"Very well, " cried I, "that's a good girl; I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go help your mother to make the gooseberry bye. "

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threesc ...

Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.