text: ; we have "wild love--keen sorrow--pleasure to pulseless hearts--debt to the heart--to be discharged to the dust--the garland--the tombstone--the crowned brow--the ashes and the spirit--heaven-toned voices and heaven-lighted lamps--the learning--sweetness by silence--and light by decay;" all which we conceive might have been very excusable in a young curate's sermon during his first year of probation and might have won for him more nosegays and favours than golden opinions but which we here feel inclined to put our pen across as so we remember many similarly ambitious passages to have been served before we were graduate of Oxford with the insignificant signification from the pen of our informator of _nihil ad rem_