"Sternitur infelix alieno vulnere, coelumque Aspicit, _et dulces moriens reminiscitur Argos_." Virgil, _AEn._, x. 782. 5. "... Red meteors flash'd along the sky, And conscious Nature shudder'd at the cry." _Pleasures of Hope._ "... _Fulsere ignes, et conscius_ aether." Virgil, _AEn._, iv. 167. 6. "In hollow winds he hears a spirit moan." _Pleasures of Hope._ Shakespeare has the _hollow whistling_ of the southern _wind_. 7. "The strings of Nature crack'd with agony." _Pleasures of Hope._ "His _grief_ grew puissant. and _the strings of life_ Began _to crack_."--Shakspeare, _King Lear_. 8. "The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook." _Gertrude of Wyoming._ "... And feel by turns the bitter change Of _fierce extremes, extremes_ by change more _fierce_." Milton, _Par. Lost_, ii. 599. 9. "His tassell'd horn beside him laid." _O'Connor's Child._ "... Ere th' odorous breath of morn Awakes the slumbering leaves, or _tassell'd horn_ Shakes the high thicket."--Milton, _Arcades_. 10. "The scented wild-weeds and enamell'd moss." _Theodric._ Campbell thinks it necessary to explain this latter epithet in a note: "The moss of Switzerland, as well as that of the Tyrol, is remarkable for a bright smoothness approaching to the appearance of enamel." And yet was no one, or both, of the following passages floating in his brain when his pen traced the line? "O'er the _smooth enamell'd green_ Where no print of sleep hath been." Milton, _Arcades_. "Here blushing Flora paints _th' enamell'd ground_." Pope, _Winsdor Forest_. W. T. M. Hong Kong. * * * * * "THE HANOVER RAT." (Vol. vii. p. 206.) _An Essay on Irish Bulls_ is said to have found its way into a catalogue of works upon natural history; with which precedent in my favour, and pending the inquiries of _naturalists_, _ratcatchers_, and _farmers_ into the history of the above-named formidable invader, I hope MR. HIBBERD will have no objection to my intruding a bibliographical curiosity under the convenient head he has opened for it in "N. & Q." My book, then, bears the appropriate title, _An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Hanover Rat, dedicated to P***m M******r, M.D., and S----y to the Royal Society_, 8vo., pp. 24.: London, 1744.