SITY Of
ORNIA
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DICTIONARY
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U O T A T I_0 N S
(ENGLISH)
BY COLONEL
PHILIP HUGH DALBIAC, M.P.
WITH AUTHORS AND SUBJECTS INDEXES
AND AN APPENDIX
LONDON
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., Limited
NEW YORK : THE MACMILLAN CO.
1908
First Edition April iSg6
Second Edition .... December 1S96
Third Edition January 1899
Fourth Edition .... April 1903
Fifth Edition (enlarged) . . January 1908
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PREFACE. ^i^^g
I HAVE been induced to undertake the present work under
the idea that, in spite of the many excellent compilations of
the same class already in existence, there is scarcely one
that is at the same time complete, up-to-date, and sufficiently
explicit in the matter of references. To meet this want I
have given the fullest possible reference to chapter and verse
for each quotation ; and by drawing the quotations from
the best obtainable editions of the Authors themselves, and
not from other books of reference, I have, I hope, been able
to correct many errors which have crept in through the use
of " Quotations of Quotations ".
As it would have been impossible to have included in a
single volume a complete list of well-known quotations and
sayings from the earliest historic times to the present day,
this work has been divided into Parts, the present volume
containing quotations from only English and American
Authors, translations being carefully excluded ; I have,
however, made an exception in the case of the English
Bible.
The second volume, edited by Mr. T. B. Harbottle, which
is now nearly ready for press, will contain quotations from
only Greek and Latin writers; and it is hoped, if the
success of these two Parts warrants it, to complete the work
with a volume dealing with modern Continental writers.
My best thanks are due to many friends, especially to Mr.
W. Swan Sonnenschein and Mr. J. G. Cotton Minchin,
who, during the past five years, have kindly and materially
assisted me in my labours, by providing me with many
books essential to the undertaking, which I might otherwise
have been put to much difficulty and inconvenience to
obtain.
P. H. DALBIAC.
April, 1 8g6.
DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS.
" A bad excuse is better, the}' say, than none at all."
Stephen Gosson. The Schoolc of Abuse.
" A bad shift is better than none at all."
H. Porter. The Two Angry Women of Abington
{Nicholas).
" [You shall see them on] a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet
of te-xt shall meander through a meadow of margin."
Sheridan. School for Scandal (Sir B. Backbite), Act I.,
Sc. I.
" But every page having an ample marge,
And every marge enclosing in the midst
A square of text that looks a little blot."
Tennyson. Merlin and Vivien.
" A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse.
Gathers together more gazers than if it shined out."
Wycherley. The Country Wife (Aliihca), Act III., Sc. I.
" A beggar's book
Out-worths a noble's blood."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. {Buckingham), Act I., Sc. I.
•' A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." Old Proverb.
BuNYAN. Pilgrim's Progress (Interpreter), Bk. I.
" A bird's weight can break the infant tree
Which after holds the aery in his arms."
R. Browning. Luria (Domizia), Act IV.
" A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."
Burton. Anat. of Melancholy, Pt. I., Sec. II., Mem. IV.,
Subs. IV.
" A bold, bad man I " ||
Spenser. Faerie Quecnc, Bk. /., Can. I., St. 37.
Churchill. The Duellist, Bk. II., 278.
" A brave revenge
Ne'er comes too late."
Otway. Venice Preserved (Pierre), Act HI., Sc. I.
" (To most man's life but showed)
â– \ bridge of groans across a stream of tears."
P. J. Bailey, Festiis (Lucifer), Bk. XV.
I
2 A BRITON— A CROWN.
" A Briton, even in Icve, should be
A subject, not a slave."
Wordsworth. Poems founded on the Affections, X.
" A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity."
Addison. Cato (Marcus), Act I., Sc. I.
y^ " A burthen'd conscience
/ Will never need a hangman."
Beaumont and Fletcher. Laws of Candy {Cassilane), Act V., Sc. I.
" A captive fetter'd at the oar of gain.''
Falconer. The Shit>wreck, gg.
" A castie after all is but a house —
The dullest one when lacking company."
Sheridan Knowles. The Hunchback [Helen), Act IV., Sc. I.
" A change came o'er the spirit of my dream."
Byron. The Dream.
" A chield's amang you taking notes,
And, faith, he'll prent it."
^ Burns. Capt. Grose's Peregrinations thro' Scotland.
J " A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman."
* J. C. Hare. Guesses at Truth,
Taylor and Walto7i's Ed., 1851, Vol. I., p. 224.
" A chyld were beter to be unbore, than to be untaught."
SvMON. Lessons of Wysedomc for all niancr Cliyldryn, II.
" Better unborne than untaught."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. X.
" A civil habit
Oft covers a good man."
Beaumont and Fletcher. Beggars' Bush, Act II., Sc. III.
\ " A convert's but a fly that turns about
j^ 1 After his head's cut off, to find it out."
Butler. Miscellaneous Thoughts.
" A countenance more in sorrow than in anger."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Horatio), Act I., Sc. II.
" A crafty knave needs no broker." Old Proverb.
Unknown. A merry knack to know a knave. Honesty.
Ben Jonson. Every man in his humour, Act III., Sc. II.
'^" A crowd is not company ; and faces are but a gallery of Pictures ; and
talke but a tinckling Cymball, where there is no love."
Bacon. Essay XXVII., Of Friendship.
" A crown, if it hurt us, is hardly worth wearing."
P. J. Bailey. Festus (Helen), Bk. XIX.
" A crown, or else a glorious tomb !
A sceptre, or an earthly sepulchre ! "
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. III. (York), Act I., Sc. IV
" And either victory, or else a grave."
Ibid. (Edward), Act II., He. Il,
A CRUEL STORY— A FELLOW-FEELING. 3
*' Victory ! or Westminster Abbey ! "
Lord Nelson. Uttered by him at the boarding
of the " San Carlo ".
" A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they
run." OuiDA. Moths, Chap. XXIII.
" (It is) a custom
More honour'd in the breach than the observance."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act I., Sc. IV.
" A Daniel come to judgment I yea, a Daniel."
Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice (Shylock), Act IV., Sc. I,
" A daughter of the gods, divinely tall,
( And most divinely fair."
, Tennyson. A Dream of Fair Women.
" A day, an hour of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage."
Addison. Cato {Cato), Act II., Sc. I.
" A day in such serene enjoyment spent
Were worth an age of splendid discontent ! "
J. Montgomery. Greenland, Can. II.
" A death for love's no death but martyrdom."
G. Chapman. Revenge for Honour, Caropia, Act IV., Sc. II.
" A death is only to be felt, never to be talked over by those it touches ! "
Horace Walpole. Letter to Sir Horace Mann,
2gth March, 1745.
" A deed without a name."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Witches), Act IV., Sc. I.
" A divine sentence is in the lips of the king."
Proverbs. Chap. XVI., ver. 10.
" A door without lock, is a bait for a knave."
Tusser. The Points of Housewifery . After Supper Matters, j.
" A double blessing is a double grace,
Occasion smiles upon a second leave."
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Laertes), Act I., Sc. III.
" A double error sometimes sets us right."
P. J. Bailey. Festus (Fcstus), Bk. XXIV.
" A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas."
Tennyson. Coming of Arthur, I.
" A fav'rite has no friend."
Gray. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat.
' A feather will turn the scale."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure {Provost), Act IV., Sc. II.
" A feeble unit in the middle of a threatening Infinitude."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. II., Chap. VII.
" A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind."
Garr;ck. Prologue on quitting the stage, 1776.
4 A FIELD OF GLORY— A GIDDY S0^.
" A field of glory is a field for all."
Pope. Dunciad, Bk. II., line ^2.
" (Who stoode as though he had) a flea in his eare."
Lyly. Eiiplntcs.
^ "A fleet of glass
Wreck'd on a visionary reef of gold."
Tennyson. Sea Dreams.
" A fool at forty is a fool indeed."
Young. Love of Fame, Sat. II., line 2S2.
" A fool despiseth his father's correction."
Proverbs. Chap. XV., ver. 5.
" A foole I doe him firmely hold,
That loves his fetters, though they virere of gold. "
Spenser. Faerie Queene, Bk. III., Can. IX., St. S.
" A fool never has thought, a madman has lost it ; and an absent man 1.-
for the time without it."
Lord Chesterfield. Letter to his Son. 2^th jfuly, 1741.
" A fool's mouth is his destruction."
Proverbs. Chap. XVIII., ver. 6.
" A fool's paradise is better than a wise-acre's purgatory."
G. CoLMAN. The Deuce is in Itim (Belford), Act I., Sc. I.
" A foot more light, a step more true.
Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew ;
E'en the slight harebell raised its head.
Elastic from her airy tread."
Scott. The Lady of the Lake, Can. /., St. 18.
' (But this denoted) a foregone conclusion."
Shakespeare. Othello [Othello), Act III., Sc. III.
'• A friend ought to shun no pain, to stand his friend in stead."
R. Edwards. Damon and Pithias (Carisopliits).
" A friend should bear a friend's infirmities."
Shakespeare. JuVnis Ccesar (Cassins), Act IV.
Sc. III.
'* A gaudy dress and gentle air
May slightly touch the heart,
But it's innocence and modesty
That polishes the dart." Burns. My Haiidsome Nell.
" A generous action is its own reward."
Walsh. Elegy upon quitting his Mistress,
" A generous bottle and a lovesome she.
Are th' only joys in nature next to thee."
Otway. Epistle to Mr. Ditkc.
" A genius can't be forc'd; nor can
You make an ape an alderman." Somerville. Fable XIV.
" (* A plague split you,' said he, ' for) a giddy son of a gun.' '"
Swift. The Battle of the Books.
A GLORIOUS CHARTER— A HALTER MADE. 5
" A fjlorious charter, deny it who can,
lb breathed in the words, ' Tin an Englishman .
Eliza Cook, The Englishtnan.
" A glutted market makes provision cheap."
Pope. The Wife of Bath, line 262.
" A God alone, can comprehend a God."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night IX., line 833.
"A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever."
Mautin Tupper. Proverbial Philosophy. Of Reading, line 14.
" A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed
and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
JNIiLTON. Arcopagitica.
"A good cause needs not to be patroned by passion, but can sustain
itself upon a temperate dispute."
Sir T. Browne. ReVigio Medici, Sec. V.
"A good friend, but bad acquaintance."
Byron. Don Juan, Can. III., St. 54.
"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
Bulwer Lytton. The Disowned, Chap. XXXIII.
" A good heart's worth gold."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Ft. II. (Hostess), Act II., Sc. IV.
" A good man should and must
Sit rather down with loss, than rise unjust."
Ben Jonson. Sejanus [Sabinus), Act IV., Sc. III.
" A good man's fortune may grow out at heels."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Kent), Act II., Sc. II.
"A good wit will make use of anything: I will turn diseases to com-
modity."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Falsta^), Act I., Sc. II.,
last sentence.
" A grandam's name is little less in love,
Than is the doting title of a mother."
Shakespeare. Richard III. (King Richard), Act IV., Sc. IV.
"A great man's overfed great man, what the Scotch call Elunkey."
Carlyle. Essay on yohnson.
" A great poet, like a great peak, must sometimes be allowed to have
his head in the clouds."
Augustine Birrell. Obiter Dicta, Mr. Browning's Poetry.
" A guardian-angel o'er his life presiding.
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing."
Rogers. Human Life.
" (I pray thee let me and my fellow have)
A haire of the dog that bit us last night."
J. Hevwood. Proverbs, Bk. I., CIi. XI.
" A halter made of silk's a halter still."
Colley Gibber. Love in a Riddle (Damon), Act II., Sc. L
6 A HAPPY BRIDESMAID— A KNAVE AN' FOOL.
" A happy bridesmaid makes a happy bride."
Tennyson. The Bridesmaid.
" A harmless necessary cat."
Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice (Shylock), Act IV., Sc. I.
" A heart to pity, and a hand to bless."
Churchill. Prophecy of Famine, line 17S.
" A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."
Gibbon. Decline atid Fall of the Roman Empire, Ch. XLVIIl.
" A heart unspotted is not easily daunted."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. II. (GlosLr), Act III., Sc. I.
" A heavy heart bears not an humble tongue."
Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost {Prince), Act V., Sc. II.
"A heavy purse makes a light heart."
Unknown. Wily Beguiled, ist line.
Ben Jonson. The New Inn [Host), Act I., Sc. I.
" A hooded eagle among blinking owls."
Shelley. Letter to Maria Gisborne.
{^Refers to Coleridge.']
" A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse."
Shakespeare. Richard III. [King Richard), Act V., Sc. IV.
" A jealous love lights his torch from the firebrands of the furies."
Burke. Speech on the plan for Economical Reform,
11th February, 1780.
" A jealous woman believes everything her passion suggests."
-^ Gay. The Bcggai's Opera (Macheath), Act II., Sc. II.
" A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it."
Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost {Rosaline), Act V., Sc. II.
" A joke's a very serious thing."
Churchill. The Ghost, Bk. IV., line 1386.
"A just cause is strong."
Middleton. a Trick to Catch the Old One [Lucre), Act III.,
Sc. III.
" A kick, that scarce would move a horse,
May kill a sound divine." Cowper. The Yearly Distress.
" A king of shreds and patches."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III., Sc. IV.
Carlyle. French Revolution, Pt. II., Bk. VI., Ch. VII.
" A kingdom is too small
For his expense, that hath no mean at all."
.\non. The Play of Stuckley {Vernon), line loii.
" A knave and fool are plants of every soil."
Burns. Scots Prologue.
A KNAVISH SPEECH— A LIVING DOG. 7
• A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear."
Shakespeakk. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act IV., Sc. II.
•' A lady's watch needs neither figures nor wheels,
'Tis enough that 'tis loaded with baubles and seals."
Prior. A Lover's Anger, line 5.
â– ' A lamentable tune is the sweetest musick to a woeful mind."
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. II.
• " A land of meanness, sophistry, and mist."
Byron. The Curse of Minerva,
* [Scotland.]
" A legge of a larke
Is better than is the bodie of a kight."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Chap. IV.
" The legge of a lark is better than the body of a kite."
Chapman. Eastward Hoe.
" (That) a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies,
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright.
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight."
Tennyson. The Grandmother, VIII.
" A lidless watcher of the public weal."
Tennyson. The Princess, IV.
" A light wife doth make a heavy husband."
Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice (Portia], Act V., Sc. I.
" A little fire is quickly trodden out ;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. III. (Clarence), Act IV.,
Sc. VIII.
" A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness of fools."
RusKiN. Crown 0/ Wild Olive. War, 114.
" A little learning is a dang'rous thing ; -^
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring ;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain.
And drinking largely sobers us again."
Pope. Essay on Criticistn, II., line 215.
" A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief, of a
large one."
O. W. Holmes. The Professor at the Breakfast Table, V.
" A little more than kin, and less than kind."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I., Sc. II.
"A little rule, a little sway,
A sunbeam in a winter's day,
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave."
Dyer. Grongnr Hill, line 8g.
" \ living dog is better than a dead lion."
Ecclesiastes. CJi. IV.,vcr. 12.
8 A LOVER'S EYES— A MAN MAY.
" At this rate a dead dog would indeed be better than a
living Hon."
BoswELL. Life of jfolmson [Fitzgerald's Ed.).
{Dr. yohnson), Vol. IL, /-. 257.
" A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind ; "
Shakespkaue. Lovers Labour Lost (Birom), Act IV., Sc. IH.
" A maiden is a tender thing,
And best by her that bore her understood."
Tennyson. Geraint and Enid.
"A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were
ten men united in Love, capable of being and doing what ten
thousand singly would fail in."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. IIL, Ch. XIL
" A man can die but once."
Shakespeare. Hetiry IV., Pt. II. {Feeble), Act III., Sc. II.
" A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was
never sensible of in himself."
Sir R. Steele. Tatler, No. 227.
" A man is a god in ruins."
Emerson [quoted by) Nature, Ch. VIII., Prospects.
" A man is but what he knoweth."
Bacon. In Praise of Knowledge
" A man is never too old to learn."
IvIiddleton. Mayor of Queenborough [Simon), Act V., Sc. I.
" A man is not completely born until he be dead."
B. Franklin. Letters. To Miss E. Hubbard.
" A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."
Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothing [Benedick),
Act II., Sc. III.
" A man loveth more tenderlie
The thing that he hath bought most dere. "
Chaucer. Romaunt of the Rose, line 2738.
"Things hardly got are always highest deem'd. "
John Cook. The City Gallant [Gertrude).
" A man may cry Church 1 Church 1 at ev'ry word
With no more piety than other people —
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a stecj.le."
Hood. Ode to Rae-Wilson.
" A man may kiss a bonny lass,
And ay be welcome back again." Burns. Duncan Davison.
" A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman
than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in
London." C. Kingslev. The Water Babies, Ch. III.
" A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But lie cannot make him drinke without he will."
John Hevwood. Prm^rvhs, Bk. T., Ch. XI.
A MAN MUST SERVE— A MOMENT OF TIME. g
" A man must serve his time to ev'ry trade
Save censure — crilics all are ready made.
Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,
With just enough of learning to misquote."
Byron. Etiglish Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
"A man of forty is either a fool or a physician." Old Proverb.
" Will you cast away your child on a fool, and physician ? "
Shakespk.\re. Meirv ]Vives of Windsor {Mrs. (Jiiickly),
Act III., Sc. IV.
" A man of pleasure is a man of pains."
Young. Nigltt Thoughts, Nt. VIII., line 793.
"A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
Dr. Johnson. In Conversation zvith Sir Josliua Reynolds.
" A man too happy for mortality."
Wordsworth. Vaudracour and jfulia.
" A man without knowledge, and I have read,
May well be compared to one that is dead."
Thomas Ingelend. The Disobedient Child.
"A manner somewhat fall'n from reverence."
Tennyson. The Last Tournament.
" A man's best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet." Lord Houghton. The Men of Old.
" A man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed." "
Bacon. Advancement of Learning, Bk. II.
"A man's house is his castle." Sir E. Coke. Third Institute.
" (For often) a man's own angry pride
Is cap and bells for a fool." Tennyson. Maud, VI., 7.
" A man's vanity tells him what is honour, a man's conscience what is
justice."
Landor. Imaginary Convenations. Peter Leopold and
President Dti Paty. {Leopold.)
" A mastiff dog
May love a puppy cur for no more reason
Than that the twain have been tied up together, '
Tennyson. Queen Mary {Howard), Act I., Sc. IV.
" A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a."
Shakespeare. Winter's Tale {Autolycus sings), Act IV.,
Sc. II.
" A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance."
Proverbs. Ch. XV., ver. 13.
" A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
O. W. Holmes. The Professor at the Breakfast Table, Ch. X.
" A moment of time may make us unhappy for ever."
Gay. The Beggar's Opera {Macheath). Art II., Sc. II.
lo A MOMENTS THINKING— A PENNY SAV'D.
â– ' A moment's thinking is an hour in words."
Hood. Hero and Lcander, XLI.
"A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive."
Coleridge. The Thra Graves.
" A mother only knows a mother's fondness."
Lady M. Montagu. Letters. To the Countess of Bute.
22nd July, 1754,
" A nation's right to speak a nation's voice,
And own no power but of the nation's choice ! "
T. Moore. Fudge Family in Paris, Letter XI.
" A new broom sweeps clean." Old Proverb.
" Ah well I wot that a new broome sweepeth cleane."
Lyly. Euphues.
" A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man."
W. Hazlitt. Political Essays : On Court Influence.
" A noble airr..
Faithfully kept, is as a noble d«ed ;
In whose pure sight all virtue doth succeed."
Wordsworth. Poems to National Independence, Pt. II., XIX.
" A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case."
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. I.
" A noble mind
Makes women beautiful, and envy blind."
Fletcher. Rule a Wife and Have a Wife [Duke), Act V.,
Sc. V.
" A noble soul is like a ship at sea.
That sleeps at anchor when the ocean 's calm ;
But when she rages, and the wind blows high,
He cuts his way with skill and majesty."
Beaumont and Fletcher. The Honest Man's Fortune (Charlotte)
Act IV., Sc. I.
" (I woke and did approve
All nature to my heart, and thought to make)
A paradise of earth for one sweet sake."
Shelley. Rosalind and Helen.
" A patient man's a pattern for a king."
Dekker. The Honest Whore, Pt. II. (Duke), last line.
" A peasant's dress befits a peasant's fortune."
Sir W. Scott. The Doom of Devorgoil (Oswald), Act III.,
Sc. IV.
" (Friend, quoth the goodman,) a peny for your thought."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. IV.
" A penny for your thought." Lyly. Euphues.
" A penny sav'd 's a penny got."
Somerville. The Sweet Scented Miser, line 30.
A PEOPLE STILL— A RARER SPIRIT. ii
" " A people still, whose common ties are gone ;
Who, mixed with every race, are lost in none."
Crabue. The Borougli, Letter IV.
* [The Jews. J
" A perfect woman, nobly planned.
To warn, to comfort, and command ;
And yet a spirit still, and bright
With something of angelic light."
Wordsworth. Poems of the Imagination, VIII.
" A pin a day, will fetch a groat a year."
W. King. Art of Cookery, line 405.
"A plague o' both your houses."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfuliet (Mercutio), Act III., Sc. I.
" A pleasant smiling cheek, a speaking eye,
A brow for love to banquet royally."
Marlowe. Hero and Leander, Sestiad I.
"A poet, naturalist, and historian, who left scarcely any style of writing
untouched, and touched nothing that he did not adorn."
Dr. Johnson. Epitaph on Goldsmith.
" A poor man is better than a liar." Proverbs. Ch. XIX., ver. 22.
" A pride there is of rank — a pride of birth,
A pride of learning, and a pride of purse,
A London pride — in short, there be on earth
A host of prides, some better and some worse ;
But of all prides, since Lucifer's attaint.
The proudest swells a self-elected saint."
Hood. Ode to Rae-Wilson.
" A primrose by a river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more." Wordsworth. Peter Bell, Part I.
• ' A prince's favours but on few can fall,
But justice is a virtue shar'd by all."
Drvden. Britannia Rediviva, line 336.
" A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, among his
own kin and in his own house.''
St. Mark. Ch. VI., ver. 4.
" A prophet hath no honour in his own country."
St. John. Ch. IV., ver. 44.
" A proud man is always hard to be pleased, because he hath too great
expectations from others."
Richd. Baxter. Christian Ethics.
" (Israel shall be) a proverb and a by-word among all peoples."
Kings. Bk. I., Ch. IX., ver. 7.
" A quart of ale is a dish for a king."
Shakespeare. Winter's Tale {Antolyciis sings). Act IV., Sc. II.
" A rarer spirit never
Did steer humanity."
Shakespeare. Antony and CUopatra (Agrippa), Act V.. Sc. I.
12 A REFORMING AGE— A SHIP IS SOONER RIGGED.
" A reforming age is always fertile of impostors."
LoKD Macaulav. Essay on Moore^s Life of Lord Byron.
" A rich man's superfluities are often a poor man's redemption."
G. CoLMAN, the Younger. Who Wants a Guinea ? {Hcarily),
Act I., Sc. I.
" A right woman — either love like an angel,
Or hate like a devil — in extremes to dwell."
Unknown. The Mare Triumbhc of Love and Fortune
(Pen'ulo), Act I.
" A rolling stone gathers no moss." Old Proverb.
" On the stone that still doth turne about
There groweth no mosse."
Sir T. Wyatt. How to use the Court and Himself, 3.
" The rolling stone never gathereth mosse."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. XI.
" The stone that is rolling, can gather no moss.
Who often removeth is suer of loss."
TussER. ^00 Points of Good Husbandry. Good
Husbandry Lessons, 46.
" The stone that is rolling, can gather no moss.
For master and servant, oft changing is loss."
TussER. Points of Housewifery. Huswifely
Admonitions, 20.
" A rolling stone is ever bare of moss."
A. Phillips. Pastoral, II.
" A rosebud set with little wilful thorns.
And sweet as English air could make her."
Tennyson. The Princess, Prologue.
" A rotten case abides no handling."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. {Westmoreland), Act IV.,
Sc. I.
" A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn." Coleridge. The Ancient Mariner.
" A sceptre snatch'd with an unruly hand.
Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd ;
And he that stands upon a slippery place.
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up."
Shakespeare. King John {Pandtdpho), Act III., Sc. IV.
" A sensitive plant in a garden grew.
And the young winds fed it with silver dew.
And it opened its fanlike leaves to the light.
And closed them beneath the kisses of night."
Shelley. The Sotsitive Plant, Pt. I., line 1.
" A shameless woman is tlie worst of men."
Young. Love of Fame, Sat. IV., line 468.
" A ship is sooner rigged by far, than a gentlewoman made ready."
Unknown. Lingua (Tactus), Act IV., Sc. V.
A SIGHT TO SHAKE— A SPENDING HAND. 13
" A sight to shake
The midriff of despair with laughter."
Tennyson. The Princess, Pt. I.
" A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity."
Goldsmith. The Good-Naturcd Man, Act II., Sc. I.
— " A simple child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death ? " Wordsworth. We Are Seven.
" A simple maiden in her flower
Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms."
Tennyson. Lady Clara Vere de Vere.
" A skilful leach is better far
Than half a hundred men of war."
Butler. Hndibras, Pt. I., Can. II., line 245.
" A small drop of ink
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."
Byron. Don yuan, Can. III., St. 88.
" A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."
Shakespeare. A Winter's Tale [Autolycns), Act IV., Sc. II.
" A soft answer turneth away wrath :
But a grievous word stirreth up anger."
Proverbs. Ch. XV., ver. i.
" (Then) a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth."
Shakespeare. As Yon Like It (jfaques), Ac* II., Sc. II.
" A soldier may be anything, if brave.
So may a tradesman, if not quite a knave."
CowPER. Hope, line 2og.
" A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry
Of some strong swimmer in his agony."
Byron. Don ytian, Can. III., St. 54.
" A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own
verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination, that can at
all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of
arguments to malign an opponent, and to glorify himself."
Earl of Beaconsfield. Speech in the Honse of Commons,
1S78, referrinfr to Mr. Gladstone.
" A sovereign's ear ill brooks a subject's questioning."
Coleridge. Zapolya, Sc. I.
" A spending hand that alway poureth out,
Hath nede to have a bringer-in as fast."
Sir T. Wyatt. Huiv to Use the Conrt and Himself
therein, line i.
:4 A STAFF— A VICTORY.
" A staff is quickly found to beat a dog."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Part II. (Gloster), Act III., Sc. I.
" A subject's faults a subject may proclaim,
A monarch's errors are forbidden game."
CowPER. Table Talk, line 125.
" A sunburst in the storm of death."
Campbell. Ode to the Memory 0/ Burns.
" A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes."
George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss, Bk. VI., Ch. XIV.
" A sword less hurt does, than a pen."
W. King. The Eagle and the Robin, line 82.
" A tableful of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish."
Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors {Antipholus of Ephesus),
Act III., Sc. I.
" A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only
edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
Washington Irving. Rip Van Winkle.
" A tender, timid maid 1 who knew not how
To pass a pig-sty, or to face a cow."
Crabbe. The Widow's Tale.
" A thing devised by the enemy."
Shakespeare. Richard III. [Richard), Act V. Sc. III.
" A weak invention of the enemy."
CoLLEY CiBBER. Richard III., altered by, (Richard),
Act v., Sc. III.
"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." Keats. Endymion, line i.
" A thing's shadow or a name's mere echo
Suffices those who miss the name and thing."
R. Browning. In a Balcony.
" A threefold cord is not quickly broken."
Ecclesiastes. Ch. IV., ver. 12.
" A torturer of phrases into sonnets."
Sir W. Scott. Auchindrone (Auchiiidrone), Act III., Sc. I.
" A tower of strength is in an honest name."
Bulwer Lytton. King Arthur, Bk. II., CII.
J "A truth
Looks freshest in the fashion of the day."
Tennyson. Morte D' Arthur,
" A verse may find him, who a sermon flies."
Herbert. The Temple. The Church Porch.
" A very ancient and fish-like smell."
Shakespeare. The Tempest (Trinculo), Act II., Sc. II.
" A victory is twice itself, when the atchiever brings home full numbers."
Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato), Act I.,
Sc.I.
A VIRTUOUS COURT— A WOMAN'S NAY. 15
'• A virtuous court, a world to virtue draws."
Ben Jonson. Cynthia's Revels [Cynthia), Act V., Sc. III.
" A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband."
Proverbs. Ch. XII., vcr. 4.
'• A votary of the desk — a notched and cropt scrivener — one that sucks
his substance, as certain sick people are said to do, through a
quill."
C. Lamb. Essays of Elia. Oxford in the Vacation.
" A weary lot is thine, fair maid,
A weary lot is thine !
To pull the thorn thy brow to braid,
And press the rue for wine 1 "
Sir W. Scott. Rokcby, Can. III., XXVIII.
" A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one."
Carlyle. Essay on Richter.
" A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass.
And a rod for the back of fools." Proverbs. Ch. XIX., ver. 22.
" A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
And makes the clown a winged mercury."
Joanna Baillie. Dc Montfort {Rezcnvelt), Act III., Sc. II.
" A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone."
Swift. Essay on the Faculties of the Mind.
" A wise man never
Attempts impossibilities."
Massinger. The Renegade [Francisco), Act I., Sc. I.
" A wise son maketh a glad father :
But a foolish man despiseth his mother."
Proverbs. Ch. XV., ver. 20.
" A wit is a kind of urchin, that every man will set his dog at, but won't
touch himself, for fear of pricking his fingers."
T. HoLCROFT. Duplicity [Clara), Act II., Sc. II.
" A woful hostess brooks not merry guests."
Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece, St. 161.
" A woman, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree,
The more you beat them, the better they be." Chas. Taylor.
" A woman . . . Her lot is made for her by the love she accepts."
George Eliot. Felix Holt, Ch. XLIII.
" A woman like a butt, and harsh as crabs."
Tennyson. Walking to the Mail.
" A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man
than an angel, any day."
O. W. Holmes. The Poet at the Breakfast Table, IV.
" A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her weddLiig-
clothes." Addison. Spectator, No. 473.
" (Have ye not heard it said full oft),
A woman's nay doth stand for nought ? "
Shakespeare. The Passionate Pilgritn, XIV
i6 A WORD IN YOUR EAR— ACTION IS TRANSITORY.
" A word in your ear."
Vanburgh and Gibber. The Provoked Husband (Sir Francis),
Act IV., Sc. I.
" A word to the wise is enough."
B. Franklin. Poor Richard's Almanac.
^X
A
A word's enough to raise mankind to kill."
Byron. Lara, Can. II., VIII
" A wretch who takes his lusts to heaven,
And makes a pander of his God." T. Moore. Lalla Rookh, VI.
" A young man married, is a man that's marred."
Shakespeare. All's Well tliat Ends Well [ParoUes),
Act II., Sc. III.
" A young man will be wiser by-and-by ;
An old man's wit may wander ere he die."
Tennyson. The Coming of Arthur.
" A youth of frolics, an old age of cards."
Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. II., line 244.
" (Had swoln) 'hove any Greek or Roman name."
Dryden. On the Death of Lord Hastim^s, line 76.
" Above all Greek, above all Roman fame."
Pope. Imitation of Horace, Bk. II., Ep. I., line 26.
" On this foundation would I build my fame,
And emulate the Greek and Roman name."
RowE. Jane Shore (Hastings), Act III., Sc. I.
" Above our life we love a steadfast friend."
Marlowe. Hero and Lcander, Sestiad II.
" Abra was ready ere I call'd her name,
And tho' I call'd another, Abra came."
Prior. Solomon, Bk. II., line 362.
•' Absence ! — is not the soul torn by it
Far more than light, or life, or breath ?
'Tis Lethe's gloom, but not its quiet, —
The pain without the peace of death 1 "
Campbell. Absence.
" Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd."
CowPER. Retirement, line 623.
" Accidents will occur in the best regulated families."
C. Dickens. David Copperficld (Mr. Micawbcr), Ch. XXVII.
" Accursed is the march of that glory
Which treads o'er the hearts of the free."
T. MooRE. Irish Melodies, Forget not the Field.
" Action is transitory — a step, a blow —
The motion of a muscle — this way or that —
'Tis done ; and in the after-vacancy
We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed."
Wordsworth. The White Doe of Rylstone (Dedication).
ACTIONS ARE OUR EPOCHS— AH, CHRIST. 17
" Actions are our epochs."
Byron. Manfred {Manfred), Act II., Sc. I.
" Adam, the goodUest man of men since born
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. IV., line 323.
" Adepts in the speaking trade
Keep a cough by them ready made."
Churchill. Tlic Ghost, Bk. 11.^ line 545.
" Adieu I she cries, and wav'd her lily hand."
Gay. Willimn's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan.
" (She came) adorned hither like sweet May."
Shakespeare. Richard II. {King), Act V., Sc. I.
" Advantage is a better soldier than rashness."
Shakespeare. Henry V. {Mountjoy), Act III., Sc. V.
'" Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy."
Shakespeare. Romeo and ynliet [Friar Lawrence), Act III.,
V Sc. III.
^'Advice is seldom welcome ; and those who want it the most, always
«Jl/ like it the least."
1 Lord Chesterfield. Letters to his Son, 2gth Jan., 1748.
" Affronts are innocent, where men are worthless."
Ed. Young. Tlic Revenge (Zanga), Act I., Sc. I,
" After death, the doctor." Herbert, yacula Prudentum.
" Against ill chances men are ever merry ;
But heaviness foreruns the good event."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. {Archbishop), Act IV.,
Sc. II.
" Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra {Enobarbus), Act II.,
Sc. II.
" Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress."
Longfellow. Morituri Salutainiis.
" Ah, Beauty! Syren, fair enchanting Good,
Sweet silent Rhetorick of perswading eyes ;
Dumb Eloquence, whose power doth move the Blood,
More than the Words or Wisdom of the Wise ;
Still Harmony, whose Diapason lies
Within a Brow; the Key which Passions move
To ravish Sense, and play a World in love."
S. Daniel. The Complaint of Rosaninnd, St. ig.
" Ah, Christ, that it were possible
For one short hour to see
The souls we loved, that they might tell us
What and where they be."
Tennyson. Maud, Part IV., III.
2
i8 AH FOR A MAN— ALL ARE BUT PARTS.
" Ah for a man to arise in me,
That the man I am may cease to be ! "
Tennyson. Maud, Part X., 6.
" Ah little rat that borest in the dyke
Thy hole by night to let the boundless deep
Down upon far-off cities while they dance—
Or dream," Tennyson. Merlin and Vivien.
" Ah, the Past, the pearl-gift thrown
To hogs, time's opportunity we made
So light of, only recognised when flown I "
R. Browning, jfocoseria {Jochanan Hakkadosh).
" Ah, wretched man this wretched world pursuing.
Which still grows worse by age, and older by renewing ! "
Phineas Fletcher. The Purple Island, Can. I. , St. i.
" Air, air, fresh life-blood, thin and searching air.
The clear, dear breath of God that loveth us."
R. Browning. Pauline.
" Alas for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun ! " Hood. The Bridge of Sighs.
" Alas ! how hard to part with those we love !
Werter — 'tis sharper than the stings of death."
F. Reynolds. Werter {Charlotte), Act L, Sc. IL
" Alas ! how light a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love I " T. Moore. Lalla Ruokh, IX.
" Alas ! poor Yorick 1 — I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of
most excellent fancy."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act V., Sc. I.
" Alas ! regardless of their doom.
The little victims play t
No sense have they of ills to come,
Nor care beyond to-day."
Gray. Ode on the distant prospect of Eton College.
" Alas ! we make
A ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,
But sleep ourselves at the foot : our high resolves
Look down upon our slumbering acts."
L. E. L. A History of the Lyre.
" (Where) al is fishe, that cometh to the net."
G. Gascoigne. The Steele Glas.
" All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time ;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme."
Longfellow. The Builders.
" All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. I., line 267.
ALL ARE PLEAS'D~ALL MEN ARE. ig
" All are pleas'd, by partial passion led,
To shift their follies on another's head."
Parnell. Elysium, line 103.
" All argument will vanish before one touch of nature."
CoLMAN. The Poor Gentleman, Act V., Sc. I.
" All-cheering plenty, with her flowing horn.
Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn."
Burns. The Brigs of Ayr.
" All covet life, yet call it pain.
And feel the ill, yet shun the cure."
Prior. Written in Mezeray^s History 0/ France.
" (Or shear swine), all cry, and no wool."
Butler. Hiidibras, Ft. I., Can. /., line 852.
" But all the cry produces little wool."
King. The Art of Cookery, line 196.
" All delights are vain ; but that most vain.
Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain."
Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost (Biron), Act I., Sc. I.
" All doubt is cowardice —all trust is brave."
BuLWER Lytton. King Arthur, Book XII., XXVIII.
" (Whether with reason or with instinct blest.
Know) all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. III., line So.
" (And) all for love, and nothing for reward."
Spenser. Faerie Qiieene, Bk. II., Can. VIII., St. 2.
" All flesh is grass, and the godliness thereof as the flower of the field."
Isaiah. Ch. XL., ver. 6.
" All great actions the wish'd course do run,
That are, with their allowance, well begun."
Massinger. The Bondman (Timoleon), Act I., Sc. I.
" All hoods make not monks."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. {Queen Katharitie), Act III.,
Sc. I.
" All human things are subject to decay,
And when fate summons, monarchs must obey."
Dryden. Mac Flecknoe, line i.
" All is not false which seems at first a lie."
SouTHEV. St. Gualberto, line 28.
" All men are guests where Hope doth hold the feast."
Gascoigne. The Frtiitcs of War, line 88.
" All men are liable to error, and most men are, in many points, by
passion or interest, under temptation to it."
Locke. Essay on the Human Understanding, Book IV.,
Chap. XX., % 17.
" All men are
Philosophers, to their inches."
Ben Jonson. The Magnetic Lady {Practice), Act /., Sc. I.
20 ALL MUST BE EARNEST— ALL THAT'S BRIGHT.
" All must be earnest in a world like ours."
Dr. Bonar. Our Oiu- Life.
" All must feel
The influence of a form and mind
Where comely grace and constant virtue dwell,
Lfke mingled streams, more forcible when join'd."
Prior. Carmen Sectclare. To the King, XXXIL
" All my ambition is, I own,
To profit and to please, unknown."
N. Cotton. Visions in Verse, Epistle to the Reader.
" All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee ;
All chance, direction, which thou can'st not see ;
All discord, harmony, not understood ;
All partial evil, Universal Good ;
And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, whatever is, is right."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. L, line 289.
•* All Nature's diff'rence keeps all Nature's peace."
Pope. Essay on Alan. Ep. IV., line ^1.
"All paines are nothing in respect of this ;
All sorrowes short that gain eternall blisse."
Spenser. Sonnet LXIH.
" All places that the eye of heaven visits
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
Teach thy necessity to reason thus ;
There is no virtue like necessity."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Gaunt), Act I., Sc. III.
" All praise is foreign, but of true desert,
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart."
Mason. Mnscens.
" All service ranks the same with God —
With God, whose puppets, best and worst,
Are we : there is no last nor first."
R. Browning. Pippa Passes.
" All's not offence that indiscretion finds,
And dotage terms so."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Goneril), Act II., Sc. IV.
" All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil."
Shelley. Prometheus Unbound (Demogorgon), Act II., Sc. IV.
" All subsists by elemental strife ;
And passions are the elements of liie."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. /., litie i6g.
" All that's bright must fade, —
The brightest still the fleetest ;
All that's sweet was made
But to be lost when sweetest ! "
T. MooRE. All that's bright must fade.
ALL THAT WEAR— ALL THINGS ARE LESS. 2
" All that wear feathers, first or last,
Must one day perch on Charon's mast."
Prior. The Turtle and tin- Spurrow, line 133.
" All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."
E. A. PoE. A Dream within a Dream.
" All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full."
ECCLESIASTES. Cluip. I., VCY. 7.
" All the windy ways of men
Are but dust that rises up,
And is lightly laid again." Tennyson. The Vision of Sin.
•" All their luxury was doing good."
Garth. Claremont, line 149.
" The luxury of doing good."
J. G. HoLMAN. The Votary of Wealth (Cleveland),
Act v., Sc. IV., last line.
" All thing which that shineth as the gold
Ne is no gold." Chaucer. Canterbury Tales, line 16430,
Chanones Yeomanries Tale.
" It is not alle golde that glareth."
Ch.aucer. The House of Fame, Boke I., line 272.
" Alle is not golde that shewyth goldishe hewe."
Lydgate. Chorle and Byrde.
" All is not gold that glisters."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. X.
" Not every thinq; that gives
A gleame and glittering showe,
Is to be counted gold, indeede
This prouerbe well you knowe."
Turberville. The Aunswere of a Woman to nir
Louer.
" All that glisters is not gold —
Often have j'ou heard that told :
Many a man his life halh sold,
But my outside to behold :
Gilded tombs do worms infold ;
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgment old.
Your answer had not been inscroll'd :
Fare you well : your suit is cold."
Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act II., Sc. VII.
{Inscription in golden casket.)
" All is not gold that glisters."
Ben Jonson. A Tale of a Tub, Act II., Sc. I.
" All things are artificial ; for Nature is the Art of God."
Sir T. Browne. Religio Medici, Sec. XVI.
" All things are less dreadful than they seem."
Wordsworth. Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Pt. I., VII.
22 ALL THINGS THAT ARE— AMBITION CAN CREEP.
" All things that are,
Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd."
Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice {Gratiano), Act II., Sc. VI.
" The thing possess'd is not the thing it seems."
S. Daniel. Civil War, Bk. II., XIII.
" (In men this blunder still you find),
All think their little set mankind."
Hannah More. The Bas Bleu.
" All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame.
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame." Coleridge. Love.
" (The * good old times ') — all times when old are good."
Byron. The Age of Bronze, I.
" All ways to Death, but one to Glory leads."
BuLWER Lytton. King Arthur, Bk. X., XXV.
" All who joy would win
Must share it, — Happiness was born a twin."
Byron. Don yuan, Can. II:, St. 172.
" All women are ambitious naturally."
Marlowe. Hero and Leander, Sestiad I.
" All women love great men
If young or old." R. Browning. In a Balcony.
" Allegiance
Tempted too far is like the trial of
A good sword on an anvil ; as that often
Flies in pieces without service to the owner,
So trust enforced too far proves treachery,
And is too late repented." J
Massinger. The Great Duke of Florence {Sanaz), Act II., Y
Sc. III.
" Alms are but the vehicles of prayer."
Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, PI. III.
" Alone I did it."
Shakespeare. Coriolanus (Coriolanus), Act V., Sc. V.
" Alps on Alps in clusters swelling,
Mighty, and pure, and fit to make
The ramparts of a Godhead's dwelling 1 "
T. Moore. Rhymes on the Road, I.
" Always have an eye to the mayne, whatsoever thou art chaunced at
the buy." Lyly. Euphues attd his England.
" Always there is a black spot in our sunshine : it is even, as I said, the
shadow of ourselves."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus,Bk. II., Ch. IX.
«' Am I my brother's keeper ? " Genesis. Ch. IV., ver. 9.
" (Well is it known that) ambition can creep as well as soar."
Burke. Letters on the Regicide Peace, HI., 1797.
AMBITION DARES— AN ACHING TOOTH. 23
" Ambition dares not stoop."
Ben Jonson. Cynthia's Revels [Hedon), Act IV., Sc. I .
" Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune
to satisfy us."
B. Franklin. On True Happiness. Pennsylvania Gazette,
20th Nov., 1735.
" Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked."
Landor. Imaginary Conversations, Lord Brooke and Sir P. Sidney.
" (When some sad swain shall teach the grove,)
Ambition is no cure for love ! "
Sir W. Scott. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Can. I., XXVII.
" Ambition is no sluggard. " Keats. Endymion.
" Ambition is the growth of every clime."
Blake. King Edward the Third {Dagworth).
" Ambition is the only power that combats love."
CoLLEY CiBBER. CcEsar in Egypt {Photimis), Act I.
" Ambition, hke a torrent, ne'er looks back ;
And is a swelling, and the last affection
A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
And offereth violence to nature's self."
Ben Jonson. Catiline (Cicero), Act III., Sc. II.
" (But wild) Ambition loves to slide, not stand.
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land."
Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. /., line 198.
" Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need."
Ben Jonson. Sejatttis (Sejamts), Act I., Sc. I.
" Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."
Shakespeare. Julius Ccesar {Antony), Act III., Sc. II,
" Ambition,
The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss
Than gain which darkens him."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Ventidius), Act III., Sc. I.
" Among the honest shoulders of the crowd.
Read rascal in the motions of his back,
And scoundrel in the supple-sliding knee."
Tennyson. Sea Dreams.
" Amongst the sons of men how few are known
Who dare be just to merit not their own ? "
Churchill. Epistle to Hogarth, line i.
" An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man."
Goldsmith. On Garrick. Retaliation, line 94.
" An aching void." Cowper, Hymn I.
" An aching tooth is better out than in,
To loose a rotting member is a gain. " R. Baxter. Hypocrisy,
.1
24 AN ACRE OF PERFORMANCE— AN HYPOCRITE,
"An acre of performance is worth a whole land of promise."
Howell. Familiar Letters, Bk. IV., Letter XXXIII.
To Mr. R. Lee.
"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia."
Macaulay. Essay on Lord Bacon.
" The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent pro-
mises of impossibilities." Macaulay. Essay on Lord Bacon.
" An age that melts in unperceived decay,
And glides in modest innocence away."
Dr. Johnson. The Vanity of Human Wishes, line 294.
" (Though he endeavour all he can,)
An ape will never be a man."
G. Wither. Emblems. First Lottcrie. Emblem XIV.
" An artful woman makes a modern saint."
Prior. Epigrams. The Modern Saint.
*' An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."
George Eliot. Romola {Bratti), Bk. III., Ch. L.
" An Atheist-laugh's a poor exchange
For Deity offended ! " Burns. Epistle to a Young Friend.
" (When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to
take a little brandy, and throwing his goods on the counter, thinks
I, that man has) an axe to grind."
B. Franklin. Poor Richard's Almanac.
"An Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb ; threatened, a lion."
G. Chapman. Alphonsus (Collen), Act I.
" An Englishman does not travel to see Englishmen."
Sterne. Sentimental Jotirney.
" An Englishman hath three qualyties, he can suffer no partner in his
love, no stranger to be his equal, nor to be dared by any."
Lyly. Euphues and his Etigland.
"An Eternal now does always last."
Cowley. Davideis, Bk. I., line 362.
"An habitation giddy and unsure
Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. {Archbishop), Act I., Sc. III.
" ('Tis a maxim with me, that) an hale
Cobbler is a better man than a sick king."
Bickerstaff. Love in a Village {Hawthorn), Act I., Sc. III.
" An hour or two
Never breaks squares in lo\ e ; he comes in time
That comes at all ; absence is all love's crime."
MiDDLETON. The Widow {Francesco), Act II., Sc. II.
" An hypocrite is a gilded pill, composed of two natural ingredients,
natural dishonesty, and artificial dissimulation."
Sir T. Overbury. Characters, An Hypocrite.
AN IDLER IS A WATCH— AND LOOKS. 25
" An idler is a watch that wa;its both hands ;
As useless when it goes as when it stands."
CowPER. Retirement, line 681.
"An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own."
Shakespicare. As Yott Like It {Tone lis tone), Act V., Sc. IV.
" (But what am I ?)
An infant crying in the night :
An infant crying for the light :
And with no language but a cry."
Tennyson, In Memoriam, LIV.
" An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
Lord Chesterfield. Letter to his Son, gth Oct., 1746.
Letter to his Godson, ^th Dec. 1765.
" An innocent heart is a brittle thing, and one false vow can break it."
BuLWER Lytton. Last of the Barons, Bk. I., Chap. II.
"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."
Emerson. Self-Reliance.
" An old man 's twice a child."
Massinger. The Bashful Lover [Gothrio), Act III., Sc. I.
•' Old men are twice children."
Randolph. The Jealous Lovers (Simo), Act III. , Sc. VI.
" An open foe may prove a curse,
But a pretended friend is worse."
Gay. Fables, Pt. I., Fable XVII.
" An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow."
R. Baxter. Self-Denial.
"One ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow. "
Carey. Chrononhotonthologos. Rigdum Funidos.
Act I., Sc. IV.
" An overcute woman 's no better nor a long-tailed sheep — she'll fetch
none the bigger price for that."
George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss (Mr. Tulliver), Bk. I.,
Ch. II.
" An oyster may be cross'd in love."
Sheridan. The Critic {Tilburnia in the play), Act III., Sc. I.
" An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind."
Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothing [Dogberry), Act III.,
Sc. V.
" An undevout astronomer is mad."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night IX., line 773.
" And is this — Yarrow ? — This the stream
Of which my fancy cherished,
So faithfully, a waking dream ? "
Wordsworth. Yarrow visited.
" And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man."
Longfellow. The Village Blacksmith.
26 AND SHALL THEY SCORN— APPEAL UNTO CMSAR.
" And shall they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen,
And shall Trelawny die ?
There's thirty thousand Cornish men
Shall know the reason why." Old Ballad.
" ' And shall Trelawney die, and shall Trelawney die ?
Tlien thirty thousand Cornish boys will know the reason
why ? '
The miners from their caverns re-echoed the song with a variation : —
' Then twenty thousand under ground will know the
reason why.' "
Lord Macaulay. History of England, Chap. VIII.
Mr. J. Hain Friswell, in his notes to "Familiar Words,'^
page 270, says: " Written in 1824 by the Rev. R. S.
Hawker, Vicar of Morwenstow. Afterwards Davies
Gilbert, President of the Royal Society, reprinted the
entire ballad, believing it to be an ancient one, and
Sir Walter Scott regarded it as ' the solitary people's
sojtg of the seventeenth century '."
" (Read o'er this ;
And, after, this :) and then to breakfast, with
What appetite you have."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. (King), Act III., Sc. II.
" And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
Shakespeare. Richard III. (Gloster), Act I., Sc. III.
" Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell :
Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Yet grace must still look so."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Malcolm), Act IV., Sc. III.
" Angels from friendship gather half their joys."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night II., line 577.
*' Anger is like
A full -hot horse ; who being allow'd his way,
Soft mettle tires him."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. (Norfolk), Act I., Sc. I.
" Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so."
I. Walton. The Complete Angler (Plscator), Pt. /., Ch. I.
" Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass
no criticisms."
George Eliot. Scenes of Clerical Life : Mr. GilfiVs Love Story.
"Antheming a lonely griefl" Keats. Hyperion, III.
" Anywhere, anywhere
Out of the world 1 " Hood. The Bridge of Sighs.
" Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet."
Ben Jonson. The Poetaster, Act V., Sc. I.
" (I) appeal unto Caesar."
Acts of the Apostles. (St. Paul), Ch. XXV., ver. 11.
APPLAUD THEE— AS CLEAR. 27
" (I would) applaud thee to the very echo."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act V., Sc. IIL
â– Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."
CoLTON. Lacon, CCCCXXIV.
" Apples and crabs may grow on the same tree."
R. Baxter. Hypocrisy.
"Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley, is praise indeed."
Morton. Cure for the Heart-ache, Act F., Sc. II.
" (Who often, but without success, have pray'd
For) apt Alliteration's artful aid;"
Churchill. The Prophecy of Famine, line 86.
" 'Arcades ambo,' id est blackguards both."
Byron. Don yuan. Cant. IV., St. 92.
" (And) Ardennes waves above them her green leaves,
Dewy with Nature's tear-drops, as they pass ,
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves,
Over the unreturning brave."
BvRON. Childe Harold, Cant. III., XXVII.
" (The) arms are fair.
When the intent of bearing them is just."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. [Hotspur), Act V., Sc. II.
" Art indeed is long, but Life is short."
Marvell. Upon the Death of Lord Hastings, last line.
" Art is long, and time is fleeting."
Longfellow. A Psalm of Life.
" Art is the perfection of Nature."
Sir T. Browne. Rcligio Medici, Sect. XVI.
" Art is the child of Nature."
Longfellow. Keramos.
" Art may err, but Nature cannot miss."
Dryden. The Cock and Fox.
"Art may make a suit of clothes : but Nature must produce a man."
Hume. Essay XV., The Epicurean.
" Art quickens nature ; care will make a face ;
Neglected beauty perisheth apace." Herrick. Hesperides, 234.
"(Inscribe all human effort with one word,)
Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete 1 "
R. Browning. The Ring and the Book, XI., line 1560.
" As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is
without discretion." Proverbs. Ch. XI., ver. 22,
" As a lyke to compare in taste, chalk and cheese."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. IV.
" As children gathering pebbles on the shore."
Milton. Paradise Regained, Bk. IV., line 330.
" As clear as a whistle." John Byrom. Epistle to Lloyd.
28 AS COLD WATERS— AS MANY LIVES.
" As cold waters to a thirsty soul,
So is good news from a far country."
Proverds. Ch. XXV., ver. 25.
" As crestfallen as a dried pear."
Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor {Falstaff), Act IV.,
Sc. V.
" As easy as lying."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III., Sc. II.
" As for the women, though we scorn and flout 'em,
We may live with, but cannot live without 'em."
F. Reynolds. The Will, Act I., Sc. I.
" As good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a
reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good
book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the
eye." Milton. Areopagitica.
" As good as a play."
King Charles II., said to have been exclaitned by him, while
listening to a debate on Lord Ross' Divorce Bill.
" As grand
And griefless as a rich man's funeral."
Sydney Dobell. A Musing on a Victory.
" (She is) as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile."
Sheridan. The Rivals {Mrs. Malaprop), Act III., Sc II.
" (Day after day, day after day.
We stuck, nor breath nor motion ;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean." Coleridoe. The Ancient Mariner, II.
" As if misfortune made the throne her seat.
And none could be unhappy but the great."
RowE. The Fair Penitent [Prologue).
" None think the great unhappy but the great."
Young. Love of Fame, Sat. I.
" (Almost) as like as eggs."
Shakespeare. Winter's Tale {Laertes), Act I., Sc. II.
"As cherry is to cherry."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. (Lady), Act V., Sc. I.
" Since they are like other as are peas."
Swift. Horace, Bk. I., Ep. 5.
" As long as words a different sense will bear,
And each may be his own interpreter,
Our airy faith will no foundation find ;
The word's a weathercock for every wind."
Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, Pt. I., line 462.
" As long lyveth the mery man, they say,
As doth the scry man, and longer by a day."
Udall. Roister Doister {Mathewe Merygreeke), Act I., Sc. I.
â– ' (As they say,) as many lives as a cat."
BuNYAN. Pilgrim's Progress, Part II.
AS MEKE AS IS A MAYDE~ASK ME NO QUESTIONS. 29
'• As meke as is a mayde."
Chaucer. Canterbury Talcs {Prologue), line 6g.
" As merry as the day is long."
Shakespeare. Much Ado (ibont Nothing (Beatrice),
Act II., Sc. I.
