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 THE SOUTH-SEA HOUSE

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    READER, in t been receiving t a lean annuitant like myself) to t, to secure a place for Dalston, or Sreat nort tone edifice, to t --  abuts upon Bise? I dare say t often admired its magnificent portals ever gaping o vie, ers and pillars, races of goers-in or comers-out -- a desolation sometrade, -- a centre of busy interests. ts  up, till to be seen stately porticos; imposing staircases; offices roomy as tate apartments in palaces deserted, or traggling clerks; till more sacred interiors of court and committee rooms, ors seated in form on solemn days (to proclaim a dead dividend,) at long en tables, t arnis-leating massy silver inkstands long since dry -- ts ures of deceased governors and sub-governors, of queen Anne, and t monarcy; -- s, ed; -- dusty maps of Mexico, dim as dreams,-- and soundings of ts, appended, in idle roo , conflagration: --  ranges of cellarage under all, ;unsunned ; for Mammon to ary  ed, or scattered into air at t of t famous BUBBLE.

    [Footnote] * I passed by te. -- Ossian.

    Suc least, suc y years ago,  relic!  alterations may  since, I unities of verifying. time, I take for granted,  fres. No ed ters. A t by time stagnates upon it. t tening upon its obsolete ledgers and day-books, ed from tions, but ot generations ries. Layers of dust ed (a superfoetation of dirt!) upon t seldom used to be disturbed, save by some curious finger, noive to explore ty, seeking to unveil some of teries of t tremendous ent tty peculators of our day look back upon ion, and ion of rivalry, as emplating titan size of Vauxs super.

    Peace to titution are upon thy walls, proud house, for a memorial!

    Situated as t, in t of stirring and living commerce, -- amid t and fever of speculation --  t prosperity, ant faces, as it ing t of business -- to templative,to suc -- a cessation -- a coolness from business -- an indolence almost cloistral --  reverence  bare rooms and courts at eventide! t -- tant,  by me, stiff as in life. Living accounts and accountants puzzle me. I  t dead tomes,  day could lift from tastic flourisive rubric interlacing triple columniations, set doy of cypences at t ured to open a book of business, or bill of lading -- tly vellum covers of some of t persuading us t  into some better library, are very agreeable and edifying spectacles. I can look upon t dragons ors s for) are as good as any trograde.

    ty years back- from t I o do ook of the place!

    tly (for tablis did not admit of superfluous salaries) bac muco do) persons of a curious and speculative turn of mind. Old-fasioned before. s, for tions; and, not  togetendency to assimilate te bodies to eac, for t part, placed in to it te s and oddities, unqualified, if I may so speak, as into a common stock.  of Noaery. Domestic retainers in a great  more for s pleasant fello a fe considerable proficiency on te.

    t t time on. rymen stamped on   bottom. o t, po, in to ures of ermed, in my young days, Maccaronies.  of t race of beaux. Melanc over er all t) remulous fingers, as if  er; in o imagine ed, at least, y of ristful visage clearing up a little over  neck of veal at Andertons at till aken a little before er of ted for t five-and-ty years), but not attaining ts animation till evening brougea and visiting. taneous sound of  troke of topic of never-failing mirte, e into secret ory ! ryman, Pennant icular, could not be more eloquent tion to old and nee of old tres, creets gone to decay --  in C anecdote, derived from paternal tradition, of tesque figures s of to try, from teent alive tering obscurities of y of the Seven Dials!

    Deputy, under Evans, ame. oop of a nobleman. You minster-oop, I mean t gentle bending of t men, must be supposed to be t of an ual condescending attention to tions of t strained to t in t leisure to smile at tive insignificance of tensions   order. It did not reaco a saate of  tame lefolks,  all times  meagre person,  s sinned in over-pampering; but in its veins ionsood, -- mucainty at time of day, -- to trious, but unfortunate er. t of toop. t -- timent -- t solitary star of your lives, -- ye mild and  of intellect, and in ty of your station! to you instead of ricead of rank, instead of glittering attainments: and it ogeted none ; but,  like solamen.

    Of quite anotamp ant, Joipp. ended to rut tter. ;t an accountant test cer in test accountant in it.quot; Yet Jo   ainly, es to t abominably. e of official rooms in treet, antial appended to to enlarge a mans notions of  lived in t es of a concert of quot;s breasts,quot; as our ancestors s on, and drank e like Lord Midas among t at tipp e anot of creature. t al, ic  rebuke. Politics  too refined and abstracted. ty of man consisted in ing off dividend s. triking of t year in ts for a mont t tipp o ty) in  sigurn of tifling days  intricate accounts of t flouris to a genuine accountant tional farto  as tand before it. rue actor, , must act it ensity. itipp form ions seemed ruled  less erring t.  executor in t executorsed y in equal ratios. ipp s ttle orps enacity like t commended terests to ection. it  of timidity -- (o give it a o ttle on ture certainly o endo measure of tion. t despise, because it reacs elements; it betrays itself, not you: it is mere temperament; tic and terprising; it sees a lion in t, inbras, quot;greatly find quarrel in a stra; ake. tipp never mounted tage-coac t; or looked do off a gun; or  upon a er-party; or  you go if : neit recorded of  for lucre, or for intimidation, he ever forsook friend or principle.

    sy dead, in  t, tters, teredst ttedst it in mid-day -- ( t some quirk t left a sting! tinct, or survive but in tten volumes, o rescue from a stall in Barbican, not terse, fresic, as alive. t is a little gone by in tidious days -- topics are staled by t;ne; of time -- but great to be in Public Ledgers, and in Con, and tearing from Great Britain t, and Ricics. -

    A little less facetious, and a great deal more Obstreperous, tling, rattle in a rigensions, like tle of ter bend) from tfordsradition gave ; and certain family features not a little sanctioned tainly old alter Plumer (ed auted mucaly, and o till living, y in so many successive parliaments, and er flouris a business of franks,  in Jo business. It is certain our Plumer did noto discountenance t leness, insinuated. But, besides ensions, Plumer was an engaging fellow, and sang gloriously. -

    Not so sly sang Plumer as t, mild, coral M -- ; a flutes breatones  c t song sung by Amiens to ter  to be ungrateful. te.  le offspring of blustering er : -- only unfortunate in tory, swan-like. -

    Muco sing. Many fantastic s t be mine in private -- already I o top of  ; -- else could I omit t strange creature oollett, rying tion, and bougigations ? -- and still stranger, inimitable, solemn y Neion.  deliberation would  a wafer ! --

    Pgt; But it is time to close -- nigtling fast over me -- it is proper to his solemn mockery.

    Reader, astic insubstantial like henry Pimpernel, and old John Naps of Greece : --

    Be satisfied t someto tance is from t.

 OXFORD IN THE VACATION

    Casting a preparatory glance at ttom of ticle -- as ts,  reads, seems as t read not,) never fails to consult t in to be a Vivares, or a oollet -- methinks I hear you exclaim, Reader, ho is Elia?

    Because in my last I tried to divert tten , in an old o decay, doubtless you  me doary of tc scrivener -- one t sucks enance, as certain sick people are said to do, through a quill.

    ell, I do agnize somet. I confess t it is my  of tters requires some relaxation -- (and none better t first sig ab from udies) -- to emplation of indigos, cottons, ra place * * * * * * and t sends you ite to your books * * * * * not to say, t your outside ss, and e o t kindly and naturally, ts, epigrams, essays -- so t ting-, ttings up of an aut -rucks of figures and cyps so at its ease over t-ground of a midnigation. -- It feels its promotion. * * * * * * * So t you see, upon terary dignity of Elia is very little, if at all, compromised in the condescension.

    Not t, in my anxious detail of ties incidental to t blind to certain flao pick in t. And  o regret tion, and doing-aogetory interstices, and sprinklings of freedom, tter days, noo all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. tephen, and Barnabas -

    quot;Andre;

    o keep all t sc Cs. I remember token, in tt Prayer Book. ter in ure -- lemy in troublesome act of flaying, after tti. I   tion of Iscariot -- so muco keep  I a little grudged at tion of tter Jude  ities togeto make up one poor gaudy-day betion.

    t visitations in a sc;far off t; -- I old you sucs-day falls out next er. Peradventure ty tle better t me not be t to arraign tion of tides to be papistical, superstitious. Only in a custom of sucanding, met sounded -- but I am  of my dept to decide ts of civil and ecclesiastical auty -- I am plain Elia -- no Selden, nor Arc present in t of learning, under ty Bodley.

    I can leman, enact tudent. to suc food of academic institution, noo ies. tion, too, at time of t ake my ed, and fancy myself of anding I please. I seem admitted ad eundem. I fetc opportunities. I can rise at t it rings for me. In moods of y I can be a Sizar, or a Servitor. rut a Gentleman Commoner. In graver moments, I proceed Master of Arts. Indeed I do not t respectable cer. I acles, drop a bosy, as I pass, aking me for somet. I go about in black,  to pass for not of a Serapor.

    t times are so mucall trees of Cs, ted, and ing one to slip in unperceived, and pay a devoir to some Founder, or noble or royal Benefactress (t srait seems to smile upon to adopt me for to take a peep in by t tteries, and sculleries, redolent of antique ality: tcc pies uries ago; and spits  minister among t is o me tion, and th a Manciple.

    Antiquity! t art t, being not every t, t not antiquity -- t not  a remoter antiquity, as t it, to look back to ion; to t, jejune, modern!  mystery lurks in troversion? or  look forry ! ty future is as not is every thing!

    [Footnote] * Januses of one face. -- Sir thomas Browne.

    ly t o  t  an accompanying feeling, as t our ancestors o and fro groping!

    Above all ties, old Oxenford,  arride and solace me, are tories of mouldering learning, thy shelves -

    a place to be in is an old library! It seems as ters, t o tory, or middle state. I do not  to o profane ts. I could as soon dislodge a so ined coverings is fragrant as t bloom of tial apples whe happy orchard.

    Still less y to disturb tiones, so tempting to te palates, do but disturb and unsettle my fait of tnesses mig unimpeacies to Porson, and to G. D. --  Oriel. it into a book. ood as passive as one by to ne  ered for a tall Scapula.

    D. is assiduous in s to ts of learning. No inconsiderable portion of e fortune, I appre, aken up torneys, attorneys clerks, apparitors, promoters, vermin of ts, quot;in calm and sinless peace.quot; t -- tigation blooucice to ;strike an abstract idea.quot;

    D. ells me, tigation into all curious matter connected ies; and ely lit upon a MS. collection of cers, relative to C--, by tle some disputed point --particularly t long controversy beto priority of foundation. ts, I am afraid,  met  it deserved, eit C--. Your caputs, and  tions. -- Contented to suck tains of ters,  inquiring into tleies to be impertinent -- unreverend. t muco rake into title-deeds. I gat least so muc a man to complain.

    D. started like an unbroke errupted   very probable t  D. ion to a provoking s-sig of late studies and c t oil) D. is t absent of men.  our friend M.s in Bedford-square; and, finding nobody at o t exactitude of purpose ers me  in suco record timely or unfortunate visitor -- and takes . Some ter, inies returned o t image of t M.s -- Mrs. M. presiding at it like a Queen Lar, ty A. S. at riking irresistibly on ting t t;certainly not to return from try before t day ;) and disappointed a second time, inquires for pen and paper as before: again t, and in t above t in o print )  name (scarce dry) looks out upon er e ! -- t may be conceived. D. made many a good resolution against any sucure. I  keep too rigorously For o be absent from times (not to speak it profanely) to be present  time ion or, being stopped, starts like a t t moment, reader,  tabor -- or Parnassus -- or co-spo -- or, on, framing quot;immortal common; -- devising some plan of amelioration to try, or ture meditating some individual kindness or courtesy, to be done to turning consciousness of art so guiltily at truded personal presence.

    D. is delig  t in suc muc of  at Buxton, at Scarborouge. to ;better ters of Damascus. -- On table Mountains; and o serpreter at tiful.

 CHRISTS HOSPITAL FIVE AND THIRTY YEARS AGO

    IN Mr. Lambs quot;orks,quot; publis eulogy on my old sc o o   my oanding at Cs itude to ers, I trived to bring togetever can be said in praise of t most ingeniously.

    [Footnote] quot;Recollections Of Cs alquot;

    I remember L. at sc t ages,  o see t as often as inction  reasurer to temple can explain  ea and  rolls in a morning, er of a penny loaf -- our crug moistened tenuated small beer, in c casteless, and turday, coarse and c;extra-ordinary bread and butter,quot; from t-loaf of temple. t, some -- ( days in to e o make it go do cinnamon. In lieu of our e fresrong as caro equina), estable marigolds floating in to poison ty mutton crags on Fridays -- and rat grudging, portions of tten-roasted or rare, on tuesdays (ted our appetites, and disappointed our stomac equal proportion --  plate of roast veal, or tempting griskin (exotics unknoo our palates), cooked in ternal kitc t ! I remember tive (in one in a by-nook of ters disclosing tes o tise); and tending passions of L. at t, and ts bringing; sympatoo many to s; and, at top of all, , strongest of t, breaking doony fences of sroubling over-consciousness.

    I s, and tances of to me in t city, after a little forced notice, ake of me on my first arrival in toired of my s. to to recur too often, t ter anot myself alone among six es.

    O ty of separating a poor lad from ead! to o in tive to) come back, s crees, and faces!  exclaim upon s Calne in iltshire!

    to te race impressions left by tion of turn but ting memory of trange arrangement, urned out, for to go to, or none. I remember to tter, I t mucer-pastimes -- o trip under t on like young dace in treams; getting us appetites for noon, y morning crust long since exed)  ttle, and t feed about us, and isfy our cravings -- ty of time, and ty, setting a keener edge upon t and languid, finally, urn, to, t ty had expired!

    It er, to go pro treets objectless -- s cold -so extract a little amusement; or  resort, in ttle novelty, to pay a fifty-times repeated visit (o too itle to admission. L.s governor (so ron o tion) lived in a manner under ernal roof. Any complaint tended to. tood at Cs, and ual screen to  ty of masters, or yranny of tors. tes are -sickening to call to recollection. I  of my bed, and  er nig once, but niger nig, to receive t pleased my calloer o bed, to make t beds in tory, o commit, nor o yranny drove t of us from t ies, forbad ter, s.

    ter days, ing some maturer offence in tter myself in fancying t t be ter of t name, . Kits, some feobin  instrument of bringing o tty Nero actually branded a boy, arved forty of us, ing contributions, to to pamper a young ass, er (a young flame of rived to smuggle in, and keep upon tories. t on for better till t, not able to fare   cry roast meat --  , foolis, and kicking, in te o t , bleoppling do concealment any longer at defiance. t ain attentions, to Smit I never understood t tron under any censure on tewardship of L.s admired Perry.

    Under tration, can L. ten ty o carry aters, for tables, one out of t, ised in t magnificent apartment, ;by Verrio, and ot;  is quot;; But t of sleek  boys in pictures  t time, I believe, little consolatory to ter part of our provisions carried ahe hall of Dido)

    to feed our mind raiture.

    L. o gags, or t of fress it doo some superstition. But tuous morsels are never grateful to young palates (c-ers) and in strong, coarse, boiled meats, unsalted, are detestable. A gag-eater in our time  to a goul, and estation. -- suffered under tation.

    ---- `twas said

    e strange flesh.

    er dinner, carefully to gats left at able (not many, nor very cs, you may credit me) and, in an especial manner, table morsels, otle t stood at e t  ely devoured t. c no traces of suc practices ed, t, on leave-days, o carry out of t be ture next  o imagine . Some said  to t about moping. None spake to ed; put out of too poo be beaten, but  every mode of t negative punis, ill  lengto get at t, and raced  purpose, to enter a large  building, suc specimens of in C out to various scales of pauperism aircase. After ly slunk in, and folloealts, and sa a poor , ainty. tim. toils. Accusation ribution most signal tle after my time),  patient sagacity ermined to investigate tter, before o sentence. t  ts, terious scraps, turned out to be ts of -- , an  couple come to decay, --  tork, at to ted a present relief to ted eo --, I believe,  be lost upon ory. -- I  sc I  all calculated to conciliate ile prejudices. I . I t do quite so well by he old folks.

    I ters, upon t putting on t exactly fitted to assuage tural terrors of initiation. I ender years, barely turned of seven; and  in dreams. I old  for t offence. -- As a novice I er taken to see ttle, square, Bedlam cells,  ra -- a mattress, I terituted -- , let in askance, from a prison-orifice at top, barely enougo read by.  sig ter  speak to o call  to receive isement,  separated erval from solitude: and  up by s, out of to suffer ion incident to ime of life, mig o.* ty for t to see w became of  degree?

    [Footnote] * One or tances of lunacy, or attempted suicide, accordingly, at lengt of tence, and t torture to ts  of o  on atue.

    t, ime deemed irreversible, o da fe, arrayed in uncout appalling attire -- all trace of e quot;c ; carefully effaced, , resembling ters formerly delig of titure ed. ited features, it s in Dante   into te state-room), s o seo be seen for t time; of tioner beadle, clad in ate robe for t, because never but in tremities visible. tomed to officiate at tima Supplicia; not to mitigate (so at least ood it), but to enforce ttermost stripe. Old Bamber Gascoigne, and Peter Aubert, I remember, o prepare eries. ter tately. tor accompanied te round too faint tending to ting -- circumstances, to make accurate report ed. Report, of course, gave out tty and livid. After scourging, o, to  commonly suces o o en of tation allotted to side of te.

    tries  played off so often as to spoil ty. e y of exercise and recreation after sc confess, t I  as t of tants on ter; but tt portion of tment, of o be a member. e lived a life as careless as birds. e talked and did just ed us. e carried an accidence, or a grammar, for form; but, for any trouble it gave us, ting t, and anotting all t y of saying a lesson, but if you  learned it, a brus enougo disturb a fly) rance. Field never used trut good ;like a dancer.quot; It looked in rument of auty; and an emblem, too,  did not care to ruffle  any great consideration upon time.  often staid ao us -- e room to retire to, t time aid, to be out of t on. e  being beo quot;insolent Greece or y Rome,quot; t passed current among us -- Peter ilkins -- tures of t. Robert Boyle -- tunate Blue Coat Boy -- and tivated a turn for mecific operations; making little sun-dials of paper; or -cradles; or making dry peas to dance upon tin pipe; or studying t military over t laudable game quot;Frenc; and a o pass aime -- mixing to have seen us.

    Matto t class of modest divines o mix in equal proportion tleman, tian; but, I kno  ingredient is generally found to ing dose in tion. ies, or ly bo some episcopal levee ion; and  form seldom proceeded furtroductory fables of Po go on t guess. Boyer, erfering in a province not strictly  been  my suspicions, t  altoget contrast ed to  of s to ans. imes, o borroer, and to one of ; and fres; udents tering to,  enjoined by te,  our ease in our little Gostle into ts of  did but to our lot. orms came near, but never toucrary to Gideons miracle,  tter sc, age in temper.  speak of  someterror allaying titude; t idleness, and Elysian exemptions, and life itself a quot;playing ;

    [Footnote] * Cowley.

    tly removed from tion of Boyer, and a little of em. e occasionally es, and caugartarus. B. . yle  to barbarism. er anty obliged o ts) ing as scrannel pipes. ily, but t must be at Flaccuss quibble about Rex -- or at tristis severitas in vultu, or inspicere in patinas, of terence -- ts,  broaco move a Roman muscle. -- ic, but of differing omen. tokening a mild day. t, angry caxon, denoting frequent and bloody execution. oe to te  expounded surer. -- J. B. ty fist at a poor trembling cernal milk s lips) ;Sirrao set your s at me? quot; -- Noto see ry into turbulent eye, singling out a lad, roar out, quot;Ods my life, Sirra; (e adjuration) quot;I  mind to racting impulse, fling back into er a cooling lapse of some minutes (during  otally forgotten text) drive  again, piecing out  sense, as if it any ory yell -- quot;and I ILL, too.quot; -- In ler moods, o an ingenious met I o es, at time; a paragrapory  at a  and flouris calculated to impress tient ion for toric.

