It is the hour when from the boughs
The nightingale's high note is heard;
It is the hour when lover's vows

Seem sweet in every whispered word;
And gentle winds, and waters near,
Make music to the lonely ear.
Each flower the dews have lightly wet,
And in the sky the stars are met,
And on the wave is deeper blue,
And on the leaf a browner hue,
And in the heaven that clear obscure,
So softly dark and darkly pure,
Which follows the decline of day,
As twilight melts beneath the moon away.
BYRON-Parasina. St. 1.

S.

Since truth and constancy are vain,
Since neither love, nor sense of pain,
Nor force of reason, can persuade;
Then let example be obey'd.

t. GEO. GRANVILLE (Lord Lansdowne)--
To Myra.

Cæsar had his Brutus-Charles the First, his Cromwell-and George the Third-("Treason!" cried the speaker) may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

20. PATRICK HENRY-Speech, 1765.

I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter. JUNIUS--To the Duke of Grafton.

x.

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.

y.
LONGFELLOW--A Psalm of Life.
Thieves for their robbery have authority,
When judges steal themselves.

2. Measure for Measure. Act II. Sc. 2.

EXPECTATION.

Expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.

аа. Troilus and Cressida. Act III. Sc. 2. He hath, indeed, better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.

አ.

COLERIDGE-The Ancient Mariner.
Pt. VI. Last St.

In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.

i. CRABBE-Parish Register. Pt. III.

To show the world what long experience gains,

Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;

But at life's outset to inform mankind,
Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

j. CRABBE-The Borough.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of. k.

GEORGE ELIOT-The Mill on the Foss.
Bk. V. Ch. I.

b.

EMERSON--Conduct of Life. Behavior.

Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!

C. EMERSON-Conduct of Life. Behavior.

Beautiful Eyes.

Of thy blue eyes' sweet smile;

A sea of blue thoughts is spreading Over my heart the while.

e.

HEINE-New Spring. Pt. XVIII.

Blue! Tis the life of heaven,-the domain
Of Cynthia,-the wide palace of the sun,-
The tent of Hesperus, and all his train,-
The bosomer of clouds, gold, grey, and
dun-

Blue! 'Tis the life of waters--ocean

And all its vassal streams: pools numberless

May rage, and foam, and fret, but never can Subside, if not to dark-blue nativeness. Blue! gentle cousin of the forest-green, Married to green in all the sweetest flow

ers-

The heaven of April, with its changing light. LONGFELLOW-The Spirit of Poetry. Line 45.

0.

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

p.

..

BULWER-LYTTON-- What Will He Do
With It. Bk. VIII. Ch. II.

Those dark eyes-so dark and so deep!
OWEN MEREDITH-Lucile. Pt. I.
Canto VI. St. 4.
True eyes

Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise
The sweet soul shining through them.
7. OWEN MEREDITH-Lucile. Pt. II.
Canto II. St. 3..
Ladies, whose bright eyes

Rain influence.
S. MILTON--L'Allegro. Line 121.
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

Second Evening.

Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly.
Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n,
T'inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n?
POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. I.

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