25. Does hope allure?-does pleasure smile?
Then tread the rosy path with trembling;
For pleasure beckons to beguile,
And hope's fair promise is dissembling.

MRS. HOLFORD'S Margaret of Anjou.

26. Sweet hope! how easily thy tale
Wins credence from the charmed ear!
How dost thou teach thy dupes to rail,
On thy cold rival, halting fear!

MRS. HOLFORD's Margaret of Anjou.

.27. Like the gloom of night retiring, When in splendour beams the day, Hope again my heart inspiring,

Doubt and fear shall chase away.

28. The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling.

BALFE'S Bohemian Girl.

29. Hope the sweet bird!—while that the air can fill, Let earth be ice-the soul hath summer still!

30. And canst thou bid me smother

A hope that lighted

Long years of sorrow?

A hope that leaves none other,

When it is blighted,

To make life dear?

The New Timon.

FRY'S Leonora.

HORSE.

1. Long-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eyes, small head and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttocks, tender hide.

SHAKSPEARE.

2. The beast was sturdy, large and tall,
With mouth of meal, and eyes of wall;
I should say eye-for he had but one,
As most agree, tho' some say none.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.

3. The courser paw'd the ground with restless feet, And snorting, foam'd, and champ'd the golden bit.

DRYDEN.

4. Champing his foam, and bounding o'er the plain, Arch his high neck, and graceful spread his mane.

SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE.

5. With flowing tail and flying mane,
With nostrils never stretch'd by pain,
Mouths bloodless to the bit or rein;
And feet that iron never shod,
And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod,
A thousand horse-the wild-the free
Like waves that follow o'er the sea-

Came thickly thundering on.

6. The long, long tail that glorified

That glorious donkey's hinder-side.

BYRON'S Mazeppa.

7. I strode o'er his back, and he took to his wind,
And he pranc'd before, and he kick'd behind;
And he gave a snort, as when mutterings roll
Abroad from pole to answering pole.

8. He plac'd on him a bridle and a saddle,
Then on his back he quickly leapt astraddle.

SANDS.

SANDS.

HUMILITY.

1. It is the witness still of excellence,

To put a strange face on its own perfection.

J. T. WATSON.

SHAKSPEARE.

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2.

HUNGER-HUNTING, &c.

I, your glass,

3.

4.

5.

Will modestly discover to yourself,

That of yourself, which yet you know not of.

Her voice was ever soft,

SHAKSPEARE.

Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman.

Disguis'd humility is

Both the swift and safest way to pride.

SHAKSPEARE.

SIR W. DAvenant.

Be wise;

Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise.

6. Humility is eldest-born of virtue,

MASSINGER.

And claims the birthright at the throne of heaven,

1. The rolling wheel, that runneth often round, The hardest steel in course of time doth tear; And drizzling drops, that often do rebound,

The firmest flint doth in continuance wear.

SPENSER'S Sonnets.

2. Who's born for sloth? To some we find

3.

The ploughshare's annual toil assign'd;
Some at the sounding anvil glow;
Some the swift-sliding shuttle throw;
Some, studious of the wind and tide,
From pole to pole our commerce guide;
While some, of genius more refin'd,
With head and tongue assist mankind.
In every rank, or great or small,

"Tis industry supports us all.

See the issue of your sloth:

GAY's Fables.

Of sloth comes pleasure, of pleasure comes riot,
Of riot comes disease, of disease comes spending,

Of spending comes want, of want comes theft,
And of theft comes hanging.

CHAPMAN AND JONSON.

4. Like clocks, one wheel another one must drive; Affairs by diligent labour only thrive.

5. For Hercules himself must yield to odds;
And many strokes, tho' with a little axe,
Hew down, and fell the hardest timber'd oak.

6. He whistled as he went, for want of thought.

7. And heard the everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness.

8. Industrious habits in each bosom reign, And industry begets a love of gain.

CHAPMAN.

SHAKSPEARE.

DRYDEN.

POPE.

GOLDSMITH'S Traveller.

9. Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.

HERRICK.

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10.

IDLENESS - INDUSTRY, &c.

Perseverance is a Roman virtue,

That wins each godlike act, and plucks success

Even from the spear-proof crest of rugged danger.

11. No more the irksome restlessness of rest

Disturb'd him like an eagle in her nest,
Whose whetted beak, and far pervading eye,
Darts for a victim over all the sky.

12. Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, And by her wary ways reform thine own.

13.

HAVARD.

BYRON'S Island.

I would not waste my spring of youth
In idle dalliance: I would plant rich seeds,
To blossom in my manhood, and bear fruit
When I am old.

14. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for every fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

Learn to labour and to wait.

15. The proudest motto for the young! Write it in lines of gold

SMART.

HILLHOUSE.

H. W. LONGFellow.

Upon thy heart, and in thy mind
The stirring words enfold:
And in misfortune's dreary hour,
Or fortune's prosperous gale,
"Twill have a holy, cheering power-
"There's no such word as fail!"

ALICE G. LEE.