See p, 96 as to Shelley's under-rating of Keats's age.

The officers and men of the expedition having been all volunteers for this service and having so conducted it as to meet the entire approbation of the Government, it is suggested, as an act of grace and generosity, that the same allowance of extra pay and emoluments be extended to them that were made to the officers and men of like rating in the late exploring expedition to the South Seas.

"With rating as first officer, and your fair proportion of all spoils.

Aunt Euphemia will no doubt bestow a sound rating on me, for, alas!"with a doleful glance downward"see the draggled condition of my habit.

And who am I that you should hold me in higher rating than any other man?" "You should know I do," the woman breathed, so low he barely caught the words and uttered an involuntary "Pardon?"

Johnson looked into it, took it to a bookseller, got sixty pounds for it, and returned to Goldsmith, who paid his rent and administered a sound rating to his landlady.

No title stood first on all the lists: rated best by one judge, any story lost rank through lower rating by another.

He left me to stump upstairs alone and receive a good rating from the Countess for not having kept him.

His conscience urged him to confess his mistake, while Satan whispered with a sneer,"Yes, and get turned adrift for your pains, with a rating into the bargain!" "Never mind if you do lose a week's wages," conscience had pleaded, "your hands will be clean," and the workman shrugged his shoulders with a muttered, "Pshaw!