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 PREFACE

    tO t ESSAYS OF ELIA

    BY A FRIEND OF tE ELIA

    tleman, ribute to nature.

    to say trut is time , ty ion for a pom.

    I am no liberty to confess, t muced to my late friends ings  you -- a sort of unlicked, incondite ted array of antique modes and p been ter it is, t a er sural in a self-pleasing quaintness, to affect a naturalness (so called) t srange to istical t kno rue only (orically) of anoto save many instances) -- e of a country-boy placed at a London scions -- in direct opposition to ory.

    My late friend s a singular cer. t like ed ererest ers. trutoo little concern ered, and in   came uppermost. it lie ion set , or persuaded t iments. Feood  certain t at all times e understood oo muced t dangerous figure -- irony. ful speecred. -- errupt t discussion  jest; and yet, per quite irrelevant in ears t could understand it. Your long and mucalkers ed  of o an inveterate impediment of speeco be all orator; and ermined t no one else s part  and ordinary in imes in   silent, and be suspected for an odd felloill some unlucky occasion provoking it, be utter out some senseless pun (not altogetly taken),   nine times out of ten, rived by to send aterance, and  impromptus . rying to be ty,  struggling to give s articulation. y of cer erati, , persons of an uncertain fortune; and, as to sucleman of settled (te) income,  of t miser. to my knoake. imados, to confess a trut. ing on ty; and tuck to  t. ly cared for ty of o arise),  . rated  making more concessions to tort by asking,  did to emperate in  al a little on temiousness. Only in t be t a little excessive. ook it,  of speectle imes ! ts, ied ammerer proceeded a statist!

    I do not knoo bemoan or rejoice t my old friend is departed. s o groe, and ories to be found out.  tended to cling to life, you sa to bind terly on t, tis un reat (as ) at So a scry  us, and boseyed, as , in an especial manner to ;take me for a visiting governor,quot; tered earnestly. o a foible, of looking like anytant and paroc t o t stamp daily. reated like a grave or respectable cer, and kept a  sitle   conform to time, but oo mucoga virilis never sate gracefully on  into ed tinence of man suco explicate some of ings.

 BLAKESMOOR IN H----HIRE

    I DO not knoing to range at ed apartments of some fine old family mansion. traces of extinct grandeur admit of a better passion templations on t and good, s, ible le of modern occupancy, and vanities of foolis aristocracy. ttends us betering an empty and a croer it is c some present y -- an act of inattention on t of some of tory -- or a trait of affectation, or  of ts us by our best ts, dis  ty of er Sexton, traverse try cy t ions, old and young, t ion tor -- turbing emotions, no cross conflicting comparisons, drink in tranquillity of till tionless as t kneel and hee.

    Journeying nortely, I could not resist going some fe of my road to look upon t  t ely pulled it doill I ion t it could not all  so mucy   once into t and rubbis.

    t ion of a feo -- an antiquity.

    I onis tinction of everytood t gates?  bounded t-yard?  did t-atives of t ely and so spacious.

    Deat sim at te. t asion.

    ar knaves at truction, at t ts at my . I s to to spare a plank at least out of tore-room, in  I used to sit and read Co before, and t one solitary  ever ed it about me -- it is in mine ears no as summer returns; or a pannel of the yellow room.

    , tapestried bed-rooms -- tapestry so mucter ting -- not adorning merely, but peopling t -- at s coverlid (replaced as quickly) to exercise its tender courage in a momentary eye-encounter ern brigaring reciprocally -- all Ovid on tions. Actaeon in mid sprout, ill more provoking, and almost culinary coolness of Dan Pely divesting of Marsyas.

    t ed room -- in  alime, y, terror-tainted, to ion . --  up again?

    It ed place, yet not so long deserted but t traces of t inmates s furniture ill standing -- even to tarnis leattledores, and crumbling feattlecocks in told t c I ment, knew every nook and corner, wondered and worshipped everywhere.

    tude of c so muc, as it is tion. So strange a passion for t, to say ance from trees, ic lake, suco t to pass its strict and proper precincts, t ters lay unexplored for me, and not till late in life, curiosity prevailing over elder devotion, I found, to my astonis, a pretty braed vieensive prospects -- and t not great distance from told of suc o me, being out of to roam, I ill closer t securer cincture of t garden-loving poet --

    Bind me, ye wines,

    Curl me about, ye gadding vines,

    And oh so close your circles lace

    t I may never leave this place

    But, lest your fetters prove too weak,

    Ere I your silken bondage break,

    Do you, O brambles coo,

    And, courteous briars, nail me through!

    I  roof-parlours ten feet by ten -- frugal boards, and all tion of my birted in. Yet,  impeac to tenderest lessons, I am not sorry to o aken, if but a peep, in c trasting accidents of a great fortune.

    to ility, it is not necessary to le. try may be erms to be obliged to an importunate race of ancestors; and t less antiquary in  to as gay a vanity as t t  to strip me of an idea? Is it trenc to t be orn aarniser?

    , else,  to us? edious genealogies, or tulatory brass monuments?  to us terrupted current of t anso a cognate and correspondent elevation?

    Or tered and diminisc ime-airs, BLAKESMOOR!  stood poring upon tic cers -- tic supporters, ic quot;Resurgamquot; -- till, every dreg of peasantry purging off, I received into myself Very Gentility? t first in my morning eyes; and of nig detained my steps from bedill it  a step from gazing at to dreaming on thee.

    true gentry by adoption; table c, as empirics ransfusion.

    rop, I inquired not; but its fading rags, and colours cobained, told t its subject uries back.

    And or at t date as feeding flocks, not  vindicate to myself trappings of triumps  possibly ime upon my poor pastoral progenitor.

    If it ion so to speculate, t o reason to complain. trifle; and I  to appropriate to myself o raise my fancy, or to sooty.

    I rue descendent of t t family of t name, we places.

    Mine  gallery of good old family portraits, ions looked grave, as it seemed, at ts of fled posterity.

    t beauty oral drapery, and a lamb -- t  t bay  yelloake it.

    Mine too, BLAKESMOOR, s mosaic pavements, and its tately busts in marble ranged round: of y of Nero, I remember,  of my  tood in t fresality.

    Mine too, ty Justice s one cy, error of luckless poacful maiden -- so common since, t bats ed in it.

    Mine too -- -garden, s sun-baked soutriple terraces, s no lead, save t a speck s, bespake tine state to  and glittering; t quarters backill; and, stretcill beyond, in old formality, t of t antique image in tre, God or Goddess I  not; but co Pan or to Sylvanus in tive groves, to t fragmental mystery.

    as it for t I kissed my coo fervently in your idol imes t as men, inguisations to be revivified.

 POOR RELATIONS

    A POOR Relation -- is t irrelevant ture, -- a piece of impertinent correspondency,an odious approximation, -- a ing conscience, -- a preposterous side of your prosperity, -- an unually recurring mortification, -- a drain on your purse, -- a more intolerable dun upon your pride, -- a drao your rising, -- a stain in your blood, -- a blot on your scutc in your garment, -- a deat your banquet, -- Agat, -- a Mordecai in your gate, -- a Lazarus at your door, -- a lion in your patment, -- a mote in your eye, -- a triumpo your enemy, an apology to your friends, -- t needful, -- t, -- t.

    tellet;t is Mr. ----.quot; A rap, bety and respect; t demands, and, at time, seems to despair of entertainment. eret o you to s back again.  dinner time -- o stay. ers t a side table. ;My dear, pero-day.quot; unate to umbled upon one.  fisurbot being small -- yet suffereto uned into a slice against  resolution. icket -- yet y t, if a stranger press it upon o ts,  civil enougo s t;t; Every one speculatetion; and t part take o be a tide-er. ian name, to imply t oo familiar by  you ; aken for aketate ts a client.  try tenant, inasmuc -- yet `tis odds, from  your guests take o make one at t table; refusety, and -- resents being left out. o go for a coacs t go. s your grandfat in some mean, and quite unimportant anecdote of -- t  quite so flouris; in seeing it no;  situations, to institute  of congratulation, ure; and insults you ion of your ains.  t s, after all, table about tea-kettle --  convenience in o your lady if it is not so. Inquiret; and did not knoill lately, t suc of ts perverse; alk a trouble; ay pertinacious; and ately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances.

    t -- a is female Poor Relation. You may do sometolerably  your indigent sive is ;,quot; you may say, quot;and affects to go tances are better take to er at your table, and truly ; But in tions of female poverty trut out  s;Sed to t does s t; Sy, your imes out of ten, at least, tle tly predominates. S provokingly entatiously sensible to y. o imes -- aliquando sufflaminandus erat -- but t dinner, and so be er tlemen. Mr. ---- requests taking ates bet and Madeira, and c Sir; and insists on not troubling o e. tronizes akes upon o correct aken the piano for a harpsichord.

    Ric, Esq., in table instance of tages, to y constituting a claim to acquaintance, may subject t of a gentleman. A little foolis is bet  estate. ars are perpetually crossed by t maternity of an old  so recompense ies, and float  surface, under emperament. I kne in real life, anding at Cs, a fine classic, and a yout oo muc its actuality   of t sort o keep inferiors at a distance; it only sougo ion from itself. It  carried as far as it could go,  infringing upon t respect, opic. Many a quarrel allness made us more obnoxious to observation in t too elude notice, ogetreets of tropolis. ---- , sore ions, to Oxford, ness of a scing roduction, ion to ty. tors goo  imer must ; and in y. In tudent sion. er among books, ; and studies, t ask no questions of a yout beyond udious pursuits o abstract.  a e broke out against y. to exercised ter at N----, near Oxford. A supposed interest o take up  city, alked of. From t moment I read in tenance of termination ore s for ever. to a person unacquainted ies, tance betorading part of tter especially -- is carried to an excess t  of ----`s fatrically ttle, busy, cringing tradesman,  bore tive to trances of to ously ducking. Sucate of t last. ---- must ced.  turdy moralist,  of ties as ion;  estimate truggle. I stood  afternoon I ever sa reet to t ful, and more reconciled. I ventured to rally ter mood -- upon a representation of tist Evangelist,  of frame over oken of prosperity, or badge of gratitude to . ---- looked up at tan, quot;kne; A letter on able t morning, announced t ed a commission in a regiment about to embark for Portugal.  ian.

    I do not knoing al so eminently painful; but tionse ter for tragic as ions, t it is difficult to keep t distinct  blending. t impressions ainly not attended ing, in t my fatable (no very splendid one) o be found, every Saturday, terious figure of an aged gentleman, clot black, of a sad yet comely appearance. ment y;  to make a noise in tle inclination to o admire in silence., A particular elboo o be violated. A peculiar sort of s pudding,  of   Lincoln, and t . t I kneo be a place o ies and passions. A sort of melanced o go about in an eternal suit of mourning; a captive -- a stately being, let out of tourdays. Often  temerity of my fate of an ual general respect oo stand up against , touc city of Lincoln are divided (as most of my readers knoinction formed an obvious division bet togeternal residence  cause of ility in tiuses. My fataineer; and ill maintain ty, in skill and ion) over ty emporary ain. Many and  opic -- tleman imes almost to t (so I expected) of actual ilities. But my fato insist upon advantages, generally contrived to turn tion upon some adroit by-commendation of ter; in t on a conciliating level, and lay doant differences. Once only I saleman really ruffled, and I remembered  t came over me: quot;Per; o take anote of tioned as tant of s. ance amounting to rigour --   simes press civility out of season -- uttered tion -- quot; Do take anot, for you do not get pudding every day.quot; tleman said not time -- but ook occasion in t ervened beto utter e it -- quot;oman, you are superannuated.quot; Jo did not survive long, after ting of t; but o assure me t peace ually restored! and, if I remember arigly substituted in t  (Anno 1781) able independence; and een soire after  t o bury  o any man for a sixpence. tion.

 STAGE ILLUSION

    A PLAY is said to ed in proportion to t, is not tion. t approaco it, old, is, ors. In tragedy -- in all  ttention to age business, seems indispensable. Yet it is, in fact, dispensed  tragedians; and  or sentiment, are not too frequent or palpable, a sufficient quantity of illusion for tic interest may be said to be produced in spite of t, tragedy apart, it may be inquired tle extravagant, or  to t is not a proof of t skill in t absolutely appealing to an audience, acit understanding o ty in tmost nicety is required in t  artists in the profession.

    t mortifying infirmity in ure, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in anoto see a coo tage  mirt  of us remember Jack Bannisters co? e loved ted but by te art of tor in a perpetual sub-insinuation to us, tators, even in tremity of t, t  ook oms of teettering; and could ;t man   all t it almost a secret to ourselves -- t

    out by a tures -- meant at us, and not at all supposed to be visible to  ed ure of a co ratist contrived to palm upon us instead of an original;  ter pleasure, terfeiting of ty, ter self-desertion, s of cowardice in real life, could have given us?

    eful in tage, but because tor, by a sort of sub-reference, rat appeal to us, disarms ter of a great deal of its odiousness, by seeming to engage our compassion for tenure by le vent efulness of ter -- t coils itself up from tes. tic; i.e. is no genuine miser. ing likeness is substituted for a very disagreeable reality.

    Spleen, irritability -- tiable infirmities of old men, erfeited upon a stage, divert not altogeto t in part from an inner conviction t ted before us; t a likeness only is going on, and not tself. t; not to tty acts an old man, is  counterfeit, just enougo recognise,  pressing upon us ty?

    Comedians, paradoxical as it may seem, may be too natural. It e actor. Not or true told excellently in yke, and cers of a tragic cast. But ion to tage business, and ain into  produced a  effect.  of keeping  of tis. ttle link bet ate, dry, repulsive, and unsocial to all. Individually considered, ion erly. But comedy is not t ty is not required of it as to serious scenes. ty demanded to trated by t sort of trut ory. If  tittle,  it altogetears refuse to flo a suspected imposition. But teller of a mirtale itude allo e trutis tic illusion. e confess o see an audience naturalised beaken in into terest of tanders or icipation or concern o be diverted by  see t old of it; but an old fool in farce may t, as plainly as o pit, box, and gallery. inent in tragedy, an Osric, for instance, breaks in upon tempt reated. But inent of comedy, in a piece purely meant to give delig of udious man aking up  of contempt expressed (ural) roy t in tators. to make trusion comic, tor tle desert nature; , in s, be tisfaction and peevisent y must seem  on. If ruder  face of a man in earnest, and more especially if ulations in a tone ic existence of ter ( comic demands an antagonist comicality on t of ter opposed to it), and convert  for mirto a doir pain, to see inflicted in earnest upon any unor (in most of s) seems to o an error of t in he farce of Free and Easy.

    Many instances edious; to s comic acting at least does not al strict abstraction from all reference to an audience, ; but t in some cases a sort of compromise may take place, and all tic deligtain by a judicious understanding, not too openly announced, betlemen -- on botain.

 TO THE SHADE OF ELLISTON

    JOYOUSESt of once embodied spirits,  to ted to conjecture t t flitted.

    Art tS yet (t time ill to come  ting Rover (as reams?

    tal frame, ics amongst us, rut a prison to tonist dreams of to be no better ty gaol, forsootters. t better to be in a o cast off tice to quit, I fear, before t quite ready to abandon tenement. It y Devices; te hall.

    neerious lodgings dost tenant nohy aerial house-warming?

    tartarus elligibly fancy ther.

    Is it too muco ure, t (as tted a receptacle apart for Patriarc -- not far perc storeies, won saw in visions -- a LIMBO somew

    Up ther like aerial vapours fly

    Botage t in Stage things

    Built ting fame?

    All thors hands,

    Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixd,

    Damnd upon eart ther----

    Play, Opera, Farce, rumpery----

    t improperly supposed t Planet upon eart t still be acting t disembodied Lessee? but Lessee still, and still a Manager.

    In Green Rooms, impervious to mortal eye, thumous empire.

    ts of Figurantes (never plump on eartill tasy.

    Magnificent  illiam Elliston! for as yet  thy new name in heaven.

    It irks me to t, stript of ties, t ferry Over, a poor forked sygian ;Sculls, Sculls:quot; to ion, t no reply, ot monosyllables, quot;No: Oars.quot;

    But tos kingdom knoerminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cly departed candle-snuffer.

    But mercy! rippings, earing off of rionic robes, and private vanities! ions to t you to set a foot tered liner!

    Crores; sruncion robes (for t brougy mans o sink a navy); ton -- all must overboard, ively s ancient mariner brooks no denial; for, since tiresome monodrame of t is to be believed, aste for tricals,

    Aye, nois done, You are just boat a anima.

    But bless me, tle you look!

    So sript for t voyage.

    But t, and t sing tened by travaganzas, public or domestic,

    Rries ter causes beloo  Rial to players, ence  of t may , (tantially, scarcely less a vapour t vagaries upon t of so many ecural repercussions, and results to ed from travagancies of tly upon a stage -- after a lenient castigation, er ts, but just enougo quot;; -- seously dismiss t t e -- t conducts to masques, and merry-makings, in tre Royal of Proserpine

    PLAUDItO, Et VALEtO.

 ELLISTONIANA

    My acquaintance  creature, .

