LIFE of PLINY.

...accomplishments. She had an entire affection for her husband. His happiness, his prosperity, and his reputation were the objects of her thoughts and wishes. By PLINY's letters to her, we may judge of the mutual tenderness between them.

There constant love with equal ardor glows,
Nor languid ebbs, nor yet tumultuous flows;
With faith unaltered, resolutely just,
No sport of passion, and no slave of lust:
Such is the state the blest enjoy above,
The purest reason, joined to purest love.

PLINY's country houses

You will find, CHARLES, that PLINY had several country houses. His Tuscan villa and Laurentinum are described in two very long and laborious letters that seem not to give so clear an idea of the houses themselves as of his particular affection to them. I imagine you will be delighted with a little garden apartment adjoining to his gallery, and built by himself. He mentions it with ecstasy, in the seventeenth epistle of the second book original: See Book 4. Ep. 19.. And he tells us that he constantly lodged in this apartment during the noisy festivals of SATURN The Roman festival of Saturnalia, and at once found himself not only enclosed in sweetness and solitude, but perfectly defended from all kinds of interruption. Doctor SHAW, in his travels through the Levant The Eastern Mediterranean and Barbary North Africa, and in his description of the houses there, takes notice that they have imitated the eastern manner by building a private set of apartments, which seem rather annexed than properly belonging to the rest of the house. The little chamber designed by the Shunammite A woman from the town of Shunem for ELISHA A biblical prophet, where he retired at his pleasure, without breaking-in original: 2d of Kings, chap. iv. v. 10. Let us make him a little chamber, I pray thee, with walls; and let us set him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that he may turn in thither when he cometh to us....