_ nor injuftice to perform. ‘ There is no 
= 
. Anointed. ‘* Madam,” replied the ele- 
1797.) Original Literary Striétures, ce. Fe, 49 
JAMES TI. Souvent par un mal-entendu,. 
In the education of princes, the L’amant adroit fe fait entendre. 
rod is not uled ; but that young princes’) : WiPATED. 
thould be fogged, when flogging is necef- 
fary, I conceive is neither treafon to affert, How happy, to defend our heart, 
When Love has never thrown a dart! 
rahe But ah! unhappy, when it bends 
royal way to geometry, faid tht tutor of While Pasa eet te foft blifs fufvends, 
a prince, when defired to abridge the sweet ina wild diforder’d ftrain s* 
mode-of infiruétion ; and that arefractory A loft and wandering heart to gain, 
prince, when at fchool, fhould be corteétéd Oft, in miftaken language wooed, 
by his tutor, I fhall prove by an anecdote, The fkilful lover’s underftood. 
which will ferve to exhibit the charaéter of 
Buchanan as a man of humour, and the 
degree of his veneration for royalty. Our 
James I, being.one day at play. with a fel- 
low pupil, Buchanan, who was reading, 
defired them to make lefs noife. Finding 
‘that they difregarded his: admonition, he 
told his majeity if he did not hold his 
tongue, -he would certainly whip _his- 
breech. The. kiag replied he would be 
lad to fee who would deff she cal, alluding 
to the fable. Buchanan, in a pafsion, 
threw the book from him, and inflicted on 
This fong has fuch a refemblance to 
meaning, that the celebrated Fontenelle, 
hearing it fung, imagined he had a glimpfe 
of fente, and defired to have it repeated. 
Don’t you fee (faid Madame de Tencin) 
that they are NONSENSE VERSES? It 
refembles fo much (replied the malignant 
\wit) the fine verfes I have heard ‘here, 
that it is not furprifing I fhould for once 
be miftaken.. rag ; 
There is certainly a kind of pleafure 
which we receive from abfurd poetry ; 
his majefty a found. flogging. .The old but ordinary nonfenfe verfes are not fuffi« 
countefs of Mar rufhed into the room, ciently nonfenfical. Taylor, the water 
dpdtaiee $e bans an ber arms naiked. PO has deferibed the pleafurable fenfa- 
‘ ; : r, » tion which exquifite nonfenfe can give: 
how he dared tolay his hands othe Lord’s - : : give 5 
W329 Bes in addreffing himfelf to Coriat, who had 
a eliherions ck, hive 227 happy turn for the nonfenfical, Ke 
whipped his as—-: you may kifs ir, if “7% >. ap 
you pleafe.” When Buchanan was afked “ Your plenteous want of wit is wondrous witty.” 
how he came to make a pedant of his 
royal pupil, he anfwvered, that it was the 
beft he could make of him. 
AMPHIGOURIE 
Ts a word compofed of a Greek adverb, 
fignifying aéeut, and of a fubfantive fig- 
nifying 4a Circle. are, however, found in her original La» 
Tt is a word much employed by the tim letters. The author of the “ Ro- 
French, to difingvith certain litle lyrical maunt of the Rofe’” has alfo given it thus 
‘parodies of a burlefquve nature, and which za/vely :— 
turning on words and ideas, without order Se lempéreur, gui ef 3 Rome 
or any particular meaning, appear, in soubz qui doyvent étre tout honme 
{pits of their incoherence, to convey fome [Me daignoit prendre pour fa femme, 
fenfe, but which have no meaning ar all. Et me faire du monde dame ; 
Here is one; you may obferve it-forms Si vouldroye-je mieux dift-elle, 
a picce of as unmeaning poctry; as ever Et Dieu en tefmoing ew appelle 
poled an admirer of the Crufcan fchool; Etre fa Putaine apellée ; 
but it is elegant, and what the French Qw tre emperitre couronnée. 
call richly rhimed. 
POPE'S ELOISAG??*< 
The two celebrated and reprehenfible 
lines in Pope’s Eloifa— 
*¢ Not Caefar’s emprefs would I deign to prove, 
“* No, make me miftrefs to the man I love,” 

AMPHIGOURIE. 
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