Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 1.

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

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Henry IV. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 4.

I have no other but a woman's reason; I think him so, because I think him so. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I. Sc 2. Leave this keen encounter of our wits, And fall somewhat into a slower method. 2. Richard III. Act I. Sc. 2. Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear.

y. Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 2.

She hath prosperous art When she will play with reason and dis

course,

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Henry V.

Act V. Sc. 1.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

e. ISAAC DISRAELI-Literary Character.

Ch. XI. The conscious utterance of thought by speech or action, to any end, is art. j.

EMERSON-Society and Solitude. Art.

The power depends on the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates.

g. EMERSON--Essay on Art.

The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.

k. GOOD-The Book of Nature. Series I. Lecture IX.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admir

ation.

i. ANNA KATHARINE GREEN - The Sword of Damocles. Bk. I. Ch. V.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

j. HOLLAND-Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. Art and Life.

They are the gypsy-children of song, born under green hedgerows, in the leafy lanes and by-paths of literature,-in the genial Summer-time.

j. LONGFELLOW-Hyperion. Bk. II. Ch. II.

I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew! Than one of these same meter ballad-mongers. k. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 1.

I love a ballad but even too well; if it be doleful matter, merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed, and sung lamentably. 1. Winter's Tale. Act IV. Sc. 3.

Who doth not feel, until his failing sight
Faints into dimness with its own delight,
His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess,
The might the majesty of Loveliness?
BYRON-The Bride of Abydos. Canto I.
St. 6.

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We do love beauty at first sight; and we do cease to love it, if it is not accompanied by amiable qualities.

1. LYDIA MARIA CHILD-Beauty.

A delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
7. LORD DENMAN O'Connell. The Queen.
Clark and Finnelly.

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet,
Which once inflam'd my soul, and still
inspires my wit.

S.

DRYDEN--Cymon and Iphigenia.

Line 1.

In beauty, faults conspicuous grow;

The smallest speck is seen on snow. U. GAY-Fable. The Peacock, Turkey and Goose. Line 1.

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"Tis impions pleasure to delight in harm,
And beauty should be kind as well as charm.
GEO. GRANVILLE (Lord Lansdowne)---
To Myra. Line 21.
Beauty was lent to nature as the type
Of heaven's unspeakable and holy joy,
Where all perfection makes the suni of bliss.
w. S. J. HALE-Beauty. In Dict. of Poetical
Quotations.

Cheeks like the mountain-pink that grows
Among white-headed majesties.

x. JEAN INGELOW-Reflections. Pt. II.

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