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power, so fragile and tender is their fabric, that they, disappear
and perish, soon to re-assume a figure perhaps still more elegant.
We subjoin a few extracts from .Parriana. The Doctor's
opinion respecting the Seat in Parliament, is very forcible
and characteristic. Hymen's Ball is ;waggish and clever:—
Parr was on intimate terms with Mr. and Mrs. Bettie Great-
heed,.of Guy's Cliff, and paid them frequent visits at that delight-
ful villa. Of Bertie Greatheed he used to say, that " his talents
were ' good wholesale talents,' but not powerful enough to give
him literary elevation. Bertie," he said, " wrote a tragedy,
which he called the 'Regent.' It came out while the great question
of the Regency was pending, and so hotly debated by Pitt, and
Fox. Of course, people flocked to see a play with such a name,
thinking, no'doubt, that it related to the great party-question of
the day. But it was a Spanish story; and .had nothing to do
with the Regency; and every body seas disappointed. Mrs.
Siddona, by her excellent acting, kept it up for some nights,
but it was only a faint, languishing state of 'existence. At last
some wags in the pit set up a laugh at a ridiculous passage in the
dialogue, and then it sank for ever. Somebody asks one of the
; ga,
personages where he had left the King, a . ' answered thus:—...
' Within his tent, surrounded h ?riend
Or two, he sits and mocks at ortrine.'
Nov if the word had been ' attended,' all would have been
well; but the idea of a man surrounded by a friend or two, was
most egregiously absurd."

Amongst the men of distinguished talents, in whose society
Parr delighted, was Bobus Smith. He was a good Greek scholar,
bad been educated at Eton, was contemporary, with Canning
and Frere, and one of the principle contributors to that remark-
able specimen of juvenile talent—" The Microcosm." By the
way, Bobus is merely an Etonian nick-name, which he has retain-
ed through life. So completely is it identified with him, that I
remember the door of a drawing-room being thrown open before
dinner, where a large party was assembled, and the servant call-
ing out hastily, Mr. and Mrs. Bobus Smith. It is a foolish
habit (for I must be allowed to digress a-little) that of giving
nick-names. A satirical family, I once visited, were upon inti-
mate terms with the late Mr. Holford, the Master in Chancery.
He was somewhat addicted to prosing, and the girls in that house
used to call him Bore Holford. This they did so habitually, that
the servants caught it, and the next time he came there to dinner,
he was announced before a great number of persons to the lady of
the house in a loud voice, " Mr. Bore Holford, Ma'am !"

"When at the bar I have often sate near Bohus, in full grin et
his pleasantry and wit. He was then without a brief, but he
mused himself and us with entertaining commentaries on the
speeches of the men in business. Jemmy Park, now a Judge of
the Common Pleas, happened on one occasion to be up, and was
endeavouring to be pathetic, but in the worst taste imaginable.
Observing a sarcastic mile on Bobus's countenance, I asked him
what he was thinking of ? Why,' said he, ' I was absolutely
lost in admiration at the curiosa infelicitas of Park's pathos V--
Some one once asked him what he thought of the style of ' Adol-
phus' Hiitory .of England.' Style !' said Bobus, it is not a
style at all; but, as Swift said of Dr. Burnet's, what the poverty
of the language conipeli me to call one.' "

One of Parr's pupils became a Member of the House of Com-
Mons about the year 1810. He was placed in a Ministerial seat
by the late Mr. Perceval. Having in a letter, intended as an
apology for something of tergiversation from his former senti-
ments, communicated the transaction to his old preceptor, he re-
ceived from him a long reply, one passage of which ran nearly
thus If your change of party be sincere, your conduct re-
quires no casuistical defence. Party divisions are beneficial to
„she Vita*, end there ere good man in has,- •-peirsiew ems karcf
-
therefore, incurred no obligation which ft hannitmen would dia.
avow ; 'end though your acceptance of the seat is a tacit compact
of fidelity to those who gave it you, vet I take it for granted,
that you had maturely weighed, and ilalibetately adopted their
siontirnaate, before you undertook to support them. But if you
have silenced the atuweiunt of your conscience, and abandonedthe impulses of yonr understanding; if upon the vital, bliiential,
consecrated principles of the English Constitution, you have acted
against your own internal convictions, no good man can applaud
you, no honourable man can acquit you. You will have become
a slave in the lowest sense of that degradation ; and on the day that
saw you become one, you lost not ' half, but all your worth.'"

AYMEN'S BALL.
Hymen afforded a ball
On the outside of his Castle ;
Same call it Happiness Hall,
Others account it a bdstile.

Be that AA it may, in a trice
Dancing we bad and hilarity ;
Hearts that were boutid up Ia ice
Melted to amorous charity_
Beauty look'd smiling on. Faith,
Coyness grew into festivity,
Pairs as they whirl'd out of breath,
Walts'd themselves into captivity.