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MR. W. HORNELL'S LECTURE.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY

- SANITARÝ HOARD PRESIDENT.

MR. N. L. SMITH APPOINTED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

11, 1825.

SHIELLEY'S ADONAIS. disparages Keats not as much for the substance of spiritualized of life from which donth alone is his poetical errors, as because he modern thought. The art of Bion the refuge. This is worked out fn was a friend of Leigh Hunt, the and Maschus Is translated into the stanzas 47 to 51. Then again, the literary and political antagonist of sphere of metaphysical imagina-thought of death as the deliveror, the 'Quarterly Review." The tion, that is to say, Into the aphore the revealer through whom the Editor of the Review, whose name of the Imagination dealing with soul of man is re-united to tho. name was Gifford, was long

Te the problems being and know- opirit of the universe returns and Last evening at the St. John'sgarded as the author of the Ing. Urania, the heavenly god-on this note the porm closes. Tho

re- Cathedral, Mr W. W. Hornellview, but it is

At yesterday's meeting of tho now known that dess of Love, takes the place of note is a more solemn one than Vice-Clincellor of the University, it was written by man called Aphrodite, the goddess of passion that which was struck in stanza Tratuun, who prosided, announo Sanitary Волга, Mr, D. W. and desire: the thoughts and 39 to 43, the stanzas which great od that the exigenoles of the nor fancies, and desires of Keats, ed the passage of Adonais into the vice required that he should again take the pinee of the loves or eternal world. And the note

vocate that office, but he was glad truck in the concluding stanzas to be able to say that they could cupids of Bion's Elegy.

"All he had loved, and mould is a personal one instantan rely on his successor looking after.

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gave his promised lecture an the Croker. Adonais of Shelley. lecture, on the poet' himself, ho

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buried in so sweet n place," With-

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clusion to Adonals that highest of And Symonds finds in the con-

all Shelley's qualities "the libora-

ITALIAN CONVENT

SCHOOL.

Asked who his successor was, the Chairman replied Mr. N. L.~~ Smith.

interest transacted. The members There was no business of public

the weary hours of toil and fatigue or, if they remember, they rejoice to see thom over,

Have Bora e time ago. A fair Shelley appears to have first number of people gathered to met Kenta in February 1817, but leten to a lecture both interestinx Keats did not take so kindly to and instructive. Prof. L. Forater Shelley, as Shelley did to Keats. presided and at the conclusios Keats was sensitive on the score

odour, and sweet sbund, voiced the thanks and apprecia-of his origin. In 1818, we hear tion of those who were present.

Lamented Adonnla of Kents accusing Shelley and Instead of mountain shepherds, In his opening the lecturer Leigh Hunt of a wish to see him the living ports are called to briefly sketched the Hfe and death undervalued: When Shelley and tament round his bler. of John Keats, on whose death his second wife settled Ih Grent Adonals was an elegy. Ken's Marlow in 1817, it seems that he inshes the writer of the critique emancipation and expansion of a Dr. J. C. MacGown, Mr. 8. W. In stanzas 36, 37 and 38, Shelley tion of incalculable energies, the cut, in addition to the Chair. man, werd Dr. W. V. M. Kooh, died in 1821 in Italy and was burl-asked Keats to become a member in the 'Quarterly Review On force within the soul, victorious Tro, Dr. W. W. Poarse (Modical ed at Home, he himself, composing of the household. In 1820, Shelley, this point comes the great turn-over his epitaph. "Here lice ones whose hearing of Kent's Illness, wrote ing point of the poem "the trans-and elevated by contact with auch (Asaistant

circumstanco, exhilarated Officer of Health), Dr. Sovern name was writ in water." Con and invited him to come and live tion from death, sorrow and the hopes as

Medical Officer of tinuing the lecturer suld, "In with him in Italy as

make a feebler spirit Health and the Secretary (Mr. hia gueat, past to immortality, joy and the tremble." Proface to "Adonals" Shelley Shelley also wrote to the editor rapture of things that can

G. S. Kennedy-Skipton). wrote "The cemetery is an open of the Quarterly Review' a letter pass away." The first part of the space among the ruins, covered in of protest against the article that poem leads naturally to the second winter with violets and dulsic-attacked Kents; but

this letter, and the poem is one great It might make one in love with like so many of Shelley's was armonious whole. death, to think that one should be never sent. Writing to Thomas Stanzas 39, 40, 41, 42 and 43 aro in a year, the ashes of Percy Love Peacock In 1820, Shelley in a sense the peroration or sum..

