t is easy to sugar to be sweet.

18. At times the black volume of clouds overhead seemed rent asunder
by flashes of lightning.

19. The whole figure and air, good and amiable otherwise, might be
called flabby and irresolute.

20. I have heard Coleridge talk, with eager energy, two stricken
hours, and communicate no meaning whatsoever to any individual.

21. The word _conscience_ has become almost confined, in popular use,
to the moral sphere.

22. You may ramble a whole day together, and every moment discover
something new.

23. She had grown up amidst the liberal culture of Henry's court a
bold horsewoman, a good shot, a graceful dancer, a skilled musician,
an accomplished scholar.

24. Her aims were simple and obvious,--to preserve her throne, to keep
England out of war, to restore civil and religious order.

25. Fair name might he have handed down,
Effacing many a stain of former crime.

26. Of the same grandeur, in less heroic and poetic form, was the
patriotism of Peel in recent history.

27. Oxford, ancient mother! hoary with ancestral honors, time-honored,
and, haply, time-shattered power--I owe thee nothing!

28. The villain, I hate him and myself, to be a reproach to such
goodness.

29. I dare this, upon my own ground, and in my own garden, to bid you
leave the place now and forever.

30. Upon this shore stood, ready to receive her, in front of all this
mighty crowd, the prime minister of Spain, the same Conde Olivarez.

31. Great was their surprise to see a young officer in uniform
stretched within the bushes upon the ground.

32. She had made a two days' march, baggage far in the rear, and no
provisions but wild berries.

33. This amiable relative, an elderly man, had but one foible, or
perhaps one virtue, in this world.

34. Now, it would not have been filial or ladylike.

35. Supposing this computation to be correct, it must have been in the
latitude of Boston, the present capital of New England.

36. The cry, "A strange vessel close aboard the frigate!" having
already flown down the hatches, the ship was in an uproar.

37. But yield, proud foe, thy fleet
With the crews at England's feet.

38. Few in number, and that number rapidly perishing away through
sickness and hardships; surrounded by a howling wilderness and savage
tribes; exposed to the rigors of an almost arctic winter,--their minds
were filled with doleful forebodings.

39. List to the mournful tradition st