The usual symptom of a love-sick mind."
Should the charms resorted to by lovers two thousand years ago, appear to you, even remotely, to have influenced the love rites as performed by the village men and maidens of the present day, perhaps you may deem this string of quotations worthy of a corner in your amusing miscellany.
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On the Sarcophagus[2] which contains the remains of Nelson in St. Paul's Cathedral.
(For the Mirror.)
To mark th' excess of priestly pow'r
To keep in mind that gorgeous hour,
Thou art no Popish monument,