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(Character of Charles II.).

Vol. I. Ch. II.
To see her abdicate this majesty to play at
precedence with her next door neighbor.
b.

RUSKIN-Sesame and Lilies. Of Queen's
Gardens. P. 92. (J. B. A., '85.)

I give this heavy weight from off my head,
And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,
The pride of kingly sway from out my heart;
With mine own tears I wash away my value,
With mine own hands I give away my crown,
With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,
With mine own breath release all duteous
oaths.

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Boils and plagues

Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd
Further than seen.

i.

Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 37.

* few things loves better

Than to abhor himself.

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L. 219.

0. Two Gentlemen of Verona.

That son, who on the quiet state of men
Such trouble brought, affecting to subdue
Rational liberty; yet know withal,
Since thy original lapse, true liberty
Is lost.

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* * * make the abhorrent eye
Roll back and close.

p.

Act IV.
Sc. 3. L. 17.

SOUTHEY-Curse of Kehama. VIII. 9.

For, if the worlds

In worlds enclosed should on his senses burst

He would abhorrent turn.

4. THOMSON-Seasons. Summer. L. 313.

When it was become an abhorring even to them that had loved it best.

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TRENCH-Miracles. XXIX. 414.

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Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. g.

GAIL HAMILTON-Country Living and
Country Thinking. Men and Women.

To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talent-the tools to him that can handle them.

h. LOCKHART Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838.

A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedæmonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

i.

PLUTARCH-Laconic Apothegms. Remarkable Speeches of Some Obscure Men.

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Miscellaneous Poems, LIX.

Ever absent, ever near;

Still I see thee, still I hear;

Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! q.

FRANCIS KAZINCZY-Separation.

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

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Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful

dream,

And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and

stream.

V. GEORGE LINLEY-Thou Art Gone.

There's little pleasure in the house

When our gudeman's awa.

Night II. L. 91.

w.

W. J. MICKLE-There's Nae Luck Aboot the House.

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Do well and right, and let the world sink. 0. HERBERT-Country Parson. Ch. XXIX. Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done.

Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes, still goeth on. p. HERBERT-Temple. Church Porch.

St. 57. Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. HERRICK-Seek and Find.

q. A man that's fond precociously of stirring Must be a spoon.

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