The ear and gazing eye
That you enthrall'd before.

No longer hear or see;
Whilst those you now would woo,
The time-worn truant slight,
Nor dream of love with you.

_New Monthly Magazine._

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Dublin is a great city. Dublin, as the late Lord L----th used to say, is
"one of the tay-drinkenest, say-bathinest, car-drivinest places in the
world; it flogs for _divarsion._"

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THE TOYMAN IS ABROAD.

(_Concluded from page 46._)


There is a point at which the inconvenience of superfluities so far
exceeds their utility, that luxury becomes converted into a perfect
bore. What, for instance, but an annoyance, would be the most splendid
feast, to a man whose stomach is already overladen with food? Human
ingenuity may effect much; and the Romans, by means of emetics, met this
emergency with considerable skill; but on a more enlarged experience of