His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills; And let me catch it as I muse along.

* * Even so did Nature's hand To certain species of external things Attune the finer organs of the mind: So the glad impulse of congenial powers, Or of sweet sounds, or fair-proportioned form, The grace of motion, or the bloom of light, Thrills through imagination's tender frame, From nerve to nerve;

Another cup of wineand while that turn-coat bell, that just now mournfully chanted the obsequies of 1820 departed, with changed notes lustily rings in a successor, let us attune to its peal the song made on a like occasion, by hearty, cheerful Mr. Cotton.

His praise, ye brooks, attune,ye trembling rills, And let me catch it as I muse along.

And if some traveller, weary of his road, Hath slept since noontide on the grassy ground, Ye genii, to his covert speed, And wake him with such gentle heed As may attune his soul to meet the dower Bestowed on this transcendent hour.

" A melancholy interest attunes to sentences such as these, from the influence which the defects in her husband's character, when joined to those of his minister, had on the future destinies of both, and of the nation over which he ruled.

O'er the warm wave a smiling youth presides, 190 Attunes its murmurs, its meanders guides, (The blooming FUCUS), in her sparry coves To amorous Echo sings his secret loves, Bathes his fair forehead in the misty stream, And with sweet breath perfumes the rising steam.

V. compose, perform &c 416; attune.

Cali THE PIGEON This Cock, nowthis Cock of yoursIs it true that his song attunes, inspires, encourages, makes labour light, and keeps off birds of prey?

The trouble is that the Uffizi is so vast, and the Renaissance seems to be so eminently the only proper study of mankind when one is here, that to attune oneself to the enjoyment of antique sculpture needs a special effort which not all are ready to make.

Who, in love, Took little children in his arms to bless; While looking down from his bright home above, Through thee diffusing peace and holiness; May his pure spirit ever with us dwell, Shedding o'er all our thoughts its heavenly ray; Our hearts attune the song of praise to swell, And o'er our darkness pour eternal day.

He was beginning to understand that life was now largely a matter of personal responsibility with him, and his ears had begun to attune themselves to sound.

With light heart may she rise, Gay fancy, cheerful eyes, Joy lift her spirit, joy attune her voice; To her may all things live, from pole to pole, 135 Their life the eddying of her living soul!

The designer had a distinct thought about this window or that door,and when he would use his thought to ornament these features, he idealized it with his Greek lines to make it architectural, just as a poet attunes his thought to the harmony and rhythm of verse.

It was doubtless the sight of those eighteen great hatchments which still hang in the little church at Stoke Poges that inspired Gray to attune his harp to such lofty strains.

of all that feverish train, Fool'd by those phantoms of the wizard brain, Most wildly dotes, whom young ambition stings To trust his weight upon poetic wings; He, downward looking in his airy ride, Beholds Elysium bloom on every side; Unearthly bliss each thrilling nerve attunes, And thus the dreamer with himself communes.

The devout man attunes his mind to holy ideas, he excludes alien thoughts, and he waits and watches in stillness.

They were not attune.

Wherever men strive for freedom, or seek to attune their lives to the strange spiritual music that breathes through all thingsmusic that none ever heard more clearly than hethere is Shelley like the morning star to guide them and inspire.

Sin is ungodliness; Christ makes us to see light in God's light, fills us with His love, attunes our spirit to the infinite music of His perfection.

They attune the soul to high states of feeling; the direct lesson is often as nought.

Absolutely extinct also is the old care to attune the voices of a pack.

But she was attune with the storm, she loved to hear the weird sh-sh-sh of the leaves, the monotonous drip of the rain on the roof of the summer house, and in the intervals of intense blackness to catch sight of her lover's face, pale of hue, with one large eye glancing cyclops-like into hers, as a vivid flash of lightning momentarily tore the darkness asunder and revealed him still crouching at her feet.

; he accompanied Messala his patron in his campaigns to Gaul and the East, but had no liking for war, and preferred in peace to cultivate the tender sentiments, and to attune his harp to his emotions.

" His voice was deep and rich, filled with that wonderful vibratory power which seems to strike and attune the hidden chords of one's soul.