As regards the United States, we may safely say that what is noblest in our history to-day, and of happiest augury for our social and political future, is the impress left upon the character of our people by the heroic men who came to New England early in the seventeenth century.

You are a Russian prince, and your estates are the happiest, the most enlightened in the empire.

* Through Pope's soft song though all the Graces breathe, And happiest art adorn his Attic page,

But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know? * * * * * To kinder skies, where gentler manners reign, I turn; and France displays her bright domain.

"How lovely they are to Bob and me!" Mrs. Littell, who was happiest when entertaining young people, had put the six boys on the third floor in three connecting rooms.

"I mean it, and I'm the happiest fellow in the world this minute," cried Dick, and caught her again in his arms.

We have to add, that these must be the happiest people in the social scale.

But although we have no collection of Pope's sayings, it is not therefore to be concluded, that he was not agreeable in social intercourse; for Johnson has been heard to say, that 'the happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.'

" Fernando was now the happiest man on earth.

He lived in hope and doubt and was the happiest man at times, and at others the most miserable.

A more intelligent, faithful, and affectionate creature never had existence, and to him I have been indebted for very many of the happiest hours of my life.

The day which dismissed the music-master was one of the happiest of Catherine's life.

Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!

He had a wonderful electrical influence; his very tones and gestures carried everything before him; his action was superb; and his whole frame quivered from real (or affected) emotion, like Edward Everett in his happiest efforts.

The loneliness of intense individuality is the loneliest loneliness in the world,a loneliness which crowds only aggravate, and which even the closest and happiest companionship can only in part cure.

Unseal those ruby lips and tell me that I am the happiest of men.

But there are skeletons hidden away in the happiest households.

which enioy The presence of your dearest loves delight, "When ye doe heare my sorrowfull annoy, Yet pittie me in your empassiond spright, 515 And thinke that such mishap as chaunst to me May happen unto the most happiest wight; For all mens states alike unstedfast be.

"That bein' happiest when you're workin' hard must be great; but I guess it's only dogs an' mebbe some men that's like that.

Just a few minutes, that is all I ask, and I will guarantee that you will be the happiest man in New York to-morrow.

But, duffer as I was, the way she had said those words, and the double meaning she had given them, would have made me the happiest fellow alive if I could only have forgotten the existence of Lord Ralles.

The clouds and sky were in the happiest disposition for the brilliant plays and pictures of light and shade, and dissolving views of fascinating splendor succeeded and surpassed each other at a minute's interval.

The happiest hour of all the day To me, is always last; When both my studies and my play, My walks and work, are past.

"Snugly sheltered by the mountains, embowered among trees, and having in itself prospects of surpassing beauty, it also lies in the midst of the very noblest objects in the district, and in one of the happiest social positions.

That first evening your face was like what it never was afterwards, even in our happiest moments.