PARALLEL PASSAGES

I take the liberty of sending you several parallel passages, which may probably appear to you worthy of insertion in your valuable paper. 1. "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." Shakspeare: *Julius Cæsar*. "There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it." Beaumont and Fletcher: *The Custom of the Country*. "There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good—" Chapman: *Bussy d'Ambois*. 2. "The fann'd snow, That's bolted by the northern blast thrice o'er." Shakspeare: *A Winter's Tale*. "S…