THE GATHERER.
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"A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles." SHAKESPEARE.
GOOD BYE.
When from the friend we dearly love Fate tells us we must part, By speech we can but feebly prove The anguish of the heart. And no soft words, howe'er sincere, Can half so much imply, As that suppress'd, though trembling tear, Which drowns the word—Good bye.
Warwick. W.S.
A keen shopkeeper, having in his service a couple of shopmen, who in point of intellect, were the very reverse of their master, a wag who frequented the shop, for some time puzzled the neighbourhood by designating it a "music-shop," although the proprietor dealt as much in music as in millstones. However, being pressed for an explanation, he said that the scale was conducted by a sharp, a flat and a natural; and if these did not constitute "music," he did not know what did.
ISSACCAR.
IMMORTALITY.
Napoleon being in the gallery of the Louvre one day, attended by Baron Denon, turned round suddenly from a fine picture, which he had viewed for some time in silence, and said to him, "That is a noble picture, Denon."—"Immortal," was Denon's reply. "How long," inquired Napoleon, "will this picture last?" Denon answered, that, "with care and in a proper situation, it might last, perhaps, five hundred years."—"And how long," said Napoleon, "will a statue last?"—"Perhaps," replied Denon, "five thousand years."—"And this," returned Napoleon, sharply, "this you call immortality!"
LINES TO A LADY, ON HER REFUSING HER CARD.
Let heroes, anxious for their future fame, Obtain of Fortune what they want—a name; The future theirs, the present hour be mine— The only name I ask of fate—is thine; Yet happier still had fate decreed to me The favour'd lot, to give my name to thee.
T.B.
A dull barrister, once obtained the nickname Necessity—because Necessity has no law.
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