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Lovely Scio, thy lands and thy beauty is left.-Pierpont.

36 Hark! the notes, on my car that play,

Are set to words:-as they float they say,

"Passing away! passing away!"—Id.

37. Alas! madam, said he, one day, how few books are there, of which one ever can possibly arrive at the last page.-Johnson.

38. Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused.-Millon

39. The monument is more than a hundred cubits high.

40. They are so happy that they do not know what* to do with themselves.-Paley.

41. I have more by half, than I know what to do with.

42. They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung.-Milton.

43. Homeward bound! with deep emotion,
We remember, Lord, that life

Is a voyage upon an ocean,
Heaved by many a tempest's strife.

Be thy statutes so engraven
On our hearts and minds, that we
Anchoring in Death's quiet haven,

All may make our home with thee.-Pierpont.

'The word what appears to be used here adverbially in the sense of how. The expression "know not what to do," "what to do with," &c. are explained by some as elliptical; as follows: They are so happy that they do not know that which [they are able] to do, ice.

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