32. Here the poet caught the first glimpse of a greater and freer life than moved within the narrow horizon of the Norwegian capital.—Boyesen.
33. Seven altogether; a delightful number for a dinner party, supposing the units to be delightful, but everything depends on that.—George Eliot.
34. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued as in the presence of higher qualities.—Webster.
35. We ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effective contribution to the happiness of others.—Sir John Lubbock.
36. This only proves the profundity of an observation made by Mr. Bagehot—a man who carried away into the next world more originality of thought than is now to be found in the Three Estates of the Realm.—Birrell.
37. Venice lures you in a gondola into one of her remote canals, where you glide through an avenue as secret and as still as if sea-deep under our work-day world.—Howells.
38. What if their palaces were grand, and their villas beautiful, and their dresses magnificent, and their furniture costly, if their lives were spent in ignoble and enervating pleasures, as is generally admitted?—Lord.
39. Antwerp shook as with an earthquake.—Motley.
40. His age, though rich in minor decorative arts, had no accomplished statuary.—Lang.
41. His pride never appeared in loftier and nobler form than in his attitude towards the people at large.—J. R. Green.