" As plain as a pack-staff."
MiDDLETON. The Family 0/ Love {Dry/at), Act V., Sc. III.
" As men
Do walk a mile, women should talk an hour
After supper. 'Tis their exercise."
Beaumont and Fletcher. Philastcr {Dion.), Act II., Sc. IV.
" As poor as Job."
Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor {Page), Act V., Sc. V.
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Falstafi), Act I., Sc. II.
" (He is) as slippery as an eel, in love."
Shakerley Marmion. a Fine Companion {Fido), Act V., Sc. II.
•'As sluttish and slatternly as an Irish woman bred in France."
Wycherley. The Plain Dealer [Olivia), Act II., Sc. I.
" As the greatest things often take rise from the smallest beginnings, so
the worst things sometimes proceed from good intentions."
Dr. Priestley. The Corruptions of Christianity, Pt. I., Sec. II.
" As the husband is the wife is." Tennyson. Locksley Hall.
" As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit."
Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio),
ActIV.,Sc.III.
" As unto the bow the cord is,
So unto the man is woman.
Though she bends him, she obeys him.
Though she draws him, yet she follows.
Useless each without the other ! " Longfellow. Hiawatha, X.
"(I am) as vigilant as a cat to steal cream."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Falstaff), Act IV., Sc. II.
"As welcome as flowers in May." Old Proverbial Expression.
" You are as welcome as the flowers in May."
Macklin. Love a la Mode [Sir Callaghan), Act I., Sc. I.
" As we're merry may we still be wise."
Burns. Address, spoken by Miss Fontinelle.
" ' As you like ' is a bad finger-post."
George Eliot. Daniel Dcronda, Bk. III., Ch. XXV.
" Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs."
Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer (Tony Lumpkin),
Act III., Sc. I.
30 ASK WHAT IS HUMAN LIFE— AT SIXE AND SEVEN.
" Ask what is human life — the sage replies,
With disappointment lowering in his eyes,
A painful passage o'er a restless flood,
A vain pursuit of fugitive false good,
A sense of fancied bliss and heart-felt care,
Closing at last in darkness and despair."
Cowi'ER. Hope, line i
" Ask, who is wise ? — You'll find the self-same man
A sage in France, a madman in Japan ;
And here some head beneath a mitre swells.
Which there had tingled to a cap and bells."
T. Moore. The Sceptic, line 17.
" Assent is power, belief the soul of fact."
Wordsworth. Memorials of a Tour in Italy, IV.
" Assume a virtue, if you have it not."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act III., Sc. IV.
" At church on Sunday to attend
Will serve to keep the world thy friend."
Clough. The Latest Decalogue.
" At every trifle scorn to take offence,
That always shows great pride or little sense."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, line 386.
" At ev'ry word a reputation dies."
Pope. Rape of the Lock, Can. III., line 16.
" (The creature's) at his dirty work again."
Pope. Epistle to Arbuthnot, line 92.
" At his head a grass-green turf.
At his heels a stone."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Ophelia), Act IV., Sc. V.
" At lover's perjuries,
They say, Jove laughs."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet {yuliet), Act II., Sc. II.
" For the queen of love
As they hold constantly, does never punish,
But smile, at lovers' perjuries."
Massinger. The Great Duke of Florence {Charomonti),
Act II., Sc. III.
" Love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lover's perjury."
Dryden. Palamon and Ar cite, Bk. II., line 148.
" At sixe and seven." John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. XI.
" Set alle on sex and seven." Tmrtielry Mysteries.
" All is uneven,
And everything is left at six and seven."
Shakespeare. Richard II. {York), Act II., Sc. II.
" When I see things going at sixes and sevens."
Goldsmith. The Good-Naturcd Man {Jarvis), Act I.,
Sc.I.
AT THIRTY— BARKIS IS WILLIN'. 31
" At thirty man suspects himself a fool ;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ;
At fifty chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve,
In all the magnanimity of thought
Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night I., line 417.
" Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt ;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out."
Lovelace. Seek mid Find.
" Authority forgets a dying king.
Laid widow'd of the power in his eye
That bow'd the will." Tennyson. Morte D' Arthur.
" Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old;
It is the rust we value, not the gold."
Pope. Imitations of Horace, Bk. II., Ep. I.
" (Behold congenial) Autumn comes,
The Sabfjath of the year I "
Logan. The Country in Aiitiunn, ver. 1.
" Avarice of all is ever nothing's father."
G. Chapman. The Revenge of B ussy D'Ambois (Clermont),
Act v., Se. I.
" Avarice, the spur of industry."
Hume. Essay XII. Of Civil Liberty.
" Ayens trouth falsehood hath no might."
Lydgate. The Story of Thebes, Pt. II.
" (To see what) bad events may peep out o' the tail of good purposes."
Ben Jonson. Bartholomew Fair (Overdo), Act III., Sc. I.
" Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
He acts the third crime that defends the first."
Ben Jonson, Catiline (Cicero), Act III., Sc. II.
" (With) bagge and baggage, sely wretch,
I yeilded into Beautie's hand." Lord Vaux. Cupid's Assault.
" Bag and baggage."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (Touchstone), Act III., Sc. II.
Shakespeare. Winter's Tale (Laertes), Act I., Sc. II.
" (What though she be toothless and) bald as a coote ? "
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. V.
" (Is there no) balm in Gilead ? " Jeremiah. Ch. VIII., ver. 22.
" Is there, is there balm in Gilead ? tell me — tell me, ]
implore." E. A. Poe. The Raven.
" Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease."
buvDEN. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. I., line 168.
" Barkis is vvillin'." Dickens. David Copperfield (Barkis), Ch. V.
:^3 BASE ENVY WITHERS— BE NOT THE FIRST.
" Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates the excellence it cannot reach."
Thomson. The Seasons {Spring), line 283.
" Base in kind, and born to be a slave."
CowpER. Table Talk, line 28.
" Base is the slave that pays."
Shakespeare. Henry V. (Pistol), Act II., Sc. I.
" Battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayer."
Tennyson. St. Simeon Stylites.
" Battle's magnificently stern array."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. III., XXVIII.
" Be Britain still to Britain true,
Amang oursel's united ;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted."
Burns. The Dumfries Volunteers.
" Be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech."
Shakespeare. AWs Well that Ends Well (Countess),
Act I., Sc. II.
' (Let your precept be,) ' be easy '." Steele. Spectator, No. 196.
" Be England what she will,
JVifh all her faults, she is my country still."
Churchill. The Farewell, line 27.
" England, with all thy faults, I love thee still —
My country ! and while yet a nook is left
Where English minds and manners may be found,
Shall be constrain'd to love thee."
Cowper. The Task, Bk. II., line 206.
The first of Cowper's lines is quoted by Byron in " Beppo,"
St. 47.
Be England's trade our care ; and we, as tradesmen
Looking to the gain of this our native land."
Blake. Kiuf; Edward the Third (Bishop).
•' Be famous then
5y wisdom ; as thy empire must extend,
So let extend thy mind o'er all the world
In knowledge." Milton. Paradise Regained, Bk. IV., line 221.
" Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long;
And so make life, death, and that vast for ever
One grand, sweet song."
C. KiNGSLEY. A Farewell.
" Be niggards of advice on no pretence,
For the worst avarice is that of sense."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, Pt. III., line 578-
" Be not the first by whom the new are tried.
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, Pt. II., line 133.
BE NOT TOO RIGIDLY— BEAUTY AND ANGUISH. 33
" Be not too rigidly censorious,
A string may jar in the best master's hand,
And the most skilful archer miss his aim ; —
I would not quarrel with a slight mistake."
Roscommon. Art 0/ Poetry, line 388.
" Be proud of those strong sons of thine
Who wrenched their rights from thee ! "
Tennyson. England and America.
" Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art
As great as that thou fear'st."
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night {Olivia), Act V,, Sc. I.
" Be the fair level of thy actions laid
As temp'rance wills and prudence may persuade."
Prior. Solomon, Bk. III., line 43.
" Be to her virtues very kind ;
Be to her faults a little blind :
Let all her ways be unconfin'd,
And clap your padlock on her mind."
Prior. An English Padlock, last lines.
" Be to her faults a little blind ;
Be to her virtues very kind :
Let all her ways be unconfin'd,
And clap your padlock on her mind."
BicKERSTAFF. The Padlock (Leandcr), Act II., Sc. III.
" Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escapt
calumny."
Shakespeare, Hamlet {Hamlet), Act III., Sc. I.
" Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Polonitis), Act I., Sc. III.
Vide — " Give thy thoughts no tongue."
" Be wise with speed :
A fool at forty is a fool indeed."
Young. Love of Fame, Satire II., line 281.
" Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise."
Quarles. Emblems, Bk. II.
" Be wiser than other people if you can ; but do not tell them so."
Lord Chesterfield. Letter to his Son. Dublin Castle,
igth Nov., 1745,
*• Beauties are tyrants, and if they can reign
They have no feeling for their subject's pain ;
Their victim's anguish gives their charms applause,
And their chief glory is the woe they cause."
Crabbe. The Patron.
" Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand
The downward slope to death."
Tennyson. A Dream of Fair Women.
3
34 BEAUTY DRAWS— BEAUTY PROVOKETH THIEVES.
' (Fair tresses man's imj erial race ensnare,
And) beauty draws us with a single hair."
Pope. The Rape of the Lock, Bk. II., line 27.
" (The flowers anew returning seasons bring,
But) beauty faded has no second spring."
A. Phillips. Pastoral, I.
" Beauty from order springs. '
W. King. The Art of Cookery, line 55.
" Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love unrewarded soon sickens and dies."
E. Moore. Soitg, XII.
" Beauty's of a fading nature —
Has a season, and is gone ! "
Burns. Will ye go and marry Katie ?
" Beauty hath created bin
T' undoo or be undone."
S. Daniel. Ulysses and the Syren, line 71.
" Beauty is but a flower.
Which wrinkles will devour."
Thomas Nash. Summer's Last Will and Testament, line 600.
" Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good ;
A shining gloss, that fadeth suddenly ;
A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud ;
A brittle glass, that's broken presently :
A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour."
Shakespeare. The Passionate Pilgrim, St. g.
" Beauty is but skin deep." Old Proverb.
" And all the carnal beauty of my wife
Is but skin deep."
Sir T. Overbury. A Wife, St. 16.
" Beauty is merely skin deep."
G. CoLMAN, Jr. Poetical Vagaries {Low Ambition).
" The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin
deep saying."
Herbert Spencer. Essays, Personal Beauty.
" Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
Keats. Ode to a Grecian Urn, last lines.
" Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue."
Emerson. Nature, Ch. III., Beauty.
" Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece, St. 5.
" Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold."
Shakespeare. As You Like It {Rosalind), Act I., Sc. III.
BEAUTY— BEGGARS SHOULD BE. 35
•' Beauty, — thou pretty playthiiij^, death deceit!
That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart,
And gi\'es it a new pulse, unknown before,
The grave discredits thee." Blair. The Grave, line 237.
'• Beauty to no complexion is confin'd,
Is of all colours, and by none defin'd."
Granville. The Progress of Beauty.
•* Beauty, when most uncloth'd, is clothed best."
Phineas Fletcher. Sicelides {Alcippus), Act II., Sc. IV.
" Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorned, adorned the most."
Thomson. The Seasons, Autumn, line 204.
" Beauty's silken bond,
The weakness that subdues the strong, and bows
Wisdom alike and folly."
R. Browning. The Ring and the Book, Bk, IX., line 441.
" (Even) bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers,
Know there is richest juice in poison-flowers."
Keats. Isabella, XIII.
" Before men made us citizens, great Nature made us men."
Lowell. The Capture.
" Before the coming of a strong disease,
Even in the instant of repair and health,
The fit is strongest."
Shakespeare. King John [Pandulph), Act III., Sc. IV.
" (For her own person,
It) beggar'd all description."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Enobarbus), Act II.,
Sc. II.
" (Unless the adage must be verified,
That) beggars, mounted, run their horse to death."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. III. {York), Act I., Sc. IV.
" Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. II., Sec. III.,
Mem. II.
" Beggars should be no choosers."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. IX.
" Beggars must not be chusers."
Beaumont and Fletcher. The Honest Man''s Fortune
{La-Poop), Act v., Sc. III.
" Beggars must not be choosers."
Colley Gibber. The Provoked Husband {Sir Francis),
Act IV., Sc. I.
" Beggars can scarcely be choosers."
R. Browning. Up at a Villa, Down in the City.
36 BEHOLD, HOW GREAT— BETTER BE WITH THE DEAD.
" Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth."
St. James. Ep., Ch. III., ver. 5.
" A spark neglected makes a mighty fire."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. III. {Clifford),
ActIV.,Sc. VIII.
" From small fires comes oft no small mishap."
Herbert. The Temple. Artillery.
" Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law,
Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. II., line 275.
" Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword."
BuLWER Lytton. Richelieu {Richelieu), Act II., Sc. II.
" Benefits and meek submission tame
The fiercest and the mightiest."
Shelley. Prometheus Unbound {Mercury), Act I.
" Benevolence, that has not heart to use
The wholesome ministry of pain and evil,
Becomes at last weak and contemptible."
Wordsworth. The Borderers {Oswald), Act II.
" Beside the Eternal Nile
The pyramids have risen.
Nile shall pursue his changeless way ;
Those pyramids shall fall ;
Yea 1 not a stone shall stand to tell
The spot whereon they stood ;
Their very site shall be forgotten,
As is their builder's name." Shelley. Queen Mab, II.
" Best things carry'd to excess are wrong."
Churchill. The Rosciad, line 1039.
" Best he's liked, that is alike to all."
S. Daniel. Civil War, Bk. V., CV.
" Better a little chiding than a great deal of heart-break."
Shakespeare. The Merry Wives of Windsor {Mrs. Page),
Act v., Sc. III.
" Better a little well kept, than a great deal forgotten."
Bp. Latimer. Fifth Sermon preached before King Edward.
" Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night {Clown), Act I., Sc. V.
" Better be dumb than superstitious."
Ben Jonson. Underwoods, Euplume, IX
" Better be happie than wise."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. VI.
" Better be with the dead,
Whom we, to gain our place, have sent to peace.
Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Macbeth), Act III., Sc. II.
BETTER BUILD— BETTER OWE 37
" Better build schoolrooms for ' the boy,'
Than cells and gibbets for ' the man '."
Eliza Cook. A Song for the Ragged Schools.
" Better die with the sword, than by the sword."
S. Daniel. Civil War, Bk. VII., XXVI.
" Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay."
Tennyson. Locksley Hall.
" Better had they ne'er been born
Who read to doubt or read in scorn."
Sir W. Scott. The Monastery, Ch. XII.
" (My) better half." Sir P. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. III.
" Best image of myself and dearer half. "
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. V., line 95.
" Better heresy of doctrine, than heresy of heart."
Whittier. Mary Garvin.
" Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred
therewith." Proverbs. Ch. XV., ver. 17.
" Better is a dry morsel and righteousness therewith, than a house
full of feasting with strife." Proverbs. Ch. XVII., ver. i.
" (Throw no gift againe the giver's head ;
For) better is halfe a lofe than no bread."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. XI.
"Better late than never." J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. X.
TussER. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
" 'Tis better late than never."
Sheridan. Pizarro {Prologue).
" Better late than never."
W. Hazlitt. Political Essays 07i the Courier and
Times Newspapers, 21st January, 1814.
" Better new friend than an old foe."
Spenser. Faerie Queene, Bk. I., Can. II., St. -z-j.
" Better not to be at all
Than not be noble." Tennyson. The Princess, II.
" Better not do the deed than weep it done."
Prior. Henry and Emma.
" Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. XI.
"Better one suffer, than a nation grieve."
Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. I., line 416.
" Better owe
A yard of land to labour, than to chance
Be debtor for a rood ! "
Sheridan Knowles. The Hunchback (Clifford), Act /., Sc. I.
38 BETTER SEVERITY— BEWARE OF ENTRANCE.
" Better severity that's right and just,
Than impotent atlections led with lust."
S. Daniel. Civil War, Bk. V., XCII.
" Better sure be unrevealed
Than part revealed." R. Browning. Sordello, Bk. III.
" Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil." Drayton. The Owl.
" Better the devil's than a woman's slave."
Massinger. The Parliament of Love {Cleremond), Act II.,
Sc. II.
" Better, tho' difficult, the right way to go,
Than wrong, tho' easy, where the end is wo."
BuNYAN. Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. I.
" Better to die renown'd for chastity.
Than live with shame and endless infamy."
Shakespeare. Locrine [Estild.), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Better to go on foot than ride and fall."
Middleton. Micro-Cynicon, Satire V.
" Better to leave undone, than by our deed
Acquire too high a fame, when him we serve 's away."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra {Ventidius), Act III., Sc. I.
" Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved."
Crabbe. The Struggles of Conscience.
" (Ah) better to love in the lowliest cot
Than to reign in a palace, alone."
Whyte Melville, Chastelar.
" (To reign is worth ambition though in Hell),
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Book I., line 263.
" Between the acting of a dreadful thing.
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream :
The genius, and the mortal instruments,
Are then in council, and the state of man,
Like to a little kingdom, suffers then
The nature of an insurrection."
Shakespeare, jfulius Casar (Brutus), Act II., Sc. I.
" (For it is saide, and euer shall)
Betwene two stooles is the fall.
When that men wenen best to sitte."
GowER. Confessio Amantis, Prologue.
" Beware a tongue that's smoothly hung ;
A heart that seems to feel." Burns. Rob Mossgiel.
" Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel ; but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee."
Shakicspeare. Hamlet (Polonius), Act I., Sc. III.
BEWARE, MY LORD— BLEST BE THOSE. 39
r.eware, my lord, of jealousy ;
It is the green-ey'd monster, wliicli doth mock
The meat it feeds on : that cuckold lives in bliss
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger ;
But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves I "
Shakespeare. Othello (Ingo), Act III Sc. Ill .
" Beware the fury of a patient man."
Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt /., line 1005.
" Beyond the stars, and all this passing scene.
Where change shall cease, and Time shall be no more."
KiRKE White. Time, line 726.
" Big with the fate of Rome."
Otway. Venice Preserved (Belvidera), Act IIL, Sc. 7.
" The great, th' important day big with the fate of Cato
and of Rome."
Addison. Cato [Portius), Act I., Sc. I.
" Big with the fate of Europe."
TicKELL. Ode on Earl Stanhope's Voyage to France,
St. I.
" Big words do not smite like war clubs,
Boastful breath is not a bow-string.
Taunts are not so sharp as arrows,
Deeds are better things than words are,
Actions mightier than boastings." Longfellow. Hiawatha, IX.
" Bigotry murders religion, to frighten fools with her ghost."
CoLTON. Lacon, CI.
" Birds of a feather will gather together." Old Proverb.
" Birds of a feather will fly together."
R. Wilson. Three Lords and three Ladies of London
[Simplicity).
" Birds of a feather will gather together."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. III., Sec. I.,
Mem. II., Subs. I.
" Then let's flock hither,
Like birds of a feather." Randolph. Aristippus.
" Birds quick to fledge and fly at call
Are quick to fall." Swinburne. Felise.
" Blame where you must, be candid where you can,
And be each critic the good-natured man."
Goldsmith. The Good-Natnred Man, Epilogue.
" Bless'd is the bride on whom the sun doth shine.'
Herrick. Hespcrides, 283.
" Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds ;
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds."
Congreve. The Mourning Bride (Alplionso), Act V., Sc. XII.
" Blest be those,
How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills."
Shakespeare. CymhcUin' (Itnogcu), Act I., Sc. VI.
40 BLIND FEAR— BOOBIES HAVE LOOKED.
" Blind fear, that seeming reason leads, finds safer footing than blind
reason stumbling without fear : To fear the worst, oft cures the
worst."
Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida (Cressida), Act III.,
Sc. II.
" Blindness is the first-born of excess."
Byron. Heaven and Earth (Raphael), Pt. I., Sc. III.
" Blood is the god of war's rich livery."
Marlowe. Tamburlaine the Great, Pt. II. {Tamburlaine),
Act III., Sc. II.
" Blood only serves to wash ambition's hands."
Byron. Don Juan, Can. IX., St. 59.
" Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude ;
Thy tooth is not so keen
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.*'
Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act II., Sc. VII.
" Blow wind ! come wrack I
At least we'll die with harness on our back."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act V., Sc. V.
" Blows are sarcasms turned stupid : wit is a form of force that leaves
the limbs at rest." George Eliot. Felix Holt, Ch. XXX.
" Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, Pt. III., line 574.
" Blush, folly, blush : here's none that fears
The wagging of an ass's ears,
Although a wolfish case he wears.
Detraction is but baseness' varlet ;
And apes are apes though clothed in scarlet."
Ben Jonson. The Poetaster, Act V., Sc. I.
" Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou knowest not what a day may
bring forth." Proverbs. Ch. XXVII., ver. i.
" Bold knaves thrive, without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence."
Dryden. Epilogtie XII., To " Constantine the Great".
" Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud ;
Else would I tear the cave where echo lies,
And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine
With repetition of my Romeo's name."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jftdiet (yuliet), Act II., Sc- II.
" Boobies have looked as wise and bright
As Plato or the Stagyrite ;
And many a sage and learned skull
Has peeped through windows dark and dull ! "
T. Moore. Nature's Labels.
BOOKS ARE MEN— BRIEF AS THE LIGHTNING. 41
" Books are men of higher stature,
And the only men tliat speak aloud for future times to hear."
E. 13. Browning. Lady Geralciiiic's Courtship.
" Books are sepulchres of thought."
Longfellow. The Wind over the Chimney.
" Books cannot always please, however good ;
Minds are not ever craving for their food."
Crabbe. The Borough, Letter XXIV., Schools.
" Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. II., line 10.
" Boundless intemperance
In nature is a tyranny : it hath been
The untimely emptying of the happy throne,
The fall of many kings."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Macduff), Act IV., Sc. III.
" Boundless risk must pay for boundless gain."
William Morris. The Earthly Paradise Prologue,
The Wanderers.
" (Our) bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffused too
widely."
Goldsmith. The Good-Natured Man {Sir W. Honeywood),
Act III.
" Boyhood is a summer sun.
Whose waning is the dreariest one —
For all we live to know is known.
And all we seek to keep hath flown." E. A. Poe. Tamerlane.
" Bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-
suffering."
St. Paul. Epistle to the Colossians, Chap. III., ver. 12.
" Open thy bowels of compassion."
CoNGREVE. The Mourning Bride, Act IV., Sc. VII.
" ' Bread,' says he, ' dear brothers, is the staff of life.' "
Swift. Tale of a Tub, Sec. IV.
" Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself has said,
This is my own, my native land ?
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand? "
Sir W. Scott. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Can. VI., I.
" Breed is stronger than pasture."
George Eliot. Silas Marncr {Mr. Lammctcr).
" Brevity is the soul of wit."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Polonius), Act II., Sc. II.
" Brief as the lightning in the collied night.
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth.
And, ere a man hath power to say. Behold !
The jaws of darkness do devour it up :
So quick bright things come to conlusion."
Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream {Lysander), Act I.,
Sc. I.
42 BRIEFLY DTE- BUT YESTERDAY.
" Briefly die their joys
That place them on the truth of girls and boys."
Shakespeare. Cynibcliiic [Lucius), Act V., Sc. V.
" Bring down my gray hairs with sorrrow to the grave."
Genesis. Ch. XLIL, ver. 3S.
" Brisk confidence still best with woman copes;
Pique her and soothe in turn, soon passion crowns thy hopes."
Byron, Childe Harold, Cmi. //., St. 34.
" British forces are unused to fear "
CoNGREVE. Ode to the King, V.
' Brittle beauty, that nature made so frail,
Whereof the gift is small, and short the season ;
Flowering to-day, to-morrow apt to fail ;
Fickle treasure, abhorred of reason."
Earl of Surrey. The Frailty and Htirtfulness of Beauty.
" (They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them
out cisterns), broken cisterns that can hold no water."
Jeremiah. Ch. II., ver. 13,
" Broken hearts die slow." Campbell. Thcodric.
" (You are in some) brown study." Lyly. Euphiies.
" Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll ;
Leave thy low vaulted past !
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast."
O. W. Holmes. The Chambered Nautilus.
" Burnt child fire dredth."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. IL, Ch. II.
" A burne childe feere de fire "
Unknown. Pasquil and Katherine.
" A burnt childe dreadeth the fire."
Lyly. Euphnes and his England.
" The burnt child dreads the fire."
Ben Jonson. The Devil is an Ass (Fitzdottrell),
Act I., Sc. II.
" Rut any man that walks the mead, 1
In bud or blade, or bloom may find,
According as his humours lead,
A meaning suited to his mind."
Tennyson. The Day Dream, Moral II.
But once when love's betrayed
The he.irt can bloom no more ! "
T. Moore, yuvettile Poems, Anacreontic.
" But yesterday the word of Cassar might
Have stood against the world : now he lies there,
And none so poor to do him reverence ''
Shakespeare Julius Casar (Antony), Act III., Sc. II.
/., Sc. I.\
BUT YET— CESAR'S AMBITION. 43
" ' But yet ' is a gaoler to bring forth
Some monstrous malefactor."
SiiAKESPEAKE. Aiiioiiv iiud Clcopntia {Cleopatra), Act II.,
Sc. V.
" By contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine."
Emerson. Spiritual Laws.
I" By harmony our souls are sway'd ;
I By harmony the world was made."
f Granville. The British Enchantress (Chorus), Act
" (Nor wyll suffer this boke,)
By hooke ne by crooke,
Prynted for to be." Skelton. Colin Clout.
" By hooke or crooke."
Spenser. Faerie Queene, Bk. III., Can. I., St. 17.
" By hooke or crooke."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. XI.
" By ignorance we know not things necessary; by errour we know them
falsely."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, Dcmocritus to the Reader.
" By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death will seize the doctor too.'
Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Cymbeline), Act V., Sc. V.
" By outward show let's not be cheated ;
An ass should like an ass be treated."
Gay. Fables, Part II., Fable II.
" By the bird's song ye may learn the nest."
Tennyson. Gcraint and Enid.
" By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Edgar), Act V., Sc. III.
" By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall."
J.Dickinson. The Liberty Song.
" (And han't,) by vent'ring on a wife.
Yet run the greatest risk in life." Green. The Spleen, line 240.
" By winning words to conquer willing hearts,
And make persuasion do the work of fear."
Milton. Paradise Regained. Bk. I., line 222.
" By whatever name we call
The ruling tyrant, Self is all in all."
Churchill. The Conference, line 167.
" Caesar ? Why, he's the Jupiter of men."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Enobarbus),
Act III., Sc. II.
" Caesar's ambition, —
Which swell'd so much, that it did almost stretch
The sides o' the world."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (Cymbeline), Act III., Sc.L
+4 CALAMITY— CAN STORIED URN.
" Calamity
Is man's true touchstone."
Beaumont and Fletcher. Four Plays in Oiu .
The Triumph of Honour {Martius), Sc. I.
" Call no faith false which e'er has brought
Relief to any laden life,
Cessation from the pain of thought,
Refreshment 'mid the dust of strife."
Lewis Morris. Songs of Two Worlds, Tolerance.
" (I can) call spirits from the vasty deep."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. {Glendower), Act III., Sc. I.
" (Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee)
Calls back the lovely April of her prime."
Shakespeare. Sonnet, III.
" Calm lights of mild philosophy."
Addison, Cato, Act I., Sc. I.
" Calmness is not
Always the attribute of innocence."
Byron. Werner [Siegendorf), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Calms appear when storms are past ;
Love will have his hour at last." Drvden. The Secular Mask.
" Calumny will sear
Virtue itself."
Shakespeare. Winter's Tale {Leontes), Act II., Sc. I.
" Can art, alas ! or genius, guide the head
Where truth and freedom from the heart are fled ?
Can lesser wheels repeat their native stroke,
When the prime function of the soul is broke ? "
Akenside. Epistle to Curio.
" Can he
That has a wife, e'er feel adversity ? "
Pope. 'January and May, line 65.
" Can man be firee if woman be a slave ? "
Shelley. The Revolt of Islam, II., XLIII.
" Can one desire too much of a good thing ? "
Shakespeare. As You Like It {Rosalind), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Can one love twice ? " Tennyson. Enoch Arden.
" Can one tyrant overbear
The sense of many best and wisest men ? "
Shelley. The Cenci (Beatrice), Act I., Sc. III.
" Can spirit from the tomb, or fiend from Hell,
More hateful, more malignant be than man ? "
Joanna Baillie. Orra (Orra), Act III., Sc. II.
"Can storied urn or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ?
Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death ? "
Gray. Elegy in a Country Churchyard.
CAN THE ETHIOPIAN -CASTELS THEN. 4
" Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard bis spots ? "
Jeremiah. Ch. XIII., ver. 23.
* Can wealth give happiness ? look round and see
What gay distress ! what splendid misery !
Whatever Fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates and calls for more."
Young. Love of Fame, Sat. V., line 393.
" Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ;
Raze out the written tablets of the brain ;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the stuff d bosom of that perilous stufT,
Which weighs upon the heart ? "
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Macbeth), Act V., Sc. III.
" (And simple truth miscalled simplicity,
And) captive good attending captain ill."
Shakespeare. Sonnet, LXVI.
" Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again,
Sorrow breeds sorrow, one grief brings forth twain."
Drayton. England^s Heroical Epistles, Henry Howard
to the Lady Geraldine,
" Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet [Friar Lawrence), Act II., Sc. III.
" Care lives with all ; no rules, no precepts save
The wise from woe, no fortitude the brave :
Grief is to man as certain as the grave :
Tempests and storms in life's whole progress rise,
And hope shines dimly through o'erclouded skies;
Some drops of comfort on the favour'd fall,
But showers of sorrow are the lot of all."
Crabbe. The Library.
" Care that is enter'd once into the breast.
Will have the whole possession, ere it rest."
Ben Jonson. Tale of a Tub (Lady Tub), Act I., Sc. IV.
" Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt.
And ev'ry grin, so merry, draws one out."
Peter Pindar. Expostulatory Odes, XV.
" Care's an enemy to life."
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night [Sir Toby Belch), Act I., Sc. III.
" Cast away care ; he that loves sorrow
Lengthens not day, nor can buy to-morrow ;
Money is trash ; and he that will spend it.
Let him drink merrily. Fortune will send it."
Ford and Dekker. The Sun^s Darling.
" Cast thread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days."
Ecclesiastes. Chap. XI., ver. i.
" (Thou shalt make) castels then in Spaine."
Chaucer, Romaunt of the Rose, line 2373.
46 CASTLES IN THE AIR— CHAOS IS COME.
" And castels buylt, above in lofty skies,
Which never yet had good foundation."
G. Gascoigne. The Steele Glas.
" By them that build castles in the ayre."
Sir p. Sidney. An Apologie for Poetrie.
" To leave the sweet for castles in the air."
S. Daniel. Complaint of Rosamund, St. 38.
" Only building a castle in the air."
Locke. Essay on the Human Understanding,
Bk. IV., Ch. IV., § I.
" Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up ! "
BuLWER Lytton. The Lady of Lyons {Widow Melnotte),
ActI.,Sc.IIL
•' Catch occasion by the foretop."
Unknown. Lingua [Mendacio), Act V., Sc. II.
" Catch I then, O catch, the transient hour ;
Improve each moment as it flies ;
Life's a short summer — man a flower —
He dies — alas ! how soon he dies."
Dr. S. Johnson. Winter, line g.
â– ' (For the play, I remember, pleased not the million ; 'twas) Caviare to
the general."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III., Sc. IV.
" Celebrity may blush and be silent, and win a grace the more."
George Eliot. Felix Holt, Ch. XXIII.
" Celerity is never more admir'd
Than by the negligent."
Shakespeare. Anto7iy and Cleopatra [Cleopatra), Act III.,
Sc. VII.
•' Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
Swift. Thoughts on Various Subjects.
" Censure's to be understood
' Th' authentic mark of the elect,
The public stamp Heav'n sets on all that's great and good,
Our shallow search and judgment to direct."
Swift. Ode to the Athenian Society.
" Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away."
Byron. Don Juan, Can. XIII., St. 2.
" Change lays not her hand upon truth."
Swinburne. Dedication^ A.D. 1865.
" (And when I love thee not)
Chaos is come again."
Shakespeare. Oihello {Othello), Act III., Sc. III.
" For he being dead, with him is beauty siain,
And beauty dead, black chaos comes again.''
Shakespeare. Venus and Adonis, 170
CHARACTER— CHILDHOOD SHOWS THE MAN. 47
" Chaos come again."
Thomson. Seasons, Summer, line 1S2.
■Character — a reserved force which acts directly by presence and with
cut means." Emerson. Character.
" Character must be kept bright as well as clean."
Lord Chesterfield. Letter to his Son. Sth Jan., 1750.
•' ' Charge, Chester, charge I on, Stanley, on 1 '
Were the last words of Marmion."
Sir W. Scott. Marmion, Can. VI., XXX J L
" Charity begins at home, but should not end there." Old Proverb.
•' True charity beginneth first at home."
HiSTRiOMASTix [Pvyde), Act IIL, Sc. /., line 65.
" Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world."
Sir T. Browne. Religio Medici, Pt. II., Sec. IV.
♦•Charity begins at home."
Sheridan. The School for Scandal {Rowley),
Act V , Sc. I.
•■But charity begins at home."
SouTHEY. The Witch (Father).
" Our charity begins at home.
And mostly ends where it begins."
Horace Smith. Horace in London, Bk. II.,
Ode XV.
" Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
Pope. The Rape of the Lock, Can. V., line 33.
•' Chaste as the icicle
That's curdled by the frost from purest snow,
And hangs on Dian's temple."
Shakespeare. Coriolanus (Coriolanus), Act V., Sc. III.
" (I'll go with thee,) cheek by jowl."
Shakespeare. Midsummer Nigh fs Dream (Demetrius),
Act III., Sc. II.
" (A man he seems of) cheerful yesterdays.
And confident to-morrows."
Wordsworth. The Excursion, Bk. VII.
" Cheerfulness, Sir, is the principal ingredient in the composition ol
health."
Murphy. The Apprentice (Gargle), Act II., Sc. IV.
" (Then he) chew'd
The thrice turned cud of wrath, and cook'd his spleen."
Tennyson. The Princess, I.
" Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (Oliver), Act IV., Sc. II.
" Childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day."
Milton. Paradise Regained, Bk. IV., line 220.
48 CHILDHOOD— CLIME OF THE UNFORGOTTEN.
" Childhood, whose very happiness is love." L. E. L. Erinna.
" Children and fooles cannot lye."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. XI.
" Children and fooles speake true.'" Lyly. E)idimion.
" Children sweeten labours ; but they make misfortunes more bitter :
They increase the cares of life ; but they mitigate the remem-
brance of death."
Bacon. Essay VII,, Of Parents and Children.
" Children use the fist
Until they are of age to use the brain."
E. B. Browning. Casa Guidi Windows, Pt. I.
" Choose an author as you choose a friend."
Roscommon. Essay on Translated Verse, line 96.
" Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure,
Thrill the deepest notes of woe." Burns. Sensibility.
" Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded
That the apostles would have done as they did."
Byron. Don yuan, Can. I., St. 83.
" (At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For) Christmas comes but once a year."
TussER. Five Hicndred Points of Good Husbandry.
" (The) Circumlocution office." Dickens. Little Dorrit, Ch. X.
" The Pagoda Department of that great Circumlocution
office on which the sun never sets, and the light of
reason never rises."
Dickens. The Uncommercial Traveller,
Ch. VIII.
*' Civil dissension is a viperous worm,
That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. I. {King Henry), Act III., Sc. I.
" Civilisation is the eternal sacrifice of one generation to the next."
BuLWER Lytton. Alice (Maltravers), Bk. II., Ch. VI.
" Clay and clay differs in dignity,
Whose dust is both alike."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline {Imogen), Act IV., Sc. II.
" Cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness."
John Wesley. Sennoii XCIII. , On Dress.
" Clear honour shining like the dewy star
Of dawn." Tennyson. Gareth and Lynette.
* " Clime of the unforgotten brave !
Whose land from plain to mountain-cave
Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave 1 " Byron. The Giaour.
* Greece.
COAL BLACK— COMING EVENTS. 49
" Coal black is better than another hue,
In that it scorns to bear another hue ;
For all the water in the ocean
Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,
Although she lave them hourly in the flood."
Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus [Aaron), Act IV., Sc. II
" (But it is) cock sure now."
N. WoQDES. The Conjiict of Conscience {Tyranny), Act III.,
Sc. III.
" They thought all things were cock sure."
Bp. Latimer. Sermon, 2nd Sunday in Advent, 1552.
Then you have it cock sure."
Duke of Buckingham. The Rehearsal {Johnson),
Act I., Sc. I.
" Codlin 's the friend, remember — not Short."
Dickens. Old Curiosity Shop [Codlin), Ch. XIX..
" Cold as the turkeys coffin'd up in crust." Shirley. The Sisters.
" Come, gentle Spring 1 ethereal mildness, come ! "
Thomson. The Seasons, Spring, line i.
" Come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but Death who comes at last."
Sir W. Scott. Marmion, Can. II., XXX.
" Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and vallies, dale and field,
And all the craggy mountains yield."
Chris. Marlowe. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
This has been at various times ascribed to Shakespeare. It
is inserted in the " Complete Angler," by Isaak Walton,
as " that smooth Song, which was made by Kit Mar-
lowe, now at least Jifty years ago".
Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
Th' indifferent judge between the high and low."
Sir p. Sidney. Astrophel and Stella, XXXIX.
Vide — " Sleep no more»^
" Come what come may ;
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day."
Shakespeare. Macbeth [Macbeth], Act I., Sc. III.
" Comfort's in Heaven ; and we are on the Earth,
Where nothing lives but crosses, care and grief."
Shakespeare. Richard II. [York), Act II., Sc. II.
" Coming events cast their shadows before."
Campbell. LochieVs Warning.
50 COMMODITY^ CONSCIENCE.
" (That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling commodity,)
Commodity the bias of the world."
Shakespeare. King jfohn [Bastard), Act II., Sc. I.
" Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I shall make thee think thy swan a crow."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio), Act I., Sc. II.
'* Comparisons are odorous."
Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothitrg (Dogberry), Art III.,
Sc.V.
" She and comparisons are odious."
Dr. Donne. Elegy VIII. The Comparison.
" Comparisons are odious."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. III., Sec. III.,
Mem. I., Subs. II.
" Comparisons are odious."
Herbert. Jacula Prudentum.
" Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works."
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Ghost), Act III., Sc. IV.
" Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom."
Earl of Chatham. Speech, i/^th Jan., 1766.
" (With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,)
Confusion worse confounded. "
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. II., line 996.
" Congenial Hope ! thy passion kindling power.
How bright, how strong, in youth's untroubled hour 1
On yon proud height, with Genius hand in hand,
I see thee light, and wave thy golden wand."
Campbell. The Pleasures of Hope, I.
" Conquest has explored more than ever curiosity has done ; and the
path of science has been commonly opened by the sword."
Sydney Smith.
'• Conquest pursues where courage leads the way."
Garth. The Dispensary, Can. IV., line 99.
" (Thus), conscience does make cowards of us all ;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action."
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Hamlet), Act III., Sc. I.
" Guilty consciences make men cowards."
Vanburgh. The Provok'd Wife {Beli>ida),
Act v., Sr. VI.
" TItc fond fantastic thing, call'd conscience.
Which serves for nothing, but to make men cowards."
Shadwell. The Libertine [Don John), Act L,
Sc.I.
CONSCIENCE COULD I COME. 51
" Conscience, good my lord,
Is but the pulse of reason." Coleridge. Zapolya, Sc. I.
" Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to
prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse."
Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield, Ch. XIII.
" Conscience, that undying serpent." Shelley Queen Mab, III.
" Conscience, the bosom-hell of guilty man 1 "
J. Montgomery. The Pelican Island, Can. V.
" Consideration, like an angel, came.
And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him."
Sh.'^kespeare. Henry V. {Archbp. of Canterbury), Act I., Sc. I.
" Consult the dead upon the things that were,
But the living only on things that are."
Longfellow. The Golden Legend, I.
" Consumed the midnight oil."
Gay. Shepherd and Philosopher, line 15.
Gay. Trivia, Bk. II., line 558.
Shenstone. Elegy, XL, ver. 7.
CowPER. Retirement.
" Contempt of fame begets contempt of virtue."
Ben Jonson. Sejanus (Tiberius), Act I., Sc. 11.
" (My crown is call'd) Content ;
A crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Ft. III. [King Henry), Act III., Sc. I.
" Content can soothe where'er by fortune placed.
Can rear a garden in a desert waste. "
Kirke White. Clifton Grove, line 141.
" Content's a kingdom."
Thomas Heywood. A Woman KilVd with Kindness.
" Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence,
though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings."
Lady M. Montagu. Letter to Countess of Bute.
20th July, 1754.
" (For highest) cordials all their virtues lose
By a too frequent and too bold a use ;
And what would cheer the spirits in distress
Ruins our health when taken to excess."
PoMFRET. The Choice, line 139.
" (Now Jacob saw that there was) corn in Egypt."
Genesis. Ch. XLII., ver. 1.
" Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy.
But not expressed in fancy ; rich, not gaudy ;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Pol on ins), Art I., Sc. III.
" Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
I'd set my ten commandments in your face."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. JL (Eleanor), Act I., Sc. III.
52 COULD WE FORBEAR— CREATED HALF.
" Could we forbear dispute, and practise love,
We should agree as angels do above."
Waller. Of Divine Love, Can. IIL
" Councillors of state sit plotting and playing their high chess-game
whereof the pawns are men."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. /., Ch. III.
" Count not your chickens before they be hatch'd." Old Proverb.
" To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched,
And count their chickens ere they're hatched."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. II., Can. III.
" Courage from hearts, and not from numbers, grows."
Dryden. Annus Mirabilis, LXXVI.
" Courage mounteth with occasion."
Shakespeare. King John {Austria), Act II., Sc. I.
" Courage scorns the death it cannot shun."
Dryden. The Conquest of Granada, Pt. II. [Almanzar),
Act IV., Sc. II.
" Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in."
Lord Chesterfield. Letter to his So7i. 2nd Oct., 1747.
" Covering discretion with a coat of folly."
Shakespeare. Henry V. [Constable), Act II., Sc. IV.
" Cowards and faint-hearted runaways
Look for orations when the foe is near :
Our swords shall play the orator for us."
Mari.OWE. Tambiirlaivc the Great, Pt. I. (Tee/ie//cs),
Act I., Sc. II.
" Cowards die many times before their deaths ;
The valiant never taste of death but once."
Shakespeare, jfulius Ccesar {CcBsar), Act II., Sc. II.
" Fear is my vassal ; when I frown, he flies ;
A hundred times in life a coward dies."
Marston. The Insatiate Countess.
'* Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base."
Shakespeare. Cymbcline {Belarijts), Act IV., Sc. II.
" Cozening Hope, — he is a flatterer,
A parasite, a keeper-back of death,
Who gently would dissolve the bands of life,
Which false hope lingers in extremity."
Shakespeare. Richard II. [Queen), Act II., Sc. II.
" Crabbed age and youth
Cannot live together :
Youth is full of pleasance.
Age is full of care." Shakespeare. The Passionate Pilgrim, 8.
" Created half to rise, and half to fall ;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. II., line 15
CREATION'S HEIR— CRUEL AS DEATH. 53
" (For me your tributary stores combine ;)
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine 1 "
Goldsmith. The Traveller, line 50.
•• I, the heir of all the ages."
Tennyson. Lccksley Hall.
" Credit me, friend, it hath been ever thus.
Since the ark rested on Mount Ararat.
False man hath sworn, and woman hath believed —
Repented and reproach'd, and then believed once more."
Sir W. Scott. Fortunes of Nigel, Ch. XX.
" Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit
that unsuspected ripens within the flower of pleasure which con-
cealed it." Emerson. Compensation.
" Critics I saw, that others' names deface.
And fix their own, with labour, in their place."
Pope. The Temple of Fame, line 37.
" Ciiticks now-a-days, like flocks of sheep.
All follow, when the first has made the leap. "
SouTHERNE. The Fatal Marriage, Prologue,
'* Cromwell, Cromwell,
Had I but served my God with half the zeal
1 serv'd my King, He would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. [Wolsey), Act III., Sc. II.
" Cromwell, 1 charge thee, fling away ambition ;
By that sin tell the angels. How can man then,
The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ?
Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;
Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not:
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's.
Thy God's, and truth's ; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell,
Thou fall'st a blessed martyr."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. (Wolsey), Act III., Sc. II.
" Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear
In all my miseries ; but thou hast forc'd me,
Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. (Wolsey), Act III., Sc. II.
" Crows are fair with crows.
Custom in sin gives sin a lovely dye ;
Blackness in Moors is no deformity."
MiDDLETON AND Dekker. The Honest Whore, Pt. II. (Bellafont),
Act II., Sc. I.
" Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave."
Thomson. The Seasons, Winter, line 393.
54 CRY HAVOC— CUPS THAT CHEER.
" Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war ;
That this loul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial."
Shakespeare, jfnlius Ccesar {Antony), Act III., Sc. I.
" Havock, let loose the dogs of war, halloo ! "
Fielding. Tom Thumb {Lord Grizzle), Act II.,
Sc.I.
" Cucke me no cuckes." Chapman. An Humerous Daycs Mirth.
" Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet (Capulet), Act III,,
Sc. V.
** Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (York), Act II., Sc. III.
" Ground me no grounds."
Unknown. The Marriage of Wit and Science {Will),
Act II., Sc. I.
" Cause me no causes."
Massinger. a New Way to Pay Old Debts, Act I.,
Sc. III.
" Virgin me no virgins."
Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Act
III., Sc. II.
" End me no ends."
Massinger. A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Act V.,
Sc.I.
" Sir me no sirs."
Machin. The Dumb Knight (Prate), Act III., Sc. I.
" Vow me no vows. "
Beaumont and Fletcher. Wit without Money,
Act IV., Sc. IV.
" O me no O's."
Ben Jonson. The Case is Altered, Act V., Sc. I.
•' Pancridge me no Pancridge."
Ben Jonson. A Tale of a Tub, Act II., Sc. I.
*• Map me no maps."
Fielding. Rape upon Rape, Act I., Sc. V.
" Petition me no petitions."
Fielding. Tom Thumb, Act I., Sc. II.
'' Play me no plays." Foote. The Knight, Act II.
" Diamond me no diamonds, prize me no prizes."
Tennyson. Launcelot and Elaine.
" Cups
That cheer, but not inebriate."
CowPER. The Task, Bk. IV., line 38.
CURIOSITY DOES— DAN CHAUCER. 55
" Curiosity
Does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make."
Cowley. Ode on Chair made of Sir F. Drake's Ship, IV.
" Cursed be the gold that gilds the straighten'd forehead of the fool."
Tennyson. Locksley Hall.
" Curses, like young chickens, come home to roost."
SouTHEY. The Curse of Kehama.
" (A wise proverb
The Arabs have,) — Curses are like young chickens,
And still come home to roost I "
BuLWER Lytton. The Lady of Lyons (Danias),
Act v., Sc. li.
" Custom is the pillar round which opinion twines, and interest is the tie
that binds it."
T. L. Peacock. Melinconrt (Mr. Sarcastic), Ch. XXI.
" Custom makes all things easy, and content
Is careless." Jean Ingelow. The Dreams that came true.
" Custom, that unwritten law,
By which the people keep even kings in awe."
C. D'Avenant. Circe (Thoas), Act II., Sc. III.
" Custom, the world's great idol." Pomfret. Reason, line 100.
" Custom, then, is the great guide of human life."
David Hume. Concerning Human Understanding, Sec. V., Pt. I.
" Custom which is before all law, Nature which is above all art."
S. Daniel. An Apology for Rhime.
" (That monster) Custom, who all sense doth eat."
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Hamlet), Act III., Sc. IV.
" (Soil'd by rude hands who) cut and come again."
Crabbe. The Widow's Tale.
" (I shall)
Cut my cote after my cloth."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. L, Ch. VIII.
*• Cut thy coat according to thy cloth."
Lylv. Euphties and his England.
" Cut your coat to match your cloth."
Pitt. Epistle to Mr. Spence.
" Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers."
Geo. Meredith. The Egoist, Ch. VII.
" Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer.
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer."
Pope. Prologue to Satires, line 201.
" Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,
On Fame's eternall beadroU worthie to be fyled."
Spenspr. Faerie Queene, Bk. IV., Can. II., St. 32.
56 DAN CHAUCER— DEATH BUT ENTOMBS.
" Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath
Preluded those melodious bursts that fill
The spacious tirr.es of great Elizabeth
With sounds that echo still."
Tennyson. A Dream of Fair Women.
" (To) dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. {King), Act V., Sc. II.
" Dancing's a touchstone that true beauty tries,
Nor suffers charms that nature's hand denies."
Jenyns. The Art of Dancing, Can. I., line iig.
" Danger deviseth shifts ; wit waits on fear."
Shakespeare. Venus and Adonis, St. 115.
" Danger, the spurre of all great mindes."
G. Chapman. The Revenge of B ussy d'Ambois (Umbra Biissi),
Act v., Sc. I.
" Dangers breed fears, and fears more dangers bring."
R. Baxter. Love Breathing Thanks and Praise, Pt. III.
" Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie :
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby."
Herbert. The Temple. The Church Porch.
" And he that does one fault at first,
And lies to hide it, makes it two."
Watts. Songs for the Children, XV.
" Darkness visible." Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. I.
" Of darkness visible so much be lent."
Pope. The Dunciad, Bk. IV., line 3.
" Dar'st thou then
To beard the lion in his den,
The Douglas in his hall ? "
Sir W. Scott. Marmion, Can. VI., St. 14.
" (Hide me from) Day's garish eye." Milton. // Penseroso.
" Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye,
But turn to ashes on the lips 1 " Moore. Lalla Rookh, VI.
" Like to the apples on the Dead Sea shore.
All ashes to the taste."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. III., St. 34.
" Dear Nature is the kindest mother still ;
Though always changing in her aspect mild."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. II., St. 37.
" Dearer is love than life, and fame than gold ;
But dearer than them both your faith once plighted hold."
Spenser. Faerie Qneene, Bk. V., Can. XI., St. 63.
" Death and dice level all distinctions."
FooTE. The Minor (Sir George), Act I., Sc. I.
" Death but entombs the body ; life the soul."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night III., line 458.
DEATH IS A PORT— DEATH, ROCKE ME. 57
" Death is a port whereby we pass to joy,
Life is a lake that drowneth all in payn."
Unknown. Comparison of Life and Death, VI., line i.
" Death is the common medicine for woe —
The peaceful haven, which the shatter'd bark
In tempest never seeks."
F. Reynolds. Werter {Werter), Act III., Sc. I.
" Death is the crown of life."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night III., line 526.
" Death kind Nature's signal of retreat."
Dr. Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, line 362.
" Death lays his icy hand on kings ;
Scepter and crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade."
Shirley. The Contention of Afnx and Ulysses.
" Death lies on her, like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfnliet (Capulet), Act IV., Sc. V.
" Death hath a thousand doors to let out life."
Massinger. a Very Woman, Act V., Sc. IV.
•♦ Death with his thousand doors."
Fletcher. The Loyal Stibject (Burris), Act I.,
Sc. II.
•' Death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits."
John Webster. The Duchess of Malfy.
•• The doors of death are ever open."
Jeremy Taylor. Contemplation on the State of
Man, Bk. I., Ch. VII.
" Death's thousand doors stand open."
Blair. The Grave, line 394.
" Death joins us to the great majority."
Ed. Young. The Revenge (Alonso), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Death only grasps ; to live is to pursue, —
Dream on 1 there's nothing but illusion true ! "
O, W. Holmes. The Old Player.
" Death
. . . Pale priest
Of the mute people." R. Browning. Balaustion^s Adventure.
" Death rides on every passing breeze:
He lurks in every flower." Heber. At a Funeral.
" (O) Death, rocke me aslepe,
Bringe me on quiet rest."
Unknown. By some attributed to Anne Boleyn
" Then Death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Ft. II. {Pistol), Act II., Sc. IV.
58 DEATH, SO CALL'D—DEEP IS A WOUNDED.
"j Death, so call'd, is a thing which makes men weep,
/And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep."
\^ Byron. Don yuan, Can. XIV., St. 3.
" Death, the consoler,
Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it for ever."
Longfellow. Evangeline, Pt. II., V.
" Death the gate of life."
Milton. Paradise Loit, Bk. XII., line 571.
" Death is life's gate."
P. J. Bailey. Festus {Festus), XL.
" Death 1 to the happy thou art terrible ;
But how the wretched love to think of thee
Oh thou true comforter, the friend of all
Who have no friend beside 1 "
SouTHEY. yoan of Arc, Bk. I., line 313.
" Death will have his day."
Shakespeare. Richard II. {Richard), Act III., Sc. II.
" Death with the might of his sunbeam.
Touches the flesh, and the soul awakes.'
R. Browning. The Flight of the Duchess, XV.
" Ded as a dore nayle."
W. Langland. The Vision of Piers Plowman.
" ' What, is the old King dead ? ' {Falstaff.)
* As nail in door.' " (Pistol.)
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II., Act V., Sc. III.
" As dead as a door-nail."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. II. (Cade), Act IV., Sc. X.
" As if I were dead as a door-nail."
H. Porter. The Two Angry Women of Abington
(Nicholas).
" (They say in Italy, that) deeds are men, and words are but women."
J. Howell. Familiar Letters, Bk. I., Sec. 5, Lett. XXI.
{To Dr. H. W.)
Vide — " Words are."
" Deeds are the pulse of time."
George Eliot. Daniel Deronda, Bk. VII., Ch. LVII.
" Deeds let escape are never to be done."
R. Browning. Sordello, Bk. III.
" Deep is a wounded heart, and strong
A voice that cries against a mighty wrong ;
And full of death as a hot wind's blight.
Doth the ire of a crushed affection light."
F. Hemans. The Indian City, III.
DEEP VERSED— DEVIL TAKE. 59
" Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself,
Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys,
And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge;
As children gatli'ring pebbles on the shore."
Mii/roN. Paradise Regained, Bk. IV., /(«c 327.
" Defect of judgment
Is oft the cure of fear."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (Bdaritis), Act IV., Sc. II.
" Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. I. [Aleticon), Act III., Sc. II.
" All delays are dangerous in war."
Dryden. Tyrannic Love, Act I., Sc. I.
" Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise."
CoNGREVE. Letter to Cobham.
" Delay of justice is injustice."
W. S. Landor. Imaginary Conversations, Peter Leopold
and the President du Paty.
" Delight hath a joy in it, either permanent or present. Laughter hath
onely a scornful tickling."
Sir p. Sidney. Afologic for Poetrie.
" Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot."
Thomson. The Seasons, Spring, line ii-ig.
" Democracy gives every man
The right to be his own oppressor ;
But a loose Gov'ment ain't the plan,
Helpless ez spilled beans on a dresser."
