Not such as Europe breeds in her decay; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung.

Then with a gentle sigh, Its spotless spirit left the suff'ring clay, And wing'd its fright to everlasting day.

If we require the originality which consists in weaving, like a spider, their web from their own bowels; in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original.

Then the monk said, that the devil brought clay on die first day, from all the corners of the earth, of which he made the body of man, which God inspired with a soul.

A son of Saman and a daughter of Sicalac were carried east, where the land at first was so lacking in food that they were compelled to eat clay.

And Manuel got clay and modeled the figure of a young man which had the features and the wise look of King Helmas.

To effect this, an active aperient powder should be given every three or four clays, with a daily dose of the subjoined tonic mixture, with as much exercise, by walking, running after a hoop, or other bodily exertion, as the strength of the child and the state of the atmosphere will admit, the patient being, wherever possible, removed to a purer air as soon as convalescence warrants the change. 2559.

The work devolved almost exclusively upon the women, who kneaded the clay and formed the vessels.

" That night at the "Fountain," perchance, they discussed that war of words which might then have been raging between the author of the "Pastorals" and Pope, moistening their clay with a frequency to which they were both somewhat notoriously inclined.

Still, as he deepened and broadened the ditch in his field, from which he took the clay, he saw that his pots to hold the raspberries were variously colored, tinted sometimes with rose, sometimes with blue or violet, sometimes with black or green.

The children wanted to make a tea-set, so we carried our clay outside.

The sun had baked the sticky clay into brick-like hardness, and the hours of trampling, the tread of heavy teams, and the still heavier artillery, had filled the air with an opaque atmosphere of reddish powder, through which the masses passed in almost spectral vagueness.

"She fashions the clay to her idealevery little touch of her fingers in the clay is a thought; she thinks in clay.

If they want bricks for their houses they can dig clay in the garden.

To illustrate the subject of contours to aid those who have difficulty in reading contoured maps the following is suggested: 1. Secure modeling clay and build a mound.

When the colours are not fast, use fuller's-earth or pulverized potter's-clay, laid in a layer over the spot, and press it with a very hot iron. 2269.

Crossing from these shallower regions occupied by the ooze into deeper soundings, we find, universally, that the calcareous formation gradually passes into, and is finally replaced by, an extremely fine pure clay, which occupies, speaking generally, all depths below 2,500 fathoms, and consists almost entirely of a silicate of the red oxide of iron and alumina.

In tender age Thus youth is trained; as curious artists bend 160 The taper, pliant twig; or potters form Their soft and ductile clay to various shapes.

Yes; as Praxiteles may have loved the clay he moulded,for its smoothness and ductility under the hand.

Red, brown, yellow, and white paints were made by burning clays of these colors, which were then pulverized and mixed with a little grease.

Half the oil employed is recovered by throwing the clay which has been saturated with it into a frame formed by two narrow bamboo hurdles, placed at a sharp angle.

And, as all things I see in life seem to me to have a voice either for or of children, so did this instantly suggest to me that most of the failures of mothers come from their not keeping the clay wet.

I am far away From home, and love, and thee; And stranger hands may heap the clay That soon may cover me; Yet we shall meetperhaps not here, But in yon shining, azure sphere; And if there's aught assures me more,

Moulding character is the highest sort of sculpture, and all of us should learn that art before we touch clay or marble.

be so, er e'se dey wouldn' a b'en tol ter 'im, an' dat he had libbed on clay so long an' had eat so much, dat he must 'a' jes nach'ly turnt ter clay!" "Imperious Caesar, turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away," I murmured parenthentically.