s relish.
1078
ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.
Liberty, like day,
Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven
Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.
1079
COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. v., Line 882.
Liberty 's in every blow!
Let us do or die.
1080
BURNS: _Bannockburn._
The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
1081
MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 36.
=Lies.=
You told a lie; an odious, damned lie:
Upon my soul, a lie; a wicked lie.
1082
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act v., Sc. 2.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
1083
HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 13.
=Life.=
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
1084
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 5.
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest,
Live well; how long or short, permit to Heav'n.
1085
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. xi., Line 553.
Must we count
Life a curse and not a blessing, summed-up in its whole amount,
Help and hindrance, joy and sorrow?
1086
ROBERT BROWNING: _La Saisiaz,_ Line 206.
Between two worlds, life hovers like a star
'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
1087
BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xv., St. 99.
Our life is scarce the twinkle of a star
In God's eternal day.
1088
BAYARD TAYLOR: _Autumnal Vespers._
Life is the gift of God, and is divine.
1089
LONGFELLOW: _T. of a Wayside Inn,_ Emma and Eginhard.
What is life? A thawing iceboard
On a sea with sunny shore:
Gay we sail; it melts beneath us;
We are sunk and seen no more.
1090
CARLYLE: _Cui Bono._
Life's a vast sea
That does its mighty errand without fail,
Panting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
1091
GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. iii.
Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold:
Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold,
Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway,
Can bribe the poor possession of a day.
1092
POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. ix., Line 524.
So careful of the type she seems,
So careless of the single life.
1093
TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ lv., St. 2.
=Light.=
Hail, holy Light! offspring of Heaven first-born!
Or of the Eternal coeternal beam,
May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light,
And never but in unapproached light
Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,
Bright ef
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