O solitude! where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms,

Than reign in this horrible place.
I am out of humanity's reach,

I must finish my journey alone,

Never hear the sweet music of speech,

I start at the sound of my own.-COWPER.

If from society we learn to live,

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die

It hath no flatterers; vanity can give

No hollow aid; alone-man with his God must strive.

Thus the court-wheel goes round like fortune's ball One statesman rising on another's fall.

Suicide.

-RICHARD BROME'S Queen's Exchange

Fear, guilt, despair, and moon-struck frenzy rush
On voluntary death: the wise, the brave,
When the fierce storms of fortune round 'em roar
Combat the billows with redoubled force:

Then, if they perish ere the port is gain'd,
They sink with decent pride; and from the deep
Honor retrieves them bright as rising stars.

Then came the jolly summer, being dight
In a thin silken cassock color'd green,
That was unlined all, to be more light,
And on his head a garland well beseene
He wore, from which, as he had chaffed been,
The sweat did drop, and in his hand he bore
A bow and shafts, as he in forest green
Had hunted late the libbard or the bore,
And now would bathe his limbs, with labor heated sore
-SPENSER'S Fairy Queen

Now comes thy glory in the summer months,
With light and heat refulgent.-THOMSON.
The spring's gay promise melted into thee,
Fair summer! and thy gentle reign is here;
Thy emerald robes are on each leafy tree;

In the blue sky thy voice is rich and clear;
And the free brooks have songs to bless thy reign-
They leap in music 'midst thy bright domain.
-WILLIS G. CLARK.

Sunshine.

The sunshine is a glorious birth,And yet I know, where'er I go,

That there hath passed away a glory from the earth. -WORDSWORTH

Sympathy.

Tears.

Love's soft sympathy imparts

That tender transport of delight

That beats in undivided hearts.-CARTWRIGHT.

It is the secret sympathy,

The silver link, the silken tie,

Which heart to heart, and mind to mind.

In body and in soul can bind.-SCOTT.

Believe these tears, which from my wounded heart, Bleed at my eyes.-DRYDEN's Spanish Friar.

And feast upon her eyes? what is 't I dream on?

O cunning enemy, that to catch a saint

With saints dost bait thy hook! most dangerous

Is that temptation that doth goad us on

To sin, in loving virtue.-SHAKS. Measure for Measure.

And while in peace abiding

Within a shelter'd home,

We feel as sin and evil

Could never, never come;

But let the strong temptation rise,

As whirlwinds sweep the sea

We find no strength to 'scape the wreck,

Save, pitying God, in Thee.

-MRS. HALE's Alice Ray.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. -WORDSWOrth.

Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are, or ought to be, accountable.-BAILEY'S Festus. -All the past of Time reveals

A bridal dawn of thunder-peals,

Whenever Thought hath wedded Fact.-TENNYSON.

Time.

Time, the prime minister of death,

There's nought can bribe his honest will;
He stops the richest tyrant's breath,
And lays his mischief still.-MARVELL.
Art is long and Time is fleeting,

And our hearts, though strong and brave,
Still like muffled drums are beating

Funeral marches to the grave.

-LONGFELLOW's Psalm of Life.
Remorseless Time!

Fierce spirit of the glass and scythe-what power
Can stay him in his silent course, or melt
His iron heart with pity!-GEORGE D. PRENTICE.

Truth.

All truth is precious, if not all divine,
And what dilates the powers must needs refine.

-COWPER.

The sages say dame truth delights to dwell,
Strange mansion! in the bottom of a well.
Questions are, then, the windlass and the rope
That pulls the grave old gentlewoman up.
-DR. WOLCOTT'S Peter Pindar.

Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

Virtue.

-SHAKS. Richard III.

It is the intensest vanity alone
That makes us bear with life.-BAILEY'S Festus.

Not all that heralds rak'd from coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

-BYRON'S Childe Harold

There dwelleth in the sinlessness of youth
A sweet rebuke that vice may not endure.

-MRS. EMBURY,

And I as rich in having such a jewel,

As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
-SHAKESPEARE'S Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Husband, husband, cease your strife,

Nor longer idly rave, sir;

Tho' I'm your wedded wife,

Yet I am not your slave, sir.—Burns.

Thou wast my nurse in sickness, and my comforter in health; So gentle and so constant, when our love was all our wealth; Thy voice of music sooth'd me, love, in each desponding hour, As heaven's honey-dew consoles the bruis'd and broken flower. -ALBERT PIKE.

Wine.

O when we swallow down Intoxicating wine, we drink damnation; Naked we stand the sport of mocking friends Who grin to see our noble nature vanquish'd, Subdued to beasts.-C. JOHNSON.

Wine-bring wine

World.

O woman! in our hours of ease
Uncertain, coy and hard to please,
And variable as the shade

By the light quivering aspen made,
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou.—SCOTT's Marmion.

Zeal.

Youth is a bubble blown up with the breath,
Whose wit is weakness, whose wage is death,
Whose way is wilderness, whose inn is penance,
And stoop gallant age, the host of grievance.
-SPENSER'S Shepherd's Calendar.

Promise of youth! fair as the form
Of Heaven's benign and golden bow,
Thy smiling arch begirds the storm,
And sheds a light on every woe.

-JAMES G. BROOKS

I feel the rush of waves that round me rise-
The tossing of my boat upon the sea;
Few sunbeams linger in the stormy skies,
And youth's bright shore is lessening on the lee!
-J. BAYARD TAYLOR

Youth, that pursuest, with such eager pace,

That even way,

Thou pantest on to win a mournful race:

Then stay! oh, stay.-R. M. MILNES.

Alas! that youth's fond hopes should fade,
And love be but a name,

While its rainbows, follow'd e'er so fast,
Are distant still the same.-Dawes.

Zeal and duty are not slow;

But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

-MILTON'S Paradise Regained

Press bravely onward !-not in vain
Your generous trust in human kind;
The good which bloodshed could not gain,
Your peaceful zeal shall find.-WHITTIER

ACCENTS.

The French language has three accents; the acute, thus ¿; the grave, thus è; and the circumflex, . The circumflex accent simply denotes the elision of a silent (generally an "s") after it, thus tête, originally written teste; dépôt for depost, etc. The acute and grave accents belong exclusively to the letter "e"; an accented e must have the acute accent, if at the end of word, as café; or followed by a pronounced syllable, as métal; a grave accent when followed by a silent syllable, as mère, lièvre.

The grave accent is used on the a of the adverb là (there and its compounds voilà, etc. ; but it is thus employed merely to distinguish it from the article la (the), and not for any effect in pronunciation.

VOWELS.

The pronunciation of the following vowels requires most

care:

ou, is pronounced like oo in the English word look.

o, au, eau, are pronounced like o.

a, is pronounced like a in the word father.

e is pronounced like e in the word better. Before mm or nn, it is pronounced like ah; as femme, pronounced fahm; solennel, solahnell, etc.

u is the most difficult letter to pronounce, for there is no corresponding sound in the English language; it sounds like the German ❝, like eeyu, and it ought to be carefully imitated from a French person.

eu, au, are pronounced like u in the English word much.
é, è, ai, ei, are pronounced like a in the English word care.

i, y, are pronounced like e in the English word me.

The nasal sounds, am, an, em, en, un, oin, are equally dif. ficult to pronounce, and these ought to be heard and imitated) from a Frenchman.

RULE.

As every educated person knows French, those who study without a master, ought, when an opportunity occurs, to ask the pronunciation of a difficult word; by such means, the learner will arrive at the correct pronunciation, which no de scription in words is capable of conveying.