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SO ENDS CHIDE HAROLD HIS LAST PILGRIMAGE! Upon the shores of Greece he stood, and cried 'LIBERTY! and those shores, from age to age Renown'd, and Sparta's woods and rocks, replied 'Liberty! But a Spectre, at his side, Stood mocking; and its dart, uplifting high, Smote him: he sank to earth in life's fair pride: SPARTA! thy rocks then heard another cry, And old Ilissus sigh'd 'Die, generous exile, die!

One by one the Arabs gesticulated and laughed like madmen. 6. Tartarin clung to the hump and collapsed on it. 7. They had to give up the camel. 8. Out of consideration for Tartarin the prince wandered from plain to plain for nearly a month. 10. However bizarre their mount was, they felt that it was picturesque.

The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, p. 82. J. Clark Murray. Le soleil clôt un jour sauvage, Les curlers rentrent au village, Et le lièvre affamé s'engage Dans les vergers, la neige marque, au passage, Ses bonds légers . On peut la comparer avec l'autre strophe, dont la copie suivante, d'après le début de la Sainte-Foire de Burns, peut donner l'idée.

Poems and Lyrics, by ROBERT NICOLL, with a memoir of the author. Fifth edition. Paisley, Alex. Gardner, 1877. Nous donnons ici les ouvrages cités qui n'appartiennent

Human nature in its Fourfold State of Primitive Integrity, entire Depravation, begun Recovery, and consummate Happiness or Misery, subsisting in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, and all Mankind in the Future State, in Seven Practical Discourses, by the late Rev. THOMAS BOSTON, minister of the Gospel at Etterick. London, W. Baynes, 1810.

Be these causes what they may, I fully admit that such engagements, if not executed with cordiality and zeal by both the contracting parties, must become less likely to answer the purpose intended, and their value be justly impaired.

I have a great regard and esteem for M. Guizot; I admire his talents and I respect his character, and I have found him one of the most agreeable men in public affairs, because he takes large and philosophical views of things, discusses questions with clearness, and sifts them to the bottom, and seems always anxious to arrive at the truth.

<i<»I feel confident that a conduct, so contrary to good faith, can never have been sanctioned by the king of the French, and the character of his first minister affords me an equal assurance, that it requires only to be known to him, to be disavowed in the most direct and effectual manner.

He was the first to give to the French Court that magnificence which afterwards made it the envy of all the Courts of Europe. In religion he pursued a double policy: while he severely persecuted the Protestants in France, he did all in his power to encourage the German Protestants and, in this way, to weaken the power of his old enemy, Charles V.

Mme. de La Fayette's first published work was La Princesse de Montpensier in 1660 or 1662. This was followed by Zaïde, in 1670, which bore the name of Segrais, but which is by Mme. de La Fayette. La Princesse de Clèves was published in 1677 from the house of Claude Barbin. It was in four volumes, and bore no name.