So tedious is this day,

As in the night before some festival
To an impatient child, that hath new robes,
And may not wear them.

n. Romeo and Juliet. Act III. Sc. 2. The soul of this man is his clothes.

0. All's Well That Ends Well. Act II. Sc. 5.

With silken coats, and caps, and golden rings,

With ruffs, and cuffs, and farthingales, and things;

With scarfs, and fans, and double change of bravery,

With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.

p.

Taming of the Shrew. Act IV. Sc. 3.

Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age.

น.

Much Ado About Nothing. Act II.
Sc. 3.

And after, this; and then to breakfast, with What appetite you have.

Line 614.

x.

Read o'er this;

Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2.

sion. V.

W.

Henry IV. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 4.

I have no other but a woman's reason; I think him so, because I think him so. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I. Sc 2. Leave this keen encounter of our wits, And fall somewhat into a slower method. x. Richard III. Act I. Sc. 2. Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear.

y. Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 2.

She hath prosperous art

When she will play with reason and dis

Nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. d.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE--Religio Medici. Sec. 16. There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

e. ISAAC DISRAELI-Literary Character.

Ch. XI.

The conscious utterance of thought by speech or action, to any end, is art.

f. EMERSON Society and Solitude. Art.

The power depends on the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates.

g. EMERSON Essay on Art.

The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.

h. GOOD-The Book of Nature. Series I. Lecture IX.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

i. ANNA KATHARINE GREEN-The Sword of Damocles. Bk. I. Ch. V.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

j. HOLLAND-Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. Art and Life.

The counterfeit and counterpart
Of Nature reproduced in art.

0. LONGFELLOW-Kéramos. Line 380. Art in fact is the effort of man to express the ideas which Nature suggests to him of a power above Nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which Nature, like himself, is but the effect.

p. BULWER LYTTON-Caxtoniana. On the Moral Effect of Writers.

Artists may produce excellent designs, but they will avail little, unless the taste of the public is sufficiently cultivated to appreciate them,

GEORGE C. MASON-Art Manufactures Ch. XIX.