Pickwick's clear and open brow gradually melted away, as his
young friend spoke, like the marks of a black lead pencil
beneath the softening influence of India rubber.--DICKENS.

When thus, as I may say, before the use of the loadstone, or
knowledge of the compass, I was sailing in a vast ocean,
without other help than _the pole-star_ of the ancients, and
_the rules_ of the French stage among the moderns.--DRYDEN.

Once as I told in glee
Tales of the stormy sea,
Soft eyes did gaze on me,
Burning but tender;
And as the white stars shine
On the dark Norway pine,
On that dark heart of mine
Fell their soft splendor.--LONGFELLOW.

Since the vessel of thy unbounded ambition hath been wrecked
in the gulf of thy self-love, it would be proper that thou
shouldst take in the sails of thy temerity, and cast the
anchor of repentance in the port of sincerity and justice,
which is the port of safety; lest the tempest of our vengeance
make thee perish in the sea of the punishment thou
deservest.--ANON.

She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm in the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek; she pined in thought;
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.--SHAKESPEARE.

England ne'er had a king until his time;
Virtue he had, deserving to command;
His brandished sword did blind men with its beams;
His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings;
His sparkling eyes, replete with awful fire,
More dazzled, and drove back his enemies,
Than midday sun fierce beat against their faces.
What should I say? his deeds exceed all speech;
He never lifted up his hand, but conquered.
SHAKESPEARE.

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon,
As the best gem upon her zone,
And Morning opes with haste her lids
To gaze upon the Pyramids;
O'er England's abbeys bends the sky,
As on its friends, with kindred eye;
For out of Thought's interior sphere
Those wonders rose to upper air;
And Nature gladly gave them place,
Adopted them into her race,
And granted them an equal date
With Andes and with Ararat.--EMERSON.

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