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A kick that scarce would move a horse
May kill a sound divine.

h. COWPER-The Yearly Distress. St. 16. Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

i.

EMERSON-An Address. July 15, 1838.

At church, with meek and unaffected grace,
His looks adorn'd the venerable place;
Truth from his lips prevailed with double
sway,

And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.

j. GOLDSMITH-The Deserted Village.

Judge not the preacher, for he is thy Judge:
If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.
God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge
To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.
The worst speaks something good.
HERBERT-The Temple. The Church

k.

Porch

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If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man. j. BULWER-LYTTON-My Novel. Bk. VI. Ch. XIV.

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandize, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.

k. VOLTAIRE-A Philosophical Dictionary. Books. Sec. 1.

The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more the statue grows.
m. MICHAEL ANGELO-Sonnet.

Trans.

by Mrs. Henry Roscoe.

In sculpture did ever any body call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

n.

EMERSON-Society and Solitude.

And the cold marble leapt to life a god. MILMAN-The Belvedere Apollo.

0.

Art.

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
p.
POPE-Second Book of Horace. Ep. I.
Line 146.

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

1. RUSKIN-True and Beautiful. Sculpture. So stands the statue that enchants the world,

So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. THOMSON-The Seasons. Summer. Line 1346.

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A cobler,

SHOEMAKING,

produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.

S.

ADDISONS-Spectator. No. 177.

When some brisk youth, the tenent of a stall, Employs a pen less pointed than an awl, Leaves his snug shop, forsakes his store of shoes,

St. Crispin quits, and cobbles for the muse, Heavens! how the vulgar stare! how crowds applaud!

How ladies read, and literati laud!

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One said he wondered that lether was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon then any other thing in the world.

e. HAZLITT Shakespeare Jest Books. Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies. No. 86.

A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wild civility.

d. HERRICK-Delight in Disorder.

Where the shoe pinches.

e. PLUTARCH-Life of Æmilius Paulus.

Flav.--Thou art a cobbler, art thou? 2d Cit.-Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I am, indeed, sir, a

surgeon to old shoes.

f. Julius Cæsar. Act. I. Sc. 1.

What trade are you?

Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler. Julius Cæsar. Act I. Sc. 1.

g.

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BURKE Reflections on the Revolution in
France.

It is strange so great a statesman should
Be so sublime a poet.

m. BULWER-LYTTON-Richelieu. Act I.
Sc. 2.

His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,
all Int'rests
His comprehensive head;
weigh'd,

All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd.
N. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. I. Line 82.
Statesman, yet friend to Truth, of soul sin-

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Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER- Honest Man's Fortune. Act V. Sc. 3.

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May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes,

And pay for poems-when they pay for

S.

coats.

BYRON-English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 781. Great is the tailor, but not the greatest. CARLYLE-Essays. Goethe's Works.

t.

Sister! look ye,

How by a new creation of my tailor's, I've shook off old mortality.

น.

JOHN FORD-Fancies Chaste and Noble. Act I. Sc. 3.

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Corn.-Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man?

Kent.-A tailor, sir; a stone-cutter, or a painter, could not have made him so ill, though they had been but two hours at the trade.

h. King Lear. Act II. Sc. 2.

Thou villain base,

Know'st not me by my clothes?
Gui. No, nor thy tailor, rascal,

Who is thy grandfather? he made those clothes,

Which, as it seems, make thee.

i. Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2.

Thy gown? why, ay;-Come, tailor, let us see't.

O mercy, God! what masking stuff is here? What's this? a sleeve? 'tis like a demi

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POPE--Rape of the Lock. Canto III.

Line 7.
Tea does our fancy aid,

Repress those vapors which the head invade,
And keeps the palace of the soul.
WALLER--On Tea.

m.

TOBACCONISTS.

Am I not--a smoker and a brother?
A VETERAN OF SMOKEDOM-- The
Smoker's Guide. Ch. IV.

n.

Look at me--follow me-smell me! The "stunning" cigar I am smoking is one of a sample intended for the Captain General of Cuba, and the King of Spain, and positively cost a shilling! Oh! I have some dearer at home. Yes the expense is frightful, but it! who can smoke the monstrous rubbish of the shops?

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0. A VETERAN OF SMOKEDOM-The

Smoker's Guide. Ch. IV.

To smoke a cigar through a mouthpiece is equivalent to kissing a lady through a respirator.

p. A VETERAN OF SMOKEDOM-The

Smoker's Guide. Ch. V.

Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's

rest;

Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides
His hours, and rivals opium and his brides;
Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand,
Though not less loved, in Wapping or the
Strand;

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe,
When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and
ripe;

Like other charmers, wooing the caress
More dazzlingly when daring in full dress;
Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
Thy naked beauties--Give me a cigar!
1.

BYRON--The Island. Canto II. St. 19.

Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,
Unfriendly to society's chief joys,
Thy worst effect is banishing for hours
The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
1. COWPER--Conversation. Line 251.

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