A Literary, Cu; iosity. The following

literary curiosity will bear

reproduction, although old, having been

originally published in San Francisco

about twenty years ago. The poem was

compliled by a Sae Francisco lady, Mrs.

H. A. Deming, each line being a

quotation from the works of the

author.named : LIFE. Why all this toil

for triumphs of an hour ! -Young. Lifp's

a short summer, man a flower,--Dr.

9ohsoon.? By turns we catch the vital

brqath, and die. -Pope. The cradle and

the tomb, alas, so, igh.Prior.. To be

is better far than not to be,--Smel.

Though all man's lifeomay sein a

triigedy; -$Speer, But light cares speak

when mighty. griefs are dumb,-Daniell.

The bottom is but shallow whece. they

come.-Sir Walter Ralieih. Your fate is

but 'the commonmfate of all;'Longfllow.

Unmingled joys here to no man

befall.SSouth-well. Nature. to each

allots his proper plhere ;Congreve.

Foytuno makes folly her p.eculii. care;

Churchill. •Custom does often

reason.overrdle--Roches. ter. Anqd throw

a cruel sunshine ort . foolArmnstrong.

Live well; how long. et-, slesort,

.permit to Heaven ;-?lilton. They" who

forgive miot"b halU berodat for. given

.ailey. ., Siq may be clasped o .closo

that we cannot see its face-Trench.- :

Vile intercourse where: virtue has no

place. -Sonme.rv . l Then keep each

passion down, however dear; l -Tompson

Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and

tear.Byron. , . , Her sensual snares let

faithlesspleasre lay.;: With eraf: and

skill, to.;ruin: adbetray ; -Crabbe. So

r not too high to fall, bit stoop to

rise, We masters' grow of-all- that we

despise.O, then. I renounce that impious

self?esteem ; Riches have-wings, and

?iranduier is a dream. {Cowrper. Think

not':ambition wise because 'tis brave, ,

sir Walrter oDaenent. ' The pathsaof

glory lead hbut to the grave:Grsy..

_:What :What is ambition ? 'Tie

a-glorious cheat'i Onrly destrutive to

they brave- and great.A, t Addison.

What's all the gaudy glitter of a crown

?': Dryden.The The way to bliss lies not

on beds of down. -Francis Quarler.. _...

Hqw long we- live, not years, but

actions Stell '-Watkins. The man lives.

twice who lives the first life Swell

I-errick Make, then, whileyet;

?onumay,".yor-God your friend; Willim

Mason r . .Whom Christians worship,.

yet: not comprer hend.-Hill. The trust

that's given: guard,?and to you. self be

jupt;-Daua. . For, live we how: we. can,

yet die we'must. -Shakespeare