14. Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts, Old age is slow in both.

15.

ADDISON'S Cato.

Yet oh! when thou shalt die,
May death be mild as thou art cruel now;
And may thy beauties gently sink to earth,
While circling angels waft thee to repose!

16. Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, But God will never.

NAT. LEE.

COWPER'S Task.

17. The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, And feel for what their duty bids them do.

BYRON'S Marino Faliero.

18. Pity is it pity to recall to feeling
The wretch too happy to escape to death
By the compassionate trance, poor nature's last
Resource against the tyranny of pain?

19.

BYRON'S Two Foscari.

Go to you are a child,
Infirm of feeling and of purpose, blown
About by every breath, shook by a sigh
And melted by a tear-a precious judge.

BYRON'S Two Foscari.

20. With tears for nought but others' ills; And then they flow'd like mountain rills, Unless he could assuage their woe.

BYRON's Prisoner of Chillon.

21. Hate shuts her soul when dove-ey'd Mercy pleads.

CHARLES SPRAGUE.

22. Forgive and forget!-why the world would be lonely,
The garden a wilderness left to deform,
If the flowers but remember'd the chilling winds only,
And the fields gave no verdure for fear of the storm.
CHARLES SWAIN.

Thro' her expressive eyes, her soul distinctly spoke.

LORD LYTTLETON.

3. Whate'er the emotions of her heart, Still shone conspicuous in her eyesStranger to every female art,

Alike to feign, or to disguise.

SHAW.

4. Heart on her lips, and soul within her

eyes.

BYRON.

5. If tenderness touch'd her, the dark of her eye

At once took a darker, a heavenlier dye,

From the depth of whose shadow, like holy revealings,
From the innermost shrine, came the light of her feelings.

FREEDOM LIBERTY.

1.

Oh! give me liberty!

For were even Paradise my prison,

Still I should long to leap the crystal walls.

MOORE.

DRYDEN.

2. Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright!
Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,
And smiling Plenty leads thy wanton train.

3. A day, an hour of virtuous liberty,
Is worth a whole eternity of bondage.

ADDISON'S Italy.

ADDISON'S Cato.

4. The greatest glory of a free-born people,
Is to transmit that freedom to their children.

5. But slaves, that once conceive the glowing thought
Of freedom, in that hope itself possess
All that the contest calls for ;-spirit, strength,
The scorn of danger, and united hearts,
The surest presage of the good they seek.

6. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flowers Of fleeting life their lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it.

HAVARD.

COWPER'S Task.

7.

COWPER'S Task.

Easier were it

To hurl the rooted mountain from its base,
Than force the yoke of slavery upon men
Determin'd to be free.

8. We will not be the traitor slaves,

While heaven has light, or earth has graves.

9. Go, tame the wild torrent, or stem with a straw

SOUTHEY.

The proud surges that sweep o'er the sands that confin'd

them;

But presume not again to give Freemen a law,

Or think, with the chains they have broken, to bind them!

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FREEDOM-LIBERTY.

10. By the hope within us springing,
Herald of to-morrow's strife;

By that sun, whose light is bringing
Chains or freedom, death or life-
Oh! remember, life can be

No charm for him who lives not free!

11. And Oh! if there be, on this earthly sphere, A boon, an offering Heaven holds dear,

"T is the last libation Liberty draws

MOORE.

From the heart that bleeds, and breaks in her cause!

MOORE'S Lalla Rookh.

12. Tho' too true to themselves e'er to crouch to oppression, Who can yield to just rule a more loyal submission?

HON. W. GASTON.

13. Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.

BYRON'S Childe Harold.

14. For Freedom's battle, oft begun, Bequeath'd from bleeding sire to son, Tho' baffled oft, is ever won.

BYRON'S Giaour.

15. Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For then thy habitation is the heart!

BYRON's Prisoner of Chillon.

16. Should a conqueror tread on our forefathers' dust, It would wake the old bones from their graves.

CAMPBELL.

17. Those sacred rights to which themselves were born.

AKENSIDE.

18. Oh, Liberty! can man resign thee,

Once having felt thy generous flame?

Can dungeons, bolts, and bars confine thee,
Or whips thy noble spirit tame?

Marseilles Hymn.

FRIENDSHIP.

1. Friendship is constant in all other things,
Save in the office and affairs of love:

Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself,

And trust no agent.

2. Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,

SHAKSPEARE.

If thou but think'st him wrong'd, and makʼst his ear
A stranger to thy thoughts.

SHAKSPEARE.

3. A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

SHAKSPEARE.

4. Who shall compare love's mean and gross desire
To the chaste zeal of friendship's sacred fire?
Love is a sudden blaze which soon decays;
Friendship is like the sun's eternal rays;
Not daily benefits exhaust the flame,
It still is giving, and still burns the same.

5.

The joys of friendship,

GAY'S Dione.

The trust, security, and mutual tenderness,
The double joys, when both are glad for both;
Our only wealth, our last retreat and strength,
Secure against all fortune and the world.

6. Friendship above all ties does bind the heart,
And faith in friendship is the noblest part.

ROWE.

LORD ORRERY.

7. First on thy friend deliberate with thyself;
Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice,
Nor jealous of the chosen: fixing, fix ;-
Judge before friendship, then confide till death.

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.