A lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written Paradise Lost should write such poor sonnets: "Milton, madam, was a genius that could cut a colossus from a rock, but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

If he brought one home, what power could there be behind it, and what chance was there of its harming the colossus in front of him?

" "I shall try," replied the colossus, without being willing to promise more.

At the north of the harbor stood the celebrated colossus of brass, once reckoned one of the wonders of the world.

It is intellect, an atom which resists strengtha colossus.