ners!" which Boswell, being much amused with the compliment, has himself recorded. -Letters between A. ERSKINE and BOSWELL.

"A SENTENCE so clumsily formed, as to require an I say to keep it together; which I myself candidly think much resembles a pair of ill-mended breeches.”—Ibid. p. 42.

"I EXHIBITED my existence in a minuet; and as I was drest in a full chocolate suit, and wore my most solemn countenance, I looked as you used to tell me, like the fifth act of a deep tragedy."—Ibid. p. 72.

JOHN MORLEY, of Halstead in Essex, Prior's companion in his Ballad of Down Hall, who was bred a butcher, but became one of the greatest land jobbers in England, used in honour of his profession, annually to kill a hog in the public market, and receive a groat for the job. He died a. D. 1732.

"THE hughest absurdity I ever heard of in the way of ornamenting grounds was committed by a member of the Irish Parliament, M

e by name. He laid out his whole demesne, for some unexplained reason, in the shape of a thistle. A deep and wide trench, a mile in circumference, was cut to represent the bulb, double ramparts formed the petals, and clumps of trees were for the down. The avenue to his house was the stalk; and the leaves were the several fields branching from thence, and from each other." Phil. Survey of the South of Ireland, A. D. 1772.—Monthly Review, vol. 60, p. 9.

GRAVES Wrote his Colloquial Tale of Columella, or the distressed Anchoret, "to expose the folly of those who, after having been prepared by a liberal education, and a long and regular course of studies, for some learned or ingenious profession, retire in the vigour of life, through mere indolence and love of ease, to spend their days in solitude and inactivity; or even in those

meaner occupations which persons of inferior abilities and unimproved talents might discharge with equal, or perhaps with superior, skill.”

Monthly Review, vol. 61, p. 316. Where it is properly observed that this was not the vice of the times, but the very contrary | to it.

Ibid. vol. 62, p. 556. Issues to prevent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. See for some, Mr. Williams's (?) scheme for wholesale irrigation, and for regulating the weather in this island.

"CAR il est vray semblable, et nous le voyons tous les jours, que l'on reçoit avec amour la briefveté discrète et bien troussée, pourveu toutesfois qu'elle n'entre d'une extremité en l'autre."-CHEVALIER DU SOLEIL vol. 6, p. 148.

HUTCHINSON, in his View of Northumberland (A.D. 1776), says "he cannot perceive that the name Burrough or Burgh, was instituted to denote any kind of eminence in the place so called, beyond others, so as to mean a fort, or castle, &c. It signifies no more than house, houses, or town, a settlement where one or more families dwelt. Burrough was the habitation, and bour was the inhabitant; hence neighbour, i. e. a nigh bour, or one that lived in a burrough not far off. And because this name is appropriated to the underground lodgings of animals, as to the holes of foxes, rabbits, &c. he infers that when it was first applied to human habitations, the inhabitants of this land dwelt chiefly under ground, and lived not in houses raised from the ground, but dug in it: which sense of the word seems still to obtain as to the dead, though it has lost its native idea as to the living. Our original boroughs were so many human warrens, consisting of a set of underground caverns. And it is not unlikely that the vast caverns, such as those of the Peak, may not be all the work of nature, but in great measure the effect of under-ground architecture. As they look

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THE best likeness which H. Walpole (vol. 4, p. 206) ever saw of Charles the Second, was in a picture of the smaller landscape size, in which Rose, the royal gardener, was presenting to him the first pine-apple raised in England. They are in a garden, with a view of a good private house, such as there are several at Sunbury and about London. The king is in brown, lined with orange, and many black ribands; a large flapped hat, a point cravat, no waistcoat, and a tas

LOCKIT. "Of all animals of prey man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbour, and yet we herd together."-Beggar's Opera.

ONE of Cumberland's ladies says, "Sentiment in the country is clear (n?) another thing from sentiment in town. In my box at the Opera I can take it as glibly as a dish of tea, down it goes, and there's an end of it. But in walks of willows, and by the side of rivulets, there's no joke in it.”— Natural Son.

"DONT you know, there is nothing so foolish as the follies of genius; nothing so weak as the weaknesses of the wise."-Ibid.

"A REPARTEE that only lights upon the outside of the head."-CIBBER. Refusal.

WHEN Croaker in the Good Natured Man, speaks of our bad world, his wife says to him, "Never mind the world, my dear, you were never in a pleasanter place in your life."

"LES gens qui n'ont qu'une affaire, sont dangereux, et quand l'oisiveté s'y joint, c'est encore pis."-M. DE CEYLUS. Maintenon's Letters, vol. 6, p. 60.

"EN quelque humeur qu'on soit, ma chère nièce, on se déshabitue mal aisément de ce qui plaît.”—Ibid. p. 103.

"LEGER m'a dit que vous êtes fort triste: surmontez vous là-dessus, ma chère niece; la tristesse n'est bonne, ni pour ce monde, ni pour l'autre. Croyez-en une personne assez gaie de son naturel, assez triste par état, et fort instruite des maux inséparables des soucis."-Ibid. p. 124.

“Je ne vois rien, je ne sçai rien, et je ne pense presque rien."—Ibid. p. 265.

"J'ai toujours trouvé en lui ce bon sens cette bonne tête, ce juste discernement entre le bien et le mieux."-Ibid.

WHEN the Princes in the Tower of the Universe were disenchanted in consequence of the combat between Florisel in Niques and El fuerte Anaxartes, the Queen of Argines said to them of Amadis, “No es de tener en servicio a quien diezyseys años de vida os ha hecho passar sin ser passados en edad ni cuydados? con tener talis hijos aparajedos con los demas que vereys."—ff. 80.

The French has it," Sire, il n'a pas faiet peu pour vous autres, quiconque vous a tenu quinze ans en repos, sans vous esveiller, et voire maintenant telle posterité yssue de vous."-ff. 325.

DR. SHARP says "the very weakest side of an honest and sincere man is ever the most inexpugnable by reason.”—Life of Archbishop Sharp, vol. 1, p. 59.

"AND hence will result a petit biography, wherein the remarkable may assist the theory of human nature, which consists in the knowledge of its perfections and infirmities."— ROGER NORTH, vol. 1, p. 99.

It is said to have been a saying of Dryden's, that he never knew the wisest man, who had a fair opening for a good pun, lose the opportunity.-Gent. Mag. vol. 2, p. 647.