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LOVE.

with taste; the delicate with delicacy; the fervent and eager with high impellant strength, and burning completeness and abandonment. There is love which once aroused-called to the surface from its tender fountain, and boiling up from its placid depths, becomes like the torrent sweeping on in impetuosity, rising up against and surmounting with fury all the petty obstacles and small interruptions which envy and cautious policy, the coldness or worldliness of man, seek to interpose to it. Love is such a giant power that it seems to gather strength from obstruction, and at every difficulty rises to higher might. It is all dominant all conquering; a great leveller which can bring down to its own universal line of equalization the proudest heights, and remove the stubbornest impediments. There is no hope of resisting it, for it outwatches watchsubmerges everything, acquiring strength as it proceeds; ever growing, nay, growing out of itself. Newton.

LOVE-Demands of.

Love requires not so much proofs, as expressions, of love. Love demands little else than the power to feel and to requite love. Richter.

LOVE-Despair of.

It were all one, That I should love a bright partic'lar star, And think to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. Th' ambition in my love thus plagues itself: The hind, that would be mated by the lion, Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though a plague, To see him ev'ry hour; to sit and draw His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, In our heart's table; heart, too capable Of every line and trick of his sweet favour: But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy Must sanctify his relics.

LOVE-Difficulties of.

Shakspeare.

Ah me! for aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear of tale or history,

The course of true love never did run smooth.

LOVE-Disappointed.
Well! thou art happy, and I feel

That I should thus be happy too;
For still my heart regards thy weal
Warmly, as it was wont to do.

Thy husband's blest, and 'twill impart Some pangs to view his happier lot: But let them pass,-oh! how my heart

Would hate him, if he loved thee not!

LOVE.

When late I saw thy favourite child,

I thought my jealous heart would break;
But when th' unconscious infant smiled,
I kiss'd it for its mother's sake.

I kiss'd it, and repress'd my sighs,
Its father in its face to see;
But then it had its mother's eyes,
And they were all to love and me.

Mary, adieu! I must away,
While thou art blest I'll not repine;
But near thee I can never stay:

I

My heart would soon again be thine.

deem'd that time, I deem'd that pride, Had quench'd at length my boyish flame; Nor knew, till seated by thy side,

My heart. in all, save hope, the same.

Yet was I calm: I knew the time
My breast would thrill before thy look;
But now to tremble were a crime.
We met, and not a nerve was shook.

I saw thee gaze upon my face,

Yet meet with no confusion there; One only feeling couldst thou trace,The sullen calmness of despair.

Away! away! my early dream,

Remembrance never must awake: Oh! where is Lethe's fabled stream? My foolish heart be still, or break.

Byrom

Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing; that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart, is the conviction that we have been de ceived where we placed all the trust of love. Bulwer Lytton.

LOVE to the Disobliging.
It is the privilege of human nature above
brutes, to love those that disoblige us.
Anton jars.

LOVE-Divinity of

Love is a god

Ibid. Strong, free, unbounded, and as some define, Fears nothing, pitieth none.

LOVE-Emblems of.

Mason.

Love's heralds should be thoughts Which ten times faster glide than the sun's

beams,

Driving back shadows over low'ring hills: Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw Love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings

Shakspeare.

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Oh! wisest of the wise is he
Who first within his spirit knew,
And with his tongue declared it true,
That love comes best that comes unto
The equal of degree!

And that the poor and that the low
Should seek no love from those above,
Whose souls are fluttered with the flow
Of airs about their golden height,
Or proud because they see around
Ancestral "crowns of light."

For some green valley as its quiet home.
Alas! either it rushes with a desperate leap
Over its barriers, foaming, passionate,
But prison'd still; or, winding languidly,
Becomes dark like oblivion-or else wastes
Itself away. This is love's history!

L. E. Landon.

It is not love that steals the heart from love;
"Tis the hard world and its perplexing cares,

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Its petrifying selfishness, its pride,
Its low ambition, and its paltry aims.

LOVE-founded on Esteem.

She that would raise a noble love, must find
Ways to beget a passion for her mind;
She must be that which she to be would seem;
For all true love is grounded in esteem.
Plainess and truth gain more a generous
heart

Than all the crooked subtleties of art.

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LOVE-Excess of.

Caroline Bowles.

I knew 'twere madness to declare this truth,
And yet 'twere baseness to deny my love;
But such a love, kept at such awful distance:
Why shines the sun, but that he may be view'd?
But oh when he's too bright, if then we gaze,
'Tis but to weep, and close our eyes in dark-
ness.
Dryden.
Lookest thou at the stars? If I were heaven,
With all the eyes of heaven would I look down
on thee!
Addison.

Art thou not dearer to my eyes than light!
Dost thou not circulate through all my veins,
Mingle with life, and form my very soul?

LOVE-Expansibility of.

Young.

Love one human being purely and warmly, and you will love all. The heart in this heaven, like the wandering sun, sees nothing, Tennyson. from the dewdrop to the ocean, but a mirror which it warms and fills.

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Richter.

There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards the love of others, which, if it be not spent upon one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable. Bacon.

LOVE-Faithful.

Farewell, Lorenzo, Whom my soul doth love. If you ever marry, May you meet a good wife,—so good, that you May not suspect her, nor may she be worthy Of your suspicion ;—and if you hear, hereafter, That I am dead, inquire but my last words, And you shall know that to the last I loved you; And when you walk forth, with your second choice,

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Love can hope where reason would despair. Lyttleton. LOVE-Hour of.

