The truth, however is, that this Aesculapius was a poor infant cast away, a dropt child, laid in a wood near Epidaurus, by his unnatural parents, who were afterwards ashamed to own him; he was shortly afterwards found by some huntsmen, who, seeing a lighted flame or glory surrounding his head, looked upon it as a prognostic of the child's future glory.

ON A MISER "Hang her, a thoughtless, wasteful fool, She scatters corn where'er she goes" Quoth Hassan, angry at his mule, That dropt a dinner to the crows.

At the first toll, down dropt the barrows, the half-flung shovelfuls fell to the ground, and all labour stopt as suddenly as if the men had been moved by the pull of one string.

" Finally, in August, 1825:"Taylor has dropt the 'London'.

The Widow's finding her wedding Ring (which she dropt crossing the Thames) in the Belly of a Fish, is taken from the Story of Polycrates, in the Thalia of Herodotus.

" Middleton could, however, write a passage like the following, which probably suggested to Milton one of the finest lines in Lycidas: "Upon those lips, the sweet fresh buds of youth, The holy dew of prayer lies, like pearl Dropt from the opening eyelids of the morn Upon a bashful rose.

On the 13th of January, 1733, the ship dropt anchor outside of the bar, at the port of Charlestown, South Carolina.

That dropt jaw, and mouth distended into the long oval, is more upon the horrible than the grievous.

It had been very handsome: it was still very clever: but the eyebrows, crushed together downwards above her nose, and rising high at the outer corners, indicated, as surely as the restless down-dropt eye, a character self-conscious, furtive, capable of great inconsistencies, possibly of great deceits.

Take it up: But let me see, what letter's that that dropt?

1 When thy beauty appears, In its graces and airs, All bright as an angel new dropt from the sky

Is not both the good and the harm which is done on earth like the ripple of a stone dropt into water, which spreads and spreads for a vast distance round, however small the stone may be?

No wonder, therefore, that the affair dropt through between us.

Yesterday I watched her pass me, and from down-dropt eyelids peep

9.Bicknell's Grammar, of 1790, treating of the letter k, says, "And for the same reason we have dropt it at the end of words after c, which is there always hard; as in publick, logick, &c. which are more elegantly written public, logic.

Write the following preterits, each in its appropriate form: exprest, stript, dropt, jumpt, prest, topt, whipt, linkt, propt, fixt, crost, stept, distrest, gusht, confest, snapt, skipt, kist, discust, tackt.

A worse fate than that of Aeschylus, who had his skull cracked by a tortoise dropt by an eagle that mistook his bald head for a stone.

But he had dropt his hat and his second pistol in his flight, and so he was traced and seized before he could leap from the wall.

He hail'd the bird in Spanish speech, The bird in Spanish speech replied: Flapt round his cage with joyous screech Dropt down and died.

But things taking quite a different turn in that prince's reign, in point of liberty of conscience, to what most people expected, our author's Observators were dropt, as not being suitable to the times.

But Venus, who with pity saw my flame Kindled by her own Amorer so bright, Approv'd in private what she seem'd to blame, And bless'd me with a vision of delight: Careless she dropt Florinda's veil aside, That nothing might her choicest beauties hide.

He may have carried it away, and dropt it under the garden-window: the grass is long enough to hide it.

We gaze for ever on the charming face which smiles on us from his canvass; we may gaze with perfect licensethat veil which has just been lifted to the brow, it will never be dropt againbut

From the appearance of this fish and other signs, the admiral foresaw an approaching change of weather, and sought for some harbour to secure himself; and it pleased GOD that on the 15th of September, he discovered an island near the east part of Hispaniola named Adamanoi by the Indians, and the weather being very stormy, dropt anchor in the channel between it and Hispaniola, close to a small island which lies between both.

" He stooped, and straightway from the ground took up An oaken staff by me yet unobserved A staff which must have dropt from his slack hand And lay till now neglected in the grass.