The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.