Why does the evening, does the night, put warmer love in our hearts? Is it the nightly pressure of helplessness? or is it the exalting separation from the turmoils of life, that veiling of the world in which for the soul nothing then remains but souls?-is it, therefore, that the letters in which the loved name stands written on our spirit, appear like phosphorous writing by night, on fire, while by day, in their cloudy traces, they but smoke?

Richter.

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I dreamed that love Should steal upon the heart, like summer dawn

On the awakening world, soft, gradual; Cowper. First hailed and welcomed by the mountainpeaks,

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Come, gentle night; come, loving, blackbrow'd night,

Give me my Romco; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine,
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun. Ibid.

The loftiest aspirations of the soul;

Then, slowly spreading downward o'er the slopes

Of intellectual intercourse, so flood
At length the very plains and vales of sense
With beauties of its sunshine; one by one
Kissing awake all spirit-buds and flowers,
To pour their fragrance forth in gratitude
Mary C. Hume,
LOVE-Illicit.

The sacred lowe o' weel-placed love,
Luxuriantly indulge it,

But never tempt th' illicit rove,

Though naething should divulge it;
I waive the quantum o' the sin,
The hazard o' concealing;
But oh! it hardens a' within,
And petrifies the feeling !

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In heaven ambition cannot dwell,
Nor avarice in the vaults of hell;
Earthly, these passions of the earth,
They perish where they had their birth;
But love is indestructible.

Its holy flame for ever burneth ;
From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
Too oft on earth a troubled guest,
At times deceived, at times oppressed,
It here is tried and purified,

Then hath in heaven its perfect rest.
It soweth here with toil and care,
But the harvest-time of love is there.

LOVE-Indications of.

Southey.

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By love's delightful influence the attack of ill-humour is resisted, the violence of our passions abated, the bitter cup of affliction sweetened, all the injuries of the world alleviated, and the sweetest flowers plentifully strewed along the most thorny paths of life. Zimmerman.

LOVE-Engobling Influence of.
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, and would itself excel;
Which he, beholding still with constant sight,
Admires the mirror of so heavenly light.

Spenser.

In loving, thou dost well; in passion, not; Wherein true love consists not. Love refines The thoughts and heart enlarges; hath its

seat

In reason, and is judicious; is the scale By which to heavenly love thou mayst ascend ;

Not sunk in carnal pleasure; for which cause, Among the beasts no mate for thee was found. Milton.

Love is the purification of the heart from self; it strengthens and ennobles the character, gives a higher motive and a nobler aim to every action of life, and makes both man and woman strong, noble, and courageous; and the power to love truly and devotedly is the noblest gift with which a human being can be endowed; but it is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols. Miss Jewsbury.

LOVE-Transforming Influence of.

O, how beautiful it is to love! Even thou that sneerest and laughest in cold indifference or scorn if others are near thee,-thou, too, must acknowledge its truth when thou art alone, and confess that a foolish world is prone to laugh in public at what in private it reveres as one of the highest impulses of our nature; namely, love. Longfellow.

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Life without love's a load, and time stands still;
What we refuse to him, to death we give;
And then, then only, when we love, we live.
Congreve.

LOVE-a Second Life.

Love is not to be reason'd down or lost
In high ambition, or a thirst of greatness;
'Tis second life; it grows into the soul,
Warms ev'ry vein, and beats in ev'ry pulse.

LOVE-Lowliness of.

It is not in the mountains

Nor the palaces of pride,

That love will fold his wings up
And rejoicingly abide;

But in meek and humble natures
His home is ever found,

As the lark that sings in heaven,
Builds its nest upon the ground.

LOVE-Marrying for.

Addison.

Blanchard.

LOVE.

shout of his childhood, the opening promíse of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. Washington Irving.

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength, as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth; is the blessed tie whose value we feel in the cradle, and whose loss we lament on the verge of the very grave, where our mother moulders in dust and ashes. In all our trials, amid all our afflictions, she is still by our side: if we sin, she reproves more in sorrow than in anger; nor can she tear us from her bosom, nor forget we are her child. Ibid.

There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son, that transcends all other affections of the heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness, nor daunted by danger, nor weakened by worthlessness, nor stifled by ingratitude. She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience; she will surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment; she will glory in his fame, and exult in his prosperity; and if adversity overtake him, he will be the dearer to her by misfortune; and if disgrace settle upon his name, she will still love and cherish she will be all the world to him.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou him; and if all the world beside cast him off,

lovest what is lovely.

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Penn.

When all else pass away;
If there be aught
Surpassing human deed, or word, or thought,-
It is a mother's love!

Marchioness de Spadara.

The love of a mother is never exhausted, it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful

Ibid.

Observe how soon, and to what a degree, this influence begins to operate! Her first ministration for her infant is to enter, as it were, the valley of the shadow of death, and win its life at the peril of her own! How different must an affection thus founded be from all others! As if to deepen its power, a season of languor ensues, when she is comparatively alone with her infant, and with Him who

gave it, cultivating an acquaintance with a new being, and through a new channel, with the greatest of all beings. Is she not also her self an image of His goodness, while she cherishes in her bosom the young life that He laid there? A love, whose root is in death, whose fruit must be in eternity, has taken pos session of her. No wonder that its effects are obvious and great. Mrs. Sigourney.

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