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And I read the moral—A brave endeavour
KIPLING-The White Man's Burden. To the To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,

United States. Feb. 4, 1899. In McClure's Is better than life with love forever,
Magazine. Feb., 1899.

And love is the sweetest thing on earth.

JAMES J. ROCHE-Sir Hugo's Choice. Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit; Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment For the day never comes when it'll du

fades away. To kick off dooty like a worn-out shoe.

SCHILLER—Ï'he Playing Infant. LOWELL—The Biglow Papers. No. 11.

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I do perceive here a divided duty.
Straight is the line of duty;

Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 181.
Curved is the line of beauty;
Follow the straight line, thou shalt see

12 I thought the remnant of mine age The curved line ever follow thee.

Should have been cherish'd by her child-like WILLIAM MacCall-Duty.

duty.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act III. Sc. 1.

L. 74.
Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty.
Every man is bound to consecrate his every
faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule

Not once or twice in our rough island story,

The path of duty was the way to glory. of action from the profound conviction of that

TENNYSON-õde on the Death of the Duke of duty. NAZZINI–Life and Writings. Young Europe.

Wellington. St. 8. General Principles.

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Simple duty hath no place for fear. The things which must be, must be for the best,

WHITTIER—Tent on the Beach. Abraham God helps us do our duty and not shrink,

Davenport. Last Line.

15 And trust His mercy humbly for the rest. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)—Imperfec- The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless

The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; tion. Left that command

Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.

WORDSWORTH-The Excursion. Bk. IX. Sole daughter of his voice. MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. LX. L. 652.

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Give unto me, made lowly wise,
The spirit of self-sacrifice;

The confidence of reason give;
Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to
climb;

And in the light of truth thy

Bondman let me live!
Duty is the path that all may tread.
LEWIS MORRIS-Epic of Hades. Quoted by

WORDSWORTH-Ode to Duty.
John Bright at Unveiling of Cobden Statue.

Stern Daughter of the Voice of God. 8

WORDSWORTH-Ode to Duty. Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!)

(See also MILTON) Be humble and be just.

Who art a light to guide, a rod PRIOR--Solomon on the Vanity of the World. To check the erring, and reprove. Bk. III.

WORDSWORTH-Ode to Duty.

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So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, So, in the Libyan fable it is told

No more through rolling clouds to soar again, That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart. "With our own feathers, not by others' hand BYRON-English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Are we now smitten."

L. 826.

21 ÆSCHYLUS-Fragment. 123. PLUMPTRE's trans.

Tho' he inherit The idea of the eagle struck by a feather

Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, from her own wing is proverbial. See note

That the Theban eagle bear, by PORSON, 139, to EURIPIDES' Medea.

Sailing with supreme dominion DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS, REISKE's ed.

Thro' the azure deep of air.

GRAY-Progress of Poesy.
970. EUSTATHIUS-ad Iliad. P. 632. 489.
SCHOLIAST- On Lucian. Vol. I. P. 794.
ROGER L'ESTRANGE, Fables of Æsop. 48.

King of the peak and glacier,
Eagle and the Arrow.

King of the cold, white scalps,

He lifts his head at that close tread, (See also BYRON, MOORE, WALLER, also PHILLIPS The eagle of the Alps. under RELIGION)

VICTOR HUGO-Swiss Mercenaries.

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Sing we lauding,
And applauding,

When the Sultan Shah-Zaman
Hallelujah!

Goes to the city Ispahan, Hallelujah! Hallelujah! From the Latin of the Even before he gets so far 12th Century. J. M. NEALE. Trans. As the place where the clustered palm-trees are,

At the last of the thirty palace-gates, I think of the garden after the rain;

The pet of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom, And hope to my heart comes singing,

Orders a feast in his favorite room“At morn the cherry-blooms will be white, Glittering square of colored ice, And the Easter bells be ringing!”

Sweetened with syrup, tinctured with spice, EDNA DEAN PROCTER—Easter Bells.

Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates,
Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces,

Limes and citrons and apricots,
The fasts are done; the Aves said;
The moon has filled her horn

And wines that are known to Eastern princes. And in the solemn night I watch

T. B. ALDRICH-When the Sultan Goes to Before the Easter morn.

Ispahan.
So pure, so still the starry heaven,
So hushed the brooding air,

Acorns were good till bread was found.
I could hear the sweep of an angel's wings

BACON—Colours of Good and Evil. 6. Quoted

from JUVENAL-Satires. XIV, 181. If one should earthward fare. Edna DEAN PROCTER—Easter Morning.

Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;

Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, Spring bursts to-day,

Still on their dinner turn-
For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play. Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI-Easter Carol.

And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.

JOANNA BAILLIE—Basil. Act I. Sc. 1. God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished 'Tis not her coldness, father, for the credit of their religion as well as the sat That chills my labouring breast; isfaction of their conscience that their Easter de It's that confounded cucumber votions would in some measure come up to their I've ate and can't digest. Easter dress.

R. H. BARHAM—The Confession. SOUTH-Sermons. Vol. II. Ser. 8.

I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, Christ is our Passover!

My morning incense, and my evening meal, And we will keep the feast

The sweets of Hasty-Pudding. With the new leaven,

JOEL BARLOW-The Hasty Pudding. Canto I. The bread of heaven: All welcome, even the least!

Ratons and myse and soche smale dere A._R. THOMPSON—We Keep the Festival.

That was his mete that vii. yere. From the Roman Breviary.

Sir Bevis of Hamptoun.

(See also KING LEAR) "Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say:

Un dîner réchauffé ne valut jamais rien.

A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. Raise your joys and triumphs high;

BOILEAU—Lutrin. I. 104.
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.
CHARLES WESLEY_"Christ the Lord is Risen
Today.”

First come, first served.
HENRY BRINKLOW-Complaint_of Roderyck

Mors. Also in Bartholomew's Fair. Act III. Jesus Christ is risen to-day,

5. (1614) Our triumphant holy day; Who did once upon the cross

Man is a carnivorous production, Suffer to redeem our loss.

And must have meals, at least one meal a day; Hallelujah!

He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, Jesus Christ is Risen To-day. From a Latin But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey;

Hymn of the 15th CenturyTranslator un Although his anatomical construction known.

Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,

Your laboring people think beyond all question, EATING (See also APPETITE, COOKERY, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. HUNGER)

BYRON-Don Juan. Canto II. št. 67. The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, That all the year eats neither partridge nor And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. quail,

BYRON-Don Juan. Canto II. St. 158. But sets up his rest and makes up his feast, With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good

All human history attests ale.

That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner! Old English Song. From "An Antidote Against Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. Melancholy." (1661)

BYRON—Don Juan. Canto XIII. St. 99.

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Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney
Is not to be despaired of for our money;
And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are

clerks,
The sky not falling, think we may have larks.

BEN JONSON-Ěpigram CI.
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The master of art or giver of wit,

Their belly.
BEN JONSON—The Poetaster.

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Judges. V. 25.

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In solo vivendi causa palato est.

In their palate alone is their reason of
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"Good well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-
It almost makes me wish, I vow,
To have two stomachs, like a cow!"
And lo! as with the cud, an inward thrill
Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill,
His mouth was oozing, and he work'd his jaw-
"I almost think that I could eat one raw.”

Hoon—The Turtles.

3 Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum, Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus.

Though your threshing-floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

HORACE—Satires. I. 1. 45.
Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.

A stomach that is seldom empty despises
common food.
HORACE—Satires. II. 2. 38.
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The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by sweating?

HORACE—Satires. II. 2.

Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.

WASHINGTON IRVING—The Stout Gentleman. 7

The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.

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To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.

JUVENAL—Satires. V. 2.
And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.

KEATS—The Eve of St. Agnes. St. 30.
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An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse.

I Kings. XVII. 12.

And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.

I Kings. XVII. 16.

A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?” Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said: "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gillman's did the business for me.” LAMB-Autobiographical Recollections, by CHAS.

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He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful Isaiah. XXV. 6.

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Think of the man who first tried German sausage. LAMB-Dissertation upon Roast Pig.
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If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your

dinner, Gather up the fragments that remain, that And take to light claret instead of pale ale; nothing be lost.

Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, John. VI. 12.

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stale. For I look upon it, that he who does not mind HENRY S. LEIGH—A Day for Wishing. his belly will hardly mind anything else. SAMUEL JOHNSON—Boswell's Life of Johnson. Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very Vol. III. Ch. 9.

little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth.

LONGFELLOW-Spanish Student. Act I. Sc. 4. For a man seldom thinks with more earnest 27 ness of anything than he does of his dinner. I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth SAMUEL JOHNSON—Piozzi's Anecdotes of John- | in his head. son.

LYLY-Euphues and his England. P. 308.

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diners out from whom we guard our spoons. BEN JONSON—Epigram CI.

MACAULAY—Political Georgics. 15

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Philo swears that he has never dined at home, An olive, capers, or some better salad

and it is so; he does not dine at all, except when Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen, invited out. If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,

MARTIAL-Epigrams. Bk. V. Ep. 47.

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