general society, open themselves with peculiar warmth and frankness to a few select friends, or to an individual of whom they think kindly. A distant manner is not always, as is suspected, the result of a cold heart or a dull head; nor is gaiety necessarily connected with feeling.-194. WOMEN, in their course of action, describe a smaller circle than men; but the perfection of a circle consists not in its dimensions, but in its correctness.-212. "A PHILOSOPHICAL lady may boast of her intellectual superiority; she may talk of abstract and concrete; of substantial forms and essences; complexed ideas and mixed modes of identity and relation: she may decorate all the logic of one sex with all the rhetoric of the other; yet if her affairs are delabré, if her house is disorderly, her servants irregular, her children neglected, and her table ill-arranged, she will indicate the want of the most valuable faculty of the human mind—a sound judgment.""It must however be confessed," replied Mr. Stanley, "that such instances are so rare that the exceptions barely serve to establish the rule. I have known twenty women mismanage their affairs through a bad education, through ignorance, through a multiplicity of vain accomplishments, through an excess of dissipation, through a devotedness to personal embellishments, through an absorption of the whole soul in music, for one who has made her husband metaphysically miserable." We endeavoured to establish a principle of right, instead of unprofitable invective against what was wrong.-286. COLLINS. WHO trust alone in beauty's feeble ray Boast but the worth Bassora's pearls display: Here make thy court amidst our rural scene, And shepherd girls shall own thee for their queen.-id. IN silent horror o'er the boundless waste To guard his shaded face from scorching sand. The sultry sun had gain'd the middle sky, Thrice sigh'd, thrice struck his breast, and thus began: Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When thought creates unnumbered scenes of woe. What if the lion in his rage I meet !— Big swell'd my heart, and own'd the powerful maid, THOUGH taste, though genius bless To some divine excess, Faints the cold work, till thou inspire the whole; May court, may charm our eye; Thou, only thou canst raise the meeting soul! -Odes. To Simplicity. O THOU who sitt'st a smiling bride And hid'st in wreaths of flowers his bloodless sword! -To Mercy. CONCORD, whose myrtle wand can steep Rage drops his steel, and storms grow calm. -To Liberty. BUT thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, A soft responsive voice was heard at ev'ry close; * WITH eyes uprais'd, as one inspir'd, Pale Melancholy sat retir'd; And from her wild sequester'd seat, In notes by distance made more sweet Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul: Bubbling runnels join'd the sound; Through glades and glooms the mingled measures stole, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away. BUT, Oh! how alter'd was its sprightlier tone Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call, to Faun and Dryad known, The oak-crown'd sisters, and their chaste-ey'd queen, Peeping from forth their alleys green : Brown Exercise rejoic'd to hear; And Sport leapt up, and seiz'd his beechen spear. -The Passions. ELIZABETH HAMILTON.-COTTAGERS OF HER respectful salute was returned by Miss Stewart with that sort of reserve which young ladies who are anywise doubtful of being entitled to all that they assume are apt to put on when addressing themselves to strangers of whose rank they are uncertain; but, by her sister Mary, it was returned with a frankness natural to those who do not fear being demeaned by an act of courtesy.-2. "I HAVE been used to hear my mother say, that young men generally turned out well who had a peaceful, happy home; and, besides, what can be so delightful as a family of love!" True," replied Mrs. Mason, "it is one of the characteristics of heaven."-13. 66 HER heart was set upon the world; and when that is the case it signifies little whether people be poor or rich, for they still think they can never have enough; and though they have much more than they can use, they go on craving and craving for more till they drop into the grave.-45. THE idea of a life completely independent of the will of others is merely visionary.-97. THE grace of God is a gift which, like all the other gifts of Divine love, must be sought by the appointed means.---100. ALL that is most truly valuable is given in common, and placed within the reach of the poor and lowly.-105. THE REV. LEGH RICHMOND.-THE DAIRYMAN'S DAUGHTER. THERE is a solemnity in the thought of a recent death, which will associate itself with the very walls from whence we are conscious that a soul has just taken its flight to eternity. -25. HAPPY is it when the ties of grace sanctify those of nature. -53. SHE spoke much of the joys and sorrows which, in the course of her religious progress, she had experienced; but she was fully sensible that there is far more in real religion than |