f.

MACAULAY-Essay on Athenian Orators. Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. g. MILTON-Paradise Regained. Bk. IV. L. 267. The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms.

h. EDW. G. PARKER-The Golden Age of American Oratory. Ch. I.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "Action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action."

i. PLUTARCH-Morals. Lives of the Ten Orators. Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator. j. Comedy of Errors. Act III. Sc. 2.

L. 10.

Pain is no longer pain when it is past. g. MARGARET J. PRESTON-Old Songs and New. Nature's Lesson. Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. h. Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1.

L. 72. The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace,

The smoke of hell,-that monster called Paine. i. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY-Sidera.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends,
That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in others' pain,
And perish in our own.
j.

Paine.

FRANCIS THOMPSON-Daisy. St. 15.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains. k. YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night VIII. L. 793.

PAINTING (See OCCUPATIONS).

PARADISE.

But when the sun in all his state

Illumed the eastern skies,

She passed through Glory's morning-gate, And walked in Paradise.

1.

In this fool's paradise, he drank delight. CRABBE-The Borough Players.

n.

Letter XII.

The meanest floweret of the vale,
The simplest note that swells the gale,
The common sun, the air, the skies,
To him are open paradise.

0. GRAY-Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitudes. L. 53.

Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of Salsabil.

p.

EARNEST L'EPINE-Croquemitaine.
Bk. II. Ch. IX. Hood's trans.

JAMES ALDRICH-A Death Bed.

PARADOX.

For thence, a paradox

Which comforts while it mocks,

Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:

What I aspired to be,

And was not, comforts me :

A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.

a.

ROBERT BROWNING-Rabbi-Ben-Ezra.

St. 7. Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian, in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." b.

O. W. HOLMES-The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. VI. These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' the alehouse.

C. Othello. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 139.

You undergo too strict a paradox,
Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

d. Timon of Athens. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 24. The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

Persuade delay,

What boots to say

Forego me now, come to me soon.

u.

See

SIR WALTER RALEIGH-Dulcina.
CAYLEY'S Life of Raleigh. Vol. I.
Ch. III.

Good-night, good-night! parting is such sweet

v.

sorrow,

That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.
Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 2.
L. 185.
If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed;
If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.
w. Julius Cæsar. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 121.