similitude which will increase into many applications. It is animal fœcundum, a bird of a most teeming fertility; whether any that flies doth breed oftener I am not certain, I believe not many. Such fecundity then is always in a lively faith. It hath no gall, or, if Aristotle hath observed it better than others, so small a one that it can scarce be perceived; now the gall is the draught of cholerical matter in man's body, out of which distemper proceed anger, revenge, and malice. Notable, too, is this bird's harmlessness; it hath neither beak nor talons to tyrannize over smaller creatures, sine armis extra, sine felle intys. The smallest flies or gnats may hum about it, and take no harm, for it devours nothing wherein there is life. And it is a cleanly feeder; not pecking like crows and vultures upon carrion, but picking up grains of corn, and the purest fruits of the field. And it is a bird of strong flight.

It is impossible to teach a dove to sing a cheerful tune, for Nature hath engrafted in it a solemn mourning, gemitus pro cantu. Here the parallel failed in D.'s case.

"SUCH wits as delighted in holy ingenuity have applied the several parts of Christ's merits and sufferance and passion unto us in the notions of physic and chirurgery. There was no disease of sin whereof we were not sick, there was no kind of cure to be invented which was not practised to restore us." But the conceit is pursued in a manner rather to cause displeasure than edification.-BISHOP HACKET, p. 241.

NONE are said to be sealed of the tribe of Dan. Bishop Hacket (p. 402) approves the interpreter who explains that the reason why Ephraim and Dan are not in the list, was because they were the first, after the death of Moses, who let in idolatry, in the matter of Micah; and therefore their names are not in the blessing of that book of life.

BLOUNT (Philost. N. 134) says, and seems

to believe, that the nightingale often sings till she bursts!1

THIS man says, "Man is nothing but selfinterest incarnate," the philosophy of an infidel."-Ibid. p. 150. And nowhere is it more broadly stated. What makes the English, he says, enjoy that liberty and property which other neighbouring subjects want, but our own happy ill nature, ibid.; and he proceeds to show (p. 151) that might is right, and nothing can be unjust! See p. 221, ibid. for more of this philosophy!

BUT he might well wonder how those men "who by their hard censures of the Almighty make salvation seem almost impossible, should ever marry,—since, according to their belief, it is above ten thousand to one that the children they may have will be damned." -P. 159.

OPINIONS Concerning the body of Moses. -BISHOP HACKET, p. 429.

Αριτος μὲν ἄριτος is held in these days for a truer axiom than Pindar's.

IMAGE was a word of Dryden's, at least often used by him in his prefaces. Then came idea; now we have emanation. What next? effluences, perhaps.

PROLOGO Galeato, the title party-coloured, because the book is motley; red letters, because a holy day book.

The mixture of the work like Punch. Difference between tragi-comedy in Shakespeare and in Otway.

CRAMP rings were blest by the King on Good Friday. They were put in a bason,

known, will over-sing themselves. We all re-
1 Nightingales and bullfinches, it is well
collect VINNY BOURNE'S Strada Philomela,
"Tuque etiam in modulos surgis Philomela:
sed impar

Viribus, heu impar, exanimisque cadis."
J. W. W.

"KENT'S style of architecture predominated during his life, and his oracle was so much consulted by all who affected taste, that nothing was thought complete without his assistance. He was not only consulted for furniture, as frames of pictures, glasses, chairs, &c. but for plate, for a barge, and even for a cradle. And so impetuous was fashion, that two great ladies prevailed on him to make designs for their birthday gowns. The one he dressed in a petticoat decorated with columns of five orders; the other like bronze, in copper-coloured satin, with ornaments of gold. He was not more happy in other works to which he applied his genius."-Biographical Sketches of Eminent Artists.

WHAT a physician ought and ought not to be in appearance and manners.-RABELAIS, vol. 8, p. 428-9.

PHALLAS, the horse which Heraclius rode in his great victory, the battle of Nineveh, and who, though wounded in the thigh,

"carried his master safe and victorious through the triple phalanx of the barbarians."-GIBBON, vol. 8, p. 249.

HALL, p. 582.-Horses in a pageant ill named.

"Ano. You gave those ships most strange, most dreadful, and

Unfortunate names; I never look'd they'd

prosper.

Rom. Is there any ill omen in giving

names to ships?

Ano. Did you not call one The Storm's Defiance ?

Another The Scourge of the Sea? and the third

The Great Leviathan ?
Rom.

Very right, sir.
Ano. Very devilish names,
All three of them; and surely I think they

were

Curst in their very cradles, I do mean
When they were upon their stocks."

WEBSTER, vol. 2, p. 49, Devil's
Law Case.

BOYLE describes a colt with one double eye in the middle of the forehead; the two orbits being united into one very large round one, into which there entered one pretty large optic nerve.-Phil. Trans. Abr. vol. 1, p. 29.

THE horses of Asios Hyrtacides1 (П. xii. 97), which Homer calls at wves, are called by

The passage alluded to is, "Tec de Nioaiss in ois Exovro of Bariλeis àpiorоiç soi Kai μεγίστοις, κ. τ. έ.” p. 525, C.-J. W. W.

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HE Quixote Bowles frequently visited at Christ Church. I have heard of him from Biddlecombe and the Jacksons. This man's memory was uncommonly strong; Grose, who loved to play upon his eccentricities, would often affirm that he quoted wrongly. This used to irritate Bowles, he would offer to wager that he was right, rise from dinner, bring the book, and prove to Grose, what he never doubted, that he was exact to a word in his quotation.

Bowles had a great love for pigs; he thought them the happiest of all God's creatures, and would walk twenty miles to see one that was remarkably fat. This love extended to bacon, he was an epicure in it, and whenever he went out to dinner took a piece of his own curing in his pocket, and requested the cook to dress it.

she struck her bonnet against the roof of the porch at our lodgings; the blow would not have injured a butterfly's wing, but she declared that it was Providence who had made her put on a bonnet that morning, which for many months she had not worn. There is an idiot in the workhouse at Christ Church: what is very singular his forehead shows no marks of idiotcy, or any of his countenance but his eyes; they have an open wild look, but it is the wildness of folly not of madness. The old countess believes like the Turks that all idiots are inspired, and she sent for this poor fellow to know whether her husband Bowes would live another year.

I had some difficulty in understanding her toothless tone, but she began by hoping I was very loyal, and expressed a very great respect for men of letters: and yet after she had been listening one day to a conversation upon Sir I. Newton, she suddenly exclaimed, and what is Sir Isaac Newton compared to a nobleman!'

I am told that she speaks Italian and Spanish with great fluency and elegance: I am certain, however, that she knows very little of the literature either of Spain or Italy. She told me Lope de Vega was her favourite author; that the translation of Don Quixote was one of the best in our language, and that it was ridiculous to talk of the great superiority of the original. Hannah More observed to me once that she never knew the excellence of Don Quixote till she read it in Spanish. I add this as connected with this subject, not to blas