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ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.

" A plague," says Time to Thomas Hearne," Whatever I forget you learn."

Our poetical contributor has taken a view ofthe Antiquary under the idea of what DoctorJohnson calls " Curiosity in Excess," wherestraws and trifles occupy that time which mightbe more seriously or advantageously employed.But this spirit of imagination may be pardoned ina stranger to the pleasures of virtu, when one of itsmost ardent votaries indulged in the ridicule of aprofession he both followed and admired. ButGrose, while caricaturing pretensions to con-noisseurship, did not consider that a handle mightbe made of this satire to draw down the contemptof some, ignorant of the pleasure and advantage ofantiquarian research; in which there is more thanis dreamt of, in the philosophy of many, who won-