...rustics of our different provinces still, use in all the cases singular of the first personal proWhere the green apple shrivels on the spray, And pines the...smiling reign With Independence, child of high Disdain. L p. 80.— Ed.] those words originally of the same meaning, which the conflux of dialects supplied...

...Coleridge calls "printers' devils' personifications," and which Lowell had in mind when he wrote of " that alphabetic personification which enlivens all...Freedom, by the easy magic of an initial capital." " Contented Toil and hospitable Care, And kind connubial Tenderness, are there ; And Piety with wishes...

...driving by, Or hovering over wastes too bleak to rear That common growth of earth, the foodful ear; Where the green apple shrivels on the spray, And pines the unripened pear in summer's kindliest ray; Contentment shares the desolate domain With Independence, child of high Disdain. p. 47, 1. 1 6. lor...