These annotations are fitly supplemented by the articles "AUTHORSHIP" and "CRITICISM" (under which last will be found 170 quotations). II. "MORNING."-One of the finest compositions in the writings of the late Daniel Webster is a letter on the morning, written to Mrs. J. W. Paige, and dated at Richmond, April 29, five o'clock A.M., 1847. (See Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, 1857, ii. 240.) "Beautiful descriptions of the 'morning' abound in all languages. . . . Milton has fine descriptions of morning, but not so many as Shakespeare, from whose writings pages of the most beautiful images, all founded on the glory of the morning, might be filled," etc. this title 152 extracts, from 38 authors, will be found. Under III. “RIVERS."-In his very interesting Recollections of Past Life (1872, chapter ii.), Sir Henry Holland remarks, "Much more I could say of rivers, as giving to travel the greatest charm of landscape, while affording lessons in geology and physical geography invaluable to science. Even the simple brook, followed step by step to its course, illustrates, in the windings of its channel, its depths and deposits, and the sections which its banks disclose, many of the grandest phenomena and conclusions of geology. In the poetry of every age the flow of river-waters has been a favourite theme,-one symbol of the life and destinies of man." The reader will find 94 quotations under this head. "BIRDS" are celebrated in 260 passages by 45 authors; "LAW" contains 194, "LOVE" 565, "POLITICS" 157, "SLEEP" 242, "WOMAN" 291, and "YOUTH" 227 quotations. In the whole (as stated on the title-page) 435 subjects are illustrated, by 550 authors, in 13,600 quotations, which may be read in course, or consulted separately, as occasion serves. PHILADELPHIA, February 8, 1873. S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE. 1 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. ABSENCE. Since she must go, and I must mourn, come night, Environ me with darkness whilst I write. DONNE. Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, Winds murmur'd through the leaves your short And made his wound far greater than before; And walks wear fresher green at your return. She vows for his return with vain devotion DRYDEN. Absence not long enough to root out quite THOMAS MAY: Henry II. MILTON. Oh! couldst thou but know Forced from her presence, and condemn'd to And memory, like a drop that night and day live! Unwelcome freedom, and unthank'd reprieve. DRYDEN. Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! Ye flowers that droop, forsaken by the spring; Love reckons hours for months, and days for Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, years; And every little absence is an age. DRYDEN: Amphytrion. 2 Ye trees that fade, when autumn heats remove, РОРЕ. As some sad turtle his lost love deplores, POPE. Fate some future bard shall join (17) I charge thee loiter not, but haste to bless me: What! keep a week away? seven days and nights? ACTORS. One tragic sentence if I dare deride, claims, Though but perhaps a muster-roll of names. POPE. Is it not monstrous that this player here, ADVERSITY. The gods in bounty work up storms about us, Eightscore eight hours? and lovers' absent Virtues which shun the day. Looking my love, I go from place to place, Like a young fawn that late hath lost the hind; And seek each where, where last I saw her face, Whose image yet I carry fresh in mind. SPENSER. Since I did leave the presence of my love, Many long weary days I have out-worn, And many nights that slowly seem'd to move Their sad protract from evening until morn. SPENSER. For since mine eye your joyous sight did miss, My cheerful day is turn'd to cheerless night. SPENSER The rugged metal of the mine ADDISON. Must burn before its surface shine; By adversity are wrought DANIEL: On the Earl of Southampton. Grow hard and stiffen with adversity. DRYDEN. Aromatic plants bestow GOLDSMITH. By how much from the top of wond'rous glory, Strongest of mortal men, To lowest pitch of abject fortune thou art fall'n. The scene of beauty and delight is changed: ROWE. |