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LEIGH HUNT

HUNT, born in Southgate, Eng., 1784; died He began writing poetry in his juvenile In 1808 he, with his brother, established a er, called the "Examiner." The severity olitical criticisms finally landed Leigh Hunt where he continued editing his paper and any of his most noted poems. He was an ous author, who turned out many books, which are not much known to the reading o-day. A noted incident of his life was a c association with Lord Byron, which ended l rupture of their friendship.

ABOU BEN ADHEM

U BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!)
woke one night from a deep dream of peace,
, within the moonlight in his room,
it rich, and like a lily in bloom,

1 writing in a book of gold:

ig peace had made Ben Adhem bold, the presence in the room he said,

writest thou?"-The vision rais'd its head,

h a look made of all sweet accord,

1, "The names of those who love the Lord." mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so," the angel. Abou spoke more low,

erly still; and said, "I pray thee, then,

lity, yo the per

into pl ties, the

isted. I

e as one that loves his fellow-men."

ngel wrote, and vanish'd. The next night again with a great wakening light,

wost pec

differing

lumped

n Adhem's name led all the rest.

ACTERISTICS OF BYRON

nxious to show you that he possessed no speare or Milton; "because," he said, "I ccused of borrowing from them!" He doubt whether Shakespeare was so great he has been taken for, and whether not a great deal to do with it. Spenser ot read-at least he said so. All the t most poetical of the poets went with ing. I lent him a volume of the Faerie he said he would try to like it. Next ght it to my study window, and said: t, here is your Spenser. I cannot see him; and he seemed anxious that I it out of his hands, as if he was afraid used of copying so poor a writer. That ng in Spenser is not likely; but I really x that he saw much. Spenser was too the world, and he too much in it.

make confessions of vanity, or some or of inaptitude for a particular speng, partly to sound what you thought that while you gave him credit for the

were to protest against the concession. ersity of his spoiled nature would then ay; and it was in these, and similar pert the main difficulty of living with him f you made everything tell in his favor, ple did, he was pleased with you for with him; but then nothing was gained. you with the rest, and was prepared to e of you in the particular as he did of

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he point nor readily concede it. He was rtified, and would take his revenge.

THE MO lump,

, if you behaved, like his admirers in gena sulky or disputatious manner, but natuad as if you had a right to your jest and ependence-whether to differ or admire, and -om an eternal consideration for himselfht it an assumption, and would perplex you the airs and humors of an insulted beauty. body could rely, for a comfortable interwith him, either upon admissions or nonns, or even upon flattery itself. An imble vanity kept even his adorers at a disike Xerxes enthroned with his millions a

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And if in a fit of desperation he condeto come close, and be fond, he laughed at thinking you were of consequence to him, if taken in; and hated you if you stood out, as to think yourself of greater consequence. would a knowledge of all this, if you made scious, have lowered his self-admiration a would have thought it the mark of a great noble capriciousness—an evidence of power, one but the Alexanders and Napoleons of lectual world could venture upon. azlitt had some reason to call him comb." Who but he (or Rochester, perhaps, resembled) would have thought of avoidkespeare, lest he should be thought to owe thing? And talking of Napoleon-he dewhen he took the additional name of Noel, in nce of his marriage with an heiress, to sign "N. B.," 66 because," said he, Bonaparte e the only public persons whose initials are ›."-Lord Byron and some of his Contem

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nthly Nurse-taking the class in the without such exceptions as will be nowe conclude-is a middle-aged, motherly Ossiping, hushing, flattering, dictatorial, morant, not very delicate, comfortable, shod kind of a blinking individual, beand awake, whose business it is-under nd the doctor-to see that a child be not too little officiousness into the world, up with too much good sense during th of its existence. All grown people, xcepting her own family), consist of e brought to bed and husbands who are extremely sensible of the supremacy t; and all the rising generation are ind caps, not five weeks old, with incesscreaming faces, thumpable backs, and nikin hands tipped with hints of nails. ly maker of caudle in the world. She ostentatiously, drams advisedly, tea invice indignantly, a nap when she can whenever there is a crick in the door, inder of whatsoever her mistress leaves nk, provided it is what somebody else o have. But she drinks rather than s not the relish for a "bit o' dinner " ant-maid has; though nobody but the beats her at a "dish o' tea," or that cold out of the stomach" and puts > it. If she is thin, she is generally stick, being of a condition of body that ms will tumefy. If she is fat, she is bsiest of the cosey, though rheumatic equiring a complexional good nature irritabilities of her position and turn

f innovations; the regretter of all old houseligions as to pap-boats, cradles, and swatches; habitant of a hundred bedrooms; the Juno of the ancients, or goddess of childbirth, in eness of a cook-maid. Her greatest consolader a death (next to the corner-cupboard and I having had her advice taken about a piece nel) is the handsomeness of the corpse; and eatest pleasure in life is when lady and baby th gone to sleep, the fire bright, the kettle and her corns quiescent. She then first pinch of snuff, by way of pungent anticipabliss, or as a sort of concentrated essence of ction; then a glass of spirits; then puts the into the teapot; then takes another glass of (the last having been a small one, and the - tea affording a "counteraction"); then s down her apron, adjusts herself in her armpours out the first cup of tea, and sits for ate or two staring at the fire, with the solid cency of an owl,-perhaps not without someof his snore, between wheeze and snuff-box.

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I and ill nature, as in the case of every one ake the great difference between the enduraor otherwise, of this personage in your house; e same qualities in the master and mistress, towith the amount of their good sense, or the of it, have a like reaction. The good or ill, ore, that is here said of the class in general es applicable to the individual accordingly. all people will get what power they can, the t by pleasant means, and the unpleasant by verse, so the office of the Monthly Nurse, be nper and nature what it will, is one that emally exposes her to temptation that way: and

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