They stood together, leaning over the sluice, looking in at one of the things human industry has failed to disfigure, nearly as beautiful to-day as long ago on Pactolus' banks when Lydian shepherds, with great stones, fastened fleeces in the river that they might catch and gather for King Croesus the golden sands of Tmolus.

Her autobiography admits us to very gorgeous company; the stream of her personal recollections is a perfect Pactolus.

Windsor is coupled with Hybla, and Thames with Pactolus.

We are told by these croakers of calamity, not only that our present ministers design to enslave us, but that the same malignity of purpose is to descend through all their successors; and that the wealth to be poured into England by the Pactolus of America, will, whenever it comes, be employed to purchase the "remains of liberty.

'Sir, (said Johnson,) had you been dipt in Pactolus I should not have noticed you.'

In the original yet. 'Sis pecore et multa dives tellure licebit, Tibique Pactolus fluat.' 'Though wide thy land extends, and large thy fold, Though rivers roll for thee their purest gold.' FRANCIS.

I saw a spring out of a rocke forth rayle*, As cleare as christall gainst the sunnie beames; The bottome yeallow, like the golden grayle* That bright Pactolus washeth with his streames.

Oza, ii. Pactolus, iii.

"Sir," said Johnson, "had you been dipped in Pactolus, I should not have noticed you."

Crassi licet, non hos Pactolus aureas undas agens, eripiat unquum e miseriis, Croesus or rich Crassus cannot now command health, or get himself a stomach.

Sint Craesi et Crassi licet, non hos Pactolus aureas undas agens eripiet unquam e miseriis.

You are now fairly launched on what I hope will prove to you another Pactolus.

It is the true El Dorado of America; every mountain stream a Pactolus, and every hill a mine of gold.

Oh! 'tis a faithful groupand it might shame Painters of bold pretence, and greater name To see how nature triumphs, and how rare Such matchless proofs of Nature's triumphs are The smallest particle of sand may tell With what rich ore Pactolus' tide may swell: And Woodward!

Pactolus, Pitt County.

Pactolus, Pitt County.

Paddington canal seemed the river Pactolus, and Rag-Fair Elysium!

This gold piece upon my watch-chain was perchance coined from the sands of the Pactolus, and once bore Chaldaean characters.

'Sir, had you been dipt in Pactolus, I should not have noticed you,' iv.

he muttered at last, 'what aa Pactolus I have missed!

[Illustration: Letter S.] Sardis, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Lydia, is situated on the river Pactolus, in the fertile plain below Mount Tmolus.

The village, small as it is, boasts of containing one of the most remarkable remains of antiquity in Asia; namely, the vast Ionic temple of the heathen goddess Cybele, or the earth, on the banks of the Pactolus.

A young [Oxford Scholar ], who chanced to be with his Uncle at the Coffee-house, discover'd to us who this Pactolus was; and by that means turned the whole Scheme of this worthy Citizen into Ridicule.

PACTOLUS, a small river of Lydia, famous for the gold contained in its sand, due, it was alleged, to Midas washing the gold off him in its waters, and the alleged source of the wealth of Croesus; its modern name is Sarabat.

SARDIS, capital of ancient Lydia, in Asia Minor, at the foot of Mount Tmolus, celebrated for its wealth, its trade, and luxury, through the market-place of which the river Pactolus flowed with its sand