t.

pride.

No place each way is happy.
WILLIAM HABINGTON Tomy Noblest
Friend, I. C., Esquire.

To one who has been long in city pent,
"Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven, -to breathe a
prayer

Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
u. KEATS-Sonnet I. Line 1.
As I read

I hear the crowing cock, I hear the note
Of lark and linnet, and from every page
Rise odors of ploughed field or flowery mead.
LONGFELLOW--Chaucer.

v.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live. 7. Sir THOMAS BROWNE--Religio Medici. Pt. XLIV.

O friends, be men; so act that none may feel
Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.
Think each one of his children and his wife,
His home, his parents, living yet or dead.
For them, the absent ones, I supplicate,
And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.
m. BRYANT'S Homer's Iliad. Bk. XV.
Line 843.

And let us mind faint heart ne'er wan
A lady fair.

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n. BURNS TO Dr. Blacklock. None but the brave deserves the fair. 0. DRYDEN Alexander's Feast. St. 1. The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

p. EMERSON-Society and Solitude.

Courage. Courage the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,

By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.

Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers

above,

t.

AARON HILL-Verses written on a Window in Scotland. "Be bold!" first gate; Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate.

น. Inscription on the Gates of Busyrane. There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck!

A man who's not afraid to say his say,
Though a whole town's against him.
v. LONGFELLOW--Christus. Pt. III.
John Endicott. Act II. Sc. 2.

Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 1.

To be, or not to be, that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or, to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them?

u. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 1.

We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail.

2. Ma bet' Act I. Sc. 7.

What man re, I dare:

Approa thu lik the rugged Russian bear, The arm 1 hinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger, Take an, shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

ic. Ma beth. Act III. Sc. 4. Why, courage, then! what cannot be avoided, "Twere childish weakness to lament, or fear. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act V. Sc. 4. Wise men ne'er wail their present woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail. y. Richard II. Act III. Sc. 2.

X.

A man of courage is also full of faith. Z. YONGE'S Cicero. The Tusculan

Disputations.