We do not want to see "From Marlborough's eyes the tears of dotage flow, And Swift expire, a driveller and a show.

From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.

I am sure I shall die if they do!" "Miserable driveller!"

"The man must be a driveller, to lie in such a tides-way, without dropping his stream, or at least a kedge, to steady the ship," returned the white, with out appearing to think any thing more than the received practice of seamen necessary to decide the point.

TWENTY YEARS convert infants into lovers, and fathers and mothers, render youth the operative generation, decide men's fortunes and distinctions, convert active men into crawling drivellers, and bury all the preceding generation.

It was marvellous how instantaneously he subsided into the superannuated driveller who was to bear away the bell from Old Parr and all the Emperor Alexander's far-sought fossils.

and the world full of drivellers and dotards, that it would gladly be quit of.

Some of you laugh at me, and say, Behold, this old-fashioned driveller, who does not even know that love is no longer in the fashion!

Grief may weaken the selfish and the weak; it may make children of the foolish and drivellers; by grief the inefficient may come to the fulness of their inefficiency;but out of the bitter cup the strong take strength, though it may be with shuddering.

Such theories, if carried into practice, would reduce us to a nation of political dwarfs and puny drivellers, fit only to grovel at the footstools of tyrants.