in their language that they formed but one nation were but branches of the same family. Homer has 'men of other tongues:' and yet Homer had no general name for the Greek nation."--Heeren, "Ancient Greece," Section vii. p. 107, sq. _ 108 The cranes._ "Marking the tracts of air, the clamorous cranes Wheel their due flight in varied ranks descried: And each with outstretch'd neck his rank maintains, In marshall'd order through th' ethereal void." Lorenzo de Medici, in Roscoe's Life, Appendix. See Cary's Dante: "Hell," canto v. _ 109 Silent, breathing rage._ "Thus they, Breathing united force with fixed thought, Moved on in silence." "Paradise Lost," book i. 559. 110 "As when some peasant in a bushy brake Has with unwary footing press'd a snake; He starts aside, astonish'd, when he