Chapter 13

The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. 1804 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Strength.=

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. 1805 SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

To be strong Is to be happy! 1806 LONGFELLOW: _Christus, Golden Legend,_ Pt. ii.

=Strife.=

No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,-- The past unsighed for, and the future sure. 1807 WORDSWORTH: _Laodamia._

=Striving.=

How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. 1808 SHAKS.: _King Lear,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

=Study.=

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. 1809 SHAKS.: _Love's L. Lost,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

If not to some peculiar end design'd Study 's the specious trifling of the mind, Or is at best a secondary aim, A chase for sport alone, and not for game. 1810 YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire ii., Line 67.

=Style.=

The lives of trees lie only in the barks, And in their styles the wit of greatest clerks. 1811 BUTLER: _Sat. on Abuse of Human Learning,_ Line 211.

=Success.=

Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? 1812 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

Life lives only in success. 1813 BAYARD TAYLOR: _Amran's Wooing,_ St. 5.

'Tis not in mortals to command success; But we'll do more, Sempronius--we'll deserve it. 1814 ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Suffering.=

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone. 1815 WORDSWORTH: _Laodamia._

=Suicide.=

Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death. 1816 SHAKS.: _Jul. Cæsar,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

--He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it; And at the best shows but a bastard valor. 1817 MASSINGER: _Maid of Honor,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Summer.=

Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set. 1818 Byron: _Don Juan,_ Canto iii., St. 86. 1.

It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk The dew that lay upon the morning grass; There is no rustling in the lofty elm That canopies my dwelling, and its shade Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint And interrupted murmur of the bee, Settling on the sick flowers, and then again Instantly on the wing. 1819 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Summer Wind._

=Sun.=

The glorious sun, Stays in his course, and plays the alchemist; Turning, with splendor of his precious eye, The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold. 1820 SHAKS.: _King John,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows and through curtains call on us? 1821 JOHN DONNE: _The Sun-Rising._

My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched. 1822 ROBERT BROWNING: _Apparent Failure,_ vii.

=Sunflower.=

Light enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendor! * * * * * Restless sunflowers, cease to move. 1823 SHELLEY: _Tr. of "Magico Prodigioso" of Calderon,_ Sc. 3.

The heart that has truly lov'd never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close, As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets The same look which she turn'd when he rose. 1824 MOORE: _Believe Me, If all Those Endearing Young Charms._

Miles and miles of gold and green Where the sunflowers blow In a solid glow. 1825 ROBERT BROWNING: _Lovers' Quarrel,_ St. 6.

Unloved, the sunflower, shining fair, Ray round with flames her disk of seed. 1826 TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. ci., St. 2.

=Sunrise.=

When from the opening chambers of the east The morning springs in thousand liveries drest, The early larks their morning tribute pay, And, in shrill notes, salute the blooming day. 1827 THOMSON: _The Morning in the Country._

'Tis morn. Behold the kingly Day now leaps The eastern wall of earth with sword in hand, Clad in a flowing robe of mellow light. Like to a king that has regain'd his throne, He warms his drooping subjects into joy, That rise rejoiced to do him fealty, And rules with pomp the universal world. 1828 JOAQUIN MILLER: _Ina,_ Sc. 2.

=Sunset.=

The weary sun hath made a golden set, And, by the bright track of his fiery car, Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow. 1829 SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

O the wondrous golden sunset of the blest October day. 1830 JULIA C.R. DORR: _Margery Grey,_ St. 24.

The descending sun Seems to caress the city that he loves, And crowns it with the aureole of a saint. 1831 LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ Pt. i., 2.

The sun is going down, And I must see the glory from the hill. 1832 GEORGE ELIOT: _Agatha._

=Sunshine.=

See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss. 1833 BAILEY: _Festus,_ Sc. _The Surface._

As sunshine broken in the rill, Though turned astray, is sunshine still. 1834 MOORE: _The Fire-Worshippers._

=Surfeit.=

As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope, by the immoderate use, Turns to restraint. 1835 SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

=Surprise.=

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. 1836 DRYDEN: _Cymon and Iphigenia,_ Line 41.