    My first introduction to E., o an acquaintance a little on timacy, er of ton Spa Library, tered upon by a branco auspicate, I suppose, t it a going re -- ensibly to inquire for some neion, but in reality to  of trious s an air did ely giving ion, and launc into a dissertation on its comparative merits ain publications of a similar stamp, its rivals! ed customers fairly o tative sentence. So leman in comedy acting treet. I admired trionic art, by o carry clean aion of disgrace, from tion ted to; and from t er repentance, to be a person,  y to be more acquainted.

    to descant upon s as a Comedian e and professional s alone I o do; t o t tage boards into streets, and dining-parlours, and kept up t;I like renc; a friend o ;because ural, easy creature, on tage, t ; quot;My case exactly,quot; retorted Elliston -- fulness, t tion does not alo t; I am tage t I am on.quot; t first sigical; but examine it a little, and it confesses only, t ting.

    And in trutons private deportment. You ed performance alo pay. As  , becomes ipso facto for t time a palace; so e, or stood still, tre.  , boxes, and galleries, and set up able play corners of streets, and in t-places. Upon flintiest pavements rod till; and if o be passionate, t of tragedy spontaneously rose beneat. Noy, and s. So Apelles aled -- in t. So G. D. alises. I e a lukeist. I ors -- and some of tons oamp -- ic existence; but no sooner does tain fall s leaden clatter, but a spirit of lead seems to seize on all ties. tolerable to ts, amp;c. Anot iments, till it even beats ely long to go ion. tedious, till you can get fairly out of tentions. At lengtative of all t is amiable in s steps forton isfaction? isfaction among e circles? emperament, s, ure, ter tify ion? Are o like a pleasant rake, or coxcomb, on tage, and give ourselves airs of aversion for tical cer presented to us in actual life? or ing ion? Could ton ially different from , even if o reflect to us studiously, in private circles, t trickeries of otype?

    quot;But t natural in ting acting;  t;

    Are you quite sure t it is not t, or  see, under some adventitious trappings,  at all inconsistently upon  if it is ture of some men to ificial? t is least repreon,  as muc as Vanburgo it.

    quot;My conceit of ; it is Ben Jonson speaking of Lord Bacon, -- quot; o o  o me ever one of test men, t bad been in many ages. In y I ever prayed t rengtness  .quot;

    ty  of t an unexpected elevation to tion of a great London tre, affected ton,, or at all cure, kne tial greatness of t une to encounter . Dunstans Cs punctual giants, is no and a sion to t tered, -- quot; ;I am ture Manager of Drury Lane tre.quot; -- Breatayed not for congratulation or reply, but mutely stalked ao cies at leisure. In fact, noto it. Expressive silence alone could muse  style.

    But ness, O ye Poy t supported in tly transmuted for a more illustrious exile, tableso an image of Imperial France),   sceptre ed from ailed to tty managers proprietorsill played nig in parts alas! allotted to  magnificently distributed by  loss as notly sinking terial grandeur in tment of depreciations done to y intellectual pretensions, quot;; (omary exordium) -- quot;; said ;reat me? t me in comedy.quot; t I -- but erruption -- quot;ter ?quot; ter a pause -- quot;io,quot; -- and so again alked aaying, nor caring for, responses.

    O, it  of storytellers and surgeons,  as ure, alone could do justice to it -- t I ness to, in tarnis  same little Olympic. ter ion from Imperial Drury, ituted a t Olympic ; ; ;Jove in ; t in state, er, le ta flirt at tails of cioner for tos senses -- test little drab -- a dirty fringe and appendage of t seems, on some disapprobation expressed by a quot;ablequot; audience, ately quitted ation on talents in disgust.

    quot;And ; said y  beautiful Rebel  anding before ;  a notice, from your trical duties?quot; quot;I ;And you ion to decide upon taste of to; quot;I dont kno, Sir, but I and to be ; ures into one significant mass of y, and expostulatory indignation -- in a lesson never to  upon a creature less forood before ;t;

    `tical argument a fortiori, rembling under o persuade o take iny ;I too am mortal.quot; And it is to be believed t in botoric missed of its application, for  of a proper understanding ies of tive recipients.

    quot;Quite an Opera pit,quot; o me, as eously conducting me over tre, t retreat, and recess, of his every-day waning grandeur.

    ton, ter sentence of t to record. One proud day to me ook  mutton emple, to iful partaking of t, not unrefres of liquors, I made a sort of apology for ty of t for my o I never ate but of one dis dinner. quot;I too never eat but one t dinner quot; -- ;reckoning fis; t ory sentence ion of all ts, ritious-food-giving Ocean pours fortery bosom. tness, tempered e tenderness to ty but ertainer.

    Great  t illiam Elliston! and not lessened in t speak truly,  direct t tal remains sion but one of pure Latinity. Classical iful  bed, ook test exercise of imagination, to tres and Managers a sc and pious Colet. For t se thy praise.

 DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING

    to mind to entertain ones self  of anoty and breeding may be mucural sprouts of his own.

    -- Lord Foppington in the Relapse.

    AN ingenious acquaintance of my o sally of   off reading altogeto t improvement of y. At t on t confess t I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to ots. I dream aions. I love to lose myself in ot  sit and think for me.

    I esbury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonatoo lo s allow for such.

    In talogue of books ories, Pocket Books, Draugtered at tific treatises, Almanacks, Statutes at Large; tson, Beattie, Soame Jenyns, and, generally, all t;no gentlemans library s :quot; tories of Flavius Josep learned Je any tars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding.

    I confess t it moves my spleen to see ts, usurpers of true sruders into tuary, ting out timate occupants. to reac is some kind-ed play-book, t quot;seem its leaves,quot; to come bolt upon a ion Essay. to expect a Steele, or a Farquo viement of blockropolitanas) set out in an array of Russia, or Morocco,  good leatably re-clote Paracelsus o look like ors, but I long to strip to erans in their spoils.

    to be strong-backed and neat-bound is tum of a volume. Magnificence comes after. t can be afforded, is not to be lavisely. I  dress a set of Magazines, for instance, in full suit. tume. A Son (unless t editions), it o trick out in gay apparel. tinction. terior of trange to say, raises no s emotions, no tickling sense of property in t (I maintain it) a little torn, and dogs-eared. iful to a genuine lover of reading are t appearance, nay, t forget kind feelings in fastidiousness, of an old quot;Circulating Libraryquot; tom Jones, or Vicar of akefield!  urned over t! -- of tress, er oil, running far into midnigco steep  ting contents!  less soiled?  better condition could o see them in?

    In some respects tter a book is, t demands from binding. Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and all t class of perpetually self-reproductive volumes -- Great Natures Stereotypes -- , because o be quot;eterne.quot; But  t perishes,

    e kno orch

    t can its lig; --

    sucance, as tle, by  is ricly durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel.

    Not only rare volumes of tion, ed; but old editions of ers, sucaylor, Milton in s, yet t, and are talked of  endenizened tional , so as to become stock books -- it is good to possess tly covers. I do not care for a First Folio of Sions of Roonson,  notes, and es, o text; and  pretending to any supposable emulation , are so mucter ty of feeling rymen about ions of ,  tumbled about and rary, I cannot read Beaumont and Fletc in Folio. tavo editions are painful to look at. I  editions of t, I s so t knoomy of Melanc need  fantastic old great man, to expose t of t faso modern censure? ioner could dream of Burton ever becoming popular ? -- tc do ratford co let e- lively fased, to to ic testimony s and parcels of  of . By ----, if I ice of peace for arator and sexton fast in tocks, for a pair of meddling sacrilegious varlets.

    I t t trouble-tombs.

    S fantastical, if I confess, t ts sound ser, and o to mine, at least -- t of Milton or of S may be, t tter are more staled and rung upon in common discourse. test names, and  Marloon, Drummond of hornden, and Cowley.

    Mucient minutes, before te ready, opgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrewes sermons ?

    Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon  o wens, s, and purged ears.

    inter evenings -- t out -- le Sers. At sucempest, or ers tale --

    ts you cannot avoid reading aloud -- to yourself, or (as it co some single person listening. More t degenerates into an audience.

    Books of quick interest, t s, are for to glide over only. It  do to read t. I could never listen to even tter kind of modern novels  extreme irksomeness.

    A ne, is intolerable. In some of t is tom (to save so mucime) for one of t sco commence upon times, or te its entire contents aloud pro bono publico. itage of lungs and elocution, t is singularly vapid. In barbers s up, and spell out a paragrapes as some discovery. Anotion. So tire journal transpires at lengt t no one in travel tents of a whole paper.

    Nee curiosity. No one ever lays one do a feeling of disappointment.

    an eternal time t gentleman in black, at Nandus, keeps ter ba incessantly, quot;t;

    Coming in to an inn at nig can be more deligo find lying in t, left time out of mind by t -- tory Magazine, s amusing tete-d-tete picturesquot; -- t; quot;ting Platonic and t; -- and suciquated scandal? ould you exc -- at t time, and in t place -- for a better book?

    Poor tobin,  regret it so mucier kinds of reading -- t, or Comus, o   pamp.

    I s care to be caughedral alone, and reading Candide.

    I do not remember a more ed -- by a familiar damsel -- reclined at my ease upon to make a man seriously as t as sed ermined to read in company, I could   finding to aste, s up, and --  ale casuist, I leave it to to conjecture, y of t t.

    I am not muco out-of-doors reading. I cannot settle my spirits to it. I knearian minister, reet ), beten and eleven in tudying a volume of Lardner. I oo rain of abstraction beyond my reaco admire acts. An illiterate encounter ers knot, or a bread basket, o fliger of, and  me  to ts.

    treet-readers, e  affection -- try, le learning at talls -- ting envious looks at turing tenderly, page after page, expecting every moment , and yet unable to deny tification, t;snatc; Martin B----, in ts, got to purc under no circumstances of isfaction c poetess of our day  in touc anzas.

    I sah eager eye

    Open a book upon a stall,

    And read, as  all;

    all-man did espy,

    Soon to the boy I heard him call,

    quot;You, Sir, you never buy a book,

    t look.quot;

    th a sigh

    augo read,

    the old churls books he should have had no need.

    Of sufferings the poor have many,

    he rich annoy:

    I soon perceivd another boy,

    had any

    Food, for t day at least -- enjoy

    t of cold meat in a tavern larder.

    t I, is surely harder,

    t a penny,

    Bey-dressed meat:

    No .

 THE OLD MARGATE HOY

    I AM fond of passing my vacations (I believe I  one or oties. Next to t some , suc somerives to ering place. Old attacs cling to e of experience. e  ort Brig at Eastbourn a t t doing dreary penance at ings -- and all because e. t  sea-side experiment, and many circumstances combined to make it t agreeable ogether in company.

    Can I forget te en, sun-burnt captain, and ion -- ill excer niceness of team-packet? to ttedst tage, and didst ask no aid of magic fumes, and spells, and boiling cauldrons. itest soodest still ience. tural, not forced, as in a -bed; nor didst t sea-co t fire-god parching up Scamander.

    Can I forget t, yet slender creant responses (yet to tempt) to tions, y ting to to t strange naval implement? `Specially can I forget ting interpreter of to our simplicity, comfortable ambassador bet more convincingly assure to be an adopted denizen of te cap, and -fingered practice in tion, bespoke to ure ofore -- a master cook of Eastc tifarious occupation, cook, mariner, attendant, c once about all parts of t rations -- not to assist tempest, but, as if toucies, to soot untried motion mig ober, and erings, still catering for our comfort, ion, alleviate t of truto say) not very savoury, nor very inviting, little cabin!

    itaments to boot, ed, and y of assertion. , test liar I  ating, ory-tellers (a most painful description of mortals) ime -- ts of your patience -- but one ions upon  stand s  once into ty. I partly believe, ty sure of  many ric many  t time toe packet~ e  of as unseasoned Londoners (let our enemies give it a ling-street, at t time of day could  be an exception or t I scorn to make any invidious distinctions among sucoo must o t felloold us , I flatter myself t of us   us, and time and place disposed us to tion of any prodigious marvel ime erated from t  dull, as ten, and to be read on ss and fortunes) to a Persian prince, and at one bloer. I forget urn in tics of t court, combining , ting Persia; but y of a magician ransported o England, ory of a Princess -- Elizabetrusted to raordinary casket of jeraordinary occasion -- but as I am not certain of tance at tance of time, I must leave it to ters of England to settle te. I cannot call to mind   I perfectly remember, t in travels  t one of t species at a time, assuring us t t uncommon in some parts of Upper Egypt. o  implicit listeners. ransported us beyond t;ignorant present.quot; But o affirm t ually sailed t R really became necessary to make a stand. And  do justice to trepidity of one of our party, a yout o been one of  deferential auditors, o assure tleman, t t be some mistake, as quot;tion royed long since:quot; to  quot;ttle damaged.quot; tion   did not at all seem to stagger o sill more complacency t reme candour of t concession. itill ing out to us, was considered by us as no ordinary seaman.

    All time sat upon te a different cer. It ly very poor, very infirm, and very patient.  noc , and t to concern o  stories.  not of us.  stirring and e stores -- our cold meat and our salads -- o  none. Only a solitary biscuit imes obliged to prolong tance o court nor decline,  o Margate, ted into to en all over  ;; t, and some mournful passages,  siging -of-door adventure, to me -- t  up in populous cities for many mont upon my mind t try o chew upon.

    ill it be t a digression (it may spare some uno account for tisfaction  on t t of t time? I to ty of actual objects for satisfying our preconceptions of to tion. Let t, a mountain, for t time in tle mortified. t fill up t space, ake up in  till a correspondency to  notion, and in time groo it, so as to produce a very similar impression: enlarging ty. But tment. -- Is it not, t in tter o be, but, I am afraid, by tion unavoidably) not a definite object, as ts, or t mountain compassable by t all t once, tE ANtAGONISt OF t say ell ourselves so muc to be satisfied een (as I t from description. o it for t time -- all t  all  t entic part of life, -- all ives of ing strange tributes from expectation. --  deep, and of to it; of its t continents it y Plata, or Orellana, into its bosom,  disturbance, or sense of augmentation; of Biscay she mariner

    For many a day, and many a dreadful night,

    Incessant labouring round tormy Cape;

    of fatal rocks, and t;still-vexed Bermoot; of great ; of sunken sreasures soring dept monsters, to errible on earth --

    Be but as buggs to frighal,

    Compared ures in tral;

    of naked savages, and Juan Fernandez; of pearls, and sed isles; of mermaids grots --

    I do not assert t in sober earnest s to be s once, but yranny of a migy,  opens first upon ame oo most likely) from our unromantic coast -- a speck, a slip of sea-er, as it so  can it prove but a very unsatisfying and even diminutive entertainment? Or if o it from t muc of sig  a flat ery  o t oer-curtaining sky, , seen daily  dread or amazement ? -- ances,  been tempted to exclaim he poem of Gebir,

    Is ty ocean I -- is this all?

    I love tory; but testable Cinque Port is neite ts, ting out tarved foliage from bety innutritious rocks; ;verdure to t; I require unted coppices. I cry out for ter-brooks, and pant for fresreams, and inland murmurs. I cannot stand all day on tcing like t. I am tired of looking out at tire into terior of my cage.  to be on it, over it, across it. It binds me in s are abroad. I s so feel in Staffords ings. It is a place of fugitive resort, an erogeneous assemblage of sea-meock-brokers, Amprites of to coquet   s primitive s it ougo  fiso raggling fiss scattered about, artless as its cliffs, and erials filc o do assort ter occupation  t traction I never greatly cared about. I could go out s, or about tensible business, isfaction. I can even tolerate tims to monotony, o c countrymen -- toling to tlasses (tive service, keep up a legitimated civil o sestation of run  it is tants from to come o say t t be supposed to  are my aversion. I feel like a foolistle toleration for myself  can t rue relis all tcents in t?  mean ty book-rooms -- marine libraries as title t;to read strange matter in ?quot; -rooms, if t to do, to listen to tention. t is to spoil ture of tly, as I ockbrokers; but I cter sort of t citizen (of tamp), in ty of , sers, to taste te of t is easy to see it in tenance. A day or t t, in a poor ion slackens: to discover t cockles produce no pearls, and terpret for tty creatures (I kno to confess it tomed twickenham meadows!

    I s, s icated aborigines of teous questionings ure, on to return t, and come up to see -- London. I must imagine tackle on toion  cause in Lot ve laug not excite among

    ters of Creet.

    I am sure t no tos, can feel true and natural nouris at ture, ay at  foam seems to nouris ured as by ters of my natural river. I hamesis.

 THE CONVALESCENT

    A PREttY severe fit of indisposition  sloy of reflecting upon any topic foreign to itself. Expect no h, reader; I can offer you only sick mens dreams.

    And truly tate of sickness is suc else is it but a magnificent dream for a man to lie a-bed, and dra ting out to induce a total oblivion of all t? to become insensible to all tions of life, except tings of one feeble pulse?

    If tude, it is a sick bed. ient lords, it t caprices s  controul! umbling, and tossing, and sing, and loting, and moulding it, to tions of emples.

    ener tician. Noe across tergiversation. itains e. they are his Mare Clausum.

    o . Supreme selfised upon y. `tis tables of to o t o get  of doors, or  ts .

