"O give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall!"

Town and Country.

"Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee."

Salvation through Christ.

"Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span; Oh give relief, and Heaven will bless your store."

The Beggar.

"A pampered menial drove me from the door."

The Beggar.

"Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky."

The Invitation.

"This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars."

A Summer's Evening Meditation.

"It is to hope, though hope were lost."

Come here, Fond Youth.

"Life! we 've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'T is hard to part when friends are dear,-- Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not "Good night," but in some brighter clime Bid me "Good morning.""

Life.

"So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore."

The Death of the Virtuous.

"Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?"

Hymns in Prose. xiii.

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."

Summary View of the Rights of British America.

"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

Declaration of Independence.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Declaration of Independence.

"We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour."

Declaration of Independence.

"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

First Inaugural Address. March 4, 1801.

"In the full tide of successful experiment."

First Inaugural Address. March 4, 1801.

"If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none."

Letter to Elias Shipman and others of New Haven, July 12, 1801.

"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property."

Life of Jefferson (Rayner), p. 356.

"Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."

Notes on Virginia. Query xviii. Manners.

"Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men."

Observations on the Boston Port Bill, 1774.

"There 's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack."

Poor Jack.

"Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love, and a little for the bottle."

Captain Wattle and Miss Roe.

"His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, But now he 's gone aloft."

Tom Bowling.

"For though his body 's under hatches, His soul has gone aloft."

Tom Bowling.

"Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant, so jolly, Though winds blew great guns, still he 'd whistle and sing; Jack loved his friend, and was true to his Molly, And if honour gives greatness, was great as a king."

The Sailor's Consolation.

"To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!"

Sensibility.

"Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs."

Sensibility.

"In men this blunder still you find,-- All think their little set mankind."

Florio. Part i.

"Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes."

Florio. Part i.

"A dinner lubricates business."

Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. viii. p. 67, note.

"The elegant simplicity of the three per cents."

Lives of the Lord Chancellors (Campbell). Vol. x. Chap. 212.

"Than all Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand."

A Persian Song of Hafiz.

"Go boldly forth, my simple lay, Whose accents flow with artless ease, Like orient pearls at random strung."

A Persian Song of Hafiz.

"On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep."

From the Persian.

"What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. . . . . . . . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill."

Ode in Imitation of Alcæus.

"Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year."

To the Cuckoo.

"Oh could I fly, I 'd fly with thee! We 'd make with joyful wing Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring."

To the Cuckoo.

"No pent-up Utica contracts your powers, But the whole boundless continent is yours."

Epilogue to Cato.

"A man's ingress into the world is naked and bare, His progress through the world is trouble and care; And lastly, his egress out of the world, is nobody knows where. If we do well here, we shall do well there: I can tell you no more if I preach a whole year."

The Eccentricities of John Edwin (second edition), vol. i. p. 74. London, 1791.

"But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen."

M^cFingal. Canto i. Line 67.

"But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at duck or plover, Bear wide, and kick their owners over."

M^cFingal. Canto i. Line 93.

"As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?"

M^cFingal. Canto ii. Line 121.

"No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law."

M^cFingal. Canto iii. Line 489.

"Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory."

The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2.

"'T is safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion."

The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2.

"A progeny of learning."

The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2.

"A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge."

The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"He is the very pine-apple of politeness!"

The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!"

The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile."

The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.