AKENSIDE ever considered his lameness as an unsupportable misfortune, for it continually reminded him of the fall of the cleaver from one of his father's blocks.

BECCARIA, invited to Paris by the literati, arrived melancholy and silent, and abruptly returned home.

At that moment this great man was most miserable from a fit of jealousy: a young female had extinguished all his philosophy.

The poet ROUSSEAU was the son of a cobbler; and when his honest parent waited at the door of the theatre to embrace his son on the success of his first piece, genius, whose sensibility is not always virtuous, repulsed the venerable father with insult and contempt.

But I will no longer proceed from folly to crime.
[Footnote A: He was represented as an ill-made monkey in the frontispiece to a satire noted in "Quarrels of Authors," p.