now for me to make straight paths for my feet, and to redeem what is passed by, amending what is present and Occasional Meditations, v.-THOMAS FULLER.

to come.

TIME. Improvement of

Shun such as lounge through afternoons and eves,
And on thy dial write, "Beware of thieves!"
Felon of minutes, never taught to feel

The worth of treasures which thy fingers steal,
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime,

But spare the right,-it holds my golden time!

TIME. Misspent

Urania.-O. W. HOLMES.

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good humour; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent, and business neglected, never torture the mind.

Solitude, Cap. II.-J. G. ZIMMERMAN.

TIME Past cannot be Restored.

Time flies, and still they weep; for never

The fugitive can time restore ;

An Hour once fled, has fled for ever,
And all the rest shall smile no more!

The Hours.-M. G. LEWIS.

TIME should not be Wasted.

This I am sure, which thing this fair wheat (God save it) maketh me remember, that those husbandmen which rise earliest, and come latest home, and are content to have their dinner and other drinkings brought into the field to them, for fear of losing of time, have fatter barns in the harvest than they which will either sleep at the noontime of the day, or else make merry with their neighbours at the ale. And so a scholar that purposeth to be a good husband, and desireth to reap and enjoy much fruit of learning, must till and sow thereafter. Our best seed time, which be scholars, as it is very timely, and when we be young; so it endureth not over long, and therefore it may not be let slip one hour; our ground is very hard and full of weeds, our horse wherewith we be drawn very wild, as Plato saith. And infinite other molests, which will make a thrifty scholar take heed how he spendeth his time in sport and play. Toxophilus.—Roger Ascham.

The Hyades (the quincunx of heaven) run lowthat we are unwilling to spin out our awaking thoughts into the phantasms of sleep—that to keep our eyes open longer were but to act our antipodes—that the huntsmen are up in America—and that they are already past their first sleep in Persia.

The Garden of Cyrus.
Sir THOMAS BROWNE

TIME on RUINS.

Effect of

The pilgrim oft

At dead of night, 'mid his orison, hears,
Aghast, the voice of time, disparting towers,
Tumbling all precipitate down dashed,

Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.
The Ruins of Rome.-JOHN DYer.

TIME. Destroying Power of

Time antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to

make dust of all things.

Urn Burial.

Sir THOMAS BROWNE.

TIME Conquers all.

Who shall contend with Time-unvanquish'd Time,

The conqueror of conquerors, and lord

Of desolation?

Time: A Poem.-H. K. WHITE.

TONGUE should be Governed.

How the

I will conclude with some precepts and reflections of the son of Sirach upon this subject :-" Be swift to hear, and, if thou hast understanding, answer thy neighbour; if not, lay thy hand upon thy mouth. Honour and shame is in talk. A man of an ill tongue is dangerous in his city, and he that is rash in his talk shall be hated. A wise man will hold his tongue till he see opportunity; but a babbler and a fool will regard no time. A backbiting tongue hath disquieted many; strong cities hath it pulled down, and overthrown the

houses of great men.

The tongue

of

a man is his fall; but if thou love to hear, thou shalt receive understanding."

Sermon by BISHOP BUTLER.

TONGUE. The most Flattering

There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by overflowing.

The Last Days of Pompeii, Book III. Chapter IX.
E. B. LYTTON.

TRADE Easily Learnt. A

A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censure-critics all are ready made.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.-BYRON.

TRAITORS.

Traitors in their fall are like the sun,
Who still looks fairest at his going down.

Alcibiades, Act IV. Scene III.-T. OTWAY.

TREASON.

Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason ?
For if it prosper none dare call it treason.

Epigrams by SIR JOHN HARRINGTON.

Treason, how dark art thou?

In shapes more various than e'er Proteus knew.
Alcibiades, Act IV. Scene III.-T. OTWAY.

TRIVIALITIES.

Feelings too

As

Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps,
may have had no trivial influence
On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.

TRUTH.

Lines composed on revisiting the Banks of the Wye.
W. WORDSWORTH.

Definition of

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies.

The Character of Polybius, the Historian.
JOHN DRYDEN.

TRUTH. The Perception of

It is only in a peculiar state of the mind that it is capable of perceiving truth; and that state is profound serenity. Your mind is fevered by a desire for truth: you would compel it to your embraces; you would ask me to impart to you, without ordeal or preparation, the grandest secrets that exist in nature. But truth can no more be seen by the mind unprepared for it, than the sun can dawn upon the midst of night. Such a mind receives truth only to pollute it; to use the simile of one who has wandered near to the secret of the sublime Goetia (or the magic that lies within nature, as electricity within the cloud), "He who pours water into the muddy well, does but disturb the mud."

Zanoni, Book III. Chap. IV.-E. B. LYTTON.