" Thus
Joseph Lancaster was the precursor of our present system of
National Education.
(3) A great musician once said of a promising but passionless
cantatrice--"She sings well, but she wants something, and in that
something everything. If I were single, I would court her; I
would marry her; I would maltreat her; I would break her heart;
and in six months she would be the greatest singer in Europe!"--
BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE,
(4) Prescot's 'Essays,' art. Cervantes.
(5) A cavalier, named Ruy de Camera, having called upon Camoens to
furnish a poetical version of the seven penitential psalms, the
poet, raising his head from his miserable pallet, and pointing to
his faithful slave, exclaimed: "Alas! when I was a poet, I was
young, and happy, and blest with the love of ladies; but now, I am
a forlorn deserted wretch! See--there stands my poor Antonio,
vainly supplicating FOURPENCE to purchase a little coals. I have
not them to give him!" The cavalier, Sousa quaintly relates, in
his 'Life of Camoens,' closed his heart and his purse, and quitted
the room. Such were the grandees of Portugal!--Lord Strangford's
REMARKS ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF CAMOENS, 1824.
(6) See chapter v. p. 125.
(7) A Quaker called on Bunyan one day with "a message from the Lord,"
saying he had been to half the gaols of England, and was glad at
last to have found him. To which Bunyan replied: "If the Lord
sent thee, you would not have needed to take so much trouble to
find me out, for He knew that I have been in Bedford Gaol these
seven years past.
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