    [Footnote] * In tipodes of or. , F. ing lemanly fancy in ttle dramatic effusion of umnus and Pomona, is not yet forgotten by t sort of literature. It ed by Garrick, but to give it tion. -- B. used to say of it, in a  oo classical for representation

    Once, and but once, ted rod o fall ineffectual from ing  --  putting ters desk to a use for   designed it, to justify  simplicity averred, t  kno te irrecognition of any laecedent to tory, struck so irresistibly upon t (t excepted) t remission was unavoidable.

    L.  to B.s great merits as an instructor. Coleridge, in erary life, elligible and ample encomium on try Spectator doubts not to compare  teaciquity. Per dismiss ter tion of C. -- o bliss by little ctoms to reproacies.quot;

    Under  Grecian of my time  Pepys Stevens, kindest of boys and men, since Co-grammar-master (and inseparable companion) -----e.  an edifying spectacle did t to ti-socialities of t treet  a  immediate sub-appearance of tors ligoilsome duties of t convenient to retire, t long in discovering t it suited o lay do is pleasant, as it is rare, to find t forty, een  to turn over tia, or some tale of Antique Friends even to anticipate! Co-Grecian ed y various diplomatic functions at ts. tall, dark, saturnine youton folloa) a scleman in eens. ation of an excellent critic; and is autry Spectator) of a treatise on ticle, against So bear re as (I dare say) sufficiently justifies ty quite as primitive as t of Je be exactly fitted to impress tic diocesans itutions, and tered. t sc to M. (if not senior to ons, t spirited of tudious Grecian. -- ted M----- of t.

    Finding some of Edwards race

    Unheir annals by.

    Come back into memory, like as t in t yet turned -- Samuel taylor Coleridge -- Logician, Metapers stand still, intranced ion (o  intonations, teries of Jamblicinus (for even in t not pale at sucs), or reciting o ts of ty-boy ! -- Many ;-combats,quot; (to dally a far  sloides, tack about, and take advantage of all  and invention.quot;

    Nor s tten, Allen, ill more cordial laug  to make ters sion of some poignant jest of ticipation of some more material, and, peradventure, practical one, of tinct are t beautiful countenance,  turer  disarm ted toigress-like round, suddenly converted by terrible quot;bl--,quot; for a gentler greeting -- quot;bless t;

    Next folloo be noemper, tter by too quick a sense of neglect -- ill capable of enduring ts poor Sizars are sometimes subject to in our seats of learning -- excer for te, and one on tile, s-natured; F----- dogged, faiticipative of insult,  about him.

    Fine, frank-ed Fr-- , t master of ford, -----, mildest of Missionaries -- and botill -- close talogue of Grecians in my time.

 THE TWO RACES OF MEN.

    to t tinct races, to ties may be reduced all tinent classifications of Gotic tribes, ;Partes,quot; flock urally fall in inctions. te superiority of to designate as t race, is discernible in t, and a certain instinctive sovereignty. tter are born degraded. quot;; t, lean and suspicious; contrasting rusting, generous manners of ther.

    Observe  borroaff, Sir Riceele -- our late incomparable Brinsley ment  rosy gills! iful reliance on Providence dot, -- taking no more t t contempt for money, -- accounting it (yours and mine especially) no better t a liberal confounding of tic distinctions of meum and tuum! or rat a noble simplification of language (beyond tooke), resolving tes into one clear, intelligible pronoun adjective!  near approaco tive community, to tent of one  least! --

    rue taxer o be taxed;quot; and tance is as vast bet tan Majesty and t obolary Je paid it tribute-pittance at Jerusalem! -- ions, too, ary air! So far removed from your sour parocate-gats, o you roublet; confining o no set season. Every day is  of ormentum of a pleasant look to your purse, gentle urally as traveller, for ic  eacim, o ruggles iny; . Lend to lend -- t t in t preposterously in ties of Lazarus and of Dives! -- but, y coming, meet it smilingly, as it rain not courtesies h a noble enemy.

    Reflections like ted t mucrouble. ed  from migors of t name, ions and sentiments  tock to  noble disinterestedness  race, ook almost immediate measures entirely to dissipate and bring to noting in te purse; and ts of Bigod  of disfurnis; getting rid of t (as one sings)

    to slacken virtue, and abate her edge,

    t o do aug praise,

    fort enterprise, quot;borroo borro;

    In riump progress t t ed t yt of tants under contribution. I reject timate as greatly exaggerated: -- but imes, in ions about t city, I oly struck at first , ful acquaintance o explain the phenomenon.

    It seems, tributaries; feeders of lemen, o express o udes did no  ook a pride in numbering to be quot;stocked ;

    it o keep reasury aly.  by force of an apen in  quot;money kept longer tinks.quot; So  oss-pot), some  erally tossing and  violently from  ious, -- into ponds, or ditcable cavities of t (erest -- but out a go peremptorily, as o t . . treams  y to fall in ranger, o contribute to terior, a quick, jovial eye, a bald fore toucicipated no excuse, and found none. And,  race, I  it to t unt times ,  more repugnant to ture to refuse suco say no to a poor petitionary rogue (your bastard borro s notter; and, tions and expectations you do in reality so muche refusal.

    : ,  at t ed since, I grudge ts, and t I am fallen into ty of lenders, and little men.

    to one like Elia, ors more formidable t ors of collections, spoilers of try of sors of odd volumes. tccions! t foul gap in ttom s eyetoot -- (you are notle back study in Bloomsbury, reader!)--zer-like tomes on eacs, in ture, guardant of notallest of my folios, Opera Bonaventurae, cy, to ers (scy also, but of a lesser calibre,-- Bellarmine, and  as dself an Ascapart! -- t Comberbatcracted upon to suffer by to refute, namely, t quot;title to property in a book (my Bonaventure, for instance), is in exact ratio to ts poanding and appreciating t; Sing upon theory, which of our shelves is safe?

    t vacuum in t-ing-place of Bro treatise troduced it to  (of to discover its beauties -- but so o praise ress in to carry  belo ttoria Corombona is! tasteful as Priams refuse sons, omy of Melancate.tered te Angler; quiet as in life, by some stream side. -- In yonder nook, Jo;eyes closed,quot; mourns e.

    One justice I must do my friend, t if imes, like treasure, at anotime, sea-like,  to matc. I ion of ture (my friends gatten at ed tle memory as mine. I take in ted. tes of te are rue and in conjunction; natives, and naturalised. tter seem as little disposed to inquire out true lineage as I am. -- I c myself to tlemanly trouble of advertising a sale of to pay expenses.

    to lose a volume to C. carries some sense and meaning in it. You are sure t y meal on your viands, if  of tter after it. But eful K., to be so importunate to carry off e of tears and adjurations to to forbear, tters of t princely  Nele? -- kno time, and kno I kne assuredly  never turn over one leaf of trious folio --  t of contradiction, and cting tter of t cut of all! to transport it o the Gallican land --

    Uno ness,

    A virtue in ,

    Pure ts, kind ts, s, her sexs wonder!--

    t ts and fancies, about to keep t all companies ales? -- C oo, t part-Frencter-part Englis sreatise to oken of remembering us, taly, or England, ure constituted to compreittle! as t Zimmerman on Solitude?

    Reader, if  blessed e collection, be s; or if t overfloo lend t let it be to suc. C. -- urn ticipating time appointed) ations, tripling tter oftentimes, and almost in quantity not unfrequently, vying on; in Sir truser cogitations of t not t, nor t S. t. C.

 NEW YEARS EVE

    EVERY man  least, in every year,  affects al duration. t ude of old observances, tom of solemnizing our proper birt to c not all about tter, nor understand any t beyond cake and orange. But terest too o be pretermitted by king or cobbler. No one ever regarded t of January  is t from ime, and count upon . It is tivity of our common Adam.

    Of all sounds of all bell -- (bells, t bordering upon  solemn and touc t  a gato a concentration of all t  ted in t regretted time. I begin to knos  takes a personal colour; nor  a poetical fligemporary, when he exclaimed

    I sas of ting Year.

    It is no more t in sober sadness every one of us seems to  aaking. I am sure I felt it, and all felt it  niged rato manifest an exion at tender regrets for ts predecessor. But I am none of those who -

    elcome ting guest.

    I am naturally, beforeies: neal t . in me to face tive. I  ceased to s of oto foregone visions and conclusions. I encounter pell-mell  disappointments. I am armour-proof against old discouragements. I forgive, or overcome in fancy, old adversaries. I play over again for love, as ters p, games, for s and events of my life reversed. I er ts of some rived novel. Met is better t I s years,  so passionate a love-adventure s. It ter t our family s legacy,  I s t t t specious old rogue.

    In a degree beneat is my infirmity to look back upon t, skipping over tervention of forty years, a man may o love  tation of self-love?

    If I knoive -- and mine is painfully so -- can  for  identity, to be ligorious * * * addicted to * * * * : averse from counsel, neitaking it, nor offering it: -- * * * besides; a stammering buffoon;  on, and spare not: I subscribe to it all, and muc be o lay at  for t quot;ot; t take leave to c young master -- tle reference, I protest, to tupid cy, as if it  of my parents. I can cry over its patient small-pox at five, and rougs. I can lay its poor fevered  Cs, and  in surprise at tle posture of maternal tenderness , t unkno sopicated. -- I kno some dissembling guardian, presenting a false identity, to give to my unpractised steps, and regulate tone of my moral being!

    t I am fond of indulging, beyond a rospection, may be tom of some sickly idiosyncrasy. Or is it oo anot being  o project myself enoug of myself: and o daily urn back upon memory, and adopt my oions seem fantastical to tread out of ted only, I retire, impenetrable to ridicule, under tom cloud of Elia.

    t up,  likely to let slip titution; and t of t by tances of peculiar ceremony. -- In t c seemed to raise y in all around me, never failed to bring a train of pensive imagery into my fancy. Yet I t it meant, or t of it as a reckoning t concerned me. Not c till ty, never feels practically t al.  indeed, and, if need   not o  June e to our imagination t nos but too poo count ties of my duration, and to grudge at ture of moments and sest periods, like misers fartion as ten, I set more count upon tual finger upon t ent to pass a;like a le.quot; tap, nor sen table draugality. I care not to be carried ide, t smooto eternity: and reluct at table course of destiny. I am in love ory; tudes, and t security of streets. I  up my tabernacle ent to stand still at to  to be , as to teration, on t or in lodging, puzzles and discomposes me. My  a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up  blood. t e of being staggers me.

    Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary , and fireside conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself -- t h life?

    Can a g laug sides, h him?

    And you, my midnig I part ense delig knoo me, if it come at all, by some a of intuition, and no longer by this familiar process of reading?

    Sing tions o t;s assurance of a lookquot; -- ?

    In er tolerable disinclination to dying -- to give it its mildest name -- does more especially  and beset me. In a genial August noon, beneatering sky, deat problematic. At times do sucality. trong again, as valiant again, as  deal taller. t t nips and ss me in ts of deato tantial,  upon t master feeling; cold, numbness, dreams, perplexity; moonligself, s sral appearances, -- t cold g of ter, like t innutritious one denounced in ticles : -- I am none of he Persian.

    soever ts, or puts me out of my o my mind. All partial evils, like o t capital plague-sore. -- I o life. Sucence as a port of refuge; and speak of t arms, in  upon tom! I detest, abe, and (o six-score tance to be excused or tolerated, but so be branded, proscribed, and spoken evil of! In no  tion, or more frigive!

    tidotes, prescribed against togeting, like t satisfaction  ;lie do; ly coveted ty of suc quot;so s face appear? quot; --  me, must Alice --n be a goblin? More t at tinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon o be lecturing me ruism, t quot;suc sly ; Not so sly, friend, per. In time I am alive. I move about. I am y of tters! t. I survive, a jolly candidate for 1821. Anot turn-coat bell, t just noed, es lustily rings in a successor, let us attune to its peal ty, cton. -

    thE NE YEAR.

    star

    tells us, t far;

    And see w,

    ern .

    ith appear,

    Peeping into ture year,

    ito say,

    t is not good t way.

    ts to see,

    And `gainst ourselves to prophesy;

    ic fear of things

    A more tormenting mischief brings,

    More full of soul-tormenting gall,

    t mischiefs can befall.

    But stay ! but stay! met,

    Better informd by clearer light

    Discerns sereneness in t brow,

    t all contracted seemd but now.

    aste,

    And fro;

    But t whis way looks is clear,

    And smiles upon the New-born Year.

    oo from a place so high,

    to his eye;

    And all ts open are

    to t discoverer.

    Yet more and more he smiles upon

    tion.

    or fear

    the influences of a year,

    So smiles upon us t morn,

    And speaks us good so soon as born?

    Plague ont! t was ill enough,

    t but make better proof;

    Or, at t, as we brushrough

    t, woo;

    And t in reason shoud

    Be superexcellently good:

    For t ills (we daily see)

    uity,

    t fortunes t do fall;

    hal

    Longer to support,

    t:

    And whree,

    And yet repines at destiny, [p 32]

    Appears ungrateful in the case,

    And merits not the good he has.

    t us

    ity brimmers of t;

    Mirtune meet,

    And renders een Disaster s:

    And turn her back,

    Let us but line ourselves h sack,

    e better s,

    till t Year s.

    ty of t fortify like a cordial; enlarging t, and productive of s blood, and generous spirits, in tion?  noed ? --passed like a cloud -- absorbed in t of clear poetry -- clean ers!

 MRS. BATTLES OPINIONS ON WHIST

    A CLEAR fire, a clean ; ted le (no to ions, loved a good game at o take a  one to make up a rubber:  to  t a card-table, but are indifferent o take it up and lay anotriflers are table. One of t. Of suc may be said, t t play at cards, but only play at playing at them.

    Battle  breed. Sested t and soul; and , save upon a striking emergency,   table ner, a determined enemy. Sook, and gave, no concessions. Sed favours. S over in  exacting tmost forfeiture. S a good fig and t. S ;like a dancer.quot; Se bolt uprigo see ours. All people itions: and I  s .

    I never in my life -- and I knele many of t years of it -- sa  o play: or snuff a candle in t, till it , miscellaneous conversation during its process. As sically observed, cards aste in -century countenance, it  tleman of a literary turn, o take a   ter serious studies, in recreations of t kind! S o ion, to  lig o to do, -- and s. S erwards -- over a book.

    Pope e ed game of Ombre in t poem; and to explain to me  agreed  points it o differ from, tradrille. rations e and poignant; and I ance of to Mr. Bo I suppose too late to be inserted among es upon t author.

    Quadrille, sen told me,  eem. to allure young persons. tainty and quick sing of partners -- a tancy of ure of Spadille -- absurd as sly observed, in tocracy of y, so taking to ttractions of a Sans Prendre Vole, -- to triumpainly notingencies of ivation to tic. But  , like quadrille, a feast of snatcion ime to form rooted friendso cultivate steady enmities. Sarted, capricious, and ever fluctuating alliances of tty eps of ttle Italian states, depicted by Macually cures and connexions; bitter foe, to-day, sugared darlings to-morroc t o teady, deep-rooted, rational, antipat Frencions.

    A grave simplicity , like t most irrational of all pleas t a reasonable being can set in -- t and one sue of  reference to tensions of to be a solecism; as pitiful an ambition at cards as alliteration is in auty, and looked deeper ts o distinguis ry in red jackets, t never o be marso take t  is; and, in my mind,  it of some appendages, e of y, may be venially, and even commendably allourn of t one suit alrumps ? inguis it? --

    quot;But ty. Man is not a creature of pure reason --  fully appealed to. e see it in Roman Catries, o . -- You, yourself, ty collection of paintings -- but confess to me, ers in te-room, you ever felt your bosom glo delig all comparable to t you  in your poo experience most evenings over a ment of t cards? -- tty antic s, like riump -- trasting deadly-killing sables -- ty of spades -- Pam in all his glory! --

    quot;All t be dispensed eboard, t go on very ure-less. But ty of cards inguisripped of all t is imaginative in t degenerate into mere gambling. -- Imagine a dull deal board, or drum o spread tead of t nice verdant carpet (next to natures), fittest arena for tly combatants to play t jousts and turneys in ! -- Excely-turned ivory markers -- , unconscious of ting true application as test Ep turned out ttle stle bits of leators money) or ce!quot; -

    to ion of my arguments on e topic t evening, I ed for t Sienna marble, er Plumer,  h.

    t ( value) I  o confess a trutly taken  ially vulgar game, I ing ial to it. Sily bring o pronounce quot;go quot; -- or quot;ts a go.quot; S an ungrammatical game. teased o forfeit a rubber (a five dollar stake), because s take advantage of turn-up knave, ;tremely genteel in t of self-denial. Saratle lewoman born.

    Piquet s at try of terms -- suc -- t) of affectation. But games for tly cared for. Se, or square. S cards are : oo palpable. By t is too close a figators, it is not muctered. No looker on can be interested, except for a bet, and t is a mere affair of money;  for your luck sympatically, or for your play. -- till  every man, as in cribbage,  league or alliance; or a rotation of petty and contradictory interests, a succession of less leagues, and not mucy infractions of tradrille. -- But in square games (s  is possible to be attained in card-playing is accomplisives of profit o every species -- tter can be but very imperfectly enjoyed in tator is only feebly a participator. But ties in ators and principals too. tre to t ed. inence.  abrality or some interest beyond its sproke of skill or fortune, not because a cold -- or even an interested bystander nesses it, but because your partner sympatingency. You riumped. tified; aking off to tter reconciled, to one in t close butcile feeling is iplying tomed to defend e pastime.

    No inducement could ever prevail upon o play at any game, o tion, for notlety of   is obvious, t cannot be glory.  rational cause of exultation could it give to a man to turn up size ace a imes togetators, tery of a ickets  one fortunate number -- and ure, except stupid , could it gratify to gain t number as many times successively,  a prize ? -- ture of c  played for money. S fooliss,  under sucances. Games of pure skill tle to ake, tem of over-reacting of one mans , -- ion -- faculty rat anot at a revieless. -- S conceive a game ing tely infusion of cune. t c irring in tre, udes of Castles, and Knigly) irely misplaced and senseless. tests can in no instance ally  form and colour. A pencil and dry slate (so say) ants.

    to tors against cards, as nurturing tort, t man is a gaming animal.  -- alrying to get tter in somet t cards: t cards are a temporary illusion; in trut play at being mig stake, yet, during tily concerned as take is cro of dream-fig battling, and little bloodsy means for disproportioned ends; quite as diverting, and a great deal more innoxious, t esteeming to be such.-

    it deference to t on tters, I ts in my life,  in t spirits, I sometimes call for t piquet for love  -- Bridget Elia.

    I grant t; but ooto put up ion,

    ture, I am convinced, as sick w. -

    I grant it is not t style of man -- I deprecate ttle -- s, alas! to whom I should apologise.

    At sucimes, terms o, come in as someto get a tierce or a quatorze, to an inferior interest. those shadows of winning amuse me.

    t last game I  cousin (I capotted ell t miged for ever, t not  to go on in t idle folly for ever. t o prepare tle lenitive to my foot, o apply after t muc s and I should be ever playing.

 A CHAPTER ON EARS. I have no ear -

    Mistake me not, reader, -- nor imagine t I am by nature destitute of terior turally speaking) es to tal. Better my motely ts; and I feel no disposition to envy ty, or tness, in ts -- telligencers.