    A little  of a la,  friend. o be seen trudging about upon to fifty quarters of to once, jogging tness, refres solicitor. to come on yesterday. ely as indifferent to t ion to be tried at Pekin. Peradventure from some  intended for o make and, t t cross-grained in t yesterday, and  t;friend,quot; and t;ruin,quot; disturb  to t o get better.

    a  absorbing consideration!

    on trong armour of sickness, age, under trusty lock and key, for his own use only.

    ying o ed o t  aso weep over himself.

    ting o do some good to udying little stratagems and artificial alleviations.

    of ion, into as many distinct individuals, as imes ates -- as of a t from  dull pain  nigance of pain, not to  opening t seemed, to take it ties tenuated fingers. es y, and tender .

    inctively feels t none can so  office for ators to ragedy. Only t punctual face of t announces  because it is so unmoved, and because ions before it as unreservedly as to .

    to tands not ions of mortals are; only  of some sucor makes  busy face iplicity of patients, but solely conceives of o ening, ion  entertain. urn of t to-morrow.

    ouc. Some faint murmur, indicative of life going on  distinctly  is.  to kno to ts gliding up or doant staircase, treading as upon velvet, gently keep roubles not  ter knoo  endure ture. ly at troke of t again  asking quot;; tered by a general notion t inquiries are making after   to knoillness, and ae, and feels y.

    to be sick is to enjoy monarcives. Compare t tread, and quiet ministry, almost by t (slapping of doors, or leaving ttendants, tle better -- and you  from t me rat) to ty, amounting to a deposition.

    o ine stature! o a common bed-room! trimness of tty and unmeaning about it. It is mad, every day. o t ed so s a time since,   to be t of at oftener tions,  o be lifted for a little , to submit to ts of unness, and decencies o be lifted into it again, for anote, to flounder it out of sorical record of some sing posture, some uneasy turning, some seeking for a little ease; and told a truer story the crumpled coverlid.

    erious sig from  etes is become an ordinary personage.

    Perness survives in till lingering visitations of ttendant. But oo c -- of anecdote -- of every t pely came betient and ure, erecting o a ing party ? -- Psis some old woman.

    Fare made sickness pompous -- t -like stillness, felt t its inmost ce attendance -- till softer delicacies of self-attention -- temper alonely fixed upon itself -- s excluded -- to re --

    a speck is o !

    In t s by t far enougerra firma of establise, dear Editor, reacing -- an article. In Articulo Mortis, t I; but it is sometc  appeared, seemed to link me on again to tty businesses of life, o activity, rivial a erous dream of self-absorption -- tate of sickness -- in o its lao its literature. tus is subsiding; tion I emplation of ill ityus to ing to a span; and for t of self-importance, ensions -- t Essayist.

 SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS

    SO far from tion rue, t great  (or genius, in our modern est s, on trary, o  ers. It is impossible for to conceive of a mad Sness of , by alent is o ood, manifests itself in ties. Madness is tionate straining or excess of any one of t;So strong a ,quot; says Coical friend,<u></u>

    quot;----did Nature to   overcame,

    like the heavenly moon did show,

    tempering t mig;

    take is, t men, finding in tures of try a condition of exaltation, to e a state of dreaminess and fever to t. But true poet dreams being a . In tive pat intoxicated. reads t dismay;   self-loss t;and old nig; Or if; abandoning o t severer c;uned,quot; ent ao e mankind (a sort of madness) imon, neit madness, nor t t,never letting t o do so, -- ter genius still  suggesting saner counsels, or  steions.  to recede from y, ruest to it. From beyond ture if ences, es to tency. ifully loyal to t sovereign directress, even o betray and desert ribes submit to policy; ers are tamed to  ributes of flesill t to submit to European vesture. Caliban, tcrue to ture (ours , and Macbet and ttle s are differenced; t if tter tle from nature or actual existence, toms are lamares. t create, ions are not active -- for to be active is to call someto act and form -- but passive, as men in sick dreams. For tural, or someto ure, tural. And if t tal ions reatment of subjects out of nature, or transcending it, t mig ran riot, and a little onized: but even in t ure -- s inconsequence,  genius in ;maddest fits,quot; as ito any one t is acquainted ed some ty or ty years back, -- ty intellectual viands of till a ritious poms, -- ossed,quot; s, t incidents, tent cers, or no-cers, of some te love intrigue e betreets more beions o, not names and places is familiar; tring of activities  purpose, of purposes destitute of motive : --  poms in our knoasy only cened. In t  all, for te not of t;; But in ture, and tions,  ed ground. turns life into a dream; to t dreams gives ties of every day occurrences. By ile art of tracing tal processes it is effected,  po explain, but in t  in t form of a miser, is tals, and becomes treasures of ter, Ambition, before ers of tantalus, e  impertinently, in tream -- t  in treasures, at t at t in  once, ing mutations of t rambling dream, and our judgment yet all time ao detect t y  in  seeming. aberrations.

    It is not enougo say t tions in sleep; it is, in some sort -- but  t romantic of us, t ertained all nigacle of some  vision, recombine it in try it by . t  so co, y ion, s  in sleep, a monster for a god. But transitions in t as violent as in t extravagant dream, and yet t ratifies them.

 CAPTAIN JACKSON

    AMONG tuary -- or t;At tage on tain Jackson.quot; ttribution are common enoug a feeling like reproac t ty years ago rented a tenement, ion  a mile from estbourn Green. Alack, urns t of memory, and are recalled but by to as t which now lies before us!

    ired  and notions of gentle slender professional allooo.

    And ting tone of ality,  your foot in ttage -- terings about you, o be ministered. -- Altter -- tment, by ertain you, iplied o bounties.

    You sa seemed a bare scrag -- cold savings from t  to send a mendicant from tented. But in tion of your  -- t;mind, ter S; o the profusion.

    It  lessen nor  -- tamina  -- tal bone still flourised of its accidents.

    quot;Let us live ure exclaim; quot; ,quot; quot;y left;quot; quot; for not; -- able sayings, tite, and old concomitants of smoaking boards, and feast-oppressed cio of Single Gloucester upon e, or ters,  rind into ;t; amp;c., and declaring t side. For inctions, you are to knoe above t. None but  or guests dreamed of tasting fles nigs  of one times finis, to s he wished no savings.

    ine  on very rare occasions, spirits; but tion of ; Britis; ;Pus, my boys;quot; quot;Drink to your ss, girls.quot; At every meagre draugoast must ensue, or a song. All ts ing. S your eyes, and you  or Madeira radiating to it from eacable corners. You got flustered,  knos.

    e ; ; -- and t;Britis; -- in o bear cers sang. tly ters ;no-expencequot; o young ; But t sing quot; trument.quot;

    Sacred, and by me, never-to-be violated, Secrets of Poverty S aims at grandeur, your makes efforts of magnificence? Sleep, sleep, ant; tral t of dearer Louisa ! it mention of mine, be dumb, ted face of tening to ces, scarce feels sincerer pleasure time-so tterings of t slender image of a voice.

    e   our literary talk eit did not extend far, but as far as it , it  tomed tage ion auticated to irements, er part of ance  inmates, t I could discover, appeared ever to  ion. But t ter. Glover ten te o t of tance. It diffused a learned air tment, ttle side casement of udy o tty spire of rimonial acres, not a rood nor square yard o an immoderate expansion of vanity s ? -- in   all in, and communicated ricions of it to s. It  of ality; it o his magnificence.

    s before your eyes -- you ime to detect ;ongs;quot; and, before you could discover it  plated, urb and captivate your imagination by a misnomer of quot;t; for a tea kettle; or by calling a  you to ture, poor ones divert you from it;  by simply assuming t everyt ively at a demur  see, at ttage. ito live on, o live on everytock of  t ent, for in trut to be contained at all, but overflo self-delusion.

    Entcive of Nortain,  tinual collision of y. ers ional and discreet young  insensible to true circumstances. I ful air at times. But sucing opulence of  I am persuaded not for any ogets fairly in ting tex of emperament. ous imagination conjured up tlements before t too, and seem at last to old, more tably.

    It is long since, and my memory s, or I so convey some notion of t creature described tances of ly remember sometry into Glasgo morning to fetc ely made out tanza of the old ballad --

    own,

    e were a comely sigo see;

    My love ,

    And I myself in cramasie.

    I suppose it ual splendour at all corresponded ions on t subject. In , or travelling caravan, by ransported in less prosperous days, t as a ing contrast, but as a fair occasion for reverting to t one days state. It seemed an quot;equipage eternquot; from une, once mounted, er to dislodge him.

    t in putting a  circumstances. to bull and srangers may be not alibbs, and Bobadil, even ed, ion tempt. But for a man to put t upon o play t eeped in poverty up to to fancy rain of constitutional pery over fortune, wain Jackson.

 THE SUPERANNUATED MAN

    Sera tamen respexit

    Libertas. -- Virgil.

    A Clerk I was in London gay.

    -- OKEEFE.

    IF peradventure, Reader, it  to e t of an office; to o decrepitude and silver  e; to o forget t to remember t as tives of co appreciate my deliverance.

    It is noy years since I took my seat at transition at fourteen from t play-time, and tly-intervening vacations of sco t, nine, and sometimes ten tendance at a counting- time partially reconciles us to anytent -- doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

    It is true I o myself; but Sundays, admirable as titution of t very reason t adapted for days of unbending and recreation. In particular, ttendant upon a city Sunday, a reets. ternal bells depress me. ts, pictures, all ttering and endless succession of knacks and geentatiously displayed radesmen, s of tropolis so delig out. No book-stalls deliciously to idle over -- No busy faces to recreate templates trast to emporary relaxation from it. Noto be seen but unenances -- or  best -- of emancipated `prentices and little tradesfolks,  maid t  leave to go out,  ty of enjoying a free rollers in t day look anyt comfortable.

    But besides Sundays I  Easter, and a day at Cmas, o go and air myself in my native fields of fords  indulgence; and t of its recurrence, I believe, alone kept me up tolerable. But ance keep touc not a series of seven uneasy days, spent in restless pursuit of pleasure, and a y to find out o make t of t, e of it, it ing upon ty-one tedious  must intervene before succill t of its coming tion upon tivity. it it, as I ained my thraldom.

    Independently of ttendance, I ed y for business. tter years, o suc it enance. My s flagged. I ually a dread of some crisis, to ude, I served over again all nigerrors of imaginary false entries, errors in my accounts, and ty years of age, and no prospect of emancipation presented itself. I o my desk, as it ered into my soul.

    My felloimes rally me upon trouble legible in my countenance; but I did not kno it  monto be remembered by me, L----, tner in tly taxed me axed, I ly made confession of my infirmity, and added t I o resign o en me, and tter rested. A ly in my disclosure t I  myself, and icipating my o anxious one, I verily believe, in my  quitting my desk to go  mig eigo attend t, noime is surely come, I o old t t terror I le relief to me, -- ter astonis B---- , t partner, began a formal o me on torious conduct during time (t I,  t? I protest I never o t on to descant on tiring at a certain time of life ( panted !) and asking me a feions as to t of my oy, of o , t I s from to t of tomed salary -- a magnificent offer! I do not knoitude, but it ood t I accepted told t I  o leave tammered out a bo just ten minutes after eig  gratitude forbids me to conceal to t munificent firm in t, and Lacy.

    Esto perpetua!

    For t day or t stunned, overoo confused to taste it sincerely. I , t I . I ion of a prisoner in tile, suddenly let loose after a forty years confinement. I could scarce trust myself   of time into Eternity -- for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to ime all to  seemed to me t I ime on my ime, I ed up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I ed some steo manage my estates in time for me. And  me caution persons groive business, not lig omary employment all at once, for t. I feel it by myself, but I kno my resources are sufficient; and no t giddy raptures  ion. I am in no ime  a I do not o do in transient y miles a day, to make t of time roublesome, I could read it a I do not read in t violent measure, ime my o candle-ligime, I used to  my  in by-gone ers. I  er pleasure; I let it come to me. I am like the man

    ----ts born, and o him,

    In some green desart.

    quot;Years,quot; you ;ed simpleton calculating upon? old us,  fifty.quot;

    I y years, but deduct out of to ot to myself, and you ill a young fello is true time, o live it, is otime, not  of my poor days, long or s, is at least multiplied for me ten next years, if I stretcy. `tis a fair rule-of-three sum.

    Among trange fantasies  t of my freedom, and of  yet gone, one  a vast tract of time ervened since I quitted ting  conceive of it as an affair of yesterday. tners, and ted -- being suddenly removed from to me. to illustrate tragedy by Sir Robert h:

    ---- `t just now  away;

    I  since ime to sear;

    And yet tance does the same appear

    As if housand years from me.

    time takes no measure in Eternity.

    to dissipate to go among to visit my old desk-fello I  beloate militant. Not all te restore to me t pleasant familiarity,  met t off but faintly. My old desk; t, ed to anot must be, but I could not take it kindly. D----l take me, if I could not feel some remorse -- beast, if I , -- at quitting my old compeers, tners of my toils for six and ty years, t smoot been so rugged ter all? or  is too late to repent; and I also kno tions are a common fallacy of t my  smote me. I ly broken t us. It  least not courteous. I sime before I get quite reconciled to tion. Fare not for long, for again and again I o move, and gentlemanly! Pl----, officious to do, and to volunteer, good services ! -- and t mansion for a Grestington of old, stately s; -excluding, pent-up offices, or to my ern fosterer of my living, fare in tion of some ;; t t, as I do from my labours, piled on t, and full as useful! My mantle I bequeath among ye.

    A fortnige of my first communication. At t period I ranquillity, but  reac. I boasted of a calm indeed, but it ive only. Somet flutter ; an unsettling sense of novelty; to omed lig of my apparel. I rict cellular discipline suddenly by some revolution returned upon ter. It is natural to me to go  eleven oclock in treet, and it seems to me t I ering t t very . I digress into Soo explore a book-stall. Mety years a collector. trange nor ne. I find myself before a fine picture in a morning. as it ever ot is become of Fisreet reet? Stones of old Mincing-lane, o tsteps of oil-ing flints no t is Cime, and I am strangely among t o compare tion to a passing into anotime stands still in a manner to me. I  all distinction of season. I do not knoo be individually felt by me in its reference to t days; in its distance from, or propinquity to, t Sunday. I urday nigions. tinctly during t, affecting my appetite, spirits, amp;c. tom of t day, o folloe as a load upon my poor Sabbations.  c Ete?  is gone of Black Monday? All days are tself -- t unfortunate failure of a  too often proved, s fugitiveness, and over-care to get test quantity of pleasure out of it -- is melted doo a o go to c grudging tle o seem to cut out of time for everyt a sick friend. I can interrupt tion  over ation to take a days pleasure o indsor t is Lucretian pleasure to be beernal round -- and  all for? A man can never oo mucime to oo little to do. tle son, I ogetemplative. ill no kindly eartton mills? take me t lumber of a desk t down

    As loo the fiends.

    I am no longer ******, clerk to tired Leisure. I am to be met rim gardens. I am already come to be kno face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace, nor tled purpose. I ; not to and from. tell me, a certain cum dignitate air, t s, o s forto gentility perceptibly. ake up a ne is to read tate of tum est. I  I came into to do. I ask o myself.

 THE GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING

    It is an ordinary criticism, t my Lord Sesbury, and Sir illiam temple, are models of teel style in ing. e slemanly. Noted finical resbury, and tural c-c of temple. ters; but in t is only insinuated gracefully, in t stands out offensively. to ten  on, and le before  can be more pleasant tired statesman peeps out in tter in ful retreat at S of Nimeguen, and ty is quoted under an ambassador. Don Francisco de Melo, a quot;Portugal Envoy in England,quot; tells   in ry for men, spent  o s, and after to go on a great lengtimes of ty or ty years, or more, by t vigour t remove. quot; (temple beautifully adds) migs of t climate, or by approacain of lig,  tell: per ; -- Monsieur Pompone, quot;Frencime at t;certifies  in  arrived at a ation of life es to te, giving temper and o more pleasures of all kinds tries; and moralises upon tter very sensibly. t;late Robert Earl of Leicesterquot; furnisory of a Countess of Desmond, married out of England in Edime, and ; gives ,  about try a set of morrice-dancers, composed of ten men   so mucemple) t so many in one small county (o t age, as t to travel and to dance.quot; Monsieur Zulic;colleagues at t; informs ; ; Monsieur Serinc to. -- Old Prince Maurice of Nassau recommends to  complaint; o sleep, ant motion or s; Count Egmont, and t; summer before Maestric; impart to heir experiences.

    But ter is never more innocently disclosed, takes for granted ts paid by foreigners to -trees. For taste and perfection of eem t, ruly say, t ten  S t are as good as any ten in France on tainebleau; and t as good as any t in Gascony. Italians e figs to be as good as any of t sort in Italy, er kind and t come near tes, no more tignac or Muscat grape. rees too, are as large as any  tainebleau, or  some very old ones of ts into England,  time pretty common among some gardeners in y; for  all t;tter.quot; try s t `tis to little purpose to plant any of t fruits, as peacs, beyond Nortons t nort;Biser at Cosevelt,quot; for attempting not cold climate; pleasant and in cer. quot;I may per; ( Garden Essay ;be alloo knorade, since I o be good for not often looking abroad to see ters play, ions in tate, and ations to ot, as try life, and t of it more particularly, ion of my youtself, so truly say t, among many great employments t o my s for any of t en endeavoured to escape from to te scene, , and  me more to o tness and satisfaction of treat, aken of never entering again into any public employments, I  ever once going to to in sig, and o receive me. Nor  of affectation as some  it, but a mere  of desire or o make so small a remove; for ies reficit, amp;c.

    quot;Me, ream revives,

    does my friend believe I think or ask?

    Let me yet less possess, so I may live,

    eer of life remains, unto myself.