Lowell. Biglow Papers, 2nd Series, Latest Vicjvs of
Mr. Biglow,
" Desire of gain, the basest mind's delight."
"A. W." Sonnet I. (fror)t Davison's Rhapsody).
" Desire with small encouragement grows bold,
And hope of every little thing takes hold."
Drayton. England's Heroical Epistles, Matilda to King John.
" Despair alone makes wicked men be bold."
Coleridge. Zapolya, Sc. I.
" Despair to gain, doth traffick oft for gaining ;
And when great treasure is the meed proposed.
Though death be adjunct, there's no death supposed."
Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrcce, 19.
" Despatch is the soul of business ; and nothing contributes more to
despatch than method."
Lord Chesterfield. Letter to his Son. ^th Feb., ij^o.
Vide — " There is nothing," etc.
" Devil take the hindmost."
Butler. Hndibras, Pt. I., Can. II., line 633.
"So take the hindmost, Hell ! "
Pope. The Dnnciad, Bk. II., line 60.
•' Deil tak the hindmost." Burns. To a Haggis.
6o DEVOTION— DISEASES DESPERATE GROWN.
" Devotion, mother of obedience."
S. Daniel. Civil War, Bk. VI., Sc. XXXIII.
" Devotion wafts the mind above,
But Heaven itself descends in love." Byron. The Giaour.
" Dewy-feather'd sleep." Milton. // Penseroso.
" Dewy morn
With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom,
Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn,
And living as if earth contained no tomb."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. III., St. 98.
" Diamonds cut diamonds ; they who will prove
To thrive in cunning, must cure love with love."
Ford. The Lover's Melancholy {Thamaston), Act I., Sc. III.
" Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow.
As seek to quench the fire of love with words."
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona (jftilia), Act II.,
Sc. VII.
" (I will) die in the last ditch." William of Orange.
Vide Hain Friswell, Familiar Words, p. 116.
" (And storied windows richly dight.
Cast a) dim religious light." Milton. II Penseroso.
" Dire is the omen when the valiant fear."
RowE. Lncan's Pharsalia, Bk. VII., line 506.
" Dirty work wants little talent and no conscience."
George Eliot. Felix Holt {Felix Holt), Ch. XXX.
" Disasters, do the best we can,
Will reach both great and small ;
And he is oft the wisest man
Who is not wise at all."
Wordsworth. The Oak and the Broom, VII.
" Dischord ofte in music makes the sweeter lay."
Spenser. Faerie Queene, Bk. III., Can. II., St. 15.
" Discords make the sweetest airs."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. III., Can. I., line 919.
" Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will."
Emerson. Self -Reliance.
" Discretion gravely goes a gentle pace,
When speech, a gallop, runs a heedless race."
John Taylor. The Certain Travailes of an Uncertain youmey.
" Discretion of speech is more than eloquence."
Lord Bacon. Essay XXXII, Of Discourse.
" Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliances are relieved."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (King), Act IV., Sc. III.
\
DISGUISE IT— DO NOT GRUDGE. 6i
" Disguise it as you will, ^^^^
To right or wrong 'tis fashion guides us still."
Dr. Joseph Warton. Fashion, line i.
" Disguise our bondage as we will,
'Tis woman, woman rules us still."
Tom Moore. Sovereign Wo>na)i.
" Disguise thyself as thou wilt still, Slavery 1 still thou art a bitter
draught." Sterne. The Sentimental Journey.
" Dissensions like small streams are first begun ;
Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run."
Garth. The Dispensary , Can. III., line 184.
" Distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue."
Campbell. The Pleasures of Hope, Pt. I
'• In notes by distance made more sweet."
Collins. The Passions.
" Distance sometimes endears friendship, and
Absence sweeteneth it."
J. Howell. Familiar Letters, Bk. I., Sec. I., Lett. VI.
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."
Haynes Bayly. Odes to Rosa.
" Divine is love, and scorneth worldly pelf.
And can be bought with nothing, but with self."
"A. W." Love, the Only Price 0/ Love {from Davison's
Rhapsody).
" Divorce the feeling from her mate the deed."
Tennyson. The Brook.
" Do all men kill the thing they do not love ? "
Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice {Bassanio), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."
Pope. Epilogue to the Satires, Dial. II., line 136.
" Do noble things, not dream them all day long."
Chas. Kingsley. a Farewell.
" Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? " Keats. Lamia, II.
" Do not count it holy
To hurt by being just : it is as lawful
Fcr us to count we give what's gain'd by thefts.
And rob in the behalf of charity."
Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida {Andromache),
Act v., Sc. HI.
" Do not grudge
To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.
The worst speak something good."
Herbert. The Temple, The Church Porch.
62 DO NOT SWEAR— DREAMS GROW HOLY.
" Do not swear at all ;
Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
Which is the God of my idolatry, and I'll believe thee."
Shakespeare. Rnineo and Juliet {Juliet), Act TT., Sr. FT.
" Do the duty that lies nearest thee ; which thou knowest to oe a duty !
The second duty will already become clearer."
Caklyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. II., Ch. IX.
" Does not he return wisest that comes home whipt with his own follies ? "
MiDDLETON. A Trick to catch the Old One (Lucre),
Act II., Sc.I.
" (We are all of ns) done so uncommonly brown."
T. iNtioi-Dsi'.v. Ingoldsby Legends, The Execution.
" Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many
real ones to encounter."
Goldsmith. The Good-Natiired Man (Leontine), Act I., Sc. I.
" Don't never prophesy — onless ye know."
Lowell. The Biglow Papers, 2nd Series, Mason and Slidell.
" Dost thou love life ? Then do not squander time ; for that is the stuff
life is made of." B. Franklin. Poor Richard's Almanac.
" Dost thou not see my baby at my breast
That sucks the nurse asleep ? "
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra), Act V.,
Sc. II.
" Double, double, toil and trouble ;
Fire, burn ; and, cauldron, bubble."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Witches), Act IV., Sc. I.
" (A dirge for her the) doubly-dead,
In that she died so young." E. A. Poe. Lenore, ver. i.
" Doubt not, her care shall be
To comb your noddle with a three-legg'd stool,
And paint your face, and use you like a fool."
Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew (Kathuriua),
Act I., Sc. I.
" Doubting things go ill often hurts more.
Than to be sure they do ; for certainties
Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,
The remedy then borne."
Shakespeare. Cymbelinc (Imogen), Act I., Sc. VI.
" D'ye think that statesmen's kindnesses proceed
From any principles but their own need ?
When they're afraid, they're wondrous good and free,
But when they're safe, they have no memory."
Sir R. Howard. The Vestal Virgin.
" Dreams grow holy, put in action ; work grows fair through starry
dreaming ;
But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless, and in vain."
Adelaide Procter. Philip and Mildred.
DREAMS OP TRUTH— DUTY'S BASIS. 63
" (Lived in those) dreams ol truth
The Eden birds of early youth.
That make the loveHness of love." L. E. L. The Improvisatrice.
" Dreams ;
Which are the children of an idle brain
Begot of nothing but vain phantasy."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet (Merciitio), Act I., Sc. IV.
" Dress covers the mortal body and adorns it, but style is the vehicle of
the spirit."
SvDNEY Smith. Letter to Miss G. Harcourt, yth July, 1842.
" Drest in a little brief authority."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Isabella), Act II., Sc. II.
Vide — "Man."
" Drink makes men hungry, or it makes them lie ;
And he that's drunk o'er night, i' th' morning's dry."
G. WiLKiNS. The Miseries of Enforced Marriage (Thomas),
Act II.
•' Drink, pretty creature, drink I " Wordsworth. The Pet Lamb.
" Drink to me, only, with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss within the cup,
And I'll not look for wine."
Ben Jonson. The Forest, IX. To Celia.
" Drones suck not eagles' blood, but rob bee-hives."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. II. (Suffolk), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Drunkenness, the darling favourite of Hell."
Defoe. The True Born Englishman, Pt. I., line 51.
" Dull as an alderman at church, or a fat lapdog after dinner."
Thos. Holcroft. Duplicity {Sir Harry Portland), Act I., Sc. I.
" Dull as a twice-told tale." Mickle. A Night Piece.
" Dull is the jester when the joke's unkind."
Young. Love of Fame, Sat. II., line 124.
" Dumb jewels often in their silent kind,
More quick than words, do move a woman's mind."
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine),
Act III., Sc. I.
" Dust are our frames ; and gilded dust, our pride
Looks only for a moment whole and sound."
Tennyson. Aylmcr's Field, line 1.
â– ' Duty's basis is humanity."
Bloomfield, The Farmer's Boy (Winter), line 106.
Vide—'' Thine."
64 EACH ANIMAL— EARTHLY FAME.
" Each animal,
By nat'ral instinct taught, spares his own kind;
But man, the tyrant man ! revels at large,
Free-booter unrestrain'd, destroys at will
The whole creation, men and beasts his prey,
These for his pleasure, for his glory those."
SoMERViLLE. Field Sports, line 94.
•♦ Man only mars kind Nature's plan,
And turns the fierce pursuit on man."
Sir W. Scott. Rokeby, Can. III., I.
" Each goodly thing is hardest to begin."
Spenser. The Faerie Queene, Bk. I., Can. X., St. 6.
" Each man's born
For the high bus'ness of the public good."
Dyer, The Fleece, Bk. II., line 492.
" Each night we die ;
Each morn are born anew : each day a life I "
Young. Night Thoughts, Night II., line 286.
" Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold."
Lowell. Vision of Sir Launfal (Prelude to Pt. I.).
" Each petty hand
Can steer a ship becalm'd ; but he that will
Govern and carry her to her ends, must know
His tides, his currents; how to shift his sails .
What she will bear in foul, what in fair weather ,
What her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop them ;
What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.
The forces and the natures of all winds.
Gusts, storms, and tempests ; when her keel ploughs hell,
And deck knocks heaven ; then to manage her
Becomes the name and office of a pilot."
Ben Jonson. Catiline {Cato), Act III., Sc, I,
" Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
Which show like grief itself, but are not so ;
For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire, to many objects ;
Like perspectives, which rightly gaz'd upon.
Show nothing but confusion, — ey'd awry,
Distinguish form."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Bushy), Act II., Sc. II.
" Each woman is a brief of womankind."
Sir T. Overbury. A Wife, line i,
" Earth, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood ! " Shelley. Alastor.
" Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three."
R. Montgomery. On Woman.
" Earthly fame
Is Fortune's frail dependent."
Wordsworth. Poems to National Independence, Pt. II., XIX.
EARTH'S NOBLEST THING— ENOUGH AND AS GOOD. 65
" Earth'3 noblest thing, a woman perfected." J. R. Lowkll. Irene.
" Kase leads to habit, as success to ease.
He lives by rule who lives himself to please." Crabbe. Talcs, II.
Vide — " He lives at ease."
" (I'll make you) eat your words."
Anon. The Play of Stuckley {Stiikely), line 428.
This play is supposed to be the work of four authors, one
of whom was Shakespeare.
" (He haih) eaten me out of house and home."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. {Host), Act II., Sc. I.
" Eating the bitter bread of banishment."
Shakespeare. Richard II. {Bolingbroke), Act III., Sc. I.
Fletcher and Others. The Lover's Proi^ress [Lisandcr),
Act v., Sc. I.
" (Where is my child ? — an) Echo answers^where ? "
Byron. The Bride of Abydos, Can. II., XXVII.
" Education makes the man."
Cawthorne. Birth and Education of Genius.
''Either sex alone
Is half itself and in true marriage lies
Nor equal, nor unequal." Tennyson. The Princess, VII.
" Eke wonder last but nine dales never in town."
Chaucer. Troilus and Cresseide.
" This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine dales."
J. Hevwood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. I.
" Empire's a feather for a fool."
Young. Resignation, Pt. II., ver. 163.
" Enchanting spirit, dear Variety! "
Bloomfield. The Farmer's Boy, Spring, line 290.
" Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts."
J. R. Lowell. Columbus.
" England, the mother of Parliaments."
John Bright. Speech at Rochdale, i860.
" (It is) enough and as good as a feast."
Gascoigne. Gascoigne's Memories, I., last line.
"Enough's a feast ; content is crowned."
Joshua Sylvester. A Contented Mind.
•• Enough is as good as a feast."
Bickerstaff. Love in a Village [Hawthorne sings),
Act III., Sc. I.
"Enough is as good as a feast: . . . too much of a
good thing is good for nothing."
Theodore Hook. Danvcrs, last para.
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66 EN THUSIA SM—E VER - CHE A TED.
" Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no vic-
tories without it."
BuLWER Lytton. Tlie Last Days of Pompeii, Bk. I,,
Chap. VIII.
" Enthusiasm is the leaping of lightning, not to be measured by the
horse-power of the understanding."
Emerson. Progress of Culture.
" Entire affection hateth nicer hands."
Spenser. Faerie Queene, Bk. I., Can. VIII., St. 40.
"Entire and sure the monarch's rule must prove,
Who founds her greatness on her subjects' love."
Prior. Prologue spoken on Her Maj'esty^s Birthday, 1704.
" Envy is but the smoke of low estate.
Ascending still against the fortunate." Lord Brooke. Alaham.
" Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell."
P. J. Bailey. Festus (Lucifer), V.
"Envy's a sharper spur than pay,
No author ever spar'd a brother ;
Wits are game-cocks to one another."
Gay. Fables, Ft. I., Fable X., last lines.
" Equality is no rule in Love's grammar."
Fletcher and Rowley. The Maid in the Mill {Atitonio),
Act II., Sc. II.
" Equality of two domestic powers
Breeds scrupulous faction."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Antony), Act I., Sc. III.
" Error is a hardy plant ; it flourisheth in every soil."
M. Tupper. Proverbial Philosophy : Of Truth in Things False,
line I.
" Errors like straws upon the surface flow ;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below."
Dryden. Prologue to All for Love, line 25.
" Eschewe the ydle life.
Flee, flee from doing nought :
For never was there ydle braine
But bred an ydle thought."
G. Turberville. The Love to Cupid for Mcrcie, CIX.
" Eternal form shall still divide
The Eternal soul from all beside ;
And I shall know him when we meet."
Tennyson. In Memoriatn, XLVII.
" Even through the hollow eyes of death
I spy life appearing."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Northtimberland), Act II., Sc. I,
" (Far above
Those little cares and visionary joys
That so perplex the fond impassion'd heart
Of) ever-cheated, ever-trusting man."
Thomson. To the Memory of Sir I. Newton.
EVERMORE THAXKS— EVERY HUMAN BEING. 67
" Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor."
Shakespkare. Richard IT. {Bolingbroke), Act II., Sc. III.
" Ever with the best desert goes diffidence."
R. Browning. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, Act I., Sc. II.
" Every action admits of being outdone." Emerson. Circles,
" Every bullet hath a lighting place."
G. Gascoigne. The Fruitcs of Warre.
•* Every bullet has its billet."
This has been attributed to William III.
" Every bullet has got its commission."
Chas. Dibdin. The Benevolent Tar.
" Every day
Speaks a new scene ; the last act crowns the play."
QUARLES. Emblems, Bk. I., Em. XV., Ep. 15.
" The end crowns every action, stay till that ;
Just judges will not be prejudicate. "
Randolph. The Miises^ Looking Glass (Roscius),
Act III., Sc. I.
" The first act's doubtful, but we say
It is the last commends the play."
Herrick. Hesperides, 225.
" It is the end that crowns us, not the fight."
Herrick. Hesperides, 309.
" Every difficulty yields to the enterprising."
J. G. Holman. The Votary of Wealth {Leonard), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Every dog must have its day."
Randolph. The Townsman's Petition of Cambridge.
" Every door is barr'd with gold, and opens but to golden keys."
Tennyson. Locksley Hall.
" Every good servant does not all commands :
No bond but to do just ones."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline {Posthumus), Act V., Sc. I.
" Every heart, when sifted well.
Is a clot of warmer dust,
Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell."
Tennyson. The Vision of Sin.
" Every hero becomes a bore at last."
Emerson. Uses of Great Men.
" Every hour that passes by
Shall end a human life ! " Hood. The Elm Tree, Pt. III.
" Every human action gains in honour, in grace, in all true magnificences
by its regard to things that are to come."
Ruskin. Seven Lamps of Architecture. Lamp of Memory, X.
" Every human being has not only the idea of right, but is himself
capable of rectitude."
W. E. Channing. The Perfect Life, Pt. II.
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68 EVERY HUMOUR— EVERYTHING BECOMES.
" Every humour hath its adjunct pleasure,
Wherein it finds a joy above the rest. "
Shakespeare. Sonnet, XCI.
" (Ay) every inch a king."
Shakespeare. King Lear {Lear), Act 1 V., Sc IV.
" Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient a devil."
Shakespeare. Othello (Cassio), Act II., Sc. III.
" Every language is a temple, in which the soul of those who speak it is
enshrined."
O. W. Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast Table, II.
" Every man for himself, Sir, and God for us all."
T. L. Peacock. Melincourt {Mr. Feathcrnest), Ch. XVI.
" Every man has his gift, and the tools go to him that can use them."
C. KiNGSLEY. The Saints' Tragedy {Peasant), Act II., Sc. VI.
" Every man seeks for truth ; but God only knows who has found it."
Lord Chesterfield. Letter to his Son. 21st Sept., 1747.
" Every man's reason is every man's oracle."
Lord Bolingbroke. Of the True Use of Retirement and Study,
Letter II.
" Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born." Tennyson. The Visioti of Sin,
" Every offence is not a hate at first."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice {Bassa7iio), Act IV.,
Sc. I.
" Every one can master a grief, but he that has it."
Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothing {Benedick), Act III.,
Sc. II.
" Every one soon or late comes round by Rome."
R. Browning. The Ring and the Book, Bk. V., line 296,
" Every one to rest themselves betake,
Save thieves, and cares, and troubled minds that wake."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lticrece, 18.
" Every personal consideration that we allow costs us heavenly state."
Emerson. Circles.
" Every pleasure hath a payne they say."
G. Chapman. The Blind Beggar of Alexandria {Eliniine).
" Every school -boy knows it."
Jeremy Taylor. On the Real Presence, Sec. V. , I.
"As every school-boy knows." Lord Macaulay.
" Every spirit makes its house; but afterwards the house confines the
spirit." Emerson. Fate.
" Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's soul is his own."
Shakespeare. Henry V. {King Henry), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Everything becomes intolerable to the man who is once subdued by
grief."
Lord Bolingbroke. Of the True Use of Retirement,
Letter II.
EVERYTHING— EXAMPLE. 69
" Everything that lives,
Lives not alone nor for itself." Blake. The Book of Thcl, II.
" Every time
Serves for the matter that is then born in't."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Enobarbus), Act II.,
Sc. II.
Every true man's apparel fits your thief."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Abhorson), Act IV.,
6c. II.
Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies."
Herbert Spencer. The Study of Sociology, Postscript.
â– Every want that stimulates the breast,
Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest."
Goldsmith. The Traveller, line 213.
Every why hath a wherefore." Old Proverb.
Quoted in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors {Atitipholis of
Syracuse), Act II., Sc. II.
' Every woe a tear can claim,
Except an erring sister's shame." Byron. The Giaour.
' (Have you not found out that) every woman is infallibly to be gained
by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other ? "
Lord Chesterfield. Letter to his Son, 16th March, 1752.
â– Every worm beneath the moon
Draws different threads, and late and soon
Spins, toiling out his own cocoon."
Tennyson. The Two Voices.
' Evil communications corrupt good manners."
St. Paul. Epistle to the Corinthians, II., Chap. XV., vcr. 33.
' Evil is only good perverted."
Longfellow. The Golden Legend, II.
" Evil minds
Change good to their own nature."
Shelley. Prometheus Unbound (Prometheus), Act I.
' Evil spreads as necessarily as disease."
George Eliot. Adam Bede {Parson Irvine), Bk. V.,
Chap. XLI.
' Ev'ry private bliss must spring from social love."
Jenyns. On the Immortality of the Soul, Bk. II.
' Ev'ry woman hath some witching charm.
If that she be not proud or captious ! "
Joanna Baillie. Basil (Rosinberg), Act I., Sc. II.
' Examples draw when precept fails.
And sermons are less read than tales."
Prior. The Turtle and the Sparrow, line 192.
' Example is the lesson that all men can read."
West. Education, Can. I., LXXXI.
TO EXAMPLES LEAD US— FAINT FRIENDS
" Examples lead us, and we likely see ;
Such as the prince is, will his people be."
Herrick. Hcspcrides, 761.
" Excess of praise has generally as little foundation as excess of
calumny."
Archbishop Herring. Letter to W. Dnncombe, Esq.
^th Nov., 1753.
" Exchange is no robbery." Old Proverb,
" The old proverb — Exchange is not robbery."
David Garrick. A Peep behind the Ctirtain
{Author), Act I., Sc. II.
" Expect not praise without envy until you are dead,"
CoLTON. Lacon, CCXLV.
" Experience finds
Few of the scenes that lively hope designs."
Crabbe. The Widow's Tale.
" Experience is by industry achiev'd
And perfected by the swift course of time."
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona {Antonio), Act I.,
Sc. III.
" Experience is the best of schoolmasters." Old Proverb,
" Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no
other, and scarce in that."
Ben. Franklin. Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758.
" Extremes in Nature equal good produce,
Extremes in man concur to general use."
Pope. Moral Essays, III, On the Use of Riches, line 161,
" Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise."
Pope. Essay 6« Man, Ep. I., line 13.
" Eyes, look your last !
Arms, take your last embrace ! "
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfidiet {Romeo), Act V., Sc. III.
" (I was) eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame."
Job. Chap. XXIX., ver. 15.
" Faction, Disappointment's restless child.'
SoAME Jenyns. On a Late Attempt on His Majesty's Life, 1786.
" Fain would I climb, but that I fear to fall."
Attributed to Sir W. Raleigh.
This is said to have been scratch'd on a fane of glass by
Sir W. Raleigh in the presence of Queen Elizabeth .
Her Majesty is said to have replied : —
" If thy heart fail thee, why then climb at all ? "
" Faint friends when they fall out most cruell f omen bee."
fiPENSER. Faerie Qiteene, Bk. IV., Can. IX., St. 27.
FAINT HEART— FAME IS A REVENUE. 71
" Faint heart fairc lady ne'er could win."
PiUNEAS Fletcher. Brittnin's hla, Can. V., St. i.
" Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."
W. King. Orpheus and Eurydice, line 133.
"And let us mind faint heart ne'er wan
A lady fair." Burns. To Dr. Blacklock.
" Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain."
CoLLEY CiBBKit. Love in a Riddle (Iphis), Act III., Sc. II.
" (A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!)
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky."
Wordsworth. Poems founded on the Affections, VIII.
" Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
Rot and consume themselves in little time."
Shakespeare. Ventts and Adonis.
" Fair words want giving hands."
Nash. Summer's Last Will {Will Summer).
" Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favour of a
greater."
O. W. Holmes. The Professor at the Breakfast Table, V.
" Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night VIII., line -ji^.
" Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last."
T. MooRE. Lalla Rookh, III.
" Fallen from his high estate." Dryden. Alexander's Feast, 4.
" Fallen on evil days." Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. VII., line 2^.
" False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Macbeth), Act I., Sc. VII.
" Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil,
The product of all climes."
Addison. Cato {Cato), Act IV., Sc. IV.
" Falsehood
Is worse in kings than beggars."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (Imogen), Act III,, Sc. VI.
" Falsely your Church seven sacraments does frame,
Penance and Matrimony are the same."
Duke. To a Roman Catholic Friend upon Marriage.
" Fame finds never tomb t' inclose it in."
S. Daniel. The Complaint of Rosamond, St. i.
" Fame, impatient of extremes, decays
Not more by envy than excess of praise."
Pope. The Temple of Fame, line 44.
" Fame is a revenue payable only to our gliosts." Sir G. Mackenzie.
72 FAME IS LOVE—FANCY GROWS COLDER.
" Fame is love disguised." Shelley. Ah Exhortation.
" Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds,
The flowers of chivahy and not of weeds."
Longfellow. The Bell of Atri.
" Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days."
Milton. Lycidas, line 70.
" Fame is the thirst of youth."
BvRON. Childc Harold, Can. III., St. 112.
" Fame, like water, bears up the lighter things,
And lets the weighty sink."
Sir S. Tuke. The Adventures of Five Hours (Don Antonio),
Act II.
" Fame, which is the opinion the world expresses of any man's excel-
lent endowments, is the idol to which the finest spirits have in all
ages burnt their incense."
Sir R. Blackmore. The Lay Monastery, No. 11.
" Fame's but a hollow echo ; Gold pure clay ;
Honour the darling but of one short day ;
Beautie, th' eyes' idol, but a damask'd skin ;
State, but a golden prison, to live in,
And torture free-born minds."
Sir W. Raleigh. A Farewell to the Vanities of the World.
" Fame's loudest trump upon the ear of Time
Leaves but a dying echo ; they alone
Are held in everlasting memory.
Whose deeds partake of heaven."
SouTHEY. Verses spoken at Oxford upon the Installation of
Lord Grenville.
" Familiarity begets boldness."
Shakerley Marmion. The Antiquary {Leonardo), Act I.
" Famine can smile
On him who brings it food, and pass, with guile
Of thankful falsehood, like a courtier grey,
The house-dog of the throne ; but many a mile
Comes Plague, a winged wolf, who loathes alway
The garbage and the scum that strangers make her prey."
Shelley. The Revolt of Islam, Can. X., XXIV.
" Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave
A paradise for a sect." Keats. Earlier Version of Hyperion.
" Fancy is the friend of woe."
Mason. Ode VII. , St. 2, line 4.
" (Our time creeps on,)
Fancy grows colder as the silvery hair
Tells the advancing winter of our life."
Sir W. Scott. Macduff's Cross, Prrludi-
FANCY SADDER— FAREWELL. 73
' (Poor) fancy sadder than a single star,
That sets at twiHght in a land of reeds."
TiiNNYSON. Early Sonnets, VIL
'Fancy, who hath no present home,
But builds her bower in scenes to come,
Walking for ever in a light
That flows from regions out of sight."
T. Moore. Evcniugs in Greece, Second Evening.
' Far better never to have heard the name
Of zeal and just ambition, than to live
Baffled and plagued by a mind that every hour
Turns recreant to her task : takes heart again,
Then feels immediately some hollow thought
Hang like an interdict upon her hopes."
Wordsworth. The Prelude, Book First.
' Far dearer, the grave or the prison,
Illumed by one patriot name.
Than the trophies of all who have risen
On Liberty's ruins to fame ! "
^T. MooRE. Irish Melodies, Forget not the Field.
' Far fetch'd, and little worth." Cowper. The Task, Bk. I.,
line 243.
' Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife."
Gray. Elegy in a Country Churchyard.
' Fare thee well ! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well."
Byron. Domestic Pieces, Fare thee well.
' Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness !
This is the state of man : To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ;
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,
And^when he thinks, good easy man, full sure
His greatness is a-ripening — nips his root.
And then he falls as I do. I have ventur'd
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory ;
But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride
At length broke under me ; and now has left me,
Weary and old with service, to the mercy
Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye :
I feel my heart new open'd. O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours 1
There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to.
That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
More pangs and fears than wars or women have ;
And when he falls, he tails like Lucifer,
Never to hope again."
Shakespeare. Henry VIIL (IVnlsey), Act ///., Sc. TI.
74 FAREWELL— FEAR IS LIKE.
" (O, now, for ever)
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content I
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars,
That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell I
Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife,
The royal banner and all quality,
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war 1
And, O, you mortal engines whose rude throats
Th' immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit,
Farewell I Othello's occupation's gone 1 "
Shakespeare, Othello {Othello), Act III., Sc. III.
" Fashion ever is a wayward child."
Mason. The English Garden, Bk. IV., line 430.
" Fashion too often makes a monstrous noise,
Bids us, a fickle jade, like fools adore
The poorest trash, the meanest toys."
Peter Pindar. Odes to the Royal Academicians, XI.
" Fashion wears out more apparel than the man."
Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothing (Conrade),
Act III., Sc. III.
" Fashions are for fools."
DoDSLEV. Sir jfohn Cockle at Court (Sir John), Act I., Sc. I.
" Fast binde, fast finde."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Chap. III.
" Fast bind, fast find."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice {Shylock),
Act II., Sc. V.
**The proverb kept. Fast bind, fast find."
Churchill. The Ghost, Bk. IV., line 1220.
" Fate laughs at probabilities."
BuLWER Lytton. Eugene Aram, Bk. I., Chap. X.
'* Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart.
Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart."
Dr. S. Johnson. London, line 166.
" Faults, that are rich and fair."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens (Timon), Act I., Sc. II.
" Fayre words fat few, great promises without performance, delight foi
the tyme, but yearke euer after."
Lyly. Etiphues and his England [Euphues to Philantus),
last letter.
'• Fear hath a hundred eyes that all agree
To plague her beating heart."
Wordsworth. Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Pt. II., XLII.
" (I perceive
That) fear is like a cloak which old men huddle
About their love, as if to keep it warm."
Wordsworth. The Borderers (Marmnduke), Act I.
FEAR IS STRONGER— FIDELITY'S A VIRTUE. 75
" Fear is stronger than death, and love is more prevalent than fear, aiul
kindness is the greatest endearment of love."
Jeremy Taylor T/u- Miracles of Divine Mercy, Pt. III.
" Fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. III. (Gloster), Act IV., Sc. VII.
" Feelingly sweet is stillness after storm,
Though under cover of the wormy ground."
Wordsworth. The Excursion, Bk. III.
" Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell : fellowship is life,
and lack of fellowship is death : and the deeds that ye do upon
the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them."
Wm. Morris. A Dream of John Ball.
" Fer from eye, fer from herte." Hendyng. Proverbs.
'• Out of sight, out of minde."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Chap. II.
" And out of mind as soon as out of sight."
Lord Brooke. Sonnet LVI.
"That out of sight is out of mind
Is true of most we leave behind."
Clough. Songs of Absence.
" Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power
to be agreeable." Swift. Thoughts on Various Subjects.
" Few love to hear the sins they love to act."
Shakespeare. Pericles (Pericles), Act I., Sc. I.
'• Few men have grown unto greatness whose names are allied to ridicule,
And many would never have been profligate, but for the splendour of
a name."
M. Tupper. Proverbial Philosophy. Of Indirect Influences,
line 103.
(It has been a common observation, that) few men have sequester'd
themselves from the world, but such as were no longer fit to live
in it." Hughes. The Lay Monastery, No. 3.
Fickle is the ground whereon all tyrants tread,
A thousand sundry cares and fears do haunt their restless head."
R. Edwards. Damon and Pithias (Damon).
" Fickle man is apt to rove."
Burns. Let not Women e^cr Complain.
" Fiction may deck the truth with spurious rays.
And round the hero cast a borrow'd blaze."
Addison. The Campaign.
" Fidelity's a virtue that ennobles
E'en servitude itself." Mason. Elfrida (Chorus).
76 FE, FO, AND FUM—FIRM AS MAN'S SENSE.
" Fe, fo, and fum,
I smell the blood of a British man."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Eds^ar), Act III., Sc. IV.
This is probably taken from an old Scotch Ballad, -it/hich is
given by jfaviieson, in " Ilbistrations of Northern An-
tiquities " :—
"With fi, fi, fo, and fum,
I smell the blood of a Christian man 1
Be he dead, be he living, wi' my brand
I'll clash harns frae his harn-pan."
" Fight fire with fire, and craft with craft."
Longfellow. The Cobbler of Hagenau.
" Final ruin fiercely drives
Her ploughshare o'er creation."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night IX., line 167.
" Stern ruin's ploughshare drives elate
Full on thy bloom." Burns. To a Mountain Daisy.
" Find me one man of sense in all your roll.
Whom some one woman has not made a fool."
Duke. Prologue to Lee's Lucius yunius Brutus.
" (And this our life, exempt from public haunt,')
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything."
Shakespeare. As You Like It {Duke), Act II., Sc. I.
" Fine as ice-ferns on January panes
Made by a breath." Tennyson. Aylmer's Field.
" Fine by degrees, and beautifully less."
Prior. Henry and Etnma, line 430.
" Fine feathers make fine birds." Old Proverb.
" They'll be fine feathers that make a fine bird."
Bunyan. Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. I.
•' Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds."
Bickerstaff. The Padlock, Act I., Sc. I.
" Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves,
Or fools that use them, when they want good sense ;
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament." Otway.
" Fire and people doe in this agree.
They both good servants, both ill masters be."
Lord Brooke. Inquisition upon Fame.
" Fire, that is closest kept, burns most of all."
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lucetta),
Act I., Sc.II.
" (Thy heart above all envy and all pride,)
Firm as man's sense, and soft as woman's love."
Hammond. Love Elegies, XIV.
FIRST CASE YOUR HARH^FOOL'S PARADISE. 77
" First case your hare, then cook it." Mrs. Glasse. Cookiry Book.
" First come, first seruyd."
H. Brinklow. The Coinpi.iynt of Rodcryck Mors, Ch. XVII.
" Flatterers looke like friends, as wolves, Hke dogges."
G. Chapman. Byron's Cujispiracie, Act III., Sc. I.
" F^lattery
Is monstrous in a true friend."
FoKD. The Lover's Melancholy (Aniethns), Act I., Sc. I.
" Flattery is the bellows blows up sin ;
The thing the which is flatter'd but a spark,
To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.''
Shakespeare. Pericles (Helicaniis), Act I., Sc. II .
" Flattery's the nurse of crimes." Gay. Fables, I.
" Fly where the culprit may, guilt meets a doom."
Wordsworth. Poems composed in iSjj, XXXIV,
'Jlic Black Stones of Iciia.
" Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee ;
Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. /., Ch. XI.
" Folly ends when genuine hope begins." Cowper. Hope, line 637.
" Folly in youth is sin, in age 'tis madness."
S. Daniel. The Tragedy of Cleopatra {Ccesar), Act III., Sc. II.
" Folly may pass, nor tarnish youth,
But falsehood leaves a poison stain."
Eliza Cook. Stanzas to the Young.
" Fond lovers' parting is sweet painful pleasure."
Burns. Gloomy December.
" Food for powder ; they'll fill a pit as well as better."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Falstaff), Act IV., Se. II.
" Fools are made for jests to men of sense."
Farquhar. The Beaux Stratagem, Prologue.
" (You'll find at last this maxim true,)
Fools are the game which knaves pursue."
Gay, Fables, Pt. II., XII.
" Fools hate knowledge." Proverbs. Ch. I., ver. 22.
" Fools out of favour grudge at knaves in place,
And men are always honest in disgrace."
Defoe. The True-Born Englishman. Introduction, line 7.
" (A) fools P'aradise. "
MiDDLETON. The Family of Love {Mistress Glister),
Act I., Sc. I.
" Into a limbo large and broad, since call'd
The Paradise of Fools."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. III., line 490.
78 POOLS RUSH IN— FOR ONE TYRANT.
" Thy fairest prospects, rightly viewed,
The Paradise of Fools."
Blacklock. Ode on the Refinements in Meta-
physical Philosophy.
** The fools we know have their own paradise,
The wicked also have their proper Hell."
James Thomson. The City of Dreadful Night, XI.
" Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Peru. Essay on Criticism, Pt. III., line 625.
" (And) fools who came to scoff, remained to pray."
Goldsmith. The Deserted Village, line i8o.
Vide — " Preventing angels."
" Fools will prate o' right and wrang,
While knaves laugh them to scorn."
Burns. The Five Carlines.
" For a king
'Tis sometimes better to be fear'd than loved."
Byron. Sardanapalus (Myrrha), Act I., Sc. III.
" For a tear is an intellectual thing,
And a sigh is the sword of an angel king ;
And the bitter groan of a martyr's woe
Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow." Blake, The Grey Monk.
" For all our works a recompence is sure :
'Tis sweet to think on what was hard t' endure."
Herrick. Hesperides, 851.
" For contemplation he and valor form'd,
For softness she and sweet attractive grace ;
He for God only, she for God in him."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. IV., line 297.
" For ever and a day."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (Orlando), Act IV., Sc. I.
" For ever in man's bosom will man's pride
An equal empire with his love divide."
L. E. L. The Golden Violet, The Rose.
'* For everything created
In the bounds of earth and sky,
Hath such longing to be mated,
It must couple, or must die." Whyte Melville. Like to Like.
" For every • why ' he had a ' wherefore '."
Butler. Hudibras, Bk. J., Can. I., line 131.
" For men must work, and women must weep,
Though storms be sudden, and waters deep.
And the harbour bar be moaning."
C. KiNGSLEY. The Three Fishers.
" For one tyrant, there are a thousand ready slaves."
W. Hazlitt. Political Essays. On the connexion between
Toad-Eaters and Tyrants.
FOR SOMERSET—FORTUNE IS CHAUNGEABLE. 79
" For Somerset, off with his guilty head ! "
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. III. {King Edward), Act V.,
Sc. V.
" Off with his liead — so much for Buckingham ! "
CoLLEY CiBBER. Version of Richard III., Act IV., Sc. III.
" For sluggard's brow the laurel never grows ;
Renown is not the child of indolent repose."
Thomson. The Castle of Indolence, Can. II., St. i.
" For that deep torture may be called an Hell,
Where more is felt, than one hath power to tell."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. I., Sec. IV., Mem. III.
" For want of timely care
Millions have died of medicable wounds."
Armstrong. Art of Preserving Health, Bk. III., line 515.
" For when the soul is nuzzled once in vice,
The sweet of sin makes Hell a Paradise."
Drayton. The Legend of Pierce Gaveston.
" Forbidden wares sell twice as dear."
Denham. Natura Naturala, VI.
" Force first made conquest, and that conquest, law ;
Till superstition taught the tyrant awe,
Then shar'd the tyranny that lent it aid.
And gods of conq'rors, slaves of subjects made."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. III., line 245.
" Forests have ears, and fields have eyes ;
Often treachery lurking lies
Underneath the fairest hair."
Longfellow. The Saga of King Olaf, VIII.
" Fore-warn'd, fore-arm'd."
Addison. The Drummer [Abigail), Act IV., Sc. I.
' ' Forgetfulness
Is the most pleasing virtue they can have,
That do spring up from nothing."
Middleton. The Mayor of Queenborough (Horsus),
Act III.,Sc.I.
" Forgive I How many will say, ' forgive,' and find
A sort of absolution in the sound
To hate a little longer." Tennyson. Sea Dreams.
' (My honest zeal if not my verse commend ;)
Forgive the poet, and approve the friend."
Smith. To the memory of Mr. J. Phillips.
" Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline [Pisanio], Act IV., Sc. III.
" Fortune hath in her honey galle."
Chaucer. The Monhe's Tale, line 557.
" Fortune is chaungeable." Chauper. The Knighte's Tale, line 384.
So FORTUNE IS LIKE—FRENCHE SHE SPAKE.
" Fortune is ever variously inclined."
Drayton. The Baron's Wars, Bk. II., XXVIII.
" Fortune is like a widow won,
And truckles to the bold alone."
SoMERViLLE, The FottuHc Iliiiitcr, Can. II.
" Fortune knows
We scorn her most, when most she offers blows."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra [Antony), Act III., Sc. XI.
"Fortune, who oft proves
The careless wanderer's friend."
WoRDSWOurH. The Excnrsion, Bk. II.
" Fortune's friend is mishap's foe."
Sir T. Wyatt. The Lover coniplaineth himself forsaken.
" Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets,
But gold that's put to use, more gold begets."
Shakespeare. Venus and Adonis, 128.
" Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them to men's eyes."
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Hamlet), Act I., Sc. II.
" Forward, forward let us range.
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."
Tennyson. Lockslcy Hall.
" Foxes, rejoice ! here buried lies your foe."
Quoted by Bloomfield. The Farmer's Boy {Autumn), line 332.
Inscribed on a stone in the wall of Enston Park, on the
memory of a hound.
" Frailty, thy name is woman ! "
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I., Sc. II.
" (A !) fredome is a noble thing!
Fredome may man to haiff liking ;
Fredome all solace to man giffis."
Barbour. The Bruce, Bk. I., line 224.
" Freedom, which in no other land will thrive.
Freedom, an Engli-h subject's sole prerogative."
Drvden. Thrcnodia Au^ustalis.
" Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
Thou dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot :
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remembered not."
Shakespeare. As You Like It {Soug), Act II., Sc. VII.
" (And) Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly,
After the scole of Stratford-atte-bowe,
For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe."
Chaucer. Canterbury Talcs, Prologue, line 122.
FRIENDLY COUNSEL— FRIENDSHIP IS SELDOM. Hi
Friendly counsel cuts off many foes."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. I. (King Henry), Act III., Sc. I.
Friends are as danpjerous as enemies."
De Quincey. Essay on Schlosscr's Literary History.
Friends are not so easily made as kept."
Marquis of Halifax. Maxims of State, XII
Friends are the surest guard for kings, gold in time does wear away,
And other precious things do fade, friendship will never decay."
R. Edwards. Damon and Pithias {Damon).
Friends meet to part ; Love laughs at faith ;
True foes once met, are join'd till death." Byron. The Giaour.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil, that men do, lives after them ;
The good is oft interred with their bones."
Shakespeare. Julius Ccesar [Antony), Act III., Sc. II.
' Friendship can smooth the front of rude despair."
Cambridge. The Scribleriad, Bk. /., line 196.
Friendship is constant in all other things.
Save in the office and affairs of love :
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues ;
Let every eye negociate for itself,
And trust no agent : for beauty is a witch.
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood."
Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothing (Clandio),
Act II., Sc. I.
' Friendship is more than is catell ;
For frende in courte aie better is
Than peny is in purse certes."
Chaucer. The Romaiint of the Rose, line 5543.
' Friendship is no plant of hasty growth.
Tho' planted in esteem's deep-fixed soil,
The gradual culture of kind intercourse
Must bring it to perfection."
Joanna Baillie. De Montford (Rezenvelt), Act III., Sc. II.
' Friendship is seldom lasting, but between equals, or where the superi-
ority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the
Other." Dr. S. Johnson. The Rambler, No. 64.
" Fiiendship is a disinterested commerce between equals."
Goldsmith. The Good-Natured Man {Honeywood),
Act I., Sc. I.
•' Full of this maxim, often heard in trade.
Friendship with none but equals should be made."
Chatterton. Fragment, pub. 1803.
" There is a maxim indeed which says —
Friendship can only subsist between equals."
T. HoLCROFT. The School for Arrogance [Count
Villas), Act III., Sc. I.
6
82 FRIENDSHIP IS— FULL MANY A GEM.
" Friendship is the great chain of human society, and intercourse ol
letters is one of the chiefest links of that chain."
J. Howell. Familiar Letters, Bk. J., Sc. II., Lett. XVIII.
To Dr. Prichard.
" Friendship ! mysterious cement of the soul ;
Sweetener of life, and solder of society."
Blair, The Grave, line 88.
" (For) Friendship, of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity."
rDRYDEN. The Hind and the Panther, Pt. III., line 47.
' Friendship's like musick ; two strings tun'd alike,
Will both stirre ; though only one you strike."
Quarles. Job Militant, Sec. 7, Med. 7.
" Friendship's the privilege
Of private men ; for wretched greatness knows
No blessing so substantial." Tate, The Loyal General.
" Friendship's the wine of life."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night II., line 583.
" From decay'd fortunes every flatterer shrinks ;
Men cease to build where the foundation sinks."
John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi {Antonio),
Act III., Sc. V.
" From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignify'd by the doer's deed."
Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well {King),
Act II., Sc. III.
^" From Nature doth emotion come j and moods
Of calmness equally are Nature's gift :
This is her glory : these two attributes
Are sister horns that constitute her strength.
Hence Genius, born to thrive by interchange
Of peace and excitation, finds in her
His best and purest friend ; from her receives
That energy by which he seeks the truth,
From her that happy stillness of the mind
Which fits him to receive it when unsought."
Wordsworth. The Prelude, Bk. XIII.
" From post to pillar, wife, I have been tost.'
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. II.
" He tosse you from post to pillar."
Marston. What You Will.
" From shaven chins never came better justice
Than those ne'er touched by razor."
MiDDLETON. The Old Law {Eugenia), Act V., Sc. I.
" Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ;
Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen.
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
Gray. Elegy in a Country Churchyard.
FULL MANY— "GENIUS," WHICH MEANS. 83
" Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchymy."
Shakespeare. Sonnet, XXXII
" Full of wise saws and modern instances."
Shakespeare. As Yoh Like It (yaqiies). Act II., Sc. VII.
" Full oft we see
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly."
Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well [Helcnc),
Act I., Sc. I.
" Garments well sav'd, which first were made
When tailors, to promote their trade,
Against the Picts in arms arose,
And drove them out, or made them clothes."
Churchill. The Ghost, Bk. IV., line 1145.
" Gather therefore the roses whilst yet is prime,
For soone comes age that will her pride defloure :
Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time,
Whilest loving thou mayst loved be with equal! crime."
Spenser. Faerie Queene, Bk. II., Can. XII., St. 75.
" Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a flying :
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying."
Herrick. Hesperides, 208
" General notions are generally wrong."
Lady M. Montagu. Letter to Mr. Wortley Montagu
2Sth March, 1710.
" Generous commerce binds
The round of nations in a golden chain."
Thomson. Seasons, Shimmer, line 138.
" Genius has somewhat of the infantine:
But of the childish, not a touch nor taint
Except through self-will, which, being foolishness,
Is certain, soon or late, of punishment,
Which Providence avert ! "
R. Browning. Prince Hohcnsticl-Schwangaii.
" Genius, like all heavenly light,
Can blast as well as bless the sight."
L. E. L. Stanzas to the Author of Mont Blanc.
" (Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought,
But) Genius must be born ; and never can be taught."
Dryden. Letter X. To Congrevc, on the Double Dealer.
" (It is the fruit of) ' Genius,' which means the transcendent capacity of
taking trouble, first of all."
Carlyle. Hist, of Frederick the Great, Bk. IV., Ch. III.
84 GENTLE DULNESS—GIVE SORROW WORDS.
" Gentle dulness ever loves a joke."
Pope. The Dimciad, Bk. II., line 33.
" Gentlemen whose chariots roll only upon the four aces are apt to have
a wheel out of order."
CiBbER AND Vanb'jrgh. Tlic Provoked Husband, Act II.
" (The rule) get money, still get money, boy;
No matter by what means ; money will do
More, boy, than my lord's letter."
Ben Jonson. Every Mart in his Humour [Knowell),
ActII.,Sc. III.
" Get place and wealth, if possible with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place."
Pope. Imitations of Horace, Bk. I., Ep. I.
" Get thee to a nunnery, go."
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Hamlet), Act III., Se. I.
" Giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel."
Shakespeare. Henry V. (Pistol), Act III. Sc. V.
" Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire." Burns. Epistle to L k.
'" Give currency to reason, improve the moral code of society, and the
theory of one generation will be the practice of the next."
' T. L. Peacock. Melincoiirt {Mr. Forester), Ch. XXI.
" Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice :
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Polonius), Act I., Sc. III.
" Give fools their gold, and knaves their power ;
Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall ;
Who sows a field, or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree, is more than all."
Whittier. Lifies for the Agricultural Exhibition at Amesbury.
" Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay in my heart of hearts."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act III., Sc. II.
" Give me th' avow'd, th' erect, the manly foe.
Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow;
But, of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh, save me from the candid friend 1 "
Canning. New Morality, The Anti-jfacobin.
" Give salves to every sore, but counsell to the minde."
Spenser. Faerie Quccnc, Bk. VI., Can. VI., St. 5.
Give sorrow words : the grief, that does not spe.xk,
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Malcolm), Act IV., Sc. III.
GIVE THE DEVIL— GLORY'S VOICE. 85
" Give the devil his due." Old Proverb.
" For he was never yet a breaker of proverbs — lie will give
the devil his due."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. {Prince Henry),
Act I., Sc. 11.
" Give the devil his due."
Shakespeare. Henry V. {Constable), Act III.,
Sc. VII.
" Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd unfledged comrade."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Polonij4s), Act I., Sc. IIL
" Give to a gracious message
An host of tongues ; but let ill tidings tell
Themselves when they be felt."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra {Cleopatra), Act II.,
Sc. V.
" Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy
To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? "
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. III. (King Henry),
Act II., Sc. V.
" Glory and empire are to ferriale blood
More tempting dang'rous rivals than a god."
Crown. The Destruction of Jerusalem, Pt. I. {Monobazus),
Act III., Sell.
' Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. I. {Joan), Act I., Sc. II.
" Glory is the sodger's prize,
The sodger's wealth is honour."
Burns. When Wild War's Deadly Blast.
" Glory's temple is the tomb ;
Death is immortality."
J. Montgomery. The Battle of Alexandria.
" (Call to mind
That) glory's voice is impotent to pierce
The silence of the tomb ; but virtue blooms
Even on the wreck of life, and mounts the skies."
KiRKE White. Inscription for a Monument to the Memory
of Cowper.
86 GNARLING SORROW— GOD SAVE THE KING.
" Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man that mocks at it and sets it light."
Shakespeare. Richard II. {Gaitut), Act I., Sc. III.
" Go to the ant, thou sluggard ;
Consider her ways and be wise." Proverbs. Ch. VI., ver. 6.
" Go where glory waits thee,
But when fame elates thee,
Oh ! still remember me."
T. Moore. Irish Melodies, Go where Glory Waits Thee.
" Go where we may, rest where we will.
Eternal London haunts us still."
T. Moore. Rhymes on the Road, IV.
" God Almightie first planted a garden."
Bacon. Essay, XLVI., Of Gardens.
*' (His tribe were) God Almighty's gentlemen."
Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. I., line 645.
"A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman."
J. C. Hare. Guesses at Truth.
" God be thanked, the meanest of His creatures
Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,
One to show a woman when he loves her."
R. Browning. Mc7i and Women, One Word More.
" God builds His temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and
religions." Emerson. Worship.
" God comes to see us without bell."
Old Proverb, quoted by Emerson, in the Over Soul.
" God enters by a private door into every individual."
Emerson. Intellect.
" (We need love's tender lesson taught
As only weakness can ;)
God hath His small interpreters;
The child must teach the man." Whittier. A Mystery.
" God hath yoked to guilt
Her pale tormentor, misery."
Bryant. Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood.
" God helps them that help themselves."
B. Franklin. Poor Richard's Almanac.
" God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more
Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. IV., line 637.
" God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man."
Shakespeare. Merchant of Vetiice (Portia), Act I., Sc. II.
" God made the woman for the man." Tennyson. Edwin Morris.
" God save the king 1 " Henry Carey.
GOD SAVE THE MARK— GOLD CAN DO MUCH. 87
" God save the mark ! "
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Hotspur), Act I., Sc. III.
" God bcnds th' cold alter clothes."
J. Hey WOOD. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. IV.
" To a close shorn sheep God gives wind to measure."
Herbert. Macula Prudentum.
" God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."
Sterne. Sentimental Journey,
" God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks." Old Proverb.
" God sent us meat, the devil cooks."
Randolph. Hey for Honesty. Introduction
{Translator).
" God the first garden made, and the first city Cain."
Cowley. Stanzas addressed to jf. Evelyn, Esq., 3, last line.
" God made the country, man made the town."
Cowper. The Task, Bk. I.
" God will estimate
Success one day." R. Browning. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau.
" God will not love thee less, because men love thee more."
M. TupPER. Proverbial Philosophy, Of Tolerance,
last line.
" God's great gift of speech abused
Makes thy memory confused." Tennyson. A Dirge,
" God 's in His heaven —
All 's right with the world ! " R. Browning. Pippa Passes.
" Gods meet gods, and justle in the dark."
Dryden and Lee. Gidipus, Act IV., last line.
" Birds met birds, and justled in the dark."
Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, line 1898.
" God's mills grind slow, but sure." Herbert, jf acuta Prudentum.
" Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind
exceeding small ;
Though with patience stands He waiting, with exactness
grinds He all." Longfellow. Retribution.
" God's music will not finish with one tune."
Sir E. Arnold. With Sadi in the Garden.
" God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman ! "
Geo. Meredith. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Ch. XXXIV.
" Gold can do much,
But beauty more."
Massinger. The Unnatural Combat (Montreville),
Act I., Sc. I.
88 GOLD'S GOLD— GOOD WINE.
" Gold's gold though dim in the dust:
Court-polish soon turns it yellow."
R. Browning. Jocoseria, Solomon and Balkis.
" Gold were as good as twenty orators."
Shakespeare. Richard III. (Page), Act IV., Sc. II.
" Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."
I. Walton. The Complete Angler {Piscator), Bk. I., Ch. II.
" Good counsellors lack no clients."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Poiitpcy), Act I., Sc. I.
" (Now,) good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act III., Sc. IV.
" Keen appetites
And quick digestion wait on you and yours."
Dryden. Cleomenes, Act IV., Sc. I.
" Good for anything from pitch and toss to manslaughter.'"
C. Dickens. A Christmas Carol, St. 3.
" Good is best when soonest wrought,
Linger'd labours come to nought." Southwell. Loss in Delay.
" Good is no good, but if it be spend,
God giveth good for none other end."
Spenser. The Shcplicard's Calender, May, line 72.
" Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to
pass." Vanburgh. JEsop, Pt. I. {^sop). Act IV., Sc. II.
" Good manners never can intrude." E. Moore. Fable, XIV.
" Good men are men still, liable to mistakes, and are sometimes warmly
engaged in errors, which they take for divine truths, shining in
their minds with the clearest light."
Locke. Essay on the Human Understanding, Bk. IV.,
Ch. XIX., § 12.
" Good name in man and woman, dear my lord.
Is the immediate jewel of their souls."
Shakespeare. Othello {lago). Act III., Sc. III.
" Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty, but beauty can-
not long supply the absence of good nature."
Addison. Spectator, No. 306.
" Good, the more
Communicated, more abundant grows."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. I., line 371.
" (The) good we never miss wc rarelj- prize."
CowPER. Retirement, line 405.
" Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used."
Shakespeare. Othello (lago), Act II., Sc. III.
GOOD WINE— GREAT IS JOURNALISM. 89
" Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humours, good
humours cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good
works, good works carry a man to Heaven ; ergo good wine
carrieth a man to Heaven."
J. Howell. Familiar Letters, Bk. II., Lett. LIV.
To Lord Cliff.
" Good wine needs no bush."
Shakespeare. As You Like It, Epilogue.
" Good words are better than bad strokes."
Shakespeare, yulius Ccesar (Brutus), Act V., Sc, I.
" (But, thou art good ; and) Goodness still
Delighteth to forgive," Burns. Prayer in Prospect 0/ Death.
" (And teach the maid
That) Goodness Time's rude hand defies,
That virtue lives when beauty dies." Kirke White.
" A lady lent Waller's Poems to Kirke White, who returned
the book to her with an additional stanza, in which
the above lines appeared, added to the song^' Go,
lovely rose '."
" Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. VIII., line 488.
" (While some on earnest bus'ness bent
Their murm'ring labours ply,
'Gainst) graver hours that bring constraint
To sweeten liberty."