    Neito incur,  , o feel quot;quite unabas; and at ease upon t article. I ars, in t, is it iny, t I ever should be.

    I and me to mean -- for music. -- to say t t never melted at t sounds, ;ater parted from t; never fails to move it strangely. So does quot;In Infancy.quot; But to be sung at rument in vogue in tle-lest, sure, t ever merited tion -- test -- e to name Mrs. S----, once temple s; and to make remble, and blus not faintly indicated t absorbing sentiment, ined to overe, for Alice ----n.

    I even t sentimentally I am disposed to  organically I am incapable of a tune. I ising quot;God save t; all my life; o myself in solitary corners; and am not yet arrived, tell me, . Yet y of Elia never been impeached.

    I am not  suspicion, t I y of music urn, o say, quot; it could not be t; On  surprise at ouc an airy and masterful  dreaming of me, ed on Jenny. But a grace, snatc, soon convinced  some being, -- tec, but o all ts, -- o a mood ed) ented from tion tration, and not h any view of disparaging Jenny.

    Scientifically I could never be made to understand (yet aken some pains) e in music is; or e singuisenor. Only sometimes trive to guess at, from its being supereminently remble, ion of t terms of t o say I am ignorant of. I e, perenuto and adagio stand in tion of obscurity to me; and Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, is as conjuring as Baralipton. It is o stand alone -- in an age like tituted to tical perception of all ions, I verily believe, beyond all preceding ages, since Jubal stumbled upon t) to remain, as it o t,  sooting, and refining t rat of my confessions, I must avoo you, t I  deal more pain ty. I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. A carpenters  me into more t ted, unset sounds are noto to trokes; ripes, o con. to music it cannot be passive. It rive -- mine at least e of its inaptitude, to t talian Opera, till, for s into t places of treets, to solace myself  obliged to follo rid of tracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention! I take refuge in tending assemblage of  common-life sounds; -- and tory of the Enraged Musician becomes my paradise.

    I  at an Oratorio (t profanation of tcory in t (rast to ing some faint emotion, -- till (as some  our occupations in t  a s deligre in  up, ; or like t --

    -- Party in a parlour,

    All silent, and all damned!

    Above all, tos, and pieces of music, as tter my appre to be exposed to an endless battery of mere sounds; to be long a dying, to lie stretco keep up languor by unintermitted effort; to pile o an interminable tedious sness; to fill up sound rain ideas to keep pace ; to gaze on empty frames, and be forced to make tures for yourself; to read a book, all stops, and be obliged to supply tter; to invent extempore tragedies to anso tures of an inexplicable rambling mime -- t s I -executed pieces of ty instrumental music.

    I deny not, t in t, I ly lulling and agreeable:-- after disappointing book in Patmos; or, like ton, dot insinuating approac;Most pleasant it is to suco ary grove, bet er, by some brook side, and to meditate upon some delig subject, is gratissimus error. A most incomparable deligo build castles in to go smiling to ting an infinite variety of parts, , or t tsome toys at first, ts  sleep, even ions, and fantastical meditations, il at last turns upon a sudden, and tated to sucations and solitary places, can endure no company, can t asteful subjects. Fear, sorroicus pudor, discontent, cares, and inually suspecting, no sooner are t terrifies ting some dismal object to t be rid of it, t resist.quot;

    Somet;scene-turningquot; I  ties, at tal organ,  finiss o a co Sundays, and tter into minor heavens*.

    [Footnote]   * I ill would go;

    tis like a little ts

    ure struck upon my y years since, ting a soul of old religion into my young appre be t, in ions of bad men, y and pat means t cleanse ime

    --rapt above earth,

    And possess joys not promised at my birth.

    But  content to rate, goes on, in o inflict more bliss ty to receive, impatient to overcome ;eart; ;; -- still pouring in, for protracted  inexed German ocean, above , tendant tritons, Bacless tribe, tempt to reckon up  plunge me again in tagger under t of o and fro at my s end; -- clouds, as of frankincense, oppress me -- priests, altars, censers, dazzle before me -- toils -- a sriple tiara invests te so naked, so ingenuous -- s, like as in too, -- tri-coroneted like ed, and yet a Protestant -- at once malleus icorum, and myself grand re in my person -- I am Marcion, Ebion, and Cerint not? -- till tray dissipates t, and, a draugrue Lut) at once reconciles me to tionalities of a purer faint and restores to me terrifying aspects of my pleasant- countenanced s and ess.

 ALL FOOLS DAY

    ts of to my ers, and a merry first of April to us all!

    Many urns of to you -- and you --and you, Sir -- nay, never fro a long face upon tter. Do not  need of ceremony among friends? and me -- a speck of tley. Besival, s to stand aloof. I am none of tion, and care not s me in t to-day, s ell ultus sum. translate me t, and take t to yourself for your pains. , man,  t computation.

    Fill us a cup of t sparkling gooseberry --  on t us troll tc?

    here shall he see

    Gross fools as he.

    Norifle to knoically,  fool t ever lived. I ainly give  breed, I t mucy name you ty.

    Remove your cap a little furt ride  aune ,

    _______the crazy old church clock,

    And the bewildered chimes.

    Good master Empedocles, you are  is long since you  a salamander gatna. orse tis a mercy your achios.

    us! and  upon at ttom of terranean? You ake it, of terested sect of turists.

    Gebir, my old free-mason, and prince of plasterers at Babel, bring in your tro Ancient Grand! You o a seat at my rigron of tammerers. You left your ly, at eigoises, or t, above t a long bell you must o call your top o t? I am a rogue if I am not aso s on Fisreet er your altitudes. Yet  somew.

    , tears ? -- cry, baby, put its finger in its eye, it sty moppet!

    Mister Adams -- odso, I  -- pray do us to read to us t sermon, o Mistress Slipslop -- ty and second in your portmanteau tinence -- t  irrelevantly and impertinently seasonable to time of the day.

    Go Master Raymund Lully, you look  t error. -

    Duns, spare your definitions. I must fine you a bumper, or a paradox. e er, t no gentleman break tender sumbling across them.

    Master Stepe. --  you ? -- Ague-c, let me pay my devoir to you. -- Master S to command. -- Master Silence, I  s you in someo-day. -- I kno, I kno.

    R--, my fine old Librarian of Ludgate, time out of mind, art t, it is not over-neories --  tting about t te ? -- tomers are extinct, defunct, bed-rid, o read long ago. -- t still among ture, t  patron, is flown.

    King Pandion, he is dead,

    All t in lead. -

    Nevertake your seat rue courtesy, in gravity, in fantastic smiling to teous smiling upon oture of ences, t noto t of c t  be uated bet spinsters -- able formal love urning noo to t Malvolian smile -- as if Cervantes, not Gay, ten it for  revolve, before tesy could ied and meritorious-equal damsels. . . . . .

    to descend from titudes, and not to protract our Fools Banquet beyond its appropriate day, -- for I fear t many ant -- in sober verity I ruto turally, as if I o  dived not beloter, I read t guessing at to simple arcect, t built ertained for ious neig t soul t kept alent; and -- prizing ty beyond t, and, to my appre unfeminine itors -- I felt a kindliness, t almost amounted to a tendre, for tless virgins. -- I ance since, t lasted; or a friends ans  some tincture of ters. I venerate an  obliquity of understanding. t in your company, tests   betray or overreacy, s; ty, ifies. And take my old it you, if you please, t  a dram of folly in ure, ter in ion. It is observed, t quot;tterels, -- cods-; and  suc   patterns of our species, but so many darlings of absurdity, minions of te boys? -- Reader, if you  my ruction, it is you, and not I, t are the April Fool.

 A QUAKERS MEETING.

    Still-born Silence! t art

    Flood-gate of t!

    Offspring of a heavenly kind!

    Frost o the mind!

    Secrecys confident, and he

    ery!

    Admirations speakingst tongue!

    Leave, t shades among,

    Reverend s hallowed cells,

    ired devotion dwells!

    ithusiasms come,

    Seize our tongues, and strike us dumb!*

    [Footnote] * From quot; Poems of all sorts,quot; by Richard Fleckno, 1653.

    _________

    Reader,  t true peace and quiet mean;  titude;  t once solitude and society;  t in stillness,  being s out from tory faces of t t accompanied; solitary, yet not desolate; singular, yet not  some to keep tenance; a unit in aggregate; a simple in composite : -- come o a Quakers Meeting.

    Dost t quot;before t; go not out into t into ties of t not up ts; nor pour o ttle cells of ttle-faitrusting Ulysses. -- Retire o a Quakers Meeting.

    For a man to refrain even from good o  is commendable; but for a multitude, it is great mastery.

    is tillness of t, compared  ting muteness of fis;Boreas, and Cesias, and Argestes loud,quot; do not er-confounding uproars more augment tic e (Silence iplied and rendered more intense by numbers, and by sympatoo  call unto deeps. Negation itself ive more and less; and closed eyes o obscure t obscurity of midnight.

    t solitude cannot  I mean t  tain in cro noing. t s did certainly understand tired into Egyptian solitudes, not singly, but in so enjoy one anot of conversation. to  of incommunicativeness. In secular occasions,  as to be reading a book ter evening, ting by -- say, a  be probable), reading anot interruption, or oral communication? -- can t ting solitariness. Give me, Master Zimmerman, a sympatic solitude.

    to pace alone in ters, or side aisles of some catime-stricken;

    Or under ains,

    Or by tains;

    is but a vulgar luxury, compared  e, abstracted solitude. t;to be felt.quot; -- tminster -sooting. ombs, no inscriptions,

    -- sands, ignoble things,

    Dropt from the ruined sides of kings--

    but iquity o t of t -- primitive Discourser -- to , and, as ural progression.

    hese hushed heads,

    Looking tranquillity!

    Notting, nougion  intrigue! parliament  debate!  to council, and to consistory -- if my pen treat of you lig  my spirit om,  peace, ears urb, I ed to times of your beginnings, and tnessed t, y, inflexible to ts and serious violences of t soldiery, republican or royalist, sent to molest you -- for ye sate bet tions, t-cast and off-scoacle, ention of disturbing your quiet, from t of t a nely sit among ye as a lamb amidst lambs. And I remembered Penn before ed up in spirit, as ells us, and quot;t.quot;

    Reader, if you are not acquainted , I o you, above all cives, to read Se is in folio, and is tract of tive Friends. It is far more edifying and affecting to stagger you, noto make you mistrust, no suspicion of alloy, no drop or dreg of tious spirit. You ory of t muc dreadful sufferings,  patience, o tongue  irons  a murmur; and  strengto, ised for blaspo clearer ts, rain of tifullest y, yet keep  grounds, and be a Quaker still -- so different from tice of your common converts from entatize, apostatize all, and t far enougy of to tion of some saving trut implicated.

    Get tings of Jo; and love the early Quakers.

    to tive spirit, or in ion tituted formality for it, ts can alone determine. I e visibly brooding. Otcs ster engaged, in  not a blank inanity. But quiet ion to unanimity, and troversial ual pretensions ted, at least tences. es tainly are not, in t is seldom indeed t you s up amongst to rembling, female, generally ancient, voice is  guess from  of ting it proceeds --  a feion of some present,quot; y of supposing t any ty enderness, and a restraining modesty.-- t I observed, speak seldomer.

    Once only, and it nessed a sample of t  stature,  equipt in iron mail.quot; oo. But  -- I dare not say, of delusion. trivings of ter man terable --  to speak, but to be spoken from. I sarong man bo o set off against Paul Preactered ing y effort, tors strain for t; in ; old us,   till long after to  I o recall triking incongruity of tanding term in its ation -- ies -- ter t Enna. -- By , even in ood somets of an alloy.

    More frequently ting is broken up  a  made rop fiercest and savagest of all ures, tongue, t unruly member, rangely lain tied up and captive. You illness. ted, even tired to sickness of t a balm and a solace it is, to go and seat yourself, for a quiet ed corner of a bencle Quakers!

    tillness conjoined, present an uniformity, tranquil and ure -- quot;forty feeding like one.quot; -

    ts of a Quaker seem incapable of receiving a soil; and cleanliness in to be somets contrary. Every Quakeress is a lily; and sun-conferences, erly streets of tropolis, from all parts of ted Kingdom, troops of the Shining Ones.

 THE OLD AND THE NEW SCHOOLMASTER

    MY reading ably desultory and immet of treatises,  of my notions, and  relates to science, I am a  a figure among try gentlemen, in king Joanding. to me a map of old Ortelius is as autic as Arro knoo Asia; est conjecture of tion of Ne do I -named of terrae Incognitae. I ronomy. I do not knoar; or t sig Venus only by ness -- and if tentous morn o make  appearance in t, I verily believe, t, errified, from sy and  of observation. Of ory and cs, suc udy; but I never deliberately sat doo a cry. I  dim appre monarcimes times ts as first in my fancy. I make t conjectures concerning Egypt, and  painstaking, got me to tood t proposition in Euclid, but gave me over in despair at tirely unacquainted ter man t;small Latin and less Greek.quot; I am a stranger to texture of t trees,  from tance of my being to spirit into t seen it in quot;on Devons leafy s; -- and am no less at a loss among purely tos, tools, engines, mec t I affect ignorance -- but my  many mansions, nor spacious; and I o fill it  curiosities as it can  acimes tle discredit in tock. But t is, a man may do very tle kno, in mixed company; every body is so muco produce o call for a display of your acquisitions. But in a tete-a-tete trut. t alone for a quarter of an  does not knoely got into a dilemma of t. -

    In one of my daily jaunts beto take up a staid-looking gentleman, about ty, ions (ing), in a tone of mild auty, to a tall youto be neit, but sometaking of all turally enougion to me; and s of ty and punctuality of tance of an opposition coacely set up, ies of its success -- to all urn pretty satisfactory ansiquette by some years daily practice of riding to and fro in tage aforesaid -- ling question,  morning in Smit seen it, and do not greatly care for suc of exions, I o return a cold negative. tle mortified, as onis my declaration, as (it appeared)  come fres, and doubtless o compare notes on t.  I  a fine treat, as it far exceeded t year. e e, ed freso a dissertation upon ttons ttle in , as ture of my morning avocations  me into some sort of familiarity erial; and I o find  I ate of t -- y to t once, by inquiring o tal of all tail s song t name Ac, ;ion.quot; My companion sa, and, tc coming in vie good-nature and dexterity sed ion to t of public cies; ive merits of provision for t and present times, ions on tic institutions, and cable orders; -- but, finding me rations from old poetic associations, trongly fortified ions reducible to calculation on t, ter up; and, try beginning to open more and more upon us, as  Kingsland (tined termination of  a  upon me, in t unfortunate position ive to tion. tering out somet trange regions (ion, topping relieved me from any furtting out, left me in table possession of my ignorance; and I  off, putting questions to an outside passenger,   Dalston; and  my companion  ted from at our first acquaintance, must ly a kind-ed man, aining information at any rate. It did not appear t ook any interest, eit t o seek for kno ure gave birto some reflections on t times.

    [Footnote] *Urn Burial.

    Rest to tinct, of t all learning ained in taug as superficial and useless, came to task as to a sport! Passing from infancy to age, tual cycle of declensions, conjugations, syntaxes, and prosodies; reneantly tions  of t; life must  last like one day. t garden, reaping s of time, among till, but kings; t muc of like dignity  mild sceptre attributed to king Basileus; tin, tately Pamela and toyro, serving for a refreserlude of a Mopsa, or a cloas!

    it a savour doto Colets, or (as it is sometimes called) Pauls Accidence, set fort;to ex every man to t intendeto attain tanding of tongues,  treasury of   vain and lost labour; for so muc is kno noty; and no building be perfect, o fall, and unable to up; ately preamble (comparable to ton commendet;o prefix to some solemn la promulgated by Solon, or Lycurgusquot;) correspond rate t pious zeal for conformity, expressed in a succeeding clause, y of faiticles ! -- quot;as for ty of grammars, it is ably taken aies ly drao be set out, only everyaug in cers.quot;  a gusto in t able t ; his noun!

    t; and t concern of a teac day is to inculcate grammar-rules.

    ter is expected to knotle of every t to be entirely ignorant of any t be superficially, if I may so say, omniscient. o knoics; of cry; of o excite ttention of t into mecoucatistics; ty of soils, amp;c. botany, titution of ry, cum multis aliis. You may get a notion of some part of ed duties by consulting tractate on Education addressed to Mr. lib.

    All ted to instil, not by set lessons from professors,  scervals, as reets, or saunters tural instructors),  part of ed from o be done in sc insinuate kno tempora fandi.  seize every occasion -- time of t of soldiers going by -- to inculcate someture, but must catc it as an object of instruction.  interpret beauty into turesque.  relisable improvement. Noto  spoiled by ticating medium of moral uses. t Great Book, as it o o all intents and purposes, a book, out of edious o distasting scions to rusive upper-boy fastened upon  sucimes; some cadet of a great family; some neglected lump of nobility, or gentry; t  drag after o to to Mr. Bartleys Orrery, to ticon, or into try, to a friends o e ering-place. tends  s. ual boy.

    Boys are capital felloes; but traint is felt no less on t quot;playt; tires alo ts, sporting on tions at my neat suburban retreat at Sance made more s -- inexpressibly take from task. It is like ing to music. to modulate my periods. t at least to do so -- for in t tender age try, far unlike ts of mans conversation. -- I s spoil t, and diminisime.

    I  be domesticated all my days y to my o, if I kno all, from any considerations of jealousy or self-comparison, for tituted tune and felicity of my life -- but t of too constant intercourse s above you, instead of raising you, keeps you dooo frequent doses of original train ion of t faculty you may possess of your o entangled in anotall varlet, -pace yours to lassitude. tant operation of sucent agency o imbecility. You may derive ts from ots are cast, must be your oellect may be imparted, but not eacellectual frame. -

    As little as I so be altle (or ratill less) is it desirable to be stunted does. trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

    e at our ease in ter ? -- because   quite at  of place, in ty of tle people, and  fit tature of anding to yours.  meet you on ts a point given  eac s to be teac ttle sketc met I o make to instruct me in tlemen in augo compose Engliss of a scer are coarse, or t tell out of scraint of a formal and didactive  ellect loose in society, tions. --  be his friends.

    quot;I take blame to myself,quot; said a sensible man of ting to a friend respecting a youtted ly -- quot;t your nep more attaco me. But persons in my situation are more to be pitied, tly, ardently affectionate s, but ions. tion of master and sc be to you, imes say to me, urn after some years absence from scer, bringing a present of game to me, or a toy to my  terms for my care of tion. A   -- ted and er itude for t long years I cs anxiety, never could repay me   akes for gratitude and kindness for me, is but t sensation, ing terms tomed to look up to oo, quot;teresting correspondent goes on to say, quot;my once darling Anna, is ter.--  ter ougo be a busy notable creature, and fearing t my gentle Anna ling mot t still,  of t, and o ten to fasten do I able to enderly, promised for my sake to exert o perform ties of uation. S   ion; and all t never descends to meanness. But I  my gentle,  doo enjoy an er tigue of to listen to  so-morroask.  and ures are cies of uation. to ters er; to ion and mine. Yet titude forbids me to  to ted to be tered creature, and can I reproac? quot; -- For tion of tter, I am indebted to my cousin Bridget.

 VALENTINES DAY

    o turning festival, old Bisine! Great is tal Go-bet t t a name, typifying tless principle ion in union? or  tal prelate, itippet and t, t laerious personage! like unto tred fat Jerome, nor Ambrose, nor Cyril; nor t infants to eternal torments, Austin, gift. t attended en ttle Loves, and the air is

    Brusling wings.

    Singing Cupids are ters and tors; and instead of tical arrohee.

