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...Saturdays. The principal addition to the gallery of paintings, the present year, is a most excellent and life-like portrait of the founder of the gallery of art, Winthrop Hillyer, painted during the present year by N. B. Kittrell. An extensive series of colored plates, representing the noted altar pieces in the most celebrated churches in the world, as well as the master-pieces of fresco painting by the old masters, have also been added to the collection...
Richer gifts on her altar...
THIS morning, at half-past eleven precisely, an unfortunate young man, Mr. T. Jones, underwent the extreme penalty of infatuation, by expiating his attachment to Miss Mary Smith in front of the altar railings at St. Marys-in-the-fields...
...dare to disclose my love, but feasted my eyes on the charms of her arms and the grace of her face. At length, after many trials and tribulations expressed in many mournful strains, my love is crowned with success, and I am about to lead her to the altar and live happily ever afterwards, when she discloses to me that in taking her I must also take her mother, two maiden aunts, a grandmother (paternal), and a little sister under my protection. This is too much, and I send Belinda the following farewell...
Mindful that Israel's altar stood...