QUOTATIONS AND NOTES.
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"Tu torni ben, tu torni,
"Ma teco altro non torna
"Che del perduto mio caro tesoro,
"La rimembranza misera e dolente."
From the following sentence in Lord Bacon's Essays.
"Death is no such formidable enemy, since a man has so many champions about him that can win the combat of him—Revenge triumphs over Death; Love slights it; Honour courts it; dread of Disgrace chooses it; Grief flies to it; Fear anticipates it."
The Juniper and the Yew are almost the only trees that grow spontaneously on the highest chalky hills, and they are often ragged and stunted by the violence of the wind.
