Great Commoner.-William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), a famous Parliamentary orator, and for more than thirty years (1735 to 1766) a leader in the House of Commons.

We leave the GREAT COMMONER in the zenith of his glory. MACAULAY. Great Unknown.-A name given to the author of the " Waverley Novels," which, on their first appearance, were published anonymously.

The circumstance of Scott's having published a poem in the same year in which "Waverley appeared, and his engagement in other literary undertakings being known, as well as the common prejudice that a poet cannot excel as a prose writer, served to avert from him for a time the suspicion of the authorship of the "Waverley Novels." The taciturnity of the few intrusted with the secret defeated all attempts to obtain direct evidence as to who was the author. From the first, however, suspicion pointed strongly towards Scott; and so many circumstances tended to strengthen it, that the disclosures from Constable's and Ballantyne's books, and his own confession, scarcely increased the moral conviction, which had long prevailed, that he was the "GREAT UNKNOWN."

Greece.-GREECE! sad relic of departed worth!

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Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great!

Such is the aspect of this shore;

BYRON, Childe Harold.

'Tis GREECE, but living Greece no more!

So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,

We start, for soul is wanting there.-Ibid., The Giaour.

Shrine of the mighty! can it be

That this is all remains of thee?-Ibid.

The Isles of GREECE, the Isles of Greece !

Where burning Sappho loved and sung.—Ibid., Don Juan.

The mountains look on Marathon

And Marathon looks on the sea;

And musing there an hour alone,

I dreamed that GREECE might still be free.-Ibid.

Greek.-Beside 'tis known he could speak GREEK

As naturally as pigs squeak;

That Latin was no more difficle

Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.-BUTLER, Hudibras.

Greek Calends.-Indefinite period of time.

The Romans called the

first day of the month, as well as the months themselves, Calends, and hence our word, Calendar. The name Calends was not used by the Greeks; and hence the saying, when anything was indefinitely adjourned, that it was postponed to the "Greek Calends." Grief. Give sorrow words; the GRIEF that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. SHAKESPERE, Macbeth.

Grief. GRIEF fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me;
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garment with his form.

In all the silent manliness of GRIEF.

SHAKESPERE, King John.

Much of GRIEF shows still some want of wit.—Ibid., Romeo.

None can cure their harms by wailing them.

Ibid., Richard III.

Every one can master a GRIEF, but he that has it.

Ibid., Much Ado.

Patch GRIEF with proverbs.-Ibid.
Grieving.—GRIEVING, if aught inanimate e'er grieves,
Over the unreturning brave.—BYRON, Childe Harold.
Grundy. What will Mrs. GRUNDY say?

J. MORTON, Speed the Plough. Guard dies, but never surrenders, The.-This phrase, attributed to Cambronne, who was made prisoner at Waterloo, was vehemently denied by him. It was invented by Rougemont, a prolific author of mots, two days after the battle, in the Indépendant.-FOURNIER, L'Esprit dans l'Histoire.

Guest. For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best,

Welcome the coming, speed the going GUEST.—POPE, Horace.

True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting GUEST.

Ibid., Homer's Odyssey.

Guide.—Thou wert my GUIDE, philosopher, and friend.

Ibid., Essay on Man.

Guilt. All fear, but fear of Heaven, betrays a GUILT,
And guilt is villainy.-N. LEE.

GUILT alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills the light air with visionary terrors, and shapeless forms of fear.

JUNIUS, Letters.

Guilt.--The GUILT being great, the fear doth still exceed.

SHAKESPERE, Lucrece.

They whose GUILT within their bosom lies
Imagine every eye beholds their blame.—Ibid.
Guilt. Suspicion always haunts the GUILTY mind;
The thief fears every bush an officer.

Ibid., Henry VI.
Gulf.-A GULF profound as that Serbonian bog,
Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
Where armies old have sunk: the parching air
Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire,
Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd

At certain revolutions all the damn'd

Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change
Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,
From beds of raging fire to starve in ice

Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round,

Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

H.

MILTON, Paradise Lost.

H.-'Twas whispered in Heaven,

'Twas mutter'd in Hell.--C. M. FANSHAWE.

