SPEAKING. Circumlocution in

You must not talk to him,

As you do to an ordinary man,

Honest plain sense, but you must wind about him. For example, if he should ask you what o'clock it is,

You must not say, "If it please your grace, 'tis

nine;"

But thus, "Thrice three o'clock, so please my sovereign ;"

Or thus, "Look how many Muses there doth dwell Upon the sweet banks of the learned well,

And just so many strokes the clock hath struck;"

And so forth.

SPEECH.

The Woman-Hater, Act II. Scene I.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

Discretion of

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Essay on Discourse.-LORD BACON.

SPEECHIFYING.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper,

and nothing more.

Maxims, cx.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

SPIRIT. Description of a

I see a dusk and awful figure rise,

Like an infernal god, from out the earth;

His face wrapt in a mantle, and his form

Robed as with angry clouds; he stands between
Thyself and me--but I do fear him not.

Manfred, Act III. Scene IV.-BYRON.

SPIRITS. An accomplishment of

A spirit is such a little thing, that I have heard a man, who was a great scholar, say, that he'll dance a Lancashire hornpipe upon the point of a needle.

The Drummer, Act. I. Scene I.— -ADDISON.

SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS.

God generally gives spiritual blessings and deliverances as he does temporal; that is, by the mediation of an active and vigorous industry. The fruits of the earth are the gift of God, and we pray for them as such; but yet we plant, and we sow, and we plough, for all that; and the hands which are sometimes lift up in prayer must at other times be put to the plough, or the husbandman must expect no crop. Everything must be effected in the way proper to its nature, with the concurrent influence of the divine.grace, not to supersede the means, but to prosper and make them effectual.

SPRING.

Sermon by DR. SOUTH.

I come, I come! ye have called me long,
I come o'er the mountains with light and song;
Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth,
By the winds which tell of the violet's birth,

By the primrose stars in the shadowy grass,
By the green leaves opening as I pass.

The Voice of Spring.-MRS. HEMANS.

SPRING. Descriptions of

River and rivulet are freed from ice,
In Spring's affectionate inspiring smile-
Green are the fields with promise-far away
To the rough hills old Winter hath withdrawn
Strengthless, but still at intervals will send
Light feeble frosts, with drops of diamond white,
Mocking a little while the coming bloom.

Faustus.-GOETHE.

Cups of all various hues do the new wine contain, With which king spring comes forth to feast his Strung Pearls.-RUCKERT.

courtier train.

STAGE. The Theatrical

Stage, thou art the Fairy Land to the vision of the worldly. Fancy, whose music is not heard by men, whose scenes shift not by mortal hand, as the stage to the present world, art thou to the Future and the Past. Zanoni, Book III. Chap. II.--E. B. LYTTON.

STARS. The

The moon rise

Beholding

Over the pallid sea and the silvery mist of the

meadows.

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of

heaven

Blossomed the lovely stars,

The forget-me-nots of the Angels.

Evangeline, Part I.--LONGFELLOW.

STATE. Composition of the

A pitiful posture wherein the face is made to touch the feet, and the back is set above the head. God in due times set us right, and keep us right, that the head may be in its proper place. Next the neck of the nobility, then the breast of the gentry, the loins of the merchants and citizens, the thighs of the yeomanry, the legs and feet of artificers and day labourers. As for the clergy (here by me purposely omitted) what place soever shall be assigned to them; if low, God grant patience; if high, give humility unto them.

Mixt Contemplations on these Times, II.
THOMAS FUller.

STATESMANSHIP.

Art thou a Statesman, in the van
Of public business trained and bred?
-First learn to love one living man;
Then

STEALTH.

mayst thou think upon the dead.

A Poet's Epitaph.-W. WORDSWORTH.

Lawful

Some are said to have gotten their life for a prey, if any, in that sense have preyed on (or, if you will,

plundered) their own liberty, stealing away from the place where they conceived themselves in danger, none can justly condemn them.

Scripture Observations, XV.
THOMAS FULLER.

STOMACH. The Blessing of a Good

What an excellent thing did God bestow upon man, when he did give him a good stomach !

STORM-FIEND.

The Woman-Hater, Act. 1. Scene II.

The

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.

I am the Rider of the wind,
The Stirrer of the storm;
The hurricane I left behind,

Is yet with lightning warm ;

To speed to thee, o'er shore and sea

STORM.

"Twill sink ere night be past.

Manfred, Act. I. Scene I.-BYRON.

Description of a

It was a murky confusion-here and there blotted with a colour like the colour of the smoke from damp fuel-of flying clouds, tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread dis