XQUISITE wine and comestibles
From Slater, and Fortnum and Mason;
Billiards, écarté, and chess-tables;
Water in vast marble basin;
Luminous books (not voluminous)
To read under beech-trees cacuminous;
One friend, who is fond of a distich,
And doesn't get too syllogistic;
A valet who knows the complete art
Of service—a maiden, his sweetheart;—
Give me these, in some rural pavilion,
And I'll envy no Rothschild his million.
Mortimer Collins, in The Owl.
E was much too disliked not to be sought after. Whatever is once notorious, even for being disagreeable, is sure to be coveted.
Lord Lytton's Pelham.
TO GIBBS, CONCERNING HIS POEMS.
OU ask me if I think your poems good;
If I could praise your poems, Gibbs,—I would.