"Nor shall thy lips be touched with living fire, Who blow'st old altar-coals with sole desire To weld anew the spirit's broken chains."

--_Lowell, Bibliolaters_.

A Little Child shall Lead Them. 303 G.B.

"She might have served a painter to portray That heavenly child which in the latter days Shall walk between the lion and the lamb."

--_Rossetti, A Last Confession_.

The Little Foxes That Spoil the Vineyards. 236 S.A.

"O fox whose home is 'mid the tender grape--"

--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.

A Little Lower than the Angels. 22 S.A.

"What a piece of work is man! how n.o.ble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel."

--_Shakespeare, Hamlet 2:2_.

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Locusts and Wild Honey. 65 L.J.

"In our wild Seer, s.h.a.ggy, unkempt, like a Baptist living on locusts and wild honey, there is an untutored energy, a silent, as it were, unconscious strength, which, except in the higher walks of literature, must be rare."

--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, Chapter 3_.

Lord, How Long. 470 S.A.

"O Lord, how long, how long be unavenged?"

--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.

The Lord is My Fortress. 106 S.A.

"G.o.d is our fortress."

--_Shakespeare, I Henry VI 2:-1_.

The Lord Watch between Me and Thee when We are Absent One from Another. 75 H. T.

"Deal between thee and me."

--_Shakespeare, Macbeth 4:3_.

Lot's Wife. 36 H.T.

"Stiff as Lot's wife."

--_Tennyson, The Princess_.

Love, the Fulfilling of the Law. 416 S.A.

"Charity itself fulfills the law And who can sever love from charity?"

--_Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 4:3_.

Mammon of Unrighteousness. 205 L.J.

"Mammon is after him."

--_Abraham Lincoln_.

A Man after His Own Heart. 362 H. T.

"O Saul, it shall be A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!"

--_Browning, Saul_.

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Manna in the Wilderness 162 L.J., 192 H.T.

"As manna on my wilderness."

--_Tennyson, Supposed Confessions_.

The Mantle of Elijah. 134 T.J.

"Tennyson rising in a heavenly chariot out of the temple of song, forgot to cast his mantle upon some waiting Elisha, but carried the divine garment into the realm beyond the clouds."

--_Newell Dwight Hillis, Great Books as Life Teachers_.

The Mark of Cain. 23 T.J.

"He answered not but with a sudden hand Made bare his branded and ensanguined brow, Which was like Cain's or Christ's--oh! that it should be so!"

--_Sh.e.l.ley, Adonais_.

Mess of Pottage. 60 H.T.

"A hungry imposter practising for a mess of pottage."

--_Carlyle_.

The Money-Changers in the Temple. 237 L.J.

"Once more He may put forth his hand 'gainst such, as drive Their traffic in that sanctuary, whose walls With miracles and martyrdoms were built."

--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.

More Precious than Rubies. 252 S.A.

"The drawing . . . is . . . a thing which I believe Gainsborough would have given one of his own pictures for--old-fashioned as red-tipped daisies are . . . and more precious than rubies."

--_Ruskin, Academy Notes_.

The Mote and Beam. 110 L.J.

"You found his mote; the king your mote did see.

But I a beam do find in each of three."

--_Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 4:3_.

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