Brusque, rough, violent in transition, leaping from the sublime to the ridiculoushis poems owe their elevation to the intensity of their feeling, the nobleness and condensation of their thought, the energy and audacity of their expression, their brevity, sincerity, and weight of sentiment.

oh, you know his nobleness as little as he knows it himself.

In this wise he showed his nobleness and goodness, since he introduced Christianity into the country, and saved the men from the wreck; and he was called Leif "the Lucky" ever after.

An Actæon torn by his dogs is much corroded by sea air, but displays great nobleness of attitude.

I leave the words to work their effect upon your Lordship, in their own language; because no other can so well express the nobleness of the thought: and wish you may be soon called to bear a part in the affaires of the Nation, where I know the World expects you, and wonders why you have been so long forgotten; there being no person amongst our young nobility, on whom the eyes of all men are so much bent.

It was whilst studying in this direction that I came upon the few facts which relate to Benjamin Banneker,facts which, though not difficult of access, are scarcely known beyond the district in Maryland where, on the spot where he was born, his unadorned grave receives now and then a visit from some pilgrim of his own race who has found out the nobleness which Jefferson recognized and Condorcet admired.

We are told by one of them that "she had upbuilt with strenuous pains a resolute virtue," conquering many faults, and gaining a lofty nobleness of spirit.

Of all animals, man only stands upright on his feet, which gives him a nobleness and majesty that distinguishes him, even as to the outside, from all that lives upon earth.

Hence it is regarded as the monarch of trees, surpassing all in those qualities that indicate nobleness and capacity.

"Among the impressions," says he, "which this meeting left on me, what I chiefly remember to have remarked was, the nobleness of his air, his beauty, the gentleness of his voice and manners, andwhat was naturally not the least attractionhis marked kindness for myself.

What self-sacrifice of millions of humble wives and daughters whose works and sorrows are now refining the history of their country, and lifting the popular nobleness: they are giving all that they are to keep their volunteers in the field.

I like thy nobleness.

And this my declaration will vindicate to all posterity the nobleness of my undertaking, and the generosity of my intentions.

And Condé himself, whose heart, physically twice as large as other men's, was spiritually imperceptible, repaid this stainless nobleness by years of persecution, and bequeathed her, as a life-long prisoner, to his dastard son.

I saw nobleness in dens, and meanness in palaces; virtue among prostitutes, and vice among so-called respectable women.

We find from history that the times in which nations have shewn most nobleness, most courage, most righteousness, most faith in God, have been times of trouble, and danger, and terror.

Would that we all, in all conditions of life, kept truth and duty ever before us, as he did even amid the pettinesses of a Courtthe solemn trifles of etiquette which would have stifled the nobleness of a less noble nature.

The life and light of Rome to a blind stranger That honorable war ne'er taught a nobleness, Nor worthy circumstance showed what a man was? That never heard thy name sung but in banquets And loose lascivious pleasures?

In the "Chronicle of the Cid," compiled from all the ancient ballads, these festivities are recorded thus: "Who can tell the great nobleness which the Cid displayed at that wedding!

'Tis desperate, not perfect nobleness: For to a man that is prepar'd to die, The heart should rend, the sleep should leave the eye.

No one more than he and we acknowleged the nobleness and worth of what we have lost.

He conceived that he had no reason, from his own inner life, to believe himself worthy of any higher vocationproving his own real nobleness of soul by that very humility.

" This Roman matron also committed suicide, as an encouragement to her husband whom she desired to have put an end to his own life, when he was likely to have it taken from him by the executioner; and Pliny commends her nobleness of conduct in both cases.

When one considers the magnificent nobleness, the great sagacity, courage, and stateliness of the Otterhound, the great gameness, cheek, and pertinacity of the old Black and Tan wire-hair, such a cross must surely produce an animal of excellent type and character.

The best thanksgiving for each is to enjoy the other also, and educate the mind to ampler nobleness.