Love is a spirit all compact of fire; Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.

1119 SHAKS.: _Venus and A.,_ Line 149.

Such is the power of that sweet passion, That it all sordid baseness doth expel, And the refined mind doth newly fashion Unto a fairer form, which now doth dwell In his high thought, that would itself excel; Which he, beholding still with constant sight, Admires the mirror of so heavenly light.

1120 SPENSER: _Hymn in Honor of Love._

How could I tell I should love thee to-day, Whom that day I held not dear?

How could I know I should love thee away When I did not love thee anear?

1121 JEAN INGELOW: _Supper at the Mill._ _Song._

Instruct me now what love will do; 'T will make a tongueless man to woo.

Inform me next what love will do; 'T will strangely make a one of two.

Teach me besides what love will do; 'T will quickly mar and make ye too.

Tell me, now last, what love will do; 'T will hurt and heal a heart pierc'd through.

1122 SIR JOHN SUCKLING: _Aph. of Love._

Love is the only good in the world.

Henceforth be loved as heart can love, Or brain devise, or hand approve.

1123 ROBERT BROWNING: _Flight of the Duchess,_ Pt. xv.

Mutual love brings mutual delight-- Brings beauty, life; for love is life, hate, death.

1124 R.H. DANA: _The Dying Raven._

Let those love now, who never loved before, Let those who always loved, now love the more.

1125 PARNELL: _Trans. of Pervigilium Veneris._

Love, well thou know'st, no partnership allows: Cupid averse rejects divided vows.

1126 PRIOR: _Henry and Emma,_ Line 590.

And love, life's fine centre, includes heart and mind.

1127 OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto i., St. 17.

I hold it true, whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow most; 'T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.

1128 TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. xxvii., St. 4.

Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.

1129 BURNS: _Song, Ae Fond Kiss._

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is--Love, forgive us! cinders, ashes, dust.

1130 KEATS: _Lamia,_ Pt. ii., Line 1.

Why did she love him? Curious fool! be still; Is human love the growth of human will?

1131 BYRON: _Lara,_ Canto ii., St. 22.

There is no pleasure like the pain Of being loved, and loving.

1132 PRAED: _Legend of the Haunted Tree._

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'T is woman's whole existence.

1133 BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto i., St. 194.

In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green; Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven and heaven is love.

1134 SCOTT: _Lay of the Last Minstrel,_ Canto iii., St. 2.

True love is at home on a carpet, And mightily likes his ease,-- And true love has an eye for a dinner, And starves beneath shady trees.

His wing is the fan of a lady, His foot's an invisible thing, And his arrow is tipp'd with a jewel, And shot from a silver string.

1135 WILLIS: _Love in a Cottage._

What is love? 't is nature's treasure, 'T is the storehouse of her joys; 'T is the highest heaven of pleasure, 'T is a bliss which never cloys.

1136 THOMAS CHATTERTON: _The Revenge,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Luxury.=

O Luxury! thou curs'd by heaven's decree, How ill-exchang'd are things like these for thee!

How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy!

1137 GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 395.

Blest hour! it was a luxury--to be!

1138 COLERIDGE: _Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement._

==M.==

=Madness.=

I am not mad;--I would to heaven I were!

For then, 't is like I should forget myself; O, if I could,--what grief should I forget!

1139 SHAKS.: _King John,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.

1140 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.

1141 GRAY: _On a Distant Prospect of Eton College._

=Man.=

O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!

1142 SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

1143 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, "This was a man!"

1144 SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act v., Sc. 5.