    In ottle missives, ycleped Valentines, cross and intercross eac every street and turning. t tman sinks beneate embarrassments, not  is scarcely credible to ent tsoo t enric of porters, and detriment of knockers and bell-tle visual interpretations, no emblem is so common as t, -- t little t of all our uck and bleeding ; it is ted and tortured into more allegories and affectations t.  auty ers and metropolis of God Cupid in tomical seat rat very clear; but , and it  easily imagine, upon some otem rary, a lover addressing ress, in perfect simplicity of feeling, quot;Madam, my liver and fortune are entirely at your disposal;quot; or putting a delicate question, quot;Amanda, o besto; But custom tled t of sentiment to triangle, unate neig at animal and anatomical distance.

    Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at t quot;gives a very eco ted.quot; But its issues seldom anso t is so seldom t just t to see comes. But of all tations t in expectation is t uso usine. As t announced tal entrance of Duncan, so tman on t, airy, confident, and befitting one t bringetidings. It is less mec;t is not t, I am sure.quot; Visions of Love, of Cupids, of ful eternal common-places, ransports, o break tic seal, bursts upon t of some ype, some yout  verses -

    Lovers all,

    A madrigal,

    or some suc over abundant in sense -- young Love disclaims it, -- and not quite silly -- someter, a c almost join tines are not foolis easily forget to call you so) E. B. -- E. B. lived opposite a young maiden, . S of an age to enjoy receiving a Valentine, and just of a temper to bear tment of missing one ist of no common pos of designing, pero none;  ttom of many a ed vignette in t no furt, and ts nobody ated s us, t passing by, and never kno, ion; and E. B. did. tist set  o please t  before Valentines day t, unseen and unsuspected, a  say it  gilt paper  of common s and less allegory, but all ttiest stories of love from Ovid, and older poets t forgot, nor er, tos and fanciful devices, suc of magic. Iris dipt tines eve o te orifice--(O ignoble trust!) -- of t; but ts duty, and from cand, t morning, ine, dance about, clap er one tty emblems unfolded t, not  love, or foolisations, for s could ed t images ; a God-send, as our familiarly pious ancestors termed a benefit received,   is good to love t way of doing a concealed kindness.

    Good-morroo my Valentine, sings poor Opter ter auspices,  too o despise old legends, but are content to rank tine, and rue church.

 IMPERFECT SYMPATHIES

    I am of a constitution so general, t it consorts and sympatipational repugnancies do not toucalian, Spaniard, or Dutch -- Religio Medici.

    t ted upon tilts of abstraction, conversant about notional and conjectural essences; in ook tual; sinent individualities of sucions as mankind, is not muco be admired. It is rato be , t in to distinguis species at all. For myself-earttered to tivities, --

    Standing on eart rapt above the sky,

    I confess t I do feel tional or individual, to an un eye upon tever is, is to me a matter of taste or distaste; or , it begins to be disrelis to sympatipatain sense, I  may be said of me t I am a lover of my species. I can feel for all indifferently, but I cannot feel to t expresses sympatter explain my meaning. I can be a friend to a  cannot be my mate or fello like all people alike. *

    [Footnote] * I ood as confining myself to t of imperfect sympato nations or classes of men t antipatellated so opposite to anoture, t t  ipodes, and can believe tory of ting (ly fighting.

    -- e by proof find there should be

    `t man and man sucipathy,

    t t reason why

    For any former wrong or injury,

    Can neither find a blemish in his fame,

    Nor augure justly blame,

    Can challenge or accuse him of no evil,

    Yet notanding es him as a devil.

    t;; and ory in confirmation, of a Spaniard ed to assassinate a King Ferdinand of Spain, and being put to t an inveterate antipataken to t sighe King.

    -- to t act compelld him

    as,  beheld him.

    I rying all my life to like Scotco desist from t in despair. t like me -- and in trut nation ed to do it. t first sig intellects (under ent to rank) itution is essentially anti-Caledonian. t of faculties I allude to, ive tences to mucellectual o confess fairly) . tent s and scattered pieces of truts no full front to ture or side-face at t. s and glimpses, germs and crude essays at a system, is tmost tend to. t up a little game peradventure -- and leave it to knottier  constitutions, to run it do t lig steady and polar, but mutable and sing: ion is accordingly. t a random  of season, and be content to let it pass for  is  speak al must be understood, speaking or ing, ement. t to mature a proposition, but een bring it to market in t to impart tive discoveries as t ing for t. tematizers, and  err more by attempting it. tive merely. true Caledonian (if I am not mistaken) is constituted upon quite a different plan. ted to see  rat togetcs or suggests any t unlades ock of ideas in perfect order and completeness. otal o company, and gravely unpacks it.  oops to catctering someto s e knorue touc. You cannot cry o any t  find, but bring. You never ness  appreanding is al its meridian -- you never see t dareaks. -- erings of self-suspicion. Surmises, guesses, misgivings, uitions, semi-consciousnesses, partial illuminations, dim instincts, embryo conceptions, ive and tive t rut.  make excursions s you rigaste never fluctuates. y never abates.  compromise, or understand middle actions. t a rigion is as a book. ions ity of an oat speak upon tops a metaped person in an enemys country. quot;A ; -- said one of rymen to me, o give t appellation to Jo;did I catcly e of body, but I do not see  epit can be properly applied to a book.quot; Above all, you must be expressions before a Caledonian. Clap an extinguis . Remember you are upon your oat of a graceful female after Leonardo da Vinci, er  minutely, I ventured to ask Y (a foolis goes by among my friends) -- ; for my cer and talentsquot; (so o say), quot;but  given  about tensions.quot; tion staggered me, but did not seem muco disconcert ion are particularly bond of affirming a truts. t so properly affirm, as annunciate it. to rutue, it self) t all trution t contains it be need, or suco become a subject of disputation. I  not long since at a party of Nortons, is I ead of tarted up at once to inform me, t quot;t icable   off t of ter, namely truting  y t necessarily confines to tediousness of tainly provoking. I ire one anote fondness for try of Burns. I imes fooliso ingratiate myself rymen by expressing it. But I  a true Scot resents your admiration of riot, even more tempt of ter es to your quot;imperfect acquaintance ; and tion makes it a presumption in you to suppose t you can admire o ten. Smollett tten nor forgiven for ion of Rory and  introduction to our metropolis. -- Speak of Smollett as a great genius, and tort upon you ory compared inuation of it.  if torian inued humphrey Clinker?

    [Footnote] * tly acquit tertain ting facts of no consequence, not at all out of ts as ly among ts tion, o omit test circumstances of time or place;  a little relieved by terms and p and gesture peculiar to t country, oion.

    I ract, no disrespect for Jeubborn antiquity, compared ones nonage. te beyond t I s care to be in s of familiar intercourse  nation. I confess t I  to enter t me. I cannot sory of uries of injury, contempt, and e, on tion, and e, on t, and ougo affect t believe it can run clear and kindly yet; or t a fe of a nineteentury, can close up to me.  distasteful on `Cile spirit levels all distinctions, as all are beauties in t I do not relision of Jeical and unnatural in t like to see tures of an affected civility. If ted, o us altogetion,   table,  understand tites. Je Quaker. t of tially separative. B-----  to be of ---- Cians. t is strong in e of ism.  conquer t breaks out, ; tors, for t, are as Egyptians to riumpaking rong expression of sense in enance, and it is confirmed by ion of anding, as Kemble delivered dialogue. s, and give an appropriate cer to eacion. ion, in general,  ever-sensible countenances.  you seldom see a silly expression among t of gain, s being  -- but rembling. Jael able eyes.

    In tenance you en meet rong traits of benignity. I  yearnings of tenderness to  kindly upon one in casual encounters in treets and  Fuller beautifully calls -- t;images of God cut in ebony.quot; But I s like to associate o ss hey are black.

    I love Quaker  does me good for t of t any of turbed by any occurrence, t, or quiet voice of a Quaker, acts upon me as a ventilator, ligaking off a load from t I cannot like t;to live ; I am all over sopicated --  ures, tres, c-c, scandal, jokes, ambiguities, and a taste can do . I sarve at tive banquet. My appetites are too o Evelyn) Eve dressed for to too excited

    to sit a guest  his pulse.

    t anso return to a question put to t tion, t to evasion and equivocating turally look to tious of committing ter to keep up on tand in a manner upon ty. A Quaker is by laed from taking an oatom of resorting to an oatreme cases, sanctified as it is by all religious antiquity, is apt (it must be confessed) to introduce into t of minds tion of truto tice, and to tercourse. As trut trutions of t-place a latitude is expected, and conceded upon questions ing t. Sometrutisfies. It is common to ;You do not expect me to speak as if I ;  deal of incorrectness and inadvertency, s of falseo ordinary conversation; and a kind of secondary or laic-trutolerated, ruture of tances, is not required. A Quaker knoinction. ion being received, upon t sacred occasions,  any furtest, stamps a value upon to use upon t indifferent topics of life. o turally, y. You can  tripping in a casual expression, be forfeits, for  least, o tion.  icular ced against a person, endency to produce indirect ansing of tion by  means, migrated, and tice justified, by a more sacred example to be adduced upon torious in Quakers upon all contingencies, migraced to tc did not seem rat old stock of religious constancy, ered, in tive Friends, or gave o tion, to trials and racking examinations. quot;You  ions till midnig; said one of t Justicers to Penn, lety. quot;ter as t; retorted tonisimes ludicrously displayed in ligances. -- I ravelling in a stage-coactoned up in traitest non-conformity of t. e stopped to bait at Andover, ea apparatus, partly supper,  before us. My friends confined to tea-table. I in my ook supper.  in t of my companions discovered t sed. Mine ess ive. Some mild arguments  of ted mind of t recipient. tory notice. t tendered it -- so mucea -- I, in ation, tendering mine -- for taken. S relax in ly put up t of t and gravest going first,  I could not do better table personages. e got in. teps  up. tess, not very indistinctly or ambiguously pronounced, became after a time inaudible -- and noced, in t some justification ice of t. to my great surprise, not a syllable . te as mute as at a meeting. At lengt of t neig; t t; and tion operated as a soporific on my moral feeling as far as Exeter.

 WITCHES, AND OTHER NIGHT-FEARS

    e are too y ors in trous inconsistencies (as to us) involved in tc. In tions of to ional, and so detect an oric anomaly, as ourselves. But s assumed, y, of decency, of fitness, or proportion -- of t ion or admission of any particular testimony? -- t maidens pined aing in corn tle lamed -- t -or t spits and kettles only danced a fearful-innocent vagary about some rustics kitcirring --  terous siege to tasy of indigent eld -- o us,  andard to estimate e tc. Nor,  to be  so muc imes in t body, and assert ap tercourse  all betake -- but t once assumed, I see no reason for disbelieving one attested story of ture more ty. to judge of ticised.

    I imes t t I could not ed in tc; t I could not  in a village ors use. Amidst t tcributary to ttering, no simple Justice of to  upon tan! -- Prospero in ,  o be conveyed a to an unkno analogy to tance of co tituted poops tearing Guyon to pieces -- or ion of  Guyon must take assay of t --  country.

    From my cremely inquisitive about ccories. My maid, and more legendary aunt, supplied me ore. But I sion t y originally into t, tory of tackinguisation. tures  abounds -- one of ticular, and anotemple, delineated y of ocular admeasurement, as if tist  -- attracted my ctention. ture, too, of tc I o t er. Stack magnitude, raining, ion   time to t I remember it consisted of Old testament stories, orderly set doion appended to eacory, and tion of tion regularly tacked to t. tion ies o ty of tory, by t or modern infidelity, dra complimentary excess of candour. tion , and satisfactory. tidote o doubts so put, and so quaso be an end for ever. t of t babe to trample on. But -- like as  slain monster in Spenser -- from ts ender a Saint George as myself to vanquis of expecting objections to every passage, set me upon starting more objections, for tion of my oaggered and perplexed, a sceptic in long coats. tty Bible stories y and sincerity of impression, and urned into so many oric or co be defended against  to disbelieve t -- t to t -- I o be quite sure t some one or ot to making a cting  t all. Credulity is t trengtural doubts from t myself in t sustenance as t for a fortunate piece of ill-fortune, ime befel me. turning over ture of too muce, I uns ingenious fabric-driving my inconsiderate fingers rig, and t stare (as ) out of t  teerage in t unique piece of naval arcecture. Stackerdicted treasure. itions and solution gradually cleared out of my urned since in any force to trouble me. -- But tack out, and o try my c detestable picture!

    I o nervous terrors. t-time solitude, and ture ify to t an assurance, re. Be old Stackted in part, if I say, t to ure of tc old man covered le!) I o my midnigerrors, t tation. It ed me, I dreamed  nigo sleep, and found true. I durst not, even in t, once enter t,  my face turned to tcs do not knoender babes alone to go to sleep in t for a friendly arm -- to soot a terrible s is to till midnig and tisfied, in a medical point of vieter caution. -- t detestable picture, as I o my dreams -- if dreams t ure, tured in some sher -

    headless bear, black man, or ape --

    but, as it ions took t form. -- It is not book, or picture, or tories of fooliss, errors in c most but give tion. Dear little t.N.  scrupulous exclusion of every taint of superstition -- o be told of bad men, or to read or ressing story -- finds all tra, in ;t; and from tle midnigimism art at sradition, in ss to y.

    Gorgons, and ories of Celaeno and tition -- but transcripts, types -- types are in us, and eternal. al of t, o affect us at all? -- or

    -- Names, w,

    Fray us  be not?

    Is it t urally conceive terror from sucs, considered in ty of being able to inflict upon us bodily injury? -- O, least of all! terrors are of older standing. te beyond body -- or,  tormenting, defined devils in Dante -- tearing, mangling, cifling, scorco t of a man, as t unembodied following him -

    Like one t on a lonesome road

    Doth walk in fear and dread,

    And urnd round, walks on,

    And turns no more his head;

    Because ful fiend

    Dotread*.

    [Footnote] * Mr, Coleridges Ancient Mariner

    t treated of is purely spiritual -- t it is strong in proportion as it is objectless upon eart it predominates in ties, tion of e-mundane condition, and a peep at least into tence.

    My nigo be afflictive. I confess an occasional nig I do not, as in early youtud of tinguisaper,  me; but I kno elude t and grapple  of my imagination, I am almost aso say ame and prosaic my dreams are groic, seldom even rural. tecture and of buildings cities abroad, ural day, Rome, Amsterdam, Paris, Lisbon -- t- places, s -- a map-like distinctness of trace -- and a day-lig  being amoreland fells -- my  Alps, -- but ts too migion; and I ual struggles of to make out a sever, of  I  country, but tains y of my dreams mortifies me. t his will can conjure up icy domes, and pleasure-houses for Kubla Khan, and Abyssinian maids, and songs of Abara, and caverns,

    he sacred river, runs,

    to solace  solitudes -- er a fiddle. Barry Cornons and urnal visions, and proclaiming sons born to Neptune -- cive activity can  season, raise up t of a fiso set my failures in someifying lig er reading t, t my fancy ran strong upon tra; and tic po to o  of dream t very nig I  some sea nuptials, riding and mounted omary train sounding t careering over till just  e embrace, to a sea-calm, and to a river-motion, and t river (as ion of dreams) le ture of a lucid  of Lambetiveness in sleep migerion of tum of poetical faculty resident in tleman, a friend of mine, and a , used to carry tion so far, t ious of becoming a poet,  question ;Young man,  of dreams ; I  urning upon me, I presently subside into my proper element of prose, remembering t inauspicious inland landing.

 MY RELATIONS

    I am arrived at t point of life, at  a blessing, as it is a singularity, if s surviving. I  t felicity -- and sometimes tian Morals, y years in t;In sucime,quot; ;a man may  it is to be forgotten, ime OBLIVION will look upon ;

    I , a dear and good one. So ten used to say, t I  ting it, sears. A partiality quite so exclusive my reason cannot altogetill nigional exercises. e volumes anranslation; and a Roman Catins and complines regularly set doerms  time too young to understand. Sed in reading tical tendency; and  to cestant sudied; t one period of old me, s satisfaction tures of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman. Finding treet open one day -- it   in, liked ted it at intervals some time after. S for doctrinal points, and never missed ttle asperities in itution, , seadfast, friendly being, and a fine old Cian. Srong sense, and a sraordinary at a repartee; one of t muc. t I remember to ting of Frenco a Cer. tender vegetables to t of sootions. Certainly it is t delicate of culinary operations.

    Male aunts, as somebody calls to remember. By to er, I never o knoer, I t s a comfort, or   I  in fordss of t intimacy, and  Elia. ten, years; and neitters of advice and guidance, to ives inue still in ty-five, and seventy-t spare t in treating me in my grand climacteric precisely as a stripling, or younger brother!

    James is an inexplicable cousin. Nature ies, ic can penetrate; or, if  explain tire -- ts and sory. I must limp after in my poor antitical manner, as tes alent. J. F. to t least -- seemetradictory principles. -- trine is invariably at emperament, ic opponent of innovation, and crier do  stood test of age and experiment. itions cartled at t approaco tic in otermined by o toucric in all  yourself by doing any tting slip at table, t I  fond of a certain popular dis any rate not to say so -- for te fondness for ext of buying only to sell again -- t  to yours. Yet, if it ender, pastoral Dominicill by  muco  picture-dealer can talk like him?

    o ive conclusions to t of to be in diametrical opposition to itution. inct; cravelling Quaker. -- o me, all my life, trine of boo t -- ty of forms, and manner, to a mans getting on in t eit I can discover, -- and , t and uprigartary. It is pleasant to ience -- extolling it as truest o see  seven minutes t ting ready. Nature never ran up in e a more restless piece of  never turned out a more elaborate orator to be, upon e topic of tages of quiet, and contentedness in tate,  may be, t  stages t ply for tern road, in a very obstructing manner, at t of Joreet -- y, and are expected to  till ted  freigrying ters of an o some people.  your fidgetiness,--- quot;ting, ting?quot; --quot;prefers, for , a state of rest to locomotion,quot; -- ill at lengt of all patience, at your  of it,  into a patic remonstrance at taining us so long over time  quot;tleman in termined to get out, if  drive on t instant.quot;

    Very quick at inventing an argument, or detecting a sopry, tending you in any co jump at most admirable conclusions by some process, not at all akin to it. Consonantly enougo to deny, upon certain occasions, t ts sucy at all in man as reason; and  to  of it -- enforcing ion  of reasoning er of. ive notions against laugain t laug natural to ure t moment icleer.  t  is   play in t a pity to t to frivolous Members of Parliament!

    empestuous -- and in age om of cooling. t ime  inevitable spoiler. ake  does me good, as I oreet of my daily avocation, on some fine May morning, to meet e opposite direction,  indicates some purc Cies, and P, to pick up pictures, and sucly stoppeto read a s lecture on tage a person like me possesses above ime occupied  do -- assuret en feels it une, to Pall Mall -- perfectly convinced t e direction tuneless.

    It is pleasant again to see t. You must vie in every ligill  -- placing it at tance, and at t, but aling t to  spy at it to catcive -- t to you t t artifice. o be to t,  respond to ure, but ion of preferring one of erior bargains to t! -- t is ale.quot; -- Alas! o come in -- a Raps ascendancy for a feer certain intermedial degradations, from t drao to ted in turn by eacions of filiation, mildly breaking its fall -- consigned to t at last a Lucca Giordano, or plain Carlo Maratti -- ies of fate belo upon tered condition of great personages, or t woful Queen of Riche Second -

    -- set forth in pomp,

    S May.

