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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.

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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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A TOAD.

A coxcomb fool-faced jack-a- | in his own resources, compared to a bear in napes calling him ugly and useless! winter sucking his paws.

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AMATORY sonnets, by Abel Shufflebottom. A query whether he has not a double identity, because he sees his Delia though she is far away.

mourning war-pole. DIRGE of the American widow by the

ECLOGUE. The long road-elms on the common near Wellington cut down. They were the only shelter. A man, who was carrying his child, and his wife sat on the trunk of one, and the boughs rose over them, and gave the last shadow of the yet unwithered leaves.

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I WOULD I were that reverend gentleman, | serpent neck, and reclines his head between 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.2

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.

Images.

his wings. His wings are a little opened,
as sail-like to catch the wind; his breast
protruded like a prow. This bird is beau-
tiful from its colour and habits; for it is
clumsy in shape, and of most foul physiog-
nomy; 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 his 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, middle fibre beautifully varying by its lighter or one point. The leaf is very beautiful, the 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

GREEN of the copse-covered hill, broken edge. like the waters of a still lake.

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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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A VESSEL when first seen at sea, appears noticed was the reflection of a mast on the to be ascending.

river at evening. Its yellow colours were
vivid as life,-it waved like a coiling ser-

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

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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.

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In the Bruce, king Edward is called often Schyr Edouard the king.

"Then was that gallant heart of Douglas
pierced."

The Bruce. Barnes. Qy. Mariana.
Gallantry in war.
The Douglas.
The Irish Kernes. Bulwer's Art. Change-
ling.

Shield made a boat of.

Hippocras. Belleau.

Foot armour lighter than horse armour. Commines.

A good contrast to La Hire's prayer in Carlos Magna.

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

"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.

silver and gold, which hung from the armLambrequins, ribbands embroidered with ets 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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