Whatever may be my destiny, my best wishes shall ever attend you, and a pleasing remembrance of your honorable attentions preside, till death, in the breast of ELIZA WHARTON.

In each of the dismal abodes, far down in the bowels of the earth, which Dante is supposed to have visited with Virgil as a guide, in which some infernal deity presides, all sorts of physical tortures are accumulated, inflicted on traitors, murderers, robbers,men who have committed great crimes, unpunished in their lifetime; such men as Cain, Judas, Ugolino,men consigned to an infamous immortality.

O thou, for whose dear sake I bear A doom so dreadful, so severe, May happy fates thy footsteps guide, And o'er thy peaceful home preside; Nor let Ea's early tomb Infect thee with its baleful gloom.

There o'er some petty club preside; So poor, so paltry is their pride!

Except in this single instance, however, the vice-president presides in trials on impeachment.

They take us into a region in which nothing happens that is not deeply significant; a dominant, noticeably symbolic, purpose presides over each poem, moulds it greatly and informs it throughout.

On this occasion, however, there are alleged to have been unjust proceedings on the part of the tribune presiding at the election, who had been offended by Gracchus.