He is deadand thus much I thought due to his memory, both for my first orders (little wondrous talismans!slight keys, and insignificant to outward sight, but opening to me more than Arabian paradises!)

I grew at last so weary of those birds of paradise, I fled to Twickenham, as much to avoid their persecutions as for my own health, which is still in a declining way."

Two Pictures of Paradise.

In short, Paradise Lost is an intensely dramatic story of the loss of Eden.

" The effect of Paradise Lost on English thought is more a resultant of the entire poem than of detached quotations.

[Footnote 3: Paradise Lost, Book VII., lines 577-578.]

They too are said to be earthly paradises in soil, climate, productions; and yet no English care to settle there, nor even to go thither for health, though the voyage from Lisbon is but a short one, and our own mail steamers, were it made worth their while, could as easily touch at Terceira now as they did a few years since.

Thus was the blessed cross of our Lord planted for the first time on the earth; and well might it be compared to the tree of life in Paradise, for the wounds of Jesus were as sacred fountains, from which flowed four rivers destined both to purify the world from the curse of sin, and to give it fertility, so as to produce fruit unto salvation.

And Jesus made answer, 'Amen, I say to thee, This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise.'

It costs Claude money, doubtless; but he has his excuse,"Having once seen the tropics, I cannot live without some love-tokens from their lost paradises; and which is the wiser plan, to spend money on a horse and brougham, which we don't care to use, and on scrambling into society at the price of one great stupid party a year, or to make our little world as pretty as we can, and let those who wish to see us, take us as they find us?"

"The five months," Lady Russell writes, "were among the very happiest of our lives, and we reckon it among the three earthly paradises to which our wanderings have taken usLa Roche, St. Fillans, and San Remo.

We traversed several of these "sedentary"[A] villages, nourwals of clay houses with thatched conical roofs, in gardens of fig, apricot and pomegranate that must be so many pink and white paradises after the winter rains.

All things in our society are splendid and magnificent; they are splendid from gold and precious stones, and magnificent from palaces and paradises.

Some hand seems to beckon us, some voice to call, to mysterious paradises of inconceivable green freshness and supernaturally beautiful flowers, fairy fastnesses of fragrance and hidden castles of the dew.

The eight paradises.

The eight paradises; translated by Eugene S. Bagger.

The eight paradises.

The eight paradises; translated by Eugene S. Bagger.

"And why do we stay in it when there are such glorious paradises to go to?

If our desire is satisfied, we fail; if it is for ever unsatisfied, we are on the right path, though it leads us none can tell whither, to wildernesses or paradises, to weltering seas or to viewless wastes of air.

The villa of the Princess Paulina was one of those soft, idyllic paradises which lie like so many fairy-lands around the dreamy solitudes of Rome.

What had he done that he, like a poor Peri, should be unable to enter the gates of all these paradises?

These paradises were places of beauty and loveliness, where the king and his friends might meet and walk together, and enjoy each other's society.

It was a new name taken by our Lord from these paradises of the Persian kings, and given by Him to that new place which He went to prepare for His people, even the Garden of the Lord, the pleasure ground of the King of kings, the place to which His people go when they die.

ii. 5, 'I made me gardens and paradises.'