Day-stars that ope your eyes with man, to twinkle,
From rainbow galaxies of earth's creation,

And dew-drops on her lonely altars sprinkle

As a libation.-Horace Smith. (Hymn to the Flowers.)

All that liberal Autumn pours

From her rich o'erflowing stores.-Mrs. Barbauld.

Oh breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,
Where cold and unhonored his relics are laid.-Moore.

Q. Mar. O princely Buckingham, I kiss thy hand,
In sign of league and amity with thee.-Shakespeare.

He was not

In costly raiment clad, nor on his brow
The symbol of a princely lineage wore.-Willis.

And while the night-breeze dies away,
Like relics of some faded strain,
Lov'd voices, lost for many a day,

Seem whispering round again.-Moore.

Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad.-Milton.

And lives unseen, and bathes her wing,
All vestal white, in the limpid spring.-Moore.

To hear the liquid Tuscan speech at whiles
From citizen and peasant.-Emma Lazarus.

Wide open stood the chapel door;
A sweet old music, swelling o'er

Low prayerful murmurs, issued thence,-
The Litanies of Providence - Whittier.

You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet,

Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone?

Of two such lessons, why forget

The nobler and the manlier one?

You have the letters Cadmus gave

Think ye he meant them for a slave?-Byron.

The clouds in thousand liveries dight.-Milton.

Many a man of passable information at the present day reads scarcely any thing but reviews, and before long a man of erudition will be little better than a mere walking catalogue.--Irving.

* As the several invading and conquering races left their impress on the language of England, so likewise the Arabian or Moorish conquest of Spain left a broad impress on the geography and language of that country. The Moslems were taught to extend their religion by the power of the sword. In accordance with this mandate, they exterminated Christianity and every other belief at issue with Islam in south-western Asia and northern Africa. In due time they invaded Europe, first appearing in Spain, and effectually conquering the peninsula. They entered from Africa, from the region of Morocco, and were hence called Moors. They crossed the narrow Strait of Gibraltar, and signalized their entrance into Europe by immediately re-christening its geographical features. The great rock (the Pillar of Hercules), which had borne for centuries the name of the renowned mythical hero, was destined to bear thereafter the name of the conquering Moorish chief, Tarick (Gibraltar Geber-al-Tarick, the rock of Tarick). The wave of invasion crossed the Pyrenees, but its onward progress in that direction was arrested forever by the decisive victory of the French commander, Charles Martel (Charles the Hammerer of the Moslems), on the plain of Tours. Confined to Spain, the Moors or Arabs signalized their occupation of the region by the diligent cultivation of the arts and sciences. As a noble monument of their success in the former, they have left us the beautiful palace of the Alhambra at Granada (see Arabesque); while their success in the latter will be noted in the number of Arabic terms that have taken a prominent place in scientific nomenclature, in competition with the overmastering Greek. (See Alabaster, also the scientific terms beginning with the syllable al.)

Macb. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men.-Shakespeare.

There's a boy we pretend, with a three-decker brain,
Who could harness a logical team with his brain.-Holmes.

And dire remembrance interlope,

To vex the feverish slumbers of the mind.-Coleridge,

He was young,

And eminently beautiful, and life

Mantled in eloquent fullness on his lip,

And sparkled in his glance.-Willis.

Sabrina fair,

Listen where thou art sitting

Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,

In twisted braids of lilies knitting

The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.-Milton.

Standing, with reluctant feet,

Where the brook and river meet,

Womanhood and childhood fleet!-Longfellow.

And the meteors of that sublunar heaven,

Like the lamps of the air when Night walks forth,
Laughed round her footsteps up from the earth!-Shelley.

Hovering and blazing with delusive light,

Misleads th' amazed night-wanderer from his way

To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool.-Milton.

Not to be laughed at and scorned because he was little of stature;
For he was great of heart, magnanimous, courtly, courageous.-Longfellow,

Such dim-conceived glories of the brain

Bring round the heart an indescribable feud:

So do these wonders a most dizzy pain,

That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude
Wasting of old Time-with a billowy main,
A sun, a shadow of a magnitude.

-Keats. (On Seeing the Elgin Marbles.)

Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation.-Irving.