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nother; nor, while she lives, is her image absent from him in the hour of his distress. Sir John Moore, when

he fell from his horse in the battle of Corunna, faltered out with his dying breath some message to his mother; and who can forget the last words of Conradin, when, in his fifteenth year, he was led forth to die at Naples, O my mother! how great will be your grief, when you hear of it!'

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'dust to dust'

How exquisite are those lines of Tasso!

He

Le crespe chiome d'or puro lucente,

E'l lampeggiar d'ell angelico riso,
Che solean far in terrà un paradiso,
Poca polvere son, che nulla sente.

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goes, and Night comes as it never came!

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These circumstances, as well as some others that follow, are happily, as far as they regard England, of an ancient date. To us the miseries inflicted by a foreign invader are now known only by description. Many generations have passed away since our countrywomen saw the smoke of an enemy's camp.

But the same passions are always at work every where, and their effects are always nearly the same; though the circumstances that attend them are infinitely various.

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Such as the heart delights in—and records
Within how silently—

Si tout cela consistoit en faits, en actions, en parole: on pourroit le décrire et le rendre en quelque façon mais comment dire ce qui n'étoit ni dit, ni fait, ni pens même, mais goûté, mais senti.-Le vrai bonheur ne s décrit pas.-ROUSSEAU.

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That House with many a funeral-garland hung. A custom in some of our country-churches.

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Soon through the gadding vine, &c.

An English breakfast; which may well excite in others what in Rousseau continued through life, un goût vif pour les déjeûnés. C'est le tems de la journée où nous sommes le plus tranquilles, où nous causons le plus à notre aise.

The luxuries here mentioned, familiar to us as they now are, were almost unknown before the Revolution.

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With honest dignity,

He, who resolves to rise in the world by Politics or Religion, can degrade his mind to any degree, when he sets about it. Overcome the first scruple, and the work is done. "You hesitate," said one who spoke

1 experience. "Put on the mask, young man; in a very little while you will not know it from r own face."

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Like HAMPDEN struggling in his Country's cause, euxis is said to have drawn his Helen from an mblage of the most beautiful women; and many Triter of Fiction, in forming a life to his mind, has urse to the brightest moments in the lives of others. may be suspected of having done so here, and of ing designed, as it were, from living models; but, making an allusion now and then to those who e really lived, I thought I should give something nterest to the picture, as well as better illustrate my aning.

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Careless of blame while his own heart approves,
Careless of ruin-

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By the Mass!' said the Duke of Norfolk to Sir omas More, By the Mass! master More, it is rilous striving with princes; the anger of a prince is ath.'-'Is that all, my lord? then the difference tween you and me is but this-that I shall die to-day, d you to-morrow.'-ROPER'S Life.

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On thro' that gate misnamed,

Traitor's gate, the water gate in the Tower of Lon

n.

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Then to the place of trial;

This very slight sketch of Civil Dissension is tak from our own annals; but, for an obvious reason, n from those of our own Age.

The persons, here immediately alluded to, lived mo than a hundred years ago in a reign which Blacksto has justly represented as wicked, sanguinary, and tu bulent; but such times have always afforded the mo signal instances of heroic courage and ardent affection

Great reverses, like theirs, lay open the human hea They occur indeed but seldom; yet all men are liab to them; all, when they occur to others, make the more or less their own; and, were we to describe o condition to an inhabitant of some other planet, cou we omit what forms so striking a circumstance in hum life?

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and alone,

A prisoner, prosecuted for high treason, may no make his defence by counsel. In the reign of Willia the Third the law was altered; and it was in rising urge the necessity of an alteration, that Lord Shafte bury, with such admirable quickness, took advanta of the embarrassment that seized him. "If I," sa he, “who rise only to give my opinion of this bill, a so confounded that I cannot say what I intended, wh must be the condition of that man, who, without an assistance, is pleading for his life?"

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Like that sweet Saint who sate by RUSSELL'S side
Under the Judgment-seat.

Lord Russell. May I have somebody to write, to ssist my memory?

Mr. Attorney General. Yes, a Servant.

Lord Chief Justice. Any of your Servants shall assist you in writing any thing you please for you.

Lord Russell. My Wife is here, my Lord, to do it.— STATE TRIALS, II.

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Thrice greeting those who most withdraw their claim, See the Alcestis of Euripides, v. 194.

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Lo, there the Friend,

Such as Russell found in Cavendish; and such as many have found.

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And, when her dear, dear Father passed along,

An allusion to the last interview of Sir Thomas More and his daughter Margaret. "Dear Meg," said he, when afterwards with a coal he wrote to bid her farewell, "I never liked your manner towards me better; for I like when daughterly love and dear charity have no leisure to look to worldly courtesy."-ROPER'S

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