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“He that first ascends to a mountain's top Must begin at the foot."

MIDDLETON. Old Plays, xi.
Mayor of Quinborough, p. 140.

"THE plumage that steals half the rainbow's
dies,
Throws off the peltings of the angriest skies."
Chameleon, vol. 2, p. 41.

"WHEN words are melted in the furnace glow

Of fiery mood, quick, let the torrent go." Ibid.

"Si dica

Che bel fin fa chi ben amando muore." Pietro Aretino. Op. Burl. vol. 2, p. 229.

"CH' a chi non cerca bene, bene, La ragion delle cose, avviene spesso Ch' è piglia il ben per male, e'l mal per bene." Bronzino Pittore. Ibid. p. 265.

"Vor sapete, la ragione Vuol essere ajutata, che so io." Ibid.

"¿QUE cosa hay en la tierra que no tenga Crecientes y menguantes, vaya y venga?" BALBUENA, vol. 3, p. 137.

"¡O cielos! ¿si el trabajo dilatado

Por tantos años desta historia mia

Ha de desparecer la voladora

Y cruel arpia del tiempo en sola un hora?" Ibid. p. 163.

"Si tal fantasia me juzgan ser loca, Mas loca seria quien tal me juzgasse." Question de Amor.

"MIA musa in frutti, e non in fior s'invoglia." Busini. Op. Burl. vol. 2, p. 322.

"E' COME dir, poch' uva, e molta foglia."

Ibid.

GOETHE hated dogs.-MRS. AUSTIN, vol. 1, p. 77.

His epigram. Ibid. p. 253.

"Ir ought never to be forgotten that it is not to the head alone, but to another part held in less reverence by the public, that the regular hexagonal cells of the bee owe both substance and form.-GOETHE, ibid. p. 94.

LOVE sometimes transferable, like Purgatory stock.

SOME of the Fathers saw the cross in everything. "For observe," says JUSTIN MARTYR, in his Apology (§ 72) how impossible it is that anything in the world should be regulated, or any mutual intercourse carried on, without employing this figure. The sea cannot be navigated, unless this symbol, as the mast and yard-arm of the sail, remains firm in the ship. Without an instrument in this form, the land cannot be ploughed; neither can they who dig exercise their labour, nor handicraftmen pursue their occupations, without implements which are fashioned in like manner. The human figure also differs from those of irrational animals in no respect but this, that it is erect, and hath the hands extended; and in the countenance also hath the nose reaching downward from the forehead, by which we are able to breathe. This again shows no figure but that of the cross."

Beards.

IN the days of Hudibras there were some so curious in the management of their beards, that they had pasteboard cases to put over them in the night, lest they should turn upon them and rumple them in their sleep." -GREY's Hudibras, vol. 1, p. 34.

Selim I. was the first Turk who shaved his beard, contrary to the Koran and to custom. When the mufti reprimanded him, he answered, that he did it to prevent his visier's having anything to lead him by. Bacon quoted Apoll. No. 162.

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"PLOTINUS-animas quasdam esse dixit, quas non alieno vocabulo sulphuratas nominari posse existimabat, quod ob egregiam indolis morumque consensionem statim primo congressu altera alterius amore inordescat."-Ibid. p. 242.

"CowSLIP water is good for the memory."-WEBSTER, vol. 1, p. 146.

DR. GREGORIUS LAMPRECHTER, Chancellor of Wirtemberg, and afterwards of Charles the Fifth's Council, used to say that every prince should have two fools, one whom he might hear, and the other who might hear him. "Einen den er vexert,

den andern der ihn vexert."-FLOGEL. Geschicte der Hofnarren, p. 7.

THE Silesian baker. — Ibid. p. 5. Like the Poet Laureat of Trowbridge.

FLOGEL thinks that in France the Court poet was also Court fool by virtue of his office. "Fou du Roi en titre d'office"-so that the epigram upon Cibber might in that country have been a mere truth.-Ibid. p. 4.

FABLE that when Prometheus made a man, he took something from every beast to make up the heterogeneous compound; timidity from the hare, cunning from the fox, pride from the peacock, fierceness from the tiger, &c. Horace, lib. 1. Ode 16.— FLOGEL. Komisch Litterat. vol. 1, p. 103.

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