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The Retort Courteous; the Quip Modest; the Reply Churlish; the Reproof Valiant; the Counter check Quarrelsome; the Lie with Circumstance; the Lie Direct.

го. As You Like It. Act V. Sc. 4.

Thou! why thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, or a hair less, in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason, but because thou hast hazel eyes.

x. Romeo and Juliet. Act III. Sc. 1.

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Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

h. Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at the court.

i. As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 2.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. j. VOLTAIRE--Essay. Contrast.

CONVERSATION.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, providing a man would talk to make himself understood. k. ADDISON--The Spectator. No. 476.

When with greatest art he spoke,
You'd think he talked like other folk.
For all a Rhetorician's rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.

1. BUTLER-Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. Line 89.

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THOMPSON-Alfred. Act II. Sc. 5.
COUNTRY LIFE.

God Almighty first planted a garden.
7'. BACON-Essays. Of Gardens.
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore

The tone of languid nature.

S. COWPER- The Task. Bk. I. Line 181. I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet

I love the silence; I embrace the wit
A courtship, flowing here in full tide.
But loathe the expence, the vanity, and
pride.

No place each way is happy.

t.

WILLIAM HABINGTON-Tomy Noblest Friend, I. C., Esquire. To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, to breathe a prayer

Full in the smile of the blue firmament. น. KEATS-Sonnet I.

Line 1.
As I read

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And let us mind faint heart ne'er wan
A lady fair.

n. BURNS To Dr. Blacklock. None but the brave deserves the fair. 0. DRYDEN Alexander's Feast. St. 1. The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

p. EMERSON Society and Solitude.

Courage. Courage the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,

By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.

Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,
Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.
Courage, the mighty attribute of

above,

powers

By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.

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