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short; but Dr. Mansel, who was seldom (if we may credit fame), lost on such occasions, illuminated the subject by completing the stanza in the following very facetious style:

"The fishes, beginning to sweat,
Cried d-n it, how hot we shall be!"

LORD CHESTERFIELD,

Who was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, advised a nobleman who had just finished a magnificent mansion, extremely inconvenient within, but most splendid without, to rent the opposite house that he might enjoy the prospect.

HANGING ONE'S SELF.

Paley was always very fond of attending courts of law, to hear the trials. When a boy, he is said to have attended York assizes, to hear the trial of Eugene Aram, a man of extraordinary learning and acuteness. The trial was for the murder of Daniel Clark, and he was convicted on the evidence of Richard Houseman, an accomplice, and his own wife. The evidence brought forward, and the ingenious defence of Aram, made a strong impression on the mind of Paley. He seemed to attribute the conviction of the prisoner, in a very great measure, to his own defence; for, many years after, when he was conversing with some friends about the lives of some

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obscure and undeserving persons having been inserted in the Biographia Britannica, and on one of the party exclaiming," Eugene Aram, for instance !"-"Nay," replied Paley, a man that has been hanged has some pretensions to notoriety, and especially a man who has got himself hanged, as Eugene Aram did, by his own cleverness."

CURIOUS EPISTLE.

When Cromwell commissioned Lockhart against Dunkirk, he presented him with the following epistle, to be previously sent to Mazarine, commander of that fortress:

"Thou traitor, Mazarine, if thou dost refuse to deliver up Dunkirk unto Lockhart, my friend and counsellor, by the eternal God, I'll come and tear thee from thy master's bosom, and hang thee at the gates of Paris. CROMWELL."

(Signed)

ALCOCK.

The device of John Alcock, founder of Jesus College and Bishop of Ely, is conspicuous in every part of that college, and is a pun upon his name. It is a cock perching upon a globe. On one window was a cock with a label from its mouth, with this inscription: Eyw εμi aλExτwę. To which another, on the opposite side, bravely crows in answer—οντως και εγω:

"I am a cock!" the one does cry:
And t'other answers- So am I!"

EPIGRAM.

At an examination in the University of Cambridge, the examiner, whose name was Hawkes, proved a very talkative man; indeed, so much so, that some of the students, undergoing examination, requested one of their companions, rather famous for trite sayings, to make an epigram upon him. He immediately answered:

"Hawkes
Talks!"

PORSON AND THE GERMANS.

Porson was a great master of Iambic measure, as he has shown us in the preface to the second edition of his Hecuba. The German critic, Herman, whom he makes to say, in his notes on the Medea,-"We Germans understand quantity better than the English," accuses the professor of being more dictatorial than explanatory, in his metrical decisions. Upon which the professor fired the following epigram against the German :

Νηΐδες ἐστὶ μέτρων ὦ τευτονες, οὐχ ὁ μεν, ὡς δ ̓ ου, Παντες πλην Ερμαννος, ὁ δ ̓ Ερμάννος σφόορα Τευτων.

The Germans, in Greek,

Are sadly to seek;

Not five in five score,
But ninety-five more,—
All, save only Herman,

And Herman's a German.

DEFINITION OF HAPPINESS.

At an examination for the degree of B. A. in the Senate House, Cambridge, under an examiner whose name was Payne, one of the moral questions was— "Give a definition of happiness?" To which one of the candidates returned the following laconic answer,— "An exemption from Payne." Some persons are so unfortunate as to buy their wit at a great price, as was proved in the above case; for, on the gentleman declining to apologize to Mr. Payne, he was suspended from his degree, for a very considerable time.

ONE TONGUE SUFFICIENT FOR A WOMAN.

Milton was asked by a friend, "whether he would instruct his daughters in the different languages?" To which Milton replied," No, Sir, one tongue is sufficient for a woman!"

A NEW READING.

Towards the close of the administration of Sir Robert Walpole, he was talking very freely to some of his friends of the vanity and vexations of office; and, alluding to his intended retirement, quoted from Horace the following passage :

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"Lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibisti :
Tempus abire tibi est."

"Pray, Sir Robert," said one of his friends, "is that

good Latin?" "Why, I think so," answered Sir Robert; "what objection have you to it?" "Why," said the other drily, “I did not know but the word might be bribe-isti in your Horace."

A SAYING OF LORD BACON.

James the First, King of England, asked Lord Chancellor Bacon,-"What he thought of the French ambassador?" His lordship replied,-" that he was a tall proper man." "Aye," said his majesty, "but what think you of his headpiece?"—"Sir," said Lord Bacon, tall men are like high houses, wherein commonly the uppermost rooms are worst furnished."

CATHERINE HALL.

A lady, whose nephew was a student at Cambridge, meeting a Cantab, an acquaintance, asked him, how he conducted himself?" "Why truly, madam," was the reply, "he is a brave fellow, and sticks close to Catherine Hall?" "I protest," said she, "I feared as much; he was always hankering after the wenches from a boy!"

NEWTON.

Sir Isaac is reported to have said, a little before he expired-"I don't know what I may seem to the world; but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

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