Onward, onward may we press Through the path of duty; Virtue is true happiness,

Excellence true beauty;

Minds are of supernal birth,

Bk. IV.

Line 92.

Let us make a heaven of earth.
JAMES MONTGOMERY-Aspirations of
Youth. St. 3.

20.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious

and free,

First flower of the earth, and first gem of the

x.

y.

sea.

MOORE-Remember Thee. From servants hasting to be gods. POLLOK-Course of Time. Bk. II. Just and Unjust Rulers. But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, And chiefs contend 'till all the prize is lost! POPE-Rape of the Lock. Canto V.

2.

Line 108.

Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou

shrunk !

When that this body did contain a spirit,
A kingdom for it was too small a bound;
But now, two paces of the vilest earth
Is room enough.

J.

Henry IV. Pt. I. Act. V. Sc. 4. It were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me. k. All's Well That Ends Well. Act. I. Se. 1. Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition,

By that, sin, fell the angels; how can man then,

The image of his Maker, hope to win by it? Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee;

Corruption wins not more than honesty.
1. Henry VIII. Act. III. Sc. 2.
The noble Brutus

Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
And grievously hath Cæsar answered it.
Julius Caesar. Act. III. Sc. 2.

m.

Tis the progress gains the goal;

Ever widen more its bound;

In the Full the clear is found,

And the Truth-dwells under ground.

e. SCHILLER-Sentences of Confucius.

Ambition is no cure for love.
SCOTT-Lay of the Last Minstrel.
Canto I. St. 27.

j.

Ambition's debt is paid.

Julius Cæsar. Act. III. Sc. 1.

I am not covetous for gold;

Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;

It

yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires:

But if it be a sin to covet honor

I am the most offending soul alive.

h.

Henry V. Act. IV. Sec. 3.

I have no spur

To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition; which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other

i. Macbeth. Act. I. Sc. 7.

Julius Cæsar. Act II. Sc. 1.

Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition.

Henry VI. Pt. II. Act III. Sc. 1. How many a rustic Milton has pass'd by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!

7. SHELLEY Queen Mab. Pt. V. St. 9.

I was born to other things.

8.

TENNYSON-In Memoriam.

Pt. CXIX.

Domain. Line 90.

Talents angel-bright,

If wanting worth, are shining instruments In false ambition's hand, to finish faults Illustrious, and give infamy renown.

C. YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night VI.

Line 273.

O, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside,

If I but remember only

Pt. II. Line 386.

Such as these have lived and died! g. LONGFELLOW-Footsteps of Angels. The good one, after every action closes His volume, and ascends with it to God. The other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing, The record of the action fades away, And leaves a line of white across the page. Now if my act be good, as I believe, It cannot be recalled. It is already

Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished.

The rest is yours.

h. LONGFELLOW-Christus, The Golden
Legend. Pt. VI.

All God's angels come to us disguised;
Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death,
One after other lift their frowning masks,
And we behold the seraph's face beneath,
All radiant with the glory and the calm
Of having looked upon the front of God.
i. LOWELL-On the Death of a Friend's
Child. Line 21.

An angel stood and met my gaze,
Through the low doorway of my tent;
The tent is struck, the vision stays ;-
I only know she came and went.
j. LOWELL-She Came and Went.

MILTON-Comus. Line 249.

The helmed Cherubim,
And sworded Seraphim,

Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

0.

MILTON----Hymn on the Nativity. St. 110.
Angel voices sung

The mercy of their God, and strung
Their harps.

p. MOORE-Loves of the Angels. Third Angel's Story. A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

1. ROGERS-Human Life.

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. r. Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 2.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

8. Macbeth. Act IV. Sc. 3.

We hold the keys of Heaven within our hands,

The gift and heirloom of a former state, And lie in infancy at Heaven's gate, Transfigured in the light that streams along the lands!

Around our pillow's golden ladders rise,
And up and down the skies,

With winged sandals shod,

The angels come, and go, the Messengers of God!

t.

STODDARD-Hymn to the Beautiful.

St. 3.