A happy soul, that all the way
  To heaven hath a summer’s day.
In Praise of Lessius’ Mule of Health.  R. CRASHAW.

  And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell,
  In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.
Odyssey, Bk.  XXIV.  HOMER. Trans. of POPE.

SPEECH.

  Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs,
  Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
Iliad, Bk.  XIV.  HOMER. Trans. of POPE.

  Discourse may want an animated “No”
  To brush the surface, and to make it flow;
  But still remember, if you mean to please,
  To press your point with modesty and ease.
Conversation.  W. COWPER.

  One whom the music of his own vain tongue
    Doth ravish like enchanting harmony.
Love’s Labor’s Lost, Act i.  Sc. 1.  SHAKESPEARE.

  Turn him to any cause of policy,
  The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
  Familiar as his garter:  that, when he speaks,
  The air, a chartered libertine, is still.
King Henry V., Act i.  Sc. 1.  SHAKESPEARE.

Persuasion tips his tongue whene’er he talks. Parody on Pope.  C. CIBBER.

  Yet Hold it more humane, more heavenly, first,
  By winning words to conquer willing hearts,
  And make persuasion do the work of fear.
Paradise Regained, Bk.  I.  MILTON.

  Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;
  Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Hamlet, Act i.  Sc. 3.  SHAKESPEARE.

  “Careful with fire,” is good advice, we know,
  “Careful with words,” is ten times doubly so. 
  Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead: 
  But God Himself can’t kill them when they’re said.
First Settler’s Story.  W. CARLETON.

SPIRITS.

    GLENDOWER.—­I can call spirits from the vasty deep. 
    HOTSPUR. —­Why, so can I, or so can any man;
  But will they come when you do call for them?
King Henry IV., Pt.  I. Act III.  Sc. 1.  SHAKESPEARE.

  Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
  Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.
Paradise Lost, Bk.  IV.  MILTON.

    Spirits when they please
  Can either sex assume, or both,

* * * * *

  Can execute their airy purposes,
  And works of love or enmity fulfil.
Paradise Lost, Bk, I.  MILTON.

  But shapes that come not at an earthly call
  Will not depart when mortal voices bid;
  Lords of the visionary eye, whose lid,
  Once raised, remains aghast, and will not fall!
Dion.  W. WORDSWORTH.

  I shall not see thee.  Dare I say
    No spirit ever brake the band
    That stays him from the native land,
  Where first he walked when clasped in clay?