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GRAY-On the Death of a Favourite Cat.

Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold !
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.

t. HOOD-Miss Kilmansegg. Her Moral.
Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
And loves through solid walls to break.
HORACE-Ode XVI. Bk. III. L. 12.
Francis' trans.
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest;
The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless!
The last corruption of degenerate man.

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Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me, Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold; For I have bought it with an hundred blows. f. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act II. Sc. 5. L. 79. 'Tis gold

Which buys admittance; oft it doth; yea, and makes

Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up Their deer to the stand o' the stealer: and 'tis gold

Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief;

Nay, sometime hangs both thief and true man. g. Cymbeline. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 72.

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness,
The signet of its all-enslaving power
Upon a shining ore, and called it gold;
Before whose image bow the vulgar great,
The vainly rich, the miserable proud,

The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings,

And with blind feelings reverence the power
That grinds them to the dust of misery.
But in the temple of their hireling hearts
Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn
All earthly things but virtue.
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SHELLEY Queen Mab. Pt. V. St. 4.

If e'er she knew an evil thought,
She spoke no evil word:

Peace to the gentle! She hath sought
The bosom of her Lord.

น. EBENEZER ELLIOT-Hannah Ratcliff.

There lives within the very flame of love
A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;
And nothing is at a like goodness still;
For goodness, growing to a pleurisy,
Dies in his own too much.

q. Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 7. L. 115. Your great goodness, out of holy pity, Absolv'd him with an axe.

T. Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 263. Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust. SHIRLEY-The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses. Sc. 3. L. 23.

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