f SECOND EVENING'S AMUSEMENT In a Library. EXTRACTS FROM OSSIAN'S POEMS, WITH CURSORY OBSERVATIONS, &c. &c. "Who comes with her songs from the hill? is it the maid of "the voice of love! The white-armed daughter of Toscar! Often hast thou heard my song; often given the tear of beauty." OUR amusement on a former evening, dear friends, was concluded by noticing the power of music and song among people inhabiting a fertile and enchanting country. Let us now turn to the north, and contemplate a people in a primitive state, who are more under the influence of the imagination than of the judgment, and the features of the landscape differing no less, than the feelings and sentiments of the aborigines. Here, amid scenes at once solemn and lugubrious, we find them cherishing profound impressions of moral sentiment:-here, no bright sun, no verdant mead, no enamelled bank invites the imagination to |