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wo hours and twenty al day, or one day every ten amounts year. Hence, if ted in forty years, t fe will be dedicated to blowing it." Tale utatory, it may be aff is not to be sneezed which literally make uff-box has seized you 1, and if the red-ht the feat, could occ rk snuff-box, it migh king this propensit onables. written a dissertatio e nose mentioned formed, was like "th d Damascus;" and conjectures as to the suggested to Catu ng to be all nose:

5 rogabis, le, nasum."

I shall conclude at once with a

'SONNET TO MY OWN NOSE.

O nose! thou rudder in my face's centre,
Since I must follow thee until I die,-
Since we are bound together by indenture,
The master thou, and the apprentice I,-
O be to your Telemachus a Mentor,
Though oft invisible, for ever nigh;
Guard him from all disgrace and misadventure,
From hostile tweak, or Love's blind mastery.
So shalt thou quit the city's stench and smoke,
For hawthorn lanes, and copses of young oak,

Scenting the gales of Heaven, that have not yet
Lost their fresh fragrance since the morning broke,
And breath of flowers "with rory May-dews wet,"
The primrose-cowslip-blue-bell-violet.

WALKS IN THE GARDEN. -No. I.

Heureux qui, dans le sein de ses dieux domestiques,
Se dérobe au fracas des tempêtes publiques,
Et dans un doux abri, trompant tous les regards,
Cultive ses jardins, les vertus, et les arts.

DELILLE.

A GENTLE fertilizing shower has just fallen-the light clouds are breaking away-a rainbow is exhibiting itself half athwart the horizon, as the sun shoots

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forth its rays with renewed splendour, and the reader am the eve; its is invited to choose the auspicious moment, and accom- we walks, with 'pany the writer into his garden. He will not exclaims stone flights with Dr. Darwin,

"Stay your rude steps! whose throbbing breasts enfold

The legion fiends of glory or of gold;"

but he would warn from his humble premises all those who have magnificent notions upon the subject; who despise the paltry pretensions of a bare acre of ground scarcely out of the smoke of London, and require

grandeur of extent and expense before they will condescend to be interested. To such he would recommend the perusal of Spence's translation from the Jesuits' Letters, giving an account of the Chinese em

peror's pleasure-ground, which contained 200 palaces,

besides as many contiguous ones for the eunuchs, all guere raised hills from twenty to sixty feet high; gilt, painted, and varnished; in whose enclosure

streams and lakes, one of the latter five miles round;

serpentine bridges, with triumphal

and all the for Jutch schools.forget for a plendid diction Eden, the ha from that ling on orien

With mazy erro
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Flow'rs worthy
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Both where the happy, rure brown'd the

The open field

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Alcin end: undulating colonnades; and in the centre of the observes, fantastic paradise a square town, each side a mile long.ws Greek Or they ging gardens of Babylon-a subject which intinst Or they may recreate their fancies with the stupen-ard and vir

no living imagination could perfectly embody and de-
pict, unless it be his who has realised upon canvass
such glorious conception of Belshazzar's feast.
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fect upon the eye;" its four quarters regularly divided by gravel walks, with statues at the intersections; its terraces, stone flights of steps, cloisters covered with lead, and all the formal filigree-work of the French and Dutch schools. If the reader be a lover of poetry, let him forget for a moment, if he can, the fine taste amble premises al the and splendid diction of Milton, in describing the Garden of Eden, the happy abode of our first parents

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or broom, sa as a heraldic b ed a name to genets. Next al and beautifu baring its flow ame time, altho next year's fr partial to this

rank his vines," contrived to impart every variety of scenery to a spot of five acres; and might not, perhaps, have been insincere when he declared, that of all his works, he was most proud of his garden.-But a truce to these deprecations and dallyings with our own modesty: the breezes are up, the sky is cloudless; let us sally forth, and indulge in the associations and chitchat suggested by the first objects that we encounter. This border is entirely planted with evergreens, so benignantly contrived by nature for refreshing us with their summer verdure and cheerfulness, amid the sterility and gloom of winter. This, with its graceful form, dark-green hue, and substantial texture, is the prickly-leaved Phillyræa, said to have been first brought into Europe by the Argonauts, from the island of the same name in the Pontus Euxinus. From the river Phasis in Colchis these voyagers are re-in; though

plant of that in the sout are found th whence a in are so ra line crops in French have de

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free need not

no longer us

ported to have first introduced pheasants, though many writers contend that the whole expedition was fabulous, and that all the bright imaginings and poetical embellishments lavished upon the Golden Fleece, re-ituting for t embe themselves into the simple and not very dignified

fact of spreading sheep-skins across the torrents that

it nearly

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none of the

flowed from Mount Caucasus, to arrest the particles of gold brought down by the waters. Our own Cru-aclaim that sades, however irrational their object, were attended with many beneficial results, not only introducing us

laste for verd mals, monste

to the knowledge of Saracenic architecture, but sup-startle u

plying our European gardens with many of the choicest Oriental productions. While we are on the subject of the Crusades, let us not omit to notice this Planta

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impart every variety and might not, perhaps

eclared, that of a is garden.-But a tru

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hese voyagers are t heasants, though many was fabu

kermes, whence a brilliant scarlet dye is extracted afford two crops in a year. From these small worms the French have derived the word vermeil, and we our

are so rapidly reproduced, that they often

vermillion; though the term is a misnomer, as the genuine vermillion is a mineral preparation. The Juniper-tree need not detain us long, now that its berries are no longer used for flavouring gin, the distillers

expedition naginings and poetia he Golden Flere, substituting for that purpose oil of turpentine, willer and not very digus though it nearly resembles the berries in flavour, pos to arrest the patients, those treasures of our ancient gardened Arbor

cross the torrents the

aters. Our own Cr object, were attende only introducing rchitecture, but sup many of the choices e are on the subject

* This false taste, however, may boast the sanction of a most

to notice this has clasical age. Pliny, in the description of his fascof a most

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