As the pent water of a mill-dam lies Motionless, yielding, noiseless, and serene. Patience waits meekly with companioned eyes; Or like the speck-cloud, which alone is seen Silver’d within blue space, ling’ring for air On which to sail prophetic voyages; Or as the fountain stone that doth not wear, But suits itself to pressure, and with ease Diverts the dropping crystal; or the wife That sits beside her husband and her love Subliming to another state and life, Off’ring him consolation as a dove,-- Her sighs and tears, her heartache and her mind Devout, untired, calm, precious, and resign’d. *, *, P. * * * * * ~British Portraits.~ CATALOGUE OF PAINTED BRITISH PORTRAITS, comprising most of the Sovereigns of England, from Henry I. to George IV., and many distinguished personages; principally the productions of Holbein, Zucchero, C. Jansen, Vandyck, Hudson, Reynolds, Northcote, &c. _Now selling at the prices affixed, by_ HORATIO RODD, _17, Air-street, Piccadilly_. 1827. This is an age of book and print catalogues; and lo! we have a picture dealer’s catalogue of portraits, painted in oil, from the price of two guineas to sixty. There is only one of so high value as the latter sum, and this is perhaps the most interesting in Mr. Rodd’s collection, and he has allowed the present engraving from it. The picture is in size thirty inches by twenty-five. The subjoined particulars are from the catalogue. [Illustration: ~Simon Lord Lovat.~ FROM THE ORIGINAL PICTURE BY HOGARTH, LATELY DISCOVERED.] “To the present time, none of Hogarth’s biographers appear to have been aware of the ‘local habitation’ of the original painting from which the artist published his etching, the popularity of which, at the period to which it alludes, was so great, that a printseller offered for it its weight in gold: that offer the artist rejected; and he is said to have received from its sale, for many weeks, at the rate of twelve pounds each day. The impressions could not be taken off so fast as they were wanted, though the rolling-press was at work all night by the week together.