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pillory, or necklace. Pig's petty toes. Pigs | the protection of society. Piggy grunt not stink, there is no stink. Offer the pig thy ungratefully. Remember your stye, your smelling-bottle. Moses the pig's friend. His grains, your wash. Besides, you are so useface, see it rouged with saltpetre, and ful! dressed.

MUSIC,-my own feelings. The harp, the organ. Military music, its damned abuse. The female voice. Stage singing, how loath

some.

I WOULD not live over my youth again.1 Its pains are real, its pleasures unsatisfactory. Fear and uncertainty damp all its hopes.

A LITTLE While, and I shall be at home. If I had lost thee, so wearily should I endure life as now this absence.

THE old woman's snuff-box, the most innocent sensuality, and the last, perhaps too the greatest advantage as yet of Columbus's discovery. The fine lady's snuff; the fine gentleman's; the doctor's; the schoolmaster's; but the old woman reconciles me to it. Snuff the only way of satisfying the smell-sense.2

A WOMAN-SERVANT of Mrs. Lockyers, about eight years ago, delivered herself of a dead child,—it was supposed and admitted on her trial,-whose body she was discovered burning at night. This will balladize. A madwoman in the snow.

THE bee, a fool, because he does not want the honey, and because he will be plundered of it.3

FUSELI's pictures.

MARY HAYES'S Female Biography.

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Ir was my faith that the spirits of good men beheld the earth, and received their fame with delight, deriving happiness from the welfare of their friends, posterity, and country. Hampden and Sidney! may I still believe this, or would not the sight of England inflict a pang to the beatified patriot? Hampden and Sidney! it is so; ye behold the patriot's effort, ye look to his triumph, and the regeneration of your native land.

To a dancing bear. The slave trade arguments. The animal is happier than if wild. He would have been killed if he had

A WASP trying to fly through the window. not been taught to dance. As an inferior

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animal, it is right to make him contribute to our use. Everything was made for man; now what can the bear be made for, except to dance, and for his pomatum ? Baiting. Not the owner's interest to injure him; ergo, he is not baited.

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I WOULD I were that reverend gentleman, with gold-laced hat and golden-headed cane, that hangs in Delia's parlour. For Delia sits opposite him, and his eyes are always fixed on her unblamed.1

SONNET. A pigeon. It is pleasant to see his pouting breast, and the rainbow gloss of his neck, and his red feet, and his tumbling in the air; but pleasanter to see his feet sticking up through a pie-crust.

SONNET. The rainbow. Did not that bow of the covenant confirm us that the world should no more be destroyed by water? England! thy navy would not be permitted to exist, for a three-decker might defy the deluge.

DRAW not the picture of Delia! thou wilt make me detest thee as a blasphemer, and thou wilt tempt all the world beside to idolatry.

DELIA playing cup and ball,-methought my heart was the ball, and the point on which she caught it, Cupid's arrow.2

INSCRIPTION. Kenwith Castle.

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serpent neck, and reclines his head between his wings. His wings are a little opened, as sail-like to catch the wind; his breast protruded like a prow. This bird is beautiful from its colour and habits; for it is clumsy in shape, and of most foul physiognomy; there is such a snakishness in its eye and head, as well as neck. "The swan arch'd back his snakey neck, And his proud head reclin'd Between bis wings, now half unclos'd Like sails to catch the wind. The waters yielded to his breast,

Protruded like a prow,

And still they roar'd as strong he oar'd With sable feet below."-For Rudiger.3

THE leaves of the holly are prickly only when they are within reach of cattle; higher smooth, more tapering, as having lost their up they preserve their waviness, but are angular points, and ending in a point. Some of the mid-height leaves, with the taper shape of the upper ones, retain three, two, or one point. The leaf is very beautiful, the middle fibre beautifully varying by its lighter hue from the dark glossy green. The lower side is pale-greyish, and shows the thickness of the leaf.4

BEAUTIFUL appearance of an ash when the moon shines through it, particularly its

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and pointed in the middle. The calix of each is a greyer green, the anthers a greyish yellow. The smell of a bush is very pleasant; but closely observed, it has an oily scent, not disagreeable, and yet powerful enough to half offend. The bees swarm over these blossoms, probably because the only ones at this time of year.

MORNING. Mist shower from the elms, and thick-leaved trees.

WHITENESS of the rocks occasioned by the lichens.

THE grass grey with dew.

In a hoar morning the cattle track their feeding path by their breath thawing the frost.

A CLOUDED morning after snow. The line of hill scarcely to be distinguished from the sky by being lighter.

RIME on the trees.

SPARKLING of the snow.

WHITE frost on the stone wall, but none on the moss in its interstices, as though the force of vegetable life repelled it.

MOVE where you will at sea, the long line

OCT. 10. Rich appearance of the fern in of moonlight still meets your eye. the wood.

WHEN the wind follows the sun, it omens

THE acorns brown ripe, or ripening yellow. fair weather, and vice versâ.

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ODD appearance of the cobwebs in a frosty pent, and the huge tail seemed to roll up morning.

as the monster were menacing.

BATS love the water. I observe them dipping their breasts like the swallow.

AN ash growing up for some four feet along a rock, so that the stem was half trunk, half root.1

On the way to Moreton Hamstead, we crossed a little bridge of one plank. The bough of a hazel had been broken and bent down to the post at the other end as a rail. It had recovered, and branched out, so that the rail grew.

MOONLIGHT. A sheep feeding on the edge of a bank. It was a strange sight.

Joan of Arc.

THE Seine. Treasury of Antient and Modern Times, p. 74.

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Washing at meals. Robin Hood.

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St. Catharine. Agostinho da Cruz.
And now the knights of France dismount,

"En esto es mi parecer

Que en cavallo no te fies;
Por lo qual has de entender

Que de ninguno confies
Tu lymosna, y bien hazer.

El Cavallero Determinado, written in French by OLIVER DE LA MARCHE; translated by HERNANDO DE ACUNA. Barcelona, 1565. It is the advice of Understanding to the knight before he enters upon his combat with Atropos.

Lambrequins, ribbands embroidered with silver and gold, which hung from the armets of the knights,-long enough to flow over the crupper. Sovereigns wore jewels in them.

White wand of capitulation. 231, t. 1. Du Guesclin.

The editors of the Memoires for French History say that it was common for towns to purchase from the nearest ruffian the privilege of collecting the harvest from the little land they durst cultivate. Even La Hire received £1200 from the people of Amiens for such a security.-Tom. 5, p.323.

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