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GAMBLING.-(See BETTING.)

GENIUS-TALENT.

1. Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be taught.

DRYDEN.

2. One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit:

3.

Like kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before,
By vain ambition still to make them more.

POPE'S Essay on Criticism.

Talents angel-bright,

If wanting worth, are shining instruments
In false ambition's hand, to finish faults
Illustrious, and give infamy renown.

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

4. I live not like the many of my kind;

Mine is a world of feelings and of fancies;
Fancies, whose rainbow-empire is the mind-
Feelings, that realize their own romances.

MISS L. E. LANDON.

5. For genius swells more strong and clear When close confin'd-like bottled beer.

TRUMBULL'S Mc Fingal.

6. The lamp of genius, tho' by nature lit,
If not protected, prun'd, and fed with care,
Soon dies, or runs to waste with fitful glare.

CARLOS WILCOX.

7. He drew his light from that he was amidst, As doth a lamp from air which hath itself Matter of light, altho' it show it not.

BAILEY'S Festus.

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GENTLEMAN.

8. Wax to receive, and marble to retain.

BYRON'S Beppo.

9. What made more sad the outward form's decay,
A soul of Genius glimmer'd thro' the clay :
Genius has so much youth no care can kill,
Death seems unnatural when it sighs "Be still."

10. Creative Genius! from thy hand

What shapes of order, beauty, rise,
When waves thy potent, mystic wand
To people ocean, earth and skies!

The New Timon.

J. H. M'ILVANE.

GENTLEMAN.

1. He that bears himself like a gentleman Is worth to have been born a gentleman.

CHAPMAN.

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2. Measure not thy carriage by any man's
Thy speech by no man's ear; be resolute
And confident in saying and in doing;
This is the grace of a right gentleman.

3. I read no difference between this huge,

This monstrous big word, lord, and gentleman,
More than the title sounds; for aught I learn,

The latter is as noble as the first:

I'm sure more ancient.

CHAPMAN.

4.

The general voice

Sounds him for courtesy, behaviour, language,
And every fair demeanour, an example :
Titles of honour add not to his worth,

Who is himself an honour to his title.

JOHN FORD.

JOHN FORD.

5. Tho' modest, on his unembarrass'd brow

Nature had written "Gentleman."

BYRON'S Don Juan.

GHOST-SUPERSTITION.

1. Angels and ministers of grace, defend us !—
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,

Thou comest in such questionable shape

That I will speak to thee.

SHAKSPEARE.

2. Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes,
Which thou dost glare with!

3. I can call up spirits from the vasty deep.-
-Why so can I, or so can any man;

4.

SHAKSPEARE.

But will they come, when you do call for them?

A thousand fantasies

Begin to throng into my memory,

SHAKSPEARE.

Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names,
And sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.

MILTON'S Comus.

5. They gather round, and wonder at the tale
Of horrid apparition, tall and ghostly,
That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand
O'er some new-open'd grave, and (strange to tell,)
Evanishes at crowing of the cock.

BLAIR'S Grave.

6. For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please.

POPE.

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GHOST-SUPERSTITION.

7. Matrons who toss the cup, and see
The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.

8. A horrid spectre rises to my sight,

Close by my side, and plain and palpable,
In all good seeming and close circumstance,
As man meets man.

CHURCHILL.

9.

"Tis a history

JOANNA BAILlie.

Handed from ages down; a nurse's tale,

Which children, open-ey'd and mouth'd, devour;
And thus, as garrulous ignorance relates,
We learn it and believe.

10. An undefin'd and sudden thrill,

SOUTHEY'S Thalaba.

That makes the heart a moment still-
Then beat with quicker pulse, asham'd
Of that strange sense its silence fram'd.

BYRON'S Siege of Corinth.

11. He shudder'd, as no doubt the bravest cowers When he can't tell what 't is that doth appal.

How odd a single hobgoblin's nonentity

Should cause more fear than a whole host's identity!

BYRON'S Don Juan.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

12. Grim reader! did you ever see a ghost?

13. And not in vain he listen'd: Hush!-what's that?

I see I see-Ah no! 't is not-yet 't is-
Ye powers! it is the-the-the-Pooh! the cat!
The devil may take that stealthy pace of his!

BYRON'S Don Juan.

14. Of clanking fetters-low, mysterious groans-
Blood-crusted daggers, and uncoffin'd bones-
Pale gliding ghosts, with fingers dropping gore-
And blue flames dancing round a dungeon door.

SPRAGUE'S Curiosity.

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1. There's a Divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them as we will.

2. The glorious Author of the universe,

SHAKSPEARE.

Who reins the winds, gives the vast ocean bounds,
And circumscribes the floating worlds their rounds!
GAY'S Rural Sports

3. God, veil'd in clouded majesty, alone

Gives light to all; bids the great system move,
And changing seasons in their turns advance,
Unmov'd, unchang'd himself.

SOMERVILE'S Chase

4. Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

POPE'S Essay on Man.

5. All nature is but art, unknown to thee,

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see,
All discord, harmony not understood,

All partial evil, universal good;

And, spite of pride-in erring reason's spite,
One thing is clear-whatever is, is right.

POPE'S Essay on Man.

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