ANNUAL PRIZE-GIVING.

Yes, rojeico, my dear children, Bysshe Shelly were laid close by.says, with reference to Kents' lasting up of the poem. They are.

The annual distribution of prizes that one more year's work is over, volume of poems, that it was a sublime declaration of Shelley's Of Joseph Severn, who accom-

significant

and from the satisfaction you. Italian Convent School. philosophy of man's relation to of the enough except for panied Kents to Italy, Shelles ont Wing to Mr. Leigh the universe. We are not analysing Caine Rond, took pince last even-feel now in realizing your success, {wrote (also lu the Preface t

"Adonais")

a philosophical exposition and ing and was attended by a large draw fresh courago for what is Hunt, the same month, he says futile to try and fix precisely gathering, Among those present

still undone. This is your present "He (Keats), was necompani that he is destined to become one after death and much less to labei Apostolic, Mr. G. N. Orme, Direct you perform it well now, thero that Hyperion promises for Keats Shelley's theories about existence were the Rev. Fr. Spada, pro-Vicar task, the easiest in your life, and ed to Rome and attended in his of the finest writers of his age, thent. Keats' soul has been last lness, by Mr. Severn, but that his other, things are im

abtor of Education, Lady Severn and a every hope of your success in young artist of the highest perfact enough,

Horbed into primeval nature the Rev. Fr. Robert.

the harder ones that will be alloted promise, who, I have been in what in worse, written in that bad blended with the universal spirit occasion by the pupils to entertain thankful to God for the Christian forces; his thoughts have become

Opportunity was

on. taken of the to you later Above all, bo formed, almost risked his own sort of style which is becoming of beauty. life. and

sacrifeed every fashionable among those who fancy)

their parents and friends with an education, you receive, which, prospect. to unwearied atten- that they are imitating Hunt and

operetta, musical and vocal items, while developing you intelligence, dance upon his dying friend. Wordsworth."

Individually and collectively, the moulds your I the same letter known these cumstances Before the comple-ing Keats in Italy, when 1.shall his body lies buried in Rome. Let manner that won unstinted ap-faithful to them, always perform- che says that is anxiously expect the dead Adonais, Ile to dead and giris acquitted themselves in the highest moral principles, and bo tion of my poem, I should have take care to bestow every possible him who persists in mourning Among those taking part in the dutiful.

plause from the audience. ing what is honest, upright and been tempted to add my feeble attention on him. I consider his Adonais compare himself with tribute of applause to the more a most valuable life, and I am Adonais and then think of himself G. Gutierrez and Master O, Ozorio, Lady Severn, who have been so Also a word of thanks to you, concert programme were Master solid recompense which the vir- deeply interested In tuous man finds in the recollect intend to be the physician both of within which he is but an infinite-L. Williams, M. Chan, M. Danon- prizes to-day. The Iter. Mother his safety: in comparison with the univers the Misses M. Gardner, L. Dunn, kind as to consent to distribute the tion of his own motives, Mr. his soul, to keep one warm, and to simul speck. Let him go to Rome Severn can dispense with a reach the other Greek and Spanish, where ages, empires and religionsberg, L. Gubbay, D. Leonard, E. Superlor and all the Sisters with ward from 'sueh stuff as dreams

me to express their gratitude and are made of. His couduct is I am nourishing a rival who, will wrought. Keats and such na he and P. Hynes.

I am aware indeed,,in part, that ile buried in the ruins they have McNeill. C. Horley, E. Thomas

high appreciation for the keen in- golden augury of the success of

Mr.J. P. Braga read the school terest you take in their feeblo his future career-may the us far surpass rac; but this is an gain no adventitious or accidental

behalf of the Mother endeavours to do some good in extinguished spirit of his illus-aided motive, and will be an added honours from having been buriel report on trious friend animate the crea-j pleasure."

fin Rome amidst this wreck. They Superior, aftop which,,Lady Severn this Colony. Grateful thanks ara dun to Lady Ho Tung who so kind- tions of his pencil, and pleadį Keats died on February 23, 1821. confer honour, for being the kings presented the prizes. against Oblivion for his name." His death was announced in the down in the ruin of institutions, Fr. Spada address the gathering. pupils with ber yearly Scholar- After the presentation the Rev. ly rewards the good will of our of thought, they were not dragged

A Local Connection.

