22. Madame de Staël, 1766. The Lady's face stopped its play, And glad in his sight; therefore, glad I will be"! THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS. 23. Shakespeare born, 1564; died, 1616. I report, as a man may of God's work - all's love, yet all 's law. SAUL. 24. Anthony Trollope, 1815. Truth is within ourselves: it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe Where truth abides in fulness; and around ; Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, PARACELSUS. 25. John Keble, 1792. Love, hope, fear, faith these make humanity; These are its sign, and note, and character. 26. David Hume, 1711. PARACELSUS. If we have souls, know how to see and use, Was framed to furnish man with; serves alike But if he lacks not soul, may learn to know. RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY. 27. Edward Gibbon, 1737. For if you would remember me aright – As I was born to be - you must forget All fitful, strange, and moody waywardness Which e'er confused my better spirit, to dwell Only on moments such as these, dear friends! My heart no truer, but my words and ways More true to it. 28. James Monroe, 1758. Speed that may ! PARACELSUS. Whatever be my chance or my despair, PARACELSUS. 29. David Cox, 1783. All nature self-abandoned, every tree But Art, IN A BALCONY. 30. James Montgomery, died, 1854. wherein man nowise speaks to men, Only to mankind, Art may tell a truth Obliquely, do the thing shall breed the thought, Nor wrong the thought, missing the mediate word. THE RING AND THE BOOK. MAY 1. Duke of Wellington, 1769. There must be many a pair of friends Sweet sights and sounds throng manifold. MAY AND DEATH. 2. John Gorham Palfrey, 1796. O world, as God has made it! All is beauty: And knowing this is love, and love is duty. THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. 3. Nicolas Macchiavelli, 1469. You only do right to believe you will get better as you get older! All men do so, they are worst in childhood, improve in manhood, and get ready in old age for another world. A SOUL'S TRAGEDY. 4. William Hickling Prescott, 1796. 'T is not what man Does which exalts him, but what man would do! See the king- I would help him, but cannot, the wishes fall through. Could I wrestle to raise him from sorrow, grow poor to enrich, To fill up his life, starve my own out, I would – knowing which, I know that my service is perfect. 5. Empress Eugénie, 1826. SAUL. Life means — learning to abhor The false, and love the true, truth treasured snatch by snatch, Waifs counted at their worth. FIFINE AT THE FAIR. 6. Assassination of Cavendish and Burke, 1882. That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice Lest over, you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture! HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD. 7. Robert Browning, 1812. Ah, that brave Bounty of poets, the one royal race That he grows godlike in his turn, can give — Bring forth new good, new beauty, from the old. BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE. 8. Le Sage, 1688. What were life Did soul stand still therein, forego her strife PARLEYINGS. |