2. AM-PHI'-ON, like Orpheus, was among the eldest of Grecian musicians. He reigned over ancient Thebes; and, when he undertook to surround the city with a wall, the very stones are said to have leaped into place at the sound of his lyre, and formed themselves into walls.

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AN ADDRESS TO AN ARM-CHAIR, NEWLY CLAD.

W. SOMERVILLE.

My dear companion, and my faithful friend!
If Orpheus' taught the listening oaks to bend ;
If stones and rubbish, at Amphion's call,
Danc'd into form, and built the Theban wall;
Why should'st not thou attend my humble lays
And hear my grateful harp resound thy praise?

True, thou art spruce and fine, a very beau;
But what are trappings, and external show?
To real worth alone I make my court;

Knaves are my scorn, and coxcombs are my sport.

Once I beheld thee far less trim and gay;
Ragged, disjointed, and to worms a prey;
The safe retreat of every lurking mouse;
Derided, shunned-the lumber of my house!
Thy robe, how changed from what it was before!
Thy velvet robe, which pleas'd my sires of yore!
'Tis thus capricious Fortune wheels us round;
Aloft we mount-then tumble to the ground.
Yet grateful then, my constancy I prov'd;
I know thy worth ;-my friend in rags I lov'd!
I lov'd thee more; nor, like a courtier, spurn'd
My benefactor, when the tide was turn'd.

With conscious shame, yet frankly, I confess,
That in my youthful days-I lov'd thee less.
Where vanity, where pleasure call'd, I stray'd;
And every wayward appetite obey'd.

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But sage experience taught me how to prize
Myself; and how, this world. She bade me rise
To nobler flights, regardless of a race

Of factious emmets; pointed where to place
My bliss, and lodg'd me in thy soft embrace.

Here, on thy yielding down, I sit secure ;
And, patiently, what Heaven has sent, endure;
From all the futile cares of business free!
Not fond of life, but yet content to be:
Here mark the fleeting hours; regret the past;
And seriously prepare to meet the last.

So, safe on shore, the pensioned sailor lies,
And all the malice of the storm defies:

With ease of body blest, and peace of mind,
Pities the restless crew he left behind;
While, in his cell, he meditates alone
On his great voyage, to the world unknown.

EXERCISE LXXIV.

1. AN-THRO-POPH'-A-GI, (ANTHROPO, man and PHACJI, eat,) man-eaters, or cannibals.

2. DI-AN'-A was the goddess of hunting. She is usually represented as a maiden, active, vigorous, and handsome, but without gentleness of expression. She had a celebrated temple at Ephesus. See Acts of the Apostles, Chap. xix., verses 27 and 28.

3. Sparʼ-tan, pertaining to Sparta or Lacedæmon, a city of ancient Greece, celebrated for the martial and hardy spirit of its inhabitants.

4. DER'-VISE, (that is, poor,) is a Persian word, denoting, among the Mohammedans, a sort of Monk. Being strict in the observance of forms, fastings, and various acts of piety,-they are held in great respect.

5. BONZES, the name given to the priests of the religion of Fo, in Eastern Asia. They correspond, in character and customs, to monks and dervises,

6, Car-thu'-si-an is the name of a religious order founded in 1086.

They practiced the greatest abstinence, wore coarse garments, and lived upon vegetables and the coarsest bread.

7. BAC-CHA-NA'-LI-AN, pertaining to the festivals of Bacchus, the god of wine, which were celebrated by a triumphal procession, wherein men and women went about rioting, dancing, and indulging in all sorts of licentious extravagance.

FASHION.

MRS. BARBAULD.

1. To break the shackles of oppression, and assert the native rights of man, is esteemed by many among the noblest efforts of heroic virtue. But vain is the possession of political liberty, if there exists a tyrant of our own creation, who, without law or reason, or even external force, exercises over us the most despotic authority; whose jurisdiction is extended over every part of private and domestic life, controls our pleasures, fashions our garb, cramps our motions, fills our lives with vain cares and restless anxiety. The worst slavery is that which we voluntarily impose upon ourselves; and no chains are so cumbrous and galling as those which we are pleased to wear by way of grace or ornament.

