she said, "for shame, You are too big a match for so small game, To catch the Hare, or nimble Squirrel try, Remember, William, He is BUT A FLY." Not always is Humanity imprest By serious schooling; a light word or jest Will sometimes leave a moral sting behind When graver lessons vanish out of mind.

Gúdarz at length, with boding cares imprest, Thus soothed the anger in the royal breast.

The huge city perhaps never imprest the imagination more than when approaching it by night on the top of a coach you saw its numberless lights flaring, as Tennyson says, "like a dreary dawn."

Thus it imprest you, at every change, as a newly created structure of the passing moment, in which yet you lovingly recognized the half-vanished structure of the instant before, and felt, moreover, a joyful faith in the indestructible existence of all this cloudlike vicissitude.

Imprest by her words, Ina acted as she advised, and later endowed a school in Rome in which Anglo-Saxon children might become acquainted with the customs of foreign countries.

But I have so often seen this effect produced in dry-goods stores and elsewhere, that I was not much imprest.

The third bas-relief possesses, to my mind, a great deal of pathos, to which my appreciative faculty is probably the more alive, because I have always been profoundly imprest by the incident here commemorated, and long ago tried to tell it for the behoof of childish readers.

The Spirits of the Good, who bend from high Wide o'er these earthly scenes their partial eye, 465 When first, array'd in VIRTUE'S purest robe, They saw her HOWARD traversing the globe; Saw round his brows her sun-like Glory blaze In arrowy circles of unwearied rays; Mistook a Mortal for an Angel-Guest, 470 And ask'd what Seraph-foot the earth imprest.

Professor Laughton tells us that 'A prest or imprest was an earnest or advance paid on account.

Writers, and some in an age when precision in spelling is thought important, have frequently spelled prest pressed, and imprest impressed.

G. [Gallic or French], Imprest-ànce; Imprestanza, from in and prestare, to lend or give beforehand....

Dr. Murray's 'New English Dictionary,' now in course of publication, gives instances of the confusion between imprest and impress.

Faire Prince, thy picture is not here imprest With such perfection as within my brest.

In the museum, a tattered Polish flag of red silk, with the white eagle, a cheerful bird with curled tail, opened mouth, chirping defiantly to the left, imprest me, and a portrait of Szopen (Chopin) in fine profile when laid out dead.

The other, raised to the very summit of glory by force of arms like another David, dies like him in his bed, sounding the praises of God and leaving his dying behests to his family, while all hearts were imprest as much by the splendor of his life as by the gentleness of his death.

To base the temple must the props be wood? Must I distrust the gentle law, imprest, To guide and warn, by Nature on the breast, Till, squared to rule the instinct of the soul, Till the School's signet stamp the eternal scroll, Till in one mold some dogma hath confined The ebb and flowthe light wavesof the mind?

It is but too true that our heartsinstead of being imprest by these truths, in proportion to their discussionbecome more obdurate.

The imagination may be strongly imprest with such things; but this is not spiritual light.

The ideas themselves that otherwise are dim and obscure, are by this means imprest with the greater strength, and have a light cast upon them, so that the mind can better judge of them; as he that beholds the objects on the face of the earth, when the light of the sun is cast upon them, is under greater advantage to discern them in their true forms and mutual relations, than he that sees them in a dim starlight or twilight.

How, then, can any love of God dwell in your bosom? Consider, in the next place, in what manner you are imprest by the sense of your sins.

Knowledge and perfect holiness were imprest upon the very nature and faculties of his soul.

The several Arts are expressed in mouldring Materials: Nature sinks under them, and is not able to support the Ideas which are imprest upon it.

The evening on which I saw the Rhine for the first time, I was imprest with the same idea.

This is that Henry IV., whose scene at Canossa with the PopeKaiser of the Holy Roman Empire waiting three days in the snow to kiss the foot of excommunicative Gregoryhas imprest itself on all memories.

But here at any rate we can see the house in which he toiledno genius ever took more painsand the surroundings which imprest his mind and influenced his inspiration.