nual ceremonies on the mountain of Posilippo; and

it was there that Boccaccio, quasi da un divino estro inspirato, resolved to dedicate his life to the

The influence of the associating principle is finely

exemplified in the faithful Penelope, when she sheds Od. xxi. 55.

tears over the bow of Ulysses.

If chance he hears the song so sweetly wild

The celebrated Ranz des Vaches; cet air si chéri des Suisses qu'il fut défendu sous peine de mort de le jouer dans leurs troupes, parce qu'il faisoit fondre en larmes, déserter ou mourir ceux qui l'entendoient, tant il excitoit en eux l'ardent désir de revoir

leur pays.

ROUSSEAU, Dictionnaire de Musique.

NOTE n. P. 27, 1. 2.

Say why VESPASIAN lov'd his Sabine farm.

This emperor, according to Suetonius, constantly passed the summer in a small villa near Reate, where

he was born, and to which he would never add any

embellishment; ne quid scilicet oculorum consuetu

dini deperiret.

SUET. in Vit. Vesp. cap. ii.

A similar instance occurs in the life of the ve

nerable Pertinax, as related by J. Capitolinus. Pos

teaquam in Liguriam venit, multis agris coemptis, tabernam paternam, manente forma priore, infinitis ædificiis circundedit. Hist. August. 54.

And it is said of Cardinal Richelieu, that, when he built his magnificent palace on the site of the old family chateau at. Richelieu, he sacrificed its

symmetry to preserve the room in which he was

born.

Mémoires de Mlle. de Montpensier, i. 27.

An attachment of this nature is generally the characteristic of a benevolent mind; and a long acquaintance with the world cannot always extinguish it.

"To a friend," says John Duke of Buckingham, "I will expose my weakness: I am oftener missing

a pretty gallery in the old house I pulled down,

than pleased with a saloon which I built in its

stead, though a thousand times better in all respects." See his Letter to the D. of Sh.

This is the language of the heart; and will re

mind the reader of that good-humoured remark in one of Pope's letters-" I should hardly care to

have an old post pulled up, that I remembered ever since I was a child."

POPE's Works, viii. 151.

Nor did the Poet feel the charm more forcibly

than his Editor. See HURD's Life of Warburton,

51, 99.

The elegant author of Telemachus has illus

trated this subject, with equal fancy and feeling, in the story of Alibée, Persan. See Recueil de Fables, composées pour l'Education d'un Prince.

NOTE 0. P. 27, 1. 3.

Why great NAVARRE, &C.

That amiable and accomplished monarch, Henry

the Fourth of France, made an excursion from his camp, during the long siege of Laon, to dine at a house in the forest of Folambray; where he had often been regaled, when a boy, with fruit, milk, and new cheese; and in revisiting which he promised himself

great pleasure.

Mem. de SULLY, ii. 381.

NOTE P. P. 27, 1. 5.

When DIOCLETIAN's self-corrected mind—

Diocletian retired into his native province, and

there amused himself with building, planting, and gardening. His answer to Maximian is deservedly celebrated. He was solicited by that restless old