Persons, it appeared, in their riper years, cast off a leg, as trees dropped their leaves.

And when I had bidden farewell to childhood, and had attained a riper age, I soon discovered that this, my beauty ill-fated gift for one who desires to live virtuously!had power to kindle amorous sparks in youths of my own age, and other noble persons as well, being instructed thereupon by nature, and feeling that love can be quickened in young men by beauteous ladies.

If his history ran out to the end, doubtless he would go with a limp in his riper days.

Dr. Trap's translation is close, and conveys the author's meaning literally, so consequently may be fitter for a school-boy, but men of riper judgment, and superior taste, will hardly approve it; if Dryden's is the most spirited of any translation, Trap's is the dullest that ever was written; which proves that none but a good poet is fit to translate the works of a good poet.

" "Never mind that part of it; just leave the ways and means with those of us who have riper experienceand fewer hamperings, perhapsthan you have.

"If you have any better ways, Mr. Dalzell, we shall be glad to profit from your riper experience, sir," suggested Midshipman Eaton.

He didn't understand them in the least, nor did they understand him, and he had managed with some discretion to confine his attentions to women of a riper growth.

Your stone wall, it is hardly necessary to inform riper intellects, is a distant range of mountains.

But now we are leaving childhood behind, and attaining to the riper joys of full-blooded boyhood.

To our young imaginations, the productions of her pen glowed with all the fire of Milton, and flowed with all the softness and melody of Spenser; and if a riper judgement has robbed us of the pleasing fancy, it has been at least replaced by the grateful conviction that they were the overflowings of a mother's heart, and by the blessing of God, contributed in a great measure to give an early bias in favour of religious truth.

And I tell you out of my riper knowledge of fancy-dress balls, Gussie, that you won't enjoy yourself.

He chose Petrarch for his model and guide, and in riper manhood became his most intimate friend.

[U] But from this awful burthen I full soon Take refuge and beguile myself with trust 235 That mellower years will bring a riper mind And clearer insight.

The whole massive uplift of the range is one great picture, not clearly divisible into smaller ones; differing much in this respect from the older, and what may be called, riper mountains of the Coast Range.

His rashness was opposed by the Italian government,wisely awaiting riper opportunity,who sent against him the greatest general of Italy (La Marmora), and Garibaldi was taken prisoner at Aspromonte.

It was really admirable how he emerged victor in the end; men of riper powers and experience might have come through the ordeal with less success.

But when it became necessary to send his riper progeny abroad, for more advanced studies, Mr. Seaton very justly bethought him of going along with them; and so betook himself, with his whole family, to Richmond, where he was the possessor of houses enough to afford him a good habitation and a genteel income.

The leaves, though fallen from the trees in great abundance, appeared thereby only to have admitted of the passage of a riper radiance of golden sunlight through the thinning branches.

If he live long, and growe to riper sinne, [To the people.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer books are the toys of age: Pleased with this bauble still, as that before; Till tired he sleeps, and Life's poor play is o'er.

A riper study of a somewhat similar character is given in old Mr. Lashmar in Our Friend the Charlatan.

so had my lord, who, being at home and sleepless, had risen betimes and was walking in the cool of the morning on a little pleasaunce next my lady's tower, and hearing the song, had looked unseen at the singer, had guessed the bitter truth, but had held his peace till a riper time.

And I did but drag him out and twice knock his head against the door for riper understanding, and behold, the blankets were not!"

All the pretty heads so curly That shall hold a riper wisdom Than our youthful planet dreams of; All the ranks of dimple shoulders, That shall move Time's rolling chariot Nearer to the golden city;

England now spends with open hand on schools of design, the accumulation of treasures of art of every epoch and character, and whatever tends to elevate the taste and enlarge the means of the artistic education of her people,perceiving, with far-sighted wisdom, that, through improved manufacture and riper civilization, eventually a tenfold return will result to her treasury.