Gray. Ode on a distant prospect 0/ Eton College.
" Great actions are not always true sons
Of great and mighty resolutions."
Butler, Hudibras, Pt. I., Can. I., line 885.
" Great deeds cannot die ;
They with the sun and moon renew their light
For ever, blessing those that look on them."
Tennyson. The Princess, III.
" Great heights are hazardous to the weak head."
Blair, The Grave, line 293.
" Great honours are great burdens, but on whom
They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
His cares must still be double to his joys,
In any dignity ; where, if he err,
He finds no pardon : and for doing well
A most small praise, and that wrung out by force."
Ben Jonson. Catiline {Cicero), Act III., Sc. I.
" Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world,
being a persuader of it ; though self-elected, yet sanctioned by the
sale of his numbers ? "
Carlyle. French Revolution, Pt. II., Bk. I., Ch. IV.
go GREAT IS TRUTH— GREAT WITS ARE SURE.
" Great is truth, and mighty above all things."
EsDRAS. Bk. I., Ch. IV., ver. 41.
" Great joys, like griefs, are silent."
Shakerley Marmion. Holland's Leaguer (PhilanUis),
Act v., Sc. I.
" Great men are seldom over scrupulous in the arrangement of their
attire." C. Dickens. Pickwick, Ch. II.
" Great men are too often unknown, or, what is worse, misknown,"
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. I,, Ch. III.
" Great men by small means oft are overthrown ;
He's lord of thy life who contemns his own."
Herrick. Hesperides, 488.
" Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death ;
only little men do that."
RusKiN. Sesame and Lilies, Lecture I., 20.
" Great men over-grac'd, much rigor use ;
Presuming favourites discontentment bring ;
And disproportions harmony do break ;
Minions too great, argue a king too weak."
S. Daniel. Civil War, Bk. I., XXXVIII.
â– ' Great men's vices are esteem'd as virtues."
Shakerley Marmion. Holland's Leaguer {Snarl),
Act I., Sc. I.
* " Great Romulus of learning's richest state."
Warton. Ode for Music.
* King Arthur.
" Great spirits never with their bodies die."
Herrick. Hesperides, 549.
" Great talkers are never great doers."
MiDDLETON. Blurt, Master- Constable {Third Lady),
Act I., Sc. I.
" Great things through greatest hazards are achiev'd still,
And then they shine, then goodness has his glory."
Beaumont. The Loyal Subject {Archas), Act III., Sc. II.
" Great thoughts, great feelings came to them,
Like instincts unawares." Lord Houghton. The Men of Old.
" Great wits and valours, like great states.
Do sometimes sink with their own weights:
Th' extremes of glory and of shame,
Like East and West become the same."
Butler. Hudibras, Ft. II., Can. I., line 269.
" Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
Apd thin partitions do their bounds divide."
'â– "â– '^ Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. I., line 163.
"What thin partitions sense from thought divide ! "
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. I., line 226.
GREATNESS AND GOODNESS— GRIEF SHOULD BE. 91
" Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends."
Coleridge. Literary Remains, Reproof.
" (Leaves)
Green as Hope before it grieves
O'er the false and broken-hearted." L. E. L. Improvisatrice.
" (His hair, just grizzled,
As in a) green old age." Dryden. (Edipus, Act III., Sc. I.
" Grief finds some ease by him that like does beare."
Spenser. Daphnaida, line 67.
" Grief best is pleas'd with griefs society."
Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece, St. 159.
" One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet [Bcnvolio),
Act I., Sc. II.
" One desperate grief cures with another's languish."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfulict [Bcnvolio),
Act I., Sc. II.
" When griefs have partners they are better borne."
MiDDLETON. Your Five Gallants (Fitzgrave),
Act II., Sc. II.
" For 'tis some ease our sorrows to reveal,
If they to whom we shall impart our woes,
Seem but to feel a part of what we feel,
And meet us with a sigh but at the close."
S. Daniel. The Tragedy of Cleopatra (Scleuciis),
Act IV., Sc. I.
" Grief for the dead not virtue can reprove;
Then give me all I ever asked — a tear,
The first — last — sole reward of so much love ! "
Byron. The Corsair, Can. I., XIV.
" Grief hath two tongues : and never woman yet
Could rule them both, without ten women's wit."
Shakespeare. Venus and Adonis, St. 168.
" (I will instruct my sorrows to be proud ;
For) grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop."
Shakespeare. King John {Constance), Act III., Sc. I,
" Grief makes one hour ten."
Shakespeare. Richard II. [Bolingbroke), Act J.,
Sc. III.
" Grief should be the instructor of the wise ;
Sorrow is knowledge : they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life."
Byron. Manfred, Act I., Sc. /,
92 GRIEF STILL TREADS^IIALF THE FAILURES.
" Grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure ;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure."
CoKGREVE. The Old Bachelor {Sharper), Act V., Sc. VIII.
" Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front."
Shakespeare. Richard III. (Glostcr), Act I., Sc. I.
" Guilt proves the hardest nearest home." Hogg. The Pedlar.
" Guiltiness will speak
Though tongues were out of use."
Shakespeare. Othello (Ingo), Act V., Sc. I.
" Had I but dy'd an hour before this chance
I had liv'd a blessed time : for, from this instant,
There's nothing serious in mortality :
All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act II., Sc. III.
" Had women no more charms in their bodies than what they have
in their minds, we should see more wise men in the world, much
fewer lovers and poets."
Vanburgh. .^sop, Pt. I. [Msop), Act IV., Sc. II.
" Hail fellow ! well met ! " Swift. My Lady^s Lamentation.
" Hail, Sabbath 1 thee I hail, the poor man's day."
James Grahame. The Sabbath, 29 and 40.
" Hail to thee, blithe spirit !
Bird thou never wert,
That from heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art."
Shelley. To a Skylark, I.
" Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped — to gird
An English sovereign's brow I and to the throne
Whereon he sits ! whose deep foundations lie
In veneration and the people's love ;
Whose steps are equity, whose seat is law.
— Hail to the state of England."
Wordsworth. I'he Excursion, Bk. VI.
" Hail, wedded Love ! mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. IV., line 750.
" Half-happy, by comparison of bliss,
Is miserable. " Keats. Endyinion, II.
" Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is
leaping."
J. C. Hare. Guesses at Truth {Taylor and Walton''s
Ed., 1851), Vol. I., p. 221.
HALF THE SORROWS -HARD FATE OF MAN. 93
' Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the
speech they know to be useless — nay, the speech they have re-
solved not to utter." George Eliot. Felix Holt.
" Half won, is match well made ; match and well make it."
Shakespeare. AlTs Well that Ends Well (Interpreter),
Act IV., Sc. III.
" Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings
Of that mysterious instrument, the soul,
And play the prelude of our fate."
Longfellow. The Spanish Sitidenf, Act /., .SV. III.
" Handsome is as handsome does."
Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield, Cli. I.
" Hang out our banners on the outward walls ;
The cry is still — they come ! "
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act V., Sc. V.
" Hang sorrow I care will kill a cat,
And therefore let's be merry." Wither. Poem on Christinas
" (The ancient saying is no heresy ;— )
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice [Nerissa), Act II.,
Sc. IX.
" Marriage is ever made by destiny."
Chapman. All Fools, Act V., Sc. I.
" Hanging and marriage go by destiny."
Smollett. The Reprisal {Harriet), Act II., Sc. XV.
" Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to."
Sir H. Wotton. The Disparity between Buckingham and Essex.
Vide — BartlctVs Familiar Quotations, p. S3.
" Happier he, the peasant, far
From the pangs of passion free.
That breathes the keen yet wholesome air
Of rugged penury." Gray. Ode on Vicissitude.
" (Oh ! ) happiness of sweet retired content !
To be at once secure and innocent."
Denham. Cooper's Hill, line 37.
" Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of Fame—
to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell ! "
Bulwer Lytton. The Last of the Barons (Warwick),
Bk.V.,Ch.I.
" Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound.
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground." Pope. Ode on Solitude, I.
' Hard fate of man, on whom the heavens bestow
A drop ot pleasure for a sea of woe," Sir W. Jo.nes. Laura.
94 HARD FEATURES—HASTY MARRIAGE.
" Hard features every bungler can command ;
To draw true beauty shows a master hand."
Dryden. To Mr. Lee on his Alexander the Great.
" Hard is the task of justice, where distress
Excites our mercy, yet demands redress."
CoLLEY CiBBEP. The Heroick Daughter (King), Act III. ,
last lines.
" Hard must he wink that shuts his eyes from heaven."
QuARLES. A Feast for Wormes. Sec. 3, Med. 3.
" Hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity."
Lord Beaconsfield. Speech at the Guildhall, gth Nov., 1878.
" Hark, hark ; the lark at heaven's gate sings,
And Phoebus 'gins arise,
His steeds to water at those springs
On chaliced flowers that lies ;
And winking mary-buds begin
To ope their golden eyes :
With everything that pretty is,
My lady sweet, arise ;
Arise, arise ! "
Shakespeare. Cymbeline {Song), Act II., Sc, III.
" Harp not on that string."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Polonius), Act II., Sc. II.
" Harsh words, though pertinent, uncouth appear ;
None please the fancy who offend the ear."
Garth. The Dispensary, Can. IV., line 204.
" Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife
between the good man and his wife. " Old Proverb.
" I finde this prouerbe true.
That haste makes waste."
Gascoigne. Gascoigne's Memories, III., 7.
" Haste maketh waste."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. II.
" Haste is waste, profe doth finde."
Earl of Surrey. Praise of Mean and Constant
Estate.
" Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure ;
Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure {Duke), Act V., Sc. I.
" Haste to the beginning of a feast.
There I am with them; but to the end of a fray."
Massinger. The Bashful Lover {Gothrio), Act III., Sc. III.
" Hasty climbers quickly catch a fall."
Anon. The Play of Stuckley {Wife), line 710.
" Hasty marriage seldom proveth well,"
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. III. {Gloster). Act IV , Sc. I.
HATES ANY MAN— HE GIVETH OFT. 95
" Hates any man the thing he would not kill ? "
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Shylock), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Hatred is like fire — it makes even light rubbish deadly."
George Eliot. Scenes of Clerical Life, jfanet's Repentance.
" Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Fool), Act I., Sc. IV.
" Have you not heard it said full oft
A woman's nay doth stand for naught ? "
Shakespeare. The Passionate Pilgrim, St. 14.
" (The well-sung woes will soothe my pensive ghost ;)
He best can paint 'em who shall feel 'em most."
Pope. Eloisa to Abelard, last line,
" He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack,
For he knew, when he pleas'd, he could whistle them back."
Goldsmith. Retaliation, line 107.
" He chew'd
The thrice-turn'd cud of wrath, and cook'd his spleen."
Tennyson. The Princess, I.
" He deepest wounds that in his fawning bites."
Ph. Fletcher. The Purple Island, Can. VII., St. 50.
" He doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus ; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves."
Shakespeare, jfulius Ccesar {Cassius), Act I., Sc. II.
" He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his
argument."
Shakespeare. Lovers Labour Lost (Holofernes), Act V., Sc. I.
" He'd run in debt by disputation,
And pay with ratiocination.
Butler. Hudibras, Bk. I., Can. /., litte 77.
" He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To gain or lose it all."
Marquis of Montrose. I'll Never Love Thee More.
" He gives by halves, who hesitates to give."
Broome. Letter to Lord Cornwallis.
" He gives nothing but worthless gold
Who gives from a sense of duty."
J. R. Lowell. Vision of Sir Lannful, Pt. I., VI.
" He giveth oft who gives what's oft refused."
Crashaw. Epigraminata Sacra, CIII.
" Saepe dedit quisquis sa^pe negata dedit."
96 HE HATH ABANDONED—HE JESTS AT SCARS.
" He hath abandoned his physicians, madam ; under whose practices he
hath persecuted time with hope."
Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well (Laseu),
Act I., Sc. I.
" He hath no need of property
Who knows not how to spend it."
Thackeray. Ballads, The King of Brentford's Testament.
" He hath nothing done, that doth not all."
S. Daniel. Civil War, Bk. IV., XIV.
" He hazardeth sore that waxeth wise by experience."
Roger Ascham. The Schoolmaster.
" He held his sceptre like a pedant's wand
To lash offence." Tennyson. The Princess.
" He highest builds who with most art destroys,
And against others' fame his own employs."
Marvell. To Mr. Richard Lovelace, 13.
" He husbands best his life, that freely gives
It for the publick good; he rightly lives,
That nobly dies : 'tis greatest mastery.
Not to be fond to live, nor feare to die
On just occasion ; he that (in case) despises
Life, earns it best ; but he that overprizes
His dearest blood, when honour bids him die,
Steals but a life, and lives by robbery."
QuARLES. History of Esther, Sec. 15, Med. 15.
" He is a fool, who thinks by force or skill
To turn the current of a woman's will."
TuKE. The Adventures of Five Hours, Act V., Sc. III.
" He is all fault, who hath no fault at all."
Tennyson. Laiincelot and Elaine.
" He is as cowardly
That longer fears to live, as he that fears to die."
Phineas Fletcher. The Purple Island, Can. X., St.
" He is but a fool tfut, when all fails, cannot live upon his wit."
Unknown. A Merry Knack to know a Knave {Coneycatcher^.
" He is not valiant that dares die.
But he that boldly bears calamity."
Massinger. The Maid of Honour, Act IV., Sc. III.
" He is not worthy of the honey-comb.
Who shuns the hives because the bees have stings.
Shakespeare {attributed In). Locrinc {Hitbba), Act III., Sc. II.
" He is well paid, that is well satisfy'd."
Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice {Portia), Act III., Sc. I.
â– ' He jests at scars, that never felt a wound."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet {Romeo), Act II.. Sc. II
HE LAUGHTIl—HE NE'ER IS CROU'M'D. 97
" He laughth that winth." J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. V.
" They lauf^h that win."
Shakespkare. Otlicllo {Othello), Act IV., Sc. II.
*' Repeat the proverb, ' Let those laugh that win'."
Chatterto.m. Resignation.
" He left a name at wliich the world grew pale,
To point a moral or adorn a tale."
Dr. Johnson. The Vanity of Human Wishes, line 220.
" He levys at c-f that freely levys."
Barbour. The Bruce, Bk. I., line 228.
" He lives in fame, that dy'd in virtue's cause."
Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus (Lucius), Act I., Sc. I.
" He lives long that lives well."
Thos. Fuller. Holy and Profane States, Holy State,
The Good Child.
" (A forced love needs no such great applause,)
He loves but ill, that loves not for a cause."
QuARLES. Job Militant, Sec. 2.
" lie loves his bonds who, when the first are broke,
Submits his neck unto a second yoke." Herrick. Hcspcrides, 42.
" He makes a false wife that suspects a true."
Nath. Field. Amends for Ladies (Subtle), Act I., Sc. I.
" He makes a foe who makes a jest." Gay. Fables, Pt. I., XLVI .
" He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace ! "
Byron. The Bride of Abydos, Can. II., XX.
" He makes no friend who never made a foe."
Tennyson. Launcclut and Elaine.
" He may love riches that wanteth them, as much as he that hath them.''
R. Baxter. Christian Ethics.
" He more had pleas'd us, had he pleas'd us less."
Addison. English Poets, referring to Cotvhy.
" He mourns the dead who lives as they desire."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night II., line 24.
" He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone."
Churchill. The Rosciad, line 322.
" He must needes goe whom the divell doth drive."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. VI.
" He must needs go that the devil drives."
Shakespeare. AlTs Well that Ends Well (Clou-n),
Act I., Sc. III.
" Ila needs no aid who doth his lady's will."
Tennyson. Pelleas and Ettarre.
" He ne'er is crown'd
With mmortalily, who fears to follow
Where airy voices lead." Keats. Endymion, II
7
gS HE NEVER ERRS— HE SEES ENOUGH.
" (In good or ill leave casuists on the shelf,)
He never errs who sacrifices self."
BuLWER Lytton. The New Timon, Pt. IV., III.
" He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude,
and enjoy himself independent of its favour."
Sir R. Steele. Spectator, No. 554.
" He only is a well-made man who has a good determination."
Emerson. Culture.
" (Through the wide world) he only is alone
Who lives not for another. Come what will,
The generous man has his companion still."
Rogers. Human Life
" He only judges right who weighs, compares.
And, in the sternest sentence which his voice
Pronounces, ne'er abandons charity."
Wordsworth. Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Pi. II., I.
" He only sins who ill intends." Prior. Hans Carvel, line 65.
" He ought not to pretend to friendship's name,
Who reckons not himself and friend the same."
TuKE. Tlie Adventures of Five Hours.
" He pays the half who does confess the debt."
Herrick. Hesperides, 226.
" He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small ;
For the dear God who loveth us.
He made and loveth all." Coleridge. The Ancient Mariner, VII.
" (Let old Timotheus yield the prize,
Or both divide the crown ;)
He rais'd a mortal to the skies ;
She drew an angel down." Dryden. Alexander's Feast, VII .
" He's as tedious
A.S a tir'd horse, a railing wife ;
Worse than a smoky house : — I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far.
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me
In any summer-house in Christendom."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. {Hotspur), Act III., Sc. I.
" He's best at ease that meddleth least."
Unknown. Faire 'em {Manville), Act III., Sc. XVII.,
line 1383.
'• He's half absolv'd who has confessed."
Prior. Alma, Can. II., line 22.
" He's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer
The worst that men can breathe."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens {ist Senator),
Act III., Sc. V.
" He sees enough who doth his darkness see."
Lord Herbert of Cherbury. To his Mistress for her
True Picture.
HE SELDOM ERRS— HE THAT GOES TO SEA. 99
" He seldom errs,
Who thinks the worst he can of womankind."
Home, Douglas [Glenalvon), Act III.
" He sins against this life, who slights the next."
Young, l^ight Thoughts, Night III., line 399.
" He soonest looseth thst despairs to win."
Anon. The Play of Stuckley (Stukely), line 711.
" He teaches to deny that faintly prayes."
QuARLES. A Feast for Wormes, Sec. 7, Med. 7.
" He that begins to live, begins to die."
QuARLES. Hieroglyph I., Epig. I.
" He that by the plough would thrive,
Himself must either hold or drive."
B. Franklin. Poor Richard's Almanac.
" He that climbs highest has the greatest fall."
ToURNEUR. The Revenger's Tragedy (Lusurioso), Act V.
" He that desireth riches, must stretche the string that will not reach,
and practise all kinds of getting."
Lyly. Euphues and his England.
" He that dies, pay? all debts."
Shakespeare. The Tempest [Stephano), Act III., Sc. II.
• He that dies this year is quit for the next."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Feeble), Ad III., Sc. III.
" He that doth live at home, and learns to know
God and himself, needeth no further go."
Chris. Harvie. The Synagogue, Travels at Home.
"He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it is a saint; that
boasteth of it is a devil."
Thos. Fuller. Holy and Profane States, Holy State, of
Self-Praising.
" He that first cries out ' Stop thief/ ' is often he that has stolen the
treasure."
Congreve. Love for Love (Scandal), Act III., Sc. XIV.
" He that forgets to pray
Bids not himself good-morrow nor good-day."
Randolph. Necessary Observations, ist precept.
" (If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some ;
for) he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
B. Franklin. Poor Richard's Almanac.
" He that goes to law (as the proverb is) holds a wolf by the ears."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy. Dcmocritns to the Reader.
•' He that goes to sea, must smel of the ship ; and he that sayles into
Poets wil savour of Pitch."
Stephen Gosson. The Schoole of Abuse.
loo HE THAT HAS— HE THAT IS WITHOUT.
" He that has but ever so little examined the citations ot writers cannot
doubt how little credit the quotations deserve, where the originals
are wanting ; and consequently how much less, quotations oi
quotations can be relied on."
Locke. Essay on the Human Understanding, Bk. IV.,
Ch. XVI., § II.
" He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune,
for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or
mischief." Bacon. Essay VIII., Of Marriage and Single Life.
" He that hath an ill name is half hang'd, ye know."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. VI.
" He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord."
Proverbs. Ch. XIX., vcr. 17.
" He that hides treasure
Imagines every one thinks of that place."
MiDDLETON. The Old Law (Cleanthes), Act IV., So. II.
" He that is but able to express
^ No sense at all in several languages,
' Will pass for learneder than he that's known
To speak the strongest reason in his own."
Butler. Satire upon Human Learning, Pt. I., line 65.
" He that is down can fall no lower."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. I., Can. Ill,, line 877.
" He that is down needs fear no fall,
He that is low, no pride."
BuNYAN. Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. II.
" He that is giddy, thinks the world turns round."
Shakespeare. Tamitig of the Shrew {Katharina), Act V.,
Sc. II.
'•'■He that is of a merry heart, hath a continual feast."
Proverbs. Ch. XV., ver. 15.
" He that is one man's slave, is free from none."
Chapman. The Gentleman Usher (Vittcentio), Act I., Sc. I.
" He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,
Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all."
Shakespeare. Othello {Othello), Act III., Sc. III.
" What loss feels he that wots not what he loses ? "
Broome. The Merry Beggars, Act I., Sc. I.
" He that is void of fear, may soon be just ;
, And no religion binds men to be traitors."
Ben Jonson. Catiline {Cicero), Act III., Sc. II.
" He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
St. John. Ch. VIII., ver. 7.
" Who reproves the lame, must go upright."
S. Daniel. Civil War, Bk. III., X.
HE THAT KYLLYTH—HE THAT SLEEPS. loi
" (According to our commune proverbe), ' He that kyllyth a man dronk
sobur achal be hangyd'."
T. Stakkey. England in Reign of Henry VIII., Lik. I.,
Cli. II. (S. Pole).
" He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend."
Sir H. Taylor. Philip von Arteveldc, Pt. I. (Father John), Act I.
Sc. V.
" He that loseth his honestie, hath nothing elae to lose."
Lyly. Euphues.
" He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall."
Marlowe. Dr. Fatistus {Bad Angel), Act V., Sc. IV.
" He that loves to be flatter'd, is worthy of the flatterer."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens {Apemantns), Act I., Sc. I.
" He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man."
Proverbs. Ch. XXI., vev. 17.
" He that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act IV., Sc. IV.
" He that mounts him on the swiftest hope,
Shall often run his courser to a stand."
CoLLEY Gibber. Richard III., altered by. {King Henry),
Act I., Sc. I.
" He that needs five thousand pounds to live
Is full as poor as he that needs but five."
Herbert. The Temple. The Church Porch.
" He that of greatest works is finisher,
Oft does them by the weakest minister."
Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well {Helene),
Act II., Sc. I.
" He that once is good, is always great."
Ben Jonson. The Forest. To Lady Anbigny.
" He that only rules by terror
Doeth grievous wrong." Tennyson. The Captain.
" He that roars for liberty,
Faster binds a tyrant's power;
And the tyrant's cruel glee
Forces on the freer hour." Tennyson. The Vision of Sin.
" He that's merciful
Unto the bad, is cruel to the good."
Randolph. The Muses' Looking Glass.
" He that sleeps feels not the toothache."
Shakespeare. Cymbcline {1st Jailer), Act V., Sc. IV.
102 HE THAT SPARETH—HE THAT WILL NOT.
" He that spareth the rod hateth his son."
Proverps. CIi. XII [., vcr. 24.
" Love is a boy, by poets styl'd,
Then spare the rod, and spoil the child."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. IL, Can. I., line 843.
"He that stabs another, can kill his body: but he that stabs himself,
kills his own soul."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pi. /., Sec. IV., Mem. I.
" He that strikes
The venison first shall be lord o' the feast."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (Belarius), Act III., Sc. III.
" He that strives not to stem his anger's tide,
Does a wild horse without a bridle ride."
CoLLEY Gibber. Love's Last Shift, Act III., Sc. I.,
last lines.
" He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of
larger meaning." Dr. S. Johnson. The Idler, No. 70.
" He that, to his prejudice, will do
A noble action and a gen'rous too,
Deserves to wear a more resplendent crown
Than he that hath a thousand battles won."
Pomfret. Crucify and Lust, line 399.
'• He that to nought aspires, doth nothing neede;
Who breaks no law is subject to no king."
G. Chapman. The Revenge of Diissy d'Ambois {Clermont),
Act IV., Sc.I.
" He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith."
EccLESiASTicus. Ch. XIII., vcr. I.
" Whoso touches pitch, mought needs be defildc."
Chaucer. The Shcpheard's Calender, Mavr 74.
" They that touch pitch will be defil'd."
Shakksteare. Much Ado about Nothing
(Dogberry), Act V., Sc. I.
" He that voluntarily continues ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes
which ignorance produces."
Dr. S. Johnson. Letter to Mr. W. Drummond.
i7,th Aug., 17C6.
" He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good
friends."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (Corin.), Act III., Sc. II.
" He that will have cake out of the wheat, must tarry the grinding."
Shakespeare, Troilus and Crcssida (Pandarus),
Act I., Sc. I.
" He that will not use the rod on his child, his child shall be used as a
rod on him."
Th. Fuller. Holy and Profane States, Holy State, The
Good Parent.
HE THAT WILL RISE— HE WAS A RAKE. 103
He that will rise to the top of a high ladder must go up, not leap up."
L. Macuin. The Dumb Knight {Prate), Act I., Sc. I.
He that will use all winds, must shift his sail."
Fletcher. The Faithful Shepherdess {Chloe), Act III., Sc. III.
He that wold not when he might,
He shall not when he wold-a."
Old Ballad. The Baffled Knight.
" He that will not when he may,
When he would he shall have nay."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. III.
•' Who seeks and will not take when once 'tis offered,
Shall never find it more."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Menes),
Act II., Sc. VII.
" But he that takes not such time, while he may.
Shall leap at a whiting, when time is away."
The Marriage 0/ True Wit and Science {Will),
Act IV., Sc. I.
He that would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife ! "
Ben Jonson. The Poetaster {Albius), Act III., Sc. I.
He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public."
Emerson. Spiritual Laws.
He tlireatens many that hath injured one."
Ben Jonson. Sejauus {Silitis), Act II., Sc. IV.
He thrids the labyrinth of the mind,
He reads the secret of the star.
He seems so near and yet so far.
He looks so cold: she thinks him kind."
Tennyson. In Mcmoriam, XCVII.
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes."
Shakespeare. Richard II. {Gaunt), Act II., Sc. I.
He travels best that knows when to return."
MiDDLETON. The Old Law {Clcanthes), Act IV., Sc. II.
He wants worth who dares not praise a foe."
Dryden. The Conquest of Granada {Abdalla), Act II.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."
Swift. Polite Conversation, Dia. II.
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act I., Sc. II.
' (The comniyn saying,) * He was neuer gud master that neuer was
scoler, nor neuer gud capitayne that neuer was soudier '."
T, Starkey. England in the Reign of Henry VIII.,
Pt. I., Ch. I., 4 {Pole).
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes."
Macaulay. Of Addison. Review of Aikin's Life of
Addisnn.
I04 HE WAS NOT— HE WHO HOLDS.
" He was not of an age, but for all lime ! "
Ben Jonson. Undcrivoods, XII. To the Memory of
Shakespeare.
" He was the mildest mannered man
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat."
Byron. Don yuan, Can. III., St. 41.
" He well repents that will not sin, yet can ;
But Death-bed sorrow rarely shews the man."
Nath. Lee. The Princess of Cleve (Nemours), Act IV.,
Sc. III.
" He who allows oppression shares the crime."
Eras. Darwin. The Loves of the Plants, Can. III.,
line 458.
" He who at fifty is a fool,
Is far too stubborn grown for school."
N. Cotton. Visions in Verse, Slander.
" He who blesses most is blest ;
And God and man shall own his worth
Who toils to leave as his bequest
An added beauty to the earth."
Whittier. Lines for the Agricultural Exhibition at
Amesbury.
" He who can draw a joy
From rocks, or woods, or weeds, or things that seem
All mute, and does it — is wise."
Barry Cornwall. A Haunted Stream.
" He who can resign
Has never lov'd."
Mallett. Amyntor and Theodora, Can. I., line 407.
" He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself."
Sir T. Browne. Christian Morals, Pt. I., XXXIV.
' He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let
him into heaven."
J. C. Hare. Guesses at Truth, Vol. II., p. 213.
" He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persua-
sion on his tongue."
RusKiN. The Stones of Venice, Infidelitas, § 99.
" He who hath bent him o'er the dead
Ere the first day of death is fled,
The first dark day of nothingness,
The last of danger and distress." Byron. The Giaour.
" He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much
worse matter in his composition."
C. Lamb. Essays of Elia, All Fools' Day.
" He who holds no laws in awe,
He must perish by the law."
Byron. Occasional Pieces, A very mournful Ballad
HE WHO IS EVIL— HE WRITES WELL. 105
" He who is e\'il can receive no good ;
And for a world bestowed, or a friend lost,
He can feel hate, fear, shame ; not gratitude."
Shelley. Proinethcns Unbound {Promctltcus), Act I.
" He who loves not his country, can love nothing."
Byron. The I^wo Foscari {Jac Foscari), Act III., Sc. I.
" He who quells an angry thought
Is greater than a king." Eliza Cook. Anger.
" He who receives
Light from above, from the Fountain of Light,
No other doctrine needs, though granted true."
Milton. Paradise Regained, Bk. IV., line 288.
" He who seeks tiie mind's improvement
Aids the world, in aiding mind !
Every great commanding movement
Serves not one but all mankind."
Chas. Swain. What Is Noble !
" lie who wears his heart on his sleeve, will often have to lament that
daws peck at it." Carlyle. Essay on Schiller.
" Ele who wins a thousand common hearts is therefore entitled to some
renown ; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a
coquette, is indeed a hero."
Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
" He w'.io would climb and soar aloft
Must needs keep ever at his side
The tonic of a wholesome pride."
A. H. Clougii. The Higher Courage.
" He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the
name of goadness, but must explore it if it be goodness."
Emerson. Self-Reliance.
" He who would make a pun, would pick a pocket." Dr. Donne.
[Often attributed to Dr. S. Johnson.']
" He who would win the name of truly great
Must understand his own age and the next."
J. R. Lowell. A Glance Behind the Curtain.
" lie whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet
support his vanity by the name of a critick."
Dr. S. Johnson. The Idler, No. 60.
" He, with lib'ral and enlarged mind,
Who loves his country, cannot hate mankind."
Churchill. The Farezvell, line 301.
" He wreathed the rod of criticism with roses."
I. Disraeli. On Boyle.
" (The world agrees.
That) he writes well who thinks with ease;
Then he, by sequel logical,
Writes best who never thinks at all."
Prior. Epistle to Fleetwood Shephard.
ro6 HEALTH IS THE FIRST— HEAVEN TAKE MY SOUL.
" Health is the first good lent to men ;
A gentle disposition tlien ;
Next, to be rich by no by-ways ;
Lastly, with friends t' enjoy our days." Herrick. Hespcr'idcs, 121.
" (For thou shalt) heap coals of fire upon his head."
Proverbs. Ch. XXV., ver. 22.
•• Thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head."
St. Paul. Ep. to the Romans, Ch. XII., ver. 20.
" Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself: we may out-run,
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running, know you not.
The fire that mounts the liquor 'till it run o'er,
In seeming to augment it, wastes it ? "
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. {Norfolk), Act I., Sc. I.
" Heaven asks no surplice round the heart that feels.
And all is holy where devotion kneels." O. W. Holmes. Poetry.
" Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
As if we had them not."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Duke), Act I., Sc. I.
" Heaven forfend that vengeance e'er should strike,
Ere justice doomed the blow."
SouTHEY. The Fall of Robespierre, Act II.
" Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
Congreve. The Mourning Bride (Zara), Act III.,
Sc. VIII.
" A slighted woman knows no bounds."
Vanburgh. The Mistake {Leonora), Act II., Sc. I.
" He shall find no Fiend in Hell can match the fury of a
•^^^ disappointed woman."
CoLLEV CiBBER. Lovc's Last Shift {Flareit),
Act IV., Sc. I.
" Is any Panther's, Lioness's rage
So furious, any Torrent's fall so swift.
As a wrong'd woman's hate ? "
Nat. Lee. Alexander the Great (Cassander),
Act I., Sc. I.
" Heaven is above all yet ; there sits a judge
That no king can corrupt."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. {Katharine), Act III.,
Sc.I.
" Heav'n punishes the bad, and proves the best."
Drvden. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. I., line 44.
" Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones."
Shakespeare. King John (Arthur), Act IV., Sc. III.
HEAVEN'S BEST AID—HER PRETTY FEET. 107
" Heaven's best aid is wasted upon men
Who to themselves are false." Wordsworth. The Prelude, Bk. X.
" Heaven's great artillery." CuAsirAW. The Flaming Heart, 56.
" Hell gives us art to reach the depth of sin,
But leaves us wretched fools, when we are in."
Fletcher. The Queen of Corinth (Agenor), Act 1 V.,
Sc. III.
" Hell is full of good meanings and wishings."
Herbert, jfaciila Prudcntum.
" Hell is paved with good intentions."
BoswELL. Life of Johnson {FitzgerahVs Ed.),
1888, Vol. II., p. rg.
" Help refused
Is hindrance sought and found."
Browninq. Fcrishtah's Fancies, Two Camels.
" Help your lame dog o'er a stile." Swift. Whig and Tory.
" Hence, loathed melancholy,
Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born." Milton. L' Allegro.
" (She for him had given)
Her all on earth, and more than all in heaven."
Byron. The Corsair, Can. II., XVII.
" Her beauty and her brain go not together : she's a good sign, but 1
have seen small reflection of her wit."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline {ist Lord), Act I., Sc. II.
" Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an .i5ithiop's ear ;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear I
So shews a snowy dove trooping with crows,
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfuliet {Romeo), Act I., Sc. V.
" (For she was beautiful :) her beauty mado
The bright world dim, and everything beside
Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade."
Shelley. The Witch of Atlas, XII.
" Her eyes are homes of silent prayer."
Tennyson. In Memoriam, XXXII.
" Her feet beneath her petticoat
Like little mice stole in and out,
As if they feared the light ;
But oh 1 she dances such a way,
No sun upon an Easter-day
Is half so fine a sight."
Sir John Suckling. Ballad on a Wedding.
" Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep
A little out, and then,
As it they played at Bo-peep,
Did soon draw in again."
Herrick. On her Feci.
io8 HER TEARS— HIS HONOUR ROOTED.
" Her tears, her vows are all a cheat,
For woman loves herself alone." Somerville. To Phyllis.
" Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman."
Shakespeare. King Lear [Lear), Act V., Sc. III.
" Her waist is ampler than her life,
For life is but a span." O. W. Holmes. My Aunt.
" Here lies our sovereign lord the king,
Whose word no man relies on ;
He never says a foolish thing,
Nor ever does a wise one."
Earl of Rochester. Written on Charles II.'s bed-
chamber door.
The first line is often quoted —
" Here lies our mutton-eating king ".
" Here lies my wife : here let her lie !
Now she's at rest, and so am I." Dryden. Stiggested Epitaph.
" Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen ;
Here's to the widow of fifty."
Sheridan. The School for Scandal, Song (Sir H.
Bumper), Act III., Sc. III.
** Heroism is active genius ; genius contemplative heroism."
J. C. Hare. Guesses at Truth, Vol. II., p. lo.
" High device is still the highest force.
And he who holds the secret of the wheel
May make the rivers do what work he would."
George Eliot. The Spanish Gipsy (Zarca).
" Him, the same laws, the same protection yields,
Who ploughs the furrow, or who owns the field."
Savage. Of Public Spirit, line 41.
" Him who ne'er listened to the voice of praise
The silence of neglect can ne'er appal."
Beattie. The Minstrel Bk. I., St. 2.
" His bounty,
There was no winter in't : an autumn 'twas
That grew the more by reaping."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra {Cleopatra),
Act v., Sc. II.
" His heart runs away with his head."
G. CoLMAN, the Younger. Who Wants a Guinea ?
(Heartly), Act I., Sc. I.
" (The shackles of an old love straiten'd him),
His honour rooted in dishonour stood.
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true."
Tennyson. Launcelot and Elaine.
Hlb HOPE IS TREACHEROUS^HONESTY IS THE BEST. 109
" His hope is treacherous only whose love dies
Wilh beauty, which is varying every hour ;
But, in chaste hearts, uninfluenced by the power
Of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower
That breathes on earth the air of paradise."
Wordsworth. Suiuut, Pt. I., XXIV.
" History, a distillation of Rumour."
Carlyle. 2' he French Revolution, Pt. I., Uk. VII.,
Ch. V.
" History is full of the errors of states and princes."
B. Franklin. Autobiography.
" (I have read somewhere or other — in Dionysius of Haiicarnassus
think — that) History is Philosophy teaching by examples."
BoLiNGBRoKE. On the Study and Use of History,
Letter II.
" History, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes,
follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
Gibbon. Deeline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
Ch. III.
' (It became a proverb when what ought to be your election was forced,
upon you, to say,) ' Hobson's Choice '."
Steele. Spectator, No. 509.
•' Hold their noses to grinstones, and sit on their skurtes,
That erst sate on myne." J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. /., Ch. V.
" Hold thou the good : define it well :
Foi fear divine Philosophy
ShouiJ push beyond her mark and be
Procuress to the Lord of Hell." Tennyson. In Mcmoriam, LI II.
" Home is home, though it never be so homely." Old Proverb.
" Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."
J. H. Payne. Home, Sweet Home. From the Opera
ofClari, The Maid of Milan.
" Honest hearts make iron arms."
O. W. Holmes. Song for Centennial Celebration of
Harvard College.
" Honest labour bears a lovely face." T. Dekker. Sweet Content.
" Honest men
Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves
Kepose and fatten."
Otway. Venice Preserved {Pierre), Act I., Sc. I.
' Honesty is the best policy." B. Franklin. Poor Richard's Sayings.
*' Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts on that prin-
ciple is not an honest man."
Archbishop Whately.
no HONOUR ALONE— HOPE.
" Honour alone we cannot, must not lose ;
Honour, that spark of the celestial fire,
That above nature makes mankind aspire ;
Ennobles the rude passions of our frame
With thirst of glory, and desire of fame :
The richest treasure of a generous breast.
That gives the stamp and standard to the rest.
Halifax. The Man of Honoui.
" Honour and shame from no condition rise ;
Act well your part, there all the honour lies."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. IV., line 193.
" Honour is a baby's rattle."
Randolph. The Muses^ Looking Glass [Micro-
fsychus), Act III., Sc. II.
" Honour is a public enemy: and conscience a domestic; and he that
would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one, and go
halves with t' other."
CoNGREVE. Love/or Love (Scandal), Act III.,
Sc. XIV.
" Honour is like a widow, won
With brisk attempt and putting on."
Butler. Htidibras, Pt. I., Can. /., line 913.
" Honours are shadows, which from seekers fly ;
But follow after those who them deny."
R. Baxter. Love Breathing Thanks and Praise,
Pt. II.
" Honours best thrive,
When rather from our acts we them derive
Than our fore-goers : the mere word's a slave
Debauch'd on every tomb ; on every grave,
A living trophy ; and as oft is dumb,
Where dust, and damn'd oblivion, is the tomb
Of honour'd bones indeed."
Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well (King),
Act II., Sc. III.
" Hood an ass in rev'rend purple,
So you can hide his too ambitious ears,
And he shall pass for a cathedral doctor."
Ben Jonson. Volpone (Mosca), Act I., Sc. I.
" Hope deferred maketh the heart sick."
Proverbs. Ch. XIII., ver. 12.
" Hope dries the tear which sorrow weepeth."
T. Ingoldsby. On the Death of a Daughter.
" Hope for a season bade the world farewell.
And Freedom shriek'd — as Kosciusko fell ! "
Campbell. The Pleasures of Hope.
" Hope ! Fortune's cheating lottery !
Where for one prize an hundred blanks there be."
Cowley. Against Hope, III.
HOPE HERSELF— HOW BITTER A THING. iii
" Hope herself ceases to be happiness when impatience companions her."
RusKiN. The Ethics of the Dust, The Crystal Orders.
" Hope is but the dream of those that wake."
Prior. Solovion, Bk. III., line 102.
" Hope is the fawning traytorof the mind, while under colour of friend-
ship, it robs it ol its chief force of resolution."
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. III.
" Hope never spreads her golden wing but on unfathomable seas."
Emerson. The Progress of Culture.
" Hope shall brighten days to come, \
And memory gild the past." 1
T. Moore, jftivenile Poems, Song.
" Hope shall steal away the trace
Which sorrow leaves behind."
T. Moore, yuventle Poems, Song.
" Hope springs Eternal in the human breast ;
Man never is, but always to be blest."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. I., line 95.
" Hope that with honey blends the cup of pain."
Sir W. Jones. Hymn to Screswatty.
" Hope, thou nurse of young desire,"
BiCKERSTAFF. Love in a Village {Rosetta sings),
Act I., Sc. I.
" Hops and turkeys, carps and beer,
Came into England all in a year."
Sir R. Baker. Chronicles, quoted in \Valton''s Complete
Angler [Piscator), Bk. /., Ch. IX.
" Horses, thou say'st, and asses men may try,
And ring suspected vessels ere they buy;
But wives, a random choice, untry'd they take,
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake;
Then, not till then, the veil's removed away.
And all the woman glares in open day."
Pope. The Wife of Bath, line 100.
" Hot love soon colde." J. Hevwood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. II.
'* Dowghter, in this I can thinke no other
But that it is true thys proverbe olde,
Hastye love is soone hot and soone colde ! "
Unknown. Play of Wit and Science.
" How a good meaning
May be corrupted by a misconstruction."
MiDDLETON. The Old Law (Simonides), Act I., Sc. I.
" How are the mighty fallen 1 " Samuel. Bk. II., Ch. I., vcr. ig
" How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's
eyes I "
Shakespeare. As You Like It {Orlando), Act V.,
Sc. II.
LI2 HOW BLINDE IS PKIDE~H0W MANY FOOLS.
" How blinde is Pride! what Eagles we are still,
In matters that belonj^ to other men !
What Beetles in our ow ne ! "
G. Chapman. All Fooles {Marc Antony), Act IV., Sc. I.
" How can a man comprehend great matters, that breaketh his minde too
much to small observations ? "
Bauon. Essay LII. Of Ceremonies and Respects.
" How can the less tlie greater comprehend ?
Or finite leason reach infinity ? " Dryden. Religio Laid, line 39.
" How carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past ? "
R. liROWNiNO. Balausiion's Adventure.
" How chances mock,
And changes fill the cup of alteration
With divtrs liquors 1 oh, if this were seen,
The happiest youth, — viewing his progress through,
What perils past, what crosses to ensue, —
Would shut the book, and sit him down and die."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. [King Henry),
Act III., Sc. I.
" How cold the comfort in Good-bye ! "
Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. XV.
" How full of briars is this working-day world."
Shakespeare. As You Like It {Rosalind), Act I.,
Sc. III.
" How goes the enemy ? " Reynolds. The Dramatist.
" How great his theft who robs himself! "
N. Cotton. Visions in Verse, Pleasure.
" How happy could I be with either.
Were t' other dear charmer away 1 "
Gay. The Beggars' Opera {Macheath sings).
Act II., Sc. II.
" How happy is the blameless vestal's lot !
The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
Pope. Eloisa to Abelard, line 207.
" How hard it is for women to keep counsel."
Shakespeare. Julius Casar {Portia), Act II., Sc. IV.
" How ill white hairs become a fool and jester."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. (King), Act V., Sc. V.
" How light
Must dreams themselves be ; seeing they're more slight
Than the mere nothing that engenders them 1 " Keats. Endymion.
" How many excellent speeches and honest actions are lost for want of
beingindifferent where we ought." Steele. Spectator, No. ^S.
" How many fools serve mad jealousy."
Shakespeare. Comedy 0/ Errors {Luciana), Act II., Sc. I
HOW MANY PERILS— HOW SHALL WE HANK. u
" (Ay me,) how many perils doe enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall."
Spenser. The Faerie Queeiic, Bk. I., Can. VIII., St. i.
" How many things by season season'd are
To their right praise, and true perfection ? "
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Portia),
Act v., Sc. I.
" IIow many troubles are with children horn !
Yet he that wants them counts himself forlorn."
Drummond of Hawthornden. Translation of Verses oj
S. John Scot.
" How now ! a rat ? Dead 1 for a ducat, dead I "
Shakespeare, Hamlet [Hamlet), Act III., Sc. /!'.
" How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done."
Shakespeare. King John (King), Act IV., Sc. II.
" How often woman's heart must turn
To feed upon its own excess
Of deep yet passionate tenderness 1
How much of grief the heart must prove
That yields a sanctuary to love 1 " L. E. L. The Troubadour.
" How partial is the voice of Fame 1 "
Prior. Epigram on Partial Fame.
" How poor are they that have not patience !
What wound did ever heal but by degrees ? "
Shakespeare. Othello {Icigo), Act II., Sc. III.
" How poor religious pride,
In all the pomp of method, and of art,
When men display to congregations wide,
Devotion's every grace except the heart 1 "
Burns. The Cotter's Saturday Night.
" How quickly Nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object 1 "
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pi. II. (King Henry),
Act IV., Sc. IV.
" (*Tis sure the hardest science to forget ;)
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence ? "
Pope. Eluisa to Abelard, line igi.
" How shall we rank thee * upon Glory's page ?
Thou more than soldier and just less than sage 1
Too formed for peace to act a conqueror's part,
Too trained in camps to learn a statesman's art,
Nature designed thee for a hero's mould.
But, ere she cast thee, let the stuff grow cold ! "
T. Moore. Epistle to Thus. Hume, Esq., M.D
• George Washington.
8
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114 HOW SHARPER— HOW SWEET.
" (That she may feel)
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Lear), Act I., Sc. IV.
" How silver-sweet sound lover's tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears ! "
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfitliei (Romeo), Act II., Sc. II.
" How sleep the brave, who sink to rest
By all their country's wishes blest !
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallowed mould,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod."
Collins. Ode Written in 1746.
" How slow
Behind the course of thought, even sick with speed,
Lags leaden-footed time I "
Shelley. The Cenci {Beatrice), Act IV., Sc. II.
" How slow the day
Slides on 1 when we desire time's haste,
It seems to lose a match with lobsters ;
And when we wish him stay, he imps his wings
With feathers plum'd with thought."
John Tompkins. Albumazar {Pandol/o), Act II., Sc. VI.
" How small a fence Love sets between the king
And the strong hind, who breeds his brood, and dies
Upon the field he tills." Lewis Morris. Epic of Hades. Helen.
•' How soon a smile of God can change the world I
How we are made for happiness — how work
Grows play, adversity a winning fight 1 "
R. Browning. In a Balcony.
" How soon the tale of ages may be told I
A page, a verse, records the fall of fame,"
F. Hemans. Modern Greece, J^XVII.
" How sour sweet music is.
When time is broke, and no proportion kept 1
So is it in the music of men's lives,"
Shakespeare. Richard II. [Richard), Act V., Sc. V.
" How sweet are looks that ladies bend
On whom their favours fall 1 " Tennyson. Sir Galahad.
" How sweet is death to those who weep,
To those who weep and long to die ! "
T. MooRE. jfnvenile Pieces, Elegiac Stanzas.
f How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank !
\ Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
1 Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night,
\ Become the touches of sweet harmony."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice {Lorenzo),
Act v., Sc. I.
HOW SWEETLY SOUNDS— HUNGER MAKES COARSE. 115
" How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman I
It is so seldom heard, that, when it speaks,
It ravishes all senses."
MiDDLETON, The Old Law (Leonides), Act IV., Sc. II.
" How use doth breed a habit in a man."
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona {Valentine),
Act v., Sc. IV.
" How vain the ardour of the crowd, ^-^^
How low, how little, are the proud,
How indigent the great 1 " Gray. Ode to the Spring.
" How weak a thing
The heart of woman is I "
Shakespeare, yulius Ccesar [Portia), Act II., Sc. IV.
" How were pity understood
Unless by pain ? "
R. Browning. Parleyings with Certain People, Francis
Farini.
" How wise they are that are but fools in love ! "
• Joshua Cooke. How a Man may Choose a Good Wife
from a Bad {Anselni), Act I., Sc. I.
* Generally attributed to jfoshua Cooke, but the authorship
is somewhat uncertain.
" Howe'er man rules in science and in art.
The sphere of woman's glories is the heart."
T. Moore. Epilogue to the Tragedy of Ina.
" Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barriers of
system." George Eliot. Silas Marner.
" Human science is uncertain guess."
Prior. Solomon, Bk. I., line 740.
" Human pride
Is skilful to invent most serious names
To hide its ignorance." Shelley. Queen Mab, VII.
" Humanity always becomes a conqueror."
Sheridan. Pizarro {Elvira), Act I., Sc. I.
" Humble love.
And not proud reason, keeps the door of heaven 1
Love finds admission where proud science fails."
YouNO. Night Thoughts, Night IX., line 1859.
" Hunger is bitter, but the worst
Of human pangs, the most accursed
Of Want's fell scorpions, is Thirst." Eliza Cook. Melaia.
" Hunger is sharper than the sword."
Beaumont and Fletcher. The Honest Man's Fortune
•' Hunger makes coarse meats delicate."
{La-Poop), Act II., Sc. II.
Herrick. Hesperides, 107.
ii6 HUNGER, REVENGE~I COULD NOT LOVE.
" Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes,
But only Death the jealous eyes can close."
Wycherley. Love in a Wood {Valentine), Act I., Sc. IV.
" Hunting the word that never comes."
Churchill. The Poetry Professors.
" Hypocrisy the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. III., litie 683
" I am a tainted wether of the flock,
Meetest for death."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice [Antonio),
Act IV., Sc. I.
" I am a worm, and no man." Psalms. XXII., ver. 6.
" I am fortune's fool."
Shakespeare. Romeo and yulict {Romeo), Act III., Sc. I.
" I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute."
CowPER. Alexander Selkirk.
" I am Sir Oracle,
(\nd, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice [Gratiano],
Act I., Sc. I.
" I am the daughter of earth and water,
And the nursling of the sky :
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ;
I change, but I cannot die." Shelley. The Cloud, VI.
" I bring fresh showers for the thirsty flowers.
From the seas and the streams ;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noon-day dreams." Shelley. The Cloud, I.
" I call a spade a spade."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the
Reader.
" I cannot love my lord, and not his name."
Tennyson. Geraint and Enid.
" I cannot sink
So far — far down, but I shall know
Thy voice, and answer from below." Tennyson. Eleanors.
" I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul."
Shakespeare, flantlet (Ghost). Act /., Sc. V.
" I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honour more."
R. Lovelace. To Lucasta, on going to the Wars.
/ COUNT MYSELF— I HAVE NO OTHER. 117
" I count myself in nothing else so happy,
As in a soul remembering my good friends."
Shakespeare. King Richard II. (Bolingbroki),
Act II., Sc. III.
" I dare do all that may become a man ;
Who dares do more, is none."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act I., Sc. VII.
" I do hate him, as I hate the devil."
Ben Jonson. Every Man Out of his Humour (Macilente),
Act I., Sc. I.
" I do not love thee. Doctor Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell ;
But this alone I know full well,
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell." Tom Brown.
" I fear, that in the election of a wife,
As in a project of war, to err but once
Is to be undone for ever."
MiDDLETON. Anything for a Quiet Life {Lord Beaufort),
Act I , Sc.I.
" I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon.
Than such a Roman."
Shakespeare. Julius Ccesar (Brutus), Act IV., Sc. III.
" I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew,
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ;
I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd,
Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ;
And that would set my teeth nothing on edgt
Nothing so much as mincing poetry : —
'Tis like the forcd gait of a shuffling nag."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Hotspur), Act III., Sc. I.
" I had rather stand in the shock of a basilisk, than in the fury of n
merciless pen."
Sir T. Browne. Religio Medici, Pt. II., Sec. IV.
" I have but one simile, and that's a blunder,
ForjvQrdles s woman , \yhi ch is _silpnt >hiin<T/'T-^' '
Byron. Don Juan, Can. VI., St. 57.
" I have heard indeed, that two negatives make an affirmative ; but I
never heard before that two nothings ever made anything."
Duke of Buckingham, Speech in the House of Lords.
" I have no other, but a woman's reason ;
I think him so, because I think him so."
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lucetta),
Act I., Sc. II.
" Besides, I have a woman's reason, I will not dance, be-
cause I will not dance."
MiDDLETON. Blurt, Master Constable (Violetta),
Act I., Se. I.
xi8 I HAVE SET— I MUST MIX.
" I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the dye."
Shakespeare. Richard III. {King Richard),
Act v., Sc. IV.
" (Her stature tall) — I hate a dumpy woman."
Byron. Don Juan, Can. /., St. 6i.
" I hear a voice you cannot hear,
Which says I must not stay ;
I see a hand you cannot see.
Which beckons me away." Tickell. Colin and Lucy.
*' I hold a mouse's wit not worth a leke
That hath but on hole for to sterten to."
Chaucer. Wyfe of Bath's Prologue, line 572.
'• The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole.
Can never be a mouse of soul."
Pope. The Wife of Bath, line 297.
" I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlip and the nodding violet grows ;
Quite over-canopy'd with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine."
Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream (Oberon),
Act II., Sc. II.
" I know a trick worth two of that."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (ist Carrier), Act II., Sc. I.
" I know on which side my bread is buttered."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. VII.
" I'll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell.
To die upon the hand I love so well."
Shakespeare. Midsummer NighVs Dream {Helena),
Act II., Sc. II.
" I'll make assurance doubly sure,
And take a bond of fate."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act IV., Sc. I.
" I'll make thee glorious by my pen,
And famous by my sword."
Montrose. /'// Never Love Thee More.
" I'll see thee hang'd first."
Beaumont and Fletcher. The Knight of the Pestle,
Act I., Sc. IV.
" I love everything that's old : old friends, old times, old manners, old
books, old wine."
Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer {Hardcastle),
Act I., Sc. I.
" I must be cruel only to be kind."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act III., Sc. IV.
" I must mix myself with action lest I wither by despair."
Tennyson. Locksley Hall.
I NEVER STOOD— I TAKE A LONG. iig
" (Caesar) I never stood on ceremonies."
Shakespeare, jfiiliits Ccesar {Calphurnia), Act II., Sc. I.
" I owe you one." Colman. The Poor Gentleman, Act I., Sc. LI.
" I own the soft impeachment."
Sheridan. The Rivals (Mrs. Malaprop), Act V., Sc. III.
" I pause for a reply."
Shakespeare, jfulius Ccesar [Brutus), Act III., Sc. II.
Prior. The Conversation, line i6.
" I pray you, think you question with the Jew:
You may as well go stand upon the beach,
And bid the main flood bate his usual height ;
You may as well use question with the wolf,
Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;
You may as well forbid the mountain pines
To wag their high tops, and to make no noise,
When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven ;
You may as well do anything most hard.
As seek to soften that (than which what's harder?)
His Jewish heart."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice [Antonio),
Act IV., Sc. I.
Vide — " You may as well," etc.
