, 1825. "Refined taste is evident throughout, and a pleasing rather than querulous tone of melancholy. The author has travelled in India, and from thence has drawn some of his finest pictures of inanimate nature."-Greenock Advertiser, October 18, 1825. "A volume of poems, evincing such genius and poetic talent, as must, we think, place the Author in the first rank of British poets of the present day." -Salisbury and Winchester Journal, March 6, 1826. "The spirit, the sentiment, and the poetry, of this beautiful little volume, entitle it to general notice." -Edinburgh Independent, October 15, 1825. "Mr. Richardson's versification is smooth and harmonious; his style is accurate, and often nervous; and his sentiments moral and instructive."North Devon Journal, October 14, 1825. "A beautiful collection of sonnets and other poems."-Western Luminary, November 8, 1825. "This little volume contains many beautiful specimens of the sonnet."-Aberdeen Chronicle, October 22, 1825. "We have received so much pleasure from the perusal of this little volume. that we should feel ourselves culpable did we not strongly recommend it to our readers. To those who can really taste the beauties of poetry, a few specimens will be a stronger recommendation than any panegyric we can give."-Wakefield and Halifax Journal, November 25, 1825. "A beautiful little collection." Mr. Richardson's intimate acquaintance with Indian scenery, aided by the chasteness and elegance of his style, renders his writings peculiarly interesting to the European reader."-Nottingham Herald, November 30, 1825. "The author of the poems before us possesses an elevated mind, refined and tinged with the pensiveness of a heart felt sorrow, that gives a pathos, sometimes enchantingly sweet, to his melancholy productions. That some of his pieces possess the genuine spirit of poetry, we shall prove, by laying some specimens before our readers."-Dorset County Chronicle, January 19, 1826. "On more occasions than one has Mr. Richardson availed himself of the advantages he enjoyed, and furnished us with scenes, not only drawn from nature, but also bearing the warm impress of her charms."-Berkshire Chronicle, October 1, 1825. "From Mr. Richardson's Sonnets and other Poems' we have selected freely; and it is but jus tice to offer our meed of approbation on his pleasing work. The whole is written with that spirit which shews a fervid imagination, and a happy portion of genius and skill."-Barnstaple Herald, Nov. 3, 1825. "We have been highly gratified by the perusal of this little volume of poems. The subjects chosen are generally of a most interesting nature, and are beautifully managed. Many of the pieces, indeed most of them, possess elegance of diction, harmony of numbers and elevation of sentiment; in a word, we have seldom read a volume that gave us a higher pleasure, or left a stronger impression on our minds of the Author's talents."-Devonshire Freeholder, September 10, 1825. "The proximity of genius is not only apparent, but its occasional presence in full and palpable substantiality, is actually felt with a force that commands acknowledgement."-Bolton Express, October 8, 1825. "There is much delicacy of feeling discoverable in his pathetic and amatory pieces, while those of a bolder and more martial character impart a portion of their spirit-stirring influence to nerve the arm, and fire the eye.'"-Southampton Herald, September 24, 1825. "There is a brilliancy of poetic effusion about this little volnme, which would not disgrace the pen of a Byron, a Moore, or a Scott."-Hull Packet, July 19, 1825. "We can assure those who may be tempted to look further into this book, that they will meet with a very agreeable treat."-Rockingham Paper, October 1, 1825. "A delightful little volume."-Lancaster Gazette, October 22, 1825. "This volume contains several poems of a high order, and reflects much credit on the head and heart of the Author. The language is at once chaste, elegant, and pathetic."-Cheltenham Journal, October 3, 1825. "This little volume is evidently the production of a cultivated mind, and a heart possessed of much sensibility. It evinces talent of no common order. A plaintive tenderness, and a pleasing kind of melancholy pervade many of the sonnets, and his descriptions of Indian scenery are very interesting." -Bath Herald, June 17, 1825. "We have extracted the lines entitled 'A Moonlight Assignation' from this little volume, which contains several other pieces equally graceful, tender, and beautiful."-Birmingham Chronicle, July 14, 1825. "A beautiful volume of miscellaneous poetry."Sussex Advertiser, September 26, 1825. "The modest and unassuming manner in which this small unprefaced volume is ushered into the world, greatly prepossessed us in its favour. The amiable Montgomery has said, that it is distinguished by considerable brilliancy and pathos;' and what were our faint praise after this ?-Worcester Journal, November 2, 1825. "We extract a sonnet entitled Night and Morning' from an elegant little volume, entitled Sonnets and other Poems, by D. L. Richardson,' a work written with taste and feeling, and containing many other pieces equally beautiful."-Cambridge Chronicle, July 1, 1825. "Mr. Richardson displays considerable taste and feeling in a variety of pieces comprised in this ele gant little work."-Northampton Mercury. July 9, 1825. "We extract two pieces from a volume of beautiful poems by Mr. Richardson. We do not select them as surpassing the rest of Mr. R.'s productions, but as chance specimens of the Author's superior poetic genius."-Alfred, July 12, 1825. "This volume consists of sonnets and miscellaneous pieces, which evince a highly cultivated mind, and breathe throughout a poetical sensibility that does honour to the Author, and will no doubt prove highly gratifying to his readers."-Chester Courant, July 12, 1825. "We have selected a beautiful sonnet from Mr. Richardson's elegant little volume."-Preston Pilot, October 1, 1825. "We have perused with much pleasure Mr. Richardson's interesting volume of Sonnets and other Poems;' and can now with confidence recommend it to all those who value pathetic and descriptive poetry."-Macclesfield Herald, October 8, 1825. "Some of Mr. Richardson's effusions are of a most chaste and beautiful description."-Common Sense, March 20, 1825. "A most beautiful little volume."-Cooper's John Bull, January 29, 1826. "A highly wrought impassioned strain pervades Mr. Richardson's poems."--Palladium, April 24, 1825. "Mr. Richardson's volume has, we believe, received much notice, and very general approbation. His poetry is, indeed, of a high order. We have met with no ruggedness of metre, and have found much that is charming, pathetic, and refined."British Lion, 1825. "This volume contains a great variety of sonnets and miscellaneous poetry of a very agreeable charac ter, and we have no doubt that it will be found a very pleasant companion to those who have imbibed the true spirit of poetry."-British Guardian, May 18, 1825. For extracts from, or favourable notices of this volume, see also-La Belle Assemblée,-Lady's Maga zine, British Magazine,-Iris, (a London weekly Review),-Courier,-Morning Post,-Morning Herald, -Public Ledger,--British Press, -New Times,-Mor ing Chronicle,-St. James's Chronicle,- Baldwin's London Weekly Journal,-Oxford Heraid,-Eristol Gazette,-Bristol Mirror,-Glasgow Herald,-Dumfries Courier,-Edinburgh Star, Montrose Review,Brighton Gazette,-Durham County Advertiser,- Bri tish Volunteer,-Derby Reporter,-Boston Guzette, Cork Chronicle,-Wolverhampton Chronicle,-Nothingham Review,-Sheffield Independent,-Sovereign,Gazette, Hereford Independent,-Kentish Chronicle,Herts Mercury,-Evening Times,-Salopian Journal,-&c. &c. &c. Kentish *The first edition of Mr. Richardson's poems was published in Calcutta in 1822. It was reviewed in the Calcutta Journal, then conducted by J. S. Buckingham, Esq. the very able author of "Travels in Palestine." Mr. Buckingham noticed it as "a work that would do the head and heart of the author credit wherever it was known; and as containing many excellent pieces, which would not only reward the perusal, but which the reader would wish to preserve and refer to at future periods.” |