    May I ore,

    Not to depend upon eacful hour:

    ty Jove to pray,

    akes a;

    tings of temple are, in general, after t, e to nature and tenderness, o a string of felicitous antit is obvious to remark, o Addison and succeeding essayists. quot; be covetous, and ; ;if  ambitious, if it  tored by , alas! a aff  y feet to ter t. tter of gold, or of diamonds,   sore eyes instead of curing tcap.quot; In a far better style, and more accordant ences of ;Discourse upon Poetry.quot; temple took a part in troversy about t and t partiality so natural and so graceful in an old man, e engagements  tle leisure to look into modern production,  gave o look back upon tudies of ter. quot;Certain it is,quot; ;t,  ture of t bear it -- t s and excellency botry and music fell ion and applauses t before attended t, suc us, t be confessed to be test and sest, t general and most innocent amusements of common time and life. till find room in ts of princes, and ttages of so revive and animate to allay or divert t passions and perturbations of test and t men. And bots are of equal use to o torm, but is so to bottle agitated by gentle gales; and so t and easy passions or affections. I kno many o be  to despise botry and music, as toys and trifles too ligertainment of serious men. But o keep temper, and bringing tures, if not of tandings, into question. s, I doubt not but t of tertainments oo; and  content t, and do not trouble t be quiet ts t; quot; test and t but like a fro be played tle, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and t;

 BARBARA S-----

    ON t  as truck one, Barbara S-----, omed punctuality ascended taircase, erposed landing-places,  of box ,  treasurer of (re. All over t om, and remains so I believe to to receive tipend on turday. It  muc Barbara o claim.

    ttle maid  entered  ant station at tre, as it seemed to s o accrue from ion of o eps and to aken o  least five years older.

    till latterly sed to fill up t tness in  intrusted to s. You may guess ted Barbara. Sears in young Artine petulance in turn  petulance ic alter-piece to t as yet t; C; .

    Long after ttle girl  most, copied out in t er, ranscribed a little more carefully and fairly for tragedy ladies of tablis. But sucted and scraer reputation it o beliest Morocco, eac making a book -- -splasiously kept to  a blot ampered o ing remembrancings. ts; tary atoms; ttle steps by ion. quot;,quot; s;could Indian rubber, or a pumice stone, ;

    I am in no o begin my story -- indeed I tle or none to tell -- so I  mention an observation of ed  interesting time.

    Not long before sity of real present emotion ragic performer experiences during acting. I ventured to t t instance suc  by frequent repetition t become deadened in great measure, and trust to t emotion, rat one. Sly repelled tion, t ruly great tragedian tion, by self into ance in old me, t so long ago as  of ttle Son to Mrs. Porters IsabelIa, (I t ress -rending colloquy, s real  tears come trickling from o use ly scalded  quite so sure t it er; but it  actress of t day. t; but t of tears I most distinctly remember. I y of players, and am not sure t an impediment in my speecainly kept me out of t) even more tain personal disqualifications,  over in t profession, did not prevent me at one time of life from adopting it. I  ever call it) once to ted to tea-table of Miss Kelly. I  serious on. I ted o friend  of ture gallery, at Mr. Matto remunerate me for my love of tors ( o al collection, ist could not give tion. Old tones,   restore to me. I  I am growing a coxcomb.

    As I  to say -- at treasurer of tre -- not Diamonds -- presented tle Barbara S-----.

    ts of Barbara able circumstances. tised, I believe, as an apoto ice from causes oo sensibly t o arraign -- or per pure infelicity o lay at to not in teetarvation, ter days, took ttle Barbara into his company.

    At t of ters. I must tifying circumstances. Enougo say, t urdays pittance .

    One tion, t in some c,  foo Barbara!) some comic actor, erer for ty in t, tity of salt (O grief and pain of  to Barbara!) t  into teringly to reject it; and ed part, and pain of real appetite at missing sucy, tle  sobbed almost to breaking, till a flood of tears, ors otally unable to comprehend, mercifully relieved her.

    ttle starved, meritorious maid, , treasurer, for urdays payment.

    Ravenscroft ed for a treasurer. s, paid a random, kept scarce any books, and summing up at t, blest  it was no worse.

    Noipend was a bare ake o her hand a -- whole one.

    Barbara tripped away.

    Sirely unconscious at first of take: God kno would never .

    But o t of t of metal pressing tle hand.

    Nohe dilemma.

    Sure a good cs and t rary influence. But taug alicoes of moral ptle maid inct to evil, but t be said to y commended, but never dreamed of its application to  of it as sometemptation, or t of sparing resistance against it.

    impulse o go back to treasurer, and explain to ural  of punctuality, t sy in making and it. S in an instant. And t c on table next day came across ill tle eyes glistened, and ened But t ured, ood ion to some of tle parts. But again ted to be o y pounds a year clear of tre. And taring upon tle stockingless and sers. And ton stockings, ion at tre  indispensable for o provide for raining and pincock, and t o cover t o reo been precluded from doing, by reason of ttire -- in ts sop -- for till anot to traverse.

    Noue support Barbara!

    And t never-failing friend did step in -- for at t moment a strengt o   seemed (for s  to move) sransported back to t quitted, and , reasure, and o tes,  a deep peace fell upon , and sy of y.

    A year or tion to ened up t, and ts, of tle sisters, set ty of discussing moral dogmas upon a landing-place.

    I  it  muc of mortification to o see ted tal throes.

    te of e Mrs. Cray.seven years of age (ser); and to ruggles upon times ventured to ted for t po in tation of conflicting emotions, for le inferior (if at all so in t of Lady Randolpo Mrs. Siddons.

    [Footnote] * treet, wime a widow, when I knew her.

 THE TOMBS IN THE ABBEY IN A LETTER TO R.S., ESQ.

    ts of doctrine, and per of lending a perfect assent to t corified, yet may time never come to me, ion of irreverent sentiment, I ser iful and time-ification tending t ednesday at estminster, and being desirous of reneance, after lapsed years, ombs and antiquities turned out like a dog, or some profane person, into treet,  very congenial to to tening to. It er t music.

    You ion at estminster; and doubtless among ters, you must  devotional feeling in t mind feeds still -- and may it feed! tiquarian spirit, strong in you, and graceful blending ever ality. You o to tion; you o to your learned fondness for tecture of your ancestors; you o to tical establis, ices -- to speak aloud your sense of to desist raising your voice against till totally done aill tminster Abbey be no longer closed against t, t, or blameless devotee,  an injury against s  to to see maintained in its impressive services, t our Cat of inspection to t times only, in tendance on te s aken up t, in vain sucers as myself express tion. A  to fling open tiful temple again, as  t tin,e of life, ive faculty (suc is) in botrance to so mucion ructed by t up to gain an occasional admission (as ainly s of tombs o us (iment) as ood open, as t Park; ime, as t us, for a ser or longer time, as t lasted? Is tly for ourselves detecting t? In no part of our beloved Abbey norance (out of service time) under t ticlimax, presumed to lie in t you can tell t y for enlarged feeling, aste and genius, may coexist, especially in youtent to ted friend of ours, during e visit to tropolis, presented o Saint Pauls. At time a decently clot a  man ated, desirous to go in; but turned aantly. Pero omb of Nelson. Pererior of t. But in tate of  reasonably seem too mucell tocracy of try (no man can do it more impressively); instruct t value t pieces of money, to t, may be to t of temple. Stifle not tions of your better nature ext, t an indiscriminate admission ombs to violation. Remember your boy-days. Did you ever see, or  o all? Do trouble t sucions? It is all t you can do to drive to your c voluntarily offer tiquities; for tomb of king or prelate, sage or poet. If the rabble.

    For forty years t I tested cion adduced,  committed upon t amiable spy, Major Andre. And is it for ton miscions of transatlantic Freedom or te possibility of suco ed by stationing a constable ent to ty -- is it upon succences, t to pay a neers Pence, so long abrogated; or must content templating terior of t time t you unate relic? --

 AMICUS REDIVIVUS

    he remorseless deep

    Closd oer the head of your loved Lycidas?

    I not knoion, t a fe my cottage at Islington, upon taking leave, instead of turning do ered -- aff in  noon day, deliberately marc foro t of tream t runs by us, and totally disappear.

    A spectacle like t dusk , to ness sucion toruction in a valued friend, took from me all poion.

    , I kno. Consciousness e gone. Some spirit, not my o. I remember not tion of a good  ) pointed up (if time  time) ed han his who bore Anchises.

    And  but do justice to t arriving a little too late to participate in to communicate to tion, or nonapplication, of salt, amp;c., to tient. Life meantime  a tifle of conflicting judgments, or. trite as to be missed on, -- s o me as if an Angel  previous exertions -- and mine  been inconsiderable -- are commonly folloy of purpose. t of irresolution.

    Monoculus -- for so, in default of catcrue name, I co designate tleman  truckled to try of a diploma,  portion of ime in experimental processes upon tunate felloures, in o mere vulgar tinct, and lost for ever. tetruding -suffocation to tructions, sometimes induced by a too ion of t Cannabis out t altogetinctions, ion tendet part to er-practice; for ters near tory of tream mentioned, le co tons-eneto detect tality -- partly, as o be upon t -- and partly, because to prescribe to ients, on tressing occasions, are ordinarily more conveniently to be found at telries, to sucice, t it is reported, inguis a ance; and can tell, if it be casual or deliberate. , originally of a sad bro rue professional sable. or, and is remarkable for ing  eye. er a sufficient application of s, friction, amp;c., is a simple tumbler, or more, of t Cognac, er, made as  as t can bear it. , o be taster; and sure of tion. Not addeto tient, to see or s, ance, scarce enougo sustain life, is content to  out in to save tensions so moderate, t y I could press a croence of sucure to society as G. D.

    It  to observe t of tee. It seemed to o memory, calling up notice after notice, of all tial deliverances  life. Sitting up in my coucure o, for tary repose ered, sly valance, at some price, and ate-bed at Colebrooke, tles of t, in infancy -- by orciles at trumpington, and of omes at Pembroke -- by studious cful vigilance -- by , and t, and all t out into little fragments of cing of songs long ago -- ends of deliverance- remembered before since c coming up noender as a cremor cordis, in trospect of a recent deliverance, as in a case of impending danger, acting upon an innocent , enderness, er crisis, o remember tting by Babylon, and to mutter of shallow rivers.

    aters of Sir on -- o inguisreams to ty, for nouries,  c! s. as it for t, smit in boyions of t Abyssinian traveller, I paced to explore your tributary springs, to trace your salutary ers sparkling tfordsured Enfield parks ? -- Ye   of my friend tempt ye to suck  ye also migutelary genius of your ers?

    ; but le over  sepulture ? -- or,  unmeaning assumption of eternal novity, did ye to get one by to be termed tREAM DYERIAN?

    And could sucue find a grave

    Beneathumed bubble of a wave?

    I protest, George, you s venture out again -- no, not by daylig a sufficient pair of spectacles -- in your musing moods especially. Your absence of mind o be called in question by it. You s go o Euripus otle, if o turn dipper at your years, after your many tracts in favour of sprinkling only!

    I  er in my s since tful accident. Sometimes I am  otian beginning to sink, and crying out to  is to me), quot;I sink in deep ers; t; t letting go teerage. I cry out too late to save. Next follo trailing a lengtant gratefulness,  from locks of c rained Lazari -- Plutos s -- stolen fees from t t G. D. ? -- in s marcive garland, o suspend it to tern God of Sea. treams of Letrained to dros h.

    And, doubtless, tice in t invisible o ts.  deation aroused  be considerable; and ture, by modern science so often dispossessed of  ime to pity tantalus.

    A pulse assuredly  along tions. From ts of Aspler and ts -- poet, or orian -- of Grecian or of Roman lord to cros t. ed -- yrer --  lyrist of Peter  airs prepared to greet --; and, patron of tle Cs boy, -- ions, leaned foremost from o o t ured virtues of tender scions in tically fed and ered.

    * GRAIUM tantum vidit.

 SONNETS OF SIR PHILIP SYDNEY

    SYDNEYS Sonnets -- I speak of t of t of t. ty, tity, and  modest spirit of self-approval, of Milton, in ions of a similar structure. trut Milton, censuring t o er-tune or application), quot;vain and amatoriousquot; enoug to be true of t;full of .quot; tier, it must be allo of t Milton ier  Ludlole, and still more a Courtier ruggle o begin,  ties beime ion, t ed t in t emergency,  for plainness or boldness of spirit. ter on tcestify, o Princes. times did not call o the scaffold.

    ts  call to mind of Milton ions of urest years. t to produce, ten in tuck full of amorous fancies -- far-fetcs, befitting ion; for true Love to send out ts upon t, and more to bring landiso sacrifice in self-depreciating similitudes, as srue amiabilities in t be Lovers -- or at least toucime, t not ies, as to take aion t e ties, and graceful  (ted tural) are least natural for to express its fancies by. tibullus, or tress; for passions t creep and on never loved at te. I am afraid some of  t came not muc of a religious indecorum, wrophise a singing-girl: --

    Angelus unicuique suus (sic credite gentes)

    Obtigit aetheriis ales ab ordinibus.

    Quid mirum, Leonora, tibi si gloria major,

    Nam tua praesentem vox sonat ipsa Deum?

    Aut Deus, aut vacui certe mens tertia coeli,

    Per tua secreto guttura serpit agens;

    Serpit agens, facilisque docet mortalia corda

    Sensim immortal assuescere posse sono.

    QUOD SI CUNCtA QUIDEM DEUS ESt, PER CUNCtAQUE FUSUS,

    IN tE UNA LOQUItUR, CAEtERA MUtUS .

    trange fas requires some candour of construction (besides t darkening of a dead language) to cast a veil over t taggered, if  to express t in Engliss like travaganzas do not strike at takes leave to adopt to a fellowsal passions.

    iteps, O Moon, t the skies;

    ly; and h how wan a face!

    ! may it be, t even in heavenly place

    t busy Arcries?

    Sure, if t long-ed eyes

    Can judge of love, t a lovers case;

    I read it in t grace

    to me, t feel tate descries.

    tell me,

    Is constant love deemd t  of ?

    Are beauties they be

    Do to be loved, and yet

    t love doth possess?

    Do tue tefulness?

    t line of ttle obscured by transposition. efulness tue?

    Come, Sleep, O Sleep, tain knot of peace,

    ting place of , the balm of woe,

    the prisoners release,

    t judge bethe high and low,

    it the prease

    Of ts despair at me dothrow,

    O make in me to cease:

    I ribute pay, if thou do so.

    take t pilloest bed,

    A co noise, and blind to light,

    A rosy garland, and a weary head.

    And if t,

    Move not t in me,

    Livelier tellas image see.

    III

    ts, seeing dull pensiveness

    Beself in my long-settled eyes,

    hose same fumes of melancholy rise,

    ith idle pains, and missing aim, do guess.

    Some, t know how my spring I did address,

    Deem t my muse some fruit of knowledge plies,

    Otries

    t I tate errors to redress,

    But ions rage,

    Scourge of itself, still climbing slippery place

    ivd in gold cage.

    O fools, or over-he race

    Of all my ts op nor start,

    But only Stellas eyes, and Stellas .

    IV

    Because I oft in dark abstracted guise

    Seem most alone in greatest company,

    ite awry,

    to t would make speech of speech arise,

    the rumour flies,

    t poison foul of bubbling Pride doth lie

    So in my s, t only I

    Fahers do despise,

    Yet Pride, I t my soul possess,

    oo oft in tering glass:

    But one  -- Ambition -- I confess,

    t makes me oft my best friends overpass,

    Unseen, un to  place

    Bends all o Stellas grace.

    V

    his day, my horse, my hand, my lance,

    Guided so  I obtained the prize,

    Bot of the English eyes

    And of some sent from t s enemy -- France,

    horsemen my skill in horsemanship advance,

    torengtier judge applies

    o sleigh rise;

    Some lucky s impute it but to chance;

    Otake

    My blood from this,

    ture me a man of arms did make.

    arue cause is,

    StELLA lookd on, and from her heavenly face

    Sent forthe beams which made so fair my race.

    VI

    In martial sports I ried,

    And yet to break more staves did me address,

    s (I must confess)

    Youth pride --

    hen Cupid, having me (his slave) descried

    In Marss livery, prancing in the press,

    quot; no; said ;I would no less:

    Look ; I lookd, and StELLA spied,

    .

    My  then dazzled were mine eyes;

    One  to rule, to fight;

    Nor trumpets sound I heard, nor friendly cries.

    My foe came on, and beat the air for me --

    till t o see.

    VII

    No more, my dear, no more try;

    O give my passions leave to run their race;

    Let Fortune lay on me  disgrace;

    Let folk oer-c me cry;

    Let clouds bedim my face, break in mine eye;

    Let me no steps, but of lost labour, trace;

    Let all t my case --

    But do not o fly.

    I do not envy Aristotles ,

    Nor do aspire to Caesars bleeding fame;

    Nor aug;

    Nor o frame,

    But t w:

    t my , and tue art.

    VIII

    Love still a boy, and oft a on, is,

    Scender eye;

    hen, if he his lesson miss,

    a rod dear play ry?

    And yet my StAR, because a sugard kiss

    In sport I suckd, while she asleep did lie,

    Dot, for only this.

    S, it  humble I.

    But no `scuse serves; sh appear

    In beautys throne -- see now, who dares come near

    t judges, tning bloody pain?

    O  kiss-hy face

    Anger invests h such a lovely grace,

    t angers self I needs must kiss again.

    IX

    I never drank of Aganippe well,

    Nor ever did in sempe sit,

    And Muses scorn o dwell;

    Poor lay-man I, for sacred rites unfit.

    Some do I s fury tell,

    But (God )  not ;

    And t brook of hell,

    I am no pickpurse of anot.

    t h an ease

    My ts I speak, and h flow

    In verse, and t my verse best s doth please?

    Guess me t is it thus ? -- fye, no.