2. Musing upon this idea gave rise to the following dream, or vision Methought I was in a country of the strangest and most singular appearance I had ever beheld; the rivers were forced into jets d'eau,* and wasted in artificial water-works; the lakes were fashioned by the hand of art; the roads were sanded with spar and gold dust; the trees all bore the marks of the shears they were bent and twisted into the most whimsical forms, and connected together by festoons of ribbon and silk fringe; the wild flowers were transplanted into vases of fine china, and painted with artificial white and red.

3. The disposition of the ground was full of fancy, but grotesque and unnatural in the highest degree; it was all highly cultivated, and bore the marks of wonderful industry. But among its various prod ictions, I could hardly discern one that was of any use.

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4. My attention, however, was soon called off from the scenes of inanimate life, by the view of the inhabitants, whose form and appearance were so very preposterous, and, indeed, so unlike any thing human, that I fancied myself transported to the country of

"The anthropophagi,' and men whose heads

Do grow beneath their shoulders;"

for the heads of many of these people were swelled to an astonishing size, and seemed to be placed in the middle of their bodies.

5. Of some, the ears were distended till they hung upon the shoulders; and of others, the shoulders were raised till they met the ears. There was not one free from some deformity; or monstrous swelling, in one part or other. Some had no necks; others had necks that reached almost to their waists; the bodies of some were bloated up to such a size that they could scarcely enter a pair of folding doors; and others had suddenly sprouted up to such a disproportionate hight, that they could not sit upright in their loftiest carriages.

6. Many shocked me with the appearance of being nearly cut in two, like a wasp; and I was alarmed at the sight of a few, in whose faces, otherwise very fair and healthy, I discovered an eruption of black spots, which I feared was the fatal sign of some pestilential disorder.

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7. The sight of these various and uncouth deformities inspired me with much pity, which, however, was soon changed into disgust, when I perceived, with great surprise, that every one of these unfortunate men and women was exceedingly proud of his or her own peculiar deformity, and endeavored to attract my notice to it as much as possible. A lady, particular, who had a huge swelling under her throat, and which, I am sure, by its enormous projection, prevented her from seeing the path she walked in, brushed by me with an air of the greatest self-complacency, and asked me, if she was not a charming creature.

8. But, by this time, I found myself surrounded by an immense crowd, who were all pressing along in one direction, and I perceived, that I was drawn along with them by an irresistible impulse, which grew stronger every moment. I asked whither we were hurrying with so eager steps, and was told, that we were going to the court of Queen Fashion, the great Diana' whom all the world worshipeth. I would have retired, but felt myself impelled to go on, though without being sensible of any outward force.

9. When I came to the royal presence, I was astonished at the magnificence which I saw around me. The queen was sitting on a throne elegantly fashioned in the form of a shell, and inlaid with gems and mother-of-pearl. It was supported by a chameleon, formed of a single emerald.

10. She was dressed in a light robe of changeable silk, which fluttered about her in a profusion of fantastic folds, that imitated the form of clouds, and, like them, were continually changing their appearance. In one hand she held a rougebox, and in the other, one of those optical glasses which distort figures in length or in breadth, according to the position, in which they are held.

11. At the foot of the throne was displayed a profusion of the richest productions of every quarter of the globe,tributes from land and sea, from every animal and plant; perfumes, sparkling stones, drops of pearl, chains of gold, webs of the finest linen, wreaths of flowers, the produce of art, which vied with the most delicate productions of nature; forests of feathers, waving their brilliant colors in the air and canopying the throne; glossy silks, network of lace, silvery ermine, soft folds of vegetable wool, rustling paper, and shining spangles; the whole intermixed with pendants and streamers of the gayest tinctured ribbon.

12. All these together made so brilliant an appearance, that my eyes were at first dazzled; and it was some time, before I recovered myself enough to observe the ceremonial of the court. Near the throne, and its chief supports, stood