Many the darlings of his soul He claimed with love insatiate, He, foul in face, of craven heart, Had won the mistress of the knight; Her blooming years of beauteous youth Were Abenamar's own by right.

I leaped lightly from rock to rock, glorying in the eternal freshness and sufficiency of Nature, and in the ineffable tenderness with which she nurtures her mountain darlings in the very fountains of storms.

Writing to Wordsworth in May, 1833, it is amusing to note, Lamb says: "Inter nos the Ariadne is not a darling with me, several incongruous things are in it, but in the composition it served me as illustrative."

After condoling with me on my loss and showing her sweet womanly sympathy, she concluded her letter by informing me that she had "one of the sweetest pets eyes ever beheld, a darling devoted to her with a faithfulness which would really be a lesson to 'our specie,'" and that, in the circumstances, she would let me have her little darling for five pounds.

But Providence their rage restrains, Our heavenly Keeper sets them chains; His goodness saveth every hour His darlings from the Lion's power.

She assisted her darling to undress, arranged her pillows, and kissed her cheek just as she had kissed it ever since the rosy little mouth had learned to speak her name.

Nay, fold your arms, beloved Friends, Above the hearts that vainly beat! Or catch the rainbow where it bends, And find your darling at its feet; Or fix the fountain's varying shape, The sunset-cloud's elusive dye, The speech of winds that round the cape Make music to the sea and sky: So may you summon from the air

Monsieur Bourais hid part of the choir from view, but directly in front of her, the flock of maidens, wearing white wreaths over their lowered veils, formed a snow-white field, and she recognised her darling by the slenderness of her neck and her devout attitude.

And here and there are a few little Swiss girls, fresh and rosy as wood strawberries, smiling darlings like Dresden shepherdesses, dreaming of scenes of platonic love in a great garden adorned with the statue of William Tell or General Dufour.

"What would people say to see my darling without a cap?"

We had heard of the loss of the Victory, and were mourning for our little darling as being amongst the number of those drowned.

I will not put my darling into your hands, but with that health and gaiety, which have so long been the solace of my old age, and which cannot fail to make any man happy that deserves her.

Then she sat down with her little darling on her knee, stroking her tiny hands and talking to her, and looking, oh, so anxiously, to see if the child remembered her.

Indeed Mr. Malthus has always been a sort of "darling in the public eye," whom it was unsafe to meddle with.

At Newbiggin, and Cresswell, for instance, deeds have been done, which, in their simple unassuming heroism, may be taken as typical of the hardy race which could count Grace Darling among its daughters.

Often when I lie in bed racked with pain and exhausted from want of foodfor my digestive organs seem paralysed when I have neuralgiahearing these little darlings about the house compensates for everything, and I am inexpressibly happy in the mere sense of possession.

Of this kind are the derivatives length from long, strength from strong, darling from dear, breadth from broad, from dry, drought, and from high, height, which Milton, in zeal for analogy, writes highth: "Quid te exempta juvat spinis de pluribus una?" to change all would be too much, and to change one is nothing.

AT THE CARNIVAL Gay little Girl-of-the-Diving-Tank, I desire a name for you, Nice, as a right glove fits; For youwho amid the malodorous Mechanics of this unlovely thing, Are darling of spirit and form.

"Such is human nature, my little Maud"answered the captain, drawing his darling towards himself and kissing her polished forehead.

Ethel had had so many governesses, all darlings during the first week, and monsters afterwards, that the poor child possessed none of the accomplishments of her age.

"Every morn, almost with the sun, Eva arose, fed the chickens that fluttered around her, and went through her business merrily,richly rewarded by the approving smile of her aged parent, when she blessed her darling before retiring to rest.