=Torture.=

The hell of waters! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture.

1935 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 69.

=Towers.=

Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees.

1936 MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 75.

=Town.=

God made the country, and man made the town.

1937 COWPER: _Task,_ Bk i., Line 749.

=Toys.=

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

1938 AKENSIDE: _Virtuoso,_ St. 10.

=Trade.=

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.

1939 GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 63.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

1940 DR. JOHNSON: _Line added to Goldsmith's Des. Village._

=Tranquillity.=

Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity.

1941 MOORE: _Lalla Rookh, The Light of the Harem._

=Traveller--Travelling.=

Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn.

1942 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

When I was at home, I was in a better place; But travellers must be content.

1943 SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasures....

1944 GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. i.

=Treason.=

Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.

1945 SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

So Judas kiss'd his master, And cried--All hail! when as he meant--all harm.

1946 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 7.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?

Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

1947 SIR JOHN HARRINGTON: _Epigrams,_ Bk. iv., Epigram 5.

Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.

1948 DRYDEN: _Medals,_ Line 207.

=Treasure.=

The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasure.

1949 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 398.

=Trees.=

Trees can smile in light at the sinking sun Just as the storm comes, as a girl would look On a departing lover--most serene.

1950 ROBERT BROWNING: _Pauline,_ Line 726.

The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them.

1951 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Forest Hymn._

Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers.

1952 HENRY VAUGHAN: _The Timber._

A brotherhood of venerable trees.

1953 WORDSWORTH: _Sonnet composed at ---- Castle._

=Trial.=

We learn through trial.

1954 MARGARET J. PRESTON: _Attainment,_ St. 7.

=Trifles.=

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

1955 HANNAH MORE: _Sensibility._