[ Of his need to raise money to pay huge debts by writing :] My own right hand shall do it.

Rouse the lion from his lair.

Tell that to the marines—the sailors won’t believe it.

Sea of upturned faces.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

The criminals came in so fast that they were fain to execute them first and afterwards try them at leisure.

“That sounds like nonsense, my dear.”

Your Lordship will probably recollect where the Oriental tale occurs, of a Sultan who consulted Solomon on the proper inscription for a signet-ring, requiring that the maxim which it conveyed should be at once proper for moderating the presumption of prosperity and tempering the pressure of adversity. The apophthegm supplied by the Jewish sage was, I think, admirably adapted for both purposes, being comprehended in the words “And this also shall pass away.”

For him no Minstrel raptures swell;

And dar’st thou, then,