" I remember, I remember,
The fir-trees dark and high :
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky ;
It was a childish ignorance,
But now 'tis little joy
To know I'm farther off from heaven
Than when I was a boy." Hood. T Remember.
" I saw young Harry, — with his beaver on,
His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, —
Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury,
And vaulted with such ease into his seat.
As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds,
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,
And witch the world with noble horsemanship."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Vernon). Act IV., Sc. t.
â– ' I see but cannot reach, the height
That lies for ever in the light ;
And yet for ever, and for ever,
When seeming just within my grasp,
I feel my feeble hands unclasp,
And sink discouraged into night! "
Longfellow. The Golden Legend, II.
" I take a long, last, lingering view ;
Adieu, my native land, adieu 1 " Logan. Th'- Lovers [Harriet).
I20 I'VE HEARD OF HEARTS—IF ANGELS FIGHT.
" — I've heard of hearts unkind, kind dc.ds
With coldness still returning ;
Alas ! the ingratitude of men
Hath oftener left me mourning." Wordsworth. Simon Lee.
" I went to Frankfort, and got drunk
With that most learn'd professor, Brunck ;
I went to Worms, and got more drunken
With that more learn'd professor, Ruhncken."
PoRSON. Facetice Cantab.
" I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver
Of my whole course of love."
Shakespeare. Othello [Othello), Act I., Sc. III.
" I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at." Shakespeare. Othello (Ingo), Act I., Sc. I.
" I wonder what Mrs. Grundy would say ? "
T. Morton. Speed the Plough {Dame Ashfield),
Act /., Sc. I.
" I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good ; O, there we' «
desolation of gaolers and gallowses 1 "
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (ist Gaoler), Act V., Sc. IV.
" Idle hand has empty belly."
W. King. The Art of Love, Pt. VIII., line mo.
" Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools."
Lord Chesterfield, Letter to his 6'oh, jfuly 20, 1749.
" (Was sluggish) idlenesse, the nourse of sin."
Spenser. Faerie Queene, Bk. /., Can. IV., St. 18.
" If a cherub in the shape of woman
Should walk this world, yet defamation would,
Like a vile cur, bark at the angel's train."
Home. Douglas (Anna), Act III.
" If a daughter you have, she's the plague of your life,
No peace shall you know, though you've buried your wife 1
At twenty she mocks at the duty you taught her —
Oh, what a plague is an obstinate daughter 1 "
Sheridan. The Duenna {Don Jerome), Act I., Sc. III.
" If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much
as to be out of danger ? "
Huxley. Science and Culture, On Elementary
Instruction in Physiology.
" If all the year were playing holidays.
To sport would be as tedious as to work."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Prince Henry), Act I., Sc. II.
" If angels fight.
Weak men must fall ; for Heaven still guards the right."
Shakespeare. Richard 11. {York). Act TIT., Sc. TT.
IF ENGLAND'S HEAD— IF LOVERS SHOULD. 12
" If England's head and heart were one,
Where is that good beneath the sun
Her noble hands should leave undone I "
Sydney Dobell. A Shower in War Time.
" If fields are prisons, where is Liberty ? "
Bloomfield. The Farmer's Boy, Autumn, line 226.
" If from society we learn to live,
'Tis solitude should teach us how to die."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. IV., XXXIII.
" If he that in the field is slain,
Be in the bed of honour lain,
He that is beaten may be said
To lie in honour's truckle-bed."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. I., Can, III., line 1047.
" If hearts be true and fast,
111 fates may hurt us, but not harm, at last."
Sir E. Arnold. Adziima, Act I., Sc. III.
" If I lose mine honour
I lose myself." Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra {Antony),
Act III., Sc. IV.
" • If ' is the only peacemaker ; much virtue in ' If."
Shakespeare. As You Like It {Touchstone), Act V.,Sc.IV.
" If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly : if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,
With his surcease, success ; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here.
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, —
We'd jump the life to come. But, in these cases,
We still have judgment here ; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor : This even-handed justice
Commend the ingredients of our poison'd chalice
To our own lips."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Macbeth), Act I., Sc. VII,
" If Jove stray, who dares say, Jove doth ill ? "
Shakespeare. Pericles (Pericles), Act I., Sc. I.
" If ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it."
Shakespeare. As You Like It [Jaques), Act II., Sc. VII.
" If little labour, little are our gains;
Man's fortunes are according to his pains."
Herrick. Hesperides, 754.
" If lovers should mark everything a fault,
Affection would be like an ill-set book,
Whose faults might prove as big as half a volume."
MiDDLETON AND KowLEY. The Chaiigeliiic^, Act II., Sc. I.
122 IF MEN WERE BETTER— IF THOU WILT GO.
" If men were better instructed themselves, they would be less imposing
on others."
Locke. Essay on the Understanding, Bk. IV..
Ck. XVI., § 4.
" If Human men will shun swol'n fortune's ruinous blasts,
Let them use temperance : nothing violent lasts."
W. Strachey. On Sejanus.
" If money go before, all ways do lie open."
Shakespeare. The Merry Wives of Windsor (Ford),
Act II., Sc. II.
" If Nature put not forth her power
About the opening of the flower,
Who is it that could live an hour ? " Tennyson. The Two Voices.
" If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason
upon compulsion."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Falstaff), Act II.,
Sc. IV.
" If solid happiness we prize.
Within our breast this jewel lies ;
And they are fools who roam :
The world has nothing to bestow;
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut, — our home."
N. Cotton. The Fireside, St. 3.
" If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile."
Shakespeare. Othello (Othello), Act. IV., Sc. I.
" If the affections were taken away, reason would be like the pilot of a
ship forsaken by the winds, in a profound calm."
Kenelm Digby. The Broad Stone of Honour
(Godefridus), XVII.
" If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."
St. Matthew. Ch. XV., ver. 14.
" If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie ? We should have no
law but the inclination of the moment."
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (Maggie),
Bk. VI., Ch. XIV.
'* If the Poet be born, not made, is it not because he is born to sympa-
thise with what he has never experienced ? "
BuLWER Lytton. What will he Do with It ? (George
Morley), Bk. XII., Ch. II.
" If there's a sin more deeply black than others,
Distinguish'd from the list of common crimes,
A legion in itself, and doubly dear
To the dark prince of hell, it is — Hypocrisy."
Hannah More. Percy (Douglas), Act III.
" If thou wilt go seek for a thief, no wonder if thou be robbed."
Richard Baxter. Christian Ethics.
IF THOU WILT— IGNORANCE IS A BLANK. 123
'• If thou wilt mighty be, flee from the rage
Of cruel will : and see that thou keep free
From the foul yoke of sensual bondage :
For though thine empire stretch to Indian sea,
And for thy fear trembleth the farthest Thule,
If thy desire hath over thee the power,
Subject then art thou, and no governor."
Sir T. Wyatt. He Rvhth Not.
" If thou would'st be happy, learn to please."
Prior. Solomon, Bk. II., line 266.
" If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight ;
For the gay beams of lightsome day
Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey."
Sir W. Scott. The Lay of the Last Minstrel,
Can. II., I.
" If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget them all."
Pope. Rape of the Lock, Bk. II., line 17,
" If trod upon, a worm
Will turn again."
MiDDLETON AND RowLEY. The Spanish Gipsy {Constanza),
Act v., Sc. I.
" If we see right, we see our woes ;
Then what avails it to have eyes ?
From ignorance our comfort flows :
The only wretched are the wise."
Prior. Epistle to the Hon. Chas. Montague.
" Where ignorance is bliss
'Tis folly to be wise."
Gray. Ode on the distant prospect of Eton College.
" Be ignorance thy choice, wliere knowledge leads to woe."
Beattie. The Minstrel, Bk. II., St. 30,
" If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right ;
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight."
Herrick. Hesperides, 340.
" 'Tis not the fight that crowns but the end."
Herrick. Hesperides, 341.
" If women have a will,
They'll do it 'gainst all the watches of the world."
Ben Jonson. Volpone [Corvine), Act II., Sc. III.
" If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
Shakespeare, jfnlins Ccesar [Antony), Act III., Sc. II.
" Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write ; but error is a
scribbled one on which we must first erase."
CoLTON. Lacon, I.
124 IGNORANCE IS A PRIVATION— ILL WARE IS NEVER.
" Ignorance is a privation, errour a positive fact."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the
Reader.
" Ignorance is not innocence but sin."
R. Browning. The Inn Album, V.
" Ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. II. {Say), Act IV., So. VII.
*' Ignorance of better things makes man,
Who cannot much, rejoice in what he can."
CowPER. Retirement.
'* 111 deeds are doubled with an evil word."
Shakespeare. Comedy of Err or % {Lticiana), Act III., Sc. II.
" 111 fares it with the flock,,
If shepherds wrangle when the wolf is nigh."
Sir W. Scot-. Halidon Hill (Swinton), Act I., Sc. II.
" 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay:
Princes and lords may flourish or may fade ;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied."
Goldsmith. The Deserted Village, line 51.
" III father, no gift.
No knowledge, no thrift."
Tusser. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,
Preface, Ch. VI.
" 111 may a sad mind forge a merry face,
Nor hath constrained laughter any grace."
G. Chapman. Hero and Leandcr, Sestiad V.
" 111 news comes apace." Old Proverb.
" 111 news hath wings, and with the wind doth go ;
Comfort's a cripple, and comes ever slow."
Drayton. The Baron's Wars, Bk. II., XXVIII.
" Evil news fly faster still than good."
T. Kyd. The Spanish Tragedy (Alexander), Act I.
" For evil news rides post, while good news baits."
Milton. Samson Agonistcs [Chorus).
" 111 news goes fast." Prior. Cupid and Ganymede.
" 111 news spreads fast."
Browning. Colombe's Birthday, Act I.
" 111 thrives the haplesse Family, that showes
A cock that's silent, and a Hen that crowes."
QuARLES. History of Queen Esther, Sec. 3, Med. 3.
" 111 ware is never cheap." Herbert, jf acuta Prudentum.
ILL-WEAV'D AMBITION—IN BEAUTY. 125
" lU-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk !
When that this body did contain a spirit,
A kinj^dom for it has too small a bound ;
But now two paces of the vilest earth
Is room enough."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., PI. I. (Prince Henry), Act V., Sc. IV.
" 111 weede growth fast, Ales 1 " J. Heywood. Proverbs.
•* Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace."
Shakespeare. Richard III. {York), Act II., Sc. IV.
** How soon prospres the vicious weed 1 "
Phineas Fletcher. Apollyonist, Cant. III., St. 4.
" Imitation is the sincerest of flattery,"
CoLTON. Lacon, CCXVII.
" Immoderate valour swells into a fault,
And fear, admitted into public councils.
Betrays like treason." Addison. Cato {Cato), Act II., Sc. I.
" Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense."
Roscommon. Essay on Translated Verse.
" Imperial Cassar, dead and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act V., Sc. I.
" Impudence emboldens a man to undertake any task, tho' ever so un-
equal to his abilities, and carries him through it with spirit and
alacrity." Sir R. Blackmore. The Lay Monastery, No. 4.
" Impudence is so nearly allied to Fortitude and a praiseworthy assur-
ance, that it often passes upon the Vulgar for those laudable
Qualifications."
Sir R. Blackmore. The Lay Monastery, No. 4.
" In a boundless universe
Is boundless better, boundless worse."
Tennyson. The Two Voices.
" In a false quarrel there is no true valour."
Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothing (Benedick), Act V.,
Sc.I.
" In all human institutions a smaller evil is allowed, to procure a
greater good."
Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield, Ch. XXI.
" In arms and science 'tis the same ;
Our rival's hurts create our fame."
I'lUOK. Alma, Can. I., line 196.
" In beauty faults conspicuous grow ;
The smallest speck is seen on snow." Gay. Fab Us, XI.
126 IN CASES OF DEFENCE— IN LOVE.
" In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh
The enemy more mighty than he seems:
So the proportions of defence are fill'd;
Which, if a weak and niggardly projection,
Doth, Hke a miser, spoil his coat with scantirig
A little cloth."
Shakespeare. Henry V. {Dauphin), Act II., Sc. IV.
" In doing of aught let your wit bear a stroke
For buying or selling of pig in a poke."
TussER. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
*' In durance vile."
C. Kenrick. Falstaff's Wedding, Act I., Sc. II.
" In earthly mire philosophy may tlip."
Sir W. Scott. The Poacher.
" In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found
among demagogues."
Lord Macaulay. History of England, Ch. V.
" In every parting there is an image of death."
George Eliot. Scenes from Clerical Life, Amos Barton.
" In fair virtue's heavenly road,
The cottage leaves the palace far behind."
Burns. The Cotter's Saturday Night.
" In Folly's cup still laughs the bubble, Joy."
Pope. Essay on Matt, Ep. IF,, line 288.
" In grief we know the worst of what we feel,
But who can tell the end of what we fear ? "
Hannah More. The Fatal Falsehood [Einmeline),
Act IV.
" In her first passion woman loves her lover,
In all others all she loves is love."
Byron. Don yuati, Can. III., St. 3.
" In his owne grees I made him frie."
Chaucer. Wyfe of Bath's Prologue, line 486.
" She frieth in her owne grease."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. XI.
" In hope to merit Heaven by making Earth an Hell."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. I., St. 33.
" In human works, though labor'd on with pain,
A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain."
Pope. Essay on Mati, Ep. I., litie 53.
"In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours,
Faith and upfaith can ne'er be equal powers.
Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all."
Tennyson. Merlin atid Vivien.
IN LOVE— IN PUBLIC. 127
" In love the heavens themselves do guide the State;
Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate."
Shakespeaki;. The Merry Wives of Windsor {Ford),
Act v., Sc. V.
" In maiden meditation, fancy free."
Shakespeare. Midsummer NighCs Dream (Oberon),
Act II., Sc. II.
" In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge
increaseth sorrow." Ecclesiastes. Ch. I., ver. 18.
•' In my hot youth — when George the Third was King."
Byron. Don yuan. Can. I., St. 212.
" In nature there's no blemish but the mind :
None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind :
Virtue is beauty ; but the beauteous-evil
Are empty trunks, o'erflourish'd by the devil."
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night (Antonio), Act III., Sc. V.
" In part to blame is she,
Which hath without consent bin only tride :
He conies too neare that comes to be denide."
Sir T. Overbury. A Wife, St. 36.
•' Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide, —
In part she is to blame who has been tried ;
He comes too near, who comes to be denied."
Lady M. Wortley Montagu. The Woman's Resolve.
" In peace. Love tunes the shepherd's reed ;
In war he mounts the warrior's steed;
In halls, in gay attire is seen ;
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above ;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love."
Sir W. Scott. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Can. III., II.
" In peace there's nothing so becomes a man,
As modest stillness and humility :
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger."
Shakespeare. Henry V. {King Henry), Act III., Sc. I.
" In play there are two pleasures for your choosing —
The one is winning, and the other losing."
Byron. Don Juan, Can. XIV., St. 12.
" In poison there is physic."
Shakespeare. Henry IV,, Pt. II. (Northumberland),
Act I., Sc.I.
" In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge
J. G. C. MiNCHiN. The Growth of Freedom in the B
Peninsula, p. 127,
" In public, men are sometimes shown,
A woman's seen in private life alone."
Pope. Ebistle II. To a Lad
alkan I
128 IN SHAME— IN THE REPROOF.
" In shame there is no comfort, but to be beyond all bounds of shame.''
SiK Philip Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. II.
" In some circumstances, to die is to live."
Archbp. Tillotson. Letter to Lady Russell, 2isi Nov.,
1685.
" In sooth, I know not why I am so sad ;
It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ;
But how I caught it, I found it, or came by It,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn ;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Antonio)
Act I,, Sc. I.
" In the corrupted currents of this world.
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice ;
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law : But 'tis not so above :
There is no shulfling, there the action lies
In his true nature ; and we ourselves compelled,
Even to the teeth and foreheads of our faults
To give in evidence."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (King), Act II., Sc. III.
" In the election of a wife, as in
A project of war, to err but once is
To be undone for ever."
MiDDLETON. Anything fo} a Quiet Life.
" In the Heavens above,
The angels, whispering to one another.
Can find, among their burning terms of love.
None so devotional as that of ' mother '."
E. A. POE. To My Mother.
" In the human breast
Two master-passions cannot co-exist." Campbell. Thcodric.
" In the married state, the world must own,
Divided happiness was never known.
To make it mutual, nature points the way:
Let husbands govern : Gentle wives obey."
COLLEY CiBBER. The Provok'd Husband [Lady
Townley), Act V., Sell.
" In the multitude of counsellors there is safety."
Proverbs. Ch. XL, ver. 14.
" (Or) in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! "
Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream [Theseus),
Act v., Sc. I.
" In the reproof of chance
Lies the true proof of men."
Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida (Nestor),
Act /., Sc. III.
IN THE SOUL—IN WOOING SORKOVV. 129
" In the soul
Are many lesser faculties, that serve
Reason as chief; among these Fancy next
Her office liolds."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. V., ling 100.
" In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love."
Tennyson. Lockslcy Hall.
" In the twinkling of an eye."
St. Paul. Epistle to the Corinthians, /., CIi. XV., vcr. 52.
" In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause."
George Eliot. Romola (Bardo), Bk. I., Cli. XII.
" In the vast cathedral leave him ;
God accept him, Christ receive him."
Tennyson. Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.
" In the way of a bargain, mark ye me,
I'll cavil on tlie ninth part of a hair."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Hotspur), Act III., Sc. I.
" In the way of love and glory,
Each tongue best tells his own story."
Sir T. Overbury. Of the Choice of a Wife.
" In the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives ! "
Longfellow. The Building of the Ship.
" (Egad, we're) in the wrong box."
Carey. Clirononhotonthologos [Rigdumfunidos), Act I., Sc. III.
" In this life we want nothing but facts, Sir ; nothing but facts."
C. Dickens. Hard Times (Gradgrind), Ch. I.
" In time we hate that which we often fear."
Shakespeare. Antotiy and Cleopatra [Charmian) Act I., Sc. III.
" In vaine he seeketh others to suppresse,
Who hath not learnd himselfe first to subdue."
Spenser. Faerie Qiicene, Bk. VI., Can. I., St. 41.
" In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her
Save in thine incomparable oil 'Macassar'."
Byron. Don Juan, Canto I., St. 17.
" In war was never lion rag'd more fierce,
In peace was never gentle lamb more mild,
Than was that young and princely gentleman."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (York), Act IF., Sc. I.
'* In wickedness,
The wit of woman was ne'er yet found barren."
Shakerley Marmion. a Fine Companio7i (Atirelio),
Act IV., Sc. III.
" In wooing sorrow let's be brief.
Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Richard), Act V,, Sc. I.
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I30 INDEX-LEARNING— IRRATIONALLY HELD TRUTHS.
" Index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail."
Pope. The Dunciad, Bk. J., line 279.
" Industry is a loadstone to draw all good things."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the
Reader.
" Infantine Art, divinely Artless."
R. Browning. Red Cotton Nightcap Country, II,
" Infirm of purpose I
Give me the daggers."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Act II., Sc, II.
" (For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,)
Ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arms,
Quite vanquish'd him : then burst his mighty heart."
Shakespeare, jfulius Casar (Antony), Act III., Sc. II.
" Injuries are writ in brass, kind Graccho,
And not to be forgotten."
Massinger. The Duke of Milan (Francisco),
Act v., Sc. I.
" Innocence and youth should ever be unsuspicious."
Landor. Imaginary Conversations, Bcniowski and
Aphanasia.
" Innocence is as an armed heel
To trample accusation."
Shelley. The Cenci [Beatrice), Act IV., Sc. IV.
" Innocence is strong,
And an entire simplicity of mind
A thing most sacred in the eye of Heaven."
Wordsworth. The Excursion, No. 6.
•' Inquisitiveness as seldom cures jealousy, as drinking in a fever quenches
the thirst."
Wycherley. Love in a Wood [Valentine), Act IV., Sc. V.
" Intellect can raise,
From airy words alone, a Pile that ne'er decays."
Wordsworth. Inscriptions, IV.
" Integrity of Life is fame's best friend.
Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end."
John Webster. The Duchess 0/ Malfi [Delia), Act V.,
Sc. V.
" Into the truth of things —
Out of their falseness rise, and reach thou, and remain."
R. Browning. Fifine at the Fair, LXllI.
" Instinct is a great matter : I was a coward on instinct."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. [Falsiaff), Act II., Sc. IV.
" Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
Huxley. Science atui Culture, The Coming 0/ Age of
the Origin of Species.
IS WAKED TRUTH— IT HAS COME ABOUT. 131
" Is naked Trutli actable in naked life ? "
Tennyson. Harold, Act III., Sc. II.
" Is not every meanest day, the confluence of two Eternities ? "
Caklyle. French Revolution, Pt. I., Bk. VI., Ch. I.
" Is not God's Universe within our head, whether there be a torn skull-
cap or a king's diadem without ? "
Carly'le. Essay [from Foreign Review) on "jfcan
Paid Richtcr.
" Is not Sentimentalism twin-sister to Cant, if not one and the same with
it ? " Carlyle. French Revolution, Pt. I., Bk. II., Ch. VII.
" Is Saul also among the prophets ? "
Samuel. Bk. I., Ch. X., ver. 11.
" Is there a heart that music cannot melt ?
Alas ! how is that rugged heart forlorn I "
Beattie. The Minstrel, Bk. I., St. 56.
" Is there no bright reversion in the sky
For those who greatly think, or bravely die? "
Pope. Elegy to the Memory 0/ an Unfortunate Lady.
" Is there on earth a space so dear,
As that within the blessed sphere
Two loving arms entwine ? " T. Moore, To Fanny.
" Is there whom you detest, and seek his life ?
Trust no soul with the secret — but his wife."
Young. Love of Fatne, Sat. VI., line 389.
" Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Macbeth), Act II., Sc. I.
" Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ? "
Book of Kings. Bk. II., Ch. VIII., ver. 13.
" It argues a distemper'd head,
So soon to bid good-morrow to thy bed •.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie ;
But where unbruised youth, with unstuft brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Jidiet (Friar Lawrence),
Act II., Sc. III.
" It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them."
Bishop T. Wilson. Maxims, 303.
" It follows not, because
The hair is rough, the dog's a savage one."
Sheridan Knowles. The Duu^htcr (Morris), Act I., Sc. I.
" It has come about that now, to many a Royal Society, the creation of
a world is little more mysterious than the cooking of a dumpling."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartits, Bk. I., Ch. I.
132 IT IS A CUSTOM-^TT /:5 AS NATURALL.
" It is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance."
Shakespeakf.. HamUt {Hamlet), Act I., Sc. IV.
" It is a flaw
In happiness, to see beyond our bourn, —
It forces us in summer skies to mourn,
If-spoils the singing of the nightingale."
Keats. Reminiscence of Claude^ s Enchanted Castle.
" It is a greater grief
To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury."
Shakespeare. Sonnet, XL.
" It is a kindness to lead the sober ; a duty to lead the drunk."
Landor. Imaginary Conversations, Don Victor
Naez and El Rey, Nelto.
" It is a nipping and an eager air."
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Horatio), Act I., Sc. IV.
" It is a very good world to live in,
To lend, or to spend, or to give in ;
But to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own,
It is the very worst world that ever was known."
* Earl of Rochester.
• Vide — BariletVs Familiar Quotations, p. 235.
" It is a wise father that knows his own child."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice [Launcelot),
Act II., Sc. II.
" It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies — seldom safe to ven-
ture to instruct, even our friends."
CoLTON. Lcu:on, CCLXXXVI.
" It is an ill wind that turns none to good."
Tusser. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
" No winde but it doth turn some man to good."
Quoted by M alone /row Willm. Bulley7i. A Dia-
logue both pleasant and pietifull.
" The ill wind which blows no man to good."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Pistol,)
Act v., Sc. III.
" 111 blows the wind, that profits nobody."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. III. {Son), Act II.,
Sc. V.
'•'Tis an ill wind that blows no man to profit."
Unknown. A Merry Knack to Know a Knave
[Coney catcher).
" It is as natural! to die as to be borne ; and to a little infant, perhaps,
the one is as painfull as the other."
Bacon. Essay II., 0/ Death.
IT IS BEAUTIFUL— IT IS NOT POETRY. 133
' It is beautiful only to do the thing we are meant for."
CloUGII. TIic Bothic of Tubcr-na Viiol'uh, IX.
" It is better that some should be unhappy, than that none should be
happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality."
BosWELL. Life of Johnson (Dr. Johnson), Fitzgerald's
Ed., VoL II., p. iiG.
" It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop.
Than with a contentious woman in a wide house."
Proverbs. Ch. XXL, ver. g.
" It is better to live rich than to die rich."
BoswELL. Life of Johnson {Dr. Johnson), Fitzgerald's
Ed., Vol. II., p. 306.
" It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience."
Roger Ascham. The Schoolmaster.
" It is deep happiness to die,
Yet live in Love's dear memory." L. E. L. Tke Itnprovisatrice.
" It is excellent
To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Isabella),
Act II., Sc. II.
" It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a
Snob." Thackeray. Book of Snobs, Ch. III.
" It is jealousy's peculiar nature,
To swell small things to great, nay, out of nought
To conjure much ; and then to lose its reason
Amid the hideous phantoms it has form'd."
Ed. Young. The Revenge (Zanga), Act III., Sc. I.
" It is mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character be-
comes strong in that way."
George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss (Philip Wakem),
Bk. v., Ch. III.
" It is more blessed to give than to receive."
Acts of the Apostles. Ch. XX., ver. 35.
" It is nat gode a sleping hounde to wake."
Chaucer. Troilus and Cresseide, Boke III., line 764.
" It is evil waking of a sleeping dogge."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. X.
" It is not explanations which survive, but the things which are explained ;
not theories, but the things about which we theorise."
A. J. Balfour. The Foundations of Belief , last paragraph.
" It is not necessary to be drunk one's self, to relish the wit of drunken-
ness."
BoswELL. Life of Johnson (Dr. Johnson), Fitzgerald's
Ed., Vol. II., p. 126.
• It is not poetry, but prose run mad."
Pope. Prologue to the Satires, line 188.
134 ^^ ^S NOT THE GREAT— IT IS THE MIND'S.
" It is not the great that are wise." Job. Ch. XXXII., ver. g,
" It is not thy works, which are all mortal, infinitely little, and the
greatest no greater than the least ; but only the spirit thou work-
est in, that can have woith or continuance."
Carlyle. French Revolution, Pi. I., Bk. I., Ch. IV.
" It is one thing to shew a man that he is in error, and another to put
him in possession of truth."
LocRE. Essay on the Human Understand'mg, Bk. IV.,
Ch. VII., § II.
" It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury."
MooRE. Lalla Rookh, Prologue, VI.
" It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a
wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable."
George Eliot. Silas Marner, Ch. XII.
" It is time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss."
Shakespeare. Pericles (Pericles), Act I., Sc. II.
" It is the bright day, that brings forth the adder ;
And that craves wary walking."
Shakespeare, yttlius Ceesar [Brutus), Act II., Sc. I.
" It is the curse of kings to be attended
By slaves that take their humours for a warrant
To break within the bloody house of life ;
To understand a law ; to know the meaning
Of dangerous majesty, when perchance it frowns
More upon humour than advi^i'd respect."
Shakespeare. King John (yohn). Act IV., Sc. II.
" It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end
as superstitions."
Huxley. Science and Culture, The Coming of Age of
the Origin of Species.
" It is the folly of the world constantly which confounds its wisdom."
O. W. Holmes. The Professor at the Breakfast Table, I.
" It is the heart, and not the brain,
That to the highest doth attain."
Longfellow^ The Building of the Ship.
" It is the mind that maketh good or ill.
That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore."
Spenser. Faerie Qiieene, Bk. VI., Can. IX., St. 30.
" 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich."
Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew (Petriichio),
Act IV., Sc. III.
" It is the mind's for ever bright attire,
The mind's embroidery, that the wise admire.
That which looks rich to the gross vulgar eyes
Is the fop's tinsel which the grave despise."
Dyer. To Mr. Savage.
IT IS THE PROVINCE— IT'S POOR FOOLISHNESS. 135
" It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of
wisdom to listen."
O. W. Holmes. The Poet at the Breakfast Table, X.
" It is the sea, it is the sea.
In all its vague immensity."
Longfellow. The Golden Legend, V.
" It is the solecisme of power, to thinke to command the end, and yet not
to endure the meane." Bacon. Essay XIX., 0/ Empire.
" It is the soul that sees : the outward eyes
Present the object, but the Mind descries ;
And thence delight, disgust, or cool indiffrence rise."
Crabbe. The Lover''s Journey.
" It is too late to shutte the stable door when the steede is stolne."
Lyly. Ettplmes.
" It lies not in our power to love or hate.
For will in us is over-ruled by fate."
Marlowe. Hero and Leander, Scstiad I.
" It matters not what men assume to be
Or good or bad, they are but what they are."
P. J. Bailey. Festtts (Ljicifer), III.
" ' It requires,' he used to say, ' a surgical operation to get a joke well
into a Scotch understanding.' "
Sydney Smith. Memoirs, Ch. II.
" It's a melancholy consideration indeed, that our chief comforts often
produce our greatest anxieties, and that an increase of our posses-
sions is but an inlet to new disquietudes."
Goldsmith. The Good-Nattired Man {Honeywood),
Act I.
" It's a poor heart that never rejoices." Old Proverb.
C. Dickens. Barnaby Rtidge, Ch. XIX,
" It's gude to be merry and wise,
It's gude to be honest and true,
And afore you're off with the old love
It's best to be on wi' the new." Old Scotch Song.
'* It's good to be off wi' the old love
Before ye be on wi' the new."
Sir W. Scott (quoted). The Bride of Lammermoor,
Ch. XXIX.
" It's hardly in a body's pow'r,
To keep, at times, frae being sour." Burns. Epistle to Davie.
" It's ill livin' in a hen-roost for them as doesn't like fleas."
George Eliot. Adam Bede [Mrs. Poyser).
" It's no in titles nor in rank ;
It's no in wealth like Lon'on Bank,
To purchase peace and rest." Burns. Epistle to Davie.
" It's poor foolishness to run down your enemies."
George Eliot. Adam Bede {Adam Bedc), Bk. VI.,
Ch. LIII.
136 IT'S WISER BEING GOOD— If OY IS THE BEST.
" It's wiser being good than bad;
It's safer being meek than fierce :
It's fitter being sane than mad.
My own hope is, a sun will pierce
The thickest cloud earth ever stretch'd ;
That, after Last, returns the First.
Though a wide compass round be fetch'd ,
That what began best, can't end worst,
Nor what God blessed once, prove accurs'd."
R. Browning. Apparent Failure.
" It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good
thing, to make it too common."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. [Fahtajf), Act I., Sc. II.
" It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bell-man.
Which gives the stern'st good night."
Shakespeare. Macbeth [Lady Macbeth), Act II., Sc. II.
" It will not out of the flesh, that is bred in the bone."
J. Heywood. Bk. II., Ch. VIII.
" It will never out of the flesh that's bred in the bone."
Ben Jonson. Every Man in his Humour
{Downright), Act II., Sc. I.
" Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."
George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss, Bk. II., Ch. II.
" Jargon of the schools."
Prior. Ode on Exodus, Ch, III., ver. 14, St. 6.
" What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns an' stools ;
If honest nature made you fools ? "
Burns. Epistle to jf. L k.
" Jealousy is the bellows of the mind ;
Touch it but gently, and it warms desire.
If handled roughly, you are all on fire."
D. Garrick. Epilogue to Home's Alonzo.
" Jealousy
. . . the injur'd lover's hell."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. V., line 449.
" Jesters do oft prove prophets."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Rcgati), Act V., Sc. III.
" Jewels, orators of Love,
Which, ah 1 too well men know, do women move."
S. Daniel. Complaint 0/ Rosamond, St. 52.
" Jocky of Norfolk, be not too bold.
For Dickon, thy master, is bought and sold."
Shakespeare. Richard III. {read by King Richard)
Act v., Sc. III.
" joy is the best of wine." George Eliot. Silas Marner, Ch. V.
yOY, yOY FOR EVER— KEEP ALL YOU HAVE. 137
" J"yi joy for ever ! — my task is done —
The gates are pass'd, and Heaven is won I "
Moore. Lalla Rookh, Paindise and the Peri.
" i^'^o^ "'-''• according to the appearance."
St. John. Ch. VIL, ver. 24.
" You can't judge a horse by the harness."
Oi.n Proverb.
" There is no trusting to appearances."
Sheridan. Tlu School for Scandal {Lady Sneerwcll),
Act v., Sc. II.
" Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is."
Lord Chesterfield. Letter to his Godson,
XIV., undated.
" Julius Caesar — whose remembrance yet
Lives in men's eyes, and will to ears and tongues
Be theme and hearing ever."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (Cains Lucius), Act III., Sc. I.
" Just experience tells in every soil.
That those who think must govern those who toil."
Goldsmith. The Traveller, line 374.
" Justice indeed
Should ever be close-ear'd and open-mouth'd ;
That is, to hear a little, and speak much."
Middleton. The Old Law (Simonides), Act V., Sc. I.
" Justice is blind, he knows nobody."
Dryden. The Wild Gallant, Act V., Sc. I.
•' Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us."
Otway. Venice Preserved, Act I., Sc. I.
" Justice is like the kingdom of God — it is not without us as a fact, it is
within us a great yearning."
George Eliot. Romola, Bh. III., Ch. LXVII.
" Justice may wink a while, but see at last."
Middleton. The Mayor of Queenborough [Simon),
Act v., Sc. I.
" Justice must tame, whom mercy cannot win."
Halifax. On the Death of Charles II.
" Justice, while she winks at crimes,
Stumbles on innocence sometimes."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. I., Can. II., line 1177.
" Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his books, and
it is wonderful."
Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor (Shallow),
Act III., Sc. I.
" Keep all you have, and try for all you can ! "
Bulwer Lvtton. King Arthur, Bk. II., LXX.
138 KEEP ME— KNOW THEN THYSELF.
" Keep me as the apple of the eye." The Psalms. XVII., ver. 8.
" (Which) kept her throne unshaken still,
Broad based upon her people's will."
Tennyson. To the Queen.
" Kind benefits oft flow from means unkind."
Savage. The Wanderer, Can. V., line 162.
" Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood."
Tennyson. Lady Clara Vere de Verc.
" Kindness, nobler ever than revenge,
And nature stronger than his just occasion."
Shakespeare. As You Like It {Oliver), Act IV., Sc. III.
•' K»ng Stephen was a worthy peere.
His breeches cost him but a crowne,
He held them sixpence all too deere ;
Therefore he call'd the taylor lowne."
Old Ballad. Take Thy Old Cloak About Thee.
" Kings' misdeeds cannot be hid in clay."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece, 87.
•' Kings too tame are despicably good,"'
Dryden. Britannia Rediviva, line 2ig.
" Kings will be tyrants firom policy, when subjects are rebels from prin
ciple." Burke. On the French Revolution.
" Kingsale 1 eight hundred years have roU'd
Since thy forefathers held the plough ;
When this in story shall be told.
Add, that my kindred do so now." Prior. The Old Gentry, IV.
" (And string on rainy days an idle rhyme,
And) kill the present to feed future time."
Barry Cornwall. Gyges, IX.
" Kisses balmier than half-opening buds of April."
Tennyson. Tithonus.
" Kissing goes by favour."
Farquhar. Love and a Bottle {Lovewell), Act I., Sc. I.
" Tho' kissing goes by favour."
Colley Gibber. Love in a Riddle {Davon),
Act II., Sc. I.
" Kissin' is the key o' love,
An' clappin' is the lock."
Burns. O Can Ye Labour Lea, Young Man ?
" Knavery's plain face is never seen till us'd."
Shakespeare. Othello {logo). Act II., Sc. I.
" Knaves starve not in the land of fools."
Churchill. The Ghost, Bk. I., line 374.
" Know then thyself, presume not God to scan :
The proper study of mankind is man."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. II., line i.
KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM— LANDS MORTGAGED. 139
" Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, ~f~-
Ilave ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other men ;
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass,
The mere materials with which Wisdom builds,
Till smooth'd and squared, and fitted to its place,
Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much ;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."
CowPER. The Task, Bk. VL
" Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And Life is perfected in Death."
E. B. Browning. Visio7i of Poets.
" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
Tennyson. Locksley Hall.
" Knowledge is a steep which few may climb.
While Duty is a path which all may tread."
Lewis Morris. Epic of Hades, Here.
" Knowledge is now no more a fountain seal'd :
Drink deep, until the habits of the slave,
The sins of emptiness, gossip and spite
And slander, die. " Tennyson. The Princess.
" Knowledge is power."
Bacon. Meditationes Sacra, Dc HcBresihns.
" Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est."
" Knowledge is the antidote to fear." Emerson. Courage.
" Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. IV., line 222.
" Labour is but refreshment from repose."
J. Montgomery. Greenland, Can. II.
" Labour the end of labour, strife of strife,
Terror in death, and horror after life."
S. Daniel. Civil War, Bk. I., CXII.
" (The) labour we delight in physics pain."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Macbeth), Act II., Sc. III.
" Labouring men
Count the clock oftenest."
John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi {Atitonio),
Act III., Sc. II.
" Ladies like variegated tulips show ;
'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe."
Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. II. To a Lady, line 44.
" Lands mortgag'd may return, and more esteem'd,
But honesty once pawn'd, is ne'er redeemed."
Middleton. A Trick to Catch the Old One {Courtesan),
Act !., Sc. I.
r^o LANGUAGE IS A CITY— LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT.
" Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought
a stone. " Emerson. Quotation and Originality.
" Language is the dress ol' thought."
Dr. Johnson. Lives of the Poets, Cotvlcy.
" (Falstaff sweats to death,
And) lards the lean earth as he walks along."
Shakespeare. Hejiry IV.. Pt. I. (Prince Henry),
Act II., Sc. II.
" Laugh and be fat, sir." Ben Jonson. The Penates.
" Laugh where we must, be candid where we can.
But vindicate the ways of God to man."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. I., line 15.
" Laughter is my object ; 'tis a property
In man essential to his reason."
Randolph. The Muses' Looking Glass {Comedy),
Act I., Sc. IV.
" (How much lies in) laughter : the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher
the whole man."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. I., Ch. V.
" Law is king of all."
Alford. The School 0/ the Heart, Lesson the Sixth.
" Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and
hornets break through."
Swift. Essay on the Faculties of the Mind.
" Laws are vain, by which we right enjoy.
If kings unquestioned can those laws destroy."
Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. I., line 763.
" Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law."
Goldsmith. The Traveller, line 386.
" Laws, in great rebellions lose their end,
And all go free, when multitudes offend."
Rowe. Liican's Pharsalia, Bk. V., line 364-
" Lawyers are always more ready to get a man into troubles than out ol
them."
Goldsmith. The Good-Natnred Man (Garnet), Act III.
" (Mother, for love of grace)
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III., Sc. IV.
" Lay on, Macduff;
And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough.''^
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act V., Sc. VII.
" Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,
Lead Thou me on 1
The night is dark, and I am far from home —
Lead Thou me on ! "
J. H. Newman. The Pillar of Cloud.
LEARX EARTH FIRST-^ LET DETERMINED THINGS. 141
" Learn earth first ere presume
To teach Heaven legislation."
R. Browning. Parleyings with Certain People. Christo-
pher Smart.
" (Or press the bashful stranger to his food,
And) learn the luxury of doing good."
Goldsmith. The Traveller, line 22.
" The luxury of doing good."
Hannah More. Inscription.
" Learn to make a body of a limb."
Shakespeare. Richard II. [Aumerle), Act III., Sc. II.
" Learning by study must be won,
'Twas ne'er entailed from son to son." Gay. Fable XI., Ft. II.
*' Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have
lost." Thos. Fuller. The Virtuous Lady. Of Books.
" Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty."
Roger Ascham. Tlic Schoolmaster.
" Least is he marked that doth as most men do."
Drayton. The Owl.
" Least said is soonest mended." Old Proverb.
" Little said is soonest mended."
Wither. The Shepherd's Hunting.
" But least said is soonest mended."
Chatterton. The Revenge (Bacchus),
Act II.', Sc. III.
" Legiance without loue litill pinge availith."
Langland. Richard the Redeles, Passus I., line 24,
" Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye that spoke the melting soul."
Pope. To Augustus. Ep. I., line 149.
" Lernyng wythout vertue ys pernycyouse and pestylent."
T. Starkey. England iii the Reign of Henry VIII., Bk.
II., Ch.III., 6 [Pole).
" Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man,
Rather than a fool in his folly." Proverbs, Ch. XVII., ver. 12.
•' Let a man contend to the uttermost
For his life's set prize, be it what it will ! "
R. Browning. The Statue and the Bust.
" Let a man keep the aw, — any law, — and his way will be strewn with
satisfaction." Emerson. Prudence.
•' Let determined things to destiny
Hold unbevvail'd their way."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra [CcFsar), Act V., Sc. I.
142 LET GO THY HOLD— LET THEM BE GOOD.
" Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy
neck with following it ; but the great one that goes up the hill, let
him draw thee after."
Shakespeare. King Lear [Fool), Act II., Sc. III.
" Let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend esti
mation ; for I never knew so young a body with so old a head."
Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice {Duke reads),
Act IV., Sc. I.
" Let men say whate'er they will,
Woman, woman, rules them still."
BicKERSTAFF. The Sultan {Ismcna sings), Act II., Sc. I.
" Let Nature and let Art do what they please.
When all is done, Life's an incurable disease."
Cowley. Ode to Dr. Scarborough, VI.
" Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious
one."
O. W. Holmes. The Poet at the Breakfast Table,
XII.
" Let not the sun go down upon your wrath."
St. Paul. Epistle to the Ephesians, Ch. IV., v. 26.
" Let observation with extensive view.
Survey mankind from China to Peru ;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life."
Dr. S. Johnson. The Vanity of Human Wishes, line i.
" Let others write for glory or reward,
Truth is well paid when she is sung and heard."
Sir T. Overbury. Elegy on Lord Effingham, last lines.
" Let proud Ambition pause.
And sicken at the vanity that prompts
His little deeds." Mallett, The Excjirsion, Can. II. ^ line 221.
" Let sorrow lend me words, and words express
The manner of my pity-wanting pain."
Shakespeare. Sonnet, CXL.
" Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet}, Act III., Sc. II.
'• I know the gall'd horse will soonest wince."
R. Edwards. Damon and Pithias [Aristippus).
" Let the guU'd fool the toils of war pursue.
Where bleed the many to enrich the few."
Shenstone. The Judgment of Hercules.
" Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should re-
join its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a
thousand years." Emerson. Friendship.
" Let them be good tliat love me, though but few."
Ben Jonson. Cynthia's Revels {Arete), Act III,, Sc. II.
LET THEM FEAR— LITE A DREAM. 143
" Let thcin fear bondage who are slaves to fear,
The sweetest freedom is an honest heart."
FoKD, The Ln.h's Trial [Malfato], Act I., Sc. III.
" Let them obey that know not how to rule."
SiiAKESPEARii. Ilcnry VI., Pt. II. [York), Act V., Sc. I.
" Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour's house ; lest he be weary
of thee and hate thee." Proverbs. Cli. XXV., ver. 17.
" Let us do or die." Burns. Scots wha hae, 6.
" Let us draw upon content for the deficiencies of fortune."
Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield, Ch. HI.
" Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after."
Byron. Don yuan. Can. II., St. 178.
" Let us not burden our remembrance with
An heaviness that's gone."
Shakespeare. The Tempest (Prospero), Act V., Sc. I.
" Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die.
But leave us still our old nobility."
Lord John Manners. England's Trust, Pt. III., line 227,
" Let your discretion be your tutor."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III., Sc. II.
" Let's fear no storm before we feel a show'r."
Drayton. The Baron's Wars, Bk. III., LV.
" Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop.
Not to outsport discretion."
Shakespeare. Othello (Othello), Act II., Sc. III.
" Letters are
The Life of Love, the loadstones that by rare /
Attraction make souls meet, and melt, and mix,
As when by fire exalted gold we fix."
J. Howell. Familiar Letters. To the Knowing Reader.
" Letting ' I dare not ' wait upon ' I would,'
Like the poor cat i' the adage ? "
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Act I., Sc. VII.
" But still ' I dare not ' waited on ' I would '. "
Crabbe. Tales 0/ the Hall.
" Liars should have good memories." Old Proverb.
" Indeed, a very rational saying, that a liar ought to have
a good memory."
South. Sermon on the Concealment of Sin.
" Liberty the chartered right of Englishmen,
Won by our fathers in many a glorious field,
Enerve my soldiers." Blake. King Edivard the Third (King).
" Life a dream in Death's eternal sleep."
James Thomson. Philosophy, II.
144 LIFE AGAIN— LIFE IS TEDIOUS.
" Life again knocked laughing at the door ! "
R. Browning. Balaustioti's Adventure.
" Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
Dr. S. Johnson. Letter to jf. Boswell, Esq., 1766.
" Life differs from the play only in this ... it has no plot — all is
vague, desultory, unconnected — till the curtain drops with the
mystery unsolved." Eulwer Lytton. Godolphui,Ch. LXV.
" Life every man holds dear ; but the brave man
Holds honour far more precious-dear than life."
Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida [Hector), Act V., Sc. III.
" Life has more things to dwell on
Than just one useless pain."
Adelaide Procter. Returned—" Missing."
" Life has no path so short as to renown ! "
BuLWER Lytton. King Arthur, Bk. XII., CLXI.
" Life is a bumper fill'd by fate."
Blacklock. An Epigram on Punch.
" Life is a comedy to him who thinks, and a tragedy to him who feels. "
Horace Walpole.
" Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimney-
side of prudence, it wears a rugged and dangerous front."
Emerson. Heroism.
'♦ Life is a great bundle of little things."
O. W. Holmes. The Professor at the Breakfast Table, I.
*• Life is a running shade, with fettered hands,
That chases phantoms over shifting sands ;
Death a still spectre on a marble seat,
With ever clutching palms and shackled feet."
O. W. Holmes. The Old Player.
" Life is a shuttle."
Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor (Falstaff), Act V., Sc. I.
" Life is a waste of wearisome hours.
Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ;
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers,
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns."
T. Moore. Irish Melodies : Oh ! think not my spirits are
ahvays so light.
'* Life is act and not to Do is Death."
Lewis Morris. The Epic of Hades, Sisyphus.
" Life is tedious as a twice-told tale.
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ;
And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste,
That it yields nought but shame and bitterness."
Shakespeare. King John (Leivis), Act III., Sc. IV.
" What so tedious as a twice-told tale ? "
Pope. Homer's Odyssey, Bk. XII., last line.
" Palls on her temper, like a twice-told tale."
Akenside. The Pleasures of Imagination, Bk. I.,
line 220.
LIFE IS AT BEST-LIFE'S BEST BALM. 145
" Life is at best but a froward child, which must be coaxed and played
willi until the end comes."
SiK William Temple. Essay on Poetry.
" Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that
must be humoured and coaxed a little till it falls
asleep, and then all the care is over."
Goldsmith. T/id Good-Naturcd Man {Croaker),
Act I., Sc. I.
"â– Life is not dated mciely by years. Events are sometimes the best
calendars." Lokd Beaconsfield. Vcnetin, Bk. II., C/i. I.
" Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy."
Emerson. Social Aims.
" Life is real ! Life is earnest I
And the grave is not its goal ;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul." Longfellow. A Psalm of Life.
" Life is too short for any distant aim ;
And cold the dull reward of future fame."
Lady M. Wortley Montagu. Epistle to the Earl
of Burlington.
" Life is too short for mean anxieties."
C. Kingsley. The Sainfs Tragedy (Elizabeth),
Act II., Sc. IX.
" Life is war ;
Eternal war with woe : who bears it bett,
Deserves it least." Young. Night Thoughts, Night II., line 9.
" Life makes the soul dependent on the dust ;
Death gives her wings to mount above the spheres."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night III., line 458.
" Life may change, but it may fly not ;
Hope may vanish, but can die not;
Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;
Love repulsed, — but it returneth 1 "
Shelley. Hellas (Semichorus), I.
" Life of Life ! thy lips enkindle
With their love the breath between them ;
And thy smiles before they dwindle
Make the cold air fire."
Shelley. Prometheus Unbound [Voice), Act II., Sc. V.
" Life's a jest, and all things show it ;
I thought so once, and now I know it."
Gay. Epitaph on Himself.
•' Life's a long tragedy ; this globe the stage."
Watts.' Epistle to Mitis, Ft. /., i.
' Life's best balm — forgetfulness 1 "
F. Hemans. The Caravan in the Desert.
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146 LIFE'S BUT A WALKING SHADOW— LIKE ECHO.
" Life's but a walking shadow ; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more : it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act V., Sc. V.
" Life's little stage is a small eminence,
Inch-high the grave above."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night IL, line 360.
" Life treads on life, and heart on heart.
We press too close in church and mart
To keep a dream or grave apart."
E. B. Browning. A Vision of Poets, Conclusion.
" Life I what art thou without love ? " E. Moore. Fable XIV.
" Life without love is load ; and time stands still :
What we refuse to him, to death we give ;
And then, then only, when we love, we live."
CoNGREVE. The Mourning Bride (Manuel), Act II., Sc. X.
" Lift not the festal mask I — enough to know,
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe."
Sir W, Scott. Lord of the Isles, Can. II., I.
" Light fantastic toe." Milton. L'Allegro.
" Light gain makes a heavy purse." Old Proverb.
" The proverb is true, that light gains make heavy purses ;
for light gains come often, great gains now and then.''
Bacon.
" Lightly was her slender nose
Tip-tilted like the petal of a flower."
Tennyson, Gareth and Lynettc.
" Like a late moon, of use to nobody."
R. Browning. Luria (Luria), Act I.
" Like angels' visits, short and bright ;
Mortality's too weak to bear them long."
Rev. J. NoRRis of Bemerton. The Parting, St. 4.
" Visits
Like those of angels, short and far between."
Blair. The Grave, line 588.
•• Like angels' visits, few and far between."
Campbell. The Pleasures of Hope, II.
"Like another Helen, fir'd another Troy."
Dryden. Alexander's Feast, VI.
" Like Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought,
Love gives itself, but is not bought." Longfellow. Endymion.
" Like Echo, lost and languishing.
In love with her own wondrous song."
T Moore. Lalla Rookh, IX.
LIKE FOR LIKE— LIVES OF GREAT MEN. 147
" Like for like is no gain." Cambridge. Against Inconstancy.
" Like master, like man." Old Proverb.
" Such master, such man, p.nd such mistress, such maid,
Such husband and huswife, such houses arraid."
TussER. Five Hundred Points of Good Hus-
bandry, April's Husbandry, 22.
" Such mistress, such Nan,
Such master, such man." Ibid. April's Abstract, 22.
*' Like moonlight on a troubled sea,
Brightening the storm it cannot calm."
T. Moore. The Loves 0/ the Angels, 2nd AngeVs Story.
" Like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief."
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night (Viola), Act II., Sc. IV.
" Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Ophelia), Act III., Sc. I
" Like truihs of science waiting to be caught."
Tennyson. The Golden Year.
" Like will to like." J. Heywood, Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. IV.
" Is it not a byword, lyke will to lyke ? " Lyly. Euphties.
" Like will to like ; each creature loves his kind,
Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind."
Herrick. Hesperides, 293.
"Like will to like."
Sir W. Scott. Peveril of the Peak, Ch. XIV.
" Linked sweetness long drawn out." Milton. U Allegro.
" Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes."
Byron. The Corsair, Can. III., XXIV.
" Lion and stoat have isled together, knave.
In time of flood." Tennyson. Gareth and Lynette.
" Literature is a very bad crutch, but a very good walking-stick. "
C. Lamb. Letter to Bernard Barton.
" Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love
and duty." George Eliot. Romola, Proem.
" Lit tle minds are tamed and subdued by misfort une ; but great minds
rise above it." WASHINGTON Irvino. (
" Live with a tlirifty, not a needy .fate ;
Small shots paid often waste a vast estate."
Herrick. Hesperides, 28.
" Tyives of great men all remind us
We can make our own sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time."
Longfellow. A Psalm of Life.
148 LIVES THE MAN— LOOK ERE.
" Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing
a naked House of Lords ? "
Carlyle. Sartor Rcsartus, Bk. /., Ch. IX.
" Lives there who loves his pain ?
Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell.
Though thither doom'd ? "
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. IV., line 888.
" Live while you live, the epicure would say,
And seize the pleasures of the present day ;
Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries,
And give to God each moment as it flies.
Lord, in my view let both united be ;
I live in pleasure when I live to Thee."
P. DoDDERlDGE, Epigram on his Family Motto.*
*" Dtim vlvimus vivatnus."
" Loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud."
Shakespeare. Sonnet, XXXV.
" Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of
wise men."
Huxley. Science and Culture. Animal Automatism.
" (You are now
In) London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow
At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore
Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.'
Shelley. Letter to Maria Gisbome.
" London ! the needy villain's gen'ral home,
The common-sewer of Paris and of Rome."
Dr. Johnson. London, line 93.
" Long demurs breed new delays." Southwell. Loss in Delay.
" Long is the way
And hard, that out of hell leads up to light."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. II., line 432.
" Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe. "
Lyly. Euphues and his England.
" Look ere ye leape. " J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. II.
/'
Look ere you leape, see ere you go,
It may be for thy profit so."
TussER. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,
Ch. LVII.
•' For he that leaps, before he look, good son,
May leap in the mire, and miss what he hath done."
Unknown. The Marriage of 2'rue Wit and Science
{Wit), Act IV., Sc. I.
•' Look before you ere you leap ;
\ For as you sow y' arc like to reap."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. II., Can. III., line 503.
LOOK, HOW THE FLOOR—LOVE BETTERS. 149
" Look, how the floor of heaven l_^^^
Is thick inlay'd with patines of bright gold ;
There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st,
But in his motion like an angel sings.
Still quiring to the young-ey'd cherubims.
Such harmony is in immortal souls ;
But, while this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice {Lorenzo),
Act v., Sc. I.
" Look how we can, or sad, or merrily,
Interpretation will misquote our looks."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Worcester), i. .
Act v.. Sell. '^^
" Lookers on, many times, see more than the gamesters." //^
Bacon. Essay XLVIII. 0/ Followers and Friends.
" There is a true saying, that the spectator oft-times sees
more than the gamester."
Howell. Familiar Letters, Bk. II., Letter
XV. To Capt. B.
" Lord of himself; — that heritage of woe,
That fearful empire which the human breast
But holds to rob the heart within of rest I "
BvKON, Lara, Can. I., II.
" Lord of himself, though not of lands,
And having nothing, yet hath all."
Sir Henry Wotton. The Character of a Happy Life.
PnwrongJnjTnrifi ; he ahip for thine enemy
TToHif'r irijQ2wgr^libFi" '"rp ; ^"^ v^pp thy fn>n<1
Under "THj/own life^s key i_be check'd for silence.
