Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

"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.

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.

Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.