=Suspense.=

For thee the fates, severely kind, ordain A cool suspense, from pleasure and from pain. 1837 POPE: _Eloisa to A.,_ Line 249.

=Suspicion.=

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 1838 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 6.

=Swallow.=

When Autumn scatters his departing gleams, Warned of approaching Winter, gathered, play The swallow-people; and tossed wide around O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift, The feathered eddy floats; rejoicing once, Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire. 1839 THOMSON: _Seasons, Autumn,_ Line 836.

=Swans.=

The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. 1840 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. vii., Line 438.

=Swearing.=

And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two And sleeps again. 1841 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain; It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse. 1842 HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 10.

=Sweetness.=

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. 1843 SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. 1844 MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 135.

=Swiftness.=

I go, I go; look how I go; Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. 1845 SHAKS.: _Mid. N. Dream,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

His golden locks time hath to silver turned; O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! 1846 GEORGE PEELE: _Sonnet, Polyhymnia._

=Swimming.=

How many a time have I Cloven with arm still lustier, breast more daring, The wave all roughen'd; with a swimmer's stroke Flinging the billows back from my drench'd hair, And laughing from my lip the audacious brine, Which kiss'd it like a wine-cup, rising o'er The waves as they arose, and prouder still The loftier they uplifted me. 1847 BYRON: _Two Foscari,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Sword.=

Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. 1848 SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act v., Sc. 4.

Chase brave employment with a naked sword Throughout the world. 1849 HERBERT: _The Church Porch._

=Sympathy.=

Thou hast given me, in this beauteous face, A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. 1850 SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

There's nought in this bad world like sympathy: 'Tis so becoming to the soul and face-- Sets to soft music the harmonious sigh, And robes sweet friendship in a Brussels lace. 1851 BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xiv., St. 47.

=Synods.=

Synods are mystical bear-gardens, Where elders, deputies, church-wardens, And other members of the court, Manage the Babylonish sport. 1852 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto iii., Line 1095.

==T.==

=Tale.=

Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can, Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he never so rudely and so large. 1853 CHAUCER: _Canterbury Tales, Prologue,_ Line 733.

But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. 1854 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 5.

I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver Of my whole course of love. 1855 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

Meet me by moonlight alone, And then I will tell you a tale Must be told by the moonlight alone, In the grove at the end of the vale! 1856 J.A. WADE: _Meet Me by Moonlight._

=Talk.=

We will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers; be assured We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. 1857 SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease And with its everlasting clack, Set all men's ears upon the rack. 1858 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 443.

They always talk who never think. 1859 PRIOR: _Upon this Passage in the Scaligeriana._

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind. 1860 YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire ii., Line 207.

It would talk,-- Lord! how it talked! 1861 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Scornful Lady,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

=Tasso.=

Tasso is their glory and their shame. Hark to his strain! and then survey his cell! And see how dearly earn'd Torquato's fame, And where Alfonso bade his poet dwell. 1862 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 36.

=Taste.=

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find Two of a face as soon as of a mind. 1863 POPE: Satire vi., Line 268.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees. 1864 ARMSTRONG: _Taste,_ Line 26

Such and so various are the tastes of men. 1865 AKENSIDE: _Pl. of the Imagination,_ Bk. iii., Line 567.

=Taxation.=

By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. 1866 SHAKS.: _Jul. Cæsar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

Who nothing has to lose, the war bewails; And he who nothing pays, at taxes rails. 1867 CONGREVE: _Epis. to Sir Richard Temple. Of Pleasing,_ Line 17.

=Tea.=

For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem. 1868 YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire vi., Line 190.

=Teaching.=

I have labored, And with no little study, that my teaching And the strong course of my authority Might go one way. 1869 SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act v., Sc. 2.

