by getting Philoxenus to express publicly his
approbation of them, and for that purpose ordered him from his prison:
but the poet, too proud and virtuous to purchase his liberty by the
sacrifice of truth, refused; in consequence of which, Dionysius ordered
him to the quarries to work as a slave. Some time afterwards, being
released, he was asked at a public feast, his opinion of some of the
king's verses; upon which, knowing that the inquirers were the tyrant's
agents, he answered, by exclaiming aloud, "Lead me back to the
quarries!" His answer had such an effect upon Dionysius that he forgave
Philoxenus, and restored him to his favour.

[Footnote 1: This was the same Apollonius, who while one day
vehemently haranguing the populace at Ephesus, suddenly broke off
and exclaimed--_Strike the tyrant, strike him!--the blow is
given!--he is wounded--he is fallen--he dies!_ And at that very
moment the emperor Domitian had been stabbed at Rome.]

[Footnote 2: Aristophanes ridiculed them both on the stage with
great humour and success.]

BIOGRAPHY--FOR THE MIRROR

SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. HODGKINSON.

The illustrious lord Verulam, detailing in one of his essays the various
motives to envy in the human bosom, says, "men of birth are noted to be
envious towards new men--for their distance is altered." His lordship
might with safety have extended the proposition to those whom either
wealth, or casualty unconnected with high descent or personal merit,
have raised to worldly power and prosperity. Men who have been lifted to
the summits of society by the accumulation of money, still more than
those who stand there in right of the decayed merit of their ancestry
look down with scorn upon their fellow-beings who toil below, and too
often view with jealousy and repugnance, the endeavours of those who
aspire to that eminence, of which they themselves are so vain and
ostentatious. Elevation from an humble condition to conspicuity and
rank, bespeaks superior personal merit; and to many of those who figure
in, what is called, high life, it is to be feared that the bare mention
of personal merit, would look like an indirect reproach.

Not only in that class, however, but in most others of society, there
are multitudes who can boast of very different sentiments--men of real
worth and discernment, who do not disdain to contemplate the exertions
of a powerful mind in its aspirations to dignity,