--Tennyson, Godiva.
| The Handwriting on the Wall | [201 T.J.], [211 T.J.] |
"Unhappy if we are but Half-men, in whom that
divine handwriting has never blazed forth,
all-subduing, in true sun-splendour."
--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 9.
| The Healing of the Nations. | [478 S.A.] |
"O books, ye monuments of mind,
concrete wisdom of the wisest;
Sweet solaces of daily life,
proofs and results of immortality;
Trees yielding all fruits,
whose leaves are for the healing of the nations."
--Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy of Reading.
| Heap Coals of Fire upon His Head. | [507 T.J.], [504 G.B.] |
"The furnace-coals alike of public scorn,
Private remorse, heaped glowing on his head."