The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. THROUG MACBETH iii. 3. HROUGH the tall openings of the stair-cased streets, up which, here and there, the cattle were going home slowly from the pastures below, the Alban heights, between the great walls of the ancient houses, seemed close upon him,—a vaporous screen of dun violet against the setting sun, with those waves of surpassing grace in their boundary-line characteristic of volcanic hills. The coolness of the little brown market-place, for the sake of which even the working people were leaving the plain, in long file, through the olive-gardens, to pass the night, was grateful after the heats of Rome. WALTER PATER. WHEN the grey-hooded Even, Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed, Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phoebus' wain. MILTON. Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after the flesh. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST i. I. To most men argument makes the point in hand more doubtful and considerably less impressive. After all, man is not a reasoning animal, he is a seeing, feeling, contemplating, acting animal. CARDINAL NEWMAN. O FRIVOLOUS mind of man, Light ignorance, and hurrying, unsure thoughts! Though man bewails you not, How I bewail you! MATTHEW ARNOLD. Softly and swiftly, sir, for the priest is ready. TO Church in the morning, and there saw a wed ding in the Church, which I have not seen for many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them. PEPYS. THE golden gates of sleep unbar Where Strength and Beauty met together, Kindle their image like a star In a sea of glassy weather. Night, with all thy stars, look down,— Darkness, weep thy holiest dew,— Never smiled the inconstant moon On a pair so true. SHELLEY. Where great patricians shall attend, and shrug, YE CORIOLANUS i. 9. ESTERDAY Colonel and Mrs. Crawley entertained a select party at dinner at their house in Mayfair. Their excellencies the Prince and Princess of Peterwaradin, H. E. Papoosh Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador (attended by Kibob Bey, Dragoman of the Mission), the Marquis of Steyne, Earl of Southdown, Sir Pitt and Lady Jane Crawley, Mr. Wagg, etc. After dinner Mrs. Crawley had an assembly, which was attended by the Duchess (Dowager) of Stilton, Duc de la Gruyère, Marchioness of Cheshire, Marchese Alexandro Strachino, Comte de la Brie, Baron Schapzuger, Chevalier Tosti, Countess of Slingstone and Lady F. Macadam, Major-General and Lady G. Macbeth and (2) Miss Macbeths; Viscount Paddington, Sir Horace Fogey, Hon. Sands Bedwin, Bobbachy Bahawder, and an etc. which the reader may fill at his pleasure through a dozen close lines of small type. THACKERAY. O THAT I too, I, now were SWINBURNE. Beauty's pattern to succeeding men. SONN. XIX. IR, ancient sculpture is the true school of 'SIR, modesty. But where the Greeks had modesty we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.' PEACOCK. Of all God's works which do this world adorn, There is no one more fair and excellent Than is man's body both for power and form But none than it more foul and indecent Distempered through misrule and passions base. SPENSER. |