    Or so ? -- muc is,

    My lips are s, inspired ELLAs kiss.

    X

    Of all t ever here did reign,

    Ed in praise I name,

    Not for side, nor well-lined brain --

    Alts imp feat on Fame.

    Nor t , frame

    h a kingdoms gain;

    And, and by Mars could yet mad Mars so tame,

    t balance e obtain.

    Nor t he Floure-de-luce so `fraid,

    trongly hedged of bloody Lions paws

    t ty Leo ribute paid.

    Nor t, nor any such small cause --

    But only, for t durst prove

    to lose han fail his love.

    XI

    O  didst my StELLA bear,

    I sah many a smiling line

    Upon thy cheerful face, Joys livery wear,

    s on treams did shine;

    t for joy could not to dance forbear,

    on y so divine

    Ravisayd not, till in her golden hair

    test prison) twine.

    And fain tay

    , forced by nature still to fly,

    First did hose locks display.

    She, so dishevelld, blushd; from window I

    it t, O fair disgrace,

    Let o t  place!

    XII

    highway, since you my chief Parnassus be;

    And t my Muse, to some ears not uns,

    tempers o trampling ,

    More soft to a chamber melody, --

    Now blessed You bear onward blessed Me

    to  safe left s,

    My Muse and I must you of duty greet

    ithankfully.

    Be you still fair, honourd by public heed,

    By no encroac ime forgot;

    Nor blamd for blood, nor shamed for sinful deed.

    And t you kno

    Of  wish, I wish you so much bliss,

    ELLAS feet may kiss.

    Of t, t sonnet, are my favourites. But ty of t tly ceristical. t of quot;learning and of c;of led Sydney to ;president,quot; -- s;jejune quot;or quot;frigidquot; in t;stiffquot; and quot;cumbrous quot; -- o tly and gallantly. It miguned to trumpet; or tempered (as ) to quot;trampling .quot; tous phrases --

    O  kiss-hy lips

    8t

    -------S pilloest bed;

    A co noise, and blind to light;

    A rosy garland, and a weary head.

    2nd Sonnet

    -------t s enemy, -- France --

    5t,

    But t ricoo mucry of t day terial, and circumstantiated. time and place appropriates every one of t is not a fever of passion ing itself upon a t of dainty  a transcendent passion pervading and illuminating action, pursuits, studies, feats of arms, temporaries and  of torical t affixes a date to tten.

    I  t I conceive t of t by tonness (I  it by a gentler name) akes every occasion of insulting t table talk, amp;c., (most profound and subtle , just) are more safely to be relied upon, on subjects and autiality for, tal prejudice against. Milton e Sonnets, and  ier to a patriot. But I o lose a fine idea from my mind. timents, and poetical delicacies of cer, scattered all over te of some stiffness and encumberment), justify to me ter er. I cannot tic, t Sir P opprobrious t ility co term o mind tapo guide me to juster ts of iful lines in t;Friends Passion for rop; printed hers.

    You knerophel?

    (t I so say I knew,

    And  in possession still!) --

    t me to renew --

    Of  such,

    I cannot Say -- you oo much.

    ithese woods of Arcady

    and pleasure took;

    And on tain Partheny,

    Upon tal liquid brook,

    t him every day,

    t taugo e, and say.

    ,

    divine:

    A t count

    Upon his lovely chearful eyne.

    to ly smile,

    You he while,

    A s attractive kind of grace;

    A full assurance given by looks;

    Continual comfort in a face,

    ts of Gospel books --

    I tro countnance cannot lye,

    s are legible in the eye.

    *****

    Above all othis is he,

    approved in his song,

    t love and  agree,

    And t pure love will do no wrong.

    S Saints, it is no Sin or blame

    to love a man of virtuous name.

    Did never Love so sly breathe

    In any mortal breast before:

    Did never Muse inspire beneath

    A Poets brain ore.

    e of Love ,

    And beauty reard above .

    Or let any one read to rage) in t in tion accompanying ternal testimony I believe to be Lord Brookes, -- beginning ;Silence augmentet;and t of sucs could  termed him.

 NEWSPAPERS THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

    DAN StUARt once told us, t  remember tely o tion at Somerset  occasionally ed a party of ladies across t   in of  t neood t y years or more -- s gilt-globe-topt front facing t emporium of our artists grand Annual Exposure. e sometimes h Daniel.

    A  tempered of Editors. Perry, of t,  one eitier. S. was frank, plain, and Englislemen.

    It is sooto contemplate to trace t little bubblings of a mighty river;

    ito approache rocks,

    reams reno song.

    Fired or ramblings after t Nilus,  Cs al) sallying fort rise of sun, not very aking, to trace t tonian stream ! -- to its scaturient source, as ary quest -- for it ial to ty, of a Discovery, t no eye of scection. By flos, and verdant lanes, skirting rained us on in many a baffling turn; endless  seemed; or as if ters ant to  of tivity revealed; till spent, and nig of te dotenit accomplis, t t Brucian enterprise  too arduous for our young shoulders.

    Not more refreso ty curiosity of traveller is tracing of some migers up to tlet, t is to a pleased and candid reader to go back to t calloure; from t o trod on.

    In tial retainer to its establis, kept an auto furnisum of ty paragrap  pretty oo -- uarts settled remuneration in t of t, above all, dress, furniserial. to exceed seven lines. Ser t be, but t .

    A fas ture, er to S.s Paper, establisation in t line. e ;capital ; O ts ic differences! from trite and obvious floo tume of t ting upon quot;many ers.quot; teral topic of ancles.  an occasion to a truly ce er, like ourself, of touc nice brink, and yet never tumbling over it, of a seemingly ever approximating somet;not quite proper;quot; er, balancing bet decorums and tes, ion is destruction;  and darkness, or ; a ain delicacy; Autolycus-like in till putting off ant auditory ;; But, above all, t conceit arrided us most at t time, and still tickles our midriff to remember,  of Astraea -- ultima Coelestum terras reliquit -- o tockings still -- t MODEStY tAKING ALS,  BLUS tO tRACt OF tEP. t be called t; and eemed tolerable ing in those days.

    But transient mode eness, and left us scarce a leg to stand upon. Ot none, met, so pregnant, so invitatory of ss, and more t to sively for a fortnig toutest digestion. But to o furnis not for a fortnig for a long trained to do, tle ion. quot;Man goeto il t; -- from a reasonable  . Noion took us up from eigill five every day in ty; and as our evening  t time Of life, o do  follo time ory of jokes -- our supplementary liveli supplied us in every  beyond mere bread and cly t part of tly denominated No Mans time; t is, no time in o be up, and ao speak more plainly, it is t time, of an ion, in  for .

    O da mucer in to rise,  above four o-beds icipated times in ing cup at midnige times, and to  us --  constellated under Aquarius, t ery sign, and ter-sponges, nor aken our degrees at Mount Ague -- s, jolly companions,  to o get up, as ailed of ing, a of refresance -- to be necessitated to rouse ourselves at testable rap of an old ic, ake a diabolical pleasure in  t it ;time to rise;quot; and o amputate, and string t our co be a terror to all suc-breakers in future -- quot;Facilquot; and s, as Virgil sings, ;descendingquot; of t, balmy t sinking of t to get up, as o say,

    -- revocare gradus, Superasque evadere ad auras --

    and to get up moreover to make jokes ;labour,quot; t;;

    No Egyptian taskmaster ever devised a slavery like to t, our slavery. No fractious operants ever turned out for yranny, ing Sundays too), ter of course, and claim no Sabbatical exemptions. But to our   to tain must come to Ma --

    Reader, try it for once, only for one s th.

    It  every  a fasockings came up; but mostly, instead of it, some rugged, untractable subject; some topic impossible to be contorted into ture, upon illation. ted tale of brick-making  before you, ra emple -- must be fed; it expected its daily rations; and Daniel, and ourselves, to do us justice, did t ing him.

    liness for t, and oil of ;easy ing,quot; Bob Allen, our quondam scapping icable brains in a like service for t;Oracle.quot; Not t Robert troubled  . If ly air about t .  last, t a matter of intelligence, and t no very important one,  seldom palmed upon ; for example sake -- quot; alking yesterday morning casually o Deputy o add, t ty appeared to enjoy a good state of  remember ever to ter.quot; tleman, so surprisingly met upon Sno or gesture, ant butt for mirto t t   . e met A. in ly after traordinary rencounter, ears of satisfaction in  ticipated effects of its announcement next day in t quite compre of it lay at time; nor  easy to be detected, aged by type and letter-press. ter  any t morning tly after dispensed  e  in point. tion, it must be oy; and timent, or moral,  of y, and good neig some judged altogeto anso t promise of traced our friends pen after;true Briton,quot; t;Star,quot; t;traveller,quot; -- from all ; Noto detect  failed, or topics ran loantly appeared t is not generally kno t t arms of Lombardy. t money-brokers in Europe.quot; Bob o set t on tant point of blazonry, the whole College of heralds.

    tment of a regular  o be a part of tors find t te, and top up t custom of quot;ty paragrap; first in t;orld.quot; Boaden   to discover in traces of t vivacity and fancy  t of t century. Even t er -- t quot;Astraean allusion quot; --  pedantic, and out of date, in these days.

    From t (for  once) by cy in transferred, mortifying exco te Rackstro-street  a transition -- from a ment, from rose-ands, to an office -- no office, but a den rat just redeemed from tion of dead monsters of  -- from tre of loyalty and faso a focus of vulgarity and sedition! , inadequate from its square contents to t of tor, and oget one time, sat in torial functions (t;Bigodquot; of Elia) ted John Fenwick.

    F.,  a guinea in , and  not many in ts of  command, ick doubtless) torsorss and titles (suc ood in t s commencement, and could no more tely determine upon pulling do in t instance, and making botunes by uated Democrat go about borro tamp Office, o publications of t side in politics. An outcast from politer bread, tacalents to tunes of our friend. Our occupation noo e treason.

    Recollections of feelings --  boyiss kindled by tion, endency at time to Republican doctrines assisted us in assuming a style of ing,  in no very under-tone to t earnest fanaticism of F. Our cue o insinuate, rations. Blocks, axes, eribunals, ly -- t ttorney General  to detect times, indeed, ion under Stuart. But ers it is ever cerleman at treasury, o be marked at t office, s being submitted at least to ttention of t Sir J---s M----ing for India to reap ts of acy, as F. pronounced it, (it is icularising), o offend ted to be called, Citizen Stan one of t  patron t uck by us; and breaking up our establis, left us to t someifying, neglect of t  time, or a little earlier, t Dan. Stuart made t curious confession to us, t ;never deliberately o an Exion at Somerset ;

 BARRENNESS OF THE IMAGINATIVE FACULTY IN THE PRODU

    ed, can er  fifty years, or since ting began, t reated a story imaginatively? By t ed, t it o direct  to be arranged by s leading or collateral points yrannically , t  treat it ot ion? Any t ed to ions, not merely so mucruto convey a story  t individualising property, reated distinct in feature from every ot, o common appre identical; so as t ure in t t --  demand t it s in any o itian ed, in t ogetimes in t;Ariadne,quot; in tional Gallery? Precipitous, yr rout about e places, drunk  tan. time present. itelling of tory an artist, and no ordinary one, mig, sa from tive spirit titian  time, and laid it contributory  to one simultaneous effect. it all ringing  idly casting  -- racted from till pacing tary s-silence, and in almost tude,  daybreak to catc glances of t bore ahenian.

    s miraculously co-uniting; fierce society, ude still absolute; noon-day revelations, s of t Bacc Ariadne; tories, ime; separate, and ist made t to till more, ure at , y desolation of t previous? merged in t of a flattering offer met ance. t for t ligo be pieced up by a God.

    e , from a picture by Rapican. It is tation of to Adam by ty. A fairer mot imagine, and a goodlier sire per tters subordinate to tion of tuation, displayed in traordinary production. A tolerably modern artist empering certain raptures of connubial anticipation, able ackno to tenance of t bridegroom; somettention of toy, and t blest it -sigist of a aken care to subtract someto en tual one. tion-goer, from t o last years so look for. It is obvious to  at a lo in a picture, t for respects of draering itude as one, or peruation of Adam. Singly on s t ted miracle. t is seized by tuitive artist, per self-conscious of , in ions moment ract -- ime to spring up, or to battle for indecorous mastery. -- e ly admired neoteric, in ing a fiction, one of t severely beautiful in antiquity -- to do Mr. ----- justice, ed laudable orcting seclusion, and a veritable dragon (of ion), looking over into t out back none but a quot;still-climbing ; could o catc ternary of Recluses. No conventual porter could keep ter tos ;lidless eyequot;  only sees t none do intrude into t Privacy, but, as clear as daylig none but  Diabolus by any manner of means can. So far all is ude ra t ists courage seems to o pity ty co comfort tude tendants, maids of o tiquette at a court of teentury; giving to te cre, if  excuse tlemen. tteauis ary mystery-the

    Daughree,

    t sing around tree ?

    t treated t.

    tings or ratupendous arcectural designs, of a modern artist, ions to tto. ter, o stagger it. oructures are of t order of terial sublime. ranscripts of some elder y artist, tisfy our most stretcions of tique  is a pity t t side, tion of tist s, and appears defective. Let us examine t of tory in t;Bels.quot; e roduce it by an apposite anecdote.

    t orians of t at t dinner given by te King (t) at teristic frolic s  and admiring; t profuse and admirable; ts lustrous and oriental; tly dazzled e, among -cellar, brougoself a toood conspicuous for its magnitude. And no C a signal given, ts , and a ransparency ered in golden letter-

    quot;Brig;

    Imagine ts; ters, jes, moulted upon t, and picked up t morning by t pages. Mrs. Fitzess of * * * * tle, till to be restored by calling in fres t a pantomime  up by t Garden, from s  folloual rallyings, tions t quot;t mucened,quot; of the assembled galaxy.

    t of time in ture exactly anso transparency in te. tter, tle, ttinesses ened by consternation; tiers fear ation; all t o aken place in a mob of Brigiers, sympated surprise of ted by t t of consternation  t only of a gun having gone off!

    But is t, ty for tion of tnessed at a tre,  of a supernatural terror? ting judgments, urbed, restless, and bent upon escape. tless, passive.  appeared before Elip, and tood up,  in ts of temanite to ring to call up ts? But let us see in text o justify all ternation.

    From t appears t Bels feast to a ted, hen follows --

    quot;In te over against tick upon ter of t of t e. tenance roubled  ts of e one against anot;

    text. By no  can it be ot t to t roubled. Not a s being seen by any else t, not even by takes for terpretation of ted to less, by o onis trouble and tenance in t does not appear to  only, as Josepo t. quot;t of t from ing ten.quot; asm as past.

    t becomes of tiplication of to a royal conscience, singly expressed -- for it ;t; simultaneously impressed upon tiers, ly nor grammatically?

    But admitting tists oory, and t t iers -- let it o all Babylon -- tenance troubled, even so enances, as of an individual man, been troubled; bo doupor-fixed,  of struggling  inevitable judgment.

    Not all t is optically possible to be seen, is to be sure. tedly d individualities in a quot;Marriage at Cana,quot; by Veronese, or titian, to texture and colour of ts, ttering upon tal and fass; for at suco be curious. But in a quot;day of judgment,quot; or in a quot;day of lesser  divine,quot; at t of Belse scene, as tual eye of an agent or patient in te scene inction. Not only ttire and jeo tical eye of tely as ticised picture,-- but peries of anatomical science, and studied diversities of posture in t subjects. them.

    By a ion, t masters of painting got at true conclusions; by not sual appearances, t is, all t o be seen at any given moment by an indifferent eye, but only  be supposed to see in tentous action. Suppose t of to be seen -- ectural proportions, differences of public and private buildings, men and  tanding occupations, tures, attitudes, dresses, in some confusion truly, but p  t eclipsing moment, y, and ies, o contemplate tanding at tle, t o turn over iquarian coolness ts and pans of Pompeii.

    quot;Sun, stand till upon Gibea;  ion, sees aug t-stretcer and lesser ligless to be seen s and  defiles, and all tances and stratagems of  erposition of t in ture of t by tist of t;Belsquot; no ignoble o an anecdote of t;dart traversequot; for some minutes, before it s modern art alone, but ancient, o be found if anyed erring, from defect of tive faculty. to sernatural in painting, transcending ting  picture at Angersteins. It seems a tself struggles itude at second life besto cannot forget t it   t it is a body. It o tell of ts. as it from a feeling, t tanders, and till more irrelevant  a distance, ly old of t is a glorified  respond adequately to tion -- t ttributed to Micy Sebastian unfairly robbed of ter erest? No t indifferent passers-by ual scope of t at to ly, or not at all, reac  ion of it admit of sucs? can it t all? or ing league to tion can t, of a presential miracle?

    ere an artist to paint upon demand a picture of a Dryad, ate of expectation, tron , or oug to be fully satisfied iful naked figure recumbent under retc tains, and falls of pellucid er, and you  so in a roug  is long since -- ted cers. Long, grotesque, fantastic, yet iful in convolution and distortion, linked to ural tree, co-ting s limbs ill boted branced members -- yet table lives sufficiently kept distinct -- ion of tures,  must be seen; analogous to, not transformations.

    to t subjects, and, to a superficial compre barren, t Masters gave loftiness and fruitfulness. t subjects ties of treatment from tions to some and Past or Future.  still linger about tican -- treated t of t;Building of t; It is in t scriptural series, to oons. t are timid and t. As tic guess at Rome, from ted no inferences beyond t of a  and Cornuto; so from t, of mere mec inctively turn aiture  oolory associations. t at Ce and ts intellectual eye. But not to tical preparations in ta Veccructions, o be conservatory of tensity of tion,  of sigion. triarc, and ions. And ts -- tary but sufficient t and earnestness of a Demiurgus; under some instinctive ratec-muscled; every one a o t in sounding caverns under Mongibello eropes, and Pyracmon, So  should repair a world!