But never tax'd for speech." __ _
' — " ShakespeareT All's Well that Ends Well (Countess),
Act I.,Sc. I.
" Love always makes those eloquent that have it."
Marlowe. Hero and Leander, Sestiad II.
" Love and a red nose can't be hid."
Th. Holcroft. Duplicity (Squire Turtibull), Act II.,
Sc. I.
" Love and high rule allow no rivals."
Fletcher. Monsieur Thomas (Alice), Act I., Sc. I.
" Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
Fielding. Love m Several Masques, Act IV., Sc. II.
•• Her tea she sweetens, as she sips, with scandal."
Rogers. Written to be spoken by Mrs. Siddons.
" Love betters what is best
Even here below, but more in heaven above."
Wordsworth. Sonnets, Pt. I., XXV.
I50 LOVE CAN SUPPLY— LOVE IN EXTREMES.
" Love can supply all wants."
rLETCHER. Tke Sea Voyage (Aminta), Act TI., Sc. /.
" Love can vanquish Death." Tennyson. A Dream of Fair Women.
" Love cannot feed on falsehood ! "
BuLWER Lytton. Richelieu (De Manprat), Act IIL, Sc. II.
" Love comforteth, like sunshine after rain,
But lust's effect is tempest after sun ;
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain.
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done.
Love sur feits not ; lust like a glutton dies ;
Love iTall ; lust full of forged lies."
Shakespeare. Venus and Adonis, 134.
" Love conquers all." Byron. Childe Harold, Can. II., LXIII.
" Love covereth a multitude of sins."
St. Peter. Epis. I., Ch. IV., ver. 8.
" Love extinguish'd, earth and heav'n must fail."
Sir W. Jones. Hymn to Diirga.
" Love feasts on toys,
For Cupid is a child."
Ford. The Broken Heart (Nearchus), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Love finds an altar for forbidden fires."
Pope. Eloisa to Abelard, line 182.
*' Love frees all toils but one,
Calamity and it can ill agree."
Beaumont and Fletcher. The Laws of Candy (Antinous),
Act IV., Sc.I.
" Love goes towards love, as schoolboys from their books ;
But love from love, towards school with heavy looks."
Shakespeare. Romeo and yuliet {Romeo), Act II., Sc. II.
" Love has a thousand varied notes to move
The human heart." Crabbe. The Frank Courtship.
" Love hath wings."
Cowley. An Answer to an Invitation to Cambridge, III.
'* Love, if Love be perfect, casts out fear.
So Hate, if Hate be perfect, casts out fear."
Tennyson. Merlin and Vivien.
" Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is — Love forgive us ! — cinders, ashes, dust ;
Love in a palace is perhaps at last
More grievous torment than a hermit's fast." Keats. Lamia, II.
" Love in cities never dwells ;
He delights in rural cells." Gay. The Lady's Lamentation, II.
"Love in extremes can never long endure."
Herrick. Hesperides, 496.
LOVE I IN WHAT— LOVE IS AN APRIL'S. 151
' Love ! in what poison is thy dart
Dipped when it makes a bleeding heart !
None know but they who feel the smart."
Den'iiam. Friendsltip and Single Life, 1.
Love is a burden, which two hearts, 11
When equally they bear their jiarts, 1 1
With pleasure carry ; but no one, I
Alas I can bear it long alone." Sedley. Song.
" Love is a circle that doth restless move
In the same sweet eternity of Love." Herrick. Hesperides, 29.
" Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams.
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes."
Chapman. Hero and Leander, Sestiad III,
" Love is a medley of endearments, jars,
Suspicions, quarrels, reconcilements, wars." Walsh. To his Book.
" Love is a pleasant woe." " A. W." Ode IX.
From Davison's Rhapsody.
'• Love is a pleasing but a various clime." Shenstone. Elegy V.
" Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs;
Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears :
What is it else ? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Act I., Sc. I.
" Love is a sour delight, a sugred greefe,
A living death, an ever dying life ;
A breach of Reason's lawe, a secret theefe, . y
A sea of teeres, an everlasting strife ; ^'^
A bayte for fooles ; a scourge of noble witts ;
A deadly wound, a shotte which ever hitts."
y, Thos. Watson. The Passionate Cenfurie of Love, XVIII.
y " Love is a spiritual coupling of two souls.
So much more excellent, as it least relates
Unto the body ; circular, eternal,
Not feign'd, or made, but born : and then so precious,
As nought can value it but itself; so free
As nothing can commend it but itself;
And in itself so sound and liberal.
As where it favours it bestows itself."
Ben Jonson. The New Inn (Level), Act III., Sc. II.
" Love is a subject to himself alone.
And knows no other empire but his own."
Granville. The British Enchantress (Constantins), Act I.,
Sc. II.
" Love is an April's doubting day ;
Awhile we see the tempest low'r,
Anon the radiant heav'n survey.
And quite forget the flitting show'r," Shenstone. Song
152 LOVE IS INDESTRUCTIBLE— LOVE IS NOT.
" Love is indestructible,
Its holy flame for ever burnetii,
From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth."
SouTHEY. The Curse of Kchama, X., Mount Mem, lo.
X " Love
^ Is kin to duty." Lewis Morris. The Epic of Hadrs. Psyche.
" Love is Life, and Death at last
Crowns it eternal and divine."
A. Procter. Lfe in Death, last lines.
" Love IS life's end, [an end, but never ending ;]
All joyes, all sweetes, all happinesse, awarding ;
Love is life's wealth, [ne'er spent, but ever spending ; ]
More rich by giving, taking by discarding ;
Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding."
Phineas Fletcher. Britain's Ida, Can. II., St. 8.
" Love is like linnen, often chang'd, the sweeter."
Phineas Fletcher. Sicelides [Cosma), Act III., Sc. V.
" Love is love for evermore." Tennyson. Locksley Hall.
" Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears."
Sir W. Scott. The Lady of the Lake, Can. IV., I.
" Love is maintained by v/ealth ; when all is spent
Adversity then breeds the discontent," Herrick. Hcsperides, 144.
" Love is more than great richesse."
Lydgate. The Story of Thebes, Pt. III.
" Love is nature's second sonne.
Causing a spring of vertues where he shines."
G. Chapman. All Fooles (Valerio), Act I., Sc. I.
1 ^J^ " Love is not love
1 Q^ j/ When it is mingled with regards that stand
\ Aloof from the entire point."
Shakespeare. Kitig Lear {King of France), Ad I., Sc. I.
" Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
Or bends with the remover to remove :
O no ! it is an ever fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken ,
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."
Shakespeare. Sonnet CXVI.
" Love is not much unlike ambition ;
For in them both all lets must be remov'd
'Twixt every crown and him that would aspire ;
And he that will attempt to win the same
Must plunge up to the depth o'er head and ears,
And hazard drowning in the purple sea :
So he that loves must needs through blood and fire,
And do all things to compass his desire."
Joshua Cooke. How a Man mav choose, etc. (Young Arthur),
Act III., Sc. II.
LOVE IS NOT— LOVE NURSED. 153
'" Love is not to be reason'd down, or lost
In high ambition, and a thirst of greatness; \
'Tis second life, it grows into the soul, «
Warms every vein, and beats in every pulse." '
Addison. Cato {Mnrcus), Act I., Sc. I.
■• (The wretched man gan then avise too late,
That) love is not wliere most it is profest."
Spenser. Faerie Quccne, Bk. II., Con. X., St. 31.
" Love is the marrow of friendship, and letters are the Elixir of Love."
J. Howell. Familiar Letters, Bk. I., Sec. I., Letter XVII.
" Love is the mind's strong physic, and the pill
That leaves the heart sick and o'erturns the will."
MiDDLETON. Blurt Master Constable (Camillo), Act III.,
Sc. I.
• Love is too young to know what conscience is."
Shakespeare. Sonnet CLI.
â– Love is wiser than ambition." Barry Cornwall. A Vision.
â– â– Love knows no mean or measure."
Phineas Fletcher. Piscatorie Eclogues, III., Can. XVII.
" Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ;
And therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind."
Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream {Helena), Act I.,
Sc.I.
Vide—" The God o/Love"
Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden of my song." Old Ballad, published about 1570.
" Love me little, love me long."
Marlowe. The yew of Malta (Ithamore),
ActIV.,Sc. V.
" Love me, love my dog." Old Proverb.
" The prouerbe old es verifide in you,
Loue me and loue my Dog, and so adue."
Turberville. To his Loue that controlde his Dog for
fawning on hir.
" Love most concealed, doth most itself discover."
Walter Davison. Sonnet XIV.
" Love no man : trust no man : speak ill of no man to his face ; nor
well of any man behind his back. Salute fairly on the front, and
wish them hanged upon the turn."
Ben Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour [Carlo
Buff one), Act III., Sc. I.
" Love not pleasure, love God. This is the everlasting Yea, wherein all
contradiction is solved."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. II., Ch. IX.
" Love nursed among pleasures is faithless as they.
But the love born of sorrow, like sorrow is true ! "
T. Moore. Irish Melodies, In the Morning of Life.
154 LOVE OF PLEASURE— LOVE THAT OF EVERY.
" Love of pleasure is man's eldest born,
Born in his cradle, living to his tomb."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night VIIT., line 595.
" Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end,
Not wedlock — treachery indang'ring life."
Milton. Samson Agonistes {Samson), line 1008.
" Love passions are like parables,
By which men still mean something else ;
Tho' love be all the world's pretence.
Money's the mythologic sense,
The real substance of the shadow,
Which all address and courtship's made to."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. II., Can. I., line 441.
" Love prays devoutly when it prays for love 1 "
Hood. Hero and Leauder, XX.
" Love renders sweet what is otherwise most painful."
Kenelm Digby. The Broad Stone of Honour [Godefridits),
XV.
" Love reflects the thing beloved ;
My words are only words, and moved
Upon the topmost froth of thought."
Tennyson. In Memoriam, LII.
\ " Love sacrifices all things ]
I To bless the thing it loves." Bulwer Lytton. The Lady of Lyons.
V " Love scarce is love that never knows
The sweetness of forgiving." Whittier. Among the Hills.
" Love should be absolute love, faith is in fulness or nought."
R. Browning. Jocoseria, Ixion.
" Love should make marriage, and not marriage love."
Unknown. Pasquil and Catherine {Brabant Senior),
Act III., 172.
" Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night {Olivia), Act III., Sc. I.
I " Love stops at nothing but possession." \
\ Southern. Oroonoko {Blandford), Act II., Sc. II. )
" Love stoops, as fondly as he soars."
Wordsworth. Poems of the Fancy, XVIII.
" Love, that covers multitude of sins.
Makes love in parents wink at children's faults."
Unknown. Faire Em {Zevcno), Act III., Sc. XVII.,
line 1270.
Love that of every woman's heart
Will have the whole, and not a part,
That is, to her, in Nature's plan.
More than ambition is to man.
Her light, her life, her very breath,
No alternative but death."
Longfellow. The Golden Legend, IV.
LOVE THAT TWO— LOVE'S OWN HAND. 155
" Love that two hearts makes one, makes eke one will."
Spenser. Faerie Qticcnc, Bk. II., Can. IV., St. ig.
" Love, the brightest jewel of a crown,
That fires ambition, and adorns renown :
That with sweet hopes does our harsh pains beguile,
And 'midst of javelins makes the souldier smile."
Nath. Lee. Sopltonishn {Massiiiissa), Act I., Sc. II.
" Love took up the harp of time, and smote on all the chords with might ;
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.'"
Tennyson. Lockslcy Hall.
" (Till I was taught, that) Love was but a school
To breed a fool."
Sir Henry Wotton. A Poem, written in his youth.
" Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total ]
worth of man." Emerson. Friendship. J
" Love's a blind guide, and those that follow him too often lose their
way."
Colley Gibber. Woman's Wit (Emilia), Act I., Sc. I.
" Love's a thing that's never out of season." ^"^
Barry Gornwall. Gyges, XIII.
" Love's despair is but Hope's pining ghost ! "
Coleridge. The Visionary Hope.
" Love's great artillery." Grashaw. Prayer, 18.
" Mighty Love's Artillery."
Grashaw. The Wounds of the Lord jfesus, 2.
" Love's heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams,
Driving back shadows over low'ring hills :
Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love,
And therefore hath the wind-swift Gupid wings."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfjiliet [jj^uliet), Act II., Sc. V.
" Love's lawe is out of reule." Gower. Confessio Amantis, Bk. I.
" Love knoweth no lawes." Lyly. Euphnes.
" Love owns no law."
J. Montgomery. The World before the Flood, Can. VI.
" Love's night is noon."
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night [Olhvia), Act III., Sc. I.
•' Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks '•'^^
Within his bending fickle compass come ;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks.
But bears it out even to the edge of doom."
Shakespeare. Sonnet CLI.
" Love's own hand the nectar pours,
Which never fails nor ever sours." Mallett. Cupid and Hymen.
/
156 LOVE'S SOONER FELT— LOYALTY WELL HELD.
" Love's sooner felt than seen."
Phineas Fletcher. Piscatorie Eclogues, VI., St. 11.
" Love's special lesson is to please the eye."
G. Chapman. Hero and Leander, Sestiad V.
" Love's the weightier business of mankind."
CoLLEY Gibber. She wou'd and she won'd not (Hyf'ollta), Act /.,
last line.
" Love's tongue is in the eyes."
Phineas Fletcher. Piscatorie Eclogues, V.,St. 12.
" Love's very pain is sweet,
But its reward is in the world divine,
Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave."
Shelley. Epipsychidion.
" (Then must you speak
Of one that) loved not wisely, but too well."
Shakespeare. Othello (Othello), Act V., Sc. II.
" Loveliest of lovely things are they,
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower."
Bryant. A Scene on the Banks of Ike Hudson.
" Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorned, adorned the most."
Thomson. The Seasons, Autumn, line 204.
Vide — " Beauty when most."
" Lovers ever run before the clock."
Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice (Gratiano), Act II., Sc. VI.
' Lovers grow cold, men learn to hate their wives,
And only parents' love can last our lives."
R. Browning. Pippa Passes.
" Lovers should for each other only live.
And having one another should have no regret."
Th. Shad well. Psyche [Cupid), Act IV.
" Lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face ;
But when he once attains the upmost round.
He then unto the ladder turns his back ;
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend."
Shakespeare, yulius Ccssar (Brutus), Act II., Sc. I.
" Loyalty well held to fools does make
Our faith mere folly : yet he that can endure
To folly with allegiance a fall'n lord
Does conquer him that did his master conquer."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Enoharbus), Act III .,
Sc. XIII.
LUFF IS OFF -MAKEN VERTUE. .57
" (For) Luff is off sa mekill iiiycht,
That it all paynys makis lycht."
Barbour. The Bruce, Bk. II., line 520.
" L)dia, you ought to know that lying don't become a young woman I "
Sheridan. Tlic Rivals (Mrs. Malaprop), Act III., Sc. III.
" Lying's a certain mark of cowardice."
Southern. Oroonoko (Oroonoko), Act V., Sc. II.
" Mad Ambition ever doth caress
Its own sure fate, in its own restlessness 1 "
Coleridge. Zapolya, Act IV.
" Mad Ambition's gory hand." Burns. A Winter Nigltt.
" (I saye thou) Madde Marche hare."
Skelton. Replycation against Certayne Yong Scalers.
" Ye fret and ye fume as mad as a March hare."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. V.
" Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (King), Act III,, Sc. I.
" Maiden's hearts are always soft:
Would that men's were truer 1 " Bryant. Song.
" Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,
And mammon wins his way where serajih.s might despair."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. I., IX.
" Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they
are wives."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (Rosalind), Act IV.,
Sc. I.
" Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement ;
shut that and 'twill out at the key-hole ; stop that, 'twill fly with
the smoke out at the chimney."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (Rosalind), Act IV.,
Sc. I.
l^
Make use of time, let not advantage slip ; \ ^
Beauty within itself should not be wasted : / 'I
Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime, /
Rot and consume themselves in little time."
Shakespeare. Venus and Adonis, St. 22.
Maken vertue of necessite."
Chaucer. The Knightc's Talc, line 3044.
" Thus am I driven to make a virtue of necessity."
R. Wilson. The Three Ladies of London (Con-
science), Act II.
" To make a virtue of necessity."
Shakespeare. Two Geulleinen of Verona (2nd
Outlaw), Act IV., Sc. I.
" To dress up necessity into a virtue."
Swift. Tale of a Tub, Sec. VI.
drcrt)
t58 MAKING NIGHT—MAN HAS HIS WILL.
" Making night hideous."
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Hamlet), Act I., Sc. IV.
" Silence, ye wolves ! while Ralph to Cynthia howls,
And makes night hideous ; answer him, ye owls."
Pope. The Dunciad, Bk. III., line 165.
" Man always knows his life will shortly cease,
Yet madly lives as if he knew it not."
R. Baxter. Hypocrisy.
" Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication."
Byron. Don jftian, Can. II.., St. 179.
I '• Man creates the evil he endures.'H Southey. Inscriptions, II.
" Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love."
Tennyson. Merlin and Vivien.
*' Man dwells apart, though not alone,
He walks among his peers unread ;
The best of thoughts which he hath known,
For lack of listeners are not said."
Jean Ingelow. Afternoon at a Parsonage, After Thought.
" Man ever was a hypocrite, and ever will be still."
Tusser. The Omnipotence of God, 2.
" Man, foolish man ! no more thy soul deceive,
To die, is but the surest way to live."
Broome. Poem on Death, line 89.
•' — Man for his glory
To history flies ;
While woman's bright story
Is told in her eyes."
T. MooRE. Irish Melodies, Desmond's Song.
" Man for the field, the woman for the hearth :
Man for the sword, and for the needle she :
Man with the head, and woman with the heart :
Man to command, and woman to obey ;
All else confusion." Tennyson. The Princess.
" Man grows cold, and woman jealous ;
Both would their little ends secure ;
He sighs for freedom, she for pow'r."
Prior. Alma, Can. II., line 66.
" Man has a natural desire to know.
But th' one half is for int'rest th' other show."
S. Butler. Satire upon Human Learning, line 151.
" Man has a thousand temptations to sin — woman has but one; if she
cannot resist it, she has no claim upon our mercy."
BuLWER Lytton. Falkland, Bk. III.
' Man has his will, — but woman has her way."
O. W. Holmes. Prologue.
MAN HAS POWER— MAN IS HIS OWN STAR. 159
" Man has power
or liead and hand, — heart is woman's dower."
L. E. L. The Golden Violet, The Rose.
â– â– Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed, which declares his dignity,
And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways ;
While other animals unactive range."
Milton. Paradise Lo%t. Bk. IV., line 618.
" Man is a creature of a wilful head,
And hardly driven is, but eas'Iy led."
S. Daniel. The Queen's Arcadia (Efgostiis), Act IV., Sc. V.
" Man is a name of honour for a king."
G. Chapman. Bussy d'Ambois {Tamyra), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Man is a restless thing, still vain and wild,
Lives beyond sixty, nor outgrows the child."
Watts. To the Memory of T. Gunston, Esq., Bk. III.,
line 189.
" Man is a ship that sails with adverse winds,
And has no haven till he land at death.
Then when he thinks his hands fast grasp the bank,
Comes a rude billow betwixt him and safety,
And beats him back into the deep again."
Randolph. The jfealons Lovers (Chremyliis), Act V.,
Sc. VI.
" Man is a toad-eating animal."
W. Hazlitt. Political Essays : On the Connexion between Toad'
Enters and Tyrants.
•' Man is a tool-making animal."
Dr. Franklin. Quoted in BosweWs Life of Johnson {Fitzgerald'' i
Ed.), Vol. 11., p. 266.
•• Man is a tool-using animal."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. I., Ch. V.
" Man is a beast when shame stands off from him."
Swinburne. Phadra, Hippolytns.
" Man is born into trouble,
As the sparks fly upward." Job. Ch. V.,ver.'].
" Man is but man ; unconstant still, and various ;
There's no to-morrow in him, like to-day."
Dryden. Cleomenes (Sosybius) Act III., Sc. I.
" Man is his own star, and the- soul that can
Be honest is the only perfect man."
Fletcher. Upon an Honest Man's Fortune.
•• Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early, or too late." Ibid.
i6o MAN IS HURLED— MAN SEEKS HIS OWN.
" (Rejoice that) man is hurled
From change to change unceasingly,
His soul's wings never furled." R. Browning, jfames Lee^s Wife.
" Man is man's A. B. C. There is none that can
Read God aright, unless he first spell man."
QuARLES. Hieroglyph I.
" Man is naturally a proud animal, and is fond of nothing more than the
breath of Fame, to soothe his vanity, and flatter his self-admira-
tion." Sir R. Blackmore. The Lay Monastery, No. ii.
" Man is not as God,
But then most Godlike being most a man."
Tennyson. Love and Duty
" Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds of high resolve."
Shelley. Queen Mab, IV.
" Man is the hunter ; woman is his game."
Tennyson. The Princess.
" Man is the spirit he worked in ; not what he did, but what he became' .
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. II., Ch. X.
" Man is to man, the sorest, surest ill."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night III., line 217.
" Man, like the gen'rous vine supported, lives ;
The strength he gains is from th' embrace he gives."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. III., line 311.
" Man loves knowledge, and the beams of truth
More welcome touch his understanding's eye.
Than all the blandishments of sound his ear,
Than all of taste his tongue."
Akenside. Pleasures 0/ Imagination j Bk. II., line 100.
" Man owns the pow'r of kings, and kings of Jove:
And as their actions tend subordinate
To what thy will designs, thou giv'st the means
Proportion'd to the work ; thou see'st impartial
How they these means employ."
Prior. First Hymn of Calimachus. To Jnpiter.
" Man 1 proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority :
His glossy essence like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,
As make the angels weep."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Isabella),
Act II., Sc. II.
" Man proposeth, God disposeth." Herbert, y acuta Prudenttim.
" Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost."
R. Browning. Luria (Braccio), Act I.
MAN SHOULD DO— MAN, WHO WERT. i6i
•* Man should do nothing that he should repent,
But if he have, and say that he is sorry,
It is a worse fault if he be not truly."
Beaumont and Fletcher. Honest Man's Fortune (Orleans),
Act v., Sc. II.
" Man should ever be
The friend of beauty in distress."
Byron. Occasional Pieces : To Florence.
" Man spurns the worm, but pauses ere he wake
The slumbering venom of the folded snake :
The first may turn, but not avenge the blow ;
The last expires, but leaves no living foe."
Byron. The Corsair, Can. I., XI.
" Man that is born of a woman
Is of few days, and full of trouble —
He Cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down :
He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not."
Job. Ch. XIV., ver. 1-2.
" Man 1
Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear."
Byron. Childc Harold, Can. IV., CIX.
" Man to the last is but a froward child ;
So eager for the future, come what may,
And to the present so insensible 1 " Rogers. Reflections.
" Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long."
Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield, A Ballad.
Ch. VIII.
" Man wants but little, nor that little long."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night IV., line 118.
•' Man was formed for society."
Blackstone. Commentaries : 0/ the Nature of Laws in General.
" Man was not form'd to live alone,
I'll be that light, unmeaning thing
That smiles with all, and weeps with none."
Byron. Occasional Pieces : One Struggle More.
" Man who knows no good unmix'd and pure.
Oft finds a poison where he sought a cure." Crabbe. The Library.
" Man who man would be.
Must rule the empire of himself! in it
Must be supreme, establishing his throne
On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy
Of hopes and fears, being himself alone."
Shelley. Sonnet ; Political Greatness.
" Man, who wert once a despot and a slave ;
A dupe and a deceiver ; a decay ;
A traveller from the cradle to the grave
Through the dim night of this immortal day."
Shelley. Prometheus Unbound (Demagorgon), Act IV
II
ib2 MAN, WITHOUT RELIGION— MANKIND TO POLISH.
" Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances."
J. C. Hare. Guesses at Truth, p. i.
"Man is the creature of circumstance."
Robert Owen. The Philanthropist.
" Man's the creature of habit."
C. Dickens. The Battle of Life (Mr. Britain), Pt. III.
Vide — " Men are the sport.'^
" Man views the world with partial eyes." Gay. Fables, Pt. II., VII.
" (Whatever creed be taught or land be trod,)
Man's conscience is the oracle of God."
Byron. The Island, Can. I., VI.
" Man's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union." Burns. To a Mouse.
" Man's life, sir, being
Too short, and then the way that leads unto
The knowledge of ourselves, so long and tedious,
Each minute should be precious."
Fletcher. The Elder Brother [Charles), Act I., Sc. II.
" Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence."
Byron. Don yuan. Can. J., St. 194.
" But a woman's whole existence is a history of the affec-
tions." Washington Irving. The Broken Heart.
" For women [I am a woman now like you]
There is no good of life but love."
R. Browning. In a Balcony.
Vide — " IVs important business,^' etc.
" Man's revenge
And endless inhumanities on man."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night VII., line 134.
" Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn."
Burns. Despondency.
" Man's state implies a necessary curse ;
When not himself, he's mad; when most himself, he's worse."
QuARLES. Emblems, Bk. II., Em. XIV.
" Man's that savage beast, whose mind,
From reason to self-love declin'd.
Delights to prey upon his kind."
Denham. Friendship and Single Life, XXXIV.
" Mankind is everywhere the same."
Lady M. Wortley Montagu. Letter to the Countess of
Bute, 22nd July, 1754.
" Mankind to polish, and to teach,
Be this the monarch's aim :
Above ambition's giant reach
The monarch's meed to claim."
Warton. Ode XV, [On H. M. Birthday),
^th June, 1785.
. MANNERS WITH FORTUNES— MARRIAGE MUST BE. 163
" Manners with fortunes, humours turn with dimes,
Tenets with books, and principles wiih times."
Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. I., line 172.
" Many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer httle meant 1
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken ! '
Sir W. Scott. The Lady of the Lake, Can. V., XVIII.
" Many dream not to find, neither deserve,
And yet are steep'd in favours."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (Posthumus), Act V., Sc. IV.
" Many faint with toil,
That few may know the cares and woe of sloth."
Shelley. Queen Mab, III.
" Many great ones
Would part with half their states, to have the plan
And credit to beg in the first style."
Scott. The Antiquary, Ch. XXVII.
" Many little leaks may sink a ship."
Thos. Fuller. Holy and Profane States : Holy
State : The Good Servant.
" Many the loaded ship self-sunk through treasure-profit,
Many the pregnant brain brought never child to birth,
Many the great heart broke beneath its girdle-girth I "
R. Browning. Fifine at the Fair, LXXVI.
" (For hyt is commynly sayd) ' Many yes see bettur than one'."
T. Starkey. Englattd in the Reign of Henry VIII.,
Bk. I., Ch. IV., 3 {Pole).
*• Two eyes see more than one, though it be never so big."
Thos. Fuller. Holy and Profane States : Holy
States : The Wise Statesman.
" Marriage, at best, is but a vow.
Which all men either break, or bow."
Butler. The Lady's Answer to the Knight,
line 155.
" Marriage is a matter of more worth
Than to be dealt in by attorneyship."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. I. (Suffolk), Act V., Sc. VI.
" Marriage is a taming thing."
George Eliot. Middlemarch [Caleb Garth), Bk. VII.,
Ch. LXVIII.
" Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a
muddy horsepond."
T. L. Peacock. Melincourt {Sir T. Paxarett), Ch. VII.
" Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest."
George Eliot. Romola, Bk. III., Ch. XLVIII.
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i64 MARRIAGE THE HAPPIEST— MELLOW NUTS.
" Marriage the happiest bond of love might be,
If hands were only joined when hearts agree."
Granville. The British Enchantress {Amadis), Act V., Sc. I.
" Marriages are made in Heaven." Old Proverb.
" If marriages
Are made in Heaven, they should be happier."
Southern. The Fatal Marriage {Isabella), Act IV., Sc. II.
" Marry too soon, and you'll repent too late.
A sentence worth my meditation ;
For marriage is a serious thing."
Randolph. The Jealous Lovers [Asottis), Act V., Sc. I.
" Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure ;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure."
CONGREVE. The Old Bachelor (Sharper), Act V., Sc. VIII.
" Marry your son when you will ; your daughter when you can."
Herbert, jfacula Prudentum.
" (And) martyrs, when the joyful crown is given,
Forget the pain by which they purchased heaven."
Stepney. To King James II.
' " (As hyt ys commonly and truly also sayd) ' materys be ended as they
be frended '."
T. Starkey. England in the Reign of Henry VIII.,
Bk. I., Ch. III., 33 (Pole).
" And nowadays the lawe is ended, as a man is frynded. "
H. Brincklow. The Complaint of Roderiyck
Mors, Ch. XI.
" May one be pardoned, and retain the offence ? "
Shakespeare. Hamlet (King), Act III., Sc. III.
" May, that mother is of monethes glade."
Chaucer. Troilus and Cresseide, Boke II., line 50.
" May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him 1 "
C. Dickens. Dombey and Son (Capt. Cnttle), Ch. XV.
" Measures, not men, have always been my mark."
Goldsmith. The Good-Natiired Man (Lofty), Act II.,
Sc.I.
** Of this stamp is the cant of Not men, but measures ; a
sort of charm by which some people get loose from
every honorable engagement."
E. Burke. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present
^ Discontents.
-'**^elancholy is the nurse of frenzy."
Shakespearb, The Taming of the Shrew. Induction
(Messenger), Sc. II.
" Memory, bosom spring of joy." Coleridge. Domestic Peace.
" Mellow nuts have hardest rind."
Sir W. Scott. Lord of the Isles, Can. III., XXI.
MEMORY, THE WARDER— MEN AT SOME. 165
" Memory, the warder of the brain."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Lady Macbeth), Act /.,
Sc. VII.
" Men are April when they woo, December when they wed ; maids arc
May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are
wives."
Shakespeare. As You Like It [Rosalind], Act IV., Sc. I.
" Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes
of poverty."
Burke. Letter to a Member of the National Assembly,
1791.
" Men
Are as the time is : to be tender-minded
Does not become a sword."
Shakespeare. King Lear {Edmund), Act V , Sc. III.
" Men are but children of a larger growth ;
Our appetites are apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving too, and full as vain."
Dryden. All For Love, Act IV., Sc. I.
" Women, then, are only children of a larger growth." .
Chesterfield. Letter to his Son, ^th Sept., 1748.
" Men are men : the best sometimes forget."
Shakespeare, Othello {lago). Act II., Sc. III.
" ' Men are more eloquent than women made.' {Shepherd.)
' But women are more powerful to pursuade.' " {Ny?nph.)
Randolph. Amyntas, Prologue.
" Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions."
Mackintosh. Ethical Philosophy.
" Men are seldom loud in applauding others, unless they feel themselves
flattered."
Kenelm Dioby. The Broad Stone of Honour, Tan-
credits, VII.
" Men are so fond of themselves, that they will, if possible, mix up some
thing belonging to their miserable selves even with religion."
Kenelm Digby. The Broad Stone of Honour, Tan-
credtts, V.
" Men are the sport of circumstances, when
The circumstances seem the sport of men."
Byron. Don yuan. Can, V., St. 17.
Vide — " Man, without religion."
" Men are valued not for what they are, but what they seem to be."
Bulwer Lytton. Mottey {Sir yohn Vesey), Act I., Sc. I.
" Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth,
But women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell."
Tennyson. Merlin and Vivien.
" Men at some time are masters of their fates."
Shakespeare, jfulius Casar {Cassius), Act I., Sc. II.
i66 MEN BUT LIKE— MEN MUST ENDURE.
" Men but like visions are, time all doth claim ;
He lives, wlio dies to win a lasting name."
Drummgnu of Hawthornden. Sonnet.
" Men cast the blame of their unprosperous acts
Upon the abettors of their weak resolve ;
Or anything but their weak guilty selves."
Shelley. The Cenci {Orsino), Act V., Sc. I.
" Men die but once, and the opportunity
Of a noble death is not an everyday fortune :
It is a gift which noble spirits pray for."
C. Lamb, yohn Woodvill, Act II.
" Men do their broken weapons rather use
Than their bare hands."
Shakespeare. Othello (Duke), Act I., Sc. III.
" Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold ; but gold is the touch-
stone whereby to try men."
T. Fuller. Holy and Profane States : Holy State : The Good
jfiidge.
" Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not
for love."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (Rosalind), Act IV., Sc. I.
' ' Men have many faults ;
Poor women have but two :
There's nothing good they say,
And nothing right they do." Anonymous.
" Men have marble, women waxen minds."
Shakespeare. Rape of Lvcrecc, 178.
" Men in great place, are thrice servants."
Bacon. Essay XI. : Of Great Place.
" Men like soldiers may not quit the post
Allotted by the Gods." Tennyson. Lucretius.
" Men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever." Tennyson. The Brook.
'* Men may construe things after their fashion.
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves."
Shakespeare. Julius Casar (Cassins), Act I., Sc. II.
" (I hold it true with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones.
That) men may rise on stepping stones
Of their dead selves to higher things." Tennyson. In Memoriam, I.
" Men my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.
That which they have done but the earnest of the things which they
shall do." Tennyson. Locksley Hall.
'♦ Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither :
Ripeness is all." Shakespeare. King Lear (Edgar), Act V.,
Sc. II.
MEN OF ENGLAiSD- MEN'S FAULTS. 167
" Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low ?
Wherefore weave with toil and care
The rich robes your tyrants wear ? "
Shelley. To the Men of Euglaud.
" Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is."
Shakespeare. Troilns mid Cressida, Act I., Sc. IT.
" Men should be what they seem ;
Or those that be not, would they might seem none."
Shakespeare. Othello {lago), Act III., Sc. III.
" Men, some to bus'ness, some to pleasure take;
But ev'ry woman is at heart a rake :
Men, some to quiet, some to public strife,
But ev'ry woman would be queen for life."
Pope. Epistle II., To a Lady.
" Men shut their doors against a setting sun."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens [Apemantus), Act I., Sc. II.
" Men take more pains to lose themselves than would be requisite to
keep them in the right road."
Kenelm Digby. The Broad Stone of Honour, Code-
fridus, X.
" Men the flies of latter spring,
That lay their eggs, and sting and sing,
And weave their petty cells and die." Tennyson. In Mcmoriam, L.
" Men the more they know, the worse they be."
Bp. Latimer. Sevettth Sermon preached before Edward VI.
" Men thro' novel spheres of thought
Still moving after truth long sought.
Will learn new things." Tennyson. The Two Voices.
" Men, who lived and dy'd without a name,
Are the chief heroes in the sacrec' list of fame."
Swift. Ode to the Athenian Society.
"Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely
swagger."
BuLWER Lytton. My Novel, Bk. XI., Ch. II.
•' Men will \vrangle for religion ; write for it ; fight for it ; die for it ;
anything but — live for it." Colton. Lacon, XXV.
" Men, upon the whole.
Are what they can be — nations, what they would."
E. B. Browning. Casa Guidi Windows, Pt. I.
'' Men's behaviour should be like their apparell, not too strait, or point
device, but free for exercise or motion."
Bacon. Essay LII., Of Ceremonies and Respects.
" Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues
We write in water."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. (Griffith), Act IV., Sc. II.
" Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear."
Shakespeare. Rape of Lncrccc, qi.
i68 MEN'S MEN— MISERY STILL.
" Men's men : gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness."
George Eliot. Daniel DcronJa, Bk. IV., Cliap. XXXI.
" Men's muscles move better when their souls are makins; merry music,
George Eliot. Adam Bcde, Bk. II., Ch. XIX.
" Men's natures wrangle with inferior things,
Though great ones are their object."
Shakespeare. Othello [Desdcmona), Act III., Sc. IV.
" Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination."
Bacon. Essay XXXIX., Of Custom.
" Men's vows are women's traitors ! "
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (Imogen), Act III., Sc. IV.
" Men's words are ever bolder than their deeds."
Coleridge. Piccolominl, Act I., Sc. IV.
" Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains."
Herbert Spencer. The Principles of Ethics, § 238.
" Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet [Prince), Act III., Sc. 1.
*' Mercy is not itself, but oft looks so ;
Pardon is still the nurse of second woe."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure [Escahis) Act II., Sc. I.
" Mery as a cricket." J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. XI.
" Merry larks are ploughmen's clocks."
Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost {Song), Act V., Sc. II.
" Mesure is medecyne, pauh pou muche wylne."
Langland. Piers the Plowman, Passus II., line 33.
" Midsummer mute
Of song, but rich to scent and sight."
Lewis Morris. The Ode of Life. Ode of Perfect Years.
"Might
That makes a Title, where there is no Right."
S. Daniel. Civil War, Bk. II., XXXVI.
" (With) mild heat of holy oratory." Tennyson. Geraint and Enid.
" Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. IV., line 677.
" Mine honour is my life ; both grow in one ;
Take honour from me, and my life is done."
Shakespeare. Richard II. [Norfolk), Act I., Sc. I.
" Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
Shakespeare. TJie Tempest [Trinculo), Act II., Sc. II.
" Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case." Cowper. The Castaway.
MISFORTUNE— MOPING MELANCHOLY. 169
" Misfortune, like a creditor severe,
But rises in demand for her delay :
She makes a scourge of past prosperity,
To sting thee more and double thy distress.'*
Young. Night Thoughts, Night I., line 318.
" Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice {Prince of Morocco),
Act II., Sc. I.
" Mistaken blessings prove the greatest curse."
SoMERViLLE. Fable VI.
" Mistress of herself though china fall."
Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. II., line 268.
" Mock not the cobbler for his black thumbs."
Fuller. Holy and Profane States ; Holy State : Of Resting.
" Mockery is the fume of little hearts." Tennyson. Gtcineverc.
" Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,
Excessive grief the enemy to the living."
Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well (Lafeu), Act I., Sc. I.
" Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all
virtues." Bishop Hall. Christian Moderation. Introduction.
" Money is welcome tho' it be in a dirty clout, but 'tis far more accept-
able if it come in a clean handkerchief."
J. Howell. Familiar Letters, Bk. II., Let. XXV.
To Mr. P. W.
" Money, says the proverb, makes money."
Adam Smith. Wealth of Nations, Bk. I., Ch. IX.
" Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget
more, and so on."
B. Franklin. Letters. Advice to a Young
Tradesman.
" Money, th' only power
That all mankind fall down before."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. III., Can. II., line 1327.
" Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ;
They crown'd him long ago,
On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,
With a diadem of snow."
Byron. Manfred (Voice of Second Spirit), Act I., Sc. I.
" Moping melancholy,
And moon-struck madness."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. XL, line 485.
I70 MORDRE WOL OUT— MORE THINGS.
" Mordie wol out, that see we day by day."
Chaucer. The Nonius Preestes Talc, line 15,058.
" For murder, though it hath no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act II., Sc. II.
•• Yet heav'n will still have murder out at last."
Drayton. Ideas, II.
" 'Tis an old saying.
Murder will out."
Shakerley Marmion. The Antiquary (Lorenzo),
Act V.
" More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before ;
The setting sun and music at the close,
As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,
Writ in remembrance more than things long past."
Shakespeare. Richard II. {Gaunt), Act II., Sc. I.
" More childish valourous than manly wise."
Marlowe. Tamburlaine the Great, Pt. II. {Calyphas),
Act IV., Sc. I.
" More compassionate than woman,
Lordly more than man." Campbell. A Dream.
" (To me) more dear, congenial to my heart
One native charm than all the gloss of art."
Goldsmith. The Deserted Village, line 253.
" More haste than good speed makes many fare the worse."
Unknown. The Marriage of Wit and Science {Wit),
Act IV., Sc. I.
" More liberty begets desire of more ;
The hunger still increases with the store."
Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, Pt. I., line 519.
" (I am a man)
More sinned against than sinning."
Shakespeare. King Lear {Lear), Act III., Sc. II.
" To know that we have walked among mankind
More sinn'd against than sinning."
SoUTHEY. Written after visiting the Convent of
Arrabida.
" More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice
Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
For what are men better than sheep or goats
That nourish a blind life within the brain,
If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer,
Both for themselves and those who call them friend ?
For so the whole round earth is every way
Bound by gold chains about the feet of God."
Tennyson. Morte d^ Arthur.
MORE VACANT— MUSE OF THE MANY. 171
" More vacant pulpits would more converts make."
Drvdkn. The Hind ami the Panther, Pi. III., line 1S2.
" Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (Song), Act II., Sc. VII.
" Most men admire
Virtue, who follow not her lore."
Milton. Paradise Regained, Bk. I., line 482.
" Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. {King Henry), Act IV.,
Sc. IV.
" Most women have no characters at all,
Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear,
And best distinguish'd by black, brown, or fair."
Pope. Epistle II., To a Lady, 2.
" Most women have small waists the world throughout ;
But their desires are thousand miles about."
TouRNEUR. The Revenger'' s Tragedy [Supervacuo), Act V.
" Most wretched men
Are cradled into poverty by wrong :
They learn in suffering what they teach in song."
Shelley, jfulian and Maddalo.
" Most writers steal a good thing when they can,
And when 'tis safely got 'tis worth the winning.
The worst of t is we now and then detect 'em,
Before they ever dream that we suspect 'em."
Barry Cornwall. Diego de Montillo, IV.
" Mountains interposed
Make enemies of nations, who had else
Like kindred drops been mingled into one."
CowPER. The Task, The Timepiece, Bk. II., line 17.
" Much learning doth make thee mad."
Acts of the Apostles. Ch. XXVI., ver. 24.
" Much water goeth by the mill
That the miller knoweth not of."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. V.
" More water glideth by the mill
Than wots the miller of, and easy it is
Of a cut loaf to steal a shive."
Shakespeare. Titus Androniciis (Demetrius).
Act II., Sc. I.
" Murder's out of tune,
And sweet revenge grows harsh."
Shakespeare. Othello (Othello), Act V., Sc. II.
" Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms
Are now extended up from legs to arms." Byron. The Waltz.
172 MUSIC HATH CHARMS— MY MINDE TO ME.
" Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
I've read that things inanimate have moved,
And, as with living souls, have been inform'd
By magic numbers and persuasive sound."
CoNGREVE. The Mounting Bride (Almcria), Act T., Sc. I.
" Music's force can tame the furious beast ;
Can make the wolf or foaming boar restrain
His rage ; the lion drop his crested mane
Attentive to the song," Prior. Solomon, Bk. II.,
line 67.
" Music, moody food
Of us that trade in love."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra),
Act II., Sc. V.
" Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
And all of heaven we have below."
Addison. Song for St. Cecilia's Day, III.
" Music, the mosaic of the air." Marvell. Music's Empire, i-j.
" Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry: music with
out the idea is simply music : the idea without the music is prose
from its very deiiniteness." E. A. PoE. Letter to Mr. .
" Music's golden tongue." Keats. The Eve 0/ St. Agnes, St. 3.
" Music's the med'cine of the mind."
^ Logan (attributed to), Danish Ode.
j" My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
I And every tongue brings in a several tale,
I And every tale condemns me for a villain."
Shakespeare. Richard III. (King Richard), Act V., Sc. III.
" My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle."
Job. Ch. VII., ver. 6.
" My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise."
Burns. The Cotter's Saturday Night.
" My guide, philosopher, and friend."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. IV., line 390.
" My hair is grey, but not with years,
Nor grew it white
In a single night.
As men's have grown from sudden fears."
Bvron. The Prisoner of Chillon, I.
"My May of Life
Is Call'n into the sear, the yellow leaf."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act V., Sc. III.
" My minde to me a kingdom is ;
Such perfect joy therein I finde
As farre exceeds all earthly blisse
That God and nature hath assignede." Old Ballad.
" My mind to me an empire is.
While grace afifordeth health."
R. Southwell. Content and Rich.
MY MUSE— NATIONS, LIKE MEN. 173
" My muse, tho' homely in attire,
May touch the heart." Burns. Epistle to J. L k.
" My name is legion." St. Mark. Ch. V., vcr. g.
" My name is Norval : on the Grampian hills
My father feeds his flocks."
J. HoMB. Douglas (Stranger), Act II., Sc. I.
" My only books
Were women's looks,
And folly's all they've taught me."
T. Moore. Irish Melodies. The Time I've Lost in Wooitii^.
" My only love sprung from my only hate !
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy."
Shakespeare. Romeo and yuliet {Juliet), Act I., Sc. V.
" My poverty but not my will consents."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfuliet {Apothecary), Act V., Sc. I.
" My salad days,
When I was green in judgment."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra), Act I.,
Sc. V.
'• My soul is an enchanted boat.
Which like a sleeping swan doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing;
And thine doth like an angel sit
Beside the helm conducting it.
Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing."
Shelley. Prometheus Unbound (Asia), Act II., Sc. V.
" My soul is up in arms, ready to charge
And bear amidst the foe, with conquering troops."
Congreve. The Mourning Bride (Osmy7i) Act III., Sc. II.
" My soul's in arms and eager for the fray."
CoLLEY Gibber. Richard III., altered by. (Richard),
Act v., Sc. III.
" Myself have lim'd a bush for her."
Shakespeare. He}iry VI., Pt. II. (Suffolk), Act I., Sc. III.
" Naked piety
Dares more than fury well-appointed ; blood
Being never better sacrificed, than when
It flows to him that gave it."
Cartwright. the Ordinary (Meanwell), Act I., Sc. I.
" Narcissus is the glory of his race;
For who does nothing with a better grace ! "
Young. Love of Fame, Sat. IV., line 85.
" Nations, like men, have their infancy."
Lord Bolingbrqke. 0/ the Study 0/ History, Letter IV.
174 NArRALISTS OBSERVE— NATURE, THE HANDMAID.
" Nat'ralists observe a flea
Hath smallei fleas that on him prey,
And these hj.ve smaller still to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.''^ Swift. On Poetry.
" Great fleas have little fleas, and lesser fleas to bite 'em.
And these fleas have other fleas, and so ad itifinituin."
Anon.
" Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. II., Ch. III.
«' Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night :
God said, ' Let Newton be 1 ' and all was light."
Pope. Epitaph intended for Sir I. Newton.
" Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same."
Emerson. History.
«' Nature is fine in love : and where 'tis fine,
It sends some precious instance of itself
After the thing it loves."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Laertes), Act IV., Sc. V,
'* Nature is free to all ; and none were foes.
Till partial luxury began the strife." Hammond. Love Elegies, XL
" Nature is God's, Art is man's instrument."
Sir T. Overbury. A Wife, St. 8.
" Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always."
Lady M. Wortley Montagu. Letter to Miss Anne Wort ley.
8th Aug., 1709.
" Nature is the art of God." Sir Thos. Browne. Religio Medici.
"â– The course of Nature is the art of God."
Young. Night Thotights, Night IX., line 1269
" Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her."
Wordsworth. Poems of the Imagination, XXVI.
" Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses."
Locke. Essay on the Human Understanding,
Bk. II., Ch. I., § 15.
" Nature, so far as in her lies,
Imitates God." Tennyson. On a Mourner.
" Nature stamp'd us in a Heavenly mould."
Campbell. Pleasures of Hope, I.
" (So) Nature steals on all the works of man,
Sure conqueror she, reclaiming to herself
His perishable piles." Southey. The Ruined Cottage.
" Nature teaches beasts to know their friends."
Shakespeare. Coriolanus (Sicinius), Act II., Sc. I.
" Nature, the Handmaid of God Almighty."
Howell. Familiar Letters, Bk. II., Letter VI.
To Dr. T. P.
NATURE, TOO UNKIND—NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER. 175
•' Nature, too unkind,
That made no medicine for a troubled mind 1 "
Beaumont and Fletcher. Philaster (Philaster),
Act II., Sc. I.
"Nature which is the time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise,
hides Him from the foolish."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. III., Cli. VIII.
" Nature's first great title — mind." Croly. Pericles and Aspasia.
" Nature's licensed vagabond, the swallow."
Tennyson. Queen Mary, Act V., Sc. I.
" Nature's refuse, and the dregs of men,
Compose the black militia of the pen."
Young. To Mr. Pope, Ep. I.
" Nature's richest, sweetest store,
She made an Hoyland, and can make no more."
Chatterton. To Miss Hoyland.
Vide — " To see her is to love her."
" Nature's tears are reason's merriment."
Shakespeare. Romeo and yuliet [Friar Lawrence),
Act IV.. Sc. V.
" Nature's unchanging harmony." Shelley. Queen Mab, II.
" Naught shall make us rue.
If England to herself do rest but true."
Shakespeare. King jfohn (Bastard), Act V., Sc. VII.
" Near acquaintance doth diminish reverent fear."
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. III.
" Near Death he stands, that stands too near a crown."
S. Daniel. The Tragedy of Cleopatra (Rodon), Act IV.,
Sc. I.
" Who are so high above,
Are near to lightning, that are near to Jove."
S. Daniel. Tragedy ofPhilotas (Sostratas), Act IV.,
Sc.I.
" Necessity does the work of courage."
George Eliot. Romola, Chap. LXVII.
" Necessity invented stools,
Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs,
And luxury the accomplish'd sofa last."
Cowper. The Task, Bk. I., line 86.
" Necessity is the argument of tyrants ; it is the creed of slaves."
Earl of Chatham. Speech on the Indian Bill. Nov., 1783.
" Necessity is the mother of invention." Old Proverb.
" Necessity, mother of invention."
Wvcherley. Love in a Wood {Gripe), Act III.,
Sc. III.
176 NECESSITY NEVER MADE— NEVER MAKE A DEFENCE
" Necessity never made a good bargain."
B. Franklin. Poor Richard's Almanac.
" Necessity ! thou mother of the world ! "
Shelley. Queen Mab, VI.
" Needs must when the devil drives." Old Proverb.
"Alas, thou needs must go, the devil drives thee."
Quarles. Emblems, Bk. /., Em. XL, Ep. 11.
" I must needs go, whom the devil drives."
Ben Jonson. Tale of a Tub [Tiirfe), Act III.,
Sc. V.
" Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy."
R. Browning. La Saisiaz.
" Ne'er
Was flattery lost on poet's ear ;
A simple race ! they waste their toil
For the vain tribute of a smile."
Sir W. Scott. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Can. IV.,
XXXV.
" Neither a borrower nor a lender be :
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Polonius), Act I., Sc. III.
" Neode hap no lawe."
Langland. Piers the Plowman, Passus XXIII. , line 10.
" Nether fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. X.
" Neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring."
Dryden. Epilogtie VIII., To the Duke of Guise.
" Never anger made good guard for itself."
Shakespeare. Anto7iy and Cleopatra {Macenas), Act IV., Sc. I.
" (For) never anything can be amiss,
When simpleness and duty tender it."
Shakespeare. Midsummer NighVs Dream [Theseus),
Act v., Sc. I.
" Never borrow a horse you don't know of a friend ! "
T. I.ngoldsby. The Smuggler's Leap. Moral.
" Never durst poet touch a pen to write.
Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs."
Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost [Biron), Act IV.,
Sc. III.
" Never gallop Pegasus to death."
Pope. To BoUngbroke, Bk. I., Ep. I., 14.
" Never less alone than when alone." Rogers. Human Life.
" Never make a defence or apology before you be accused."
Charles I. Letter to Lord Wentworth.
NEVER PUT OFF— NO BEAST SO FIERCE. 17}
' Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day."
LoKU Chesterfield. Letter to his Son. ^th Feb., 1750.
•• My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to
day. Procrastination is the thief of time."
C. Dickens. David Copperfield [Mr. Micawber),
Ch. XII.
Never the lotus closes, never the wild-fowl wake,
But a soul goes out on the East wind that died for England's sake —
Man or woman or suckling, mother or bride or maid —
Because on the bones of the English the English flag is stayed."
RuDYARD Kipling. The English Flag.
Never yet was shape so dread,
But fancy, thus in darkness thrown,
And by such sounds of horror fed.
Could frame more dreadful of her own."
T. Moore. Lalla Rookh, VII.
New honours, come upon him
Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould,
But with the aid of use."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Banquo), Act I., Sc. III.
New-made honour doth forget men's names."
Shakespeare. King John [Bastard), Act I., Sc. I.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any
other reason, but because they are not already common."
Locke. Essay on the Human Understanding,
Dedicatory Epistle.
News, the manna of a day." Green. The Spleen, line 169.
' Nice customs court'sy to great kings."
Shakespeare. Henry V. {King Henry), Act V., Sc. II.
Nicknames and whippings, when they are once laid on, no one has
discovered how to take off."
Landor. Imaginary Conversations, Peter Leopold and
President Du Paty (Du Paty).
Night is Love's hollyday."
Phineas Fletcher. Brittaiti's Ida, Can. II., St. 3.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Act III., Sc. V.
Nipt in the bud."
Herbert. The Temple. The Church. Employment.
No action, whether foul or fair,
Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere
A record, written by fmgers ghostly.
As a blessing or a curse." Longfellow. The Golden Legend, II.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pit/."
Shakespeare. Richard III. {Ladj Anne), Act I., Sc. II.
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178 NO BEAUTY'S LIKE— NO MAN CAN BE.
" No beauty's like the beauty of the mind."
Joshua Cooke (attributed to). How a Man may choose a Good
Wife from a Bad (Young Arthur), Act V., Sc. III.
" No bolts for the dead."
Shakespeare. CyvibcUne (Postlnimtis), Act V., Sc. IV.
" No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can
do with a twin'd thread."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. III., Sec. II.,
Mem. I., Subs. II.
" No crime's so great as daring to excel."
Churchill. Epistle to Hogarth, line 52.
" No fiend's so cruel as a reas'ning brute."
PoMFRET. Cruelty and Lust, line 374.
" No foole to the old foole."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. II.
" No furniture so charming as books, even if you never open them or
read a single word." Sydney Smith. Memoirs, Chap. IX.
" No great men are original." Emerson. Shakespeare.
" No greater shame to man than inhumanitie."
Spenser. Faerie Qucene, Bk. VI., Can. I., St. 26.
" No Indian prince has to his palace
More followers than a thief to the gallows."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. II., Can. I., line 273.
" No is no negative in a woman's mouth."
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. III.
" No joy so great but runneth to an end.
No hap so hard but may in fine amend."
R. Southwell. Times go by Turns.
" No labour, no bread,
No host, we be dead."
TussER. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, Preface,
Ch. VI.
" No life that breathes with human breath
Has ever truly longed for death." Tennyson. The Two Voices.
" No longer by implicit faith we err.
Whilst every man's his own interpreter."
Denham. Progress of Human Learning, line 148.
" No love so true as love that dies untold."
0. W. Holmes. The Mysterious Illness.
" No man at one time can be wise and love."
Herrick. Hesperides, 230.
" No man can be wise on an empty stomach."
George Eliot. Adam Bede {Bartle Massey), Bk. X., Ch. II.
NO MAN CAN BE— NO POST THE MAN. 179
" No man can be wiser than destiny."
Tennyson. A Dream of Fair Women.
" No man can serve two masters." St. Matthew. Ch. VI., ver. 24.
" No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day
is Doomsday." Emerson. Work and Days.
" No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures."
BoswELL. Life of yohnson {Dr. yolmson), Fitzgerald's Ed.,
Vol. III., p. 94.
" No man is born unto himself alone ;
Who lives unto himself, he lives to none."
