Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. A poem round and perfect as a star. J. ALEX. SMITH-A Life Drama. Sc. 2. There are few delights in any life so high and rare as the subtle and strong delight of sovereign art and poetry; there are none more pure and more sublime. To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life. k. SWINBURNE-Essays and Studies. Victor Hugo. L'Année Terrible. One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. VOLTAIRE-A PPhilosophical Dictionary. 1. WORDSWORTH-The Excursion. Bk. VII. There is in poesy a decent pride, Which well becomes her when she speaks to prose, Her younger sister. YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night V. Line 64. state; POLITICS. A thousand years scarce serve to form a An hour may lay it in the dust. r. BYRON-Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 84. As the laws are above magistrates, so are the magistrates above the people; and it may truly be said, that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law a silent magistrate. 8. CICERO. Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Line 31. t. GOLDSMITH-Retaliation. Old Politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in bus'ness to the last. น. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. I. Line 228. O, that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not deriv'd corruptly! and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! υ. Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 9. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Hamlet. Act L. Sc. 4. 20. Their poet, a sad trimmer, but no less guess, And though his meaning they could scarcely |