No grandeur now in Nature or in book
Delights us—repose, avarice, expense,
This is the idolatry; and these we adore:
Plain living and high thinking are no more;
The homely beauty of The Good Old Cause
Is gone: our peace and fearful innocence,
And pure religion breathing household laws."
Whence did Mr. Teale get these lines? Either The Good Old Cause is here used in a peculiar sense, or Mr. Teale makes an unhappy use of the quotation.
Jarltzberg.
Saying of Pascal (Vol. vii., p. 596.).—In reply to the question of W. Fraser, I would refer him to Pascal's sixteenth Provincial Letter, where, in the last paragraph but one, we read,—