* * turbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and was frightened. * * Sweeping gusts of rain came up before this storm, like showers of steel. Long before we saw the sea, its and showered salt rain upon us. over miles and miles of the flat spray was on our lips, The water was out, country adjacent to Yarmouth; and every sheet and puddle lashed its banks, and had its stress of little breakers setting heavily towards us. STUDENTS. Advice to David Copperfield, Chap. IV. DICKENS. Don't catch the fidgets; you have found your place Just in the focus of a nervous race, Fretful to change, and rabid to discuss, STUDIES. Urania.-O. W. HOLMES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. Essay on Studies.-LORD BACON. It is not easy to describe in words the precise impression which great and sublime objects make upon us when we behold them; but every one has a conception of it. It produces a sort of internal elevation and expansion; it raises the mind much above its ordinary state, and fills it with a degree of wonder and astonishment which it cannot well express. The emotion is certainly delightful, but it is altogether of the serious kind; a degree of awfulness and solemnity, even approaching to severity, commonly attends it when at its height, very distinguishable from the more gay and brisk emotion raised by beautiful objects. Lecture on the Cultivation of Taste. SUBMISSION. God of the just, Thou gav'st the bitter cup. SUCCESS. To my Mother.-H. K. WHITE. The Actor's Secret of There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great deal of the character. To speak and act as in common life, is not playing, nor is it what people come to see: natural speaking, like sweet wine, runs glibly over the palate, and scarcely leaves any taste behind it; but being high in a part resembles vinegar, which grates upon the taste, and one feels it while he is drinking. To please in town or country, the way is to cry, wring, cringe into attitudes, mark the emphasis, slap the pockets, and labour like one in a falling sickness; that is the way to work for applause that is the way to gain it. Essay IV.-GOLDSMITH. SUFFERING. Because she bears the pearl,-that makes the oyster sore ; Be thankful for the pain that but exalts thee more. SUMMER. Strung Pearls.-RUCKERT. The Approach of Nor wants there fragrance to dispense Nor lowings faint of herds remote, O'er deep embattled ears of corn : And on each moss-wove border damp On the Approach of Summer.-THOMAS WARTON. SUNSET. Sundown ;-the lark's note melts into the air of even; To earth she falls not back; her grave is in the Strung Pearls.-RUCKERT. heaven. SUNDAY. Sundays the pillars are On which heav'n's palace arched lies: spare Which parts their ranks and orders. The Sundays of Man's life, Threaded together on Time's string, On Sunday Heaven's gate stands ope; More plentiful than hope. Sunday.-GEORGE HERBERT. SUNDAY. Description of a Wet tion. A wet Sunday in a country inn! whoever has had the luck to experience one, can alone judge of my situaThe rain pattered against the casements, the bells tolled for church with a melancholy sound. I went to the windows in quest of something to amuse the eye, |