GENIUS. Industry of

As some lord of the forest wanders abroad for its prey, and scents and follows it over plain and hill, through brake and jungle, but, seizing it at last, bears the quarry to its unwitnessed cave; so genius searches through wood and waste, untiringly and eagerly, every sense awake, every nerve strained to speed and strength, for the scattered and flying images of matter, that it seizes at last with its mighty talons, and bears away with it into solitudes no footstep can invade. Go, seek the world without; it is for art, the inexhaustible pastureground and harvest to the world within!

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

Yes, Genius, thee a thousand cares await,

Mocking thy derided state.

Thee chill Adversity will still attend,

Before whose face flies fast the summer's friend,

And leaves thee all forlorn ;

While leaden Ignorance rears her head, and laughs;
And fat Stupidity shakes his jolly sides;

And while the cup of affluence he quaffs
With bee-eyed Wisdom, Genius derides,

Who toils, and every hardship doth outbrave,
To gain the meed of praise, when he is moulder.

ing in his grave.

Genius: An Ode.-H. K. WHITE.

Genius is jealous: I have heard of some
Who, if unnoticed, grew perversely dumb;
Nay, different talents would their envy raise,
Poets have sicken'd at a dancer's praise;
And one, the happiest writer of his time,
Grew pale at hearing Reynolds was sublime.
Tale, The Patron.-G. CRABBE.

GENIUS and NATURE.

With Genius Nature ever stands in solemn union still, And ever what the One foretels the Other shall fulfil.

Columbus.-SCHILLER.

GENIUSES. Small

Small geniuses are hurt by small events: great geniuses see through and despise them.

GENTLEMAN.

Maxims, CCCCLXXI.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

One Composition of a

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber: you have undoubtedly heard of the Jewish champion, whose strength lay in his hair one would think that the English were for placing all wisdom there: to appear wise, nothing more is requisite here than for a man to borrow hair from the heads of all his neighbours, and clap it like a brush on his own the distributers of law and physic stick on

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such quantities, that it is almost impossible, even in idea, to distinguish between the head and the hair.

Letters from a Citizen of the World, Letter I.
GOLDSMITH.

GHOSTS. Against Believing in

I never could think it for the interest of religion, that the providence of God should be elbowed, as it were, quite out of the world by a system of demonism. On the other hand, I take the devil to be a personage of much more prudence than to frighten his favourites from him, by assuming such horrid and disgustful appearances. He rather chooses to lurk behind temptation, in the allurement of beauty, the deceitfulness of smiles, the glorying of compliments, in revel and banqueting, in titles and honours, in the glitter of ornament, and in the pomp of state.

GLORY.

The Fool of Quality, Chapter III.-H. BROOKE.

Leave glory to great folks. Ah! castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

The Lady of Lyons, Act I. Scene III.-E. B. LYTTON

GLORY. Instability of Human

Yet what avails the sanguine poet's hope,
To conquer ages, and with time to cope?
New eras spread their wings, new nations rise,
And other victors fill the applauding skies,

A few brief generations fleet along,

Whose sons forget the poet and his song:

E'en now, what once-loved minstrels scarce may claim,
The transient mention of a dubious name!

When fame's loud trump hath blown its noblest blast,
Though long the sound, the echo sleeps at last,
And glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires
Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.-BYRON.

"GOD IS LOVE."

God is all love, it is He who made everything, and He loves everything that He has made.

GOLD.

The Fool of Quality, Chapter II.-H. BROOKE.

Gold glitters most where virtue shines no more, As stars from absent suns have leave to shine.

Night Thoughts, v. Line 966.-EDWARD YOUNG.

GOOD. Progress of

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming. Sermon on The Victory of Faith. ARCHDEACON HARE.

GOOD. The Delight of doing

Man is dear to man; the poorest poor
Long for some moments in a weary life

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When they can know and feel that they have been,
Themselves, the fathers and the dealers-out
Of some small blessing; have been kind to such
As needed kindness, for this single cause,

That we have all of us one human heart.

The old Cumberland Beggar.—Wм. Wordsworth.

GOOD linked with all Hearts.

'Tis Nature's law

That none, the meanest of created things,
Of forms created the most vile and brute,
The dullest or most noxious, should exist
Divorced from good-a spirit and pulse of good,
A life and soul to every mode of being
Inseparably linked.

The old Cumberland Beggar.-W. Wordsworth. GOODNESS.

O heart! but try it once ;-'tis easy good to be,
But to appear so, such a strain and misery.

Strung Pearls.—RUCKERT.

GOVERNING Self and Others.

Let justice have its impartial course, and the law free passage. Though to your loss, protect no man against it; for you are not above the law, but the law above you. Live therefore the lives yourselves you would have the people live, and then you have right and boldness to punish the transgressor. Keep upon the square, for God sees you: therefore do your duty, and