QuARLES. History of Queen Esther, Sec I., Med. I.
" No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted."
George Eliot. Romola [Pictro Cennini), Bk. I., Ch. IX.
" No man knows what the wife of his bosom is— no man knows what a
ministering angel she is — until he has gone with her through the
fiery trials of this world."
Washington Irving. Sketch Book, The Wife.
" No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. VIII.
" No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his
horns." Shakespeare. The Merry Wives of Windsor {Page),
Act v., Sc. II.
" No man
Till thirty, should perceive there's a plain woman."
Byron. Don yuan. Can. XIII., St. 3.
" No man's a faithful judge in his own cause."
Massinger. The Bashful Lover {Alonzo), Act II., Sc. VII.
" No man's knowledge, here, can go beyond his experience."
Locke. Essay on the Human Understanding, Bk. II.,
Ch. I., % 19.
" (For sure) no minutes bring us more content,
Than those in pleasing useful studies spent."
Pomfret. The Choice, line 31.
" (They are) no more like.
Than chalk is to cheese."
Unknown. The Marriage of true Wit and Science {Science),
Act v., Sc. I.
" No nightingale delighteth to prolong
Her low preamble all alone." Tennyson. The Palace of Art.
" No one is so accursed by fate,
None so utterly desolate,
But some heart, though unknown,
Responds unto his own." Longfellow. Endymion.
" No post the man
Ennobles ; — man the post 1 "
BuLWER Lytton. King Arthur, Bk. XII., XVIII.
i8o NO PROFIT GROWS— NOBODY CAN DENY.
" No profit grows, where is no pleasure ta'en ;
In brief, sir, study what you most affect."
Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew {Tranio), Act I., Sc. I.
" No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to admire
the qualities of others."
BoswELL. Life of Johnson, Fitsgcrdld's Ed., Vol. II., p. 22.
" No rock so hard but that a little wave
May beat admission in a thousand years."
Tennyson. The Princess.
" No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. III., XXII.
" No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater
part of the members are poor and miserable."
Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations, Bk. I., Ch. VIII.
" (Yet stab at thee who will,)
No stab the soul can kill." Sir John Davis. The Soul's Errand.
This is generally attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh ; but in
Davison's Rhapsody it is definitely attributed to Sir
jfohn Davis.
" No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close ;
As the sun never turns on her God when he sets,
The same look which she turn'd when he rose."
T. MooRE. Irish Melodies, Believe me if all those endearing
young charms.
" No wealth is like a quiet mind."
Old Ballad. My Mind a Kingdom is.
" No woman would ever marry if she had not the chance of mortality
for a release."
Gay. The Beggar's Opera (Lockit), Act II., Sc. II.
" No wound, which warlike hand of enemy
Inflicts with dint of sword, so sore doth light
As doth the poysnous sting, which infamy
Infixeth in the name of noble wight."
Spenser. Faerie Queene, Bk. VI., Can, VI., St. i.
" No vizor does become black villainy
So well as soft and tender flattery."
Shakespeare. Pericles (Goioer), Act IV., Sc. IV.
" (We shift and bedeck and bedrape us,
Thou art) noble and nude and antique." Swinburne. Dolores.
" Nobody can deny but that religion is a comfort to the distressed, a
cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked."
Lady M. Wortley Montagu. Letter to the Countess of
Bute, 2irdjune, 1754.
NONE ARE COMPLETELY— NOR FEED, FOR POMP. i8i
" None are completely wretched but the great.
Superior woes, superior stations bring ;
A peasant sleeps, while cares awake a king."
Broome. Epistle to Mr. Fenton.
" None are fair but who are kind."
Thomas Stanley. The Deposition.
" None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them ;
such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the
purpose of circulation." Colton. Lacon, XL.
" None but a fool is always right ; and his right is the most unreasonable
wrong." J. C. Hare. Guesses at Truth, Vol. II., p. 214.
" None but an author knows an author's cares,
Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears."
CowPER. The Progress of Error.
" None but beggars live at ease."
A. W. Song in Praise of a Beggar's Life (from
Davison's Rhapsody).
" None but the base in baseness do delight."
Drayton. Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandy.
" None but the brave deserves the fair."
Dryden. Alexander's Feast.
" None but those whose courage is unquestionable can afford to be
effeminate."
BuLWER Lytton. Pelham, Chap. XLIV., Maxim V.
" None can speak of a wound with skill, if he hath not a wound felt."
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. I. Domo and
Zelmane [Zelmane).
" He jests at scars, that never felt a wound."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet [Romeo), Act II.,
Sc. II.
" None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair ;
But Love can hope, where Reason would despair."
Lyttelton. Epigram.
" Nor doubt that golden chords
Of good works, mingling with the visions, raise
The soul to purer worlds."
Wordsworth. Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Pt. I., XVIII.
" Nor florid prose, nor honeyed lines of rhyme.
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. I., III.
" Nor feed, for pomp, an idle train.
While want unpitied pines in vain."
Langhorne. Hymn to Humanity, St. 4.
i82 NOR STONY TOWER— NOT TO KNOW ME.
" Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit ;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself."
Shakespeare, jfuliiis Ccesar {Cassiiis), Act I., Sc. III.
" Not a vanity is given in vain."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. II., line 290.
" Not a worm is cloven in vain ;
That not a moth with vain desire
Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire.
Or but subserves another's gain."
Tennyson. In Mcmoriam, LIV.
" Not all the water in the rough-rude sea
Can wash the balm from an anointed King ;
The breath of worldly men cannot depose
The deputy elected by the Lord."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (King Richard),
Act III., Sc. II.
" Not dead, but gone before." Rogers. Human Life.
" The buried are not lost, but gone before."
E. Elliott. The Excursion.
" Dear is the spot where Christians sleep.
And sweet the strain which angels pour ;
Oh, why should we in anguish weep ?
They are not lost, but gone before."
Anon. From Smith's Edinboro' Harmony,
1829.
" Not for mortal tear
Doth Nature deviate from her calm career :
Nor is the Earth less laughing or less fair.
Though breaking hearts her gladness may not share."
F. Hemans. The Abcncerrage, Can. I., I.
" Not oaks alone are trees, nor roses flowers ;
Much humble wealth makes rich this world of ours."
Leigh Hunt. On PomfreVs Choice.
" Not once or twice in our rough island story.
The path of duty is the way to glory."
Tennyson. Ode on the Death of the Duke of
Wellington.
" Not our logical, mensurative faculty, but our imaginative one is kinf
over us." Carlyle. Sartor Rcsarttis, Bk. III., Ch. III.
" Not so good to borrow, as be able to lend."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. X.
" Not to know me argues yourselves unknown."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. IV., line 83.
" Not to know me
Argues thyself unknowing of thyself."
SoMERViLLE. Hobbinol, Can. III., line 378.
NOT TO PUT— NOTHING IS LOST. 183
" Not to put too fine a point upon it."
C. Dickens. Bleak House {Mr. Sriagsby), Chap. XI.
" Not to understand a treasure's worth
Till time has stol'n away the slighted good,
Is cause of half the poverty we feel,
And makes the world the wilderness it is."
CowPER. The Task, Bk. VI., line 50.
" Not well understood, as good not known ? "
Milton. Paradise Regained, Bk. J., lifie 437.
" Not what we give, but what we share, —
For the gift without the giver is bare."
Lowell. Vision of Sir Launfiil, Part II., VIII.
" Nothing can exceed the vanity of our existence but the folly of oui
pursuits." Goldsmith. The Good-Nafiired Man (Honcywood),
Act I., Sc. I.
" Nothing can seem foul to those that win."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (King Henry), Act V.,
Sc. I.
" Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal."
Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew (Grntnio),
Act I., Sc. II.
" Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens [ist Se7iator), Act III.,
Sc. V.
" (For) nothing goes for sense or light,
That will not with old rules jump right."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. I., Can. III., line 135.
" Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it ; he died
As one that had been studied in his death.
To throw away the dearest thing he owed.
As 'twere a careless trifle."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Malcolm), Act I., Sc. IV.
" Nothing in this world is single ;
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle." Shelley. Love'' s Philosophy
" Nothing is achieved before it be thoroughly attempted."
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. II.
" Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature."
Emerson. Resources.
" Nothing is impossible to a willing heart."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. IV.
" Nothing is lost on him who sees
With an eye that feeling gave ; —
For him there's a story in every breeze,
And a picture in every wave."
T. Moore. Boat Glee. Song from M. P., or the Blue
Stocking.
i84 NOTHING IS SO GOOD— NOW IS THE WINTER.
" Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
George Eliot. Silas Marner {Nancy), Chap. XVIII.
" Nothing is so rash as fear ; and the counsels of pusillanimity very
rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils
from which they would fly."
Burke. Letters on the Regicide Peace, I.
" Nothing is thought rare
Which is not new and follow'd ; yet we know
That what was worn some twenty years ago
Comes into grace again."
J. Fletcher. The Noble Gentleman. Prologue.
" Nothing lovelier can be found
In woman, than to study household good,
And good works in her husband to promote."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. IX., line 232.
" Nothing rocks love asleep but death."
J. Fletcher. The Pilgrim (Pedro), Act V., Sc. IV.
" Nothing so good, but it may be abused."
Burton. Ajiatomy of Melancholy, Part I., Sec. II.,
Mem. II., Subs. VI.
" Nothing speaks our griefe so well
As to speak nothing."
Crashaw. Upon the Death of a Gentleman, line zj.
" Nothing 1 thou elder brother e'en to shade."
Rochester. Poem on Nothing.
" Nothing was born ;
Nothing will die ;
All things will change." Tennyson. Nothing will Die.
" Nothing walks with aimless feet ;
That not one life shall be destroy'd,
Or cast as rubbish to the void,
When God hath made the pile complete.''
Tennyson, In Memoriam, LIV.
" Nothing wins a man sooner than a good turn."
Burton. Anatomy 0/ Melancholy, Part III., Sec. I.,
Mem. II., Stibs. I.
" Nought so stockish, hard and full of rage,
But music for the time doth change his nature."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Lorenzo),
Act v., Sc. I.
" Nought's had, all's spent,
Where our desire is got without content:
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy.
Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Act III., Sc. II.
" Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York."
Shakespeare. Richard III. (Gloster), Act I., Sc. I.
NOW MORN—0 FATHER ABRAHAM I 185
" Now morn her rosy steps in th' Eastern clime
Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. V. line 1.
" Now up, now down, as boket in a well."
Chaucek. The Knightc's Tale, line 1535.
" Like so many buckets in a well."
Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy.
" Thus we're wound up alternately,
Like buckets in a well."
â– Haynes Bayly. My Husband Means Extremely
Well, IV.
*« Youth is subject to sudden fits of despondency. Its hopes
go up and down like a bucket in a draw-well."
J. M. Barrib. Better Dead, Ch. III.
" Caledonia ! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child I
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,
Land of the mountain and the flood,
Land of my sires ! what mortal hand
Can e'er untie the filial band,
That knits me to thy rugged strand 1 ''
Sir W. Scott. The Lay of the Last Minstrel,
Can. VI., II.
" O Charity, divinely wise,
Thou meek-ey'd Daughter of the Skies I '
Hannah More. Ode to Charity.
" O cursed lust of gold ! when for thy sake
The fool throws up his interest in both worlds ;
First starved in this, then damned in that to come."
Blair. The Grave, line 347.
â– ' O Death in Life, the days that are no more."
Tennyson. The Princess, IV. " Tears, Idle Tears,'"
last line.
" O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend." Burns. Despondency.
" O England ! modelled to thy inward greatness,
Like little body with a mighty heart."
Shakespeare. Henry V. (Chorus), Act /., Sc. II.
" O faithless world, and thy most faithless part,
A woman's Heart ;
The true Shop of variety, where sits
Nothing but fits
And fevers of desire, and pangs of love,
Which toys remove ! "
Sir Henry Wotton. A Poem Written in his Youth
" O father Abraham ! what these Christians are
Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect
The thoughts of others ! "
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Shylock),
Act I., Sc. III.
i86 O FOR A HORSE— O ME I FOR WHY.
" O for a horse with wings 1 "
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (Imogen), Act III., Sc. II.
" O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still I "
Tennyson. Break, Break, Break !
"O God, that men should put an enemy into their mouths to steal
away their brains."
Shakespeare. Othello {Caisio), Act II., Sc. III.
' O hateful error, melancholy's child I
Why dost thou shew to the apt thoughts of men
The things that are not ? O error, soon conceiv'd,
Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,
But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee."
Shakespeare, ytilitis Casar (Messala).
Act v., Sc. III.
" O heavy burden of a doubtful! minde 1 "
QuARLES. A Feast for Worms, Sec. 2.
" O human love ! thou spirit givfen
On earth of all we hope in Heaven." E. A. Poe. Tamerlane.
"01 see thee old and formal, fitted to thy petty part,
With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart."
Tennyson. Locksley Hall.
" judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason ! "
Shakespeare. Julius Ccesar {Antony), Act III., Sc. II.
** O, let him pass I he hates him
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer."
Shakespeare. King Lear [Kent), Act V., Sc. III.
" O let my looks be then my eloquence
And dumb presages of my speaking breast."
Shakespeare. Sonnet, XXIII.
"O life 1 how pleasant in thy morning." Burns. To J. S.
•• O man 1 while in thy early years,
How prodigal of time !
Mis-spending all thy precious hoars,
Thy glorious, youthful prime 1 " Burns. Despondency.
" O man,
Who never art so near to crime and shame,
As when thou hast achieved some deed of name."
J. H. Newman. The Dream of Gerontius.
" O me 1 for why is all around us here
As if some lesser God had made the world,
But had not force to shape it as he would ? "
Tennyson. The Passing of Arthur.
O MICKLE IS—0 RUNNING STREAM. 187
" O mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities :
For nought so vile that on the eartli cloth live,
But to the earth some special good doth give ;
Nor ought so good, but strain'd from that fair use.
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfnliet (Friar Lawrence), Act II.,
Sc. III.
" O, my luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June." Burns. A red, red rose.
" my prophetic soul 1 mine uncle ? "
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Hamlet), Act I., Sc. V.
" O opportunity, thy guilt is great 1
'Tis thou that execut'st the traitor's treason ;
Thou sett'st the wolf where he the lamb may get ;
Whoever plots the sin, thou point'st the season ;
'Tis thou that spurn'st at right, at law, at reason ;
And in thy shady cell, where none may spy him
Sits Sin, to seize the souls that wander by him."
Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece, 126.
" O our lives' sweetness !
That with the pain of death we'd hourly die
Rather than die at once."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Edgar), Act V., Sc. III.
" O pang all pangs above.
Is kindness counterfeiting absent Love."
Coleridge. The pang more sharp than all.
" O powerful love ! that in some respects, makes a beast a man ; in some
other, a man a beast."
Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Wiyidsor (FalstOj^),
Act v., Sc. V.
" O purblind race of miserable men,
How many among us at this very hour
Do forge a lifelong trouble for ourselves,
By taking true for false, or false for true I "
Tennyson Geraint and Enid.
" O, rank is good, and gold is fair,
And high and low mate ill ;
But love has never known a law
Beyond its own sweet will." Whittier. Amy Wcntworth.
" O Romeo, Romeo 1 wherefore art thou Romeo ?
Deny thy father, and refuse thy name :
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Act II., Sc. II.
" O running stream of sparkling joy
To be a soaring human boy 1 "
C. Dickens. Bleak House (Chadband), Ch. XIX.
i88 O SHALL THE BRAGGARD—0 THE DIVINITY.
" O shall the braggart shout
For some blind glimpse of freedom, work itself
Thro' madness, hated by the wise, to law,
System and empire ? " Tennyson. Love and Duty.
" small beginnings, ye are great and strong,
Based on a faithful heart and weariless brain I
Ye build the future fair, ye conquer wrong.
Ye earn the crown, and wear it not in vain."
Lowell. To W. L. Garrison.
" O summer friendship,
Whose flattering leaves, that shadow'd us in
Our prosperity, with the least gust drop off
In th' autumn of adversity I Massinger. Maid of Honour.
" O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfuliet (jfuliet), Act II., Sc. II.
" O sweetness of content 1 seraphic joy I
Which nothing wants, and nothing can dsstroy."
Granville. To Mrs. Higgins.
" O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek 1 "
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfuli/jt (Romeo), Act II., Sc. II.
" O that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens (Apemantus), Act /., Sc. II.
" O that the vain remorse which must chastise
Crimes done, had but as loud a voice to warn,
As its keen sting is mortal to avenge."
Shelley. The Cenex (Giacomo), Act V., Sc. I.
" O that this too too-solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, resolve itself into a dew !
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter I "
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I., Sc. II.
" O the cowardice of a guilty conscience."
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. II.
" O the curst fate of all conspiracies !
They move on many springs ; if one but fail.
The restive machine stops."
Dryden. Don Sebastian (Bcnducar), Act IV., Sc. I.
" O the divinity of being rich 1 "
Randolph. Hey for Honesty (Blepsidemus), Act II., Sc. VII.
O THEN, I SEB—0 WHAT A HEAVEN. 189
•'O then, I see Queen Mab hath been with jou,
She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep :
Her waggon-spokes made of long spinner's legs;
The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ;
The traces, of the smallest spider's web ;
The collars, of the moonshine's wat'ry beams ;
Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash of film :
Her waggoner, a small, grey-coated gnat.
Not half so big as a round little worm
Pricked from the finger of a maid ;
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut.
Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub,
Time out of mind the fairies' coachmakers."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfuliet (Merctitto), Act I., Sc. IV.
" O there be players that I have seen play — and heard others praise,
and that highly — not to speak it profanely, that neither having
the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor
man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of
Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well,
they imitated humanity so abominably."
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Hamlet), Act III., Sc. II,
" O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by,
let us call thee devil."
Shakespeare. Othello {Cassia), Act II., Sc. III.
" O ! 'tis excellent
To have a giant's strength ; but tyrannous
To use it like a giant."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Isabella), Act II., Sc. II.
" wad some pow'r the giftie gie us
To see ourselves as others see us 1
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion :
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion." Burns. To a Louse.
" O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! "
Shakespeare. Julius Ccesar {Antony), Act III., Sc. II.
" O what a glory doth this world put on
For him who with a fervent heart, goes forth
Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks
On duties well performed, and days well spent 1 "
Longfellow. Autumn.
" O what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! "
Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice {Antonio), Act I., Sc. III.
" O what a heaven is love ! O what a hell ! "
MiDDLETON AND Dekker. The Honcst Whore, Pt. I. (Duke)
Act I., Sc. I.
igo O WHAT A MIRACLE— OBEDIENCE IS.
" O what a miracle to man is man."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night I., line 85.
" O what a thing is man ! the wisest heart
A fool ! a fool that laughs at its own folly,
Yet still a fool ! " Coleridge. Remorse, Act II., Sc. II.
" O what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year."
Shakespeare. The Meny Wives of Windsor (Anne Page),
Act III., Sc. IV.
" O what men dare do I what men may do ! what men daily do, not
knowing what they do ! "
Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothing (Clatidio), Act IV.,
Sc.I.
" O what's a table richly spread.
Without a woman at its head I "
Warton. The Progress of Discontent.
" O wherefore should ill ever flow from ill,
And pain still keener pain for ever breed ? "
Shelley. The Revolt of Islam, Can. V., St. 11.
" O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,"
Shelley. Ode to the West Wind, I.
" O woman 1 in our hours of ease.
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made ;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou ! "
Sir W. Scott. Marmion, Can. VI., XXX.
" O woman 1 lovely woman ! Nature made thee
To temper man ; we had been brutes without you.
Angels were painted fair to look like you."
Otway. Venice Preserved {jfajfficr). Act I., Sc. I.
" O wretched impotence of human mind 1
We, erring, still excuse for error find,
And darkling grope, not knowing we are blind."
Prior. Solomon, Bk. I., line yzi.
" O ye powers
That give heav'n countless eyes to view men's acts."
Shakespeare. Pericles (Pericles), Act I., Sc. I.
" Oaths are but words, and words but wind."
Butler. Iludibras, Pi. II., Can. II., line 107.
" Obedience is the bond of rule." Xennyson. Morte d' Arthur.
" Obedience is the courtesy due to kings."
Tennyson. Launcelot and Elaine.
OCCASIO.'^'S BALD^OF HARMES. 191
Occasion's bald behind." Old Proverb.
Massinger. The Guardian {Durazzo),
Act IV., Sc. I.
" Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find ;
Occasion, once past by, is bald behind."
CovvLEV. Pyramus and Tliisbe, XV.
Vide — " Time wears all,'' etc.
O'er the glad waters of the dark-blue sea,
Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free."
Byron. The Corsair, Can. I., I.
Of all affliction taught a lover yet,
'Tis sure the hardest science to forget."
Pope. Eloisa to Abelard, line 189.
" Of all beasts the man-beast is the worst.
To others, and himself, the crudest foe." R. Baxter. Hypocrisy.
" Of all the paths lead to a woman's love,
Pity's the straightest."
Beaumont and Fletcher. The Knight of Malta {Mount
Fcrrat), Act I., Sc. I.
Vide- — "Pity is sworn,"
Of all the plagues with which the world is curst,
Of ev'ry ill, a woman is the worst."
Granville. The British Enchantress {Amadis), Act II., Sc. I.
(For) of Fortune's sharp adversite
The worste kinde of infortune is this,—
A man to have been in prosperite,
And it remember when it passed is."
Chaucer. Troilus and Cresseide, Boke III., line 1625.
" This is truth the poet* sings.
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier
things." Tennyson. Lockslcy Hall.
*Dante. Inferno, Can. V., line 121.
Of harmes two the lesse is for to chese."
Chaucer. Troiltis and Cresseide, Boke II,, line 470.
" Of two ils chose the least."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. V.
•' In needful dangers ever chuse the least."
Chapman. All Fooles (Gostanzo), Act I., Sc. I,
•« That of two evils I have chose the least."
Prior. To Mr, Harhy.
•• 'Twas always held, and ever will,
By sage mankind, discreeter
T' anticipate a lesser ill
Than undergo a greater."
Shenstone. Stanzas to the Memory of a Lady.
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192 OF MAKING— OH, BED !
" Of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weari-
ness of the flesh." Ecclesiastes. Ch. XII., ver. 12.
" Of mirth to make a trade may be a crime,
But tired sprites for mirth must have a time."
Southwell. To the Reader.
" Of other tyrants short the strife,
But Indolence is King for life." Hannah More. Florio, Pt. I.
" Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises ; and oft it hits,
Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits."
Shakespeare. AlVs Well that Ends Well [Helena),
Act II., Sc. I.
" Oft has good nature been the fool's defence,
And honest meaning gilded want of sense."
Shenstone. Ode to a Lady.
" Oft have I wonder'd that on Irish ground
No poisonous reptiles ever 3'et were found :
Reveal'd the secret stands of Nature's work ;
She saved her venom to create a Burke."
Warren Hastings. Epigram on Burke.
" Oft in savage breasts the buried seeds
Of brooding virtue live, and Freedom's fairest deeds 1 "
Warton. Ode on H. M. Birthday, 4th jfune, 1788.
" Oft in the stilly night.
Ere Slumber's chain hath bound me,
Fond memory brings the light
Of other days around me."
T. Moore. Oft in the Stilly Night.
" Often change doth please a woman's mind."
Sir T. Wyatt. The Deserted Lover.
" Often the cockloft id empty in those which nature hath built stories
high."
Fuller. Holy and Profane States, Bk. V., Ch. XVIII.
" Often to our comfort, shall we find
The sharded beetle is a safer hold
Than is the full-wing'd eagle."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline [Bellarius), Act III., Sc. III.
" Oftentimes, to win us to our harm.
The instruments of darkness tell us truths ;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Banquo), Act I., Sc. III.
" Oh, bed ! bed ! bed ! delicious bed !
That heaven upon earth to the weary head,
When lofty or low its condition ! "
T. Hood, Miss Kilmatisegg.
OH! BETTER, THEN— OH 1 NATURE'S NOBLEST. 193
" Oh ! better, then, to die, and give
The grave its kindred dust,
Than Hve to see Time's bitter change
In those we love and trust," Eliza Cook. Timers Changes.
" Oh Day, if I squander a wavelet of thee,
A mite of my twelve-hours' treasure."
R. Browning. Pippa Passes.
" Oh death, where is thy victory ? oh death, where is thy sting ? "
St. Paul. Ep. to the Corinthians, I., Ch. XV., vcr. 55.
*' O grave ! where is thy victory ?
O death 1 where is thy sting ? "
Pope. The Dying Christian to his Soul.
" Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat ;
But there is neither East nor West, Border nor Breed nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends
of the earth I "
RuDYARD Kipling. The Ballad 0/ East and West.
" Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour,
I've seen my fondest hopes decay;
I never loved a tree or flower.
But 'twas the first to fade away.
" I never loved a dear gazelle,
To glad me with its soft black eye,
But when it came to know me well.
And love me, it was sure to die ! " T. Moore. Lalla Rookh, V.
" Oh for a forty parson power. " Bvron. Don yuan, Can. X., St. 2^^.
" Oh God ! it is a fearful thing
To see the human soul take wing
In any shape, in any mood." Byron. The Prisoner of Chillon, VIII.
" Oh God 1 that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap ! " T. Hood. The Song of the Shirt.
•' Oh 1 how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring! "
CoLLEY Gibber. The Double Gallant (Sir Solomon),
Act I., Sc. II.
" Oh how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun.
And, by-and-by, a cloud takes all away 1 "
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona (Protheus), Act I.,
Sc. III.
" Oh ! nature's noblest gift — my gray goose quill 1
Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,
Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen,
That mighty instrument of little men! "
Byron. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,
13
11,4 OH, NO! WE NEVER— OIL TO THE FIRE.
" Oh, no I we never mention her." Haynes Bayly.
" Oh talk not to me of a name great in story;
The days of our youth are the days of our glory."
Byron. Stanzas written on the road between Florence
and Pisa, I.
•' Oh that eternal want of pence,
Which vexes public men."
Tennyson. Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue.
" Oh ! . . . that mine adversary had written a book."
Job. Ch. XXXI., ver. 35 {old version).
The new version runs : —
'• And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath
written ! "
" Oh 1 that the Desert were my dwelling-place.
With one fair spirit for my minister,
That I might all forget the human race,
And, hating no one, love but only her ! "
Byron. Childe Harold., Can. IV., CLXXVII.
" Oh : there is joy above the name of pleasure,
Deep self-possession, an intense repose."
Coleridge. The Night Scene.
"Oh!
Thou then would'st make mine enemy my judge ! "
Shelley. Prometheus Unbound (jftipiter), Act III., Sc. I.
" Oh, 'tis cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches."
Fuller. Holy and Profane States : Holy State : Of Jesting.
" Oh I too convincing — dangerously dear —
In woman's eye the unanswerable tear !
That weapon of her weakness she can wield,
To save, subdue — at once her spear and shield '-
Avoid it — virtue ebbs and wisdom errs,
Too fondly gazing on that grief of hers i
What lost a world and bade a hero fly ?
The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye."
Byron. The Corsair, Can. IT., XV.
" Oh ! what a crowded world one moment may contain ! "
F. Hemans. The Last Constantine, LIX.
" Oh, woman ! woman ! thou should'st have few sins
Of thine own to answer for 1 Thou art the author
Of such a book of follies in a man.
That it would need the tears of all the angels
To blot the record out I "
BuLVVER Lytton. The Lady of Lyons (Damas), Act V., Sc. I.
" Oil and water — woman and a secret —
Are hostile properties."
BuLWER Lytton. Richelieu (Baradas), Act I., Sc. i.
" Oil to the fire." Cowley. The Incurable, IV.
OLD AGE— ONE BRAVE DEED. 195
" Old age, a second child, by nature curst
With more and ^^reater evils than the first,
Weak, sickly, lull of pains, in ev'ry breath;
Railing at life, and yet afraid of death."
Churchill. Gotham, Bk. I., line 215.
" Old fashions please me best , I am not so nice ^^r
To change true rules for odd inventions," ^
Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew (Bianco), Act III.,
Sc.I.
" Old friends are best." J. Selden. Table Talk. Friends.
•• I love everything that's old : old friends, old times, old
manners, old books, old wine."
Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer (Hardcastle),
Act I., Sc. I.
" Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they're ended."
CoLLEY Gibber. Prologue to the Double Gallant.
"Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Richard), Act I., Sc. I.
" Old love is little worth when new is more prefer'd."
Spenser. Faerie Queene, Bk. VI., Can. IX., St. 40.
" Old men are testy, and will have their way."
Shelley. The Cenci (Orsino), Act I., Sc. II.
" Old Time the clock setter, that bald sexton time."
Shakespeare. King John (Bastard), Act III., Sc. I.
" On adamant our wrongs we all engrave,
But write our benefits upon the wave."
Kino. The Art of Love, line 971.
" On ev'ry feature,
She's wrote, the man." Burns. To y. S.
" On every thorn delightful wisdom grows ;
In every rill a sweet instruction flows." Yot;NG. Sat. I.,line 2/^g.
" On horror's head horrors accumulate."
Shakespeare. Othello (Othello), Act III., Sc. III.
" Once his soul of truth is gone,
Love's sweet life is o'er."
T. Moore. Fare Thee Well, Thou Lovely One.
'* Once more who would not be a boy ? "
BvRON. Childe Harold, Can. II., XXIII.
" Once to distrust is never to deserve."
Savage. Th^ Volunteer Laureate, No. 5.
" One bosom to recline upon.
One heart to be his only one,
Are quite enough for love ! " T. MooRB. To Fanny.
" One brave deed makes no hero." Whittier. The Hero.
196 ONE BREAST— ONE FIRE BURNS.
" One breast laid open were a school
Which would unteach mankind the best to shine or rule."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. III., XLIII.
" One Caesar lives ; a thousand are forgot."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night VIII., line 201.
" One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing."
Sir E. Arnold. Adziima {Sakamune), Act II., Sc. V.
" One can't tear out one's heart,
And show it, how sincere a thing it is ! "
R. Browning. Strafford, Act I., Sc. II.
" One casual truth supports a thousand lying rhymes."
Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, Pt. III., line 521.
" One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name."
Sir W. Scott. Old Mortality, Ch. XXVI.
" One cut from ven'son to the heart can speak
Stronger than ten quotations from the Greek ;
One fat Sir Loin possesses more sublime
Than all the airy castles built by rhyme."
Peter Pindar. Bozzy and Piozzi, Pt. II. {Sir John),
" One dram of joy must have a pound of care."
Shakespeare [attributed to). Locrine (Locrine), Act IV.,
Sc.I.
" One drop of blood, drawn from thy country's bosom,
Should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. [Joan), Act III., Sc. III.
" One ear it heard, at the other out it went."
Chaucer. Troilus and Cresseide, Bk. IV., line 435.
" One fire burns out another's burning.
One pain is lessened by another's anguish ;
Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning ;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish :
Take thou some new infection to thy eye.
And the rank poison of the old will die."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfuliet (Benvolio), Act I., Sc. II.
•' Thus do extremest ills a joy possess,
And one woe makes another woe seem less."
Drayton. England's Heroical Epistles. Queen
Isabella to Mortimer.
" And no bond
In closer union knits two human hearts
Than fellowship in grief."
Southey. yoan of Arc, Bk. I., line 346.
" The sad relief
That misery loves — the fellowship of grief."
J. Montgomery. The West Indies, Pt. III.
ONE FOUL SENTENCE— ONE MORSEL'S. 197
" One foul sentence, doth more hurt, than many foul examples."
Bacon. Essay LVI., Of yudicatuie.
" One good deed dying tongueless
Slaughters a thousand waitin<j upon that.
Our praises are our wages : you may ride us
With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs, ere
With spur we heat an acre."
Shakespeare. Winter's Tale {Hermione)^ Act L, Sc. IL
" One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen."
J. Howell. Familiar Letters, Bk. II., Letter IV.
To T. D., Esq.
" Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair."
Pope. Rape of the Lock, Bk. II., line 27.
" Not ten yoke of oxen
Have the power to draw us
Like a woman's hair."
Longfellow. The Saga of King Olaf.
" One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man.
Of moral evil and of good.
Than all the sages can." Wordsworth. The Tables Turned.
" One kind kiss before we part,
Drop a tear and bid adieu ;
Though we sever, my fond heart
Till we meet shall pant for you." Dodblby. The Parting Kiss.
" One man is sufficient for revenge."
BuLWER Lytton, Rienzi (Rienzi), Bk. I., Ch. V.
" One man may better steal a horse than another look over the hedge."
Old Proverb.
Lord Chesterfield. Letter to his Son. 26th July, 1748.
" One may be a poet without versing, and a versifier without poetry."
Sir p. Sidney. An Apologie for Poetric .
'* One may smile, and smile, and be a villain."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I., Sc. V.
" One minute gives invention to destroy ;
What to rebuild, will a whole age employ."
CoNGREVE. The Double Dealer [Maskwell), Act I.. Sc. VI.
" One more unfortunate,
Weary of breath,
Rashly importunate,
Gone to her death I " T. HooD. The Bridge of Sighs.
"One morsel's as good as another when your mouth's out o' taste."
George Eliot. Adam Bede {Lisbeth Bede), Bk. L, Ch. XT.
198 ONE MURDER— ONE WHO.
" One murder made a villain ;
Millions a hero. Princes were privileg'd
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime."
Beilby Porteus. Death, line 155.
" One must be poor to know the luxury of giving."
George Eliot, Middlemarch, Bk. II., Ch. XVII.
" One rose, but one, by those fair fingers cull'd,
Were worth a hundred kisses press'd on lips
Less exquisite than thine." Tennyson. The Gardejier^s Daughter.
" One self-approving hour whole years outweighs."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. IV., line 255.
" One shriek of hate would jar all the hymns of heaven."
Tennyson. Sea Dreams.
" One sickly sheep infects the flock,
And poisons all the rest."
Dr. I. Watts, Songs for Children, XXI.
" One rotten sheep spoils the whole flock."
Blake. King Edward the Third (Dagworth).
" One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above
the ridiculous makes the sublime again."
T. Paine. Age of Reason, Pt. II.
" One struggle more, and I am free
From pangs that rend my heart in twain ;
One last long sigh to love and thee,
Then back to busy life again."
Byron. Occasional Pieces. One Struggle More.
" One swallow prouveth not that summer is neare."
NoRTHBROOKE. Treatise against Damicing.
" One swallow maketh not summer."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. V.
" One foul wind no more makes a winter, than one swallow
makes a summer."
C. Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. XLIII.
" One to-day is worth two to-morrows."
B. Franklin. Poor Richard's Almanac.
" One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe ;
To murder thousands takes a specious name,
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame."
Young. Love of Fame, Sal. VII., line 55.
" One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin."
Shakespeare. Troilus and Crcssida (Ulysses).
Act III., Sc. III.
" One who, to all the heights of learning bred,
Read books and men, and practie'd what he read."
Stepney. To the Earl of Carlisle.
ONE WOE DOTH TREAD— OPINION'S BUT A FOOL. 199
â– One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So last they follow."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Queen), Act IV., Sc. VII.
••Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave."
Herrick. Hespcrides, 48.
" Woes cluster ; rare are solitary woes ;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night III., line 63.
One word alone is all that strikes the ear,
One short, pathetic, simple word, . . . ' Oh dear ! ' "
Bloomfield. The Farmer's Boy, Autumn, line 157.
Only human eyes can weep." Marvell. Eyes and Tears, line 46.
Only in loue, they happy prooue,
Who loue what most deserues their loue."
Ph. Fletcher. Sicelides (Chorus), Act III., Sc. VI.
Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust."
Shirley. Contention of Aj ax and Ulysses.
" Only they
Know how to live, who live to die." Whyte Melville. Lost.
Only when genius is married to science can the highest results be
produced." Herbert Spencer. Education, Ch. I.
Open your ears ; for which of you will stop
The vent of hearing, when loud Rumour speaks?
I, from the orient to the drooping west.
Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold
The acts commenced on this ball of earth :
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride.
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
I speak of peace, while covert enmity.
Under the smile of safety, wounds the world."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Rumour), Induction.
â– (A plague of) opinion 1 a man may wear it on both sides, like a leather
jerkin."
Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida (Thersites), Act III., Sc. III.
Opinion governs all mankind.
Like the blind's leading of the blind."
Butler. Miscellaneous Thoughts, line 269.
Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making."
Milton. Areopagitica.
Opinion ! which on crutches walks,
And sounds the words another talks." Lloyd. The Poet, line 55.
Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
The outward habit by the inward man."
Shakespeare. Pericles (Simonides), Act II., Sc. II.
200 OPPOSITION MAY BECOME— OUR DECREES.
" Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it
persecution."
George Eliot. Scenes from Clerical Life. JaneVs Repentance.
" Oppression makes the wise man mad."
R. Browning. Liiria (Piiccio), Act IV.
" Oppression, that sharp two-edged sword,
That others wounds, and wounds lit:ewise his Lord."
S. Daniel. Oivil War, Bk. VI., XIV.
" Or if one tolerable page appears
In folly's volume, 'tis the actor's leaf.
Who dries his own by drawing others' tears,
And, raising present mirth, makes glad his future yearx."
Horace Smith. Rejected Addresses, Cni Bono ?
" Order is Heaven's first law." Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. IV.,
line 49.
" ' Orthodoxy, my lord,' said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, ' ortho
doxy is my doxy, heterodoxy is another man's doxy.' "
Priestley. Memoirs, Fo/. /.,/>. 372.
" Others may use the ocean as their road,
Only the English make it their abode."
Waller. Miscellanies, XLIX.
" Our acts our angels are, or good or ill.
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."
Fletcher. Upon an Honest Man's Fortune.
"Our best good here is Nature's bounds to know,
And those attempts to spare, which else would be in vain."
Rev. J. NoRRis of Bemerton. To Himself, St. 5.
" Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting :
The soul that rises with us, our life's star.
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And Cometh from afar :
Not in entire forgetfulness.
And not in utter nakedness.
But trailing clouds of glory do we come." Wordsworth. Ode V.
"Our cage
We make our choir, as doth the prison'd bird,
And sing our bondage freely."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (Arviragus), Act III,, Sc. III.
" Our content
Is our best having."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. {Old Lady), Act II., Sc. III.
" Our country's welfare is our first concern,
And who promotes that best — best proves his duty."
Havard. Regulus.
" Our decrees
Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead ;
And liberty plucks justice by the nose."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Duke), Act I., Sc. IV.
OUR DEEDS— OUR INGRESS. 201
' Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
George Eliot. Adam Bcde, Bk. IV., Ch. XXIX.
" Our deeds still travel with us from afar,
And what we have been makes us what we are."
George Eliot. Middlemarch, Ch. LXX., head lines.
" Our discontent is from comparison,
Were better states unseen, each man would like his own."
Rev. John Norris of Bemerton. The Consolation, St. 2.
" Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure [Lucio), Act I., Sc. IV.
" Our eyes are sentinels unto our judgments.
And should give certain judgment what they see ;
But they are rash sometimes, and tell us wonders
Of common things, which when our judgments find,
They can then check the eyes, and call them blind."
Middleton and Rowley. The Changeling [Beatrice), Act I.,
Sc.I.
" Our faith comes in moments ; our vice is habitual."
Emerson. The Over-Soul.
" Our foster-nurse of Nature is repose."
Shakespeare. Kitig Lear (Doctor), Act IV., Sc. IV.
" Our God and soldier we alike adore.
When at the brink of ruin, not before ;
After deliv'rance both alike requited.
Our God forgotten and our soldiers slighted." Quarles.
" God and the Doctor we alike adore.
But only when in danger, not before ;
The danger o'er, both are alike requited,
God is forgotten, and the doctor slighted."
Owen. Epigrams.
" Our grief, how swift! our remedies, how slowl "
Prior. Solomon, Bk. II., line 353.
" Our hours in Love have wings; in absence, crutches."
Colley Cibper. Xerxes {Tatnira), Act IV., Sc. III.
" Our ideals are framed, not according to the measure of our performances,
but according to the measure of our thoughts."
A. J. Balfour. The Foundations of Belief, Pt. I.,
Ch. I.,' III.
" Our ingress into the world
Was naked and bare ;
Our progress through the world
Is trouble and care ;
Our egress from the world
Will be nobody knows where :
But if we do well here.
We shall do well there." Longfellow. The Cohblcr of Hagenau.
202 OUR LIFE IS BUT- OUR REVELS ARE.
" Our life is but a dark and stormy night.
To which sense yields a weak and ghmmerincr h'ght.
While wandering man thinks he discerneth all
By that which makes him but mistake and fall."
Lord Herbert of Cherbury. To Jiis Mistress, fot
her true picture.
" Our life is but a pilgrimage of blasts,
And every blast brings forth a fear;
And every fear, a death." QoARLES. Hieroglyph, III., /^.
•' Our life is twofold: Sleep hath its own world,
A boundary between the things misnamed
Death and Existence." Byron. The Dreavi, I.
" Our life's a clock, and every gasp of breath
Breathes forth a warning grief, till Time shall strike a death."
Quarles. Hieroglyph, IX., 6.
" Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance."
Herbert Spencer. The Principles of Biology , § 372.
" Our love is like our life ;
There's no man blest in either till his end."
Shakerley Marmion. a Fine Companion (Aurelio),
Act I., Sc. I.
" Our outward act is prompted from within,
And from the sinner's mind proceeds the sin."
Prior. Henry and Emma, line 481.
" Our past lives build the present, which must mould
The lives to be."
Sir E. Arnold. Adznma [Adachi], Act I., Sc. I.
" Our pride misleads, our timid likings kill."
Wordsworth. Memorials of a Tour on the Continent,
Pt. II. Desultory Stanzas.
" Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky
Gives as free scope ; only doth backward pull
Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull."
Shakespeare. AWs Well that Ends Well [Helena),
Act I., Sc. I.
" Our revels are now ended : these our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air :
And like the baseless fabrick of this vision,
The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces.
The solemn temples, the great globe itself.
Yea, all, which it inherit, shall dissolve ;
And like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind ! We are such stuff
As dreams are made on ; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
Shakespeap,b. The Tempest (Prospern), Act IV., Sc. I.
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OUR SEX STILL STRIKES— OUTRUN THE CONSTABLE. 203
â– ' Our sex still strikes an awe upon the ijrave,
And only cowards dare affront a woman."
Farquhah. The Consiaiit Couple (Angelica),
Act v., Sc. I.
" Our supreme governors, the mob."
Horace Walpole. Letter to Sir Horace Mann
yth Sept., 1743
" Our thoughts are heard in heaven."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night II., line 95.
" Our to-days and yesterdays
Are the blocks with which we build." Longfellow. The Builders.
" Our very hopes belied our fears,
Our fears our hopes belied —
We thought her dying when she slept,
And sleeping when she died." Hood. The Death-Bed.
" Our words have wings, but fly not where we would."
George Eliot. The Spanish Gipsy [Fcdelma).
" Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural linea
ments." Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. II., Ch. VII.
" Out at elbow."
Shakespeare. Mcasuic for Measure [Clown), Act II., Sc. I.
" It's a little awt at elbows."
CoLLEY Gibber. The Provok'd Husband [Sir Francis),
Act IV., Sc. I.
" Out, damned spot ! out, I say."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Lady Macbeth), Act V., Sc. I.
" Out 1 out . . . accursed spot ! "
SouTHEY. All for Love, VI.
" Out, loathed medicine ! hated potion, hence ! "
Shakespeare. Midsummer Nighfs Dream (Lysander),
Act III., Sc. II.
" (But as the flounder dooth,
Leape) out of the frying pan into the fyre."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. V.
" (Time and place give best advice,)
Out of season out of price."
R. Southwell. St. Peter's Complaint.
" (Myself could else) out-frown false fortune's frown."
Shakespeare. . King Lear {Cordelia), Act V., Sc. III.
" Out-herods Herod."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlcf), Act III., Sr . II.
" (Friend Ralph, thou hast)
Outrun the constable at last."
Butler. Hudibras, Ft. /., Can. III., line 1367.
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204 OUT- WEEPS A HERMIT— PAST SORROWS.
" Out-weeps a hermit, and out-prays a saint."
Dryden. Annus Mirahilis, CCLXI.
" Ovid's a rake, as half his verses shew him."
Byron. Don Juan, Can. /., St. 40.
" Own riches gather'd trouble, fame a breath,
And life an ill whose only cure is death."
Prior. Epistle to Dr. Sherlock.
" Oxford 1 the goddess-muse's native home,
Inspir'd like Athens, and adorn'd like Rome." Tickell. Oxford.
" (He has) paid dear, very dear, for his whistle."
B. Franklin. Poor Richard.
" Pain is no evil
Unless it conquers us." C. Kingsley. Saint Maura.
" Paint the gates of hell with Paradise,
And play the slave to gain the tyranny."
Tennyson. The Princess, IV.
" Painted fools
Are caught with silken shows." Drayton. The Quest of Cynthia.
" Parents we can have but once ; and he promises himself too much
who enters life with the expectation of finding many friends."
Dr. S. Johnson. Letter to J. Boswell, Esq.,
4th jfan., 1766.
" Particular lies may speak a general truth."
George Eliot. The Spanish Gipsy (The Prior).
" Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few."
Pope. Bowles' Life of Pope, Vol. VI., p. 405.
" Passing rich on forty pounds a year."
Goldsmith. The Deserted Village, line 142.
I' Passing the love of women." Samuel. Bk. II., Ch. I., ver. 26.
" Passion and prejudice govern the world ; only under the name of
reason."
John Wesley, Letter to Joseph Benson, ^th Oct., 1770.
" Passion is the avalanche of the human heart — a single breath car.
dissolve it from its repose."
Bulwer Lytton. Falkland, Bk. II.
" (I am) past all comforts here, but prayers."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. [Katharine), Act IV., Sc. II.
" Past praying for."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Falstaff), Act II., Sc. IV.
" Past sorrows, let us moderately lament them ;
For those to come, seek wisely to prevent them."
John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi (Dnclirss), Act III.,
Sc. II.
PATIENCE IS SORROW'S SALVE— PERFECT LOVE. ^105
" Patience is sorrow's salve."
Churchill. The Prophecy of Famine, line 362.
" Patience is sottish, and impatience does
Become a dog that's mad."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra), Act IV.,
Sc. XV.
" Patience is the virtue of an ass,
That trots beneath his burden, and is quiet."
Lansdowne. Heroic Love,
" Patience on a monument."
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night (Viola), Act II., Sc. IV.
Vide — " She never told her love."
" Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Dr. Johnson.
" Peace hath her victories
No less renowned than war." Milton. Sotmet XIX.
" With peace and gentle virtue age would dwell.
Who have their triumphs like as hath Bellona fell."
West. On the Abuse of Travelling, X.
" The arts of peace are great.
And no less glorious than those of war."
Blake. King Edward III. (Bishop).
•• But the real and lasting victories are those of peace, and
not of war." Emerson. Worship.
" Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind."
Collins. Oriental Eclogues, Eclogue II,
" (That it shall hold companionship in) peace
With honour, as in war."
Shakespeare. Coriolanus (Volnmnia), Act III., Sc. II.
" I bring you peace with honour." Lord Beaconsfield.
" Penury makes wit premature."
R. Browninq. The Ring and the Book, V., line 167.
" People are never so near playing the fool, as when they think them-
selves wise."
Lady M. Wortley Montagu. Letter to Countess of Bute,
ist March, 1755.
" People are willing to take hard knocks for nothing, but never to sell
ribands cheap."
RusKiN. The Crown of Wild Olive, Traffic, 75.
" People, who have their attention eternally fixed upon one object, can't
help being a little narrow in their notions."
Foote. The Minor (Sir William Wealthy), Act I., Sc. I.
" Perfect love casteth out fear." St. John. Ep. I., %k. IV., vcr. 18.
" Perfect love implies
Love in all capacities." Cowley. Platonic Love.
2o6 PERSEVERANCE, DEAR— PITY IS SWORN SERVANT.
" Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright."
Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses), Act III.,
Sc. III.
" Philosophers dwell in the moon, speculation and theory girdle the
world about like a wall."
Ford. The Lover's Melancholy (Philosopher) Act III.,
Sc. III.
" (This same) philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an errant
jade on a journey."
Goldsmith. The Good-Natured Man (Jarvis), Act I.
" Philosophy ! the great and only heir
Ol all the human knowledge which has been
Unforfeited by man's rebellious sin."
Cowley. To the Royal Society.
" Philosophy 1 the lumber of the schools,
The roguery of alchemy :
And we the bubbled fools
Spend all our present stock in hopes of golden rales.''
Swift, Ode to Sir iV. Temple, II.
" Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, the gnomfed mine —
Unweave a rainbow." Keats. Lamia, II.
" Physician, heal thyselt" St. Luke. Ch. IV., ver. 23.
•' Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps,
And pyramids are pjTamids in vales."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night VI., line 309.
" Pikes are caught when little fish go by."
Southwell. Scorn not the Least.
" Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants."
Shakespeare. The Taming 0/ the Shrew (Baptista),
Act IV., Sc. IV.
*• Pitchers have ears."
Shakespeare. Richard III. (Queen), Act II.,
Sc. IV.
«* Pitchers have ears."
Ben Jonson. The Vision 0/ Delight.
Vide—" Small pitchers."
" Pity and need
Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood,
Which runneth of one hue, nor caste in tears,
Which trickle salt with all."
Sir E. Arnold. The Light of Asia, Bk. VI.
" Pity is sworn servant unto love."
S. Daniel. The Queen's Arcadia (Silvia), Act III., Sc. I.
PITY IS— PLATE SliW WITH GOLD. 207
"• I pity you.' (F/V)/(i.)
•That's a degree to love.' " (Olivia.)
Shakespkake. Twelfth Night, Act III., Sc I.
" Pity melts the rnind to love."
Dryden. Alexander's Feast, V.
" Can you pretend to love,
And have no pity ? Love and that are twins."
Dryden. Don Sebastian {Aloneyda),Act III., Sc. I.
• Pity's akin to love."
Southern. Oroonoko [Oroonoko), Act II., Sc. I.
" Pity, the tenderest part of love."
Yalden. To Capt. Chamberlain.
"Love's pale sister, Pity."
Sir W. Jones. Hymn to Darga.
" Love gains the shrine when pity opes the door."
BuLWER Lytton. The New Timon, Pt. III., I.
" And loving-kindness, that is pity's kin
And is most pitiless."
Swinburne. A Ballad of Life.
" Pity is the virtue of the law,
And none but tyrants use it cruelly."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens {Alcibiades),
Act III., Sc. V.
" Pity the sorrows of a poor old man." Th. Moss. The Beggar.
" Plagued with an itching leprosy of wit/'
Ben Jonson. Every Man Out of his Humour, The
Stage {Cordatus).
" Plain-dealing is a jewel, and he that useth it shall die a beggar."
H. Porter. The Two Angry Women ofAbington
{Nicholas).
" Plain dealing is the best when all is done."
HiSTRioMASTix. (Bcllula), Act III., Sc. I.,
line 160.
" Plain dealing is a jewel."
D. Garrick. Bon Ton (Col. Tivy), Act II.,
Sc. II.
" Plain speech is better than much wit."
Swinburne. Chastelard (Queen), Act II., Sc. I.
" Planets and the pale populace of heaven."
R. Browning. Balaustioti's Adventure.
" Plate sin with gold.
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks ;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Lear), Act IV., Sc. VI.
io8 PLAYS MAKE MANKIND—PLENTY MAKES ME.
" Plays make mankind no better and no worse."
Byron. Hints from Horace.
" Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."
Sh.iXespeare. Othello (lago), Act II., Sc. III.
" Pleasure delights in contrasts; it is from dissipation that we learn tc
enjoy solitude, and from solitude dissipation."
Bui-WER Lytton. The Last Days of Pompeii [Glaucus),
Bk.I., Ch. II.
"^Pleasure is a sweet tickling of sense, with a present joy."
Stephen Gosson. Ephemerides of Phialo.
" Pleasure is oft a visitant ; but pain
Clings cruelly to us, like the gnawing sloth
On the deer's tender haunches." Keats. Endymion.
" Pleasure never comes sincere to man ;
But lent by heaven upon hard usury."
Dryden and Lee. (Edippus ((Edippus), Act I., Sc. I.
" Pleasure, that comes unlocked for, is thrice welcome;
And, if it stir the heart, if aught be there,
That may hereafter in a thoughtful hour
Wake but a sigh, 'tis treasured up among
The things most precious ! and the day it came
Is noted as a white day in our lives."
Rogers. Italy. An Interview.
" Pleasure that the most enchants us
Seems the soonest done ;
What is life with all it grants us
But a hunting run ? "
Whyte Melville. A Lay of the Ranston Bloodhounds.
" Pleasures are like poppies spread.
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed." Burns. Tarn o' Shanter.
" Plenty and peace breeds cowards ; hardness ever of hardiness is
mother." Shakespeare. Cymbeline [Imogen), Act III.,
Sc. VI.
" Plenty, as well as want, can separate friends."
Cowley. Davideis, Bk. III., line 205.
" Plenty corrupts the melody." Tennyson. The Blackbird.
" Plenty is the child of peace."
Histriomastix (Song), Act I., Sc. I.
" Plenty makes me poore." Spenser. Sonnet XXXV.
*' Plenty doth make me poor. "
S. Daniel. The Queen's Arcadia [Dorinda), Act IV.,
Sc. II.
"With much we surfeit, plenty makes us poor."
Drayton. Legend of Matilda the Fair.
"And plenty makes us poor."
Dryden. The Medal, line 126.
FLUCK A GOOD CROW— POOR MEN, WHEN. 2og
" (I would topple with ye
And) pluck a good crow."
Unknown. History of Jacob and Esau (Raffan), Act II.,
Sc. II. (circa 1558).
' Poems, the hop-grounds of the brain."
M. Green. The Spleen, line 503.
" Poesy is as a gum, which oozes
From whence 'tis nourished: The fire i' the flint
Shews not, 'till it be struck ; our gentle flame
Provokes itself, and like the current, flies
Each bound it chases."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens (Poet), Act I., Sc. I.
' Poetry is the child of nature, which regulated and made beautiful by
art, presenteth the most harmonious of all other compositions."
Shirley. Preface to Beaumont and Fletcher,
Folio Ed., 1647.
• Poetry, the queen of arts."
Sprat. Ode upon the Poems of Abraham Cowley, VIII.
â– Poets lose half the praise they should have got.
Could it be known what they discreetly blot."
Waller. On Roscommon''s Translation of Dc
Arte Poetica.
Poison itself is a remedy in some diseases, and there is nothing so evil
but what may be converted to purposes of good."
Kenelm Digby. The Broad Stone of Honour.
Godefridus, XII.
Policy sits above conscience."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens (ist Stranger),
Act III., Sell.
Politeness costs nothing, and gains everything."
Lady M. Wortley Montagu. Letters.
(That) pompous misery of being great I "
Broome. On the Seat of War in Flanders.
