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"Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair."&mdash;.

"In the meantime, as Durandarte says in the Cave of Montesinos, 'Patience, and shuffle the cards.'"&mdash;.

"The silver-footed queen."&mdash;.

"Now glowed the firmament with living sapphires: Hesperus, that led the starry host, rode brightest, Till the moon, rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw."&mdash;.

"While overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course."&mdash;.

"A work, concludes the well-nigh enthusiastic reviewer, interesting alike to the antiquary, the historian, and the philosophic thinker."&mdash;.

"His attitude, we will hope and believe, is that of a man who had said to Cant, Begone; and to Dilettanteism, Here thou canst not be; and to Truth, Be thou in place of all men; a man who had manfully defied the 'time-prince,' or devil, to his face; nay, perhaps, Hannibal-like, was mysteriously consecrated from birth to that warfare, and now stood minded to wage the same, by all weapons, in all places, at all times. In such a cause, any soldier, were he but a Polack Scytheman, shall be welcome."&mdash;.

"A wreath, twine a wreath for the loyal and true Who, for the sake of the many, dared stand with the few."&mdash;.

"The dreadful Sagittary Appalls our numbers; haste we, Diomed, To re-enforcement, or we perish all."&mdash;.

"Since the time of John Milton, no braver heart had beat in any English bosom than Samuel Johnson now bore. No Giant Despair appalls this pilgrim; he works resolutely for deliverance, in still defiance steps resolutely along."&mdash;. 131