how prettily Love teaches his Scholars to prattle.

I remember now the gentle tone in which she used to say my prattle did not disturb her.

This he had found out, he said, by my own innocent prattle, and that he was so offended with his brother, my uncle, that he would not enter his house; and then he said what a little happy good child I had been all the way, and that when he found I did not know him, he would not tell me who he was, for the sake of the pleasant surprise it would be to me.

who with her leads Sweet Innocence, that prattles by her side, A naked boy!Harassed with fear I stop, I gaze, when Virtue thus'Whoe'er thou art, Mortal, by whom I deign to be beheld In these my midnight walks; depart, and say, That henceforth I and my immortal train Forsake Britannia's isle; who fondly stoops To vice, her favourite paramour.'

The celebrated Mr. Prattle, for whom a thousand fair ones cracked their fans and tore their caps, was one of the first to enlist himself among her adorers.

But do not you think that Mr. Prattle's new suit of scarlet sattin was vastly becoming?

If it be neither a ghost nor Mr. Prattle.

It has learned to go to market; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs; it is knowing, acute, sharpened; it never prattles.

Hence 'tis she prattles in a fainter tone, With mimic sounds, and accents not her own.

His hardest labour is his tongue, as if he were loath to use so deceitful an organ; and he is best company with it when he can but prattle.

Nothing angers her so much as that women cannot preach, and in this point only thinks the Brownist erroneous; but what she cannot at the church she does at the table, where she prattles more than any against sense and Antichrist, 'till a capon's wing silence her.

He prattles inadvertently away, and all the while, like the princess in the story, lets fall a pearl at every other word.

She is an interesting little creature, prattles playfully, and will doubtless receive the caresses of thousands of visitors.

Sometimes I leave her alone, sometimes lie on the bench facing her, while she reads aloud, or, tiring, prattles.

" When not under the spell of mediaeval chivalry she prattles needlessly of Georgiana, early life, and their old home in Henderson.

His declarations of independence were received pityingly, as the prattles of a tired child.

" Instead of pausing, however, to relate those happy indiscretions, Cibber prattles on in his colloquial way, telling us that through the goodly offices of Sir Thomas Skipwith, Brett was introduced to the divorced wife of the Earl of Macclesfield, "a lady who had enough in her power to disencumber him of the world and make him every way easy for life.

He prattles to it or storms at it as if it were a living creature.

So when the child was two or three years old and could prattle a little, the girl's father went to the headman and paranic and asked them what was to be done.

Prattles much and well, intelligently; without heart and soul.

Georgette, some twenty months old, scrambles from her cradle and prattles to the sunbeam.

but there thy lisping tongue prattles ill, for she loves me as a brother, and I love her as if she were my sister."

And he was none too cordial concerning the Butlers, eithercousins, too, but in what degree they must tell me, for I don't know" The road entering the forest, I ceased my prattle by instinct, and again for the thousandth time I sniffed at odors new to me, and scanned leafy depths for those familiar trees which stand warden in our Southern forests.

He and Gabrielle engage in lengthy conversations, which appear to be perfectly intelligible to both, though Mackay speaks with the solemn unction of the Aberdonian, and Gabrielle prattles at express speed in a patois of her own.

Wellesley dear, do listen to that darling Hastings Clive, how sweetly he prattles!