Young Romilly is divine, the reasons of his mother's grief being remediless,I never saw parental love carried up so high, towering above the other loves,Shakspeare had done something for the filial in Cordelia, and, by implication, for the fatherly too in Lear's resentment; he left it for you to explore the depths of the maternal heart.

An extract of so much of Mr. Lear's communication as relates to this circumstance is now transmitted to the Senate, the whole of the papers having been laid before them on a former occasion.

They are for a poor woman and her suffering children, who live about a square from here in Lear's Court.

" We took leave of Lear's, after a protracted visit, not without a pressing invitation from Mr. C. to call again.

SECOND VISIT TO LEAR'S. The following week, on Saturday afternoon, we received a note from Mr. C., inviting us to spend the Sabbath at Lear's, where we might attend service at a neighboring chapel, and see a congregation composed chiefly of apprentices.

" We continued at Lear's during Monday, to be in readiness for a tour to the windward of the island, which Mr. C. had projected for us, and on which we were to set out early the next morning.

Before we left the hospitable mansion of Lear's, we had the pleasure of meeting a company of gentlemen at dinner.

At ten o'clock on Sabbath morning, we drove to the chapel of the parish, which is a mile and a half from Lear's.

" We continued at Lear's during Monday, to be in readiness for a tour to the windward of the island, which Mr. C. had projected for us, and on which we were to set out early the next morning.

At half past eight o'clock, we resumed our seats in Mr. C.'s phaeton, and by the nearest route across the country, returned to Lear's.

} He who could tame his vast ambition down To please some scatter'd gleanings of a town, And, if some hundred auditors supplied Their meagre meed of claps, was satisfied, How had he felt, when that dread curse of Lear's Had burst tremendous on a thousand ears, While deep-struck wonder from applauding bands Return'd the tribute of as many hands!

When that dread curse of Lear's Had burst tremendous on a thousand ears: rather an anti-climax, by the way, for it means an audience of but five hundred, which would have been a beggarly account for the new Drury.

"Society," said Carlyle, "is founded upon cloth," following the suggestions of Lear's speech to the naked bedlam beggar: "Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art;" and borrowing also, perhaps, an ironical hint from a paragraph in Swift's Tale of a Tub: "A sect was established who held the universe to be a large suit of clothes....

And, perhaps, if we turn our thoughts upon the barbarity and ignorance of the age to which this story is referred, it will appear not so unlikely as while we estimate Lear's manners by our own.

" Lear's duties were by no means all pedagogical and ultimately he became Washington's private secretary.

Lear's descendants still own a quilt made by Martha Washington and given to this niece.

[Mr. Lear's son] and his "lottery tickets," which, "poor little fellow!" he exclaims, will never be likely to build him a baby-house even; the whole Washington lottery business having turned out a bed of thorns rather than roses.

This is one of a few lines in which he requests Mr. Lear's acceptance of some garden seeds for his garden and farm.

This may well be conceived when it is known that Mr. Lear's connection with this illustrious man began prior to the year '86, and continued until his death in '99; that he was at his bedside when he died, and drew up the authentic narrative, which was verified by the physicians, of his last illness, from its commencement to the closing scene.

I might, I think, have quoted the remainder of Lear's speech ending with the words "Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill," and, with the exception of three words, consisting entirely of monosyllables, and one or two other passages.

For Farmer Lear's driving into Tregarrick in an hour's time, an' he've a-promised us a lift.

They had left the village in Farmer Lear's cart, and Farmer Lear had left them in the high road; and after that, nothing should be known.

It was Miss Lear's custom to look much on this landscape from this window: had, in fact, been her habit for close upon forty years.

There was no help for it; andso easy is the descent of AvernusGeake's unaccustomed wits were already wandering in a wilderness of improbable falsehoods, when he heard the sound of wheels up the road, and Long Oliver came along in Farmer Lear's red-wheeled trap and behind Farmer Lear's dun-coloured mare.

'Do you come from Gantick?' says he, seein' no doubt Farmer Lear's name 'pon the cart.