worth, by weight, from one hundred and sixty thousand to three hundred thousand dollars, and bearing gemmed books in their hands worth fifteen thousand: there were bäs-reliefs that weighed six hundred pounds, carved in solid silver; crosiers and crosses, and candlesticks six and eight feet high, all of virgin gold, and brilliant with precious stones: and beside these were all manner of cups and vases, and other things, rich in proportion. It was an Aladdin's palace! The treasures here, by simple weight, without counting workmanship, were valued at ten millions of dollars!

I like to revel in the dryest details of the great cathedral. The building is nearly five hundred feet long, by three hundred feet wide; and the principal steeple is in the neighborhood of four hundred feet high. It has more than seven thousand marble statues, and will have upward of three thousand more when it is finished. In addition, it has one thousand five hundred bäs-reliefs. It has one hundred and thirty-six spires-twenty-one more are to be added. Each spire is surmounted by a statue six and a half feet high. It is estimated that it will take a hundred and twenty years yet to finish the cathedral; and already the mere workmanship alone has cost considerably over a hundred millions of dollars. The building looks complete, but is far from being so. We saw a new statue put in its niche yesterday, alongside of one which had been standing these four hundred years.

There are four staircases leading up to the main steeple, each of which, with the four hundred and eight statues which adorn them, cost a hundred thousand dollars. Marco Campioni was the architect who designed this wonderful structure, more than five hundred years ago; and it took him forty-six years to work out the plan, and get it ready to hand over to the builders. The building was begun a little

less than five hundred years ago; and the third generation hence will not see it completed.

DIDACTIC.

34.

["Haste Not-Rest Not.".

"Without haste! without rest!"

Bind the motto to thy breast!

Bear it with thee as a spell;

Goethe.]

Storm or sunshine, guard it well!

Heed not flowers that round thee bloom,

Bear it onward to the tomb!

Haste not let no thoughtless deed
Mar for e'er the spirit's speed;
Ponder well and know the right,
Onward then, with all thy might;
Haste not years can ne'er atone
For one reckless action done!

Rest not! life is sweeping by,
Do and dare before you die;
Something mighty and sublime
Leave behind to conquer time;
Glorious 'tis to live for aye

When these forms have passed away.

Break, break, break,

On thy cold, gray stones, O Sea!

And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.

Oh, well for the fisherman's boy

That he shouts with his sister at play!
Oh, well for the sailor-lad

That he sings in his boat on the bay!

And the stately ships go on,

To the haven under the hill;

But oh, for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!

Break, break, break,

At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!

But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.

99. FULL FORCE.

LAW OF USE.

Full Force is employed in the expression of joy, gladness, defiance, anger, profound sublimity, and grandeur, and in the delivery of political, senatorial, and judicial speeches of an exalted oratorical character.

100. Examples: JOY AND GLADNESS.

"See, Boy Briton, see, boy, see!

They strike! HURRAH! the fort has surrendered!

Shout! shout, my warrior boy!

And wave your cap, and clap your hands with joy! Cheer answer cheer, and bear the cheer about HURRAH! HURRAH!"

DEFIANCE AND ANGER.

[From "Marmion and Douglas."- Scott.]

36.

Not far advanced was morning day,
When Marmion did his troop array

To Surrey's camp to ride;

He had safe conduct for his band,
Beneath the royal seal and hand,
And Douglas gave a guide.
The train from out the castle drew;
But Marmion stopped to bid adieu:

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Though something I might plain,” he said, "Of cold respect to stranger guest,

Sent hither by your king's behest,

While in Tantallon's towers I staid;
Part we in friendship from your land,
And, noble earl, receive my hand."
But Douglas round him drew his cloak,
Folded his arms, and thus he spoke:
"My manors, halls, and bowers, shall still
Be open at my sovereign's will,

To each one whom he lists, howe'er
Unmeet to be the owner's peer:
My castles are my king's alone,
From turret to foundation-stone,
The hand of Douglas is his own;
And never shall in friendly grasp

The hand of such as Marmion clasp."

Burned Marmion's swarthy cheek like fire,
And shook his very frame for ire,

And

"This to me!" he said:

"An 't were not for thy hoary beard,
Such hand as Marmion's had not spared
To cleave the Douglas' head!

And first, I tell thee, haughty Peer,
He who does England's message here,
Although the meanest in her state,
May well, proud Angus, be thy mate:
And, Douglas, more I tell thee here,
Even in thy pitch of pride,

Here in thy hold, thy vassals near
I tell thee, thou'rt defied!
And if thou saidst, I am not peer
To any lord in Scotland here,
Lowland or Highland, far or near,

Lord Angus, thou hast lied!"
On the Earl's cheek the flush of rage

O'ercame the ashen hue of age;

Fierce he broke forth: "And darest thou then

To beard the lion in his den,

The Douglas in his hall?

And hop'st thou hence unscathed to go?

No, by Saint Bride of Bothwell, no!

Up drawbridge, grooms!-what, warder, ho!
Let the portcullis fall."

Lord Marmion turned, well was his need,

And dashed the rowels in his steed,

Like arrow through the archway sprung,