However, being pressed for an
explanation, he said that the _scale_ was conducted by a _sharp_, a
_flat_ and a _natural_; and if these did not constitute "music," he
did not know what did.
ISSACCAR.
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IMMORTALITY.
Napoleon being in the gallery of the Louvre one day, attended by Baron
Denon, turned round suddenly from a fine picture, which he had viewed
for some time in silence, and said to him, "That is a noble picture,
Denon."--"Immortal," was Denon's reply. "How long," inquired Napoleon,
"will this picture last?" Denon answered, that, "with care and in a
proper situation, it might last, perhaps, five hundred years."--"And
how long," said Napoleon, "will a statue last?"--"Perhaps," replied
Denon, "five thousand years."--"And this," returned Napoleon, sharply,
"this you call immortality!"
* * * * *
LINES TO A LADY, ON HER REFUSING HER CARD.
Let heroes, anxious for their future fame,
Obtain of Fortune what they want--a name;
The _future_ theirs, the present hour be mine--
The only name I ask of fate--is thine;
Yet happier still had fate decreed to me
The favour'd lot, to give my name to thee.
T.B.
* * * * *
A dull barrister, once obtained the nickname _Necessity_--because
_Necessity has no law_.
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