Stone after stone until the mass is given.
Its base upon the earth, its apex in the skies,
The good man’s character, a pyramid doth rise.
“Revolution” is transposed “to love ruin,” and “French Revolution,” “Violence run forth.”
One of the prettiest of modern anagrams is “Florence Nightingale,” “Flit on, cheering angel.”
If the name Napoleon be successively “beheaded” till only two letters are left, each remainder forms a significant word; and these words, combined in a certain manner, form a concise sketch of Napoleon the First. Thus:
| Napoleon, | Apoleon, | Poleon, | Oleon, | |
| destroying, | cities, | destructive, | ||
| Leon, | Eon, | On, | ||
| lion, | going about, | being. |