Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!

Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heartThe heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'dTo fetters and the damp vault's dayless gloom,

Their country conquers with their martyrdom.

h. BYRON-Sonnet. On Chillon.

A prison is a house of care,

A place where none can thrive,

A touchstone true to try a friend,

A grave for men alive.

Sometimes a place of right,

Sometimes a place of wrong,

Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves,
And honest men among.

i. Inscription on the Old Prison of

Edinburgh.

Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet

A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs Of coming mischief is thy great delight, Good dost thou ne'er foretel nor bring to pass. BRYANT'S Homer's Iliad Bk. I.

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Line 38.

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast;

Is that portentous phrase "I told you so." v. BYRON-Don Juan. Canto XIV.

St. 50.

Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word;
And in its hollow tones are heard
The thanks of millions yet to be.

w. FITZ-GREENE HALLECK--Marco

Bozzaris.

Though to the vilest things beneath the moon For poor Ease' sake I give away my heart, And for the moment's sympathy let part My sight and sense of truth, Thy precious boon,

My painful earnings, lost, all lost, as soon, Almost, as gained; and though aside I start, Belie Thee daily, hourly,-still Thon art, Art surely as in heaven the sun at noon. d. CLOUGH-Early Poems. Blank Misgivings of a Creature Moving About in Worlds not Realized. St. 2.

O sad estate Of human wretchedness; so weak is man, So ignorant and blind, that did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request. HANNAH MORE-Moses in the Bulrushes. Pt. I.

All Nature is but Art unknown to thee;
All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not
see;

All Discord, Harmony not understood;
All partial Evil, universal Good;
And spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. I.

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sparrows of the air of small account: Our God doth view

Whether they fall or mount, —

He guards us too.

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CHRISTINA G. ROSETTI-Consider.

St. 2.

For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give. Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 3.

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He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to mine age!

v.

As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 3.

He that of greatest works is finisher,
Oft does them by the weakest minister;
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown.
When judges have been babes.

w.

All's Well That Ends Well. Act II
Sc. 1.

What sweet delight a quiet life affords.
e. DRUMMOND-Sonnet.

'Tis noon; a calm, unbroken sleep
Is on the blue waves of the deep;
A soft haze, like a fairy dream,
Is floating over hill and stream;
And many a broad magnolia flower
Within its shadowy woodland bower
Is gleaming like a lovely star.

f. PRENTICE--To an Absent Wife.

It is a strange soothing feeling that comes over us when from the tumult of a marketplace we go forth at once into the serene expanse of the soberly clad creation,-into her silent dark cathedral.

g.

RICHTER-Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces. Ch. III. pray you, bear me hence From forth the noise and rumour of the field;

Where I may think the remnant of my thoughts

In peace, and part this body and my soul
With contemplation and devout desires.
King John. Act V. Sc. 4.

h.

A good thought is indeed a great boon for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. j. BOVEE--Summaries of Thought. Thought and its Circulation.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

k. BOVEE-Summaries of Thought. Quoters and Quoting.

QUOTATION.

Some men have written more than others have spoken. Pineda quotes more authors in one work than are necessary in a whole world.

7. Sir THOMAS BROWNE--Religio Medici. Sec. 24. Quotations from profane Authors, cold Allusions, false Pathetic, Anthesis's and Hyperboles, are out of doors.

m. DE LA BRUYERE-The Characters or Manners of the Present Age. Ch. XV. "Twas not an Age ago since most of our Books were nothing but Collections of Latin Quotations, there was not above a line or two of French in a Page.

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DE LA BRUYERE--The Character or
Manners of the Present Age.
Ch. XV.

All which he understood by rote,
And, as occasion serv'd would quote.

0. BUTLER Hudibras. Line 135.

Perverts the Prophets, and purloins the

Psalms.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

kc. EMERSON Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

1. SAM'L JOHNSON-Boswell's Life of Johnson. Conversation on Tuesday.. May 8, 1781.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language, m. SAM'L JOHNSON-Preface to Dictionary..

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together. MONTAIGNE-Essays. Bk. III.

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