" His light, agreeable, polished style pierces through the body of the courthits off the faded graces of "an Adonis of fifty", weighs the vanity of fashion in tremulous scales, mimics the grimace of affectation and folly, shews up the littleness of the great, and spears a phalanx of statesmen with its glittering point as with a diamond broach.

Something intensely human, narrow, and definite pierces to the seat of our sensibilities more readily than huge occurrences and catastrophes.

whose greatness none can comprehend, Whose boundless goodness does to all extend, Light of all beauty, ocean without ground, That standing, flowestgiving, dost abound... Great ArchitectLord of this universe, That sight is blinded would thy greatness pierce.

" Her flashing eyes half languid pierce the seer, Until his first resolves all disappear.

" His light, agreeable, polished style pierces through the body of the courthits off the faded graces of "an Adonis of fifty", weighs the vanity of fashion in tremulous scales, mimics the grimace of affectation and folly, shews up the littleness of the great, and spears a phalanx of statesmen with its glittering point as with a diamond broach.

Justice nerves his arm; and soon a lucky blow from the sharp claw pierces in a vital part the hardened sinner, who, with a gulp, gives up the contest and his life at once.

THE STRANGER Half-hidden in a graveyard, In the blackness of a yew, Where never living creature stirs, Nor sunbeam pierces through, Is a tomb, green and crooked, Its faded legend gone, With but one rain-worn cherub's head Of smouldering stone.