    Sent back like est day.

    it love for you, J. E. bat a limited sympat you feel or do.  ablis Mr. Sucres), is a very lively comedian -- as a piece of ne t green lanes o be a great e vicinity -- ical spot any time ty years ! --  muc for t class of feelings al. ion of real evil to bodily sufferings exclusively -- and rejecteted by t, or tion, of a creature in pain, to a degree  of itutional acuteness to t account for tribe in particular aketection. A broken-e in  for ever. le to te kind -- to care for templation of a lobster boiled, or eels skinned alive, ;all for pity ; It ake te, and t from s. itense feeling of ted only teadiness of pursuit, and unity of purpose, of t quot;true yoke-felloime,quot; to ed as mucion. but my uncontrollable cousin is but imperfectly formed for purposes . ion-plans must be ripened in a day. For t but an equivocal figure in benevolent societies, and combinations for tion of antly makes o outrun, and put out, ors. ing.  of a society for ty toiled beyond tes. I sinction as a patent of nobility in the Elia family!

    Do I mention tencies to smile at, or upbraid, my unique cousin? Marry, anding t srangenesses of trangest of t  or tittle oter or exc exact, regular, and every ent kinsman breathing.

    In my next, reader, I may per of my cousin Bridget -- if you are not already surfeited ake you by to go wo since, in search of more cousins -

    t fordshire

 MACKERY END, IN HERTFORDSHIRE

    Bridget Elia ions to Bridget, extending beyond toget of double singleness; olerable comfort, upon t I, for one, find in myself no sort of disposition to go out upon tains, o bety astes and  -- yet so, as quot;; e are generally in  sions. Our sympatood, tone in my voice more kind t into tears, and complained t I ered. e are bot readers in different directions. ime) some passage in old Burton, or one of range contemporaries, sracted in some modern tale, or adventure, ive teazes me. I tle concern in ts. S ory -- ly told -- so tirring in it, and plenty of good or evil accidents. tuations of fortune in fiction -- and almost in real life -- o interest, or operate but dully upon me. Out-of-ting t in ties of aut. My cousin ive disrelis sounds odd or bizarre Not is quaint, irregular, or out of t;ure more clever.quot; I can pardon o tiful obliquities of t s apologise to me for certain disrespectful insinuations,  latterly, toucellectuals of a dear favourite of mine, of t century but one -- te, and virtuous, -- but again someastical, and original-braind, generous Margaret Nele.

    It  of my cousin, oftener pero es and mine, free-tems; but ss, t s auty over ill. Sricks anding.

    e are boto be a little too positive; and I  of our disputes to be almost uniformly t in matters of fact, dates, and circumstances, it turns out, t I , and my cousin in t o be done, or let alone; ion, or steadiness of conviction, I set out o be brougo hinking.

    I must toucle  does not like to be told of s. Srick (to say no ) of reading in company: at ion,  fully understanding its purport --  degree to ty of tter of tion. o t pressing trials of life, but imes desert rifling occasions. , and is a t, so it greatly; but in matters uff of times to let slip a  muctended to; and s train of female garniture,  or design, into a spacious closet of good old Englis mucion or proion, and bro  fair and y girls, t up exactly in t  be diminis; but I can ans, t it makes (if t come to t) most incomparable old maids.

    In a season of distress, sruest comforter; but in teazing accidents, and minor perplexities,  to meet times maketters icipation. If s alrouble upon ter occasions of life so treble your satisfaction. S to be at a play ; but best, wh you.

    e made an excursion togeto fordso  up ters of some of our less-knoions in t fine corn country.

    t t is spelt, perfordsfully situated le  remember  to a great-aunt, o a  existences, t  is impossible. t t time in tion of a substantial yeoman, o a Field. tons are still flouris part of ty, but t extinct. More ty years  I speak of; and, for ter portion of t period,  of persons ined Mackery End -- kindred or strange folk --  to conjecture, but determined some o explore.

    By someous route, taking t Luton in our  Albans,  t of our anxious curiosity about noon. t of trace of it ion, affected me  experienced for many a year. For tten it, en being togetalking about Mackery End all our lives, till memory on my part became mocked om of itself, and I t I kne of a place, o t, ead of it!

    Still t it; t; of June,quot; and I could say ,

    But t didst appear so fair

    to fond imagination,

    Dost rival in t of day

    e creation !

    Bridgets ance again -- some altered features, of course, a little grudged at. At first, indeed, so disbelieve for joy; but tself in ion -- and sraversed every out-post of to tood (ience of recognition, y odd. But Bridget in some things is behind her years.

    t o get into t y erribly so strangers and out-of-date kinsfolk. Love, stronger t me; but surned ure t mig to a sculptor for t  of ton, ress of tons. Six of ted as t young y. But ted Bruton, in my mind, ter too late to  recollected in early life to  pointed out to yle. But ties, t prove sligmospropolis, bind faster, as , in y, fordses ed as if o tian names. So Cians so , and  ing of tural cousins! ty, an amplitude of form and stature, anso  it. e  forgotten  B. F.  so soon forget t meeting, if peradventure ant ss. tted calf icipation of our coming; and, after an appropriate glass of native  me forget   pride table cousin made us proceed to ead, to introduce us (as some ney) to er Gladmans, ime  corresponding kindness s memory, exalted by to a terated recollections of to my utter astonis, and o toundment of B. F.  t  a cousin tten names and circumstances still croen in lemon come out upon exposure to a friendly  all try cousins forget me; and Bridget no more remember, t in tender cty pastoral  Mackery End, in fordshire.

 MODERN GALLANTRY

    In comparing modern  manners, o compliment ourselves upon t of gallantry; a certain obsequiousness, or deferential respect, o females, as females.

    I s tuates our conduct,  in teentury of te our civility,  just beginning to leave off t practice of w male offenders.

    I s to be influential, o t, t in England ill occasionally -- hanged.

    I s,  to be age by gentlemen.

    I s, o pick up , ed. I s, able adepts in t, s upon it in places  observed --  , to spread it over to age-coacanding up in t of a London tre, till s ion,  ed at t ress; till one, t seems to , significantly declares quot;so , if stle younger and ; Place t rider, in a circle of tance, and you s seen a politer-bred man in Lothbury.

    Lastly, I so believe t t, o be performed by women.

    Until t day comes, I sed point to be any tional fiction; a pageant got up betain rank, and at a certain time of life, in w equally.

    I so rank it among tary fictions of life, entions paid to age as to youto ures as to o coarse complexions as to clear -- to t as sy, a fortune, or a title.

    I s to be sometleman in a  to topic of female old age  exciting, and intending to excite, a sneer: -- iquated virginity,quot; and suc;overstood ,quot; pronounced in good company, se offence in man, or  shem spoken.

    Josepreet-, and one of tors of to or,  -- tern of consistent gallantry I  ook me under er at an early age, and bestoo s and example  is not mucion. It   t I did not profit more. terian, and broug,  gentleman of ime.  one system of attention to females in t tall. I do not mean t inction. But  sig in ties of a disadvantageous situation. I and bare-o a poor servant girl, reet -- in sucure of unforced civility, as neito embarrass ance, nor . ation of ter   came before  --tenderly escorting a market-, t it migess. to t o an ancient beggaro sristan, to tristans to defend t ill bloomed for hered and yellow cheeks.

    in o tiful Susan instanley -- old instanleys daugon -- ual bac  courtsold me, t reating ress ries -- to ed no repugnance -- but in tance .  obtain from  ackno in return. So resent s.  set it doo caprice, for t littleness. ured on ttle better o expostulate erday, s s of dislike to tentions; t ss; t a young ion  to expect all sort of civil to  s a dose of adulation, s of insincerity, tle injury to y as most young  t -- a little before  -- s, in rating a young e to ted time, and s to ;As I am Miss Susan instanley, and a young lady -- a reputed beauty, and knoo be a fortune, -- I can  speecleman  if I s to ted  up  to for sort of compliments so my assistance; and I t, t if it o do me  ermined not to accept any fine speeco t sex, to rongest claim and title to t;

    I ty, and a just imes imagined, t train of courtesy, ions and beoely, os o ted mistress.

    I ain tion of t Miss instanley s of consistent gallantry; and no longer ness ttern of true politeness to a empt, or rudeness, to a sister -- ter of ress -- t, or unfortunate -- still female -- maiden cousin. Just so muc as a es from ever condition placed --  -- so  score; and probably ion, ages, not inseparable from sex, straction.  a , is first -- respect for  to t -- to be respected by  let and upon er as upon a foundation; and let ttentions, incident to individual preference, be so many pretty additaments and ornaments -- as many, and as fanciful, as you please -- to t main structure. Let  lesson --  Susan instanley -- to reverence her sex.

 THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE

    I AS born, and passed t seven years of my life, in temple. Its cs s gardens, its fountain, its river, I  said -- for in t o me but a stream t ered our pleasant places? -- t recollections. I repeat, to to myself more frequently, or ion, t.

    towers,

    th ride,

    udious lawyers heir bowers,

    t templer knigo bide,

    till through pride.

    Indeed, it is t elegant spot in tropolis.  a transition for a countryman visiting London for t time -- trand or Fleet-street, by unexpected avenues, into its magnificent ample squares, its classic green recesses!  a c portion of it,  goodly pile

    Of building strong, albeit of Paper ,

    confronting, rast, ter, older, more fantastically s,  opposite tately stream,  scarcely trade-polluted ers, and seems but just e aspect  fine Elizabetain plays, o toundment of temporaries, o guess at its recondite mac tempted to  an antique air  effaced sun-dials, ions, seeming coevals  time ake tions of its fligely from ain of ligeal imperceptibly on, co detect its movement, never catc cloud -- or t arrests of sleep!

    A doty like a dial-hand

    Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived!

    a dead ts ponderous embos of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dulness of communication, compared ar-like structure, and silent -language of t stood as tian gardens.  almost every e inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, migs continuance. It spoke of moderate labours, of pleasures not protracted after sun-set, of temperance, and good- ive clock, t  e for s plants and floo spring by, for to apportion to pasture and be led to fold by. t;carved it out quaintly in t; and, turning pion, provided it tos more toucombstones. It ty device of tificial gardening, made a dial out of  quote tle ry ty delicacy. t come in aains and sun-dials.  garden scenes:

    his I lead!

    Ripe apples drop about my head.

    ters of the vine

    Upon my moutheir wine.

    tarine, and curious peach,

    Into my hemselves do reach.

    Stumbling on melons, as I pass,

    Insnared h flowers, I fall on grass.

    Meanwhe mind from pleasure less

    ito its happiness.

    t ocean, where each kind

    Does straigs own resemblance find;

    Yet it creates, transcending these,

    Far other seas;

    Anniing all ts made

    to a green t in a green shade.

    tains sliding foot,

    Or at some fruit-trees mossy root,

    Casting t aside,

    My soul into the boughs does glide:

    t sits and sings,

    ts and claps its silver wings;

    And, till prepared for longer flight,

    aves in its plumes t.

    he skilful gardner drew,

    Of flowers and his dial new!

    he milder sun

    Does t zodiac run:

    And, as it rious bee

    Computes its time as well as we.

    and wholesome hours

    Be reckond, but h herbs and flowers?

    [Footnote] * from a copy of verses entitled quot;t;

    tificial fountains of tropolis are, in like manner, fast vanis of t,  little green nook be a fres gives to ttle o play ting out ever fresreams from t-on lips, in tell me, is gone by, and teemed c tify cting tand? La least.  every t in t and t some of t left, to respond to its earliest encments? tesque. Are tiff- still flitter and cter about t area, less gotter of t roric one  as ttle cool playful streams ttered?

    tely gotrance to temple-, to assimilate to t at all resemble.  is become of t stood over tately arms! and   of allegory! t account to me for tly.

    terrace is, indeed, left,  traces are passed asteps  a is become common and profane. t almost sacred to t of t least. t not be sided or jostled. ted t  you, o be delivered of a jest, almost invites a stranger to vie a repartee . But  familiar durst ed try ? -- ory and patible from er of equals and superiors, atory notes being, indeed, of all, t repulsive and ing tural terrors of ic nostril, darkening took it, not by pinc a palmful at once, diving for it under ty flaps of coat pocket; coat red and angry,  dark rappee, tinctured by dye original, and by adjuncts, tons of a obsolete gold. And so errace.

    By imes to be seen; tility of Samuel Salt. t t and tics Salt auncory. Many a sarcastic groter cast out -- for Coventry  tical confederates of e, ter like cannon-balls from  ruffle Samuel Salt.

    S. ation of being a very clever man, and of excellent discernment in tice of t  amount to muc disposition of money, testamentary or ot over ructions to tle felloc out of  of natural understanding, of e for talents S. enjoyed by trick of gravity.  pose e -- indolent and procrastinating to t degree. Yet men  application in spite of  to be trusted y. y but   of o do it. o dine at a relatives of tunate Miss Blandy on tion ; -- and L. , sc anxiety not in any possible manner to allude to ory t day. S. promised faito observe tion.  been seated in ting tes,  of ;it ; and added, quot;Miss Blandy must be ime, I suppose.quot; Instances of t ual. Yet S.  by some of test men of ime a fit person to be consulted, not alone in matters pertaining to t in ties and embarrassments of conduct -- from force of manner entirely. une among toast o rifled or talked gallantry tentions.  ed met, t t sage to tre. -- Not so, t Susan P----; y, ime, unaccompanied, ting t of B----d Roears t fell in drops y years -- a passion, inguise; nor t gently enforced, puttings off of unrelenting bacs c nohy friend in heaven!

    try  of t name. racted circumstances,  time I knes-inn, Fleet-street. J., t, for , at t at Nort above a day or t a time in t preferred, during t montanding at o c;ter all day long.quot; I suspect  arma fuere.  treasures more safe.  of a strong box. C.  upon a cer,   certain admirable points of steadiness and unity of purpose. One may e a true miser, but cannot, I suspect, so easily despise aking care of ten enabled to part  leaves us careless generous fello an immeasurable distance be once in ime to a blind cy. er, but  table of a gentleman.  out of  co freeze.

    Salt   a competency for  s tle calculated to improve, mig  people about ook care of every t once , ;flapper,quot; op-cor, treasurer.  consulting Lovel, or failed in any t expecting and fearing   too muc been t in title almost to respect as a master, if L. could ever ten for a moment t .

    I kney A good fello;rike.quot; In ties, or calculated ts. ed a s of ty t  of it. t to a female -- an occasion upon erference of Lovel. and next day bare-o tly to excuse erference -- for L. never forgot rank,  concerned. L.  little felloly to resemble (I rait of ), possessed a fine turn for ry -- next to S and Prior ---- moulded er of Paris to admiration, by t of natural genius merely; turned cribbage boards, and suc toys, to perfection; took a  quadrille or boy; made puncter t quips and conceits, and ogetions as you could desire.  sucy,  companion as Mr. Isaac alton ten, in t sad stage of ;a remnant most forlorn of  even t up upon tion of e Garrick. est, ;age nearly t t; At intervals, too, tle boy from Lincoln to go to service, and  parting urned, after some feo see  t to believe t it ;; And tement subsiding, ill I  sad second-c ill to lay its  time after received ly into hers.

    itry, and , in terrace, most commonly Peter Pierson o make up a t ;as noout triumvirs sreets,quot; -- but general ate, or  least be, but not a prepossessing mad.  in  term un raty of being o

    of our great p. I kno s, but I could never make out  subordinate, on -- anoty -- ation, I try --  tained not to ty of otype. Nevertty rengtolerable antiquarian, and  of reasurerso be audited, t;Item, disbursed Mr. Allen, ty suff to poison t; next to on -- a jolly negation, ion rooms at college -- muco t of ous in jests upon . tenuated and fleeting. Many must remember er date) and , eps and a jump regularly succeeding. teps tle efforts, like t of a co ively vigorous, as a foot to an inc occasioned it, I could never discover. It self, nor seemed to anster treme tenuity of , set . It rial of poising. ten rally y; but . ures eful. I  s ears extremely, ion of possessing more multifarious knoime. erate portion of temple. I remember a pleasant passage, of to y of apology, or instructions o e doo be -- as I  -- fortifying y omical reasons as dismissed time) learned and  yet perversely, aitcs s of te so denominated. I  forgotten Mingay   later.   , and supplied it olerable adroitness. I detected titute, before I ificial or not. I remember tonis it raised in me. ering, loudtalking person; and I reconciled to my ideas as an emblem of poill very lately) in tume of t recollections of temple. Fantastic forms, ood appearances, ear aernatural mist, brig ension, o my cemple? In t;old men covered le,quot;  try perisinct be trumpery of legendary fabling,in t of c or ion -- tion al -- from every-day forms educing t little Gos, eriality. , imagination s otally to fly th.

    P.S. I ice to t s. See  is to trust to imperfect memory, and tices of c I protest I al t leman, R. N. informs me, married young, and losing  year of to a deep melancs of  by a gentler name!) of mild Susan P----, unravelling into beauty certain peculiarities of tiring cer --  no one receive tives of Elia for true records! trut s -- verisimilitudes, not verities -- or sitting but upon te edges and outskirts of ory.  cter pero ed t gentleman, before  te reminiscences to press. But treasurer --   ties of Elia. ts not, peradventure, of t in tence beyond tleman`s --  monture o t Urbans obituary. May it be long before o stery! -- Meantime, O ye Neake  in green and vigorous senility -- make allo quot;ye yourselves are old.quot; So may t badge and cognisance, still flourisure rate your c of more melodious quiristers, unpoisoned  your ately gardens, drop tiest blussy as ye pass, reductive of juvenescent emotion! so may tion eye you, pacing your stately terrace, itious veneration,  solemnized the parade before ye!

 GRACE BEFORE MEAT

    tom of saying grace at meals s origin in times of ter-state of man, riumper a season of sinence, a lucky booty of deers or goats flesurally be used, per is not oto be understood, ing -- sicular expression of to it, distinct from t implied and silent gratitude ed to enter upon t of ts and good tence. I o I am disposed to say grace upon ty ot a form for setting out upon a pleasant s -- a grace before Milton -- a grace before Sional exercise proper to be said before reading t, tual o tary ceremony of manducation, I sions to tension to a nicical, and perc ical, liturgy, noion of Utopian Rabelaesian Cians, no matter where assembled.

    tion before eating s beauty at a poor mans table, or at tive repasts of c is  t man, , sits doo  sense of t feebly acted by to ing a dinner could never, but by some extreme tered. tenance -- is barely contemplated by terally heir courses are perennial.

    Again, t diet seems ttest to be preceded by t imulative to appetite, leaves t free for foreign considerations. A man may feel tily tton urnips, and o reflect upon titution of eating; ion of mind, inconsistent  turtle. e (a rarus  ricables, eaming up trils, and moistening ts racted c troduction of t ceremony to be unseasonable. it seems impertinent to interpose a religious sentiment. It is a confusion of purpose to mutter out praises from a mout ers. ts of epicurism put out tle flame of devotion. tercepts it for akes aion bets. You are startled at tice of returning t ? -- for oo mucarve. It is to praise the Gods amiss.

    I , scarce consciously per in clergymen and ot of sances ional tone put on for a fe rid of some uneasy sensation of  t te, or  most conscientious in ty; but  in  mind tibility of tional gratitude.

    I ians sit do table, like o troug remembering t doites must run riot, and t pamper t and  are ransacked, I ion to a fitter season, e is laid; emperate diet and restricted distony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for t,  ure better, o t a blessing. e may be gratefully sensible of t is a meaner and inferior gratitude: but t of tenance, not relis delicacies; t t frame or composure, I y cion at some great , , in all probability, t tient o commence ttle sense of true temperance) as t is  feel ions a little clouded, teams mingling ing tar sacrifice.

    t satire upon full tables and surfeits is t emptation in the wilderness:

    A table richly spread in regal mode,

    its of noblest sort

    And savour; beasts of chase, or fowl of game,

    In pastry built, or from t, or boiled,

    Gris-amber-steamed; all fish from sea or shore,

    Fres or purling brook, for which was drained

    Pontus, and Lucrine bay, and Afric coast.

    tempter, I  you, t tes  tory preface of a benediction. to  graces  s  Cambridge? temptation fitter for a  is too civic and culinary, and ts altogetion of t deep, abstracted, y artillery of sauces, ion to ts and plain .  disturbed  augter. to temperate fantasies of t sort of feasts presented themselves ? -- he dreamed indeed,

    -- As appetite is  to dream,

    Of meats and drinks, natures refres s.

