When I'd done it, the Artist (who had clapt in Miss merely as a fill-space) swore I exprest his full meaning, and the damosel bridled up into a Missionary's vanity.

The poor old man lies on his deathbed, and has exprest a desire to see his son before he dies.

I cannot but smile to see my Granny so gayly deck'd forth [the book was expensively produced by Lloyd], tho', I think, whoever altered 'thy' praises to 'her' praises'thy' honoured memory to 'her' honoured memory [lines 27 and 28], did wrongthey best exprest my feelings.

I was once talking with an acquaintance about whose religious position I knew nothing, and he exprest a very hopeful opinion in regard to a matter about which I was myself very doubtful.

" While in soft tones, Las Casas thus exprest His pious purpose, o'er Aciloe's breast A dawning ray of cheering comfort streams, But faint the hope that on her spirit beams; 270 Faint, as when ebbing life must soon depart, The pulse that trembles, while it warms the heart.

"This my joy is therefore fulfilled," he said, as he dwelt upon the first advances of the gospel, and he exprest thus a sweetness of sacrifice forever unknown to personal souls that remain vulgar in spite of their genius.

When Cato thus exprest The sacred counsels of his most inmost breast.

Walt Whitman also tells us "that nothing can happen more beautiful than death," and he has exprest the humanist view of mortality in a hymn which his admirers regard as the high-water mark of modern poetry.