Chapter C: S. CALVERLEY, Fly Leaves

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There
are a hundred persons of merit for one who
willingly acknowledges it in another.

W. HAZLITT, _Characteristics_.

Bisness first, pleasure artervards, as King Richard
the Third said ven he stabbed the tother king in
the Tower, afore he murdered the babbies.

CHARLES DICKENS, _apud_ J. T. FIELDS.

We are all of us liable to this error of imagining
that we are grieved at a fault, when we are only
grieved at having done something to lower ourselves
in our own estimation.

E. M. SEWELL, _Margaret Percival_.

I trembled once beneath her spell
Whose spelling was extremely so-so.

FREDERICK LOCKER, _London Lyrics_.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be
patient.

_Bartle Massey_, in GEORGE ELIOT's _Adam Bede_.

_OUR TRAVELLER._

If thou wouldst stand on Etna's burning brow,
With smoke above, and roaring flames below;
And gaze adown that molten gulf reveal'd
Till thy soul shudder'd, and thy senses reel'd;--
If thou wouldst beard Niagara in his pride,
Or stem the billows of Propontic tide;
Scale all alone some dizzy Alpine _haut_,
And shriek "Excelsior!" amidst the snow;--
Wouldst tempt all deaths, all dangers that may be,
Perils by land, and perils on the sea,--
This vast round world, I say, if thou wouldst view it,
Then why the dickens don't you go and do it?

H. CHOLMONDELEY PENNELL, _Puck on Pegasus_.

I am saddest when I sing; so are those who hear
me. They are sadder even than I am.