=Genius.=

Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought.

But genius must be born, and never can be taught.

790 DRYDEN: _Epis. to Congreve_ Line 59.

Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly Stays.

791 EMERSON: _In Memoriam._

=Gentleman.=

We are gentlemen, That neither in our hearts, nor outward eyes, Envy the great, nor do the low despise.

792 SHAKS.: _Pericles,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?

793 _Lines used by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion._

=Gentleness.=

What would you have? Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.

794 SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 7.

=Ghosts.=

Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!

Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes, Which thou dost glare with!

795 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

Many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night; They have driven sleep from mine eyes away.

796 LONGFELLOW: _Christus, Golden Legend,_ Pt. iv.

Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

797 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 432.

=Gifts.=

She prizes not such trifles as these are: The gifts she looks from me, are pack'd and lock'd Up in my heart; which I have given already, But not deliver'd.

798 SHAKS.: _Wint. Tale,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

Saints themselves will sometimes be, Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.

799 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto i., Line 495.

=Girdle.=

I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes.

800 SHAKS.: _Mid. N. Dream,_ Act ii, Sc. 1.

=Gloaming.=

Late, late in a gloamin, when all was still, When the fringe was red on the westlin hill, The wood was sere, the moon i' the wane, The reek o' the cot hung over the plain-- Like a little wee cloud in the world its lane; When the ingle lowed with an eiry leme, Late, late in the gloamin Kilmeny came hame!

801 JAMES HOGG: _Kilmeny._

=Gloom.=

Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

802 MILTON: _Il Penseroso,_ Line 79.

=Glory.=

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.

803 SHAKS.: _1 Henry VI.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

804 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 591.

Go where glory waits thee!

But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!

805 MOORE: _Go Where Glory Waits Thee._

The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

806 WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality,_ St. 2.

Ye sons of France, awake to glory!

Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise!

Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears and hear their cries!

807 JOSEPH R. DE L'ISLE: _Marseilles Hymn._

=Glow-worm.=

The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

808 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 5.

=Gluttony.=

Swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to Heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, But with besotted, base ingratitude Crams, and blasphemes his Feeder.

809 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 776.

=God.=