Vlli A PREFACE OF MOTTOES. 



My heart can feel for these frail harmless things 

 Of green and gold, to be enshrined in all 

 The dusty grandeur of his worm-ate lore." 



BELL. 



" Nothing which gives us a happy hour can be insignificant." 

 DR. GEORGE JOHNSTON. 



" And if some things are set down which many may think 

 trivial, let it be considered that the smallest incidents are 

 often as useful to be known, tho' not as diverting, as the 

 greater, and profit must always share with entertainment." 

 BOGER NORTH. 



" If our virtues did not go forth of us, 'twere all one 

 As if we had them not." 



SHAKESPEARE. 



" What if each little rain should say, 



So small a thing as I 

 Can ne'er refresh the thirsty plain, 

 I'll tarry in the sky ? 



What if each shining beam of noon 



Should in its fountain stay, 

 Because its feeble light alone 



Cannot create a day ? 



Doth not each rain-drop help to form 



The cool refreshing shower ? 

 And every ray of light to warm 



And beautify some flower ?" 



ANON. 



* * " The one supreme, 



The all-sustaining, ever-present, God, 

 Who clothed the soul with immortality, 

 Gave also these delights, to cheer on earth 

 The fleeting passage : therefore let us greet 

 Each wandering flower-scent as a boon from Heaven." 



MRS. HEMANS. 



