London, at first called Troy-novant, 3000 years ago. However the fact may have been, the two giants have been the pride of London from time immemorial. The old giants were burned in the great fire, and the new ones were constructed in 1708. They are fourteen feet high, and occupy suitable pedestals in Guildhall. There can be little doubt that these civic giants are exaggerated representatives of real persons and events.-CHAMBERS.

Gold. All that glisters is not GOLD.

SHAKESPERE, Merchant of Venice.

All is not GOLD that glisteneth.

MIDDLETON, A Fair Quarrel.

All thing, which that shineth as the GOLD
Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.

CHAUCER, The Chanones Yemannes Tale.

All is not GOLDE that outward sheweth bright.

LYDGATE, On Human Affairs.

GOLD all is not that doth golden seem.

SPENSER, Faerie Queene.

All is not GOLD that glisters.-HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum.

All, as they say, that glitters is not GOLD.

GOLD! Gold ! Gold ! Gold !

DRYDEN, Hind and Panther.

Bright and yellow, hard and cold.—Hood, Miss Kilmansegg.
Saint-seducing GOLD.—SHAKESPERE, Romeo and Juliet.

For GOLD in phisike is a cordial;

Therefore he loved gold in special.-CHAUCER, Prologue. Gone Before.-Not lost, but GONE BEFORE.—SENECA.

GONE BEFORE

To that unknown and silent shore.

CHARLES LAMB, Hester.

Those that he loved so long and sees no more,
Loved and still loves,-not dead, but GONE BEFORE,—
He gathers round him.-S. ROGERS.

Good. And learn the luxury of doing GOOD.-GOLDSMITH, Traveller

DO GOOD by stealth, and blush to find it fame.-POPE, Horace.

GOOD, the more

Communicated, more abundant grows.

MILTON, Paradise Lost.

Hold thou the GOOD; define it well:
For fear divine Philosophy

Should push beyond her mark, and be

Procuress to the Lords of Hell.-TENNYSON, In Memoriam.

Good. There is nothing either GOOD or bad, but thinking makes it so. SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.

For nought so vile that on the earth doth live,
But to the earth some special GOOD doth give;
Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use,
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse :
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime's by action dignified.

Ibid., Romeo and Juliet.

How indestructibly the GOOD grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.-CARLYLE.

Howe'er it be, it seems to me,

'Tis only noble to be GOOD,

Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.

TENNYSON, Lady Clara.

O yet we trust that somehow GOOD

Will be the final goal of ill.—Ibid., In Memoriam.

O, who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?

Or wallow naked in December snow
By thinking on fantastic Summer's heat?
O, no! the apprehension of the GOOD
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

SHAKESPERE, King Richard II.

The GOOD are better made by ill,

As odours crushed are sweeter still.-S. ROGERS, Jacqueline.
Goodness.
Abash'd the devil stood,

And felt how awful GOODNESS is, and saw

Virtue in her shape how lovely.-MILTON, Paradise Lost.

Good Old Rule.--Because the GOOD OLD RULE

Sufficeth them, the simple plan

That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can.

WORDSWORTH, Rob Roy's Grave.

Good Samaritan.-Yes! you will find people ready enough to do the GOOD SAMARITAN without the oil and the twopence.-SYDNEY SMITH, Wit and Wisdom.

Gorgons.-GORGONS, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.

MILTON, Paradise Lost.

Government.-All GOVERNMENT, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.-EDMUND BURKE.

Grace. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part,
And snatch a GRACE beyond the reach of art.

POPE, Essay on Criticism.

See, what a GRACE was seated on this brow:
Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself ;
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
A station like the herald Mercury
New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;
A combination, and a form, indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a man.

SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.

Grace of God. In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the GRACE OF GOD to man at length manifested.-R. HURD, Sermons, 1808.

Gracious. The landlady and Tam grew GRACIOUS,

Wi' favours secret, sweet, and precious.-BURNS, Tam o' Shanter. Grateful.A GRATEFUL mind

By owing owes not, but still pays, at once

Indebted and discharg'd.-MILTON, Paradise Lost.

Gratitude. I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
With coldness still returning;

Alas! the GRATITUDE of men

Hath oftener left me mourning.--WORDSWORTII, Simon Lee. The GRATITUDE of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.-SIR ROBERT WALPOLE.

Grave.-Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer

From GRAVE to gay, from lively to severe.-POPE, Essay on Man.
Kings have no such couch as thine,

As the green that folds thy grave.-TENNYSON, A Dirge.