Examiner of March 20, and it rather, they contended against He said: "The Speech Day of a ship, to Mr. Orme, Director of was probably from these The Colonial Secretary of Hong-or frem a letter of

pages, that ruin,

In this way Keats' school is always a joyous occur Education, to Mr. Ralphs who ao one Horace resting place IA kong is a grandson of Josep Smith, that Shelley first heard the beneath the pyramid of Cestius of a year's strenuous work, both work in our

introduced renee,because it is the harvest day nobly encourages the educational School, to all the Severn, who was also buried, in news. He certainly did not bear and this reminds Shelley of his on the side of the teachers and Ladies and Gentlemen who have due course, in the old Protestant the news until more than a month own little hoy buried in the same of the pupils, and when the har honoured our little entertainment Cemetery in Rome. Indeed his

grave is alongside that of Jol affection

after the event. "Deep personat cemetery and of all the misertes vest comes on, the labourers forget with their presence." (Applause).

for Kent Professor Keats, the poet, and his friend.

I have mentioned the publica felt; but the untimely death of a Dowden writes, "Shelley had never tion in April, 1818. of 'Endymion, young man of genius, the victim, | I have also mentioned that 1820.

as he believed of an unmerited per-

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when Kents was on the eve of hiscation, moved him to sorrow and

departure from England, the

general Indifference of the public. Indignation."

Meditation on Death.

ferived his poems, were among the class of elegiae poem, which do

The Adonais' belongs to that causes which contributed to the poet's misery, Undoubtedly these not aim at perpetuating thei harusaments

hastened

Keats'

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pears to have believed that it was. tion of grief, and an impassioned the brutal unkindness of the re.meditation upon death. We do not view of Endymion" which appear-know Keats more truly, when we Jed in the 'Quarterly Review' which have read Shelley's poem, but our: Einduced the disease which killed spirits are allowed to contemplate Keats. Kents was, as a fact, at- arigat. the untimely and audden tacked in two periodicals-The withdrawal which we must lament,

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wood's Magazine.' Shelley seems not real.

to have known about the "Quarter- Shelley chose, 19 ↑ foundation ly Revlow' attack only; at any for his poem, the lament of Bion rute he never refers to the Black-Shelley's Adonals

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wood's Magazine' attack. The for Adonnis, and of Moschus for "Blackwood's Magazine' attack] Bion. Adonaia was 11 beautiful (was taunting and insulting, while youth, loved by Aphrodite, whore the attack made by the 'Quarter-juntimely death is the subject of Hy Review,' was surering and Bion's lament. Biɛn was polaon- superciliours. The attack made infed and his death was the subject Blackwood's Magazine' seems to of lament in Moachu's greatest have annoyed Keats most, though poem. Shelley's preface to possibly the sneers of the 'Quar-Adonnis, has at its head two quo-| terly Review were more danaging tations. The firal in I quotation to his literary reputation.

Attack on Kents.

A series of articles on the Cock-1 Iney school of poetry was begun in; Blackwood's Magazine' in 1817. These articles were directed main- ly, and most venomously against Leigh Hunt. The fourth of these farticles, which seems to have ap

peared in August 1818 fell foul) lof Kents,

from Plato the poet, and was translated by Sheller himself, as; follows:

"Thou wert the morning star

among the living,

Ere thy fair light had fled; Now, having died, thou art as

Hesperus, giving

New splendour to the dead." The second quotation is from the lament of Moschus for Blon, be translated ዳጊ

The attack in the Quarterly Re-and it may view appeared in Septemer of the

follows: Humo your. The criticism of the 'Quarterly Review," was not what Shelley calls it in his, preface to 'Adonals'-"savage," it is rather contemptuous. , It undoubtedly points out what are real defects In 'Endymion. The grounds on which one can fairly object to the uriticism, are that, its tone is pur-1 posely ill-natured. Its recogni-j tion of merits out of all propor tion to its censure of defects; also

"Poison came, Boin. to thy: mouth-thou didst know poison, To such lips ns thins did it come, and was not sweetened? | What mortal was 20 cruel that could mix polson for thee, or who could give thee the venom. that heard thy volco? Surely! ho had no muale in his soul."

Shelley's Transmutation,

But Shelley transmuted that

that it shows prejudice, in that it material of Bion and Moschus into

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