It contains pretty lines; but, to my thinking, it is neither fish nor flesh.

There is too much, and too little, of the antique about it.

Nothing but the most strictly classical costume can reconcile me to a mythological plot; and Ion is a modern philanthropist, whose politics and morals have been learned from the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
I do not know whether the noise which the lawyers of the Supreme Court have been raising against our legislative authority has reached, or will reach, England.

They held a public meeting, which ended,--or rather began, continued, and ended,--in a riot; and ever since then the leading agitators have been challenging each other, refusing each other's challenges, libelling each other, swearing the peace against each other, and blackballing each other.

Mr.Longueville Clarke, who aspires to be the O'Connell of Calcutta, called another lawyer a liar.