The GRAVE, dread thing!

Men shiver when thou'rt named; Nature, appall'd,
Shakes off her wonted firmness.-BLAIR, The Grave.
Thou art gone to the GRAVE! but we will not deplore thee,
Though sorrow and darkness encompass the tomb.

HEBER, At a Funeral.

Graves. Let's talk of GRAVES, of worms, and epitaphs.

SHAKESPERE, Richard 11.

Great. Some are born GREAT, some achieve greatness, and some have
greatness thrust upon them.-SHAKESPERE, Twelfth Night.
Greatness.-GREATNESS and goodness are not means, but ends.
Hath he not always treasures, always friends,

The good great man? three treasures, love and light,
And calm thoughts, regular as infant's breath :

And three firm friends, more sure than day and night,—

Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.-COLERIDGE, Reproof.

Great Commoner.-William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), a famous Par liamentary orator, and for more than thirty years (1735 to 1766) a leader in the House of Commons.

We leave the GREAT COMMONER in the zenith of his glory. MACAULAY. Great Unknown.-A name given to the author of the "Waverley Novels," which, on their first appearance, were published anony mously.

The circumstance of Scott's having published a poem in the same year in which Waverley" appeared, and his engagement in other literary undertakings being known, as well as the common prejudice that a poet cannot excel as a prose writer, served to avert from him for a time the suspicion of the authorship of the " Waverley Novels." The taciturnity of the few intrusted with the secret defeated all attempts to obtain direct evidence as to who was the author. From the first, however, suspicion pointed strongly towards Scott; and so many circumstances tended to strengthen it, that the disclosures from Constable's and Ballantyne's books, and his own confession, scarcely increased the moral conviction, which had long prevailed, that he was the "GREAT UNKNOWN.”

Greece. GREECE! sad relic of departed worth!

Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great!

BYRON, Childe Harold.

'Tis GREECE, but living Greece no more!

So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,

We start, for soul is wanting there.-Ibid., The Giaour.

Shrine of the mighty! can it be

That this is all remains of thee?-Ibid.

The Isles of GREECE, the Isles of Greece!

Where burning Sappho loved and sung.—Ibid., Don Juan.
The mountains look on Marathon-

And Marathon looks on the sea;

And musing there an hour alone,

I dreamed that GREECE might still be free.-Ibid.

Greek. Beside 'tis known he could speak GREEK

As naturally as pigs squeak;

That Latin was no more difficle

Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.-BUTLER, Hudibras.

Greek Calends.—Indefinite period of time. The Romans called the first day of the month, as well as the months themselves, Calends. and hence our word, Calendar. The name Calends was not used by the Greeks; and hence the saying, when anything was indefi nitely adjourned, that it was postponed to the "Greek Calends." Grief.-Give sorrow words; the GRIEF that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. SHAKESPERE, Macbeth.

Grief. GRIEF ills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me;
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garment with his form.

--

In all the silent manliness of GRIEF.

SHAKESPERE, King John.

GOLDSMITH, Deserted Village.

GRIEF best is pleased with grief's society.

SHAKESPERE, Lucrece.

GRIEF still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

CONGREVE, The Old Bachelor.

GRIEF boundeth where it falls,
Not with the empty hollowness, but weight.

SHAKESPERE, Richard II.

Much of GRIEF shows still some want of wit.—Ibid.,
None can cure their harms by wailing them.

Romeo.

Ibid., Richard III.

Every one can master a GRIEF, but he that has it.

Patch GRIEF with proverbs.-Ibid.

Ibid., Much Ado.

Grieving. GRIEVING, if aught inanimate e'er grieves,
Over the unreturning brave.-BYRON, Childe Harold.
Grundy. What will Mrs. GRUNDY say?

J. MORTON, Speed the Plough. Guard dies, but never surrenders, The-This phrase, attributed to Cambronne, who was made prisoner at Waterloo, was vehemently denied by him. It was invented by Rougemont, a prolific author of mots, two days after the battle, in the Indépendant.-FOURNIER, L'Esprit dans l'Histoire.

Guest.-For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best,

Welcome the coming, speed the going GUEST.-POPE, Horace.

True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting GUEST.

Ibid., Homer's Odyssey.

Guide. Thou wert my GUIDE, philosopher, and friend.

Ibid., Essay on Mar

Guilt. All fear, but fear of Heaven, betrays a GUILT,
And guilt is villainy.-N. LEE.

GUILT alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills the light air with visionary terrors, and shapeless forms of fear.

JUNIUS, Letters