Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!

1051 SCOTT: _Lay of the Last Minstrel,_ Canto vi., St. 2.

=Landscape.=

The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape 1052 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 490.

Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view?

1053 JOHN DYER: _Grongar Hill,_ Line 102.

=Language.=

Fit language there is none For the heart's deepest things.

1054 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Legend of Brittany,_ Pt. i., St. 28.

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.

1055 LONGFELLOW: _Flowers._

=Lark.=

Now hear the lark, The herald of the morn; ... whose notes do beat The vaulty heavens, so high above our heads, ...

Some say the lark makes sweet division.

1056 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act iii., Sc. 5.

And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

1057 MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. ii., Line 279

=Lass.=

A penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree.

1058 LADY NAIRNE: _The Laird o' Cockpen._

=Latin.=

That soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.

1059 BYRON: _Beppo,_ St. 44.

=Laughter.=

Laughter, holding both his sides.

1060 MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 32.

Vulcan with awkward grace his office plies, And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.

1061 POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. i., Line 770.

=Law.=

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil?

1062 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

1063 GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 386.

And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

1064 SIR WILLIAM JONES: _Ode in Im. of Alcoeus._

=Leaf--Leaves.=

My way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf.

1065 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men.

1066 JOHN WEBSTER: _The White Devil,_ Act v., Sc. 2.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,-- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground.

1067 POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. vi., Line 181.

=Learning.=

"The thrice three Muses mourning for the death Of learning, late deceas'd in beggary,"-- That is some satire, keen and critical.

1068 SHAKS.: _Mid. N. Dream,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

Learning unrefin'd, That oft enlightens to corrupt the mind.

1069 FALCONER: _Shipwreck,_ Canto i., Line 166.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

1070 YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire i., Line 89.

=Lending.=

Loan oft loses both itself and friend.

1071 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; (for when did friendship take A breed of barren metal of his friend?) But lend it rather to thine enemy; Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face Exact the penalties.

1072 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

=Letters.=

My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!