It had been reported that, consequent upon a hasty pledge to remain in Liverpool until his candidate was returned, he was now doomed for ever to wander an unquiet sprite upon the banks of Mersey.

He who torments the chafer's sprite Weaves a bower in endless night.

no, by Lady, I will not be a sprite, masters.

Get ye away; if I be a sprite, I shall be so lean, I shall make you all afraid.

And ye be a sprite, I'll fray the bugbear.

room for all!'" As the spirit imitated the various calls, as only a jovial bell-sprite could, the others gave him a chime of laughter, and vowed they would each adopt some tuneful summons, which should reach human ears and draw human feet more willingly to church.

Ah! gentle, fleeting, wav'ring sprite, Friend and associate of this clay, To what unknown region borne Wilt thou now wing thy distant flight?

That Floracita is a mischievous little sprite.

But now again the sprite ascends, Where'er he walks his ear attends; Insinuates that beauty's frail, That perseverance must prevail; With jealousies his brain inflames, And whispers all her lovers' names.

Again the sprite Besets him, morning, noon, and night!

An airy little sprite In a billowy flood of lace, Which flutters in its flight In the galop's tripping grace.

Fashioned like a fairy sprite, Riding on love's tidal storm.

Spreading her downy wings all veined with rose, Upon the gray-green mosses, cool and dank, Languished the sprite, and in a swoon she sank, While a delicious numbness born of death Stilled the soft wings that stirred with each faint breath.

larva, f., larva, hobgoblin, sprite. lástima, f., pity, compassion; ¡ !

She love thus brings, All through his dreams; until one misty night, While he yet restless tossed, the lovely sprite Sunk him to deeper sleep with her soft lyre While hanging o'er his couch consumed with fire

Her face, between the hands, looked rather wicked in a sprite-like fashion.

"Oh, gracious!" said Sheila, woman and sprite and adventurer again.

At times she seemed rather an airy sprite than human, and never did she seek to make acquaintance with other children, but was always Hester's companion in her walks about the town.

Our national Mercury was to be simply the god of the post-office, or the sprite of the barometer,our Pan, to keep the crows from the corn-fields,our Muses, to preside over district-schools.

And the little sprite got in, keeping her head and the little cup of a bonnet protruding every moment to look round; yet if it could have been seen in the dark, with such a sly, half-humorous eye, as betokened one of those curiously-made creatures who seem to be formed for studies to the thoroughgoing decent pacers of the world's stage.

The sprite; with Illus.

Ah! happy prime Of cloudless purity, no stormy fame His unknown sprite then stirred, a golden time Worth all the restless splendour of a name; And one soft accent from those gentle lips Might all the plaudits of a world eclipse.

Some escaped, and some fell victims to the sprite.

THE SPELL whereby the Good People may be brought back to a house which they have deserted. Fairies!whatsoever sprite Near about us dwells You who roam the hills at night, You who haunt the dells Where you harbour, hear us!

They all admired her, indeed, and sometimes paid her compliments,the friars as well as the cavaliers, the prebendaries as well as the magistrate,as a prodigy of beauty, an honor to her Creator, and as a coquettish and mischievous sprite, who innocently enlivened the most melancholy of spirits.