The paucity of spondees in the English language, is the reason why we cannot tolerate an English Hexameter. Sir Philip Sidney, in his Arcadia, thus speaks of Love in what is meant for Hexameter verse: So to the woods Love runnes, as well as rides to the palace: Neither he bears reverence to a prince, nor pity to a beggar; But, like a point in the midst of a circle, is still of a nearnesse. * * * * * His form had not yet lost All _her_ original brightness, is a very remarkable passage in Milton's Paradise Lost, wherein a _person is personified_. * * * * * It is certain that Hebrew verse did not include rhyme: the terminations of the lines where they are most distinct, never showing any thing of the kind. * * * * * Francis le Brossano engraved these verses upon a marble tomb which he erected to Petrarch at Arqua. {578} Frigida Francisci tegit hic lapis ossa Petrarcæ. Suscipe, virgo parens, animam: sate virgine, parce, Fessaque jam terris, cœli requiescat in arce. * * * * * “Statua Statuæ” was an inscription handed about at Paris for the equestrian statue of Louis XV, begun by Bouchardon and finished by Pigal. The following also, Bouchardon est un animal Et son ouvrage fait pitié: Il place les vices à cheval Et les vertus à pied. And another, Voila notre roi comme il est à Versailles Sans foi, sans loi, et sans entrailles. * * * * * Bochart derives Elysium from the Phœnician Elysoth, joy, through the Greek Ἠλυσιον. Circe from the Phœnician Kirkar, to corrupt—Siren from the Phœnician Sir, to sing—Scylla from the Phœnician Scol, destruction—Charybdis from the Phœnician Chor-obdam, chasm of ruin. * * * * * Attrogs, a fruit common in Palestine, is supposed to have been “the forbidden.” It has a rough rind, and resembles a citron or lemon. * * * * * The following quaint sentence is found in Saint Evremond. “I own I do not envy him, when I consider that there are in the next world such people as Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Eacus.” * * * * * The standard of Judas Maccabæus displayed the words “Mi camoca baelim Jehovah”—Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the Gods? This being afterwards intimated by the first letter of each word, in the manner of the S. P. Q. R., gave rise to the surname Maccabæus—for the initials in Hebrew form “Maccabi.” * * * * * Josephus, with Saint Paul and others, supposed man to be compounded of body, soul, and spirit. The distinction between soul and spirit is an essential point in ancient philosophy. * * * * *