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Frondibus obtexi, puerum nec ab ubere

vulsi,

Sicut erat foliis tegitur, funusq; paratur Heu nimis incertum et primis violabile ventis."-BUSSIERES.

A Gallery.

"UNE porte d'airain s'ouvre alors en deux parts.

Le lieu vaste reçoit les avides regards.

Vers le bout éloigné, que l'œil à peine acheve, La voûte semble basse, et le pavé s'éleve. Le lambris qui les suit vers un but limité Diminuë à l'égal d'un et d'autre costé.” CLOVIS.

"Yo vi con apariencia manifiesta que no fue el respuesta por él mismo, mas por algun espiritu compuesta: como si alguna furia del abismo al sabio las entrañas le royera, ó como que le toma parasismo con los mismos efectos: y tal era la presencia del viejo quando vino a darme la respuesta verdadera. Andaba con furioso desatino torciendose las manos arrugadas, los ojos bueltos de un color sanguino: las barbas, antes largas y peynadas, levaba redijosas y rebueltas, como de fieras sierpes enroscadas : las rocas, que con mil nudosas bueltas la cabeza prudente le ceñian,

por este y aquel hombro lleva sueltas: las horrendas palabras parecian salir por una trompa resonante, y que los yertos labios no movian." L. LEONARDO.

"OLD bed-rid age laments

Its many winters, or does wish 'em more, To have more strength to fight, or less to die."

SOUTHERNE's Persian Prince.

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"NASCE con noi l'amor della virtu,
Quando non basta ad evitar le colpe
Basta almeno a punir le.

E un don del Cielo, che diventa castigo
Per chi n'abusa, il piu crudel tormento
Ch' hanno i malvagi, e il conservar nel core,
Ancora alor dispetto,
L'idea del giusto, e dell' onesto i semi."
METASTASIO. Issipile.

"EXPECTATION in a weake minde, makes an evill greater, and a good less: but in a resolved minde, it digests an evill before it comes, and makes a future good long before present."-DR. JOS. HALL'S Meditations and Vowes. 1617.

"THE heart of man is a short word, a small substance, scarce enough to give a kite one meale; yet great in capacitie, yea, so infinite in desire, that the round globe of the world cannot fill the three corners of it."-Ibid.1

This I suspect to have suggested Quarles' Epigram.

"CHRISTIAN societie is like a bundle of stickes layed together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evill, but againe fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evill, will I account Christian good fellowship better than an Eremitish and melancholike solitarinesse."Ibid.

"Le monde n'a point de longues injustices." M. DE SEVIGNÉ.

Scripture Extracts.

"BEHOLD I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brazen See infrà, p. 222.-J. W. W.

walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

"And they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee."--Jeremiah, chap. i. 18, 19.

"THE lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate, and thy cities shall be laid waste without an inhabitant.

"For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl; for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.

"And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder."-Ibid. chap. iv. 7, 8, 9.

"I BEHELD, and lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

“I beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and by his fierce anger."—Ibid. chap. iv. 25, 26.

"FOR thus hath the Lord of hosts said, Hew ye down trees and cast a mount against Jerusalem; this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

"As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

"Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited."-Ibid. chap. vi. 6, 7, 8.

"AND the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away."-Ibid. chap. vii. 33.

"DEATH is come up into our windows and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets."-Ibid. chap. ix. 21.

"SAY unto the King and to the Queen, humble yourselves, sit down; for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

"Lift up your eyes and behold them that come from the North: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

"Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.” Ibid. chap. xiii. 18. 20. 23.

“ MOREOVER I will take from them the

voice of mirth and the voice of gladness,

the voice of the bridegroom and the voice

of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the candle.”—Ibid. chap. xxv.

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ῥα φυλάσσεσίν τε δίκας καὶ σχέτλια ἔργα,

Ἠέρα ἐσσάμενοι, πάντη φοιτῶντες ἐπ' αἶαν. Πλυτοδόται· καὶ τότο γέρας βασιλήνιον ἔσχον.” HESIOD.

“ Καὶ τοὶ μὲν χείρεσσιν ὑπὸ σφετέρῃσι δαμέντες,

Βῆσαν ἐς ευρώεντα δόμον κρυερῶ ἀΐδαο, Νώνυμνοι θάνατος δὲ καὶ ἐκπάγλος περ

όντας

Εἷλε μέλας, λαμπρὸν δ ̓ ἔλιπον φάος ήε

λίοιο.”

Ibid.

"EACH small breath Disturbs the quiet of poor shallow waters, But winds must arm themselves ere the large

sea

I must not throw away my courage on
Is seen to tremble.-Pray your pardon, Sir,
A cause so trivial."

WILLIAM HABINGTON. The Queen
of Arragon.

IIERCULES when left by the Argonauts : "Tacitumq; pudet potuisse relinqui." V. FLACCUS, lib. iv. 57.

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"EXUVIÆ tibi ludus erant, primusq; solebas Aspera complecti torvum post prælia patrem, Signa triumphato quoties flexisset ab Istro Arcteâ de strage calens, et poscere partem De spoliis, Scythicosve arcus, aut rapta Gelonis

Cingula, vel jaculum Daci, vel frena Suevi. Illecoruscanti clipeo te sæpe volentem Sustulit arridens, et pectore pressit anhelo Intrepidum ferri, galeæ nec triste timentem Fulgur, et ad summas tendentem brachia

cristas."- Ibid. De III. Cons. Honor,

v. 23, &c. "Hos tibi virtutum stimulos, hæc semina laudum, Hæc exempla dabat." Ibid. v. 59.

"ILLI justitiam confirmavere triumphi; Præsentes docuere Deos." 2

Ibid. iv. Cons. Honor. v. 98.

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