. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. aver C M he hermit good lives in that woodJ_ Which slopes down to the sea. How loudly his sweet voice he rears !He Iffves to talk with marinersThat come from a far countree. O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man ! The hermit crossed his quick! quoth he, Ibid thee say— ]Vhat manner of man art thou ? He kneels at morn, and noon and eve— He hath a cushion plump ;It is the moss that wholly hides The rotted old oak stump. Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woful forced me to begin my tale ; And then it left me f
. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. aver C M he hermit good lives in that woodJ_ Which slopes down to the sea. How loudly his sweet voice he rears !He Iffves to talk with marinersThat come from a far countree. O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man ! The hermit crossed his quick! quoth he, Ibid thee say— ]Vhat manner of man art thou ? He kneels at morn, and noon and eve— He hath a cushion plump ;It is the moss that wholly hides The rotted old oak stump. Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woful forced me to begin my tale ; And then it left me free. And now, all in my own countree, 1 stood on the firm hermit stepped forth from the boat. And scarcely he could stand. Since then, at an uncertain hour. This agony returns ;And till my ghastly tale is told This heart within me burns. I pass, like night, from land to land ; I have strange power of speech ;That moment that his face I see,I know the man that must hear me ; To him my tale I teach. f Coleridges Rime of the Ancient THE ANCIENT MARINER ANDREWS 47 ANDY Andrews (Joseph), the hero and title ofa novel by Fielding. He is a footman whomarries a maid-servant. Joseph Andi-ewsis a brother of [Richardsons] Pamela, ahandsome, model young man. The accounts of Josephs bravery and goodqiialities, his voice too musical to halloa to thedogs, his bravery in riding races for the gentle-men of the county, and his constancy in refusingbribes and temptation, have something refresh-ing in their naivete and freshness, and prepossessone in favor of that handsome young hero.—Thackeray. Androclus and the Lion. Androcluswas a runaway Roman slave, who tookrefuge in a cavern. A lion entered, andinstead of tearing him to pieces, lifted upits fore-paw that Andioclus might extractfrom it a thorn. The fugitive, being sub-sequently captured, was doomed to fightwith a lion in the Roman arena, and it sohappened that the very same lion was letout against him; it instantly rec
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