This name was Generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town. given it, we are told, in former days by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.-Irving. O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity; these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what, weep you, when you but behold Our Cæsar's vesture wounded? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.-Shakespeare. Ari. Safely in harbour Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once Whom, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour, I pass the leafy colonnade, Where level branches of the plane As thrills of long-hushed tone Live in the viol, so our souls grow fine With keen vibrations from the touch divine Of noble natures gone.-Lowell. Men. You have stood your limitation; and the tribunes That, in the official marks invested, you Anon do meet the senate.-Shakespeare. A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks.-Irving. As the reflection of a light Between two burnished mirrors gleams, Or lamps upon a bridge at night Stretch on and on before the sight, Till the long vista endless seems.-Longfellow. It is obvious that theory alone can never make a good artist; and it is equally obvious that practice unaided by theory can never correct errors, but must establish them.-Mrs. Emma Willard. Tell us, how of old our saintly mothers Schooled themselves by vigil, fast, and prayer.- Kingsley. O wad some power the giftie gie us, It wad frae monie a blunder free us, The near horizon tempts to rest in vain. -Ware. (Ursa Major.) A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs.-Emerson. A power is on the earth and in the air From which the vital spirit shrinks afraid, From the hot steam and from the fiery glare.-Bryant. They never knew how kindness grows A vigil and a care, Nor watched beside the heart's repose In silence and in prayer.-Bulwer. Some, that will evermore peep through their eyes, And laugh, like parrots, at a bag-piper; And other of such vinegar aspect, That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.-Shakespeare. Cas. I will rather sue to be despised, than to deceive so good a commander, with so slight, so drunken, and indiscreet an officer. Drunk? and speak parrot? and squabble? swagger? swear? and discourse fustian with one's own shadow?-O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call theedevil!-Shakespeare. Manly as Hector, but more dangerous; For Hector, in his blaze of wrath, subscribes Is more vindictive than jealous love: They call him Troilus; and on him erect A second hope, as fairly built as Hector.-Shakespeare, Why so slow, Gentle and voluble spirit of the air? O come, and breathe upon the fainting earth Coolness and life.-Bryant. (The Summer Wind.) 1 QUOTATIONS. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As when the night is bare, From one lone cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. Shelley. (To a Skylark.) 281 Ham. How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.-Shakespeare. In wood and thicket, over the wide grove, They answer and provoke each other's song.-Coleridge. The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious satire, or implied dislike.-Hannah More. I am a woman, And the insurgent demon of my nature At pity and compassion.-Longfellow. (Pandora.) The Spring is here--the delicate-footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers! Wasting in wood-paths its voluptuous hours A feeling that is like a sense of wings, Restless to soar above these perishing things.-Willis. Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Say, that she rail,-why, then, I'll tell her plain, Say, she be mute, and will not speak a word,— Then, I'll commend her volubility, And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.-Shakespeare. Devotion borrows Music's tone, And Music takes devotion's wing; And, like the bird that hails the sun. They soar to heaven, and soaring sing.-Scott. If a Roman citizen had been asked if he did not fear that the conqueror of Gaul might establish a throne upon the ruins of public liberty, he would have instantly repelled the unjust insinuation. Yet Greece fell; Cæsar passed the Rubicon, and the patriotic arm even of Brutus could not preserve the liberties of his devoted country.-Henry Clay. Thou losest labour: As easy may'st thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed: Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.-Shakespeare. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshipers.-Bryant. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone.-Emerson. But this new governor Awakes me all the enrolled penalties, Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall So long, that nineteen zodiacs have gone round, And none of them been worn.-Shakespeare. WEBSTER'S NEW Based on the New International Dictionary, Three volumes alike in general plan, character, and typog- 70,000 Words and Phrases. 1,000 Illustrations. 864 Pages. 64x85% ins. Carefully planned to meet the needs of all the elementary In spite of its small size, this book presents a very large |