=Tears.=

The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase. 1870 SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

Then fresh tears Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd. 1871 SHAKS.: _Titus And.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter. 1872 HERRICK: _Noble Numbers, Tears._

Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. 1873 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 619.

A child will weep a bramble's smart, A maid to see her sparrow part, A stripling for a woman's heart: But woe awaits a country, when She sees the tears of bearded men. 1874 SCOTT: _Marmion,_ Canto v., St. 16.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 1875 WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality._

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. 1876 TENNYSON: _The Princess,_ Pt. iv., Line 21.

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. 1877 CAMPBELL: _Pl. of Hope,_ Pt. i., Line 180.

Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray. 1878 FRANCIS M. FINCH: _The Blue and the Gray._

=Temper.=

Ye gods, it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. 1879 SHAKS.: _Jul. Cæsar,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Temperance.=

Temp'rate in every place,--abroad, at home. Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares. 1880 CRABBE: _The Borough,_ Letter xvii., Line 198.

=Tempests.=

The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day. 1881 SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

Suddeine they see from midst of all the maine The surging waters like a mountaine rise, And the great sea puft up with proud disdaine, To swell above the measure of his guise, As threatning to devoure all that his powre despise. 1882 SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. ii., Canto xii., St. 21.

From cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage; Till, in the furious elemental war Dissolv'd, the whole precipitated mass, Unbroken floods and solid torrents pours. 1883 THOMSON: _Seasons, Summer,_ Line 799.

The sky Is overcast, and musters muttering thunder, In clouds that seem approaching fast, and show In forked flashes a commanding tempest. 1884 BYRON: _Sardanapalus,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

=Temptation.=

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence. 1885 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

'Tis the temptation of the devil That makes all human actions evil; For saints may do the same things by The spirit, in sincerity, Which other men are tempted to, And at the devil's instance do: And yet the actions be contrary, Just as the saints and wicked vary. 1886 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 233.

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. 1887 LONGFELLOW: _Resignation_

=Tenderness.=

Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth. 1888 BAYARD TAYLOR: _Improvisations,_ Pt. v.

=Tents.=

Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. 1889 LONGFELLOW: _The Day is Done._

=Terror.=

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. 1890 SHAKS.: _Jul. Cæsar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Test.=

Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word. 1891 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

=Text.=

And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 1892 GRAY: _Elegy,_ St. 21.

=Thankfulness.=

The poorest service is repaid with thanks. 1893 SHAKS.: _Tam. of the S.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed. 1894 SHAKS.: _Titus And.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Theatre.=

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious. 1895 SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act v., Sc. 5.

=Thief.=

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief. 1896 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

=Thirst.=

That panting thirst, which scorches in the breath Of those that die the soldier's fiery death, In vain impels the burning mouth to crave One drop--the last--to cool it for the grave. 1897 BYRON: _Lara,_ Canto ii., St. 16.

=Thorn.=

Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear? 1898 J.M. USTERI: _Life let us Cherish._

=Thought.=

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. 1899 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

Thought alone is eternal. 1900 OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto v., St. 16.

No thought which ever stirred A human breast should be untold. 1901 ROBERT BROWNING: _Paracelsus,_ Sc. 2.

Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech. 1902 TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. xxiii., St. 4.

Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. 1903 CHRISTOPHER P. CRANCH: _Stanzas._

=Thread.=

Sewing at once a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. 1904 HOOD: _Song of the Shirt._

=Threats.=

If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. 1905 SHAKS.: _Tempest,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy ling'ring. 1906 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 699.

=Thrift.=

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 1907 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Throne.=

High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind. 1908 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 1.

=Thunder.=

And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand. 1909 DRYDEN: _Annus Mirabilis,_ St. 39.

Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder. 1910 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 92.

