JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 1767-1848.

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe,
For Freedom only deals the deadly blow;
Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade,
For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.1

Written in an Album, 1842.

ANDREW JACKSON. 1767-1845.

Our Federal Union: it must be preserved.

Toast given on the Jefferson Birthday Celebration in 1830.
Benton's Thirty Years' View, Vol. i. p. 148.

JOSIAH QUINCY. 1772-1864.

If this bill (for the admission of Orleans Territory as a State) passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of the Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation, and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.2

1

Abridged Cong. Debates, Jan. 14, 1811. Vol. iv. p. 327.

Manus hæc inimica tyrannis

Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem. - Algernon Sidney. 2 The gentleman (Mr. Quincy) cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must." Henry Clay, Speech, Jan. 8, 1813.

J. HOOKHAM FRERE. 1769-1846.

And don't confound the language of the nation
With long-tailed words in osity and ation.

The Monks and the Giants. Canto i. Line 6.
- let us swear an

A sudden thought strikes me, eternal friendship.1

The Rovers.

Act i. Sc. 1.

GEORGE CANNING. 1770-1827.

Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir.
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.
I give thee sixpence! I will see thee d―d first.

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides
The Derby dilly, carrying Three INSIDES.

Ibid.

The Loves of the Triangles. Line 178. And finds, with keen, discriminating sight, Black 's not so black, nor white so very white.

New Morality.

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet,—perhaps may turn his blow;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, O save me from the Candid Friend! 2 Ibid.

I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the old. The King's Message. (Dec. 12, 1826.)

No, here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

The Pilot that weathered the Storm.

1 Compare Otway, The Orphan, Act iv. Sc. 2. Page 237.
2 See Appendix, p. 625.

DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 1769-1852.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Despatch, 1815.

SAMUEL ROGERS. 1763-1855.

A guardian angel o'er his life presiding,
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease

Human Life.

Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
The soul of music slumbers in the shell,
Till waked and kindled by the master's spell;

Ibid.

And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour
A thousand melodies unheard before!

Ibid.

Then never less alone than when alone.1

Ibid.

Those that he loved so long and sees no more,

Loved and still loves,

He gathers round him.

- not dead, but gone before,2

Ibid.

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made. Pastum.

That very law which moulds a tear
And bids it trickle from its source,
That law preserves the earth a sphere
And guides the planets in their course.

To a Tear.

1 Numquam se minus otiosum esse, quam quum otiosus, nec minus solum, quam quum solus esset.-Cicero, De Officiis, Liber iii. c. 1. Compare Gibbon. Page 355.

2 This is literally from Seneca, Epist. lxiii. 16. Compare Matthew Henry. Page 233.

8 Compare Waller. Page 175.

Jacqueline. Stanza 1.

She was good as she was fair.
None none on earth above her!
As pure in thought as angels are,
To know her was to love her.1
The good are better made by ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.2
Go,you may call it madness, folly;
You shall not chase my gloom away!
There's such a charm in melancholy

I would not if I could be gay.
Mine be a cot beside the hill;

A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill,

With many a fall, shall linger near.

Stanza 3.

Το

A Wish.

JOSEPH HOPKINSON. 1770-1842.

Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!

Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,
And when the storm of war was gone,
Enjoyed the peace your valor won.
Let independence be our boast,
Ever mindful what it cost;
Ever grateful for the prize,

Let its altar reach the skies!

Hail, Columbia!

1 To see her is to love her. - Burns, Bonny Lesley.

None knew thee but to love thee.

Halleck, On the Death of Drake.

2 Compare Bacon, Of Adversity; Goldsmith, The Captivity; Wordsworth's Prelude, Book ix.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.1 1770-1850.

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
Guilt and Sorrow.

Action is transitory, a step, a blow,
The motion of a muscle, this way or that.

Stanza 41.

The Borderers. Act iii.

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

The Child is father of the Man.2

Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears,
A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;
And love, and thought, and joy.
The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door.

A simple Child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?

Drink, pretty creature, drink!

Act iv. Sc. 2.

My heart leaps up.

To a Butterfly.

The Sparrow's Nest.

Lucy Gray. Stanza 2.

We are Seven.

The Pet Lamb.

Until a man might travel twelve stout miles,
Or reap an acre of his neighbour's corn.

The Brothers.

1 Coleridge said to Wordsworth, "Since Milton I know of no poet with so many felicities and unforgettable lines and stanzas as you." Wordsworth's Memoirs, Vol. ii. p. 74.

2 Compare Milton, Paradise Regained, Book iv. Page 196.