A kick that scarce would move a horse h. COWPER-The Yearly Distress. St. 16. Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. i. EMERSON-An Address. July 15, 1838. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. j. GOLDSMITH-The Deserted Village. Judge not the preacher, for he is thy Judge: k. Porch If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man. j. BULWER-LYTTON-My Novel. Bk. VI. Ch. XIV. If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandize, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. k. VOLTAIRE-A Philosophical Dictionary. Books. Sec. 1. The stone unhewn and cold Trans. by Mrs. Henry Roscoe. In sculpture did ever any body call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal. n. EMERSON-Society and Solitude. And the cold marble leapt to life a god. MILMAN-The Belvedere Apollo. 0. Art. Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. 1. RUSKIN-True and Beautiful. Sculpture. So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. THOMSON-The Seasons. Summer. Line 1346. A cobler, SHOEMAKING, produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last. S. ADDISONS-Spectator. No. 177. When some brisk youth, the tenent of a stall, Employs a pen less pointed than an awl, Leaves his snug shop, forsakes his store of shoes, St. Crispin quits, and cobbles for the muse, Heavens! how the vulgar stare! how crowds applaud! How ladies read, and literati laud! One said he wondered that lether was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon then any other thing in the world. e. HAZLITT Shakespeare Jest Books. Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies. No. 86. A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wild civility. d. HERRICK-Delight in Disorder. Where the shoe pinches. e. PLUTARCH-Life of Æmilius Paulus. Flav.--Thou art a cobbler, art thou? 2d Cit.-Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes. f. Julius Cæsar. Act. I. Sc. 1. What trade are you? Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler. Julius Cæsar. Act I. Sc. 1. g. BURKE Reflections on the Revolution in It is strange so great a statesman should m. BULWER-LYTTON-Richelieu. Act I. His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart, All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd. Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER- Honest Man's Fortune. Act V. Sc. 3. May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems-when they pay for S. coats. BYRON-English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 781. Great is the tailor, but not the greatest. CARLYLE-Essays. Goethe's Works. t. Sister! look ye, How by a new creation of my tailor's, I've shook off old mortality. น. JOHN FORD-Fancies Chaste and Noble. Act I. Sc. 3. Corn.-Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man? Kent.-A tailor, sir; a stone-cutter, or a painter, could not have made him so ill, though they had been but two hours at the trade. h. King Lear. Act II. Sc. 2. Thou villain base, Know'st not me by my clothes? Who is thy grandfather? he made those clothes, Which, as it seems, make thee. i. Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2. Thy gown? why, ay;-Come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God! what masking stuff is here? What's this? a sleeve? 'tis like a demi POPE--Rape of the Lock. Canto III. Line 7. Repress those vapors which the head invade, m. TOBACCONISTS. Am I not--a smoker and a brother? n. Look at me--follow me-smell me! The "stunning" cigar I am smoking is one of a sample intended for the Captain General of Cuba, and the King of Spain, and positively cost a shilling! Oh! I have some dearer at home. Yes the expense is frightful, but it! who can smoke the monstrous rubbish of the shops? * 0. A VETERAN OF SMOKEDOM-The Smoker's Guide. Ch. IV. To smoke a cigar through a mouthpiece is equivalent to kissing a lady through a respirator. p. A VETERAN OF SMOKEDOM-The Smoker's Guide. Ch. V. Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, Like other charmers, wooing the caress BYRON--The Island. Canto II. St. 19. Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, |