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OMNIANA.
But the finest specimen of French-English verse is certainly the inscription which M. Girardin placed at Ermenonville to the memory of Shenstone.
This plain stone,
To William Shenstone.
In his writings he display'd
A mind natural.
At Leasowes he laid
Arcadian greens rural.
Shenstone used to thank God that his name was not liable to a pun. He little thought that it was liable to such a rhyme as this.
208. Irish Gambling.
Stanihurst describes a singular class of gamblers among the wild Irish of his time. "There is among them, (he[1] says,) a brotherhood of karrowes, that proffer to play at cards all the year long, and
