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 or irradiated by its light, they soun purge and disappear: but the perverseness of a mean and narrow intellect, is like the excrescences that grow upon a body naturally cold and dark : no fire to waste them, and no ray to enlighten, they assimilate and coalesce with those qualities so congenial to their nature, and acquire an incorrigible permanency in the union with kindred frost and kindred opacity. Curran.

Marianna.—Some sacrifice is due to slandered virtue. dngiolina.—Why what is virtue if it needs a victim 1

Or if it must depend upon men's words ?

The dying Roman said, ' 'twas but a name;'

It were indeed no more, if human breath

Could make or mar it.

Byron.

Think of me

My Edith absent from thee in a land Of strangers ! and remember when my heart Heaves with the sigh of sorrow, what delight Awaits the moment, when the eager voice Of welcome, shall that sorrow overpay !

Southey.