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I am hurrying on to Rome, and I have no time to write a georgic. But, oh! my little friends of the north; my struggling, strenuous, introspective, self-analysing, autoscopic, and generally reentrant friends, who spout the 'Hue! Pater, oh! Lenae! without a ghost of an idea what you are talking about, do you know what is meant by the god?

Sabots, short skirts, kerchiefs, scarlet arms rose and fell to earth in the mad whirl of their gayety. "Stop, Jacques, I must see the end," cried Charm. "Will they fight or dance, I wonder!" "Oh, it is a pure Georgic they'll dance." They were dancing already. The line, with dishevelled hair, aprons and kerchiefs askew, had formed into the square of a quadrille.

The circumstance of his having made Cambridge too hot to hold him seems to have pulled Smart's loose faculties together. The next five years were probably the sanest and the busiest in his life. He had collected his scattered odes and ballads, and published them, with his ambitious georgic, The Hop Garden, in the handsome quarto before us.

The verses are not without their elegance, but if they are much removed above common rhimes, they fall infinitely short of the character Mr. Addison's friends bestowed upon them. Some little space intervening, he sent into the world a translation of the 4th Georgic of Virgil, of which we need not say any more, than that it was commended by Mr. Dryden.

"And did you notice how red and pale he got when the Doctor spoke to him, and how he hung his head?" "Yes; and one knows how he hates Gordon." "Ay; by the bye, Gordon set him a Georgic only on Thursday, and he has been swearing at him ever since." "I noticed that he stayed in after all the rest last night," said Barker. "Did he? By Jove, that looks bad."

DRYDEN, with a view particularly to his Translations. This was soon followed by a Version of the fourth Georgic of VIRGIL; of which Mr. DRYDEN makes very honourable mention in the Postscript to his own Translation of VIRGIL's Works: wherein, I have often wondered that he did not, at the same time, acknowledge his obligation to Mr. ADDISON, for giving the Essay upon the Georgics, prefixed to Mr.

Hyrcania joined it on the west. He says nothing of its iron. Fidentemque fuga Parthum versisque sagittis. Virgil, Georgic iii. 31. If there is any apparent confusion between the father and son, it will be removed by reading carefully. Plancus occurs in place of Megabacchus. Kaltwasser conjectures that Megabacchus was a Greek, but the context implies that he was a Roman.