Saliv'a Sig'nify Salm'on Slaugh'ter Saltpe'tre Sleight Salve Slough Sal'ver Slov'en Sug'ar Sure TAM'BOUR Tap'estry Tapio'ca Tapis Target Sov'ereign Taunt Sched'ule Span'iel Ten'able THE POST ARRIVES IN THE VILLAGE.-COWPER. (For a notice of Cowper see page 273.) HARK! 'tis the twanging horn! o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkl'd face reflected bright, He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks, Is to conduct it to the destined inn; With tears that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, His horse and him, unconscious of them all. Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Sermons, and city feasts, and fav'rite airs, At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. ENGLAND BEFORE THE TIME OF ALFRED. 1. WE who have been born in England at a time when the country is so thickly peopled, so carefully cultivated, and so crowded with towns and villages and busy cities, find it difficult to imagine the time could ever have been when England was a wild and thinly inhabited island, the natives of which were little less barbarous than the inhabitants of some of the South Sea Islands whom we |