    But s? --

    , ood,

    And saheir horny beaks

    Food to Elijah bringing, even and morn;

    taugo abstain from :

    also how he fled

    Into t, and

    Under a juniper; then how awaked

    he coals prepared,

    And by t,

    And ate time after repose,

    trengty days:

    Sometimes, t ook,

    Or as a guest  his pulse.

    Noton is finelier fancied temperate dreams of to s, troduction of  fitting and pertinent?

    tically I am no enemy to graces; but practically I o (before meat especially) to involve sometites, of one or anot spurs to our reason,  feebly set about t ends of preserving and continuing t blessings to be contemplated at a distance itude; but t of appetite (t fit season for t exercise. t tion, itle to tory prefaces. I  grace, and tions to t and drink folloo be less passionate and sensual ttons nor , as a s  ances. tizen in ucker, I cannot imagine it a surplice.

    I am no Quaker at my food. I confess I am not indifferent to t. tuous morsels of deers fles made to be received e services. I e a man ing not to kno aste in ters. I sinctively from one er in tastes for food. C----  a man cannot  certain but . it innocence, I confess a less and less relises. table tribe  t ick to asparagus, o inspire gentle ts. I am impatient and querulous under culinary disappointments, as to come  tance, expecting some savoury mess, and to find one quite tasteless and sapidless. Butter ill melted -- t commonest of kitcs me beside my tenour. -- to make inarticulate animal noises over a favourite food. as te proper to be preceded by tter to postpone ions to a season emplated urbation? I quarrel astes, nor  my t t ty and feasting. But as ttle in tures so to grace t  secretly kissing o some great fision of no ark but t tureen before  preluding strains to ts of angels and co ts and severer repasts of treuse; to t not slenderly acknoion of t at t mood, less timed and tuned to tter befitting organs  on. e sit too long at our meals, or are too curious in tudy of too disordered in our application to too great a portion of to our so be able o say grace. to be t ion is to add o injustice. A lurking sense of trut makes ty so cold and spiritless a service at most tables. In  seen t never settled question arise, as to  belike of next auty from years or gravity, s tter of compliment, eac uno s ty from his own shoulders?

    I once drank tea in company  divines of different persuasions, une to introduce to eac time t evening. Before t cup  it to ty,  seems it is tom aries to put up a s prayer before t at first quite appre upon an explanation, tle less importance  it  a custom knoary or tea-grace oget spirit mig Lucian ed ts, of o eac of performing or omitting a sacrifice, -- time, doubtful of ant nostrils ools) going a his supper.

    A s form upon t to  reverence; a long one, I am afraid, cannot escape tinence. I do not quite approve of tic conciseness  equivocal  my pleasant scuned for a grace used to inquire, first slyly leering doable, quot;Is t; -- significantly adding, quot;t; Nor do I t sce pertinent,  ion of benefits t aion unc illis erat locus. I remember  to it to reconcile t;good creatures,quot; upon  before us, anding t expression in a loil some one recalled a legend, allers  to s of roast meat upon tly boards, till some pious benefactor, commiserating tes, of ted our fless, and gave us -- roead of mutton.

 MY FIRST PLAY

    At t t stands a portal, of some arcectural pretensions, to  present for an entrance to a printing-office. t knoical pit entrance to Old Drury -- Garricks Drury -- all of it t is left. I never pass it  sy years from off my so t to see my first play. ternoon , and tion of our going (t t a beating  did I cillness of icate tion! I seem to remember t spurt, and to announce it.

    e   us.  t tone- building, in all grave person, lofty in speecensions above ed in t and bearing o copy; if Joe as likely) did not rat of o, and visited by, S o  young Brinsley broug  Batiful Maria Linley. My parents  (over a quadrille table)  my godfatre at pleasure -- and, indeed, a pretty liberal issue of ts, in Brinsleys easy autograpion ion of tra and various avenues of t tre -- and ent it sy -- or supposed familiarity -- ter to my godfathan money.

    F.  gentlemanly of oilmen; grandiloquent, yet courteous.  matters of fact in  constantly in in from an oilmans lips!), . In strict pronunciation t in t from Seneca or Varro -- in ion, monosyllabically elaborated, or Anglicized, into sometorted syllables,  t tle) to t paroc. Andreow.

    due to  orders (little alismans ! -- slig to outo me more t by estamentary beneficence I came into possession of ty e near t Puckeridge, in fordso take possession, and planted foot on my oately s of trode (sy?) ment of ters of an acre, s commodious mansion in t,  all bet sky and centre ate o more prudent  an agrarian can restore it.

    In t orders. Besable manager ing at t t  bet and an inner door in ser -- O  again ! --  in t, tion of trical fruiteresses t;C; -- c  veiled a o my imagination, icipations I endured! I  in te prefixed to troilus and Cressida, in Ro scene  of t plate can al evening. -- t t time, full of y, protected over t; and ters reacering substance (I kno  seemed), resembling -- a  I judged it to be sugar-candy -- yet, to my raised imagination, divested of its ies, it appeared a glorified candy -- tra lig lengt;fair Auroras!quot; Once t o ring out yet once again -- and, incapable of ticipation, I reposed my s eyes in a sort of resignation upon ternal lap. It rang time. tain dre past six years old -- and taxerxes!

    I tle in tory -- t part of it -- and  of Persia. It ted to a sig I took no proper interest in tion going on, for I understood not its import -- but I  of Daniel. All feeling s, gardens, palaces, princesses, passed before me. I kne players. I ime; and tion almost converted me into a ions to be sometal fires. It  and a dream. No suced me but in dreams. -- ransformation of trates into reverend beldams seemed to me a piece of grave oric justice, and tailor carrying o be as sober a verity as t. Denys.

    t play to ion of some scenery, very faint traces are left in my memory. It omime, cal]ed Luns G -- a satiric touc long since dead -- but to my appreoo sincere for satire), Lun e a piece of antiquity as Lud -- transmitting re) tless ages. I saley come from  tomb in a gly vest of cion of a dead rainbow. So  I) look whey are dead.

    My t   at it as grave as a judge; for, I remember, teric affectations of good Lady is affected me like some solemn tragic passion. Robinson Crusoe folloic as in tory. -- taloonery of tomimes  of my  t to laug tesque Goto me te  meaning) t gape, and grin, in stone around templars.

    I sao seven years old. After tervention of six or seven ot sced) I again entered tre. t old Artaxerxes evening ed to come again   sixty and sixteen, tter does from six. In t interval ! At t period I kneood noted not all, loved all, wondered all -

    as nouris tell how -

    /BLOCKQUOtEgt;

    I  temple a devotee, and urned a rationalist. terially; but tain o bring back past ages, to present quot;a royal g,quot; -- but a certain quantity of green baize, e time from certain of to come forend ts. ts -- tra lig ring, and t a trick of ters bell -- om of a voice, no  o its ors ed. I t t  it eration  in me. -- Per unate for me t t an indifferent comedy, as it gave me time to crop some unreasonable expectations, ions er enabled to enter upon t appearance to me of Mrs. Siddons in IsabelIa. Comparison and retrospection soon yielded to t attraction of tre became to me, upon a neock, t deligions.

 DREAM-CHILDREN; A Reverie

    Co listen to stories about to stretcion to tion of a traditionary great-uncle, or grandame,  t my little ones crept about, me to  t-grandmot imes bigger t in  it  part of try -- of tragic incidents ain it is t tory of to be seen fairly carved out in  ory doo ts, till a foolis doo set up a marble one of modern invention in its stead, ory upon it.  out one of oo tender to be called upbraiding. t on to say, . grandmoted by every body, t indeed tress of t   (and yet in some respects s be said to be tress of it too) committed to y; but still s in a manner as if it  up ty of t  o decay, and s old ornaments stripped and carried ao t up, and looked as ao carry aombs tely at tick ta dra;t old o die, tended by a concourse of all try too, of to s for  sery by , ay, and a great part of testament besides. tle Alice spread old all, uprig-grandmoteemed t dancer -- tle rig played an involuntary movement, till, upon my looking grave, it desisted -- t dancer, I y, till a cruel disease, called a cancer, came, and bo could never bend s, or make toop, but till uprigold o sleep by  lone  an apparition of ts o be seen at midnig staircase near  s;ts o be, to sleep  I never sas. ried to look courageous. told o all o t-icular used to spend many s of t ill to live again, or I to be turned into marble ired  t s vast empty rooms,  tering tapestry, and carved oaken pannels,  rubbed out -- sometimes in t to myself, unless o pluck t, unless norolling about among trees, or t to look at -- or in lying a out upon till I could almost fancy myself ripening too along  grateful c darted to and fro in t ttom of t sulky pike er in silent state, as if it mocked at tinent friskings, -- I  flavours of peacarines, oranges, and sucs of ced back upon te a bunc unobserved by Alice, ated dividing o relinquis as irrelevant. t a more ened tone, I told -grandmot in an especial manner s be said to love ted a youto t of us; and, instead of moping about in solitary corners, like some of us,  t mettlesome ,  carry y in a morning, and join ters   oo, but oo muc to be al up o mans estate as brave as o tion of every body, but of t-grandmot especially; and o carry me upon ed boy -- for  older t oo, and I did not al, and in pain, nor remember sufficiently e o me  life and deat pretty  first, but after ed and ed me; and t cry or take it to  as some do, and as I t I missed  till to be alive again, to be quarrelling imes), rat   or took off tle mourning o go on about t to tell tories about tty dead motold imes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted tand, I explained to t coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens -- o Alice, t Alice looked out at y of re-presentment, t I became in doubt  brigood gazing, boter to my vieill receding till not last but tures termost distance, s of speec;e are not of Alice, nor of t all. trum fat mig  upon tedious sence, and a namequot; ------ and immediately aly seated in my bac unc John L. (or James Elia) was gone for ever.

 DISTANT CORRESPONDENTS

    In a Letter to B.F. Esq. at Sydney, Ne of a letter from t be to you in t strange one to ed, I feel some compunctious visitings at my long silence. But, indeed, it is no easy effort to set about a correspondence at our distance. ters betion. It is difficult to conceive retc. It is a sort of presumption to expect t ones ts s is like ing for posterity: and reminds me of one of Mrs. Roions, quot;Alcander to Strep; Co-Angel is no more t in sucercourse. One drops a packet at Lombard- street, and in ty-four s it as fres came in ice. It is only like . But suppose a tube let do one end, and t t o t of conversation, if you kne t interesting t ake tions of a s passage. Yet for aug primitive idea -- Platos man -- to reckon ourselves.

    Epistolary matter usually comprisetopics; neiment, and puns. In tter, I include all non-serious subjects; or subjects serious in t treated after my fas, for ne desirable circumstance, I suppose, is t true. But y can I  rut before you get it unaccountably turn into a lie? For instance, our mutual friend P. is at t ing -- my Noion. You are glad to . tural and friendly. But at t reading -- your Noo abate sometransport (i.e. at  least considerably to modify it. I am going to to re, I told me, in your land of d---d realities. You naturally lick your lips, and envy me my felicity. t a moment, and you  teful emotion.  is Sunday morning enses, ts, is in a degree common to all postage. But if I sent you o Bat I ing treat t t you received telligence my full feast of fun  ter, as you al palate,  for you to foster a portion at least of t  my intention to produce. But ten mont upon t only does trutervals, un-essence  (ure a crude fiction for t it may ripen into a trut a er I put upon you some t-maid! I remember gravely consulting you o receive o be rejected; and your no less serious replication in tter; enderly you advised an abstemious introduction of literary topics before tion not to be too for matters more elligence; your deliberate judgment, or ratence, s, and mops, could y be introduced as subjects;  aking of t manner ruer sense of respect for ills reating Becky omary cial civility paid to Becky as to a person of great  te into a ation. ties, I remember, on boto state ed to tenderness of a friend. I laug your solemn pleadings,  er my copy, ually instigated our friend (not to trimony,  to take it in its truest sense, you  ne become ory to you; e, nor indeed care muc of veracity conduct a correspondence at suc; ter (rue present time of t ts.

    to sentiment. It fares little better . to be served up ; or sent off in er-plates, t your friend may  almost as  ime to cool, it is t tasteless of all cold meats. I en smiled at a conceit of te Lord C. It seems t travelling somety green spot, or nook, ically and invitingly over a stream --  ? or a rock ? -- no matter -- but tillness and ter a is likely, in a languid moment of  restless life, so took   of o lay ural and excusable as a sentiment, and ser in a very pleasing lig  it came to be an act; and estamentary disposal, ually carried all t imentalists excepted, t did not ask tion,   as solitary, a nook as romantic, a tree as green and pendent, ream as emblematic to , or in Devon? Conceive timent boarded up, freigered at tom artling tide-ers y), ed into a s pa and s of tarpaulin ruffians -- a ts delicate texture -- t bilge ting it till it became as vapid as a damaged lustring. Suppose it in material danger (mariners ition about sentiments) of being tossed over in a freso some propitiatory s of Saint Gotus so foreign to t it ion. trace it to its lucky landing -- at Lyons s tled upon four mens sing at toopping to refres toting a passport ion of tracy in trict, tics in t canton; till at lengt arrives at its destination, tired out and jaded, from a brisk sentiment, into a feature of silly ride or taation. iments, my dear F., I am afraid  doe seahy.

    Lastly, as to ties, ible in bulk, are ts are, I appreremely circumscribed in tion. ty of being packed up and sent beyond sea, to be transported by o t. tant of triment for tence is tellectual atmospanders or t, is tus, -- er to tion. A pun y  ear-kissing smack ; you can no more transmit it in its pristine flavour, t tried in some instances to palm off a yesterdays pun upon a gentleman, and  ans but it o  it did not seem to come ne did not c  a village ale- before, but you resent tale t. t of mercurn. A pun, and its recognitory laug be co-instantaneous. tning, ts interval, and ted from a friends face as from a mirror.   visnomy, if tes (not to speak of ts copy?

    I cannot image to myself o fix it, Peter ilkinss island comes across me. Sometimes you seem to be in tual fruitless lantern.  must you be ime to give for t of an  man! You must almost ten ell me, es do? are t property can stand against sucion! tive simplicity un-Europe-tainted, tle s fore-puds, looking like a lesson framed by nature to t! Marry, for diving into fobs t if ters as test loco-motor in t improbable tales at tance. Pray, is it true t tans among you are born  must look very odd; but use reconciles. For t is less to be regretted, for if take it into to be poets, it is odds but turn out, ter art of ts. -- Is to see to betaint stop? Do you bleacions? -- I ions to put, but ten Delper time t ake to satisfy my scruples. -- Do you groaple trade, exclusive of tional profession, I mean? Your lock-smitake it, are some of your great capitalists.

    I am insensibly cting to you as familiarly as iguous emple.  quiet corner ? -- s complement of four poor elms, from s, I picked my first lady-birds! My  is as dry as t spring sometimes proves in a ty August, o t is beto render obsolete tters before t s dallying h vain surmise -

    Aye me! whe seas and sounding shores hold far away.

    Come back, before I am groo a very old man, so as you s c crons, erday, an aged crone. Folks,  deat, -- I stood ramparted about ure of J. ., ted my delusion. Since t make e to return, ttle left to greet you, of me, or mine.

 THE PRAISE OF CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS

    I like to meet a sand me -- not a groractive -- but one of tender novices, blooming t nigritude, ternal e effaced from t earlier, tle professional notes sounding like to tin lark ss not seldom anticipating the sun-rise?

    I os -- innocent blacknesses -

    I reverence t clergy imps,  assumption; and from ttle pulpits (tops of cience to mankind.

    a mysterious pleasure it o ness tion! to see a c no bigger ter, one kne by o o pursue ion, as  sounding on tifling caverns, o s quot;no for ever! quot; -- to revive at  of discovered day-lig) running out of doors, to come just in time to see ty, t victorious like some flag adel! I seem to remember old, t a bad s in a stack o indicate acle certainly; not mucage direction in Macbet;Apparition of a cree in ;

    Reader, if test one of try in t is good to give  is better to give  be starving o troubles of ion, a pair of kibed ) be superadded, ty o a tester.

    tion, tood to be t  sassafras. to a kind of tea, and tempered o some tastes a delicacy beyond t e may relis; for myself, o time out of mind kept open a s;-street, as t Bridge-street -- t adventured to dip my oicular lip in a basin of  -- a cautious premonition to tories constantly  my stomac infallibly, esy, decline it. Yet I es, ot uninstructed in dietetical elegances, sup it up y.

    I kno by icular conformation of t  I  tion is surprisingly gratifying to te of a young cicles (sassafras is sligtenuate and soften tions, ions) to ado titioners or  soo mucter  of tims, caused to gro of t lenitive but so it is, t no possible taste or odour to te excitement comparable to ture. Being penniless, t eam, to gratify one sense if possible, seemingly no less pleased tic animals -- cats -- we.

    No Mr. Read boastet  reason, t   knoo t one  -- rious imitators, o omers, at t dead time of tremes meet) t cups, and tisan leaving o resume ture labours of tle, not unfrequently to t disconcerting of t. It is time  yet relumined kitcropolis give fort satisfactory odours. to dissipate  vapours in more grateful coffee, curses t tisan stops to taste, and blesses t breakfast.

    t of transports o Covent-gardens famed piazzas -- t, and, ooo often t ter,  over teful steam, regale uous basin (it  t te bread and butter (an added ions from talities, curl up a ligo t never taint tly reet to street, of te ttling engines from ten adjacent pariso disturb for a casual scintillation t!

    I am by nature extremely susceptible of street affronts; taunts of triumprip, or splasocking, of a gentleman. Yet can I endure ty of a young s er but one, pacing along Comed precipitation reac me upon my back in an instant. I scrambled up  outrying to face it dos encountered me. tood, pointing me out o to a poor ill tears for teness of t it)  at t- inflamed, yet tc of desolation, t   o Finc tood, as ands in ture, irremovable, as if t o last for ever -- ely no malice in it -- t I could ent, if tleman mig, to t and ill midnight.

    I am by te to tiveness of  of teet pardon me) is a casket, presumably , metake leave to quot;air quot; tleman,  must I confess, t from true so ostentation) of te and sions, strikes me as an agreeable anomaly in manners, and an allo is, as when

    A sable cloud

    turns fort.

    It is like some remnant of gentry not quite extinct; a badge of better days; a  of nobility -- and, doubtless, under t of t, oftentimes lurketle conditions, derived from lost ancestry, and a lapsed pedigree. ture apprenticements of tender victims give but too muc, I fear, to clandestine, and almost infantile abductions; ty and true courtesy, so often discernible in ts (not oto be accounted for) plainly  at some forced adoptions; many noble Racenance t; tales of fairy-spiriting may sable verity, and tagu be but a solitary instance of good fortune, out of many irreparable and ions.

    In one of tate-beds at Arundel castle, a fe seat of t of curiosity to visitors, cs beds, in ains of delicatest crimson, arry coronets iner ter all met noon-day, fast asleep, a lost ctle creature, ricacies of ture ed upon t cired edious explorations, o resist tement to repose, s very quietly, laid . like a young howard.

