LITERAIT criaosth.

[A lady oemtpled a: *bole year in searching

for and fitting the following thirty-elglit lines

trim English and American poets. Tb whole

reads almost as if it bad been written at one

time and by one author :3

LIFE.

Why all this toil for triumphs of an hoar?

—Toting.

Lite's a abort Bmnmer—man is but a fl *sr;

—Dr. Johnson.

Bi tarns we catch the fatal breath and die—

. .J.Pope.

The eradin and the tomb, alas! somigh.

—Prior.

To be is better far than not to be.

Sewell

T.iough all man's life may seem a tragedy;

—£lpences.

Bit light cares speak when mighty griefs are

bottom Is bottom Is but shallow whence they ohms.

• '''-81r Walter Bandgb.

Your fate is but the common fate of all;

—Longfellow.

trimlogled joys here noman befalL

—l3outhwell.

Nature to each 'Allots his proper sphere,

—Cougrolrw•

Fvrtune makes folly her reenlist. care;

—Churchill.

Custom does often reason overrule,

—Rochester.

And throws a cruel sunshine on s fool. , !

r

'—Armstrong.

Live well—how long or short permit to heaven.

• =Milton.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

—Bailey.

Sin may be duped so close we cannot see its

face— I —French.

Vise intercourse, where virtue has not place.

' I —Somerville.

Then keep each passion down, however dear.

. I —Thmson.

TI on pendulum betwixt a smile and tea o r . ;

—Byron.

11. r sensual snares let faithless pleasure lay,

—Smollet.

W.th craft and skill to ruin and betray.

_ I 1 - —Ciabbe.

Soar not too high - to fall, but stoop tame;

I —Messinger.

kstmasters grow of all that we despise.

, —Crowley.

01-, then, , renonnee that impious self-esteem;

I —Beattie.

Richies have wings, and grandeur is a dream.

—Cowper.

Think noksmbition wise because 'tie brave--

—Sir Witter Davenant.

Ti epatbs of glory lead but the grave.

L —'Gray.W is ambition? 'fits a glorious cheat;

. . — '

'Willis.

Oz.ly destructive to the braresad g - .eat.

—Addison.

W tar's all the gand 4 y glitter of a crown?

• i —Dryden.

The way to bliss . lies not on belie of awn.

I 4rancts Quarles.

11 w long we live, not years bat actions:tell;

• . —Watkins.

That man lives twice who lives the first life

well. '. . —lerri k.

Mete, then, while yet ye may, your (lid your

friend — William Mason.

Whom Chr istians worship, yet not comprehend.

- I I—Hiii.

Tile trust that's given guard, iI and to yourself

be jars; ' I . —Dana.

Fcr live we how we may, yet die we mast.