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CANTO XV. STANZA LXVIII.-"Petit puits d'amour garnis des confitures," a classical and well-known dish for part of the flank of a second course.

CANTO XV. STANZA LXXXVI.-Subauditur "Non;" omitted for the sake of euphony.

CANTO XV. STANZA XCVI.-Hobbes: who, doubting of his own soul, paid that compliment to the souls of other people as to decline their visits, of which he had some apprehension.

CANTO XVI. STANZA X.-The composition of the old Tyrian purple, whether from a shell-fish or from cochineal, or from kermes, is still an article of dispute; and even its colour-some say purple, others scarlet: I say nothing.

CANTO XVI. STANZA XLIX.-I think that it was a carpet on which Diogenes trod, with-"Thus I trample on the pride of Plato;" but as carpets are meant to be trodden upon, my memory probably misgives me, and it ought be a robe, or tapestry, or table-cloth, or some other expensive and uncynical piece of furniture.

CANTO XVI. STANZA LI.-I remember that the mayoress of a provincial town, somewhat surfeited with a similar display from foreign parts, did rather indecorously break through the applauses of an intelligent audience-intelligent, I mean, as to music,-for the words, besides being in recondite language (it was some years before the peace, ere all the world had travelled, and while I was a collegian)— were sorely disguised by the performers;-this mayoress, I say, broke out with, "Rot your Italianos! for my part, I loves a simple ballat !" Rossini will go a good way to bring most people to the same opinion, some day. Who would imagine that he was to be the successor of Mozart? However, I state this with diffidence, as a liege and loyal admirer of Italian music in general, and of much of Rossini's: but we may say, as the connoisseur did of the painting, in the Vicar of Wakefield, "that the picture would be better painted if the painter had taken more pains."

CANTO XVI. STANZA LXV.-" Ausu Romano, ære Veneto," is the inscription (and well inscribed in this instance)

on the sea walls between the Adriatic and Venice. The walls were a republican work of the Venetians; the inscription I believe Imperial; and inscribed by Napoleon the First. It is time to continue to him the title-there will be a second, by and by, "Spes altera mundi," if he live: let him not defeat it like his father. But in any case he will be preferable to the Imbeciles. There is a glorious field for him, if he know how to cultivate it.

CANTO XVI. STANZA LXVI.

"Though ye untie the winds, and bid them fight
"Against the churches."-MACBETH.

CANTO XVI. STANZA CIII.-In French "mobilitè." I am not sure that mobility is English; but it is expressive of a quality which rather belongs to other climates, though it is sometimes seen to a great extent in our own. It may be defined as an excessive susceptibility of immediate impressions at the same time without losing the past; and is, though sometimes apparently useful to the possessor, a most painful and unhappy attribute.

CANTO XVI. STANZA CVIII.-" Curiosa felicitas".-Petronius Arbiter.

CANTO XVI. STANZA CXX.-See the account of the Ghost of the Uncle of Prince Charles of Saxony, raised by Schroepfer-"Karl-Karl-was-wolt mich ?"

CANTO XVI. STANZA CXXVI.

"Shadows to-night

"Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, "Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

MILNER AND SOWERBY, PRINTERS, HALIFAX.

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