There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream.
Lalla Rookh. The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.

Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun,
Grow pure by being purely shone upon.

One morn a Peri at the gate
Of Eden stood disconsolate.

Ibid.

Paradise and the Peri.

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres,
And multiply each through endless years,
One minute of heaven is worth them all.

But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour,
I've seen my fondest hopes decay;

I never loved a tree or flower

But 't was the first to fade away.

I never nurs'd a dear gazelle,

To glad me with its soft black eye,
But when it came to know me well
And love me, it was sure to die.

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave
Whose treason, like a deadly blight,
Comes o'er the councils of the brave,

Ibid.

Ibid.

The Fire-Worshippers.

Dissension between hearts that love!
Hearts that the world in vain had tried,

And sorrow but more closely tied;

That stood the storm when waves were rough,
Yet in a sunny hour fall off,

MOORE.DENMAN.

MOORE. - BROUGHAM. 527

Like ships that have gone down at sea
When heaven was all tranquillity.

Lalla Rookh. The Light of the Harem.

Love on through all ills, and love on till they die. Ibid. And oh if there be an Elysium on earth,

It is this, it is this!

Humility, that low, sweet root

From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Ibid.

The Loves of the Angels. The Third Angel's Story.

LORD DENMAN. 1779-1854.

A delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

O'Connell v. The Queen, 11 Clark and Finnelly Reports.

The mere repetition of the Cantilena of lawyers cannot make it law, unless it can be traced to some competent authority; and if it be irreconcilable, to some clear legal principle.

CLEMENT C. MOORE. 1779-1863.

Ibid.

"T was the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

A Visit from St. Nicholas.

LORD BROUGHAM. 1779-1868.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Speech, Jan. 29, 1828.

- JAMES.

In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, kings, lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box. Present State of the Law, Feb. 7, 1828.

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.1
Death was now armed with a new terror.2

PAUL MOON JAMES. 1780-1854.

The Beacon.

The scene was more beautiful far to the eye
Than if day in its pride had arrayed it.
And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope, —
That star of life's tremulous ocean.

Ibid.

CHARLES MINER. 1780-1865.

When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy and throwing half his goods on the counter, thinks I, that man has an axe to grind.

Who'll turn Grindstones,8

1 The title given by Lord Brougham to a book published in 1830. 2 Brougham delivered a very warm panegyric upon the ex-Chancellor, and expressed a hope that he would make a good end, although to an expiring Chancellor death was now armed with a new terror.- CAMPBELL: Lives of the Chancellors, vol. vii. p. 163.

Lord St. Leonards attributes this phrase to Sir Charles Wetherell, who used it on the occasion referred to by Lord Campbell.

From Edmund Curll's practice of issuing miserable catch-penny lives of every eminent person immediately after his decease, Arbuthnot wittily styled him "one of the new terrors of death." - CARRUTHERS: Life of Pope (second edition), p. 149.

3 From "Essays from the Desk of Poor Robert the Scribe," Doylestown, Pa., 1815. It first appeared in the "Wilkesbarre Gleaner," 1811.

JOHN C. CALHOUN. 1782-1850.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts,' bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. Speech, Feb. 13, 1835.

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.2 Speech, May 27, 1836.

DANIEL WEBSTER. 1782-1852.

(From Webster's Works. Boston. 1857.)

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. Speech at Plymouth, Dec. 22, 1820.8 Vol. i. p. 44.

We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!

Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill
Monument, 1825. P. 62.

1 See Appendix, page 859.

2 From this comes the phrase, "Cohesive power of public plunder."` 8 This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever. — JOHN ADAMS: Letter to Webster, Dec. 23, 1821.

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. Vol. i. p. 64.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Ibid. P. 71.

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.

Ibid. P. 74.

Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.

Ibid. P. 78.

Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.

Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. P. 93.

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

Ibid. P. 102.

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind. Ibid. P. 105.

Thank God! I - I also

am an American!

Ibid. P. 107.

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.1

Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. P. 133.

1 Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination." - JOHN ADAMS: Works, vol. iv. p. 8.

Live or die, sink or swim. - PEELE: Edward I. (1584?).