Farewell, ye vanishing flowers, that shone
In my fairy wreath, so bright and brief.—Moore.
9. What was it that filled the ears of the prophets of old but the distant tread of foreign armies, coming to do the work of justice?—George Eliot.
10. A woman kept the summer school, sharp, precise, unsympathetic, keen and untiring.—Beecher.
11.
The street-lamps always burn; but scarce a casement
In house or palace front from roof to basement
Doth glow or gleam athwart the mirk air cast.
—James Thomson.
12. Men dress their children’s minds as they do their bodies, in the prevailing fashion.—Spencer.