Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-05-15
Poetic Answers.
WHAT IL YouR CHARACTER I

say,
Fate cannot harm mo; have dincd to-day.
Swift.
Luxurious. svarieious, false, dcccitiul,
sullcn, malicious, smacking Of every sin that
hns a name. Shakespeare.
WHAT Is TOUR CHIEF ATTRACTION
Thou hast the sweetest iaee ever looked on.
-Shakespoarc-
Good sense which only is the gift OF Heaven.
And though no science, iairly worth tho seven
Pope.
form so fair, that like the air
'ris less of earth than heaven.
-E. +. Pnkney.
He is so full of pleasant anecdote,
so rich 30 gay, so poignant in his wit
Time vanshes before him as he speaks,
And ruddy morning through the lattice peeps
Joanna Baillie.
WHAT DO roU LIKE BEST.
That all-soltening, overpowering kncl.
The tocsin oi the soul-the dinner bell.
Byron.
A slight Irritation by the light OF a chandelier.
With music to play in the pauses
And nobody very near. Willis.
Gold Gold Gold Gold
Bright and yellow hard and cold.
Hood.
sive me kisses all is waste save the luxury o
the taste,
And ior distinguishes live only when We take
or give,
Kiss me, then,
Every momont-and again. j G. SAKE.
WHAT DO TOO DISLIKE Mosr'
OF every bore,
II tn the list you add score,
Arc not so bad, upon my lite,
AS that one scourge, a soolding wife.
--Bcrni.
Coarse speech bad grammar, swearing.
Drinking, vice. Holmes.
Drunkenness, whose vile incontinencc
Take both away, the reason and the sense.
II browns the better parts sking the namo
To foes n laughter, to friends shame.
Randolph
Home made physie that sickens the sick,
Thick for thin and thin Tor thick, Hood.
VINO ~ TOUR INTENDED!
a perfect woman nobly planned,
TO warn, to comfort and command.
And yet spirit still and bright,
With something Of an angels light.
-Worisworth.
A judge, man so learned,
SO full OF equity. noble-cnvy
Itselfcannot accuse, or malice vitinte.
Chapman and Shirley.
hungry, lcan-fhced villain.
A mere anatomy, n mountebank,
A thread-bare iuggIer, and fortunc-tclcr.
A needy, hollow-eyed shnrp-looking wretch.
Shakespeare.
a rosebud set with willful thorns
A. swcc, NJ English air can mako her.
-Tennyson.
WHAT Is rouR HIGHEST ANBTTfoSI
To 20 to church to-day,
To look devout and seem to pray,
And ere to-morrows sun goes down
30 dealing slander through the town
Mrs. sigourney.
To dress "a the mobiles dress.
In cloth Of silver and gold
With silk and satin and costly iurs
In many an ample fold. Hood.
Oh, grant me, Heaven. middle state,
Neither too humble, nor too great,
More than enough for natures ends,
With something left to treat my friends.
-Mallet.
Oh, gie me the lass that hae acres Of charms I;
80 ~ Ioa, ho ,ro,t at.-,L;, f,r,,,
Burns.
Then les me &c, money as bees lay up honey /;
I'll build new hives and store each cell,
The sight OF my treasure will yield me great
pleasure,
Ill count it, and ehiuk it, and jingle it we'll.
DIR. Fnnklin.
WHAT Is TOUR TAvoRfTE FLowER'
Magnificent Gala, in mantle Of milk.
Mrs. sigourney.
The ehAste camelia's pure and spotless bloom,
That boasts no fragrance and eonccals no
thorn. William Roscos.
And faith that thousand ills can brave
Speaks in thy blue leaves, "forgct-me- not.
-Pcrcival.
Rose. thou art the sweetest flower.
Burns.
WHAT rs TIE CHARACTER or TOUR INTENDED
She takes the most delight
In music, instruments and poetry.
Shakespeare.
The solemn iop. significant and bulge.
A fool with judges, and among fools Judge
-CowPer.
She has read her fathers wcll-nlIcd library
with profit
And can talk ehamingly she can sing
And play. too, passably, and dance with spirit
She = knowing in all needle-work,
And shines In kitchen ~ well ~ parlor
j. n. Barker.
He is a scholar, and rire and good one,