I prefer the graceful rambling of his essays even to the courtly elegance and ease of Addison, abstracting from this the latter's exquisite humor.

Late one night he found himself wandering aimlessly around the outskirts of O. Rambling over the dewy grass he came across a narrow path leading to a little gate which he found open.

Fired with a perusal of the Abyssinian Pilgrim's exploratory ramblings after the cradle of the infant Nilus, we well remember on one fine summer holyday (a "whole day's leave" we called it at Christ's Hospital) sallying forth at rise of sun, not very well provisioned either for such an undertaking, to trace the current of the New RiverMiddletonian stream!to its scaturient source, as we had read, in meadows by fair Amwell.

Hitherto in our ramblings through the houses we had only come across a few pieces of this gold brocade; but as luck would have it, on the last day in which I joined N in his duties he had received information from a native that a large store of kincob was concealed in the house of a merchant who had dealt in that material.

She worked for her people, talked with Don Teodoro, talked, smiled, laughed with Gianluca, and bore the old Duchessa's ramblings with patience and kindness.

The following (from the Ramblings of a Desultory Man, in the New Monthly Magazine) is in the best vein of a bon vivant and will be easily credited: "After dinner we ordered a bottle of Sautern, which was marked in the carte at two francs ten sous.