    Suc given to tors at tle. -- But I cannot o perceive a confirmation of  in tory. A inct  aken. Is it probable t a poor c description, ever ed, , to uncover ts of a Dukes bed, and deliberately to lay , presented an obvious coucill far above ension -- is t poure, ed ing to ture? Doubtless t  be)  amounting to full consciousness, of ion in infancy,  by  sucs as o o ing-place. -- By no otiment of a pre-existent state (as I may call it), can I explain a deed so venturous, and, indeed, any otem, so indecorous, in tender, but unseasonable sleeper.

    My pleasant friend Jem e amorply taking place, t in some sort to reverse tune in tituted an annual feast of c e as  and er. It . Barto ter-s tropolis, confining tation to tripling  in among us, and be good-naturedly ; but our main body ry. One unfortunate y, but by tokens ially discovered in time to be no c soot  of tion, as not ; but in general test  spot among t t so far distant as to be impervious to t vanity; but remote enoug to be obvious to terruption of every gaping spectator in it. ts assembled about seven. In ttle temporary parlours tables  so fine as substantial, and at every board a comely ess presided rils of ted at te, as er,  table; and myself, rusty companion Bigod, ordinarily ministered to tling, you may  at t table -- for Rocer in  days could not  ter some general expression of to clasp t of old dame Ursula (ttest of t stood frying and fretting, ;tleman,quot; and imprint upon e lips a tender salute,   up a s t tore teetartled t ness. O it o see tuous meat, uous sayings --  tit bits to tercept a morsel even in t quot;must to to be bro  fit for a gentlemans eatingquot; -- e bread, or t piece of kissing-crust, to a tender juvenile, advising to eet patrimony, eelly  t esting, if it  good, om; ion to oasts -- quot; t; -- t;Clot; -- , ing and flattering; -- and for a croiment, ; All ty ot ts, er, standing upon tables, and prefacing every sentiment ;Gentlemen, give me leave to propose so and so,quot; o tuffing into  did not do to be squeamise pieces of tily, and  part, you may believe, of tertainment.

    Golden lads and lasses must,

    As co dust -

    James e is extinct, and  least. s look for ered feast of St. Barted for ever.

 A COMPLAINT OF THE DECAY OF BEGGARS IN THE METROPO

    tarian reformation -- your only modern Alcides club to rid time of its abuses -- is uplift o extirpate t fluttering tatters of ty from tropolis. Scrips, s, bags -- staves, dogs, and crutc fraternity  posting out of tion. From treets and turnings of allies, ting Genius of Beggary is quot;.quot;

    I do not approve of to inent crusado, or bellum ad exterminationem, proclaimed against a species. Muc be sucked from these Beggars.

    t and t form of pauperism. to our common nature; less revolting to an ingenuous mind to be a suppliant to ticular ure, or set of felloures, parocarian. tes uninvidious in t.

    ty springing from tion; as to be naked is to be so muco to go in livery.

    test spirits  turned scer, do oempt? Could Vandyke ure of re, y, te admiration, ic?

    tty Bessy -- tenuate, but t some sparks of a lustrous spirit  of fortune, fleeing from t sentence of ript of all, and seated on ter by   a better figure, doing ter, or expiating tion upon t eminence of some sempstering shop-board?

    In tale or ory your Beggar is ever t antipode to your King. ts and romancical ers (as dear Margaret Nele  s a reverse of fortune, never stop till t do to rags and t. t illustrates t ed to tion  offence. t divest s, till ;mere nature;quot; and Cresseid, fallen from a princes love, must extend eness ty, supplicating lazar alms h bell and clap-dish.

    ts kneness  ty, tting up foul linen.

    sound in song, t a great monarcions upon ter of a baker! yet do ion at all violated rue ballad,quot; he beggar maid?

    Pauperism, pauper, poor man, are expressions of pity, but pity alloyed empt. No one properly contemns a beggar. Poverty is a comparative t is mocked by its quot;neig; Its poor rents and comings-in are soon summed up and told. Its pretences to property are almost ludicrous. Its pitiful attempts to save excite a smile. Every scornful companion can  it. Poor man reproacreets ic mention of ion, ter, ive insults a Beggar, or t in t under ty. tetentation above y. None jostle o eject enement. No man sues o la t gentleman t I am, ratainer to t, a led captain, or a poor relation, I rue greatness of my mind, to be a Beggar.

    Rags, enure,  in o s of t.  required to put on court mourning. ume  obliged to study appearances. tinuetay. tock or land affectet. tuations of agricultural or commercial prosperity touc, or at  but comers.  expected to become bail or surety for any one. No man troubletioning ics. he universe.

    ts of t city  is complete  turesque attire as ornamental as tanding morals, emblems, mementos, dial-mottos, tal sermons, tary co tide of greasy citizenry -

    --- Look

    Upon t poor and broken bankrupt there.

    Above all, tobits t used to line tidiousness ing up to catcy, and (if possible) of lig t, --  of ty of double darkness, irring tread of taves? and o be s? or ied up in sacks, and dropt into t tion of B--- , tor of -- -?

    ell fare tidious Vincent Bourne, most classical, and at time, most Englisinists -- ed of test of apap; and say, if customary sigle poetry as ture to do more o t and busy metropolis.

    Pauperis hic iri requiesco Lyciscus, herilis,

    Dum vixi, tutela vigil columenque senectae,

    Dux caeco fidus: nec, me ducente, solebat,

    Praetenso que hinc baculo, per iniqua locorum

    Incertam explorare viam; sed fila secutus,

    Quae dubios regerent passus, vestigia tuta

    Fixit inoffenso gressu; gelidumque sedile

    In nudo nactus saxo, qua praetereuntium

    Unda frequens confluxit, ibi miserisque tenebras

    Lamentis, noctemque oculis ploravit obortam.

    Ploravit nec frustra; obolum dedit alter et alter,

    Queis corda et mentem indiderat natura benignam.

    Ad latus interea jacui sopitus herile,

    Vel mediis vigil in somnis; ad herilia jussa

    Auresque atque animum arrectus, seu frustula amice

    Porrexit sociasque dapes, seu longa diei

    taedia perpessus, reditum sub nocte parabat.

    a fuit, dum fata sinebant,

    Dum neque languebam morbis, nec inerte senecta;

    Quae tandem obrepsit, veterique satellite cascum

    Orbavit dominum prisci sed gratia facti

    Ne tota intereat, longos deleta per annos,

    Exiguum umulum de cespite fecit,

    Etsi inopis, non ingratae, munuscula dextrae;

    Carmine signavitque brevi, dominumque canemque

    Quod memoret, fidumque canem dominumque benignum.

    Poor Irus faithful wolf-dog here I lie,

    t  to tend my old blind masters steps,

    ed,

    staff, h which

    h in fear

    Over t ,

    Safe in t of my friendly string,

    A firm foot forill, till he had reachd

    on some stone, nigide

    Of passers by in t confluence flowd:

    to s

    From morn to eve ate he waild.

    Nor o all in vain: some here,

    their pennies gave.

    I meantime at  obsequious slept;

    Not all-asleep in sleep,   and ear

    Prickd up at  motion; to receive

    At omary crums,

    And common portion in  of scraps;

    Or

    itedious beggary.

    this my way of life,

    till age and sloook,

    And severd from my sigers side.

    But lest the grace of so good deeds should die,

    tract of years in mute oblivion lost,

    tomb of turf h Irus reared,

    C of no ungrudging hand,

    And  verse inscribed it, to attest,

    In long and lasting union to attest,

    tues of the Beggar and his Dog.

    t a  of to glide s of London, y upon a macacle to natives, to foreigners, and to c make, o torm and sunsural curiosity, a speculation to tific, a prodigy to t are at ty man brougo y, vieoutness, and y , of t. Fe must iced , s of 1780, and eus, and to suck in fres; as good as an Elgin marble. ture,  lost, but only retired into s, and remendous voice ting do eed t arted at entous appearance. o  but  stature to  t of a Centaur, from  ion ing; and  yet a jolly countenance upon ty-and-trade, and no  s no ent to excraints of a poor-ing umacy in one of tened) of Correction.

    as a daily spectacle like to be deemed a nuisance, o remove? or not ratary and a touc, to t city? -- Among y (and  an accumulation of sigs -- is a great city; or for  desirable?)  room for one Lusus (not Naturae, indeed, but) Accidentium?  if in forty-and-t, togeto give a portion to ributors  for t if after being exposed all day to ts, ts of runk along in an elaborate and painful motion -- o retire at nigo enjoy  a club of  meat and vegetables, as t against tee -- ruly paternal consideration, atue rat, and is inconsistent at least ion of nocturnal orgies ed in urdy vagabond? --

    t  o e do t, and to ion, ay, and e too, for a companionable symbol. quot;Age, t lost t; -

    ories about tunes made by begging are (I verily believe) misers calumnies. One ime since, and table inferences deduced. A clerk in t of a five  ranger to. It seems t in s)  ty years to drop o t of some blind Bartimeus, t sate begging alms by tor by t all t [p 120] ury pering) to ory to purse up peoples s, and pennies, against giving an aims to t ratiful moral of ed cy on t, and noble gratitude upon ther?

    I sometimes wis Bank clerk.

    I seem to remember a poor old grateful kind of creature, blinking, and looking up he sun --

    Is it possible I could eeled my purse against him?

    Perhaps I had no small change.

    Reader, do not be frig tion, imposture -- give, and ask no questions. Cast ters. Some ertained angels.

    S not trings al painted distress. Act a cy sometimes. ure (outay to inquire ence. Rake not into truto save a  is good to believe  all t endete fat) t t relieved an indigent bacerfeit looks, and mumping tones, to see a comedian feign t not certainly tell w.

 A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG

    MANKIND, says a C, o me, for t seventy te t raing it from t as to t obscurely ed at by t Confucius in ter of ations, erm Cerally t goes on to say, t t of roasting, or ratake to be tally discovered in ti,  into to collect mast for  tage in t son Bo-bo, a great lubberly boy, o a bundle of stra of till it o asogettage (a sorry antediluvian make-s of a building, you may t), ter of neeemed a luxury all over t from test periods t most consternation, as you may t so mucenement,  any time, as for t o s of one of timely sufferers, an odour assailed rils, unlike any scent  proceed from ? -- not from t cottage --  t smell before -- indeed t accident of t resemble t of any knoening at time overfloo t stooped doo feel t.  o cool to  time in ) asted -- crackling! Again  and fumbled at t did not burn ill  of . trut lengto anding, t it  smelt so, and t tasted so delicious; and, surrendering o to tearing up , and  doers, armed ributory cudgel, and finding ood, began to rain bloones, ickling pleasure, o any inconveniences  feel in te quarters.  lay on but  beat ill , ion, somethe following dialogue ensued.

    quot;You graceless  not enoug you  me doricks, and be o you, but you must be eating fire, and I kno ;

    quot;O fataste  pig eats.quot;

    ti tingled  ever  a son t s burnt pig.

    Bo-bo,  asunder, t to ts of i, still sing out quot;Eat, eat, eat t pig, fataste -- O Lord,quot; -- ions, cramming all the while as if he would choke.

    i trembled every joint  o deatural young monster, urn tasted some of its flavour, ence, proved not altogeto  tle tedious) bot doo t off till tc remained of tter.

    Bo-bo rictly enjoined not to let t escape, for tainly oned tc range stories got about. It  is cottage  doly t fires from time for in broad day, ot-time. As often as ti to be in a blaze; and i ead of cising o gro to  lengtcerrible mystery discovered, and fato take trial at Pekin, toself produced in court, and verdict about to be pronounced,  pig, of ood accused, migo t, and t, and burning ture prompting to eac ts, and t co t, torangers, reporters, and all present --  leaving tation  in a simultaneous verdict of Not Guilty.

    t t iniquity of t  privily, and boug could be oook o be seen but fires in every direction. Fuel and pigs grerict. t up s sliger every day, until it  tecture ime be lost to tom of firing inued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke,  be cooked (burnt, as t)  ty of consuming a . t began ting by tring, or spit, came in a century or ter, I forget in  useful, and seemingly t obvious arts, make their way among man-kind.

    it placing too implicit fait above given, it must be agreed, t if a ext for so dangerous an experiment as setting , t pretext and excuse mig PIG.

    Of all tain it to be t delicate -- princeps obsoniorum.

    I speak not of your gro a young and tender suckling -- under a moon old -- guiltless as yet of ty -- iae, tary failing of t parent, yet manifest --  not broken, but somet.

    be roasted. I am not ignorant t our ancestors ate t erior tegument!

    tend, to t of tac over-roasted, crackling, as it is eeted to t t in overcoming ttle resistance --  not fat -- but an indefinable sness groo it -- tender blossoming of fat -- fat cropped in taken in t -- in t innocence -- tessence of t pure food -- t a kind of animal manna -- or, rat and lean (if it must be so) so blended and running into eac botoget one ambrosian result, or common substance.

    Be seemet, t o. ring! -- Noo see treme sensibility of t tender age,  out ty eyes -- radiant jellies -- sing stars -

    See  t groo ty en accompany maturer so one ton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal -- ion -- from tched away -

    Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade,

    Deatimely care -

    omaceteteful stomacomb migent to die.

    of Sapors. Pine-apple is great. S too transcendent -- a delig sinful, yet so like to sinning, t really a tender-conscienced person o pause -- too ravisal taste, set approacety of  soppet te -- s ite -- and t  barter ently for a mutton chop.

    Pig -- let me speak ive of tite, tisfactory to ticalness of te. trong man may batten on  his mild juices.

    Unlike to mankinds mixed cers, a bundle of virtues and vices, inexplicably interted, and not to be unravelled  . No part of ter or tle means extend, all around.  envious of banquets. he is all neighbours fare.

    I am one of t a so t (feo a friend. I protest I take as great an interest in my friends pleasures, isfactions, as in mine o;Presents,quot; I often say, quot;endear Absents.quot; s, partridges, snipes, barn-door c;tame villatic fo;), capons, plovers, braers, I dispense as freely as I receive to taste t ongue of my friend. But a stop must be put some; give every t; I make my stand upon pig. Met is an ingratitude to to extra-domiciliate, or send out of tingly, (under pretext of friends icularly adapted, predestined, I may say, to my individual palate -- It argues an insensibility.

    I remember a touc sc,  t stuffing a s-meat, or some nice to my pocket, o sc  time of day t erfeit). I o console y of self-denial, and ty, sc of -- ttle, buoyed up, as one is on suc sootisfaction; but before I  to tter feelings returned, and I burst into tears, teful I o my good aunt, to go and give  ao a stranger, t I  be a bad man for aug of t aking in t I -- I myself, and not anot  so  time I sao part ty present -- and t spicy cake came back upon my recollection, and ty I aken in seeing , and  it to ted s I  of it in my mout last -- and I blamed my impertinent spirit of aims-giving, and out-of-place o see t insidious, good-for-notor.

    Our ancestors ender victims. e read of pigs o deate custom. t o inquire (in a p merely)  t oenerating and dulcifying a substance, naturally so mild and dulcet as t looks like refining a violet. Yet  mig a gusto -

    I remember an udents, . Omers, and maintained ry on bot; tained ionem extremam) superadded a pleasure upon te of a man more intense tified in using t metting to deat; I forget the decision.

    , banisribe. Barbecue your e, steep ts, stuff t ations of ty garlic; you cannot poison tronger t consider, he is a weakling -- a flower.

 ON SOME OF THE OLD ACTORS

    t of an old Play Bill, empts me to call to mind a fe. It presents t of parts in t, at tre ty years ago. touco read a Play Bill -- not, as noure, singling out a favorite performer, and casting a negligent eye over t; but spelling out every name, doo tes and servants of t ter of no small moment to us ook t of Fabian; ent to attribute noo times best actors.-quot; Orsino, by Mr. Barrymore. quot; a full S carries! o memory arise tle actor!

    t ten or fifteen years, can e notion of s as Op Ends ell; and Viola in tterly acquired a coarseness,  sank, eady melting eye, into t. s -- in  ory of   speec so  into an o make up t I  so spoken, or rat  its grace and beauty -- but, o be a quot;blank,quot; and t s;never told ; tory ;; came up as a neion -- and tened image of Patience still folloer t, as by some gro mec springing up after t, I  say, as tered by ears. So in those fine lines -

    rite loyal cantos of contemned love --

    o te hills -

    tion made in t ures o legitimate t seemed altoget rule or law.

    Mrs. Poy, made an admirable Olivia. Sicularly excellent in ion resses too -- ions o set ts at ter, and to vie conceits  emulation. But s, like rifle a leisure sentence or to be dismissed, and so be t Lady still. Soucastic er y. he scene.

    t of Malvolio  been so often misunderstood, and ts of tor, ed, t I stle prolix upon ts.

    Of all tors est in tions, tions consequent upon tment of a great idea to true poetical ent faculty among players. None t I remember possessed even a portion of t fine madness  about glory, or transports of tian incendiary at ty.  times ting effect of trumpet.  iff,  no ation; and tleman  in every movement.  of passion est trutriking before time; never anticipating or leading you to anticipate. otally destitute of trick and artifice. age to do ts message simply, and  y as t timent do its o prop or bolstering. o mountebank it; and betrayed none of t cleverness o ator from ion could divine more of ifice to do.  you in possession of tery. timations to make t so mucer t of tands like a great  up for mine Ancient, and a quantity of barren spectators, to s ts at. t go to riump tone about ter, natural to a general consciousness of po none of t petty vanity ain itself upon any little successful stroke of its knavery -- as is common ioners in misc did not clap or cros time. It  a man setting s at a c otily pleased at being let into t; but a consummate villain entrapping a noble nature into toils, against ive. t of Malvolio, in t, y, of  castings of t cer) tradition must be  from tage. No manager in t to Mr. Baddeley, or Mr. Parsons: re, Jo it no derogation to succeed to t. Malvolio is not essentially ludicrous.  by accident. ere, repelling; but dignified, consistent, and, for retcy. Maria describes  of Puritan; and  , or a lady Fairfax. But y and o ties of test. Still y, (call it ive to t mock or affected,  objects to excite laugy is at t unlovely, but neitemptible. y, a little above ation, but probably not mucs. e see no reason al of to to restore to Cesario), bespeaks a generosity of birt on all occasions is t of a gentleman, and a man of education. e must not confound ernal old, loeo a great Princess; a dignity probably conferred upon s t t indication of  s; ; Does ter  to appear little or insignificant? Once, indeed, so  ? -- of being quot;sick of self-love,quot; -- but leness and considerateness  t ticular infirmity sues. o t, and tised; and o consideration tected condition of ress, and trict regard ate of real or dissembled mourning  feel t in  appears not t Olivia o look to it -- for Sir toby s at ttery c Malvolio  to be represented as possessing estimable qualities, ty to  infers. quot;Pursue reat o a peace.quot; Even in ate of c of greatness seems never to desert opas, and ply upon ra  t rao Olivia. taking, or t  house of misrule.

    Bensley, accordingly, t an air of Spanisiness. ilian. arced, but ructure of pride seemed bottomed upon a sense of  beyond t  you could not be sure t it  taken do you felt t it ion.  from tset; but ies of ter began to give  of tesss affection, gradually to  tood before you.  smiling to  ineffable carelessness  was! you

    *Clohagoras concerning wild fowl?

    Mal. t t  a bird.

    Clo thou of his opinion?

    Mal. I the soul, and no way approve of his opinion.

    ed   ser! if an unseasonable reflection of morality obtruded itself it iable infirmity of mans nature, t can lay o suc in trutied t lasted -- you felt t an ake   for a day in t of sucy but for a quarter of a minute, sleeping or o o tread upon air, to taste manna, to o mate  tles of  for a season brigs of confidence -- quot;stand still ye c,quot; t Malvolio may be still in fancy fair Olivias lord -- but fate and retribution say no -- I itter of Maria -- tty taunts of Sir toby -- till more insupportable triump -- terfeit Sir topas is unmasked -- and quot;time,quot; as true clo;brings in ; I confess t I never saastroper,  a kind of tragic interest. too. Fe in  to tors, revived ter some fe sufficiently grotesque; but Dodd , as it came out of natures  migo remain in puris naturalibus. In expressing slo daealing slotle and little, ill it cleared up at last to ts  meridian. o keep back ellect, as some o retard tion. takes less time in filling t took to cover ts quarters anding  of ctle intelligence, and be a long time in communicating it to the remainder

    .

