"The lame, the blind, and the aged, repose in hospitals. "Justice is dispensed to all: law sits steady on her throne.”

4.[SABBATH MORNING.]-Grahame.

"How still the morning of the hallowed day!
Mute is the voice of rural labor, hushed

The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song
The scythe lies glittering in the dewy wreath
Of tedded grass, mingled with faded flowers,
That yestermorn bloomed waving in the breeze.
Sounds the most faint attract the ear, - the hum
Of early bee, the trickling of the dew,
The distant bleating midway up the hill.
Calmness sits throned on yon unmoving cloud.
To him who wanders o'er the upland leas,

The blackbird's note comes mellower from the dale
And sweeter from the sky the gladsome lark
Warbles his heaven-tuned song; the lulling brook
Murmurs more gently down the deep-worn glen;
While from yon cottage-roof whose curling smoke
O'ermounts the mist, is heard, at intervals,
The voice of psalms, the simple song of praise."

To look unmoved upon that heaving waste,
Which, from horizon to horizon spread,
Meets the o'erarching heavens on every side,
Blending their hues in distant faintness there.
""Tis wonderful! - and yet, my boy, just such
Is life. Life is a sea as fathomless,

As wide, as terrible, and yet sometimes
As calm and beautiful. The light of heaven
Smiles on it; and 't is decked with every hue
Of glory and of joy. Anon dark clouds
Arise; contending winds of fate go forth;
And Hope sits weeping o'er a general wreck.

"And thou must sail upon this sea, a long

Eventful voyage. The wise may suffer wreck,

The foolish must.

Oh! then be early wise!

Learn from the mariner his skilful art

To ride upon the waves, and catch the breeze,
And dare the threatening storm, and trace a path
'Mid countless dangers, to the destined port
'Unerringly secure. Oh! learn from him
To station quick-eyed Prudence at the helm,
To guard thy sail from Passion's sudden blasts,
And make Religion thy magnetic guide,
Which, though it trembles as it lowly lies,
Points to the light that changes not, - in heaven."

2.[COSROU'S ADDRESS TO MIRZA.] — Hawksworth.

"Be not offended: I boast of no knowledge that I have not received. As the sands of the desert drink up the drops of the rain, or the dew of the morning, so do I also, who am but dust, imbibe the instructions of the Prophet. Believe, then, it is he who tells thee, all knowledge is profane which terminates in thyself; and by a life wasted in speculation, little even of this can be gained. When the gates of paradise are thrown open before thee, thy mind shall be irradiated in a moment: here, thou canst do little more than pile error upon error, - there thou shalt build truth upon truth.

fore, for the glorious vision.

Wait, there

"Much is in thy power; and therefore much is expected of thee. Though the Almighty only can give virtue, yet, as a prince, thou mayest stimulate those to beneficence, who act from no higher motive than immediate interest: thou canst not produce the principle, but mayst enforce the practice. Let thy virtue be thus diffused; and if thou believest with reverence, thou shalt be accepted above.

"Farewell! May the smile of Him who resides in the heaven of heavens, be upon thee; and against thy name, in the volume of His will, may happiness be written!"

II.-"Serious" Style.

(Tone, smooth and level, but spirited.)

1.[USES OF KNOWLEDGE.]-Alison.

"One great end to which all knowledge ought to be employed, is the welfare of humanity. Every science is the foundation of some art beneficial to men; and while the study of it leads us to see the

beneficence of the laws of nature, it calls upon us also to follow the great end of the Father of nature, in their employment and application.

"I need not say what a field is thus opened to the benevolence of knowledge; I need not tell you, that, in every department of learning, there is good to be done to mankind. I need not remind you, that the age in which we live has given us the noblest examples in this kind, and that science now finds its highest glory in improving the condition, or in allaying the miseries of humanity.”

2.-[EARLY RISING.]-Hurd.

"Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.
The breath of night's destructive to the hue
Of every flower that blows. Go to the field,
And ask the humble daisy why it sleeps
Soon as the sun departs: Why close the eyes
Of blossoms infinite, ere the still moon

Her oriental veil puts off?

Think why,
Nor let the sweetest blossom be exposed
That nature boasts, to night's unkindly damp.
Well may it droop, and all its freshness lose,
Compelled to taste the rank and poisonous steam
Of midnight theatre, and morning ball.
Give to repose the solemn hour she claims;
And, from the forehead of the morning, steal
The sweet occasion. Oh! there is a charm
That morning has, that gives the brow of age
A smack of youth, and makes the lip of youth
Breathe perfumes exquisite. Expect it not,
Ye who till noon upon a down bed lie,
Indulging feverish sleep, or, wakeful, dream
Of happiness no mortal heart has felt,
But in the regions of romance."

3.[COUNSELS OF POLONIUS TO LAERTES.]-Shakspeare.

"These few precepts in thy memory

Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel;

But do not dull thy palm with entertainment

Of each new-hatched unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,

Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice :
Take each man's censure but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man :
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all,-To thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.'

III.

“Animated,” or Lively Style.

(Tone smooth, but inclining to high.)

1.- [MORNING.]-Beattie.

"The cottage curs at early pilgrim bark; Crowned with her pail the tripping milkmaid sings;

The whistling ploughman stalks afield; and hark! Down the rough slope the ponderous wagon rings; Through rustling corn the hare astonished springs, Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour; The partridge bursts away on whirring wings; Deep mourns the turtle in sequestered bower, And shrill lark carols clear from her aërial tower."

2.- [MORNING.]-Thomson.

"With quickened step,

Brown Night retires: young Day pours in

And opens all the lawny prospect wide.

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The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top,
Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.
Blue, through the dusk, the smoking currents shine;

And from the bladed field the fearful hare

Limps awkward; while along the forest glade

The wild deer trip, and often, turning, gaze

At early passenger. Music awakes
The native voice of undissembled joy;

And thick around the woodland hymns arise.
Roused by the cock, the soon clad shepherd leaves
His mossy cottage where with Peace he dwells;
And from the crowded fold, in order drives
His flock, to taste the verdure of the morn."

3.- [ANIMAL HAPPINESS.]-Paley.

"The atmosphere is not the only scene of animal enjoyment. Plants are covered with insects, greedily sucking their juices, and constantly, as it should seem, in the act of sucking. It cannot be doubted that this is a state of gratification. What else should fix them so closely to the operation and so long? Other species are running about, with an alacrity in their motions, which carries with it every mark of pleasure. Large patches of ground are sometimes half covered with these brisk and sprightly natures.

"If we look to what the waters produce, shoals of the fry of fish frequent the margins of rivers, of lakes, and of the sea itself. These are so happy, that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the water, their frolics in it, all conduce to show their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess."

IV.-"Gay," or Brisk, Style.

(Tone, smooth and high.)

1.[RUSTIC SUPERSTITIONS.]-Milton.

"Then to the spicy nut brown ale,

With stories told of many a feat,

How fairy Mab the junkets eat:
She was pinched and pulled, she said;
And he by friar's lantern led,

Tells how the drudging goblin sweat,
To earn his cream bowl duly set,
When in one night, ere glimpse of morn,
His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn,
That ten day-laborers could not end;
Then lies him down, the lubber fiend,

And, stretched out all the chimney's length,
Basks at the fire his hairy strength;
And crop-full, out of doors he flings,
Ere the first cock his matin rings."