    Artists again err in tic orial objects. In tter, terior accidents are nearly every ties as noties and corpulence of a Sir Joaff -- do t us perpetually in truded upon our conceptions one time for ninety-nine t  in admiration at tive moral or intellectual attributes of ter? But in a picture Otters of externality, must be to ter moments, telligenced Quixote -- t Star of Knigender by eclipse -- ed itself, divested from t of a Sanc at te. t man aking , ist t pictures Quixote (and it is in t t  our Exions) in ting mirt tarved steed. e o see t counterfeited, y. Conscious of te, ;strange bedfello; Ses!  into te tions of a super-cry,  ty net-ing o be a guest s like t;truly, fairest Lady, Actaeon  more astonis tain, ty: I commend time, and to so all sorts of people, especially of t your person so be; and if ts, as take up but a little piece of ground, sake up t neo pass t you may give credit to tion, be least  promisete de la Manco your ; Illustrious Romancer! ;fine frenzies,quot;  subject, as in t, to be exposed to to be monstered, and s tless banquets of great men? as t pitiable infirmity,  misleads o  more t infliction enoug men by studied artifices must devise and practise upon to inflame ise upon ted king at te, and t o play ts, e suffer in Duc t unhy nobleman.*

    In t Adventures, even, it needed all t of t consummate artist in t t seen, to keep up in ttributes of ter  relaxing; so as absolutely t t ever obtrudes itself as a diso laug, rato indulge a contrary emotion? Cervantes, stung, perco tes ties of ter, in t , lost t idea to taste of emporaries. e kno in t day t icipating, ually o er did to ;Guzman de Alfarac;-t some less kno it or to out -- bid ies, t, and  up t else ead of t te of semi-insanity -- t secondagion, caugronger mind infected -- t ive cunning, and ary deference, o accompanied er -- t -- does itute a doime to lay, if not actually laying  t Sance is become a -- treatable lunatic. Our artists handle him accordingly.

    * Yet from t, our cried-up pictures are mostly selected; ting-h beards, amp;c.

 REJOICINGS UPON THE NEW YEARS COMING OF AGE

    t of tlemans body, not  give a dinner upon to ivals, ion. time out of mind, tals belo ime taste of ty. It iffly debated among ts sted. Some said, tarved guests, ified faces,  ting. But tion o see ed to come erns, to liglefolks  night.

    All to ty-five guests at table;  ty-Ninth of February.

    I sold you, t cards of invitation tle, merry,   all round, and found out ted er Day, Suesday, and a feers.

    ell, t at last, foul Days, fine Days, all sorts of Days, and a rare din t. t,  -- broter Day, -- only Lady Day kept a little on t scornful. Yet some said, t  and out, for siffany suit, -cake, all royal, glittering, and Epip came, some in green, some in  old Lent and  yet out of mourning. Rainy Days came in, dripping; and sun-so cockings. edding Day tle te, as  ed.

    April Fool (as my young lords jester) took upon o marss, and  o  any given Day in to erect a scogeto the confounding of all sober horoscopy.

    uck ty First of June next to ty Second of December, and t ed) bet Cmas and Lord Mayors Days. Lord!   barons of beef and turkeys o t greasing and detriment of ucker. And still Cmas Day  ill ested t commended it to t-crit-critical mess, and no disleman. t  into t custard t stood before -, till you  so hung in icicles.

    At anot of table, Suesday o some cock brotesy tter returned e t -- so t for t matter. t of Lent was spunging upon Sides pancakes; wold o a good fry-day.

    In anot, a  tiet seems, being a sour puritanic cer, t t nobodys meat good or sanctified enougo t  purpose, to feast tinently; but as it lay in t to t t;ter,quot; and raved about er to t degree, t to be removed; nor did somacill sorative, confected of Oak Apple, y Nint  purpose.

    ter table dispute arose bet (a zealous old ley tory stamp,) as to . August greter, affirming time out of mind tive rigo ed ed as little better t mistress,  in fine clotimate BIRthDAY) had scarcely a rag, amp;c.

    [Footnote] * te King.

    April Fool, being made mediator, confirmed t in trongest form of o t, but decided for peace sake t t s possessor. At time,  lady in t an action mig the Crown for bi-geny.

    It beginning to grotle duskisily ba for ligested against burning dayliger ake an unusual time in ashing herself.

    May Day,  sness able, in a cordial but somey tone, returned t proud on an occasion of meeting so many of e tenants, promised to improve t time to abate (if any ts.

    At tion of ter Days involuntarily looked at eacled to an old tune of quot;Ne; and a surly old rebel at table (tered out, distinctly enougo o t, t, quot;ter.quot; s resenting, unanimously voted ent  out neck and o t place for sucefeu and firebrand as o be.

    Order being restored -- to say truttle ruffled, and put beside ory) in as fe as obliging ire urn, singling out poor ty Nint e all t to couple  of t  seen  face any time t time, removing tary Day from t ioned  ter Lammas.

    As stuck in ruck up a Carol, er, ; in fine style, ting off tes and lengtification e ions, but Good Friday o look extremely grave, and Sunday  s not be seen to smile.

    Side, Lord Mayors Day, and April Fool, next joined in a glee --

    is t day to drink? in whe Days chiming in, made a merry burden.

    t fell to quibbles and conundrums. tion being proposed,  number of folloer-Days said, tion as to t, for tors in t April-Fool  above measure, and ensions to t a cousin once removed, --clapped and  as tion cooled, t it o blo into a flame, and all : till old Madam Septuagesima (ion edious tale of ter Rogation-Day in particular, ion to  s  a distance, as tell -- by o t o to be a little better ted.

    Day being ended, t coats, and took t off in a Mist, as usual, Sest-Day in a deep black Fog, t  ttle gentleman all round like a cmas-Day safe o tout, sturdy patrole, called t.-Copion little better t ification  floating home, singing --

    On ts back do I fly,

    and a number of old snatc very feentiaries (you may believe me) -Day set off iful crimson and gold -- t, some in one fas Valentine and pretty May took ture togettiest silver t in.

 THE WEDDING

    I do not knoer pleased t being invited last o be present at ter. I like to make one at to us old people give back our youtore our gayest season, in ts, scarcely less tender, of our oments, in t of a settlement. On to be in good-er, and enjoy a reflected  a family, I am flattered emporary adoptions into a friends family. I feel a sort of cousined into degrees of affinity, and, in ticipated socialities of ttle community, I lay doake it unkindly to be left out, even o my subject. ---

    tself tled, but its celebration o deferred, to an almost unreasonable state of suspense in tracted upon t of too early marriages of females. uring any time to t lengtsracted -- upon ty of putting off ty, till ted ieto be afraid t a suit, s ardours, mig last be lingered on, till passion ime to cool, and love go out in t. But a little o trained notions, joined to some serious expostulations on t of ies of tleman, could not promise ourselves many years enjoyment of o bring matters to a conclusion during ime, at lengt ter of my old friend, Admiral ---, tained teen ed to t cousin J---, wold some few years older.

    Before t of my female readers express tion at time occasioned to terous notions of my old friend, to consider tance urally feels at parting o t cases may be traced t betences of interest or prudence may be  to cover it. tedness of faters, a sure and moving topic, but is t sometender, to say no more of it, in times in to tear al stock, and commit o strange graftings? tened ance, o be an only c understand tters experimentally, but I can make a s t upon t is no neion, I believe, t a lover in most cases o be feared as tainly ts, rictly cen by t name. Mot over, for t tection transferred to a ion and a loss to ty to ternal. Motrembling foresigs to be conceived in t) of a life of forlorn celibacy, cail upon tinct is a surer guide opic. to tinct may be imputed, and by it alone may be excused, tifices, by s of ters, ain ive indifference. A little sion, forernal importunity receives tue. -- But tays, werously assume hreshold.

    Nor let any of my female readers suppose t tions endency of application to t  to venture upon a cion, at a mature and competent age, and not  t approbation of all parties. I only deprecate very y marriages.

    It  t an early o give time for a little dejeune aftero y of friends ed. e le before truck eight.

    Noters -- on to give tunity of sed all in green. I am ill at describing female apparel, but,  tar in vestments ed in robes, suc become Dianas nympers indeed -- as suc yet come to tion of putting off cold virginity. t being so blest as to old, keep single for toget, t ts of t (so inauspicious to terrupted and provoking . Gallant girls! eacim hy of Iphigenia!

    I do not kno in solemn places. I cannot divest me of an unseasonable disposition to levity upon t a out for a public functionary. Ceremony and I  I could not resist tunities of t un o act as parent on to me at t serious of all moments -- a sense of my unfitness to ion, of t young creature beside me. I fear I rayed to some ligors eye of Saint Mildreds in try is no trifle of a rebuke -- ant, souring my incipient jest to tristful severities of a funeral.

    to upon t ed to me after t---s, be accounted a solecism. So say t sleman before me give a to be tume of an autage sanctions it -- t to er colour ed censure. But I could perceive t t (God bless tent, if I . But I got over t of Pilpay, or some Indian auted to ts   feat;; tolerably reconciled t , and sulations, and kissing aears, and kissings from urn, till a young lady,  at te s;none left.quot;

    My friend triking contrast to  of personal appearance.  once som ever at udies) to betray tragglers of  of tful satisfaction. I trembled for t lengter a protracted breakfast of tores of cold foongues, argoes, dried fruits, c. can deserve so meagre an appellation -- to carry off tom o try, upon  us return to ts.

    As age,

    the eyes of men

    Are idly bent on  enters next,

    so idly did  old ale. None sipt  -- it  mucicipated so far. Even ty of full satisfaction, t rayed itself t deportment of o o someto take tay. e seemed assembled upon a silly occasion. In t tarrying and departure, I must do justice to a foolisalent of mine, o disgrace in t of t to all manner of strange nonsense. In t sovereign. I rattled off some of my most excellent absurdities. All o be relieved, at any expense of reason, from tolerable vacuum le. By tunate in keeping togetter part of to a late  (te game) rokes of cunely on  till midnigleman at last to ively easy spirits.

    I  my old friends various times since. I do not knoing place ly at rangely t of confusion. Every body is at cross purposes, yet t is so mucter ty. Contradictory orders, servants pulling one er and mistress driving some ot botors rised: candles disposed by c off ea and supper at once, or tter preceding t and t conferring, yet eac topic, eacanding rying to understand or s and politics, cical economy, cards and conversation on nautical matters, going on at once,  tinguis altoget perfect concordia discors you s  some quite  sill enjoys  o fill it for rument stands ood, but se toucimes for a s minute appease ts. , as Marvel expresses it, to quot;make iny ;   come out  so too, looks as if sed some younger body to scold and set to rig is o erest in  absolutely disposed of. the house is flown. Emily is married.

 THE CHILD-ANGEL, A Dream

    I ctiest, oddest, fantastical t, t you s;Loves of t; and  to bed ions, suggested by t extraordinary legend. It o innumerable conjectures, and, I remember, t ,  of ;.quot;

    I ransported,  -- but to some celestial region. It  t t Bible  a kind of fairyland   and air itself, I ion.

    Met --  -- at  an angels gossiping.

    came, or  came, or s os little cloudy swaddling bands -- a Child-Angel.

    Sun-tial napery of s princely cradle. All tcs yet closed eyes,  one, and tude and appre not sucained al infants, but as if to explore its pats unary palaces -- inguisitter t time spared not celestial visages! Nor ed to my seeming -- O t car,

    -- wals caudle call below --

    Nor ing faces of female ministrants, -- stricken in years, as it migerous tendants to counterfeit kindly similitudes of earto greet, errestrial ces t, wo heaven.

    tial  in full symputored, but, as loudest instruments on eartentimes, muffled, so to accommodate tter to t-born. And,  sprang forttering its rudiments of pinions -- but forto t o see  round in inually its , ing t angelic nutriment, anon tering -- still caugo put forts, and to fall fluttering, because its birt of the unmixed vigour of heaven.

    And a name o t o be called Ge-Urania, because its production h and heaven.

    And it could not taste of deats adoption into immortal palaces: but it o knoy, and it  , but in its goings it exceeded all mortal cness. ty first sprang up in angelic bosoms, and yearnings (like touc t of tal lame one.

    And  tuitive Essences, rife to tures (not grief), put back t intelligences, and reduce to degrees and sloo adapt to tion (as must needs be) of t intuitive notices t repel (by reason t ture is, to kno once), tter part of its nature, aspired to receive into its understanding, so t y and Aspiration  on even-paced in truction of the glorious Amphibium.

    But, by reason t Mature y is too gross to breat super-subtle region, its portion o be a child for ever.

    And because t of it mig press into t and ins adoption, tured angels tended it by turns in ts, like t came: so Love, ary y, ed upon tertainment of ted.

    And myriads of years rolled round (in dreams time is notill it kept, and is to keep, perpetual cutelar Genius of Cill goes lame and lovely.

    By tting by terrestrial Ada not ts its lineaments, nevert celestial orp y of terrestrial. And t to be understood but by dreams.

    And in to read,  once tal passion, upspringing on tal love (sucal love for a moment to suspend tant in ation, and, depositing a raig Adahe river Pison.

 A DEATH-BED, In a letter to R. H. Esq. of B.

    I called upon you t you o visit a dying friend. I  a itution. , I kno, or   forget. Upon t it, upified. to ting all t a o Mrs. R. Speaking  mute cime it must be all over  make up.  I can remember. I seem to last a second generation. Old as I am getting, in ill to t o call me Jemmy no bound me to B____. You are but of yesterday. In o  t. Lettered , uary of tlemans Magazine, to y years. Yet terature about  slender perusal, and moreover from o your ancient city, in in,  pedantry. Can I forget te look ried to puzzle out text of a Black-lettered Cion Library, to ory reflection -- quot;Jemmy,quot; said ;I do not kno I observe, t spelling in t;  taple, and al;flat bottoms of our foes coming over in darkness,quot; and alluded to a tened invasion, many years since bloo be sung on Cmas Nig . o the passage:--

    ell still make em run, and ill make em s,

    In spite of tte!

    is tte norifles.  of solid goodness, ed mot an unsuccessful ty village in ---sruggling to raise a Girls Sc. Poor deaf Robert (and t t to  almost provisionless. Some life assurance t I fear, not exceeding ---. t be from your corporation, . Is to inence, you can represent true circumstances of t say good enoughe dead, if you can.

 OLD CHINA

    I  feminine partiality for old co see any great , and next for ture gallery. I cannot defend t by saying, t e or otoo ancient a date to admit of our remembering distinctly t it o mind t play, and t exion, t I aken to; but I am not conscious of a time o my imagination.

    I o ttle, lainctured grotesques, t under tion of men and  about, uncircumscribed by any element, in t ives -- a cea-cup.

    I like to see my old friends --  diminiso our optics) yet on terra firma still -- so  in courtesy interpret t speck of deeper blue, , to prevent absurdity, o spring up beneatheir sandals.

    I love till more womanish expressions.

    ly Mandarin, ea to a lady from a salver -- to set off respect! And ity on teacups -- is stepping into a little fairy boat, moored on ty mincing foot,  infallibly land  of a florange stream!

    Farted of trees, pagodas, dancing the hays.

    couc, and co-extensive -- so objects smosphay.

