You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.

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.

A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

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

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.