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But the occasion that recurs to me with the liveliest interest was the evening when, some observations having been made upon the character, habits, and pleasant associations of that reverenced denizen of the hearth, the cheerful little fireside grasshopper, Hunt proposed to Keats the challenge of writing, then, there, and to time, a sonnet "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket."

The next stanzas place and detain us in the dark and dismal regions of mythology, where neither hope nor fear, neither joy nor sorrow can be found: the poet, however, faithfully attends us; we have all that can be performed by elegance of diction or sweetness of versification; but what can form avail without better matter? The last stanza recurs again to commonplaces.

Another instance of this mode of dealing with his subject, to which we must call the attention of our readers, because it too often recurs, is contained in the following question:

I mention this incident because whenever I think of Shepstone, whom I had known off and on for years in the way that a hunter knows a prominent Government official, it always recurs to my mind, embodying as it does his caution and appreciation of danger derived from long experience of the country, and the sternness he sometimes affected which could never conceal his love towards his friends.

'For a time he is led to abandon his original plans by the appearance of Maude Cibras; he hopes that she may be made to destroy the earl; but when she fails him, he recurs to it recurs to it all suddenly, for Lord Pharanx's condition is rapidly becoming critical, patent to all eyes, could any eye see him so much so that on the last day none of the servants are allowed to enter his room.

And since it is stated that we have great quantities of fine land for the production of hemp, of which I have no doubt, the question recurs, Why is it not produced? I speak of the water-rotted hemp, for it is admitted that that which is dew-rotted is not sufficiently good for the requisite purposes.

You dazzle the blockhead public with a showy operation, and no one thinks of asking why it is that the necessity for this same operation recurs so often. You know, probably, but you disclaim responsibility in the matter. It is not your place to teach the public, you modestly protest." "I don't know how you can say that in the face of the effort we have made to stamp out disease.

Ah, sir! said I, and here my doubt recurs, that you may thus graciously use me, to take advantage of my credulity. Still perverse and doubting! said he Cannot you take me as I am at present? And that, I have told you, is sincere and undesigning, whatever I may be hereafter. Ah, sir! replied I, what can I say? I have already said too much, if this dreadful hereafter should take place.

Decrees of Trent, Session V, 5: "If any one asserts that the whole of that which has the proper nature of sin is not taken away, but only evaded or not imputed, let him be accursed." Trans., p. 475. Luther recurs to this subject in a subsequent treatise, the Confitendi Ratio, below pp. 81 ff. i. e.

"Allow me to present to your new eyes Monsieur Maurice de Vaudrey " then with a shy smile and a glance back and forth, Henriette adds: "Do you approve of him?" Recurs the memory of that almost forgotten incident in the Normandy home Henriette's promise to stay single till the blind sister should win sight and approve the suitor. Louise is so happy that she decides to tease.