is sa?l to have

occupied a whole year's lab oona sa?sh

among the voluminous writinzs oi th?try.

eight leading poets of the past and

preset: times. The credit of it is gven

to an Amen. can lady. We give the names

of the authot at the end, the numbers

referrng to t.: lines :Why all this toll

for triumphs of an hour Life's a short

summer. man a flower. By turns we catch

the vital breath and de-Tlto cradle and

the tomb, alas! ,o nibh. To be is better

far than not to f., Thouch all man's

life may 'em a trae-dr But light cares

speak when migh: .:ne ? dunib, The

bottom is hbut shallow whence they crom.

Your fate is but the common lot of siJ:

UnmInuled joys here to no man b.ft!L

Nature to each allots her proper hTere;

Fortune makes folly her peculiar rar?;

Custom does often reason overrule. And

throw a cruel eunshine on a fol. Live

well; how long or short p-r?t heaven;

They who forgive most shall be moct

ferr?i. Sin may be clasped so cloe we

caret :e " face intercourse where virtue

hab ro phte. Then keep each prenon,

however dear. Thenou pendulum, betwixt a

smile asn tear. In sensual snares let

faithlecs pleasunr la.. With craft and

skill, to ruin and bOwrry. Soar not too

high to fall, but stoop to «t,, We

masters grow of all that we dpi-'. Oh,

then, I renounce that imp?e?o esteem;

Riches have wing and grandeur i a dram.

Think not ambition mi?e because 'tii

bravt The paths of rlory lead but to the

C?rate. What is ambition ?--'t a

gloreiou chestr Ontvdestruetive to the

brave and grtatWhat's all the gaudy

glitter of a crown! The way to blis lies

not on bels of dcen. How long we live,

not tear, but actions teu. That man

lives twice who lives the trt -i well.

Make, then, while yet we may, your Gi al

tfriend Christians worship, yet tt tC-t

P hend. The trust that's given guard,

and to '' Sjust; 'For, live we how we

can, yet die we mart. S1, Yon ;: 2, Dr.

Johnson; 3, ePoe Prior; 5, Jewell; ,

Spenser : 7. Dandl:t Sir Walter Raleigh;

9, Longfellow:IT Southrwell; 11,

Coagre;rt 12, Chare13, Rochester; 14

Armstreono; 13. 1 llt 16, Bailey; 17,

Trench; 1t, Somerville: Thomson; 20,

Byron; 3I, Smollnet: ' Crabbei; 23,

Massinger: ;2, t'owley Beattie: 2G,

Cowper; 27, Sir Walter ar nant;

2S,,Gray; 29, W1'illis: .w. Addsc 31,

Dryden; 32, Francis Quarls: *1 flill 37,

Dana; 33, Shakspere