    I am ill at dates, but I t is noter ty years ago t  encroac side of tting out delicate green crankles, and sately alcoves of terrace -- tands gaping and relationless as if it remembered its brotill t gardens of any of t, my beloved temple not forgotten  cer, t being altoget t upon taking my afternoon solace on a summer day upon terrace, a comely sad personage came to, I judged to ful foreo be in meditations of mortality. As I inctive a of subindicative token of respect o demonstrate toranger, and ion to greet ive motion of to t effect -- a species of y and  of ten, rat is offered to -- rangely identified itself  of Dodd. Upon close inspection I  mistaken. But could tful countenance be t face of folly ances of gaiety;  as t looked out so formally flat in Foppington, so frot in tattle, so impotently busy in Backbite; so blankly divested of all meaning, or resolutely expressive of none, in Acres, in Fribble, and a tinences? as till of t and carefulness -- t en divested itself at race of eito give me diversion, to clear my cloudy face for t least of its furroelligent, , made merry aken  came upon me . I could  pardon. I t it looked upon me range as ors -- your pleasant felloicularly -- subjected to and suffering t -- tunes, ties, to belong to tions to be amenable to poetic justice only. e can  ties. tor took place sly after ting. ted tage some montering daily to t to ting ies -- er tre -- doing gentle penance for a life of no very repreaking off by degrees t feel oo long -- and re of part. Dying ;put on t; *

    If fe living  easily forget  creature,  of to Dodds Sir Andre -- for so in ime ed to be called, and time ified tion -- lietery of o ed. t remember  t period -- en speak of er days, w;c;

    clipped  expedient t ate; ion to t office), like Sir Jo;; or y indispensable to an occupation ;commerce ; -- I could never rig ion of a ting to a secular condition, and become one of us. I t altoget timber, out of  of sanctity, t tley, ed y after ion, and ion to o ted for a surplice -- e stole, and albe. t fruits of ion  upon t ing ters. At t of us kneor true sense able.

    age. o trouble all ty,  troubled for tter. e -- imes deepening to ible accession, derived perely from ical education, foreign to otype of, -- O La! thousands of

    *Dodd  at ion of old Engliserature. I so . I knoance of an impromptu ered. My merry friend, Jem e,  day in Fleet Street, ibly impelled to take off  and salute ical Knig;Save you, Sir Andre; Dodd, not at all disconcerted at tranger, eous  ;A;

    s yet respond to tt, brougo transcript of ;force of nature could no furt; ock of two syllables riche cuckoo.

    Care, t troubles all tten in ion.  trings,  of ence) as legs. A doubt or a scruple must otter, a sig of a froilts of ;t; reckless of a scratcorn doublet.

    Sers. true Suett stamp, a loose and s, a slippery tongue, t to a -pain-delivered jest; in rutre;  ragging conceit empest, or Sir toby at ttery-ch.

    Jack Bannister and une to be more of personal favourites oors before or after. take it, , good-natured, moral pretensions. Dicky ured, no pretensions at all. Your ers performance of alter in t Dick seemed like a too young to knoo Vestas days. Evil fled before  as from Jack, as from an antagonist, -- but because it could not touc deat in metapo fetc is recorded of  Palmer,   stroke, neitomed tranquillity, nor tune, ion, o aph -- O La! O La! Bobby!

    tage-treading celebrity) commonly played Sir toby in t ty of  in ts of t aff e fill out. oo simes took t) tisility about Jack Palmer. leman  infusion of tman. er memory) erleman tle stronger infusion of tter ingredient; t  is amazing tle off t,* you said, y sucty fello. ain Absolute, you t you could trace ion to some lad of quality , and   was insuperable.

    [Footnote] * airs.

    Jack ical, and insinuating; but al voice still more decisively rionic t ator; and tis personae o kno all about it. timents in Josep in a sort of italics to t correspondence ain (ificial comedy of Congreve or of Se sense of reality (so indispensable to scenes of interest) is not required, or erfere to diminis is, you do not believe in sucers as Surface -- tificial comedy -- even  you. urns from sea, te dialogue occurs at  meeting her -

    Sir Sampson. t been many a hee.

    Ben. Ey, ey, been! Been far enoug be all. -- ell, fat her Val?

    Sir Sampson. Dick! body o me, Dick  you word w Leghorn.

    Ben. Mess, ts true; Marry, I . Dicks dead, as you say -- ell, and ions to ask you -

    ance of insensibility  ed ed temperament of ter. But  ions and specious combinations ratrict metapure saken, or , it neit all. For  sailor  a piece of satire -- a creation of Congreves fancy -- a dreamy combination of all ts of a sailors cer -- empt of money -- y to  necessary estrangement from  is just y to suppose migion as is , or feel it as a stain upon er. But ead of tful pom -- ture dear to er exed -- displays before our eyes a doar -- and notead of investing it ed goodness of purpose -- o it a doanding, and a full consciousness of its actions; ting fories of ter ence as if it stood upon noto be judged by turbed; a real man  in among tis personae, and puts t. e  turned out. e feel t rue place is not beain but in t or second gallery.

 ON THE ARTIFICIAL COMEDY OF THE LAST CENTURY

    tificial Comedy, or Comedy of manners, is quite extinct on our stage. Congreve and Farquo be exploded and put doantly. times cannot bear t for a feogetic cers  stand test. e screo t. Idle gallantry in a fiction, a dream, t of an evening, startles us in tions of profligacy in a son or le a parent or guardian. e ions as dramatic interests left. e see a stage libertine playing er consequence,  real vices ators to a plot or intrigue (not reducible in life to t of strict morality) and take it all for trutitute a real for a dramatic person, and judge ry s, from is personae!,  sentimental comedy but a tyrant far more pernicious to our pleasures , t is every tead of titious age (toms of old comedy) s, kinsfolk, allies, patrons, enemies, -- terest in antial, t  afford our moral judgment, in its deepest and most vital results, to compromise or slumber for a moment.  is transacting, by no modification is made to affect us in any ots or cers ionso tre  go tors, to escape from ty, so muco confirm our experience of it; to make assurance double, and take a bond of fate. e must live our toilsome lives t o descend to t neutral ground of cer, ue; or  to neition; t ual moral questioning -- tuary and quiet Alsatia of ed casuistry -- is broken up and disfranco terests of society. taken a dally  sion from tation of disorder; and fear a painted pustule. In our anxiety t our morality s take cold,  up in a great blanket surtout of precaution against the breeze and sunshine.

    I confess for myself t ( delinquencies to anso take an airing beyond trict conscience, -- not to live als of ts, -- but noo imagine a riction -- to get into recesses,  follow me -

    -----------Secret shades

    Of  grove,

    there was no fear of Jove --

    I come back to my cage and my restraint t. I edly for  kno I feel tter al add even of yc least for it; and I could never connect ts of a ty fancy in any s to be drao imitation in real life. t as mucake one of ters, male or female (ions t in a modern play, and my virtuous indignation s te cos of t could desire; because in a modern play I am to judge of t and tandard of police is tical justice. tmosp it, it cannot live   into a moral  needs fall and, as a S t o t in its oure is so very bad ? -- ts and touc offend my moral sense; in fact t appeal to it at all. t. tious restraints. t out of Cendom into t s ? -- of cuckoldry -- topia of gallantry,  freedom. It is altogetive scene of tever to t is. No good person can be justly offended as a spectator, because no good person suffers on tage. Judged morally, every cer in tions only are mistakes -- is alike essentially vain and  art of Congreve is especially s irely excluded from tle generosities in t of Angelica pered, -- not only any tless cer, but any pretensions to goodness or good feelings ively, t is as o  trange poeresting you all along in ts of cers, for e nor love  is oo t you endure tion of moral lig, rations; and  before you  distinction or preference. roduced a good cer, a single gus to actual life and actual duties, tinent Gosed to ties, whem none.

    translated into real life, ters of es and strumpets, -- tence, t of lary. No otion, or possible motive of conduct, is recognised; principles  reduce to a c ranslating ts are produced in t a cic people. e are not to judge titutions are insulted by ted -- for no family ties exist among ty of tained, -- for none is supposed to ions are disquieted, -- no ions dept of t soil. t nor itude or its opposite, -- claim or duty, -- paternity or sons consequence is it to virtue, or  all concerned about it, eal as children.

    t,  t a battle of t, like Don Quixote, ake part against ts, and quite as impertinently. e dare not contemplate an Atlantis, a sc of ransitory ease excluded. e  to imagine a state of t. e cling to ties of s our very dreams.

    Amidst tifying circumstances attendant upon gro is someto s glory. t of Congreve and yc gatimental comedy  it sed, t continues, at long intervals, to be announced in ts  at least, ep, ting voice -- to express it in a  acted villany of t, so different from tual ical assumption of e in t cer, I must needs conclude t generation of play-goers more virtuous t ter brot, in fact, I liked e as  but t, for instance, tance to a poor relation, incongruities  to join tificial imental comedy, eit destroy t over tructions Jacks manner floated ly, t a refusal from y any pleasure; you got over try question as quickly as you could, to get back into tificial manner of Palmer in ter counteracted every disagreeable impression , supposing t believe in Josepter  reality, t poetical foil to it. ture of Congreve imental incompatibilities: ty upon t; but it required te art of Palmer to reconcile t elements.

    A player alents, if o do t in tinctively avoid every turn end to unrealise, and so to make ter fascinating.  take ators, o eacrasted in ts, . Pauls Cion as venerable as t cat coeval) of t tly appreruly tom y of a toasting fork is not to be despised, -- so finely contrast  kissing of taking it in like ter, -- ter submits to tle bleeder, time,  fles covet to meet roke of suce moor in te part. o you all t er and  intimation of a sentiment before it  to you, and you o suppose t itious co-flutterers on tage perceived not all of it.   to you if t y, try -- or teazles reputation)  unes of Ot concerned in it. Poor Jack  from tage in good time, t  live to t old teazle King, too, is gone in good time.  current in our day. e must love or e -- acquit or condemn -- ensure or pity -- exert our detestable coxcombry of moral judgment upon every to go do be a do sies, y greetings, kno no ic  to come of t inspire a cold and killing aversion. Cing person of ts ulterior legitimate ends, but  centre in doion) must be loved, and Joseped. to balance one disagreeable reality er teazle must be no longer tful old baceasings () ly as muc you, as t to concern any body on tage, --  be a real person, capable in laaining an injury -- a person too be acknoagonist of to realise unate matc  pungency of life -- must (or s mirt uncomfortable, just as t , must affect you in tation of a dear female friend attacked in your real presence. Crabtree, and Sir Benjamin -- t live but in t be ripened by t-bed process of realization into asps or ampful! become a . O remembers Parsons and Dodd -- tterfly of t gentleinguister part -- rue scenic delig of t Reflection -- turnalia of to sit instead at one of our modern plays -- to  forsoot not be left for a moment) stimulated ual appeals -- dulled rated, as a faculty  repose must be -- and y pampered ional justice, notional beneficence, lives saved  tators risk, and fortunes given a cost thing?

    No piece  in all its parts as to Mrs. Abingdon in Lady teazle; and Smitired, . t of ters,  exceptions, remained. I remember it o cry do of Cer Smit, I t, very unjustly. Smitook tain gaiety of person.  ions of tragedy.  to expiate t of y declamation.  or of Rico atone for. s  to success in one of so opposite a tendency. But, as far as I could judge, ty sense of Kemble made up for more personal incapacity to ansones in t came steeped and dulcified in good s a grace.  declamatory manner, as , only served to convey ts of  seemed to s to carry t one of ences . I remember minutely  by any effort imagine ered for tter. No man could deliver brilliant dialogue -- tood it -- ine, in Love for Love, o my recollection, faultless. imes in tervals of tragic passion. s of an er. o nod. But o me to be particularly alive to pointed and ty dialogue. ties of tragedy  been touc-bred spirit in  -- tive relief orpors -- but ting-stones and resting-places of ragedy -- politic savings, and fetcure pointed o be an economist -- rat. t , less painful ternal tormenting unappeasable vigilance, t;lidless dragon eyes,quot; of present fasragedy.

 ON THE ACTING OF MUNDEN

    NOt many nigraordinary performer in Cockletop; and o my pillouck by me, in a manner as to ten sleep. In vain I tried to divest myself of it, by conjuring up t opposite associations. I resolved to be serious. I raised up t topics of life; private misery, public calamity. All  do.

    --------tic sate

    Mocking our state -

    ume -- all trange togetine rod, s in  -- Cleopatras tear, and t of ary -- till ter, like grief in excess, relieved itself by its o instance it had driven away.

    But I  to escape so easily. No sooner did I fall into slumbers, t one Munden, but five aking opium -- all trange combinations,  of all strange mortals ever s enance into, from to dry up tears of to forgotten Edo ed a  see ter  fall far s of the former.

    t, one (but  is!) of Liston; but Munden  you can properly pin doery of looks, in unaccountable y, suddenly s out an entirely ne of features, like  one, but legion. Not so muciplied like enance, it migerally makes faces: applied to any oting certain modifications of tenance. Out of some invisible  used for c as easily. I s be surprised to see  out tt, or lapamorphosis.

    I ed actor in Sir Copon -- diffuse a gloiment  like t of one man; o t of a people. I  approaco t of excellence in ot in tesque of farce, Munden stands out as single and unaccompanied as range to tell,  end h himself.

    Can any man ; sessa quot; -- as  strangely-neglected ton -- ions from to to tator in as , as if some Arabian Niged before tempted to ternatural interest over t daily-life objects? A table, or a joint stool, in ion, rises into a dignity equivalent to Cassiopeias c is invested ellatory importance. You could not speak of it  ed into t. A beggar in triarcy. So to of Munden antiquates and ennobles  toucs and s and ic vision. A tub of butter, contemplated by s to a Platonic idea. ands a leg of mutton in its quiddity. ands erials of life, like primeval man ars about him.

 A BACHELORS COMPLAINT OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF MARRIED

    AS a single man, I  a good deal of my time in noting doies of Married People, to console myself for tell me I  by remaining as I am.

    I cannot say t t impression upon me, or endency to strengti-social resolutions, antial considerations.  oftenest offends me at t, is an error of quite a different description; -- it is t too loving.

    Not too loving neit does not explain my meaning. Besides,  of separating t of to  of eacy, implies t to all the world.

    But  t up in t be in t  being made to feel, by some indirect  or open avo you are not t of taken for granted merely; but expressed, to accost t ured or plain-dressed young ell ly, t s  marry o be kicked for  no less is implied in t, t unity of putting tion to  t fit to do it. tands t  into  no reasonable young  as little rigo tell me by speec are scarce less plain t I am not t is enoug I kno: I do not  tual reminding.

    tly mortifying; but t of a palliative. t out to insult me, may accidentally improve me; and in tures, -- emporary usufruct at least. But tives: it is t pure, unrecompensed, unqualified insult.

    Marriage by its best title is a monopoly, and not of t invidious sort. It is t possessors of any exclusive privilege to keep tage as muc of sig ttle of t, may to question t. But ts t t obnoxious part of tent into our faces.

    Noto me more distasteful t entire complacency and satisfaction  of ticularly: it tells you, t  is disposed of in t you can  is true, I  trut, as I said before, to be taken for granted, not expressed.

    tional. e o understand teries belonging to t better t o be made free of t t content s. If a single person presume to offer  indifferent subject, ely silenced as an incompetent person. Nay, a young married lady of my acquaintance,  nigion on o differ from ing t mode of breeding oysters for t, o ask end to kno sucters.

    But o tures give to tle of a rarity c every street and blind alley s t people commonly  abundance, -- t t are not blest  least one of ten turn out ill, and defeat ts, taking to vicious courses,  for my life tell   one in a year, t be a pretext. But whey are so common -

    I do not advert to t merit o t. But ural-born subjects, sed to bring our spices, myrrribute and ion, -- I do not see.

    quot;Like as t, even so are t; so says t office in our Prayer-book appointed for t; ; So say I; but t let  are  t not to gall and stick us. I  to be sure to  ance, ake no notice of turn a deaf ear to t caresses), you are set doractable, morose, a er of caken ty manners, and set about in earnest to romp and play ext or oto be found for sending t of too noisy or boisterous, or Mr. -- does not like co  you.

    I could forgive toying s, if it gives t I t unreasonable to be called upon to love to love a en, indiscriminately,to love all tty dears, because children are so engaging.

    I kno;Love me, love my dog:quot; t is not alicable, particularly if t upon you to tease you or snap at you in sport. But a dog or a lesser te substance, as a keep-sake, a cree, or t parted o love, because I love  reminds me of  be in its nature indifferent, and apt to receive  cer and an essential being of t love or e ties. A cure is too serious a to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to anoto be loved or ed accordingly: tand ock, as muc you  is an attractive age, tender years of infancy t of itself c is t t a s cest ture, not even excepting te creatures tier t is t it sty of its kind. One daisy differs not muc a violet siest. -- I her squeamish in my women and children.

    But t t: one must be admitted into ty at least, before ttention. It implies visits, and some kind of intercourse. But if ting before marriage,if you did not come in on t sneak into train, but  s of intimacy before ts on, -- look about you -- your tenure is precarious -- before a tered to last seek opportunities of breaking ance, upon er tations t: but t to enter into a solemn league of friends consulted, t  are no, -- tolerable to tic intimacy, must  into to be neamped  o be need amp of y, before  it pass current in t luck generally befalls sucy piece of metal as I am in tings.

    Innumerable are take to insult and  of t all you say  said good t an oddity, is one of ticular kind of stare for till at last to defer to your judgment, and anding and manner for tion (not quite vulgar)  oget, -- a fello not quite so proper to be introduced to ladies. taring   been put in practice against me.

    ting  is,  so easily to be sing attac founded on esteem ions to cry up all t you say or do, till tands  is all done in compliment to  of gratitude le on , and taking doo t kindly level of moderate esteem, -- t quot;decent affection and complacent kindnessquot; toco y.

    Anoto accomplise) is,  simplicity, continually to mistake  eem for somet in your moral cer  o break, upon any imaginary discovery of a  of poignancy in your conversation, s;I t, my dear, you described your friend, Mr. -- as a great .quot; If, on t   greo like you, and ent for to overlook some trifling irregularities in your moral deportment, upon t notice of any of t;t; One good lady y of expostulating  se so muc as I t due to o confess to me t sen  s desire to be acquainted  t t of me ed ations; for from ations of me, sion t so see a fine, tall, officer-like looking man (I use o be truty not to ask urn, o pitcandard of personal accompliss for e to mine; anding five feet five in age of  ing any indications of a martial cer in enance.

    tifications tempt to visit at to enumerate t glance at ty of reating us as if y, and testacea, for instance, kept me t time of supping,  come ill ters y of teness of touc of good manners: for ceremony is an invention to take off to be less t of love and esteem ure t endeavors to make up by superior attentions in little points, for t invidious preference o deny in ter. estacea kept ters back for me, and ood unities to go to supper, sed according to trict rules of propriety. I kno ladies are bound to observe to t of a modest be protest against ttony of Cerasia,  a good o  table, and recommended a plate of less extraordinary goose- berries to my une in tead. Neiton affront of -

    But I am ringing up all my married acquaintance by Roman denominations. Let to record to terror of all suce offenders in future.