preserve the room in which he was born.

Mém. de Mlle, de Montpensier, i. 27. An attachment of this nature is
generally the characteristic of a benevolent mind; and a long
acquaintance with the world cannot always extinguish it.

"To a friend," says John Duke of Buckingham, "I will expose my
weakness: I am oftener missing a pretty gallery in the old house I
pulled down, than pleased with a saloon which I built in its stead,
though a thousand times better in all respects."
See his Letter to the D. of Sh.

Such were Diderot's _Regrets sur sa vieille Robe de Chambre_.
"Pourquoi ne avoir pas gardée? Elle étoit faite a moi; j'etois fait a
elle.--Mes amis, gardez vos vieux amis."

This is the language of the heart; and will remind the reader of that
good-humoured remark in one of Pope's letters--"I should hardly care
to have an old post pulled up, that I remembered ever since I was a
child."
POPE'S Works, viii. 151.

Nor did the Poet feel the charm more forcibly than his Editor.
See HURD'S Life of Warburton, 51, 99.

The elegant author of Telemachus has illustrated this subject, with
equal fancy and feeling, in the story of Alibée, Persan.

NOTE p.