=Tide.=

Even at the turning o' the tide. 1911 SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. 1912 SHAKS.: _Jul. Cæsar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Time.=

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. 1913 SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act v., Sc. 5.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. 1914 HERRICK: _To Virgins to Make Much of Time._

Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last! Loitering slow, the FUTURE creepeth-- Arrow-swift, the PRESENT sweepeth-- And motionless forever stands the PAST. 1915 SCHILLER: _Sentences of Confucius, Time._

=Tithes.=

This priest he merry is and blithe Three quarters of a year, But oh! it cuts him like a scythe, When tithing-time draws near. 1916 COWPER: _Yearly Distress,_ St. 2.

=Titles.=

We all are soldiers, and all venture lives; And where there is no difference in men's worth, Titles are jests. 1917 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _King or No King,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Titles are marks of honest men and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title, lies. 1918 YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire i., Line 137.

=Toad.=

Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve. 1919 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 800.

=Tobacco.=

Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest. 1920 BYRON: _The Island,_ Canto ii., St. 19.

=To-day.=

Happy the man and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own. 1921 DRYDEN: _Im. of Horace,_ Bk. iii., Ode 29, Line 65.

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day? 1922 TUPPER: _Proverbial Phil. of To-day_

=Toil.=

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil. 1923 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _A Glance Behind the Curtain._

_Tomb._

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. 1924 GRAY: _Elegy,_ St. 23.

=To-morrow.=

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. 1925 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 5.

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun on thee may never rise. 1926 CONGREVE: _Letter to Cobham._

To-morrow comes and we are where? Then let us live to-day. 1927 SCHILLER: _The Victory Feast,_ St. 13.

Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? Whom young and old, and strong and weak, Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow, Thy sweet smiles we ever seek-- In thy place--ah! well-a-day! We find the thing we fled--To-day. 1928 SHELLEY: _To-morrow._

=Tongue.=

While thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head. 1929 SHAKS.: _Tempest,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. 1930 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

Sacred interpreter of human thought, How few respect or use thee as they ought! But all shall give account of every wrong, Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue. 1931 COWPER: _Conversation,_ Line 23.

=Tools.=

For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. 1932 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto i., Line 89.

=Toothache.=

There was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. 1933 SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

=Torrent.=

So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more. 1934 GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 217.

=Torture.=

The hell of waters! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture. 1935 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 69.

=Towers.=

Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees. 1936 MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 75.

=Town.=

God made the country, and man made the town. 1937 COWPER: _Task,_ Bk i., Line 749.

=Toys.=

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. 1938 AKENSIDE: _Virtuoso,_ St. 10.

=Trade.=

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose. 1939 GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 63.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. 1940 DR. JOHNSON: _Line added to Goldsmith's Des. Village._

=Tranquillity.=

Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity. 1941 MOORE: _Lalla Rookh, The Light of the Harem._

=Traveller--Travelling.=

Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn. 1942 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

When I was at home, I was in a better place; But travellers must be content. 1943 SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasures.... 1944 GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. i.

=Treason.=

Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. 1945 SHAKS.: _Jul. Cæsar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

So Judas kiss'd his master, And cried--All hail! when as he meant--all harm. 1946 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 7.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. 1947 SIR JOHN HARRINGTON: _Epigrams,_ Bk. iv., Epigram 5.

Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified. 1948 DRYDEN: _Medals,_ Line 207.

=Treasure.=

The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasure. 1949 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 398.

=Trees.=

Trees can smile in light at the sinking sun Just as the storm comes, as a girl would look On a departing lover--most serene. 1950 ROBERT BROWNING: _Pauline,_ Line 726.

The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them. 1951 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Forest Hymn._

Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers. 1952 HENRY VAUGHAN: _The Timber._

A brotherhood of venerable trees. 1953 WORDSWORTH: _Sonnet composed at ---- Castle._

=Trial.=

We learn through trial. 1954 MARGARET J. PRESTON: _Attainment,_ St. 7.

=Trifles.=

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. 1955 HANNAH MORE: _Sensibility._

Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year; And trifles life. 1956 YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire vi., Line 193.

=Triumph.=