    I ing out to my cousin last evening, over our o drink unmixed still of an afternoon) some of t of extra-ordinary old blue c purc time using; and could not ances o us of late years, t o please times rifles of t --  seemed to over-s detecting t.

    quot;I ; s;e so ric mean, t I  to be poor; but tate quot; -- so so ramble on, -- quot;in  used to be a triumped a co get you to consent in times!) o e to   of, and  s. A t t .

    quot;Do you remember t,  folio Beaumont and Fletce at nig-garden? Do you remember  for o t come to a determination till it en oclock of turday nig off from Islington, fearing you soo late -- and aper (for ting bedy treasuries and  to me -- and  (collating you called it -- and  suffer to be left till day-break --  black cloto keep brus vanity ed it about in t over- -- your old corbeau -- for four or five o pacify your conscience for ty sum of fifteen -- or sixteen s ? -- a great affair  it to buy any book t pleases you, but I do not see t you ever bring me home any nice old purchases now.

    quot;y apologies for laying out a less number of s print after Lionardo,  t of t of t ture -- o do but to o Colnag do you?

    quot;t o Enfield, and Potters Bar, and alttle  in  our days fare of savory cold lamb and salad -- and  at noon-tide for some decent  go in, and produce our store -- only paying for t you must call for -- and speculate upon to alloable-clot ess, as Izaak alton  banks of t a fisimes times t  our plain food savorily, scarcely grudging Piscator rout  a days pleasuring, o a fine inn, and order t of dinners, never debating ter all, never ry snaps, ain usage, and a precarious welcome.

    quot;You are too proud to see a play any. Do you remember o sit,  our so sit times in a season in t all time t you oug to  me -- and more strongly I felt obligation to you for  me -- and tter for a little sain dre mattered it  t of Illyria. You used to say, t t place of all for enjoying a play socially -- t tions must be in proportion to t t t being in general readers of plays, o attend ttend, to age -- because a  o fill up. itions o you, tention and accommodation, tuations in tting in indeed, and t staircases, ill a lay to o quite as great an extent as tle difficulty overcome ened t, and ter see, you say, in too, well enoug sigy.

    quot;ting strae common -- in t dis dear -- to reat.  treat can reat ourselves no is, to ies a little above our means, it tle more t ual poor can get at, t makes reat -- ogeto take boto  sense of t may give t o make muc no t. I do not mean t poor of all, but persons as  above poverty.

    quot;I knoo say, t it is mig at to make all meet -- and muco y-first Nigo account for our exceedings -- many a long face did you make over your puzzled accounts, and in contriving to make it out  so muc  so muc it ill al decreasing -- but t s, and compromises of one sort or anotalk of curtailing t t for ture -- and t youts (in ed up our loss, and in conclusion, y brimmers (as you used to quote it out of y cton, as you called o . No ttering promises about tter for us.quot;

    Bridget is so sparing of  occasions, t o a rorical vein, I am careful errupt it. I could not  tom of ion  of a clear income of poor -- ;It is true  put up o so t muc ruggle ogeto be most t strengt our compact closer. e could never  ural dilations of t,  straiten -- ence to age is supplementary yout indeed, but I fear t t is to be  ride er -- and so do so -- to do in t could turn -- could you and I once more y miles a-day -- could Bannister and Mrs. Bland again be young, and you and I young to see turn -- t could you and I at t, instead of t argument, by our ed fire-side, sitting on truggling up t stair-cases, pus, and squeezed, and elbo rabble of poor gallery scramblers -- could I once more opmost stair, conquered, let in t ligre do t ever touc so deep as I o bury more  Jeo o purc. And no look at t merry little Cer ester, over t pretty insipid  of a lady in t very blue summer-;

 CONFESSIONS OF A DRUNKARD

    Deations from trong liquors e topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and er-drinking critics. But ient  is to be cured, unfortunately t tain. No force can oblige a man to raise o  is as easy as not to steal, not to tell lies.

    Alas! to pilfer, and tongue to bear false ness, itutional tendency. tions indifferent to t t instance of t off  a murmur. tc a figure in speecongue of tural deligrut omed to scatter traries. But -----

    Ourdy moralist, tout nerves and a strong ouc tten, first learn  virtuously mingle ion. trample not on t not, under so terrible a penalty as infamy, a resuscitation from a state of deat as real as t from  by a miracle.

    Begin a reformation, and custom  easy. But  steps not like climbing a mountain but going t if tem must undergo a c as t ion of form in some insects? o flaying alive be to be gone t sinks under sucruggles to be confounded inacity itutional necessity, no engagement of tim, body and soul?

    I  state, o abstain but for one evening,-- tion o bring back its first encments, t en it,-- in truggle, and ty  of getting rid of t sensation at any rate, I o scream out, or cry aloud, for trife hin him.

    ate to declare, t to make to mankind. I see ting from t is to my oure alone I am accountable for t I  upon it.

    I believe t titutions, robust ;  all events iful a measure, can do no  to muddle ties, pered. t laug a rying rengtest,  sucic exercises are dangerous. It is to a very different description of persons I speak. It is to to t of some artificial aid to raise ts in society to c it. t of our drinking. Suc fly t instance, if t mean to sell term of life.

    tieto t time pretty mucude. My companions  one or tamp. I rose early,  to bed betimes, and ties  rust in me unused.

    About t time I fell in  order. terous spirits, sitters up a-nigants, drunken; yet seemed to  t about t, or  after midnigy called fancy I certainly possessed a larger s up for a professed joker! i ted for sucion, ion to test difficulty imes of finding o express my meaning, a natural nervous impediment in my speech!

    Reader, if you are gifted o any cer but t of a . ickling relisongue disposing you to t sort of conversation, especially if you find a preternatural floting in upon you at t of a bottle and freso it as you est destruction. If you cannot crus ake for suc it, give it some ote an essay, pen a cer or description, -- but not as I do noears trickling down your cheeks.

    to be an object of compassion to friends, of derision to foes; to be suspected by strangers, stated at by fools; to be esteemed dull ty, to be applauded for ty emporaneous exercise of t faculty ion can give; to be spurred on to efforts ; to be set on t provoke mirtred; to give pleasure and be paid ing malice; to silled into airy breato tickle vain auditors; to mortgage miserable morroe  back in little inconsiderable drops of grudging applause,-- are th.

    time,  dissolving all connections , more kind to me taste or penetration, at lengto ty of my first friends. No trace of t but in troduced, and ts till, and exercise ample retribution for any supposed infidelity t I may y of tohem.

    My next more immediate companions   tally tance o me, I do not kno if to do over again, I so esc ting t. I came to teams of my late over-ed notions of companionsest fuel o feed my old fires into a propensity.

    t one, from professional s, and anotom derived from obacco. t le trap to re-take a backsliding penitent. transition, from gulping do innocuous blasts of dry smoke, e. s us at barter; and  off a ne an old infirmity, tis odds but t s trick upon us of t (comparatively) obacco broughan himself.

    It inent to carry t first  liquor, I took my degrees tronger er, to tions er continually, until t to none, and so to none at all. But it is eful to disclose ts of my tartarus.

    I sy of believing me, o tell t tobacco o me, to it. o quit it, a feeling as of ingratitude arted up;   upon personal claims, and made t casually in a book, as or in t;Complete Anglerquot; breaks  upon a morning pipe in t delicate room Piscatoribus Sacrum,  broken doance of ill to realise it,-- s ascending vapours curled, its fragrance lulled, and terings conversant about it, employing every faculty, extracted ting it came to darken, from a quick solace it turned to a negative relief, to a restlessness and dissatisfaction, to a positive misery.  stands confessed in all its dreadful truto it beyond tion. Bone of my bone-----

    Persons not accustomed to examine tives of tions, to reckon up tless nails t rivet t, or pere as to, may recoil from ture. But esting friends, a ing o goodness, to ?

    I  after Correggio, in o a man  bound to t of a tree. Sensuality is soot is nailing o a branc tant of time is applying a snake to , tion of past ration of present pleasures, languid enjoyment of evil ter imbecility to good, a Sybaritic effeminacy, a submission to bondage, tantaneous, or tter forerunning tion-all ted in one point of time. er. But , because I t of my oion.

    Of t t it sers  out of t to all t set a foot in to ering upon some neo my desolation, and be made to understand  is ion and o stop it, and yet to feel it all ting from o perceive all goodness emptied out of  not to be able to forget a time o bear about teous spectacle of  nigs repetition of t of o be delivered,-- it s mantling temptation; to make eeth

    and not undo em

    to suffer Et DAMNAtION to run thro em.

    Yea, but (met) if sobriety be to understand, if ts of a cool brain are to be preferred to t state of ed excitement  you do not return to ts from  not h recovering?

    Recovering!-- Oransport me back to t from t clear spring could slake any s ir up in turn to t, t! In my dreams I can sometimes fancy t purling over my burning tongue. But my omacs it. t w.

    But is t total abstinence and t you may never attain to my experience,  utter trut t I can find. In my stage of  (I speak not of s less confirmed-for some of to be most prudential), in tage op s of t measure o draorpor and sleep, tic sleep of to aken none at all. t t is, I , trial. o kno, ate in ion: for it is a fearful trut tellectual faculties, by repeated acts of intemperance, may be driven from tion, t ministries, until t at last to depend, for t manifestations of ting energies, upon turning periods of tal madness to ion. tervals. Evil is so far his good.*

    [Footnote] * ed  picture, rembling er in tive steadiness o go task, in an imperfect manner, to a temporary firmness derived from a repetition of practices, t of werribly.

    Be period of life, reduced to imbecility and decay.  my gains, and ts w cup.

    t I titution (for a endency to any malady as it o be. I scarce kne o ail anyt e pains or aches.

    At t time I er six in ter. I as in my o  feeling er stretc to t possible extent, is a forecast of t lies before me,  wis I could ill, or never awaked.

    Life itself, my y, of an ill dream. In time I stumble upon dark mountains.

    Business, ed to my nature, yet as somety to be gone t undertaken o enter upon y, nos, and am ready to give up an occupation y test commission given me by a friend, or any small duty o a tradesman, amp;c., s me as a labour impossible to be got tion are broken.

    ttends me in all my intercourse  promise t a friends  to tion are deadened hin me.

    My favourite occupations in times past noo entertain. I can do notion for ever so s a time kills me. tract of my condition  long intervals, tempt at connection of t, o me.

    ted me in ory or poetic fiction, noears, allied to dotage. My broken and dispirited nature seems to sink before anyt and admirable.

    I perpetually catcears, for any cause, or none. It is inexpressible y adds to a sense of serioration.

    tances, concerning  it  alh me.

    S up t?

    I am a poor nameless egotist, o consult by t tention, if oucold  I am come to. Let op in time.

 POPULAR FALLACIES I.-THAT A BULLY IS ALWAYS A COWA

    tains a principle of compensation  trut. But trusting to dictionaries and definitions. e s find brutality sometimes aers, ical justice, ributed not a little to mislead us upon t. to see a oring felloen upon tage,  ing. Some peoples ss is notoriously loive. It  strengto raise a vapour, or furnis tolerable bluster. to be told t  of valour. truest courage  rusive. But confront one of t ensions do not uniformly bespeak non-performance. A modest inoffensive deportment does not [p 253] necessarily imply valour; neit justify us in denying t quality. ed modesty --  mean  ribution of qualities s binding --  it agreeable to nature to depart from t;Agonistes,quot; is indeed a bully upon tions. Milton  once a blusterer, a giant, and a dastard. But Almanzor, in Dryden, talks of driving armies singly before . tom Broo ter t of dimidiate preeminence: -- quot; Bully Da; true distributive justice.

 POPULAR FALLACIES II. -- THAT ILL-GOTTEN GAIN NEVE

    t part of mankind  in t is trite consolation administered to tricked out of ate, t tion of it  ter part of t least -- knoter; and, if tion rue as it is old,  ime to . tty sinctions of tuating and t. quot;Ligly go,quot; is a proverb, le else, to t al by rapine or co melt as  all gold glides, like t grasps it. Ced to lay uses, o y. But some portions of it someuck so fast, t tors o postpone t to a late posterity.

 III. -- THAT A MAN MUST NOT LAUGH AT HIS OWN JEST

    t exaction surely ever invented upon ture! to expect a gentleman to give a treat  partaking of it; to sit esurient at able, and commend trengtouc rary, o see a aste o y; to c, flickering upon tongue is delivered of it. If it be good, fresten of t utters it never t it before, urally t to be tickled ; and any suppression of suco be cing.  does it seem to imply, but t your company is  sir you not at all, or but faintly? tly tleman in Mandeville, ly toy, affects o quot;see not.quot;

 IV. -- THAT SUCH A ONE SHOWS HIS BREEDING. -- THAT

    A speec of people,  ty vituperated is a gentleman. t o use t is usually received, is a proof erpretation tander sets upon it. Of a kin to till less politic, are treet roric, ture. --  a rag to cover -- -- amp;c.; t, ly applied by females to females. t perceive t tire glances upon t upbraid an antagonist y. Are topics -- as, to tell er, amp;c. -- ,  exposing a secret,  to to  see ands by and laug both.

 V. -- THAT THE POOR COPY THE VICES OF THE RICH

    A smootext to tter; and, preac, is sure of a docile audience from tin. It is tting upon velvet to a fooliso be told, t  perverse nature, as true cause of all ties in riking at t of free-y of sin in any sense. But men are not suc so. If tinence from evil on t of to derive itself from no ting ill patterns to to disc score: take ty, raitened as it is, is not so barren of invention but it can trade upon taple of its o draal. t quite sucators as take tists in taugo steal, to pilfer? t go to t for scers in ties surely. It is o be -- no copyists. In no ot true t ts may be said to take after ters and mistresses, s. If ter, from indisposition or some ot  dines notanding.

    quot;O, but (some .quot; e kne impertinent visitor, rat  say s at eaco tell an untrut, est liars upon t teac ress possibly never ive trut nature must go for not be every t a lie, must be guarded against a remote inference, !) migerally false, but essentially deceiving no one -- t under some circumstances a fib mig be so exceedingly sinful -- a fiction, too, not at all in  sed of adopting, for fe-o visitors.

    t. quot;People in our sp not be t to give encouragement to suc; to sucic  is t  o sanction despair, and give eclat to -- suicide. A domestic in ty member lately deceased, for love, or some unkno , but not successfully. ted; and great interest ted to retain  pledged, not  some substantial sponsors to promise for  ter o keep  ress t ot s;could not ty.quot; [p 256]

 VI. -- THAT ENOUGH IS AS GOOD AS A FEAST

    Not a man,  did not believe it   is a vile cold-scrag-of-mutton sope, , t, t from t for t day. Morally interpreted, it belongs to a class of proverbs, o make us undervalue money. Of t are table observations, t money is not  purcapo be mere muck, y o tion of an oyster. oo, tes dirt to acres -- a sopry so barefaced, t even teral sense of it is true only in a  season. to inculcate content, o ion of some cunning borroranslate any one of t of tful metonyme rick is apparent. Goodly legs and ston, exing cordials, books, pictures, tunities of seeing foreign countries, independence, s ease, a mans oime to  muco scandalise  appellation tal t provides them for us.

 VII. -- OF TWO DISPUTANTS, THE WARMEST IS GENERALL

    Our experience o quite an opposite conclusion. temper, indeed, is no test of trut ness are a proof at least of a mans oion of titude t en t of unprincipled indifference to trute. Noting sometimes temper. ttle titubus, tammering laationer in Lincolns Inn -- le fello , if tongue  fairly tering excellent broken sense for an ogeto be delivered of t of dispute -- t of troversy knocking at eetinate iron-grating still obstructed its deliverance --  an unfairness in ted articulation to expose, it o see a smootly fello cared not a button for ts of tion, by merely laying ationer, and desiring o all disputants age),  clean from anders, itubus must  Mr. -----, meaning , is one of t, and at time one of t dispassionate arguers breathing.

 VIII. -- THAT VERBAL ALLUSIONS ARE NOT WIT, BECAUS

    t be said of ttiest local allusions. A custom is sometimes as difficult to explain to a foreigner as a pun.   part of t of t age, if it ried by test? ain topics, as aldermanity, cuckoldry, o a terentian auditory, terence o translate tor urbanus, o boot for a synonime,  faintly ions, are o render; it is too muco expect us to translate a sound, and give an elegant version to a jingle. t translatable, but by substituting . to Latinise a pun,  seek a pun in Latin, t o it; as, to give an idea of t o a similar practice in t oppugner of puns in ancient or modern times, professes ickled ;a stickquot; co quot;ecclesiastic.quot; Yet  a species of pun, a verbal consonance?

 IX -- THAT THE WORST PUNS ARE THE BEST

    If by  be only meant t far-fetcartling, o it. A pun is not bound by t nicer . It is a pistol let off at t a feato tickle tellect. It is an antic and upon manners, but comes bounding into t simes by t t limp a little, or prove defective in one leg -- all tter. A pun may easily be too curious and artificial.  at one time or ot a party of professors ( line),  ingenious conceits, every man contributing , and some t expert sers of ter making a poor let till it is ready to drop; after ing and  ter squeezing, and ugging at it, till t  yield a drop furt-of felloo trade,   so pertinent; so brazen in its pretensions, yet so impossible to be denied; so exquisitely good, and so deplorably bad at time, -- t it ; -- any terior to t is despaired of; and ty breaks up, unanimously voting it to be t (t is, best) pun of t is tter for not being perfect in all its parts.  it gains in completeness, it loses in naturalness. tly it satisfies tical, t ies. t entertaining are t bear an analysis. Of t of stigma, in one of Ss Miscellanies.

    An Oxford scing a porter s, accosts raordinary question: quot;Prit t;

    ting it. A man migen sides of paper in attempting a defence of it against a critic self is not considerable. It is only a neurn given, by a little false pronunciation, to a very common, t very courteous inquiry. Put by one gentleman to anot a dinner-party, it ress of t  take in totality of time, place, and person; t look of ter; topping at leisure, t t tendency of t member of tion, ter and inextricable irrelevancy of treet, not favourable to frivolous investigations; tive quality of tive inquiry (tion) invidiously transferred to tive (turn given to it) in tire; namely, t fe tribe are expected [p 259] to eat of t countries considered ratemporary trustees ties,and; but t: all put togetitute a picture:  intelligible on canvass.

    Yet nine out of ten critics iveness in ts very beauty, and constitutes t t is made out in all its parts and leaves noto tion. e venture to call it cold; because of t, it o find one . As appealing to t merely (setting ty aside,)  pronounce it a monument of curious felicity. But as some stories are said to be too good to be true, it may ruted of t it is too good to be natural. One cannot ing t t ed to fit t er  been less perfect. Like some Virgilian ic er. It is in fact a double pun; and ation in t of  is dangerous.  is seldom politic to follo up. e do not care to be ced a second time; or, per spoken) is not capacious enougo lodge t a time. to be forcible, must be simultaneous and undivided.

 X. -- THAT HANDSOME IS THAT HANDSOME DOES

    this proverb can never have seen Mrs. Conrady.

    tinus, is a ray from tial beauty. As sakes more or less of t, sers, tenement wo able mansion.

    All ent state,  judge of arcecture.

    to t, in a y, divine Spenser, platonizing, sings

    ----- quot;Every Spirit as it is more pure,

    And  t,

    *S

    [p 260]

    So it th procure

    to  in, and it more fairly dight

    it.

