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of declamation, and the world is called upon to gaze at the noble sufferers: they have at once the comfort of admiration and pity.

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

MISFORTUNES that can be borne.

We all bear the misfortunes of other people with an heroic constancy.

MOMENTS.

Maxims, LVII.-ROCHEFOUCault.

Each moment has its sickle, emulous

Of time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep
Strikes empires from the root: each moment plays
His little weapon in the narrower sphere

Of sweet domestic comfort, and cuts down
The fairest bloom of sublunary bliss.

MONEY.

Night Thoughts, 1. Line 193.-EDWARD YOUNG.

Money may speedily be spent, but how tedious and troublesome is it to tell it! And by consequence how much more difficult to get it!

Historical Applications, XXIII.-THOMAS FULLER.

MOON. How to visit the

If there be such a great ruck in Madagascar as Marcus Polus, the Venetian, mentions, the feathers in whose wings are twelve feet long, which can soop up a horse and his rider, or an elephant, as our kites do a

mouse; why, then, it is but teaching one of these to carry a man, and he may ride up thither, as Ganymede does upon an eagle. Or if neither of these ways will serve, yet I do seriously, and upon good grounds, affirm it possible to make a flying chariot, in which a man may sit, and give such a motion to it, as shall convey him through the air. And this, perhaps, might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum, and commodities for traffic. It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat. This engine may be contrived from the same principles by which Archytas made a wooden dove, and Regiomontanus a wooden eagle.

The Discovery of a new World.-DR. JOHN WILKINS.

MORNING.

Night wanes the vapours round the mountains
curled

Melt into morn, and Light awakes the world.
Lara, Canto II. Verse 1.-LORD BYRON.

MORNING. Approach of

Now morn her rosy step in th' eastern clime
Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl.

Paradise Lost, Book v. Line 1.-JOHN MILTON.

MORNING.

Wake up! The sun presents an image in his rays,
How man can shine at morn to his Creator's praise.
Strung Pearls.—RUCKERT.

MORNING. Appearance of

Lo! on the eastern summit, clad in gray,
Morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes;
And, from his tower of mist,

Night's watchman hurries down.

MORNING Duties.

Fragments.-H. K. WHITE.

1

See, the time for sleep has run;
Rise before or with the sun,
Lift thy hands and humbly pray
The Author of eternal day,
That as the light, serenely fair,
Illumines all the tracts of air,
His sacred spirit so may rest,
With quick'ning beams upon thy breast,
And kindly cleanse it all within

From darker blemishes of sin :

And shine with grace until we view

The realm it gilds with glory too.

MOUNTAIN.

Duties of the Morning.-THOS. PARNELL.

Address to a

Once more, hoar mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks,

Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard,

Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene,
Into the depth of clouds that veil thy breast—
Thou too, again, stupendous mountain! thou,
That as I raise my head, awhile bowed low
In adoration, upward from thy base,
Slow travelling with dim eyes suffused with tears,
Solemnly seemest, like a vapoury cloud,
To rise before me— —Rise, O ever rise;
Rise, like a cloud of incense, from the earth!
Thou kingly spirit throned among the hills,
Thou dread ambassador from earth to heaven,
Great Hierarch! tell thou the silent sky,
And tell the stars, and tell yon rising sun,
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.

MOUNTAINS on the Mind. Effect of the Sight of The thought of death sits easy on the man

Who has been born and dies among the mountains.

MOURNING.

The Brothers.-W. WORDSWORTH.

Joy in

How wretched is the man who never mourn'd!
I dive for precious pearl in sorrow's stream:
Not so the thoughtless man that only grieves,
Takes all the torment, and rejects the gain
(Inestimable gain) and gives Heaven leave
To make him but more wretched, not more wise.

Night Thoughts, v. Line 245.-EDWARD YOUNG.

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MUSIC. The Spirit of

Music once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. It wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air.

Zanoni, Book 1. Chapter 1.-E. B. LYTTON.

MUSIC. Influence of

Therefore, the poet

Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods;
Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage,
But music for the time doth change his nature;
The man that hath no music in himself,

Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;

The motions of his spirit are dull as night,

And his affections dark as Erebus:

Let no such man be trusted.

MUSIC.

Merchant of Venice, Act v. Scene I.—SHAKSPERE.

Soothing Power of

Music! thou soothing power, thy charm is proved
Most vividly when clouds o'ercast the soul ;—
So light its loveliest effect displays

In lowering skies, when through the murky rack
A slanting sunbeam shoots, and instant limns
The etherial curve of seven harmonious dyes,
Eliciting a splendour from the gloom :

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