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And by her delicate and flower-soft hands Sway'd, as enamour'd of her mastery, moved, Lovingly on their bright chaf'd bits reposed, Or in gay sport upon each oMier fawn'd.

Milman.

Mr. Charles Grant, in a spee^1 in the House of Commons, November 4th, 1813, on th, propriety of this country defending the Peninsula, thus iHuded to classical associations, to republican virtue, and ^publican excellence.

" But if we are obliged to give up that cla, Of associations, I perceive with exultation, that the* js vej another class of associations no less sacred and venv.a|jje which we may now cherish with additional fona^ss_ I mean those associations which enforce the belief of . _ stinctive patriotism, of unbidden enthusiasm in the cause of virtue, of the grandeur of self-devotion, of the magnanimity of great sacrifices for great objects, for honour, for independence. We must all recollect, with what delight we imbibed these sentiments at the fountain of classical learning, and followed them into action in the history of great men and illustrious states; but of late, and especially towards the close of the last century, there seems to have crept into this nation a sort of spurious and barren philosophy, of which it was the object to deny those associations; to represent them as the illusions of ignorance, frenzy, or falsehood; to curb the original play of nature, to inculcate coldness and selfishness upon