    For of take:

    For soul is form, and dot;

    But Spenser, it is clear, never saw Mrs. Conrady.

    ts, anza but one, is a saving clause, w again, and leaves us as muco seek as ever : --

    quot;Yet oft it falls, t many a gentle mind

    Dabernacle drownd

    Eit the course of kind,

    Or tness in tance found,

    assumed of some stubborn ground,

    t  yield unto ion,

    But is performd ion.quot;

    From  Spenser had seen somebody like Mrs. Conrady.

    t of t umbled upon one of toabernacles  calls it, no gentle mind -- and sure lest -- ever o deal h.

    Pondering upon  by tion of to a conclusion t, if one must be plain, it is better to be plain all over, t a tolerable residue of features, to  one t sionable. No one can say of Mrs. Conradys countenance, t it ter if s a nose. It is impossible to pull o pieces in t malicious beauties of tempt at a selection. tout ensemble defies particularising. It is too complete -- too consistent, as o admit of tions. It is not as if some Apelles   of ted ugliness of Greece, to frame a model by. It is a symmetrical  connoisseur to cavil at any part or parcel of tenance in question; to say t t, is improperly placed. e are convinced t true ugliness, no less true beauty, is t of  too it reigns  a competitor. No one ever sa pronouncing o be t

    time t you are indulged  of ence ever after. You are glad to  -- like Stoneend to forget it. No one ever apologised to ing reet on suc kno ake ;I t face some call to mind  remember t in suc first struck you -- like a bust. You o move its lips -- so mildly too! No one ever t of asking o sit for ure. Lockets are for remembrance; and it o  your , . It is not a mean face eits entire originality precludes t. Neit of t order of plain faces  ordinary people, by an un a c upon our eyes: juggle our senses out of tural impressions; and set us upon discovering good indications in a countenance,  sigect gentleness,  ill it is t individual face. Neit, t it   marked by t ook it kindly. No, it stands upon its os fairly. t is. It is oken; t which she is known by.

 XI. -- THAT WE MUST NOT LOOK A GIFT-HORSE IN THE M

    Nor a ladys age in ter. e o do eit some faces spare us trouble of tal inquiries. And , , a sorry Rozinante, a lean, ill-favoured jade, ting up in ables? Must I, rat be obliged to my friend, make o Eclipse or Lig? A  to palm icle upon us for good  is expected in eited out of my t of my money. Some people ting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. e tis carries t, to t of absurdity -- if it o couple taken delicacy, and real good-nature. [p 262] Not an apartment in rue taste in ions), but is stuffed up erous print or mirror -- t adapted to  at may s of  kno of daubs, tcist of ance, ois. ture  t to mortify ter at t refusal. It is pleasant (if it did not vex one at time) to see ting in s and cousins to God knotys of o ted frigo taircase and tript of e old auto give place to a collection of presentation copies -- try. A presentation copy, reader -- if  innocent suc sell, sent you by tograp t; for o experience, olerable assortment of t- to ride a metapo deato ackno in some gifts te out of a friends library ( of t fit to be ed at among gentlemen --  to our palate, is of ttle conciliatory missives, s of game, fruit, per is essential to tter t it be o ry sitting t our table by proxy; to appreurkey, -- s to us ;plump corpusculum;quot; to taste o feel oast peculiar to tter; to concorporate erbury brao o knoely: sucicipation is metive, as t. For tions rictive regulations, o bear ry of try, irely done aands, makes many friends. Caius conciliates titius (knoridges. [p 263] titius (suspecting iality for to Lucius; ill in tion, tribute to t to be taken by ttle airy tokens -- inpalpable to te -- rifles. the very kickshaws and foppery of friendship.

 XII. -- THAT HOME IS HOME THOUGH IT IS NEVER SO HO

    are no o presently. Croainment, and t bear mournful testimony to t. to ts for an image of t find at arved grate, and a scanty firing, t is not enougo keep alive tural  in ter alance of beer by. Instead of t by famiss tendance beyond ts of trifle tle to politics. At ics stirring, but tic. All interests, real or imaginary, all topics t s o a sympatence, are crusion of food to be obtained for tinent. At  least a sy; and s upon y,  of tantial joint providing for takes an interest in t; and rivet from t to forget at s  o tion, image to tented family like t  look at tenance of te to t to enter,  induce o pass t face, ground by , in o stay at  more a ? alas! it is t once smiled upon  can smile no longer.  comforts can it s burt ligis a fine to talk of toget  prattle of akes out ting of a mans poverty. But t prattle. It is none of t frigures in t condition, t ts do us once, do not bring up ttle careless darling of transformed betimes into a premature reflecting person. No one ime to dandle it, no one t o coax it, to soot, to toss it up and doo . to kiss as tears. If it cries, it can only be beaten. It tily said t quot;a babe is fed ; But t of turn to its little baby-tricks, and efforts to engage attention, bitter ceaseless objurgation. It never oy, or kne. It gre t ranger to tient fondle, ttracting novelty, tlier playtrivance to divert ttled nonsense (best sense to it), tinences, t story interposed, t puts a stop to present sufferings, and a o -- no one ever told to it a tale of t o live or to die as it   broke at once into ties of life. A cs not for t of dalliance; it is only anoto be fed, a pair of little o be betimes inured to labour. It is till it can be tor, for food . It is never  never makes imes. times. It makes t to bleed to overreet-talk betle girl, a ter sort of poor, in a condition ratemplating. It is not of toys, of nursery books, of summer [p 265] ting t age); of t, or play; of praised sufficiency at sc is of mangling and clear-starcatoes. tions of t spourings of curiosity in idleness, are marked  and melanc o  o market; it c  envies, it murmurs; it is knoe, s never prattles.  reason to say, t the very poor is no home?

    t anotrained to deny to be one. It s; its fireside conveniences, of   is no  is -- t is infested ors. May o ted friends t at times exc is not of guests t  of endless, purposeless visitants; droppers in, as times  is tion of our lodging; its ed, being just situate in a medium -- a plaguy suburban mid-space -- fitted to catcory. e are older t out of its  brook to see tinences. At our time of life, to be alone sometimes is as needful as sleep. It is ties of age manifest trongly, terate dislike of interruption. to be permitted to do. e  to   out of our  a game of nine-pins.  reversions in time future; o a present pittance, and obliged to economise in t article. e bleed as no bear to en and fretted into by moto barter our good time inction bet and tant. tter takes your good time, and gives you  is domestic to you as your good cat, or ant is your fly, t flaps in at our  again, leaving not a sense of disturbance and victuals spoiled. tions of life begin to move  concoct our food erruptions. Our co be nutritive, must be solitary. ity [p 266]  before a guest; and never understood ing meant. Meats ion fair play, in a croed coming in of a visitant stops tual generation o t of your dining- to eat -- but to see you eat. Our knife and fork drop instinctively, and   morsel. Ot you  sat doo a book. ting sneer, ; t interrupt your studies.quot; tter off t moment, to carry tinences to t student t tone of t tes lovers, read no more t day. It  of intrusion ensive s presence; but it mars all terc closes not ily. quot;It is a prostitution of t; says aylor, quot;to spend it upon impertinent people, o t can never ease my loads.quot; t of ts, and morning calls. too have homes, which are -- no homes.

 XIII. -- THAT YOU MUST LOVE ME, AND LOVE MY DOG

    quot;Good sir, or madam, as it may be --   qualities. e o o us; to  fold of our . e can oure. ts us exactly. e  us disburtroubles into eac us make our single joys sion -- But yap, yap, yap! -- ened ootest, just in t of my leg.quot;

    quot;It is my dog, sir. You must love est -- test -- test!quot;

    quot;But ten me.quot;

    quot;Ay, t  to do, till you are better acquainted es me.quot;

    Yap, yap, yap! -- quot; it again.quot;

    quot;O not kick  like to  my dog to be treated  due to myselfquot; [p 267]

    quot;But do you alake  ing?

    quot;Invariably. `tis test, prettiest, best-conditioned animal. I call est -- toucone by o love me, w love ;

    quot;Excuse us, dear sir -- or madam aforesaid -- if upon furtion o decline t like dogs.quot;

    quot;Migions -- you may est.quot;

    t so imaginary, but t, in tercourse of life, imacy by reason of t alimes er of kinsfolk, near acquaintances, my friends friend, ner,  form a friends to speak of more delicate correspondences -- o our taste,  tervention of some tinent clog affixed to tion -- tood dog in t to be  come to us ure; like a scask affixed to tail of it.  a delig alo groo  in t;At; ing Pindaric Odes (ure of ttle brot at ernity, o feel ry, you t o yourself --   body is ment, appears ting s kinsman, and sure to over-lay ted good talk y of stature, and uncorresponding dunes seldom come alone. `tis   sitting doo cernal brot knoions? my friends brety be mine also? must  and a critic, une to claim a common parentage  is odds but  o balance t F. ablis of six boys -- too raion -- t come impudently staring t of countenance;  alone, t  upon equal terms, as  to do in tate of bachelorhood.

    It is ress, be content ions. Fe in t ; or Ruspina expects you to cer, aken into o try stinging conclusions upon your constancy; t not complain if tors. Scylla must  matcime, if sed upon all, t loved her, loving her dogs also.

    An excellent story to told of Merry, of Della Cruscan memory. In tender youted a modest appanage to trutless contrast betion. So ive violet, t ransplanted by some rude accident into t exotic and artificial bed. Nor, in truto o tions, s s tendance of  ty. t oo amiable not to be conceded; and in tude for conciliating tions tentions to  s;killed tions else t tar and Garter, Riced for ting -- accompanied iently aed s to grace ter s -- Frencalian, men and ter of t craggy, from t  t and second Buffa less cavalcade beside of ces, at t of  quot;t time it struck   to marry -- a dancer.quot; But t. Besides, it   coacill more extraordinary figure t -- presented to leman t o give  of pride, as muco say, See o do us  of so extraordinary a paternity quite overcame ence from tley ads, poor Merry took o t sea-coast, from er consoled con; relieved from ended cloed Buffas for bridesmaids.

 XIV. -- THAT WE SHOULD RISE WITH THE LARK

    At e t little airy musician doffs  gear, prepares to tune up ins,  naturalists enougo determine. But for a mere leman -- t ra business to call o sucerous exercises -- ake ten, or er ten (eleven, of course, during tmas solstice), to be t  o t, o do it in earnest, requires anotion. Not but tty sun-risings, as old, and sucime especially, some  ting up. But, empted once or to assist at ty abated. e are no longer ambitious of being tiers, to attend at oo sacred to e to say truticipated our usual  up is called), to go a journey, or upon a foolis  all ter in listlessness and ure ly declaring ion, in aspiring to regulate our frail  celestial and sleepless traveller. e deny not t tly and vigorous, at tset especially, in t is flattering to get [p 270] tart of a lazy o conquer deat tality are in us; and range qualms, before nigy of tural inversion. t of mankind are fast  tions, content to o linger a-bed, and digest our dreams. It is time to recombine t in a confused mass presented; to snatcfulness; to s feeders, too grossly, to taste to co collect ttered rays of a brigasm, or act over again, urnal tragedies; to drag into day-ligruggling and -mare; to errors, or too muc for tual communications, to let tly. e are not so stupid, or so careless, as t Imperial forgetter of  o us to o import us more nearly as more nearly ening. e ; o solicit, nor affairs to manage. t in upon us at t. e o expect, but in a s time a sick bed, and a dismissal. e deligo anticipate deat affords. e are already ed s. e  early struck a dark veil bets dazzling illusions. Our spirits sy c tuff out of  us ypes er. Our clock appears to ruck. e are SUPERANNUAtED. In tisfaction, ract politic alliances  is good to  court. tracted media of dreams seem no ill introduction to t spiritual presence, upon  to be trying to knotle of t colony; to learn t   our first coming among tom our felloo spell in t of t so flesed us, tenuated into to incorporeal being. e once t life to be somet it ably fallen from us before its time. to dally o ligo.  up?

 XV.-THAT WE SHOULD LIE DOWN WITH THE LAMB

    e could never quite understand t, or tors in sending us for instruction to t is dark, o do but to s  long sixes. -- !  disparagement to sun or moon, t luminary of t ratyle t deputy, mild vice-roy of to read, talk, sit silent, eat, drink, sleep, by candlelig. anting it, ors , ering in caves and unillumined fastnesses! t  and grumbled at one anot repartees could   about for a smile, and o be sure t ood it? ts for try. It  (try radition of ternd nigo pick up a pin, if t a melange of c  ! --  a leg of a goat, ed riging nor drinking in fresco. imes,  some economic table er dusk, and ed for till ts came? tely give and take reciprocally, Can you tell pork from veal in tinguisake a as ill smoking,   only by an inference; till tored ligories, reveals to botely no suc by a candle. e ried tation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours; but it es in t you, eazing, like so many coquets, t ractions. By t taper, ter digests ations. By t,  approaco tc is a mockery, all t is reported of tial Prue poem ever os birto t. tracted works --

    quot;t ill night,

    And ;

    Marry, daylig migerial; but for true turning and filing (as mine aut), t be content to ion of ternal lig reveals tic  in t and silence call out tarry fancies. Miltons Morning  midnigaylors ricion of a sun-rise smells decidedly of taper. Even ourself, in tions, tune our best measured cadences (Prose  unfrequently to tc;blessing t; or t midnigier speculation t attempted, courts our endeavours. e e somet tem.

    -- Betty, bring the candles.

 XVI.THAT A SULKY TEMPER IS A MISFORTUNE

    e grant t it is, and a very serious one -- to a mans friends, and to all t o do  o be deplored, may admit of a question. e can speak a little to it, being ourself but lately recovered --  of a long and desperate fit of tion , came too clearly to leave a scruple of t tself oo self-pleasing, ed --  once . e still brood over ook itute some pom -- a Caius or a titius -- as like o form it, to  unsatisfied resentments on. It is mortifying to fall at once from t; to forego tumaciously treated by an old friend. t to aggrandise a man in , is to conceive of ed. t o undeceive o deprive  tickling morsel tery can come near it. s ice; but supremely blest, o t ts joy -- at enduring satisfaction in t not, of discontent. ere o recite one ery, o by our late dissatisfaction, all t; , and neglects and contumacies ter for courtso t mysterious book in tudy of tery is unpalatable only in t. t sting of a suspicion is grievous; but  -- out of t o be extracted. Your friend passed you on suc you conceived oreet  notice. to be sure sig o ed  facts and sane inferences are trifles to a true adept in tisfaction.   empt. It galls you, and  may. But ience. Go  of it and you are a made man from time. S yourself up, and -- rejecting, as an enemy to your peace, every  but insinuates take -- reflect seriously upon tances ion too t te  to clenc agreeable. But noo your relief comes in tive faculty. You conjure up all t you o  you ation, and so forto you t [p 274] spite of itself, yearns to for a restraining pride.  yet begin to appre? some allay of sness in tter ers? Stop not  yourself of your reversions. You are on vantage ground. Enlarge your speculations, and take in t of your friends, as a spark kindles more sparks. as t to you proved er? Begin to t tion itself is inconsistent ality. t ts component parts, as y, steadiness, exists but in your single bosom. Image yourself to yourself, as t communion. Notle star of self-love t is to encourage you t yet at t of your elevation. You are not yet, believe me, ing to to infinity) reflect  strange injustice you reated in quarters itude and tation of friendly returns aside as cended no claim beyond justice, t and fit fled from t tary receptacle of it, till you o at least one  Arabia Stony of your friends and to gro in your o, and to lessen: to deify yourself at to judge t of your mystery -- true -- PLEASURES OF SULKINESS. e profess no more of t t ourself experimented on one rainy afternoon in t udy. e o timate point, at  seldom stops,  forgot is about to merge in tation of general injustice -- rance of t seeing of us in tal oversigo so mucion! to mortify us still more, and take dotering superstructure ions ure of t t; but oo proud, or someto confess to t of it. e  too lately in tion of tient in Argos: [p 275]

    Qui se credebat miros audire tragoedos,

    In vacuo laetus sessor plausorque tro --

    and could  t cured us

    Pol me occidistis, amici,

    Non servastis, ait; cui sic extorta voluptas,

    Et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error.

 I.-THAT A BULLY IS ALWAYS A COWARD

    tains a principle of compensation  trut. But trusting to dictionaries and definitions. e s find brutality sometimes aers, ical justice, ributed not a little to mislead us upon t. to see a oring felloen upon tage,  ing. Some peoples ss is notoriously loive. It  strengto raise a vapour, or furnis tolerable bluster. to be told t  of valour. truest courage  rusive. But confront one of t ensions do not uniformly bespeak non-performance. A modest inoffensive deportment does not [p 253] necessarily imply valour; neit justify us in denying t quality. ed modesty --  mean  ribution of qualities s binding --  it agreeable to nature to depart from t;Agonistes,quot; is indeed a bully upon tions. Milton  once a blusterer, a giant, and a dastard. But Almanzor, in Dryden, talks of driving armies singly before . tom Broo ter t of dimidiate preeminence: -- quot; Bully Da; true distributive justice.

    II. -- t ILL-GOttEN GAIN NEVER PROSPERS

    t part of mankind  in t is trite consolation administered to tricked out of ate, t tion of it  ter part of t least -- knoter; and, if tion rue as it is old,  ime to . tty sinctions of tuating and t. quot;Ligly go,quot; is a proverb, le else, to t al by rapine or co melt as  all gold glides, like t grasps it. Ced to lay uses, o y. But some portions of it someuck so fast, t tors o postpone t to a late posterity.