128.

-The nocturnal sky;

Divine Instructor! Thy first volume, this,

For man's perusal; all in capitals!

In moon and stars,-Heaven's golden alphabet!
Emblazed to seize the sight; who runs may read,

Who reads, can understand.

Night Thoughts.

YOUNG.

129. When a few years are come, then I shall go the way

whence I shall not return.

Job-Ch. 16, Ver. 22.

A SHADOW on the SHANNON.

130. Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak, Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. Macbeth-Act 4, Sc. 3.

DELIRIUM.

BIBLE.

SHAKSPEARE.

131. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And with some sweet oblivious antidote

Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff,

Which weighs upon the heart?

Macbeth-Act 5, Sc. 3.

132. Duke.

The HEAD of a LOYAL HOME.

SHAKSPEARE.

And what's her history?

Viola. A blank, my lord: she never told her love,
But let concealment like a worm i' the bud,

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought;
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,

She sat like patience on a monument,

Smiling at grief. Was not this love, indeed?

Twelfth Night-Act 2, Sc. 4.

RUINER.

SHAKSPEARE.

133. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamed of in your philosophy.

Hamlet-Act 1, Sc. 5.

SHAKSPEARE.

A HOTEL.

134. The purest treasure mortal times afford,
Is-spotless reputation; that away,

Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
King Richard 2nd-Act 1, Sc. 1.

EDUCATED.

SHAKSPEARE

135. Mortals, repent! the world is nigh to its end; On its last legs and desperately sick :

See ye not how it reels round all day long? Festus.

136. Happy the man, who sees a God employed
In all the good and ill that checker life.
The Task.

BAILEY.

COWPER.

137. The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on;
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
King Henry 6th, Third Part-Act 2, Sc. 2. SHAKSPEARE.
A NEW MINION.

138. He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen,

Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all. Othello-Act 3, Sc. 3.

MAKE A MUMMY.

SHAKSPEARE.

139. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.

Heaped in the hollow of the grove, the withered leaves lie
dead;

They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.
The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrub the jay,
And from the wood-top calls the crow, through all the
gloomy day.

The Death of the Flowers.

BRYANT.

140. Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offered,

Shall never find it more.

Antony and Cleopatra-Act 2, Sc. 7.

MASONIC.

SHAKSPEARE.

141.

-I have known

The dumb men throng to see him, and the blind
To hear him speak: the matrons flung their gloves,
Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchiefs,
Upon him as he passed: the nobles bended,
As to Jove's statue; and the commons made
A shower and thunder with their caps and shouts :
I never saw the like.

Coriolanus-Act 2, Sc. 1.

AN INFANT.

142. There is a fire-fly in the southern clime
That shineth only when upon the wing;

So is it with the mind: when once we rest,
We darken.

Festus.

SHAKSPEARE.

BAILEY.

143. Manners with fortunes, tempers change with climes,

Tenets with books, and principles with times. Moral Essays.

POPE.

144.

-Yield not thy neck

To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind

Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

King Henry 6th, Third Part-Act 3, Sc. 3. SHAKSPEARE. A GNOME or a MUMMY.

145.

-An angel drives the furious blast;

And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. The Campaign.

ADDISON.

146. Law is law; law is law; and as in such, and so forth, and hereby, and aforesaid, provided, always, nevertheless, notwithstanding.

STEVENS.

147. When Athens' armies fell at Syracuse,
And fetter'd thousands bore the yoke of war,
Redemption rose up in the Attic Muse,
Her voice their only ransom from afar :
See as they chant the tragic hymn, the car
Of the o'ermaster'd victor stops, the reins
Fall from his hands-his idle scimitar

148.

Starts from its belt-he rends his captive's chains,

And bids him thank the bard for freedom and his strains. Childe Harold-Canto 4, Stanza 16.

A RED SHOW.

-For aught that ever I could read,

Could ever hear by tale or history,

The course of true love never did run smooth.

BYRON.

Midsummer Night's Dream-Act 1, Sc. 1. SHAKSPEARE. GOOD-DAY.

149. Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes, and furred gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks :
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
King Lear-Act 4, Sc. 6.
SHAKSPEARE.

MERRY and RICH.

150. Whate'er your forte, to that your zeal confine,
Let all your efforts there concentred shine;

As shallow streams collected form a tide,
So talents thrive to one grand point applied.
A jealous mistress is the Muse of Art,
And scorns to share the homage of your heart;
Demands continual tribute to her charms,
And takes no truant suitor to her arms.

151. Violent fires soon burn out themselves. King Richard 2nd-Act 2, Sc. 1.

HOT CANDY.

EPES SARGENT.

SHAKSPEARE.

152. The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree

1 planted, they have torn me, and I bleed :

I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. Childe Harold-Canto 4, Stanza 10.

ROADS.

153. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

Romeo and Juliet-Act 3, Sc. 5.

A HOMELY MILL.

154. No wrestling winds nor blustering storms
Mid Autumn's pleasant weather;

The moorcock springs on whirring wings,
Amang the blooming heather:

Now waving grain, wide o'er the plain,

Delights the weary farmer;

BYRON.

SHAKSPEARE.

And the moon shines bright, when I rove at night
To muse upon my charmer.

The partridge loves the fruitful fells;
The plover loves the mountains;
The woodcock haunts the lonely dells;
The soaring hern the fountains;
Through lofty groves the cushat roves,
The path of man to shun it;
The hazel bush o'erhangs the thrush,

The spreading thorn the linnet.

BURNS.

155. The only amaranthine flower on earth
Is Virtue; the only lasting treasure, Truth.
The Task.

COWPER.

156. Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest

in the sight of all men.

Romans-Ch. 12, Ver. 17.

BIBLE.

RIGHT or NOTHING.