Nut likely to be Shown.—Talleyrand used to lie worried about his autograph, and toonc of Ids persecutors he thus wrote:—•‘Will you oblige me with your company to dinner on Wednesday next at eight o’clock ? I have invited a number of exceedingly clever persons, and do not like to be the only fool of the lot.” In Memoiian. —A coirespondent, in reference to the coincidence of sentiment discoverable in the (quatrain, from “ In Memoriam,” beginning, “ I hold it true, whate’re befall.” and a passage in Congreve’s “ Plain Dealer, ” calls attention to some beautiful and tender lines by Lessing, ip wlrich the sapie thought occurs i—yesterday I loved, To-day I g> ieve, To-morrow I die : Yet shall I think, . Both to-day and to-morrow, Gladly of yesterday.”
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2650, 15 August 1871, Page 3
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124Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2650, 15 August 1871, Page 3
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