...extracts. We prefer to quote the following sermon, preached by the hero after his eventful boyhood : " Oft wandering o'er the Capitoline mount Or seated...began ? Nature ne'er taught that elder creed to man. " Nature ne'er bid all nations worship heaven In sacrifice : — ne'er bid them shed the gore Of man...

...more meet than Jove's great fane o'ercast — " Heaven's altar now* — to preach the mighty past! " Oft wandering o'er the Capitoline mount, " Or seated...'neath these consecrated aisles, " I bid my soul look back towards the fount " Of all belief: and when some legend wiles " It on, in dreams, that seem of...