All has its date below; the fatal hour
Was register'd in Heav'n ere time began.
We turn to dust, and all our mightest works
Die too.
u.

COWPER-- The Task. Bk. VI.

Line 529.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

ს. EMERSON-Society and Solitude. Work and Days.

Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasures, is it worth while to dress and undress? Does the sun shine on me to-day that I may reflect on yesterday? That I may endeavour to foresee and to control what can neither be foreseen nor controlled-the destiny of to-morrow?

C. GOETHE--Egmont. (Lewes' Life of Goethe.)

DEVIL, THE.

I call'd the devil, and he came,

And with wonder his form did I closely

scan;

He is not ugly, and is not lame,

But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks right glibly of church and state. 1. HEINE--Pictures of Travels. The Return Home. No. 37.

The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it. 1. BEN JONSON-The Devil is an Ass. Act IV. Sc. 1.

Lucifer,

The son of mystery;

And since God suffers him to be, He, too is God's minister,

And labors for some good

S. LONGFELLOW--Christus.

By us not understood.

Pt. XIX.

The irrevocable Hand

The Golden Legend. Epilogue.

1.

DISCRETION.

Discretion, the best part of valour. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER-A King and no King. Act IV. Sc. 3.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it.

m. BOVEE--Summaries of Thought.

Discretion. Covering discretion with a coat of folly. n. Henry V. Act II. Sc. 4.

For 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness: old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.

C.

He would not, with a peremptory tone,
Assert the nose upon his face his own.
COWPER- Conversation. Line 96.
Uncertain ways unsafest are,
And doubt a greater mischief than despair.
d. DENHAM-Cooper's Hill. Line 399.
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt re-
alized.

e. F. R. HAVERGAL-Royal Bounty. The Imagination of the Thoughts of the Heart.

But the gods are dead-Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,

And Doubt is brother devil to Despair! JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY--Prometheus.

h. Troilus and Cressida.

Act II. Sc. 2. No hinge, nor loop,

To hang a doubt on; or woe upon thy life! Othello. Act III.

i.

Our doubts are traitors,

Sc. 3.

And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.

j.

Measure for Measure. Act I. Sc. 5.

To be once in doubt,

Is once to be resolv'd.

COWPER-The Task. Bk. III.

Line 127.

When they come true, then I believe in

them;

When they come false, I don't believe in them."

20.

LONGFELLOW-Christus. Pt. III. Giles
Corey. Act. III. Sc. 1.

Is this a dream? O, if it be a dream,
Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!
x. LONGFELLOW-Spanish Student.
Act III.
Sc. 5.
'Twas but a dream,-let it pass,-let it vanish
like so many others!
What I thought was a flower, is only a weed,
and is worthless.

y.

LONGFELLOW Courtship of Miles Standish. Pt. VII.