It was in the library at Hunt's cottage, where an extemporary bed had been made up for him on the sofa, that he composed the framework and many lines of the poem on "Sleep and Poetry,"the last sixty or seventy being an inventory of the art-garniture of the room.

If the nation is invaded by a foreign force, the authority of the crown is almost without limits, the whole nation is considered as an army of which the king is general, and which he then governs by martial laws, by occasional judicature, and extemporary decrees.

For who can bear with patience the writer who claims such superiority to the rest of his species, as to imagine mankind are at leisure for attention to his extemporary sallies, and that posterity will reposite his casual effusions among the treasures of ancient wisdom?

Now and then he rode along chanting to himself an extemporary song, which ran somewhat thus Maids who choose the slain, Disappointed now.

He knew that extemporary verses are never approved of by any but by the person in whose honor they are written.