"With thee conversing, I forget all time; Glitt❜ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth : Without thee is sweet.-Whoever reads this gentle, affectionate speech from Eve to her husband without being touched by it, is too young, or too old to feel it. If too young, let it be laid aside at present; if too old, let it be laid aside for ever. DETACHED SENTENCES FROM THE BEGINNIng of ENFIELD'S SPEAKER. How far the little candle throws his beams, So shines a good deed in a naughty world." This is a natural, but not a very elevated thought, and not expressed in very elegant language. Naughty is a common, and rather a vulgar word. The meaning of the sentence is, that as a small candle is seen far in a dark night, a small instance of goodness is conspicuous in a world which is enlightened by very few instances of generosity or virtue. M "Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech." Be able for thine enemy rather in power than use.-Endeavour to raise yourself to such a situation in the world as will put it in your power to resist and overcome your enemies, but use this power seldom. Thy own life's key. This is a metaphor taken from locking up whatever is precious, and the poet means to say-endeavour to preserve the attachment of your friend with the same care with which you would lock up your own life. Taxed-blamed. "The cloud capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; And like the baseless fabric of a vision Leave not a wreck behind! We are such stuff Cloud-capt towers.-Towers that rise so high they seem to reach the clouds, and to be covered or capt by them. Gorgeous-magnificent. All which it inherit.-To inherit is to be heir to. Baseless fabric.--In Enfield's Speaker, this line is not the same as in Johnson's Shakespeare-which runs thus, "And like this insubstantial pageant faded :" probably the line was altered to generalize the sentiment, which in |