Habit.-HABIT, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

HABIT is ten times nature. -WELLINGTON.

ST. AUGUSTINE.

HABIT and imitation-there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.— THOMAS CARLYLE.

How use doth breed a HABIT in a man!

SHAKESPERE, Two Gentlemen.

Habits.-Ill HABITS gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

DRYDEN, Ovid, Metam.

Small HABITS well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes. -HANNAH MORE, Aloris.
Hail.-HAIL, fellow, well met.-TOM BROWN, Amusement.
My Lady's Lamentation.

SWIFT,

HAIL to the Chief who in triumph advances !

SCOTT, Lady of the Lake.

Hail.-HAIL to thee, blithe spirit!

Bird thou never wert,

That from earth, or near it,

Pourest thy full heart

In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

SHELLEY, To the Skylark.

Halcyon Days.-Peaceful, happy days. Halcyone was the wife of Celyx, and the latter having met his death by drowning, Halcyone cast herself into the sea with the dead body, and both were transformed into the kingfisher bird. The animal lays its eggs on rocks near the sea, in calm mid-winter; and the HALCYON DAYS are, therefore, seven days before and after the winter solstice. Hampden. Some village HAMPDEN, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

GRAY, Elegy.

Hand.-His HAND will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.-Genesis xvi. 12.

O for the touch of a vanish'd HAND,
And the sound of a voice that is still!

TENNYSON, Break, break, break.

Hands. Seemed washing his HANDS with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.-HOOD, Miss Kilmansegg.
Handsome.-HANDSOME is that handsome does.

GOLDSMITH, Vicar of Wakefield.

Hanging.-HANGING was the worst use man could be put to.

Happiness. And there is even a HAPPINESS

SIR HENRY WOTTON.

That makes the heart afraid.—HOOD, Ode to Melancholy.

If solid HAPPINESS we prize,

Within our breast this jewel lies;

And they are fools who roam:

The world has nothing to bestow;

From our own selves our joys must flow,

And that dear hut,—our home.-N. COTTON, The Fireside.

O HAPPINESS! our being's end and aim!

Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name:

That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh,
For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

POPE, Essay on Man.

Happy.-How HAPPY could I be with either,

Were t' other dear charmer away.—GAY, Beggars' Opera.

Harmony. From HARMONY, from heavenly harmony,

This universal frame began:

From harmony to harmony

Through all the compass of the notes it ran,

The diapason closing full in Man.

DRYDEN, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day.

Harp.-Strange! that a HARP of thousand strings

Should keep so long in tune.-WATTS, Hymns and Spiritual Songs.

The HARP that once through Tara's halls

The soul of music shed,

Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls

As if that soul were fled.

So sleeps the pride of former days,

So glory's thrill is o'er,

And hearts that once beat high for praise,

Now feel that pulse no more. -MOORE, The Harp that once.

Hater. A good HATER.-Johnsoniana.

Have loved and lost.-'Tis better to HAVE LOVED AND LOST,
Than never to have loved at all.-TENNYSON, In Memoriam.

Have possessed. I die-but first I HAVE POSSESS'D,

And come what may, I have been bless'd.-BYRON, The Giaour. Havock.-Cry "HAVOCK!" and let slip the dogs of war.

SHAKESPERE, Julius Cæsar.

Hawk. I know a HAWK from a hand-saw.-Ibid., Hamlet.

Head.-Off with his HEAD!-Ibid., Richard III.

Off with his HEAD! so much for Buckingham!

COLLEY CIBBER, Richard III., altered.

Such as take lodgings in a HEAD

That's to be let unfurnishèd.-BUTLER, Hudibras.

Heads.-Their HEADS sometimes so little, that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.

T. FULLER, Of Natural Fools.

Health. And he that will this HEALTH deny,

Down among the dead men let him lie.-DYER, Song.

Better to hunt in fields for HEALTH unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.

The wise for cure on exercise depend;

God never made his work for men to mend.-DRYDEN, Cymon.

Heart.-A merry HEART goes all the day,

Your sad tires in a mile-a.-SHAKESPERE, A Winter's Tale.