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 But the finest specimen of French-English verse is certainly the inscription which M. Girardin placed at Ermenonville to the memory of Shenstone.


 * This plain stone,
 * To William Shenstone.

In his writings he display'd
 * A mind natural.

At Leasowes he laid
 * Arcadian greens rural.

Shenstone used to thank God that his name was not liable to a pun. He little thought that it was liable to such a rhyme as this.

 

Stanihurst describes a singular class of gamblers among the wild Irish of his time. "There is among them, (he says,) a brotherhood of karrowes, that proffer to play at cards all the year long, and 