Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure; Sweet is pleasure after pain.

If thou bearest me love and affiance, and for thy part wilt promise to make richer all the riches that are mine, on my part I will free thee from these sullen rags and array thee in the purple and ermine of a king.

No other books, in this province, by living author offer to the reader so rich a feast.

No poet but Shakspeare, and scarcely Shakspeare, has set before the world so rich a gallery of female portraits.

"Her beauty rich, richer her grace, her mind yet richer still, though richest all."

On every plain How green the sward, or rich the grain!

My sheep crop honeysuckle bloom, while all around them blows In clusters rich the jasmine, as brave as any rose. COMETAS.

He feared that the blood of the offender would more than atone for his offence, and he would not throw into the political caldron so rich a material, dreading the effects of its presence there.

The colour of the spots of the black-spotted variety should be black, the deeper and richer the black the better; in the liver-spotted variety they should be brown.

Swones her's rewards would make one kill himselfe, To leave his progenie so rich a prize! Were twentie lives engadged for this coine, Ide end them all, to have the money mine.

However rich the room, it was in great disorder; and when we went up-stairs we found matters no betterbeds half stript, chests and cabinets left open, floors strewed with things pulled forth in haste and left there.

"It was to rich a secret to tell too quicklytoo good a storyand then the embroideriesI had to think of those.

The moon shone on the face and form of the sleeping girl, making softer their graceful lines, richer the shadows in the golden hair, tenderer the tint of cheek and lip.

" Mrs. Browning, in her "Lay of the Early Rose," alludes to this legend, and Moore in his "Lalla Rookh" asks: "Though rich the spot With every flower this earth has got, What is it to the nightingale,

O rich the odour that arose!

The following is an example: "Personifications, however rich the depictions, and unconstrained their latitude; analogies, however imposing the objects of parallel, and the media of comparison; can never expose the consequences of sin to the extent of fact, or the range of demonstration.