=Reading.=

Many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, Uncertain and unsettled still remains-- Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.

1439 MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iv., Line 321.

When the last reader reads no more.

1440 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _The Last Reader._

Stuff the head With all such reading as was never read: For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it.

1441 POPE: _Dunciad,_ Bk. iv., Line 249.

=Realms.=

These are our realms, no limit to their sway,-- Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey.

1442 BYRON: _Corsair,_ Canto i., St. 1.

=Reason.=

I have no other but a woman's reason; I think him so, because I think him so.

1443 SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

Reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.

1444 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iii., Line 97.

I would make Reason my guide.

1445 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus._

The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

1446 WORDSWORTH: _Ode to Duty._

Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

1447 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. vii., Line 507.

=Rebellion.=

Their weapons only Seem'd on our side, but, for their spirits and souls, This word, rebellion, it had froze them up, As fish are in a pond.

1448 SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Rebellion now began, for lack Of zeal and plunder, to grow slack.

1449 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 31.

=Rebuff.= Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go!

1450 ROBERT BROWNING: _Rabbi Ben Ezra._

=Rebuke.=

Forbear sharp speeches to her; She's a lady So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes, And strokes death to her.

1451 SHAKS.: _Cymbeline,_ Act iii., Sc. 5.

=Reckoning.=

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reck'ning, and men smile no more.

1452 GAY: _What D' ye Call It,_ Act ii., Sc. 9.

=Recollection.=

How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.

1453 WORDSWORTH: _The Old Oaken Bucket._

=Reconciliation.=

Never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierc'd so deep.

1454 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 98.

=Records.=

In records that defy the tooth of time.

1455 YOUNG: _The Statesman's Creed._

=Recreation.=

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy, Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair, And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life?

1456 SHAKS.: _Com. of Errors,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

Of recreation there is none So free as Fishing is alone; All other pastimes do no less Than mind and body both possess: My hand alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too.

1457 IZAAK WALTON: _The Complete Angler._ _The Angler's Song._

=Redress.=

What need we any spur but our own cause To prick us to redress.

1458 SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

=Reflection.=

Remembrance and reflection how allied!

What thin partitions sense from thought divide!

1459 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. i., Line 225.