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How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compared with the speed of its flight,
The tempest itself lags behind,
And the swift-winged arrows of light.

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W. J. MICKLE.
1734-1788.

_The Mariner's Wife_.

His very foot has music in 't
As he comes up the stairs.

JOHN LANGHORNE.
1735-1779.

_The Country Justice_.

Part i

Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew;
The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew,
Gave the sad presage of his future years,
The child of misery, baptized in tears.

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DR. WALCOTT.
1738-1819.

_Peter Pindar's Expostulatory Odes to a great Duke
and a little Lord_. _Ode XV_.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin, so merry, draws one out.

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MRS. BARBAULD.
1743-1825.

_Warrington Academy_.

Man is the noblest growth our realms supply,
And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

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SIR WILLIAM JONES.
1746-1794.

_A Persian Song of Hafiz_.

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,
Whose accents flow with artless ease,
Like orient pearls at random strung.

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_Ode in Imitation of Alcoeus_.

What constitutes a state?

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Men who their duties know,
But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain.

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And sovereign law, that state's collected will,
O'er thrones and globes elate,
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

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Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.[21]

[Note 21: "Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend
in prayer, the rest on nature fix."--_Sir Edward Coke_.]

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CAPTAIN CHARLES MORRIS.
--1832.

_Billy Pitt and the Farmer_.

Solid men of Boston, make no long orations;
Solid men of Boston, drink no deep potations.

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JOHN TRUMBULL.
1750-1881.

_McFingal_. Canto i. Line 67.

But optics sharp it needs, I ween,
To see what is not to be seen.

Canto iii. Line 489.

No man e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law.

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