MY BIRTH-DAY A dozen years since in this house what commotion, What bustle, what stir, and what joyful ado; Ev'ry soul in the family at my devotion, When into the world I came twelve years ago.

Can I for a life twice bestow'd thus confer? Were I to be silent, each year's revolution Proclaimseach new birth-day is owing to her.

Our kingly brother's birth-day's festival Is forthwith to be kept; thither we'll hie, And grace with pomp that great solemnity.

Close to this temple there is a place set apart for the diversion of the emperor, called the Hippodrome, where great spectacles are represented yearly, on the birth-day of Jesus of Nazareth, in which men in the habits of all the various people of the earth, appear before the emperor and empress, with lions, bears, leopards, and wild asses, which are made to fight together; and in no country on earth are such princely sports to be seen.

If he lives to arrive at his 8th year (says he) 'he will go near to die a violent death on his very birth-day, but if he should escape, as I see but small hopes, he will in the 23d year be under the very same evil direction, and if he should escape that also, the 33d or 34th year is, I

Discussion respecting the birth-day of the subject of these memorials, III.

"I am sorry that your friends will not be able to come this afternoon, Isabella," said Mary; "but we will all try to make the evening of your birth-day pass pleasantly; and when our father comes home, I am sure he will read to us in any book you wish.

Thus was the first Day Ev'n and Morn Nor past uncelebrated nor unsung By the Celestial Quires, when Orient Light Exhaling first from Darkness they beheld; Birth-day of Heavn and Earth!

My Aunt Mrs. Roland, celebrated her silver-wedding and my cousin's birth-day by giving a large entertainment; and among other things she had a plentiful supply of wine.

He is nothing akin to birth-day suits and drawing-room fopperies.

"Mam-ma will be pleased at her birth-day gift.

He had almost forgotten the circumstance, when on the day preceding that of the anniversary of the adventure just related, a grand hunting party was proposed, it being the birth-day of his son.

TO MARGARET JANE H, ON HER BIRTH-DAY, 17 JUNE.

He left home on his twenty-fifth birth-day, and twenty five was the number of the letter Y in the block-alphabet.

Among the best pieces are The Dying Mother to her Infant, by Caroline Bowles; Bring back the chain, by the authoress of the "Sorrows of Rosalie;" and The Birth-day, by N.P. Willis, a popular American writer.

Herod kept in princely state His birth-day.

If the elections took place on the date indicated by the newspapers, Rafael would still be five or six months short of his twenty-fifth birth-day.

Johnson's birth-day dinners, at, iii. 157, n. 3; iv. 135, n. 1, 239, n. 2; imitated, iii. 269-270; iv.

368; 'Doctor Levett,' ii. 214; Johnson's birth-day dinners, present at, iii. 157, n. 3; iv. 135, n. 1; companion, i. 232, n. 1; ii. 5, n. 1; iii. 220; iv.

We shall select as a specimen of her poetry, an Ode addressed to the duchess of Somerset, on her birth-day.

An Ode on the Birth-Day of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

"By the bye, Eric, you remind me to-morrow's my birth-day, and I've got a parcel coming this afternoon full of grub from home.

Upon the Queen's death it was expected of him, that he should honour her memory with a funeral panegyric: He was thought culpable for omitting it; but on her birth-day, next year, he gave a proof of the power of genius and judgment.

By transferring the mention of her death, to her birth-day, he has formed a happy combination of topics, which any other man would have thought it difficult to connect in one view; but the relation between them appears natural; and it may be justly said, that what no other man could have thought on, now seems scarcely possible for any man to miss.

Yesterday was her birth-day, now entering on the ninety-first year of her age; her memory much diminished, but her senses very little hurt, her sight and hearing good; she sleeps not ill, eats moderately, drinks water, says her prayers; this is all she does.