It was so held, above all, in that household in which Eveena and I had first learnt the "lore of the Starlight."

He knew the battles of the Revolution as other boys knew the child-lore of the nursery.

'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.

They may teach them the lore of the wit and the sage, To be grave in their youth, and be gay in their age;

I could not read the lore of the forest; I could not have found my way as he found it through pathless places.

The Graces three, the Muses nine salute, Should those who love them try to con thy lore.

Now if these ten lines contain all the native lore of Twanyirika, he is a mere bugbear, not believed in (apparently) by adults, but invented by them to terrorise the women and boys.

The authority from which Virgil drew the practical farming lore, for which he has been extolled in all ages, was Varro: indeed, as a farm manual the Georgics go astray only when they depart from Varro.

The sun and the moon are the torches by which we study its splendid pages, turning diurnally for our perusal, and in star and flower alike dwells the lore which we cannot formulate into thought, but can only come indescribably to know by loving the pictures.

Pandits find their stupendous lore of less account than the literary baggage of a university graduate.

In time, too, they were mingled and confused with the witchcraft and ghost lore of the white man, and the tricks and delusions of the Indian conjurer.

What son of the servile earth may dare Such signs of a regal power to wear, While chained to her darkened sod? I know of a nobler and grander lore Than Time records on his crumbling pages, And the soul of my solitude teaches more Than the gathered deeds of perished ages!

He had run away for a change from the desert-like interior of his vast island, where he treated the ills of a large territory of sheep-herders, and to be on this mountain under such a benignant canopy, and to hear the folk-lore of the most fascinating race on earth, was to him worth foregoing sleep all night.

Unto the wise of old this truth was known, Such wisdom knit their noble souls in one; Then hold thou still the lore of ancient days!

It was wonderful how in the grim and strict Puritanical household he could have imbibed so much fairy lore, but he must have eagerly assimilated and recollected whatever he heard, holding them as tidings from his true kith and kin; and, indeed, when he was running on thus, Mrs. Woodford sometimes felt a certain awe and chill, as of the preternatural, and could hardly believe that he belonged to ordinary human nature.

He absorbs the learning of our schools as fast as any boy of our race whom I have ever known, and, at the same time, he retains and improves all the lore and craft of the red people.

" The great red trailer who had inherited the forest lore of countless generations smiled.

You, as an antiquary, have, no doubt, investigated all the legendary lore connected with Glencardine.

Most of all, however, I loved the quaint lore of the earlier literature: "Old legends of the monkish page, Traditions of the saint and sage, Tales that have the rime of age, And Chronicles of Eld.

Reward of Merit.~ The father asked: "How have you done In mastering ancient lore?"

And still the amateur of clocks murmured his placid lore.

It does not need heraldic lore The Cardinal's place to find.

Come, open all your lore.

His vacations when the Courts were not in session were spent in excursions to mountain scenery and those retired villages where he could pick up antiquarian lore, particularly old Border ballads, heroic traditions of the times of chivalry, and of the conflicts of Scottish chieftains.

Here they had made a little world for themselves, of which no one dreamed; for Venetia had poured forth all her Arcadian lore into the ear of Plantagenet; and they acted together many of the adventures of the romance, under the fond names of Musidorus and Philoclea.