"When asked on one occasion who is in the way to become learned, he answered, 'Whoever will content himself with the reading of a single book."—The British Critic, No. LIX. p. 202.
W. Fraser.
Tor-Mohun.
"Now the fierce bear," &c.—Can any of your readers inform me who is the author of the following lines?
"Now the fierce bear and leopard keen,
All perished as they ne'er had been;
Oblivion's their best home.
. . . .
There is an oath on high,
That ne'er on brow of mortal birth,