Exquisite  sensibility  seems  to  be  connected  with  a  delicate  poise  of  nervous
structure  eminently  favorable  to  the  experience  of  jarring  and  dislocating
shock.  And  it  is  this  preponderance  of  rude  shock  over  smooth,  agreeable
stimulation — of  a  sense  of  dissonance  in  things  over  the  joyous  consciousness
of  harmony — which  seems  to  supply  one  of  the  most  powerful  incitanta  to  (he
life  of  imagination."

Oontle  Draft,  a  popular  designation  for  shoemakers,  which,  according  to
Brady  {"Clavis  Calend aria"),  arose  from  the  fact  that  in  an  old  romance  a
prince  of  the  name  of  Crispin  is  made  to  exercise  the  trade  of  shoemaking,
in  honor  of  his  namesake.  Saint  Crispin.  There  is  a  tradition  that  King
Edward  IV.,  in  one  of  his  disguises,  once  drank  with  a  party  of  shoemakers,

i  pledged   them.     The  story  is   alluded  to  in  the  old  play  of  "George


Bui  you  and  youn,  lo  the  winHd'i  cad,

Oentle  Bhepherd,  tell  me  where !  "  Let  ihem  tell  me  where.  I  say,
sir,  let  them  tell  me  where,  t  repeat  it,  sir :  I  am  entitled  to  say  to  them,
tell  roe  where,"  cried  Grenville,  in  the  debate  on  the  budget  of  17M,  when  it
was  proposed  as  necessary  to  la^  an  additional  tax,  "  Gentle  shepherd,  tell
roe  where  I"  hummed  Pitt,  quoting  the  song  of  Dr.  Samuel  Howard.  "  It
was  long,"  wrote  Hacaulay  {Estay  en  Lord  ChatAam),  "  before  Grenville  lost
the  nickname  of  'Gentle  Shepherd'  which  Pitt  fixed  upon  him."

Oeogiaphloal  Idea,  Italjr  only  a.  This  was  an  expression  of  Prince
Metternich,  during  the  Austrian  dominion  in  Italy,  to  denote  that  in  the  policy
of  the  empire  that  country  was  not  a  state  or  people  with  any  rights  which,
in  the  comity  of  nations,  Au.stria  was  bound  to  respect.
