EMERSON-Society and Solitude. Art.

The power depends on the depth of the crtist's insight of that object he contemplates.

g.

EMERSON-Essay on Art.

The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.

h. GOOD-The Book of Nature. Series I. Lecture IX.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

i ANNA KATHARINE GREEN-The Sword of Damocles. Bk. I. Ch. V.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

j. HOLLAND-Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. Art and Life.

The counterfeit and counterpart
Of Nature reproduced in art.

0. LONGFELLOW-Kéramos. Line 380. Art in fact is the effort of man to express the ideas which Nature suggests to him of a power above Nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which Nature, like himself, is but the effect.

p. BULWER LYTTON-Caxtoniana. On the Moral Effect of Writers.

Artists may produce excellent designs, but they will avail little, unless the taste of the public is sufficiently cultivated to appreciate them, GEORGE C. MASON-Art Manufactures Ch. XIX.

To weave a garland for the rose,
And think thus crown'd 'twould lovelier be,
Were far less vain than to suppose
That silks and gems add grace to thee.
k. MOORE-Songs from the Greek
Anthology. To Weave a Garland.

"Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all.

1. POPE-Essay. On Criticism. Pt. II. Line 45.

For when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a point divine. PRIOR TO the Countess of Oxford.

m.

Much Ado About Nothing. Act II.
Sc.

Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.

Love's Labour's Lost. Act II.

Sc.

t. Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud A brittle glass that's broken presently; A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,

Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an
hour.

And as goods lost are seld or never found,
As vaded gloss no rubbing will refresh,
As flowers dead lie wither'd on the ground
As broken glass no cement can redress,

So beauty blemish'd once's forever lost
In spite of physic, painting, pain, an

cost.

BEAUTY.

Of Nature's gifts thou may'st with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose.

a. King John. Act III. Sc. 1.

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night,
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear:

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
b. Romeo and Juliet. Act I. Sc. 5.
Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear
As morning roses newly wash'd with dew.
C. Taming of the Shrew. Act IL Sc. 1.
See where she comes, apparell'd like the
Spring.

d. Pericles. Act. I. Sc. 1.

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with't.
e. Tempest. Act I. Sc. 2.

'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white, Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. j. Twelfth Night. Act 1. Sc. 5.

I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

You teach me how a beggar should be an

v.

swer'd.

Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. Speak with me, pity me, open the door, A beggar begs that never begg'd before. Richard 11. Act V. Sc. 3.

w.

The old adage must be verified,

That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

x.

Henry V1. Pt. III. Act I. Sc. 4. Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say, there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be, To say,--there is no vice but beggary. y. King John. Act II. Sc. 2.

BELIEF.

They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble crea

ture.

O how far removed, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all our good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are

one.

aa. DANTE- Vision of Paradise.

You can and you can't,

Canto XX. Line 122.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry,
And born in bed, in bed we die;

The near approach a bed may show
Of human bliss to human woe.

p. ISAAC DE BENSERADE-Translated by

Dr. Johnson.

You will and you won't;

You'll be damn'd if you do,

You'll be damn'd if you don't.

bb. LORENZO DOW-Chain (Definition of

Calvinism).