may convey perhaps the impression it could make, more than the most elaborate description; it was overheard (so I have somewhere read) by Sir Joshua Reynolds, who stood by him at the time. For a moment or two, Wilson stood in mute astonishment, absorbed in the sublimity of the scene, till at length, he unconsciously exclaimed, "Well done water! by G-d!"

LXXXIV.

Lo, how like Time in his immortal youth ;

"As Time is always passing by, and leaves of its former "existence no relics, and, as new time has no permanence, old "time is only a figure of speech; for Time, not able to last, is "not able to grow old. Time existing, is ever new, young " and fresh. The very hour of its birth is that of its demise." HOPE'S PROSPECTS OF MAN.

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CANTO III.

II.

He sinks exhausted on the sickly waste :

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Both Strabo and Horace represent the Campagna as having been always unhealthy. Pliny can hardly convince "me," says the acute Forsyth, " that the present marshes "contained thirty-three cities; even admitting that the "Volsci were a populous nation, and the marshes once healthy and dry. But healthy they were never: nor does

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any record prove that, from the time of Appius Claudius "to Braschi, one half of them was ever habitually dry.

Virgil found them ‘a black bog,' and Silius describes them as they are."

III.

She, whose gigantic Shadow stretched around

The world:

The line recalled to me the noble paraphrase from the Æneid, in Dryden's masterly version:

"Rome-whose ascending towers shall hea ven invade,

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Involving earth and ocean in her shade !"

"The Romans," says Livy, (speaking his own sentiments through another,)" are a race who know not how to sit

"down under defeat; any scar which the present necessity "shall imprint on their breasts, will rankle there for ever, "and will not suffer them to rest, until they have taken "amplest vengeance." Never, for example, was there a more arduous struggle, or a display of more heroic virtues than during the Punic War, or which presents nobler views of human nature; every page, a record of some noble action, should be the study of the youth of all ages; how to livehow to fight-how to die for freedom.

Montesquieu illustrates this subject with his finest acumen, and with a truth which is attested by every page from the history of that extraordinary people.

"Mais rien ne servit mieux Rome que le respect qu'elle "imprima à la terre. Elle mit d'abord les rois dans le si"lence, et les rendit comme stupides. Il ne s'agissoit pas "du degré de leur puissance; mais leur personne propre "étoit attaquée. Risquer une guerre, c'étoit s'exposer à la

captivité, à la mort, à l'infamie du triomphe. Ainsi des "rois qui vivoient dans le faste et dans les délices n'osoient "jeter des regards fixés sur le peuple romain; et, perdant le

courage, ils attendoient de leur patience et de leurs bas

sesses quelque délai aux misères dont ils étoient ́mé"nacés."-GRANDEUR DES ROMAINS.

IV.

Here the Titanic aqueduct displays

Its lengthened arches.

Nothing impresses on the mind the consciousness, the

palpable feeling of Roman power and grandeur, more than that first object presented to the stranger on the Campagna-her Aqueducts. It seems as if we saw embodied before our eyes, the gigantic strides with which she overran the Universe, making a mockery alike of space and time. The eye tracks their spanning arches with amazement along the waste solitudes where they are only bounded by the horizon; their mighty outlines shattered, but too vast to be overthrown, and the desolate, and, apparently, infinite space around them, impress on the mind, through the eye, inner lessons of decay and mutability, which are not forgotten. JOURNAL.

XI.

Mecca of Pilgrimage, to every heart
Whose feeling is religion!

One truth, I think, may be ventured as an axiom, not to be controverted by any sophistry:-that no man or woman ever entered St. Peter's Church, without leaving it "sadder and wiser than before; without feeling impressed, in a far higher degree than heretofore, with a sentiment of the dignity, and even of the grandeur and sublimity of our human nature; of the men who could conceive, transmit from generation to generation, and, finally, embody forth so mighty a Design: compared to which all the Temples that have ever been reared from earth to heaven were as nothing in the scale-this truth we know. The Mind takes, as it were, a leap

"From this bank and shoal of time,"

and receives an expansion and a sense of sublimity from the fabric, which impression is never afterwards contracted or forgotten; surely, then, on this sole argument, it is worth coming from the farthest ends of the earth to see St. Peter's alone." JOURNAL.

XII.

Thy cause is ours 'tis freedom.

"There is nothing unnatural in our interesting ourselves "in the fortunes and cause of Rome, as in that of our own "country-with energy and with passion. Rome has, in“deed, under Providence, been the instrument of bestowing "on us, the great triad blessings of humanity-civilisation"science and religion." The reader is earnestly referred to the tenth chapter of the first volume of Eustace, in which these claims are eloquently and beautifully enforced. Far be it from the writer of this note to underrate Eustace, as it has been the fashion to do of late years; incorrect in minor details he sometimes is, and slightly bigoted, perhaps; but the broad outlines of his Work are indestructible, and in style and composition what traveller has excelled him? How natural, then, is the emotion of the traveller when he first beholds the distant domes of a city of such figure in the history of the Universe, of such weight in the destinies of mankind, so familiar to the imagination of the boy, so interesting to the feelings of the man! And if, indeed, a distant view of Ægina, and of Corinth, could so melt the soul of an ancient Roman, as to absorb all his own private sorrows, causing him to break out in that passionate apostrophe whose natural eloquence has made it immortal, what