Part 13 (1/2)

Marriage is a Bishop, choral service, Messrs.

Hanc.o.c.k, and Brussels lace.

ANNA C. STEELE.

How beautifully blue the sky, The gla.s.s is rising very high, Continue fine I hope it may, And yet it rained but yesterday; To-morrow it may pour again (I hear the country wants some rain); Yet people say, I know not why, That we shall have a warm July.

W. S. GILBERT, _Pirates of Penzance_.

The Dowager-d.u.c.h.ess of Richmond went one Sunday with her daughter to the Chapel Royal at St. James's, but, being late, they could find no places. After looking about some time, and seeing the case was hopeless, she said to her daughter, ”Come away, Louisa; at any rate we have done the civil thing.”

R. R. HAYDON, _Diary_.

_ON NORTHERN LIGHTS._

To roar and bore of Northern wights The tendency so frail is, That men do call those Northern Lights Au-ror-a Bor-ealis.

JEKYLL, in MISS MITFORD's _Letters_.

I'm forced to wink a good deal, for fear of seeing too much, for a neighbourly man must let himself be cheated a little.

_Parson Lingon_, in GEORGE ELIOT's _Felix Holt_.

_Dulce_ it is, and _decorum_, no doubt, for the country to fall,--to Offer one's blood an oblation to Freedom, and die for the Cause; yet Still, individual culture is also something, and no man Finds quite distinct the a.s.surance that he of all others is called on, Or would be justified even, in taking away from the world that Precious creature himself.

_Claude_, in CLOUGH's _Amours de Voyage_.

Notre repentir n'est pas tant un regret du mal que nous avons fait, qu'une crainte de celui qui nous en peut arriver.

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, _Reflexions_.

_ON AN INANIMATE ACTRESS._

Thou hast a score of parts not good, But two divinely shown: Thy Daphne a true piece of wood, Thy Niobe a stone.

PALLADAS, trans. by R. GARNETT.

We as often repent the good we have done as the ill.

W. HAZLITT, _Characteristics_.

The speech of Old England for me; It serves us on every occasion; Henceforth, like our soil, let it be Exempted from foreign invasion.

It answers for friends.h.i.+p and love, For all sorts of feeling and thinking, And lastly, all doubt to remove-- It answers for singing and drinking.