A LITERARY CCRIOSITT

A lady occupied a whole year in search­

;e for and fitting the following thirty-

lines from English and American

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The whole reads as ji written , at

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I" LIFEi ' :

Why all lljis toil for triumphs of an houi ?

' Young.

Life's a short summer man is but a Bower.

f Dr. Johnson.

Bv turns we catch the fatal breath and die;

Pope.

The cradle and the grave, alat! .uigli.

Prior. l-

To be is better far than not to bt; Sewell.

Though all man's life may seem a tragedy;

.Spencer. " . ..'

But ligut cares spdak when mighty (crifs

are dumb; Daniel.

The bottom is but shallow whence they

come. Scott.

Your fate is but the common fate of al ;

Longfellow. ..

Unmingled joys here do no man befall;

i Southwell.

Nature to "each allots its proper sphere;

! Congreve.

Fortune makes follies her peculiar care;

Churchill. .:

.Custom does often reason overrule, Ro-

: Chester. . ' ,

And throw a cruel sunshiue on a fop4.

Armstrong.. - -' r' -'

Live well how j long or short permit to

; Heaven. Milton. " ' .

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given. Bailey. 'S.jx: T. i

Sin may be clasped : so close we cannot see

bis face; French. . -Yile

intercourse, where viitue has not

place. Somerville. -" v- 4: -Tben

keep each passion down, however

dear, Thompson.

Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

Uvron. ! -

Her sensual coves, let faithless pleasure lay

Smollet

With craft and

Crabbe. ' i

skill to run and to betray.

Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise.

.f aoaonniof - I- ""

We masters grow of all that we despise.

' -. . Crowley. -.j v -Oh

then renounce that impious self-esteem-.

- . BeatteJ . ; : :

Riches have wings, j and grandeur is a

Tbjnk not amjbition wise because 'tisbrave.

' Davenaut. ' '

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Gray. U ;, - vj.

What is ambition? 'tis a;

, glorious cheat.

Willis.

Only desirucjlive to the. brave and great.

a ilifiann

. What's all the gaudy

Dry den.'

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glitter ot a crown ?

lue way iu unaa lies

not on beds of down.

Quarks. j '

How loag we live, not years, but actions

1 tell Watkins.

That man lives twice who lives the first life

well. Herrick. .

Make then, while yetj you may, your God

vnlir frinnfl -Ftovristtr "

Whom Christians worship, yet not com­

prehend. Hill. I

The tiust that's given guard, and to your-

. self be just- Dana. ,

For, live how we may, yet die we. must.

: Shakespeare. , t