My father and his pony were several times actually blown out of the road.

D.Q.] 508.

_Charles Lamb_.

[XIV.] From the most gentle creature nursed in fields.
This way of indicating the _name_ of my lamented friend has been found fault with; perhaps rightly so; but I may say in justification of the double sense of the word, that similar allusions are not uncommon in epitaphs.

One of the best in our language in verse I ever read, was upon a person who bore the name of Palmer; and the course of the thought, throughout, turned upon the Life of the Departed, considered as a pilgrimage.