The Survival of the Fittest. HERBERT SPENCER (1820--): Principles of Biology, Vol. i. Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot's fate, Who hangs his head for shame? JOHN K. INGRAM (1820--): The Dublin Nation, April 1, On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round. The bivouac of the dead. THEODORE O'HARA (1820-1867): The Bivouac of the in Allatoona from the top of Kenesaw, Oct. 5, 1864. For every wave with dimpled face That leap'd upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace And held it trembling there. AMELIA B. WELBY (1821-1852): Musings. Stanza 4. To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. EDWARD EVERETT HALE (1822-): Rule of the "Harry Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugihump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission. ISAAC H. BROMLEY (1833- - −): Editorial in the "New York Tribune," Feb. 16, 1877. A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. HORACE PORTER (1837-), — a bon-mot in the ClevelandBlaine campaign of 1884. I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. RICHARD RUMBOLD, on the scaffold, 1685. History of England (Macaulay), Chap. v. The last link is broken That bound me to thee, And the words thou hast spoken Have render'd me free. FANNY STEERS: Song. Old Simon the cellarer keeps a rare store G. W. BELLAMY: Simon the Cellarer. Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins. SCROPE DAVIES: Letter to Thomas Raikes, May 25, 1835. She's all my fancy painted her; WILLIAM MEE: Alice Gray. Stately and tall he moves in the hall, KATE FRANKLIN: Life at Olympus, Lady's Book, Vol. xxiii. p. 33. When the sun's last rays are fading Into twilight soft and dim. THEODORE L. BARKER: Thou wilt think of me again. Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee MRS. (DAVID) PORTER: Thou hast wounded the Spirit. Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns! THOMAS NOEL: The Pauper's Ride. In the days when we went gypsying A long time ago; The lads and lassies in their best Were dress'd from top to toe. EDWIN RANSFORD: In the Days when we went Gypsying. Speak gently! 't is a little thing Dropp'd in the heart's deep well; G. W. LANGFORD: Speak gently. Hope tells a flattering tale,1 Miss WROTHER: The Universal Songster. Vol. ii. p. 86. Nose, nose, nose, nose! And who gave thee that jolly red nose? RAVENSCROFT: Deuteromela, Song No. 7.2 (1609.) The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter." GEORGE HAKEWILL: Apologie. Book iii. Chap. v. Sect. 9.8 1 Hope told a flattering tale, That Joy would soon return; Ah! naught my sighs avail, For Love is doomed to mourn. ANONYMOUS (air by Giovanni Paisiello, 1741-1816): Universal Songster, vol. i. p. 320. 2 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, act i. SC. 3. 8 Hakewill translated this from the "Theatrum Vitæ Humanæ," vol. iii. Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, WILLIAM CAMDEN: Remains. Begone, dull Care! I prithee begone from me! Much of a muchness. PLAYFORD: Musical Companion. (1687.) VANBRUGH: The Provoked Husband, Act i. Sc. 1. Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John, The bed be blest that I lye on. THOMAS ADY: A Candle in the Dark, p. 58. (London, 1656.) Junius, Aprilis, Septémq; Nouemq; tricenos, WILLIAM HARRISON: Description of Britain (prefixed to Thirty dayes hath Nouember, RICHARD GRAFTON: Chronicles of England. (1590.) Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty-one; Excepting leap year, that's the time The Return from Parnassus. (London, 1606.) Thirty days hath September, Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. 1 Altered by Johnson (1783), Common in the New England States. Between the stirrup and the ground, Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Every other thirty-one Except the second month alone. Common in Chester County, Penn., among the Friends. "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley," Latimer cried at the crackling of the flames. "Play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." 1 There is a garden in her face, 1 Where roses and white lilies show; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow. An Howres Recreation in Musike. (1606. Set to music by Richard Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row; Which when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds filled with snow. A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won, Obliged to triumph in this legacy.2 Ibid. The British Princes, p. 96. (1669.) When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? Lines used by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion.3 1 I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out. -2 Esdras riv. 25. A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won, have been ascribed to Blackmore, but suppressed in the later editions of his poems. 3 HUME: History of England, vol. i. chap. xvii. note 8. |