The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

1277 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _October, 1866._

October's foliage yellows with his cold.

1278 RUSKIN: _The Months._

=Offence.=

In such a time as this, it is not meet That every nice offence should bear his comment.

1279 SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

And love the offender, yet detest the offence.

1280 POPE: _Eloisa to A.,_ Line 192.

=Old Age.=

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility: Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly.

1281 SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

1282 HOOD: _Ballad._

=Opinion.=

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.

1283 SHAKS.: _Pericles,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still.

1284 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto iii., Line 547.

=Opportunity.=

O Opportunity! thy guilt is great: 'T is thou that execut'st the traitor's treason; Thou sett'st the wolf where he the lamb may get; Whoever plots the sin, thou point'st the season; 'T is thou that spurn'st at right, at law, at reason.

1285 SHAKS.: _R. of Lucrece,_ Line 876.

=Oracle.=

I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

1286 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Oratory.=

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democracy, Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

1287 MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iv., Line 267.

=Order.=

Order is heav'n's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.

1288 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 49.

=Ornament.=

Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea.

1289 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

=Owl.=

It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night.

1290 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

==P.==

=Pain.=

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

1291 SHAKS.: _R. of Lucrece,_ Line 334.

Pain is no longer pain when it is past.

1292 MARGARET J. PRESTON: _Sonnet._ _Nature's Lesson._

The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

1293 TENNYSON: _In Memoriam, Prologue,_ v., St. 2.

=Painter.=

With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.

1294 SHELLEY: _Revolt of Islam,_ Canto v., St. 23.

=Palm.=

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.

1295 HEBER: _Palestine._