. Thackerayana;. setout. But we had now a new scene of terror; every man we sawwas a robber, and we were ordered sometimes to drive hard—lesta traveller, whom we saw behind, should overtake us—and some-times to stop, lest we should come up to him who was passingbefore us. She alarmed many an honest man by begging him tospare her life as he passed by the coach, and drew me into fifteenquarrels with persons who increased her fright by kindly stoppingto inquire whether they could assist us. At last we came home,and she told her company next day what a pleasant ride she hadbeen taking. The Rambler
. Thackerayana;. setout. But we had now a new scene of terror; every man we sawwas a robber, and we were ordered sometimes to drive hard—lesta traveller, whom we saw behind, should overtake us—and some-times to stop, lest we should come up to him who was passingbefore us. She alarmed many an honest man by begging him tospare her life as he passed by the coach, and drew me into fifteenquarrels with persons who increased her fright by kindly stoppingto inquire whether they could assist us. At last we came home,and she told her company next day what a pleasant ride she hadbeen taking. The Rambler.—Vol. I. No. 37. Piping on their reeds the shepherds go,Nor fear an ambush, nor suspect a foe. —Pope. Canto quse solitus, si quando armenta vocabat, Amphion Dircasus. — strains I sing as once Amphion playd,When listening flocks the powerful call obeyed.—Elphinston. The satisfaction received from pastoral writing not only beginsearly, but lasts long; we do not, as we advance into the intel-. lectual world, throw it away among other childish amusements andpastimes, but willingly return to it any hour of indolence and re-laxation. The images of true pastoral have always the power of 384 THA CKERA YA NA. exciting delight, because the works of nature, from which they aredrawn, have always the same order and beauty, and continue toforce themselves upon our thoughts, being at once obvious to themost careless regard and more than adequate to the strongestreason and severest contemplation. Our inclination to stillnessand tranquillity is seldom much lessened by long knowledge ofthe busy and tumultuous part of the world. In childhood we turnour thoughts to the country as to the origin of pleasure ; we recurto it in old age as a part of rest, and, perhaps, with that secondaryand adventitious gladness which every man feels on reviewingthose places, or recollecting those occurrences, that contribute tohis youthful enjoyments, and bring him back to the prime of life,whe
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