"neighbourhood." Be this as it may, as we have had the vision of a dream, it is but fair that, è converso, we should have, the dream of a vision. Accordingly, in p. 182 of vol. 3d. we have a dream, becoming "The baseless fabric of a vision." "As for father John," (being no bishop)" he was "dressed in his pontificals." p. 143. "Mr. Walker assures us that Mr. O'Neill, of "Shane's castle, was very little in the habit of shav"ing." p. 144. Now for Glorvina. "nation, on the gaze." "She floated, like an incar Never having chanced to meet with one of these incarnate gaze-floaters, and not knowing what they are, nor what the medium is, in which they planent, I am incompetent to judge of the accuracy of this resemblance. All I know is, that while she was thus floating, "the western sun's setting beams en"riched her figure with its orient tints ;"—and that such celestial gilding is of purely Irish manufacture. When he performed this prodigy, the sun must have been in Taurus; and in order to accomplish it, seems to have fallen up stairs. The miracle is related in pages 147 and 152; and it is not surprizing that the narrator, having finished it, should exclaim "what a picture!" p. 153. "I stood" (continues he) "transfixed to the "spot."-Not that any one had laid a finger on him; or that he was pierced, or wounded, or the like but merely that tel fut son plaisir. Quære, would not trance-fixed be a better reading? It is a good out-of-the-way word; with as many syllables as the other; and "to meaning makes some faint pretence." But let us return to Glorvina. "Her harp symphonized her voice; and the voice "it symphonized, was the voice"-(credite posteri !) " of a woman!" p. 159. This "harp resembled "drawings of the Davidic lyre." p. 218. But what of that?" I am not so weak, as to be dazzled by a sound." Vol. 2. p. 105.—Bravely said! and, in the language of my Authoress, "spoken like a true"born Irishman." Vol. 2. p. 281. 66 It was some time after this, that Father John, having examined my broken head, congratulated "me on the convalescence of my looks." p. 176. Whatever mine might be, old Innismore's face was not in a convalescent state. "A tear dimmed "the spirit of the prince's eye. We will summons "O'Gallagher, said he, and drive away sorrow." p. 181, 182. What courtliness of expression! He appears to be every inch a king, indeed. "This is no hyperbola." p. 186.-Neither is this hasty, but deliberate spelling: for it recurs in vol. 2. p. 181 and 250. "Away flew Glorvina; speaking Irish to the p. 189.-Elegant, interesting, and accomplished creature! I need not tell you that she is up to all the philology of Goody Two-shoes and Tom Thumb. Indeed she has, "the vivida vis anima of "native genius."-Aye that she has; so she has : and besides, she is after possessing" the bright lu"mine purpureo." p. 202.-You know what that "is,-Yet "Glorvina is rather a subject of philo"sophical analysis, than amatory discussion." vol. 2. p. 148. "Her drapery, nebulam lineam, seemed "light as the breeze on which it floated;* and her "effulgent countenance was lit up with an unusual "blaze." Vol. 2. p. 162, habit, Murtoch, said I." 164.-" It is a dreadful Vol. 1. p. 77.—I mean drinking whisky. "It is so, please your honour, re 65 plied Murtoch: but then, when we get the drop " within us, it is meat, drink, and clothes to us.' Ibid. I forgot to tell you, that Glorvina "has la "langua Toscana nel bocca Romana." In fact, she and her father are a most extraordinary pair; and put me in mind of the witches in Macbeth: for "they "look not t like the inhabitants of the earth, "And yet are on it." p. 204. Notes and Illustrations. * And probably was; or even lighter. Else how could it have floated? + Nor indeed do they think, speak, or dress like them. "The vista of a huge folding door, partly thrown "back, beheld the form of Glorvina." p. 209. I presume the door, (or its vista) fell back in astonishment and admiration of the beauties which it beheld. "I stole a look at Glorvina; who, plucking" (not a rose, but) "a thistle, that sprung from a broken "pediment, blew away its down. Surely she is the "most sentient of beings?" p. 250.-Unquestionably she must be so. Her blowing off the thistle down satisfactorily proves it. It is therefore carried in the affirmative, nemine dissentiente. "Soon after, she flew away, in all the elixity* of "a youthful spirit." p. 253.-" Oh what a spirit of "Bizarté ever drives me from common sense!" Surely we must admire the candour, if not the French, of the above exclamation!-with which I beg to terminate the first part of my Glorviniana. Notes and Illustrations. C. Whether this should be exility, or exility should be this, or which is the best word, or what either means, or would be at, I profess myself unable to determine. But elixity occurs more than once e. g. in p. 172 and 198 of vol. 2d.-At simul ass-is, miscueris elixa, &cet. dulcia se in bilem vertent; &cet. NUMBER XXIX. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3d, 1807. "To rase "Quite out our native language; and instead, "Great laughter was, to see the hubbub strange; Milton: Par. lost. B. 12. L. 53. GLORVINIANA CONTINUED. Vol. II. HAVE my readers ever heard of " the Phænician migration hither from Spain?" If not, they will find it recorded by Miss Owenson, in page 9 of her second volume. Dux foemina facti. The English reader will, I fear, pronounce that Phoenician emigrants from Spain must have been bound for Ireland; and that ,,,, "Taurino quantum possent circumdare tergo" would, for such colonists, be the most appropriate quantity of soil. |