217.

TWO FRENCH NOVELISTS.

1. An antelope or pitchfork bears it.

2. What! eighty-five? How well he wears it! 3. 'Twas here Sir Sam was called Speke's brother. 4. Your horse is in 't enough to smother.

5. They left this out in the first florin. 6. He's quite used up, you see he's snorin'. 7. You like it, though you seem to chide. 8. Oh dear! that arrow's hit a bride; 9. Now, if she'd fenced herself with this, 10. No one would e'er have dared to hiss'What! shot a woman! hit a miss!'

1.

2.

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'She, looking thro' and thro' me,
Thoroughly to undo me,

Smiling, never speaks.'

'The stately flower of female fortitude.'

'Thou wert an honest ladWert generous, grateful, not without ambition.' 'While all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene

Its brilliant hues, with all their beams unshorn.' 3. 'He, their unhoped but unforgotten lord, Their long self-exiled chieftain, is restored.'

4. Which was of the sons of the giant.'

5. 'Little Effie shall go with me to-morrow to

the green,

And you'll be there too, mother, to see me made the queen.'

6. Thou loveliest, dearest of them all, The one whose smile shone out alone, Amidst a world, the only one!'

219.

A woman's wit and tongue-the scent of hound, A scimitar-a patriot's sense of wrong. Respectability-an ass in pound—

Sermons, between the acts, a comic song. 1. Lively, pretty, mischievous too,

Just the right thing for a glove or a shoe. 2. A Lincolnshire stream, neither sparkling nor brawling.

3. An animal suited for swimming or crawling. 4. And what we've all got, and yet most of us buy; To have our cash down upon, all of us try.

220.

An orator of reputation;
The subject of his agitation.

1. What thirsty people deem most pleasant.
2. Once great, but fallen low at present.
3. The word that roused the monarch's ire.
4. The Pope condemned, but we admire.
5. A refuge when the tempest rages.
6. The work of ancient Hebrew ages.

221.

Beneath a darksome dungeon-tower, a noble captive lies,

No friendly voice to reach his ear, no sun to glad

his eyes.

O noble heart and gallant arm! condemned from day to day,

Through hopeless years, a prisoner, thy life to

wear away.

That darksome prison rises black against the sunset sky,

And throws a shadow o'er the path of a pilgrim passing by.

The pilgrim took his lute, and sang a plaintive song of love:

He starts,-for lo! his faltering strain is answered from above.

1. A root grown under Eastern skies-
The terror of our childish eyes.
2. Against me strove the hosts of Spain,
For many a year, they fought in vain.
3. In calm repose those waters lie,
All blue beneath a Southern sky.
4. When dawn is changing into day,
O'er the dark pines he wings his way.
5. A monarch who bequeathed to fame,
The memory of a glorious name.
6. Contented with his simple fare,
The aged man lives free from care.

7. And there, when darkest gloomed the night, They fought,-their rapiers gleaming bright.

222.

'The proverb of the mind.'

1. Highly impressive.

2. A popular error explained.
3. Recently discovered.

4. A small sea.

5. Destroyed by Marius.
6. Tempting, delusive.
7. Sadly deceived.
8. Quite exploded.
9. Agile, graceful.
10. Cruel, revengeful.
11. Roving, free.

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BROTHERS.

1. Brave deed.
2. Great speed.
3. Sore need.
4. All read.

224.

Have patience, and your lost ones will return.

1. You'll find me in the morning after rain;
Be careful, or your wicket I shall gain.
2. Two rogues, unconscious innocence betraying;
The moral Trust not all your friends are
saying.'

3. A jaunt to Highgate in a one-horse chay ;
You'll get a fall if you go on in that way.
4. The old man's darling, or the miser's hoard,
Old pictures-broken pots-a rusty sword.
5. Altho' in archery 'tis much esteemed,

Such characters are not trustworthy deemed. 6. What boys to birds, and girls to heedless men, Have often done, and oft will do again.

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"O lady mine! my native land,
Is lost for love of you;

And we must hold by wood and wold,
As outlaws wont to do.'

1. 'My beautiful!-my beautiful!
That standest meekly by,

With thy proudly arched and-glossy neck,
And dark and fiery eye.'

2. 'When a lady elopes

3.

Down a staircase of ropes,

She may go to Hongkong for me!'

'The barren spot,

Where sad Penelope o'erlooked the wave.'

4. The wheat is like a rich man,

That's sleek and well-to-do;

The oats are like a pack of girls,
Laughing and dancing too.'

5. 'My task is done, my song has ceased; my theme Has died into an echo.

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In noble hearts the thirst for me
Incites to deeds of gallantry;

Alas! that I so oft should be
The fruits of such a victory.

1. His life upon this holy quest,

He spent without a thought of rest.
2. A noble tree, whose blossoms fair
Shed perfume through the summer air.

3. The fatal arrow glanced aside,
It struck my love-alas! she died.