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By the primrose stars in the shadowy grass,
By the green leaves opening as I pass.

SPRING.

The Voice of Spring.-MRS. HEMANS.

Descriptions of

River and rivulet are freed from ice,

In Spring's affectionate inspiring smile—
Green are the fields with promise-far away
To the rough hills old Winter hath withdrawn
Strengthless, but still at intervals will send
Light feeble frosts, with drops of diamond white,
Mocking a little while the coming bloom.

Faustus.-GOETHE.

Cups of all various hues do the new wine contain, With which king spring comes forth to feast his Strung Pearls.-RUCKERT.

courtier train.

STAGE. The Theatrical

Stage, thou art the Fairy Land to the vision of the worldly. Fancy, whose music is not heard by men, whose scenes shift not by mortal hand, as the stage to the present world, art thou to the Future and the Past. Zanoni, Book III. Chap. II.--E. B. LYTTON.

STARS. The

The moon rise

Beholding

Over the pallid sea and the silvery mist of the

meadows.

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of

heaven

Blossomed the lovely stars,

The forget-me-nots of the Angels.

Evangeline, Part I.--LONGFELLOW.

STATE. Composition of the

A pitiful posture wherein the face is made to touch the feet, and the back is set above the head. God in due times set us right, and keep us right, that the head may be in its proper place. Next the neck of the nobility, then the breast of the gentry, the loins of the merchants and citizens, the thighs of the yeomanry, the legs and feet of artificers and day labourers. As for the clergy (here by me purposely omitted) what place soever shall be assigned to them; if low, God grant patience; if high, give humility unto them.

Mixt Contemplations on these Times, II.
THOMAS FUller.

STATESMANSHIP.

Art thou a Statesman, in the van
Of public business trained and bred?
—First learn to love one living man;
Then mayst thou think upon the dead.

STEALTH.

A Poet's Epitaph.—W. WordswORTH.

Lawful

Some are said to have gotten their life for a prey, if any, in that sense have preyed on (or, if you will,

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plundered) their own liberty, stealing away from the place where they conceived themselves in danger, none can justly condemn them.

Scripture Observations, XV.
THOMAS FULLER.

STOMACH. The Blessing of a Good

What an excellent thing did God bestow upon

man, when he did give him a good stomach!

STORM-FIEND.

The Woman-Hater, Act. I. Scene II.
BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.

The

I am the Rider of the wind,
The Stirrer of the storm;
The hurricane I left behind,

Is yet with lightning warm;
To speed to thee, o'er shore and sea
I swept upon the blast:

The fleet I met sail'd well, and yet

"Twill sink ere night be past.

Manfred, Act. I. Scene I.-BYRON.

STORM. Description of a

It was a murky confusion-here and there blotted with a colour like the colour of the smoke from damp fuel-of flying clouds, tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread dis

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