As the virtue of these stones is still much boasted of by the Maltese, and as some, on the contrary, maintain that they are the petrified teeth of a fish called lamia, it will not be irrelevant here to relate some observations from the best authors on this interesting subject, so much to our purpose.

But, as he thence believes he has proved that the glossopetrae should not be classed amongst stones, so also what he has said may prove that they are the natural teeth of those fishes, which are called, by lithographers, lamia, aquila, requiem, (shark) etc.

[this was the volume containing Lamia, Hyperion, &c.] have been written above two years, and would never have been published but for hope of gain: so you see I am inclined enough to take your advice now.

There is also a phrase in a letter to Mr. Ollier, written on 14 May, 1820, before the actual publication of the Lamia volume: 'Keats, I hope, is going to show himself a great poet; like the sun, to burst through the clouds which, though dyed in the finest colours of the air, obscured his rising.' Keats died in Rome on 23 February, 1821.

In the pocket of his jacket had been found two booksa Sophocles, and the Lamia volume, doubled back as if it had at the last moment been thrust aside.

He rallied somewhat, but suffered a dangerous relapse in June, just prior to the publication of his final volume, containing all his best poemsIsabella, Hyperion, the Eve of St. Agnes, Lamia, and the leading Odes.

Then fasten the Cative; I care not for thy wife: Get from mine eyes Thou tempting Lamia.

Lady of the Lake Lake poets, the Lamb, Charles; life; works; style Lamb, Mary Lamia (l[=a]'mi-ä) Land of Cockaygne (k[)o]-kän')

[Footnote 11: Another writer reports his name as Lucius Lamia.]

L. Ælius L. F. Lamia, M. Servilius M.F. (A.D. 3 = a. u. 756.)

Her he took away from her husband, Lucius Lamia Aelianus, and at this time he had her for one of his mistresses, but later he actually married her.

L. Aelius Lamia, Aelianus Vetus.

She read a passage from Keats's 'Lamia' the other day, in the school-room, in such a way that I declare to you I thought some of the girls would faint or go into fits.

Have you read, critically, Coleridge's poem of "Christabel," and Keats's "Lamia"?

I am afraid I cannot throw much light on "Christabel" or "Lamia" by any criticism I can offer.

Lamia is a serpent transformed by magic into a woman.

The character of Elsie is exceptional, but not purely ideal, like Cristabel and Lamia.

And yet, for all that, I confess, that, when I woke up the other evening, and heard, first a sweet complaining cry, and then footsteps, and then the dragging sound,nothing but his bed, I am quite sure,I felt a stirring in the roots of my hair as the feasters did in Keats's terrible poem of "Lamia.

2. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems.

AF'RIT OR AFREET, a kind of Medusa or Lamia, the most terrible and cruel of all the orders of the deevs.

Lamia solandri.

Lamia vermicularis.

Lamia rugicollis.

The last act is, as usual, little more than an epilogue, in which we are entertained with a long account of the recovery of the faithful lovers, thanks to the care of the wise Lamia, an elaborate passage again modelled on Tasso, but again falling far short of the poetical beauty of the original.

Has he forgotten Lamia?