Lords' amendment in the division to which I now ask the House to proceed—Right Hon. John Bright.
And would the noble duchess deign
To listen to an old man’s strain,
Though stiff his hand, his voice though weak,
He thought c’en yet, the sooth to speak,
That if she loved the harp to hear,
He could make music to her ear.—Scott.
And thus the words were spoken,
And thus the plighted vow,
And though my faith be broken,
And though my heart be broken,
Behold the golden token
That proves me happy now.—Poe.
When it is said that men in manhood so often throw their Greek and Latin aside, and that this very fact shows the uselessness of their early studies, it is much more true to say that it shows how completely the literature of Greece and Rome could be forgotten if our system of education did uot keep up the knowledge of it.—Matthew Arnold.
As the horsemen cast their eyes upon the pile, the sound of the holy chorus—made more sweet and solemn from its indistinctness, from the quiet of the hour, from the sudden and sequestered loveliness of the spot, suiting so well the ideal calm of the conventual life—rolled its music through the odorous and lucent air.—Bulwer Lytton.
If amid the thickest welter of surrounding gluttony and baseness, and what must be reckoned bottomless anarchy from shore to shore, there be found no man, no small but invincible minority of men, capable of keeping themselves free from all that, and of living a heroically human life, while the millions round them are noisily living a mere
