meurt peu à peu. Moins perpendiculaires sur leur ligne spirale, les orbes du serpent charmé, par degrés s'élargissent, et viennent tour à tour se poser sur la terre en cercles concentriques. Les nuances d'azur, de verd, de blanc et d'or reprennent leur éclat sur sa peau frémissante, et tournant légérement la tête, il demeure immobile dans l' attitude de l'attention et du plaisir.

"Dans ce moment le Canadien marche quelques pas, en tirant de sa fûte des sons doux et monotones; le reptile baisse son cou nuancé, entr'ouvre avec sa tête les herbes fines, et se met à ramper sur les traces du musicien qui l'entraîne, s'arrêtant lorsqu'il s'arrête, et recommencant á le suivre, quand il recommence à s'éloigner. Il fut ainsi conduit hors de notre camp, au milieu d'une foule de spectateurs tant Sauvages qu'Européens qui en croyaient a peine leurs yeux, à cette merveille de la mélodie: il n'y eut qu'une seule voix dans l'assemblée, pour qu'on laissât le merveilleux serpent s'échapper."

Ibid. pp. 174-179.

16 Now, he recalls the lamentable wail,

That pierc'd the shade of Rama's palmy vale, See Matthew, ii. 16--18.

17 That Mighty Spirit once from Teman came : Clouds were his chariot, and his coursers flame.

God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran, &c.--See Habak. iii. 3-17.

18 Thou didst descend, and, rolling through the croud, Inshrine think ark and altar in thy shroud,

And fill the temple with thy mantling cloud.

And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course: Also the Levites, which were the singers; all of them of Asaph of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren; being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries, and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests, sounding with trumpets :) It came to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and instruments of musick, and praised the Lord, saying-For he is good, for his mercy endureth forever; and then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord; so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.--2 Chrow v. 11....14.

19 It was originally intended that the recitation of this poem should form a part of the performances of an evening concert of sacred musick for charitable purposes.

FINIS.

PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA.

A TALE.

BY DR. JOHNSON.

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LIFE

OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D.

THIS eminent individual was born at Litchfield, in Staffordshi.e, 18th September 1709. His father was a bookseller in that town, and it was there that he received the early part of his education. He was sent to Oxford University, October 1727; but after being there a season or two, he was obliged, from poverty, to quit it without a degree. In 1732 he became usher to the school at Market-Bosworth, Leicestershire, but the tyranny of his patron made him soon give it up. He now commenced his literary career: his first work was a translation and abridgment of Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia, for which he received five guineas. In the twenty-fifth year of his age, he married Mrs. Porter, a widow lauy at Birmingham, then in the forty-eighth year of her age, with whom he lived happily enough. She was possessed of some money, which enabled him to take a house for boarders near Litchfield; but the speculation did not succeed. He then, March 1737, went to London with his pupil Garrick, to push their fortunes in that great metropolis. There he got employment from the booksellers, and supplied the Gentlemen's Magazine with the Parliamentary debates ;these were chiefly his own writing, and their eloquence was much admired: at that time, full and genuine Parliamentary reports were not allowed. In 1749 he brought out his tragedy, Irene; he got £100 from Dodsley for the copyright. In 1750 he commenced The Rambler: three days after its termination he lost his wife. In 1755 he published his Dictionary of the