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��SPRING MORNING OF A BEREAVED MAN.

'9 " Then the brown butterfly," &c. Vanessa A ntiope, /-<««. Apparently the same as the European species, and one of the earliest of its tribe.

��MAUSOLEUM OF BURNS.
 * > "Did those sweet lines with truth agree," &c.

" But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven."

The Vision. Duan Second.

POET AND TOLL-GATHERER.

^' That the toll-man should make a pun involving words of different languages seems to be a natural result of his miscellaneous intercourse with jxjets of all nations.

^ " Ofttimes a dozen halt or maimed." Probably members of societies instituted for the purpose of mutual admiration.

33 ii "Pill lost Pompeii's wrecks revealed." Because amongst these the trombone was in modern times discovered.

3* "That class which Plato hath derided." See "The Republic" of Plato, but more particularly the image of the Heraclean stone or Magnet, in the " Ion."

VISION OF THE WESTERN WORLD.

^^ " Who life to that pale marble gave," &c. This beautiful statue, the Belvidere Tiber, is the same which has been so finely engraved by Laugier.

MEDICEAN VENUS.

36 <t Where he had been so niggardly of brains." The forehead in this statue is small.

THE REVISITED RIVER.

however, said to weep.
 * ' " Sole of all creatures doomed to weep." Some other animals are,

3* "Marshal Haynau." The cruelties of this officer during the late Hungarian revolution, his expulsion from a brewery in London, his casti-

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