The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 335, October 11, 1828

 
To griefs congenial prone,
More wounds than nature gave he knew,
While misery’s form his fancy drew
In dark ideal hues, and horrors not its own.
 

Goethe—Foreign Review.

THE GATHERER

 
A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
 

SHAKSPEARE

ON LORD GROSVENOR’S ANNUAL INCOME

 
Our journals, which tell us of ev’ry one’s matters,
From the king on the throne, to the pauper in tatters;
Say his lordship possesses, if rightly I scan ‘em,
Two hundred and seventy-two thousands per annum.
On this statement I’ve latterly ventur’d to ponder,
And deduc’d calculations, with diff’rence as under:
I suppos’d was his income five thousand a week,
(Of the surplus remaining I shall not now speak²)
By close computation I found it came near
To seven hundred and twenty, for each day’s arrear.
Intent on the subject reducing it lower
I found thirty pounds was the draught for each hour.
Pursuing my theme, for amusement was in it,
There were ten shillings sterling for each fleeting minute,
And for ev’ry pulsation of time, called a second,
“According to Cocker,” two-pence must be reckon’d.
 

PERCY HENDON.

In the churchyard of Carisbrook is the following epitaph on a loving couple:—

 
Of life he had the better slice,
They lived at once, and died at twice.
 
 
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime;
He paints in nature, and describes in rime.
 

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