For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?

Amusement and forgetfulness are past for Kurt Dorn.

"Actual fighting is to me a relief, a forgetfulness, an excitement, and is so with many of my comrades.

"My case exactly," retorted Ellistonwith a charming forgetfulness, that the converse of a proposition does not always lead to the same conclusion"I am the same person off the stage that I am on."

It is the very time to recombine the wandering images, which night in a confused mass presented; to snatch them from forgetfulness; to shape, and mould them.

These particulars I mention, in the belief that there was only forgetfulness in my friend; but I owe this much to the Earl of Marchmont's reputation, who, were there no other memorials, will be immortalised by that line of Pope, in the verses on his Grotto: 'And the bright flame was shot through Marchmont's soul.' Various Readings in the Life of POPE.

Johnson had so strange a forgetfulness of obligations of this sort, that few who lent him books ever saw them again.'

"You must overlook my forgetfulness.

He had a generous mouth, which he seemed habitually to sew up in a close-drawn seam, but this would suddenly and pleasantly rip in moments of forgetfulness.

But presently he is up to dash at a bird, with a fine forgetfulness, quite as startled by the trick of flight as in his first days.

The day was spent idling about town waiting for Sabota to return so Skinny could get some whisky and drown his disappointment in love in intoxicated forgetfulness.

So the people ceased to honor him during his lifetime, and quietly consigned him to forgetfulness after his decease.

For a moment, in spite of all that had gone before, the young Senator was betrayed into a forgetfulness of his tender moodit was so strange, this request of a Lady of the Giustiniani, to choose Rome rather than Venice at a time of contest; but her face and manner and speech were luminous with hope; she was radiant again, as she had not been for many months; yet the words escaped from him unintentionally and sternly: "To Rome!"

In travel I sought forgetfulness and consolation.

So the people ceased to honor him during his lifetime, and quietly consigned him to forgetfulness after his decease.

He was begotten in unhappiness, born to no goodness, lives but in beastliness, and dies but in forgetfulness.

Again and again I went with them to the opera, to the theatre, and sat through the long hours, watching, with a pain which seemed to me hardly less than Ellen's would have been, their constant sympathy with each other in every point of enjoyment, their constant forgetfulness of every one else.

But for others the cold mists that hang low by Lethe's banks have already brought forgetfulness before their feet grow icy with the first step into the dark water.

Already his profession had clothed him in black, and it was only for him that his black seemed now to gain a deeper distinction; but such ugly symbols of beautiful memory as that note-paper whose diminishing edge of blackness is rather a cynical witness of a graduated forgetfulness, were not for a real grief like his.

In the snare of the incense he even accused himself for having left them unread so long, and then to think that nearly six months had gone by since the second letter had brought its half-playful reproach for forgetfulness....

It was long ere the pedlar attempted to compose his agitated nerves to rest; but at length his senses began to "steep themselves in forgetfulness," though his imagination remained painfully active, and presented new scenes of terror to his mind, with all the vividness of reality.

Our life went on precisely as beforeMabel unreal and outwardly so still; Frances, secretive, anxious, tactful to the point of slyness, and keen to save to the point of self-forgetfulness.

Again, facts and events are either designed or unintentional, and these last arise either from pure accident, or from some agitation of mind, by accident when a thing has happened in a different way from what was expected,from some agitation, when either forgetfulness, or mistake, or fear, or some impulse of desire has been the acting cause.

Facts may be denied, deductions examined, disproved, and condemned, without just cause of offense; but no impeachment of the integrity of the Government in its reliance on the correctness of its own views can be permitted without a total forgetfulness of self-respect.

No forgetfulness is to be excused, nor is the want of memory to be accepted as a valid excuse for the want of knowledge.