Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.

It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.