' Poor and content is rich, and rich enough ;
But riches fineless is as poor as winter
To him that ever fears he shall be poor."
Shakespeare. Othello (lago), Act III., Sc. III.
Poor flyes will tickle Lyons being dead."
HiSTRioMAsrix (Mavortins), Act VI., Sc I., line 47.
Poor 111 tie life that toddles half an hour
Crown'd with a ilower or two, and there an end."
Tennyson. Lucretius.
" Poor men, when yule is cold,
Must be content to sit by little fires."
Tennyson. The Holy Grail.
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210 POOR WRETCHES— PRAY HEAVEN.
" Poor wretches that depend
On greatness' favour dream, as I have done ;
Wake, and find nothing."
Shakespeare. Cvmbcline (Posthiiiniis), Act V., Sc. IV.
" Poorly rich, so wanteth in his store,
That, cloy'd with much, he pineth still for more."
Shakespeare. Rape or Lucrccc, 14.
" Posterity pays every man his honour."
Ben Jonson. Scjanus {Cordns), Act III.,Sc. I.
" Posterity, that high court of appeal which is never tired of eulogising
its own justice and discernment."
Lord Macaulay. Essay on Machiavelli.
" Poverty is a bully if you are afraid of her, or truckle to her. Poverty is
good-natured enough if you meet her like a man."
Thackeray, Philip, Ch. XIX.
" Poverty is the Muse's patrimony."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. I., Sec. II.,
Mem. III., Subs. XV.
" Poverty makes some humble, but more malignant."
BuLWER Lytton. Eugene Aram (Eugene Aram),
Bk. I., Ch. VII.
" Poverty the reward of honest fools."
CoLLEY CiBBER. Richufd III. (altered by). (Richard),
Act II., Sc. II.
»' Poverty I thou source of human art,
Thou great inspirer of the poet's song ! "
E. Moore. Hymn to Poverty-
" Power is the grim idol that the world adores."
W. Hazlitt. Political Essays. On the Connexion between
Toad-Eaters and Tyrants.
" Practise what you preach."
YouNQ. Love of Fame, Sat. III., litte 48.
" Praise is the reflection of vertue."
Bacon. Essay LIIL, Of Praise.
" Praise the sea, but keep on the land."
Herbert, jfacula Prudentum.
" Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise."
Pope. Imitations of Horace, Bk. II., Ep. I., line 413.
" Praise undeserved is satire in disguise."
*From " The Garland," a Collection of Poems by
Mr. Broadhurst, A.D. 1721.
• Vide — Hain Friswell, Familiar Words, p. 260.
" Praising all alike is praising none." Gay. Epistle to a Lady.
'• Pray Heaven for a human heart."
Te.nnyson. Lady Clara Vere de Vere.
PRAYER ALL HIS BUSINESS— PRESENT yOYS. 211
" Prayer all his business — all his pleasure praise."
Parnell. The Hermit, line 6.
" Prayer ardent, opens heav'n."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night VIII., line 721.
" Prayer goeth on in sleep, as true
And pauseless as the pulses do."
E. B. Browning. The Lay of the Brown Rosary,
Second Part.
" Prayer is the soul's sincere desiiet
Uttered or unexpressed,
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast." J. MoNTGOMEiiY. On Prayer.
" Prayer, man's rational prerogative."
WORDSWi^RTH. Eicksiastical Sonnets, Pt. II., XXXIII,
" Preach as we will in this wrong world of ours,
Man's fate and woman's are contending powers ;
Each strives to dupe the other in the game, —
Guilt to the victor — to the vanquish'd shame 1 "
BuLWER Lytton. The New Timon, Pt. II., II.
" Preach to the storm, and reason with despair,
But tell not Misery's son that life is fair."
KiRKE White. Lines on Reading the Preface to N.
Bloonifield's Poems, 3.
" Preaching has become a bye-word for long and dull conversation of
any kind ; and whoever wishes to imply, in any piece of writing,
the absence of everything agreeable and inviting, calls it a sermon."
Sydney Smith. Preface to Sermons, 1801.
" Precepts often heard and little regarded, lose by repetition the small
influence they had."
Herbert Spencer. The Study of Sociology, Ch. XV.
" Preferring
Hard liberty before the easy yoke
Of servile pomp." Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. II., line z^^.
" Preferring sense, from chin that's bare.
To nonsense thron'd in whisker'd hair."
M. Green. The Spleen, line 750.
" Presence of mind and courage in distress,
Are more than armies to procure success."
Dryden. Aurengzebe (Aurengzebe), Act II., last lines.
" Present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good."
Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, Pt. III.
" Present joys are sweeter for past pain ;
To love and heav'n by sufPring we attain."
Granville. The British Enchantress (Oriana),
Act v., Sc. I.
212 PRESS NOT— PRINCES AND LORDS.
" Press not a falling man too far."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. {Chaviberlain),
Act III., Sc. II.
" Preventing angels meet it half the way,
And sent us back to praise, who came to pray."
Dryden. Britannia Rediviva, line 4.
Vid€ — " Fools who came."
" Prevention is better than cure." Old Proverb.
«• Prevention is the better cure,
So says the proverb, and 'tis sure."
N. Cotton. Visions in Verse. Health.
" Pride brings want, want makes rogues, rogues come to be hanged, and
the devil's alone the gainer."
Vanburgh. jEsop, Pt. I. {Msop), Act IV., Sc. II.
" Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. X.
" Pride goeth before destruction,
And an haughty spirit before a fall."
Proverbs. Ch. XVI., ver. 18.
" The lowly hart doth win the love of all.
But pride at last is sure of shameful fall."
TuRBERViLLE. To Piero of Pride.
" Pryde will have a fall."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. X.
" Pride must have a fall."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Richard),
Act v., Sc. V.
" Pride goeth forth on horseback grand and gay,
But cometh back on foot, and begs its way."
Longfellow. The Bell of Atri,
" Pride,
Howe'er disguised in its own majesty.
Is littleness."
Wordsworth. Pcems Written in Youth, VII.
" Pride, like an eagle, builds among the stars ;
But Pleasure, lark-like, nests upon the ground."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night V., line 19.
" Piride that dines on vanity sups on contempt."
B. Franklin. Poor Richard's Almanac.
" Pride, the never-failing vice of fools."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, Pt. II., line 4.
" Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
An honest man's the noblest work of God."
Burns. The Cottf"'* Saturday Night.
PRINCES ARE LIKE— PURE, AS THE CHARITIES. 213
" Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and
which have much veneration, but no rest."
Bacon. Essay XX., 0/ Empire.
" Kings are like stars^they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose."
Shelley. Hellas. Mahmud.
" Princes in this case
Do hate the Traytor, tho' they love the Treason."
S. Daniel. Tragedy of Cleopatra (Seleiicus), Act IV., Sc. I.
" This principle is old, but true as fate.
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate."
MiDDLETON. The Honest Whore (Duke), Act IV.,
Sc. IV.
" Procrastination is the thief of time."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night I., line 393.
" Prodigious actions may as well be done
By weaver's issue as by prince's son."
Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. I., line 638.
" Progress is
The law of life, man is not man as yet."
R. Browning. Paracelsus, V.
" Property assures what toil acquires."
Savage. Of Public Spirit, line 39.
" Property has its duties as well as its rights."
Marquis of Normanby. Letter. When Viceroy of
Ireland.
" Prophecy, which dreams a lie.
That fools believe, and knaves apply."
M. Green. The Grotto, line 90.
" Prosperity's the very bond of love.
Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together
Affliction alters."
Shakespeare. Winter's Tale (Camilio), Act V., Sc. III.
" Protestations with men are like tears with women, forgot ere the cheek
be dry."
MiDDLETON. The Family of Love (Glister), Act I., Sc. I.
" Providence cares for every hungry mouth ! "
R. Browning. Fcrishtah's Fancies. The Eagle.
" Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances.
It is the utmost action of the inward life."
Emerson. Prudence.
" Puppet to a father's threat, and servile to a shrewish tongue."
Tennyson. Locksley Hall.
'* Pure, as the charities above.
Rise the sweet sympathies of love ;
And closer chords than those of life
Unite the husband to the wife."
Logan. The Lovers [Henry).
214 PURITY IS THE FEMININE— REASON, THE POWER.
" Purity is the feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour."
J. C. Hare. Guesses at Truth, Vol. I., />. 256.
" (I'll) put a spoke among your wheels."
Beaumont and Fletcher. The Mad Lover (Chilax),
Act III., Sc. VI.
" Put pain from out the World, what room were left
For thanks to God for love to man ? "
R. Browning. Ferishtah's Fancies. Mihrab Shah.
" Quackery gives birth to nothing : gives death to all things."
Carlyle. Heroes, I.
" Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. III., XLII.
'* Quoth the raven, ' Nevermore '." E. A. Poe. The Raven.
" Rank is a great beautifier."
BuLWER Lytton. Lady of Lyons (Melnotte), Act II., Sc. I.
" Read Homer once, and you can read no more,
For all books else appear so mean, and poor ;
Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need."
Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham. Essay on Poetry.
" Read not my blemishes in the world's report."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra {Antony),
Act II., Sc. III.
" Read their history in a nation's eyes."
Gray. Elegy in a Country Churchyard, ver. 16.
" Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an
exact man." Lord Bacon. Essay L., On Studies.
" Reading is seeing by proxy."
Herbert Spencer. The Study of Sociology, Ch. XV.
" Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Sir R. Steele. The Tatlcr, No. 147.
" Reading without thinking, may indeed make a rich common place, but
'twill never make a clear head."
Rev. J. NoRRis of Bemerton. Of the Advantages of
Thinking.
" Realms are households which the great must guide."
Dryden. Annus Mirabilis, CXXXVIII.
" Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the light."
Dryden. Religio Laid, line 69.
" Reason sets limits to the longest grief."
Drayton. Moses, Bk. I.
" Reason, the power
To guess at right and wrong, the twinkling lamp
Of wandering life, that winks and wakes by turns,
Fooling the follower, betwixt shade and shining."
Conqreve. The Mounting Bride (Osmyn), Act III., Sc. I.
REASON TO RULE— REPENTANCE IS A PITIFUL. 215
" Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive ;
The first is law, the last prerogative."
Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, Pt. I., line 261.
" Reason's the rightful empress of the soul."
PoMFKET. Love Trinviphaut over Reason.
" Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. IV. line 79.
" Rebellion I foul, dishonouring word.
Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd
The holiest cause that tongue or sword
Of mortal ever lost or gain'd.
How many a spirit, born to bless,
Hath sunk beneath that withering name,
Whom but a day's, an hour's success
Had wafted to Eternal fame ! " T. Moore. Lalla Rookh, VI.
" Reckoners without their host must reckon twice."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. V.
" (Like a) red moon, that ever yet betoken'd
Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field.
Sorrow to shepherds, woe unto the birds,
Gust and foul flaws to herdsmen and to herds."
Shakespeare. Venus and Adonis, 76.
" Religion
Hides many mischiefs from suspicions."
Marlowe. The Jew of Malta {Barabbas),
Act I., Sc. II.
" Religion is the elder sister of philosophy,"
W. S. Landor. Imaginary CoJtversatiojis. David Hume
and jfohn Hume.
" Remembrance oft may start a tear."
Burns. Verses written under Violent Grief.
" Remorse begets reform." Cowper. The Task, Bk. V., line 618.
" Render to all their dues : tribute to whom tribute is due ; custom to
whom cu'jtom ; fear to whom fear ; honour to whom honour."
St. Paul. Epistle to the Romans, Ch. XIII., ver. 7.
" Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly."
George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss, Bk. IV., Ch. III.
" Repentance clothes in grass and flowers
The grave in which the past is laid."
John Sterling. The Penitent.
" Repentance for past crimes is just and easy ;
But sin no more's a task too hard for mortals."
Vanburgh. The Relapse (Worthy), Act V., Sc. IV.
" Repentance is a pitiful scoundrel, that never brought back a single
yesterday."
T. Holcroft. The Road to Ruin (Harry Dornton),
Act II., Sc. II.
2i6 REPUTATION IS— RICHES ARE.
" Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit,
and lost without deserving."
Shakespeare. Othello (lago), Act II., Sc. III.
" Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what
God and angels know of us." T. Paine.
" Reputation, reputation, reputation ! oh I have lost my reputation ! I
have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remain's is bestial."
Shakespeare. Othello (Cassio), Act 11., Sc. III.
" Resignation tempers fear,
And piety is sweet to infant minds."
Wordsworth. The Excursion, Bk. IV.
" Rest springs from strife, and dissonant chords beget
Divinest harmonies."
Lewis Morris. Songs of Two Worlds. Love's Suicide.
" Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. IX., line 171.
" Revenge proves its own executioner."
Ford. The Broken Heart (Bassanes), Act V., Sc. II.
" Revolution, like jelly sufficiently boiled, needs only to be poured into
shapes of constitution and consolidated therein — could it indeed
contrive to cool."
Carlyle. French Revolution, Pt. I., Bk. VI., Ch. IV.
" Rhyme the rudder is of verses.
With which, like ships, they steer their courses."
Butler. Hudihras, Pt. I., Can. I.
" Rich, beyond the dreams of avarice."
BoswELL. Life of jfohnson [fohnson), Fitzgerald's Ed.,
Vol. II., p. 462.
" Rich, from the very want of wealth,
In Heaven's best treasures, Peace and Health."
Gray. Ode on Vicissitude.
" Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Ophelia), Act III., Sc. I.
" Rich preys make rich men thieves."
Shakespeare. Venus and Adonis, 131.
" Rich with the spoils of Nature."
Sir T. Browne. Religio, Pt. I., Sec. 13.
" But knowledge to their eyes her ample page.
Rich with the spoils of Time, did ne'er unroll."
Gray. Elegy in Country Churchyard.
" Richard's himself again ! "
CoLLEY Gibber. Richard III. {altered by). (Richard),
Act v., Sc. III.
" Riches are for spending; and spending for honour and good actions."
Bacon. Essay XXVIII., Of Expense.
RICHES ARE PARENTS— ROLL ON. 217
" Riches are parents of eternal care."
Blacklock. The Plaintive Shepherd, line 42.
" Riches can't always purchase happiness."
SoUTHEY. The Wedding {Traveller).
" Riches certainly make themselves wings,
Like an eagle that flicth toward heaven."
Proverbs. Ch. XXIII., ver. 5.
" Riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of them-
selves, sometimes they must be set flying to bring in
more." Bacon. Essay XXXIV., 0/ Riches.
" Riches : to the wise
And good in public or in private life.
They are the means of virtue, and best serve
The noblest purposes ; but in the use
Not in the bare possession lies the merit."
West. Institution 0/ the Garter, line 461.
" (It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that)
ridicule is the best test of truth."
Lord Chesterfield. Letter to his Son. 6th
Feb., 1752.
" Ridicule is the stifler of all energy amongst those she controls."
BuLWER Lytton. Godolphin, Ch. LI.
" Rightly to be great.
Is — not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw.
When honour's at the stake."
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Hamlet), Act IV., Sc. IV.
" Rightly viewed, no meanest object is insignificant ; all objects are as
windows, through which the philosophic eye looks into Infinitude
itself." Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. I., Ch. II.
" (I) rise with the lark."
Anon. The Maid of the Oaks, Act II., Se. III.
" Rivers from bubbling springs
Have rise at first, and great from abject things."
MiDDLETON. The Mayor of Queenborough (Hengist),
Act II., Sc. III.
" (To) robbe Peter to pay Poule."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. XI.
" (For him at least, I have a) rod in pickle."
O. Keefe. Midas, Act II., Sc. I.
" Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — rolll
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ;
Man marks the earth with ruin, — his control
Stops with the shore."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. IV., CLXXIX.
2i8 ROSES HAVE THORNS— SABLE NIGHT.
" Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud."
Shakespeare. Sonnet, XXXV.
" Rough to common men,
But honeying at the whisper of a lord."
Tennyson. The Princess.
" Royal deeds
May make long destinies for multitudes."
George Eliot. The Spanish Gipsy [Zarca).
■• Rub a galled horse, he will kick." Old Proverb.
" There is a common saying that when a horse is rubbed or
the gall, he will kick."
Bp. Latimer. Sermon on St. Andrew's Day, 1552.
' Rule, Britannia ! rule the waves ;
Britons never will be slaves."
Thomson. Ode. In the Masque of Alfred.
" Ruleth the roste alone." Skelton. Co/yn Chute.
" Then shalt thou rule the rost."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. V.
" Rules the rost." G. Gascoigne. The Steele Glas.
'* That Passion rule the roast."
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. II. Eclogues.
Reason and Passion.
" Rumour can ope the grave." Cowley. The Wish, IX.
" Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo.
The numbers of the fear'd."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. {Warwick),
Act III , He I.
" Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures ;
And of so easy and so plain a stop.
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads..
The still-discordant wavering multitude,
Can play upon it."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Rnvwur), Induction.
" Rustic herald of the Spring."
Akenside. Ode III., To the Cuckoo.
" Rusticity's ungainly form
May cloud the highest mind."
Burns. Rusticity''s Ungainly Form.
" (Till) sable night, mother of dread and fear,
Upon the world dim darkness doth display,
And in her vaulted prison stows the day."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrcce, ij.
SAD EXPERIENCE— SCIENCE MOVES. 219
" Sad experience leaves no room for doubt."
Pope, yanuary and May, line 630.
" Sad souls are slain in merry company;
Grief best is pleased with griefs society ;
True sorrow then is feelingly suffic'd,
When with like semblance it is sympathyz'd."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece, 159.
" Safer with multitudes to stray,
Than tread alone a fairer way :
To mingle with the erring throng,
Than boldly speak ten millions wrong."
Nugent. Epistle to a Lady.
" (For) Satan finds some mischief still,
For idle hands to do."
Dr. I. Watts. Songs for Children, XX.
•' Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor."
Pope. Moral Essays. Ep. III., Of the Use of Riches,
line 351.
" Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees."
CowPER. Hymn XXIX,, Exhortation to Prayer.
" Satire has always shone among the rest,
And is the boldest way, if not the best,
To tell men freely of their foulest faults,
To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts."
Dryden and Mulgrave. Essay on Satire, line 11.
" (Hence) Satire's power : 'tis her corrective part
To calm the wild disorders of the heart.
To point the arduous height where glory lies,
And teaches mad Ambition to be wise."
Pope. Essay on Satire, Pt. I., line 8g.
" (New change of terms and) scaffolding of words."
Prior. Solomon, Bk. I., line 478.
" Scepticism is slow suicide." Emerson. Reliance.
" Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper-chamber, if
he has common-sense on the ground-floor."
O. W. Holmes. The Poet at the Breakfast Table, V.
" Science is organised knowledge."
Herbert Spencer. Education, Ch. II.
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and super-
stition."
Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations, Bk. V., Pt. III.,
Art. III.
" Science moves but slowly, slowly creeping on from point to point."
Tennyson. Locksley Hall
20 SCORN AT FIRST— SEE THE WRETCH.
Scorn at first, makes after-love the more."
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine),
Act III., Sc. I,
Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree
Love is a present for a mighty King ;
Much less make any one thine enemy.
As guns destroy, so may a little sling ;
The cunning workman never doth refuse
The meanest tool, that he may chance to use."
Herbert. The Temple. The Church Porch.
â– (We have) scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Macbeth), Act III., Sc. II.
' Scotland — that knuckle-end of England, that land of Calvin, oat-cake
and sulphur." Sydney Smith. Memoirs, Ch. II.
" Screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Lady Macbeth), Act I., Sc. VII.
' Sea of upturned faces." SiR W. Scott. Rob Roy, Ch. XX.
' (O) *Sea-green incorruptible."
Carlyle. French Revolution, Pt. II., Bk. IV.
* Robespierre.
' Search then the ruling passion ; there alone,
The wild are constant, and the cunning known,
The fool consistent, and the false sincere."
Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. I., Pt. III., line i.
' Seas have their source, and so have shallow springs ;
And love is love, in beggars as in kings."
" A. W." From Davison's Rhapsody.
' Second thoughts are best." Old Proverb.
" After wittes are euer blest."
Stephen GossoN. The Schoole of Abuse. To the
Reader.
" Second thoughts are best."
Vanburgh. Msop, Pt. I. {Doris), Act I., Sc. I.
" For second thoughts you know are best." Dodslev
" Security
Is mortal's chiefest enemy."
Shakespeare. Macbctli {Hecate), Act III., Sc. V
' See the wretch, that long has tost
On the thorny bed of pain
At length repair his vigour lost.
And breathe and walk again :
The meanest flow'ret of the vale,
The simplest note that swells the gale,
The common sun, the air, the skies,
To him are opening paradise." Gray. Ode on a Vicissitude.
SEE THIS FLOW'R— SERPENTS LIE. 22)
" See this flow'r,
This short-Hv'd beauty of an hour 1 " Broome. On a Flower.
" See what a grace was seated on this brow ;
Hyperion's curls ; the front of Jove himself;
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command
A station like the herald Mercury
New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ;
A combination and a form indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a man."
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Hamlet), Act III., Sc. IV.
" See what a ready tongue suspicion hath."
Shakespeare, Henry IV., Pt. II. [Northumberland),
Act I., Sc. I.
" Seek honour first, and Pleasure lies behind."
Chatterton. [Rowley.) The Tournament, XXIII.
" Seeking the bubble reputation
Even at the cannon's mouth."
Shakespeare. As You Like It [y agues), Act II., Sc. VII.
" Self can cloud the brightest cause.
Or gild the worst." T. Moore. The Sceptic.
" Self is first in every cause."
Chatterton. (Rowley.) The World, II.
" Self-defence is a virtue,
Sole bulwark of all right."
Byron. Sardanapalus [Beleses], Act II., Sc I.
' Self-defence is Nature's eldest law."
Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. I., line 458.
" Self-harming jealousy."
Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors [Luciana), Act II., Sc.I.
" Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting."
Shakespeare. Henry V. [Dauphin), Act II., Sc. IV.
" Self-trust is the first secret of success." Emerson. Success.
" Seldom comes glory till a man be dead."
Herrick. Hcsperides, 625.
" Selfishness, Love's cousin." Keats. Isabella, XXXI.
" Sense of pleasure we may well
Spare out of life, perhaps, and not repine
But live content, which is the calmest life :
But pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and excessive, overturns
All patience." Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. VI., line 459.
" Serpents lie where flowers grow."
Old Ballad. The Spanisli Lady's Love.
222 SET A THIEF— SHALLOW MEN.
" Set a thief to catch a thief." Old Proverb.
" For a thief is the best thief-catcher."
CoLLEY Gibber. Love's Last Shift (Hillaria),
Act III., Sc. I.
" Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all *o Heaven."
Sir W. Jones. Ode in Imitation of Alcceus.
" Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six.
Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix."
Translation of Lines, quoted by Sir Ed. Coke.
•' Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead.
Through which the living Homer begged his bread." Anon.
" Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead :
Who living had no roof to shrowd his head."
Th. Heywood. The Hierarchies of the Blessed
Angelles.
" Nine cities claim him dead.
Thro' which the living Homer begg'd his bread ! "
Bulwer Lytton. Earlier Poems. The Souls
of Books, III.
" Shall eagles not be eagles ? v^nrens be wrens ?
If all the world were falcons, what of that ?
The wonder of the eagle were the less.
But he not less the eagle." Tennyson. The Golden Year.
" Shall I not take mine ease at mine inn ? "
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. {Falstaff),
Act III., Sc. III.
" These great rich men take their ease i' their inn."
MiDDLETON. The World Tost at Tennis {Simplicity).
" Shall I wasting in despair
Die because a woman's fair ?
Or make pale my cheeks with care
'Cause another's rosy are ?
Be she fairer than the day.
Or the flow'ry meads in May.
If she be not fair to me.
What care I how fair she be ? "
G. Wither. The Shepherd's Resolution.
Often attributed to Sir W. Raleigh.
" Shall mortal man be more just than God ?
Shall a man be more pure than his Maker ? "
Job. Ch. V., ver. 17.
" Shall vain words have an end ? " Job. Ch. XVI., ver. 3.
" Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances . . . Strong
men believe in cause and effect." Emerson. Worship.
SHAME LEAVES US— SHE WHO TRIFLES. 22j
" Shame leaves us by degrees, not at first winning
For Nature checks a new oflence with loathing ;
But use oi sin doth make it seem as nothing."
S. Daniel. Complaint of Rozamond, St. 04.
" Shame shall be the promotion of fools."
Proverbs. Ch. III., vir. 35.
" Shame, the livery of offending mind,
The ugly shroud that overshadoweth blame."
Southwell. St. Petcr^s Compla'mt.
" She bears a duke's revenues on her back."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. II. [Queen Margaret),
Act I., Sc. III.
" She hugged th' offender, and forgave th' offence.
Sex to the last." Dryden. Cymon and Iphigenia.
" She lookt as buttec would not melt in her mouth."
John Heywood. Bk. I., Ch. X.
" She ne'er lov'd who durst not venture all."
Dryden. Atirengzebe (Anrengzebe), Act V.
" She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her damask cheek; she pin'd in thought;
And with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief."
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night {Violaj, Act II., Sc. IV.
" She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years."
Wordsworth. Poems oj the Imagination, XI.
" She shook
The holy water from her heavenly eyes."
Shakespeare. King Lear {Gentleman), Act IV., Sc. III.
" She should be humble, who would please ;
And she must suffer, who can love." Prior. Chloe Jealous, V.
" She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies."
BvRON. Hebreiv Melodies. She Walks in Beauty.
" She walks the waters like a thing of life.
And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck —
To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? "
Byron. The Corsair, Can. I., III.
" She who scorns a man must die a maid."
Pope. Rape of the Luck, Can. V., line 28.
" She who trifles with all
Is less likely to fall
Than she who but trifles with one."
Gay. The Coquette, Mother and Dau<^hter, IV.
224 SHE WILL SING SIGH NO MORE.
" She will sing the savageness out of a bear ! "
Shakespeare. Othello [Othello), Act IV., Sc. I.
" She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd ;
She is a woman, therefore to be won."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. I. (Suffolk)
Act v., Sc. IV.
"She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd;
She is a woman, therefore may be won."
Shakespeare. Titus Andronicns (Demetrius),
Act II., Sc. I.
" She's fair, whose beauty only makes her gay."
Cowley. Ode III., To his Mistress.
•' (But) ships are boards, sailors are but men : there be land-rats and
water-rats, land-thieves and water-thieves — I mean pirates ; and
then there is the peril of the waters, winds, and rocks,"
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Shylock),
Act I., Sc. III.
" Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shewn, and a distant voice in the darkness.
So, on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and silence."
Longfellow. Tales of aWnyside Inn. Third Evening.
Theologiati's Second Tale. Elisabeth,
Pt. IV.
" SLoes ever overthrow that are too large,
And hugest canons burst with overcharge."
G. Chapman. Byron's Tragcdie (Esper), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Short summers lightly have a forward spring."
Shakespeare. Richard III. (Gloster), Act III., Sc. I.
" Short swallow flights of song, that dip
Their wings in tears." Tennyson. In Memoriam, XLVIII.
" (The wench has) shot him between wind and water."
Beaumont and Fletcher. Philastcr [Dion), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Should banded union's persecute
Opinion, and induce a time
When single thought is civil crime,
And individual fireedom mute."
Tennyson. " You will ask me, Why, tho' ill at ease."
" Should stern justice blot a grievance,
Out o' Nature's mighty sum,
First of a', may plead forbearance,
Female innocence o'ercome." Hogg. Robin and Nanny.
" Shy she was, and I thought her cold,"
Tennyson. Edward Gray.
" Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
Men were deceivers ever ;
One foot on sea, and one on sliore ;
To one thing constant never."
Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothing (Song),
Act II., Sc. III.
SIGHED, AND LOOKED— SIMPLE DUTY. 225
" Sighed, and looked unutterable things."
Thomson. The Seasons, Summer, line 1188.
" Silence gives consent." Fuller. Wise Sentences.
Goldsmith. The Good-Natiired Man [Croaker), Act II.,
Sc.I.
" Silence in love betrays more woe
Than words, though ne'er so witty;
A be<,'gar that is dumb, you know,
May challenge double pity."
Sir W. Raleigh. The Silent Love, ver. 6.
" Ah ! 'tis the silent Rhetorick of a Look,
That works the League betwixt the states of Hearts."
S. Daniel. The Queen's Arcadia (Mirtillus),
Act v., Sc. II.
"Silence best speaks the mind."
Ph. Fletcher. Piscatarie Eclogues, V., St. 13.
•' Ev'n silence may be eloquent in love."
Cong RE VE. The Old Bachelor (Bellmond),
Act II., Sc. IX.
"A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity."
Goldsmith. Tlie Good-Natured Man [Miss Rich-
land), Act II., Sc.I.
" Oh silence is
Love's own peculiar eloquence of bliss 1 "
L. E. L. Rosalie.
" Love hath no need of words."
BuLWER Lytton. Richelieu {De Mauprat),
Act I., Sc. II.
*' Love wants not speech ; from silence speech it builds.
Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds."
BuLWER Lytton, King .Arthur, Bk. IX., LIT.
" Silence in woman is like speech in man."
Ben Jonson. The Silent Woman (Daw), Act II., Sc. II.
" Silence is the gratitude of true affection."
Sheridan. Pizarro (Cora), Act II., Sc. I.
" Silence is the soul of war ;
Delib'rate counsel must prepare
The mighty work which valour must complete."
Prior. Ode in Imitation of Horcice, Bk. III., Ode II.
" Silence more musical than any song."
Christina Rossetti. Rest. A Sonnet.
" Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossom the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels."
Longfellow. Evangeline, III.
" Simple duty hath no place for fear."
Whittikr. Abraham Davenport, last line.
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226 SIMPLE WOMAN— SLEEP, DEATH'S ALLY.
" Simple woman
Is weak in intellect, as well as frame,
And judges often from tiie partial voice
That soothes her wishes most."
Smollett. The Regicide (Siiiart), Act I., Sc. VL
" Sin is too dull to see beyond himself."
Tennyson. Queen Mary, Act V., Sc. IL
" Sin let loose, speaks punishment at hand."
CowPER. Expostulation, line i6o.
"Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner."
Byron. Don yuan, Can. VIIL, St. 99.
" Since every Jack became a Gentleman,
There's many a gentle person made a Jack."
Shakespeare. Richard III. (Gloster), Act I., Sc. III.
" Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part,"
M. Drayton. Ideas, LXI.
" Single-blessedness."
Shakespeare. Midstimmer Night's Dream (Theseus),
Act I., Sc. I.
" (For) slander lives upon succession,
For ever housed, where 't gets possession."
Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors {Balthazar)^
Act III., Sc. I.
" Slander, meanest spawn of Hell —
And woman's slander is the worst." Tennyson. The Letters.
" (No, 'tis) Slander ;
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath
Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie
All comers of the world : Kings, Queens, and States,
Maids, Matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave
This viperous slander enters."
Shakespeare. Cymbelitie (Pisanio), Act III., Sc. IV.
" Slave to no sect, who takes no private road.
But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. IV., line ^31.
" Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas.
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please."
Spenser. The Faerie Queene, Bk. I., Can. IX., St. 40.
" Sleep, death's ally." Southwell. St. Peter's Complaint.
"Shake off this drowsy sleep, death's counterfeit."
Shakespeare. Macbeth [Macduff), Act II., Sc. III.
*' O sleep, thou ape of death."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (lachimo). Act II., Sc. II.
" Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night.
Brother to Death." S. Daniel.
SLEEP DWELL UPON -SLEEP, O GENTLE SLEEP. 227
"Care-charming sleep, thou eascr of all woes,
Brother to death."
Fletcher. VaUiitinian. Sung, Act V., Sc. 11.
"Since sleepe and death are call'd
The twins of nature."
G. Chapman. Ccesar and Pompey (Catc), Act IV.
" But when death,
Sleepe's naturall brother, comes."
G. Chapman. Ccesar and Pompey (Cato), Act V.
" Sleep, Death's brother." Butler. Cai and Puss.
"Death's half-brother, sleep."
Dryden. Virgil's Mneid, Bk. II.
" Sleep and death, two twins of winged race.
Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace."
Pope. Homer's Iliad, Bk. XVI., line 831.
•* How wonderful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep 1 " Shelley. Queen Mab.
"Sleep, Death's twin brother."
Tennyson. In Memoriam, LXVIII.
' Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast I —
Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest I "
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Act II., Sc. II.
' Sleep is sweet to the labouring man."
BuNYAN. Pilgrim's Progress {Hopeful), Pt. I.
" Sleep no more 1
Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ;
Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath.
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act II., Sc. II.
Vide — " Come, sleep,"
' Sleep, Nurse of our life, care's best reposer.
Nature's high'st rapture, and the vision giver."
Lord Herbert of Chekuukv. To his Mistress, for h«r
True Picture,
" (0) sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids dowDj
And steep my senses in forgetfulness ?
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee.
And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy sIanQbtf«
Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,
And luird with sounds of sweetest melody ?
O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile
228 SLEEP, SILENCE' CHILD— SMALL DEBTS ARE LIKE.
In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kindly couch
A watch-case or a common 'larum-bell ?
Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains
In cradle of the rude imperious surge,
And in the visitation of the winds,
Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them
With deafening clamour in the slippery shrouds,
That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? —
Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ;
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances, and means to boot,
Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down I
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. (King Henry),
Act III., Sc. I.
' Sleep, Silence' child, sweet father of soft rest,
Prince, whose approach peace to all mortals brings,
Indifferent host to shepherds and to kings,
Sole comforter of minds with grief opprest."
Drummond of Hawthornden. Sonnet.
" Sleep's but a short death, death's but a longer sleep."
Ph. Fletcher. Apollyonists, Can. I., St. 6.
" Slight the care
There is for grief in which we have no share."
L. E. L. The Golden Violet. The Rose.
" Slighted love is sair to bide." Burns. Duncan Gray.
" Slow and steady wins the race."
Lloyd. Fables. The Hare and the Tortoise.
" Slow-consuming age." Gray. Ode on Eton College, 9.
" Slow rises worth, by poverty depress'd :
But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold,
Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold ;
Where won by bribes, by flatteries implor'd.
The groom retails the favours of his lord."
Dr. S. Johnson, London, line 177.
" Slumber is more sweet than toil." Tennyson. The Lotos Eaters.
" Small curs are not regarded, when they grin ;
But great men tremble when the lion roars."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. II. [Queen Margaret),
Act III., Sc. I.
" Small debts are like small shot ; they are rattling on every side, and
can scarcely be escaped without a wound : great debts are like
cannon ; of loud noise, but little danger."
Dr. S. Johnson. Letter to jfos. Simpson, Esq.
SMALL GRIEFS— SO FULL OF SHAPES. 229
" Small griefs find tongues: full casks are ever found
To give (if any, yet) but little sound." Herrick. Hcsperides, ^8.
•' Small leisure have the poor for grief."
Whittier. The Witch's Daughter.
" Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires abide,
And with the wind in greater fury fret."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece, g^.
" Small occasions in the path of life
Lie thickly sown, while great are rarely scatter'd."
Joanna Baillie. Basil (Valtomer), Act I., Sc. II.
" Small pitchers have wyde ears."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. V.
Vide — " Pitchers have ears."
" Small service is true service while it lasts."
Wordsworth. To a Child.
" Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Gaunt), Act II., Sc. I.
" Small things make base men proud."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. II. (Suffolk), Act IV., Sc. I.
" (Do you not) smell a rat ? "
Ben Jonson. Tale of a Tub {Metaphor), Act IV., Sc. III.
" I smell a rat."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. I., Can. I., line 821.
" I smell a rat." Prior. Alma, Can. III., line 128.
" Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Suffolk), Act III., Sc. I.
" Smooth waters run deep." Scotch Proverb.
" Smoothing the rugged brow of night." Milton. II Penseroso.
" So doth the greater glory dim the less ;
A substitute shines brightly as a king,
Until a king be by ; and then his state
Empties itself, as doth an inland brook
Into the main of waters."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice {Fortia),Act V., Sc. I.
" So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd,
The first, last look by death reveal'd I " Byron. The Giaour.
" So flits the world's uncertain span 1
Nor zeal for God, nor love for man,
Gives mortal monuments a date
Beyond the power of Time and Fate."
Scott. Rokeby, Can. VI., I.
" So full of shapes is fancy.
That it alone is high-fantastical."
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night (Duke), Act I., Sc. I.
230 so MANY ARE— SOFT PITY.
" So many are
The sufferings wliicli no human aid can reach,
It needs must be a duty doubly s\\ ect
To heal the few we can." Coleuidge. Zapolya, PL II.
" So many heads, so many wits."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, BI;. I., Ch. III.
"As the saynge is, so many heades, so many wyttes."
Queen Elizabeth. Godly Meditacyon of the Cliristm
Soule.
" So various is the human mind ;
Such are the frailties of mankind 1
What at a distance charm'd our eyes.
Upon attainment — droops— and dies." J. Cunningham. Hymen.
" So void of pity is th' ignoble crowd,
When others' ruin may increase their store I "
Dkyden. Annus Mirabilis, CCL.
" Society in poverty is better than solitude in wealth."
Peacock. Melincourt (Mr. Forrester), Ch. XII.
" Ah ! better to love in the lowliest cot
Than pine in a palace, alone."
Whyte Melville. Chastclar.
" Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the
better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the
liberty and culture of the eater." Emerson. Self -Reliance.
" Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and
reveals it by hiding." Emerson. Worship.
" Society is barbarous, until every industrious man can get his living
without dishonest customs." Emerson. Wealth.
" Society is no comfort
To one not sociable."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline {Imogen), Act IV., Sc, II.
" Society is now one polish'd horde,
Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored."
Bvron. Don yuan. Can. VIII., St. 95.
" Society is the true sphere of human virtue."
Eliz. Carter. Rambler, No. 44.
" (Thus it has been said does) Society naturally divide itself into four
classes: — Noblemen, gentlemen, gigmen, and men."
Carlyle. Essay on Saml. jfohnson.
" Society than solitude is worse.
And man to man is still the greatest curse."
Mrs. Barbauld. Ovid to his Wife.
" Soft pity enters at an iron gate."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lvcrcce, 85.
SOFT WORDS— SOME SENSE OF DUTY. 231
*' Soft words, with nothing in ihem, make a sonc;."
Waller. Tu Mr. Creech.
" Soldier, restl thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking ;
Dream of battled fields no more,
Days of danger, nights of waking."
Sir W. Scott. The Lady of the Lake, Can. I., XXXI.
" Sole arbiter of fate, one Cause supreme,
All just, all wise, who bids what still is best
In cloud or sunshine, whose severest hand
Wounds but to heal, and chastens to amend."
Mallett. .Amyntor and Theodora, Can. I., line 95.
" Solid pudding against empty praise."
Pope. The Dunciad, Bk. I., line 54.
" Solitude at length grows tiresome." Sterne. Letter to Miss L .
" Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom." Sterne, Letter LXXXIL
" Solitude sometimes is best society,
And short retirement urges sweet return."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. IX., line 476.
" Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness I
thrust upon 'em." j
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night (MalvoUo, Letter),
Act II., Sc. V.
" Some bookes are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to
be chewed and digested." Bacon. Essay L., Of Studies.
" Some ease it is hid sorrows to declare."
Francis Davison. Sonnet V. A Complaint.
" (Be cheerful ; wipe thine eyes :)
Some falls are means the happier to arise."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline {Lucius), Act IV., Sc. II.
" Some falsehood mingles with all truth."
Longfellow. The Golden Legend, IV.
" Some grief shews much of love ;
But much of grief shews still some want of wit."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfuliet {Lady Capidct),
Act III., Sc. V.
" Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall :
Some run from brakes of vice, and answer none;
And some condemned for a fault alone."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Escalus),
Act II., Sc. I.
" Some sense of duty, something of a faith,
Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made.
Some patient force to change them when we will, /^^
Some civic manhood firm against the crowd." C^
Tennyson. The Princess. Conclusion.
232 SOME VILLAGE— SORROW CONCEAUD
" Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast,
The little tyrant of his fields withstood :
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,
Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood."
Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard.
" How many a rustic Milton has passed by,
Stifling the 'speechless longings of his heart,
In unremitting drudgery and care !
How many a vulgar Cato has compelled
His energies, no longer tameless then.
To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail ! "
Shelley. Queen Mab, V.
" Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose."
Longfellow. The Village Blacksmith.
" (For) something in the envy of the small
Still loves the vast Democracy of Death ! "
Lytton. Earlier Poems. The Bones of Raphael.
" Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Marcellus), Act I., Sc. IV.
" Soon or late Love is his own avenger."
Byron. Don Juan, Can. IV., St. 73.
" (For) sooner may one day the sea lie still.
Than once restrain a woman of her will."
W. Haughton. Englishmen for my Money [Anthony),
Act v., Sc. I.
" Sooner or later, all things pass away,
And are no more : The beggar and the king.
With equal steps, tread forward to their end."
Southern. The Fatal Marriage {Isabella),
Act II., Sc. II.
" Sorrow and joy, in love, alternate reign ;
Sweet is the bliss, distracting is the pain."
Edmund Smith. Phcedra and Ilippolitm (Theseus), Act III.
" Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike."
Longfellow. Evangeline, Part the Second, I.
" Sorrow breaks seasons, and reposing hours,
Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide nigbU
Princes have but their titles for their glories,
An outward honour for an inward toil ;
And for unfelt imaginations,
They often feel a world of restless cares :
So that, between their titles, and low name,
There's nothing differs but the outward fame."
Shakespeare. Richard III. (Brackenbury), Act I., Sc. IV.
" Sorrow conceal'd, like an oven stopp'd.
Doth burn the heart to cinders."
Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus (Marcus), Act II., Sc. V.
SORROW IS A KIND— SPEAKING TRUTH. 233
•' Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes
in its passage to scour awaj'. It is the putrefaction of stagnant
hfe, and is remedied by exercise and motion."
Dk. S. Johnson. The Rambler, No, 47.
" Sorrow, long- indulged and slow,
Is to Humanity a foe."
Langhorne. Hymn to Humanity, St. 2.
" ('Tis held that) sorrow makes us wise."
Tennyson. In Memoriam, CVIII.
" Sorrow
More akin to earthly things.
Only strains the sad heart's fibres,
Joy, bright stranger, breaks the strings."
Adelaide Procter. Homeward Bound.
" Sorrow more beautiful than beauty's self."
Keats. Hyperion, Bk. I.
" Sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness,
Is like the mirth fate turns to sudden sadness."
Shakespeare. Troihis and Cressida (Troilus), Act I., Sc. I.
" Sorrow, the way to death." Keats. Endymion, I.
" Sorry pre-eminence of high descent,
Above the vulgar born, to rot in state 1 "
Blair. The Grave, line 154.
" Sotte's bolt is sone shote." Hendyng. Proverbs.
" A fool's bolt is soone shot."
John Hevwood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Sc. III.
" A fool's bolt is soon shot."
Shakespeare. Henry V. {Duke 0/ Orleans),
Act III., Sc. VII.
" Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea 1
Jehovah has triumph'd — His people are free."
T. MooRE. Sacred Songs. Sound the Loud Timbrel.
" Sounds that charm our ears,
Are but one dressing that rich science wears."
Cowley. Davideis, Bk. I., line 465.
" Sovereign mistress of true melancholy."
Shakespeare. Antoyiy and Cleopatra (Enobarbus),
Act IV., Sc. IX.
" Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn."
Shakespeare. Lovers Labour Lost {Biron),Act IV.,Sc. III.
" Speak not in the hearing of a fool ;
For he will despise the wisdom of thy words."
Proverbs. Ch. XXIII., ver. 9.
" Speaking truth is like writing fair, and comes only by practice."
RUSKIN. The Seven Lamps of Architecture. The Lamp
of Truth, I.
234 SPEECH IS OF TIME— STERN OPPRESSION'S.
" Speecli is of Time, Silence is of Eternitv."
Caklyle. Sartor licsartiis, Bk. III., Ch. III.
" Speech, thought's canal 1 speech, thoughts criterion, too I
Thought in the mine, may come forth gold or dross ;
When coin'd in words, we know its real worth."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night II., line 469.
" Spirits are not finely touch'd
But to fine issues ; nor Nature never lends
The smallest simple of her excellence,
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
Herself the glory of a creditor,
Both thanks and use."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Duke),
Act I., Sc. I.
" Spite of pride, in erring reason's spite.
One truth is clear, whatever is, is right."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. I., line 293.
" Whatever is, is right." Ibid. Ep. IV., line 394.
" (And they) spoiled the Egyptians." Exodus. Ch. XII., ver. 36.
" Sport that wrinkled Care derides,
And laughter holding both his sides,
Come, and trip it as you go
On the light fantastic toe." Milton. L' Allegro.
" Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in
private."
Ben Jonson. Every Man Out 0/ his Humour (Carlo
Bnffone), Act II., Sc. II.
" Spring, Spring, beautiful Spring,
Laden with glory and light you come ;
With the leaf, the bloom, and the butterfly's wing,
Making our earth a fairy home." Eliza Cook. Spring.
•' Spring would be but gloomy weather,
If we had nothing else but Spring,"
T. MooRC. juvenile Poems. To
" Squint-eyed Slander." Beattie. The yndgmcnt of Paris.
" Stand no* jpon the order of your going,
But go at once."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Act III.,Sc. IV.
" Star to star vibrates light ; may soul to soul
Strike thro' a finer element of her own ? "
TENrivsoN Aylmer's Field.
"... Stars, the thoughts of God in the heavens."
Longfellow. Evangeline, Part the Second, III.
'• Steeped to the lips in memory." Longfellow. The Goblet of Life.
" Stern oppression's iron grip." Burns. A Winter Night.
STILL AMOROUS-STRAIGHT DOWN. 235
' Still amorous, and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling."
liUTLEK. Iludibrus, PI. III., Can. I., line 6S7.
' Still last to come where thou art wanted most."
Wordsworth. Sonnet to Sleep, XIII.
' Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity we make or find."
Goldsmith. The Traveller, line 435.
" Stitch— stitch— stitch,
In poverty, hunger, and dirt.
Sewing at once, with a double thread,
A shroud as well as a shirt." Hood. The Song of the Shirt.
' Stolen waters are sweet,
.\nd bread eaten in secret is pleasant." Proverbs. Ch. IX.,ver. i-j.
'• ' Much sweeter,' she saith, ' more acceptable
Is drinke, when it is stollen priuely.
Than when it is taken in forme auawable :
Bread hidden and gotten jeopardously,
Must needs be sweet, and semblably,
Uenison stolne is aye the sweeter.
The ferther the narrower fet the better.' "
Lydgate. The Remedy of Love.
'• Sweet are stoln waters."
Ph. Fletcher. Can. III., St. 18.
•' Stolen kisses are always sweeter."
Leigh Hunt. The Indicator.
" Stolen glances, sweeter for the theft."
Byron. Don Juan, Can. I., St. ji{^
" Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage."
Lovelace. To Althaa. From Prison.
** That which the world miscalls a jail
A private closet is to me,
Whilst a good conscience is my bail,
And innocence my liberty;
Locks, bars, and solitude, together see,
Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret."
Lord Arthur Capel. Written in Confinement.
" (For) stony limits cannot keep love out:
And what love can do, that dares love attempt."
Shakespeare. Romeo and yuliet (Romeo), Act II., Sc. II.
" Stood never man so sure
On woman's word, but wisdom would mistrust it to endure."
Earl of Surrey. A Warning to the Lover.
" Straight down the Crooked Lane,
And all round the Square." T. Hood. A Plain Direction, V., i.
236 STRANGE! ALL THIS—SUCH BLESSINGS.
" Strange ! all this difference should be
'Twixt Tvveedle-dum and Tweedle-dee 1 "
Pope. Epigram on Handel and Bononcini.
" Strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds."
Shakespeare. Cymbdine (lachimo), Act I., Sc. IV.
" Strength is born
In the deep silence of long-suffering hearts ;
Not amidst joy."
Felicia Hemans. The Siege of Valencia. Ximena.
" Strike for your altars and your fires 1
Strike for the green graves of your sires,
God, and your native land." Halleck. Marco Bozsaris.
" Strongest minds
Are often those of whom the noisy world
Hears least."
Wordsworth. The Excursion. The Wanderer, Bk. I.
" (She was) struck all of a heap."
Bickerstaff. The Maid of the Mill (Giles), Act II., Sc. I.
" Struck blind with beauty I
Shot with a woman's smile."
Beaumont and Fletcher, The Knight of Malta [Mount-
f err at), Act II., Sc. III.
" Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks ;
Small have continual plodders ever won,
Save bare authority from others' books I "
Shakespeare. Love''s Labour Lost (Biron), Act I., Sc. I.
" Study is the bane of boyhood, the aliment of youth, the indulgence of
manhood, and the restorative of old age."
W. S. Landor. Imaginary Conversations. Pericles
and Astasia.
" Subjects may grieve, but monarchs must redress."
Dryden. Anttns Mirabilis, CCXLII.
" Success, a sort of suicide,
Is ruin'd by success." Young. Resignation, Ft. II.
" Success the mark no mortal wit.
Or surest hand, can always hit."
Butler. Hudibras, Ft. I., Can. I., line 879.
" Such blessings Nature pours,
O'erstock'd mankind enjoy but half her stores:
In distant wilds, by human eye unseen.
She rears her flow'rs, and spreads her velvet green:
Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace.
And waste their music on the savage race."
Young. Love of Fame, Sat. V., line 227.
SUCH DISTANCE— SURELY THEY LEAP. 237
" Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathonied caves of Ocean bear ;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
Gray. Elegy in a Country Churchyard.
" Many a flower by man unseen
Gladdens lone recesses ;
Many a nameless brook makes green
Haunts its beauty blesses." Bernard Barton.
Such distance is between high words and deeds !
In proof, the greatest vauntcr seldom speeds."
Southwell. St. Peter's Complaint.
•• Talkers are no great doers."
Shakespeare. Richard III. [ist Murderer),
Act I., Sc. III.
Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such, a woman oweth to her husband."
Shakespeare. The Taming 0/ the Shrew {Katharina),
Act v., Sc. II.
â– Such ever was love's way : to rise, it stoops."
R. Browning. A Death in the Desert.
' Such is the use and noble end of friendship,
To bear a part in every storm of fate,
And, by dividing, make the lighter weight."
B. HiGGiNS. The Generous Conqueror.
' Such, Polly 1 are your sex — part truth, part fiction ;
Some thought, much whim, and all a contradiction."
Savage. Verses to a Yuung Lady.
" Such souls
Whose sudden visitations daze the world,
Vanish like liglitning ; but they leave behind
A voice that in the distance far away
Wakens the slumbering ages."
Sir H. Taylor. Philip van Artevelde, Pt. I. [Artevelde),
Act /., Sc. VII.
' Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
St. Matthew. Cli. VI., ver. 34.
' Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III., Sc. II.
' Superstition is the religion cf feeble minds."
BuRKK. Reflections on the Revolution in France.
' Surely they leap best in their providence forward who fetch their rise
furthest backward in their experience."
Fuller. Holy and Profane States. Holy State.
The Good General.
238 SURFEIT IS THE FATHER— SWEET TASTES.
•' (As) surfeit is the father of much fast,
So every scope by the immoderate use
Turns to restraint."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Claiidio), Act I., Sc. III.
•' Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer."
Shakespeare. Hc?iry VI., Pt. III. (Gloster), Act V., Sc. VI.
CoLLEY CiBBER. Richard III. {altered by). (Richard)^
Act I., Sc. I.
" Suspicion's but at best a coward's virtue."
Otway. Venice Preserved (Pierre), Act III., Sc. I.
" Sweet are the uses of adversity ;
Which like the toad ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
Shakespeare. As Yoh Like It {Duke S.), Act II., Sc. I.
" Sweet as love,
Or the remembrance of a generous deed."
Wordsworth. The Prelude, Book the Sixth.
" (Your) sweet faces make good fellows fools
And traitors." Tennyson. Geraint and Enid.
" Sweet girl-graduates." Tennyson. The Princess, Prologue.
" Sweet is pleasme after pain." Dryden. Alexander's Feast, III.
" Sweet is revenge — especially to women."
Byron. Don yuau, Can. I., St. 124.
" Sweet is the breath of vernal show'r,
The bees collected treasures sweet,
Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet
The still small voice of gratitude." Gray. Ode for Music, V.
'• Sweet is the love that comes alone with willingnessc."
Spenser. Faerie Queenc, Bk. IV., Can. V., St. 25.
" Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign
The summer calm of golden charity." Tennyson. Isabel.
" Sweet love, I see, changing his property.
Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate."
Shakespeare. Richard II. [Scroop), Act III., Sc. II.
" Sweet love is food for fortune's tooth."
Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida (Troilus), Act IV., Sc. V.
" Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."
Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus (Tamora), Act I., Sc. I.
" Sweet tastes have sour closes;
And he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses."
Quarles. Emblems, Bk. I., No. 7.
SWEETS TO THE SWEET— TALKING AND ELOQUENCE. 2j.)
" Sweets to the sweet ; farewell ! "
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Queen), Act V., Sc. I.
"The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid."
TiCKELL.
•* Sweets to the sweet 1 a long adieu ! "
Bowles. The Spirit of Discovery, Bk. IV., line 408.
" Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy."
Shakespeare. Sonnet, VIII.
" Swift instinct leaps ; slow Reason feebly climbs."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night VII., line 82.
'« Syllables govern the world." Selden. Table Talk. Power.
" — Take away the sword —
States can be saved without it."
Bulwer Lytton. Richelieu [Richelieu], Act II., Sc. II.
" (Old Mr. Lowndes, the famous Secretary of the Treasury in the reigns
of King William, Queen Anne, and George the First, used to say,)
take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of them-
selves."
Lord Chesterfibld. Letter to his Son. 6th Nov., 1747.
Also, Letter to his Son. ^thFeb.,
1750.
" Take her up tenderly,
Lift her with care ;
Fashion'd so slenderly.
Young and so fair I " T. Hood. The Bridge of Sighs.
" Take the wings from the image of Love, and the god disappears from
the form!"
Bulwer Lytton. A Strange Story, Ch. XV.
" Take time by the forelock." Old Proverb.
" I'll take occasion by the forelock."
Massinger. The Unnatural Combat {Montreville),
Act v., Sc. I.
" Take what is, trust what may be,
That's life's true lesson,— eh ? "
R. Browning. FerishtaK's Fancies, Prologue.
" Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the
book." Emerson. Goethe.
" Talent convinces — Genius but excites."
Bulwer Lytton. Earlier Poems. Talent and Genius.
" Talkers are no great doers."
Shakespeare. Richard III. {ist Murderer), Act I., Sc. III.
Vide — " Such distance is between."
" Talking and eloquence are not the same; to speak, and to speak well,
are two things." Ben Jonson. Discoveries.
240 TASTE IS NOT ONLY—TENDER TWIGS.
" Taste is not only a part and an index of morality ; — it is the only
morality,"
RusKiN. The Crown of Wild Olive, II. Traffic, 54.
" Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country ; but
its borders are confined, and its term limited. Knowledge navigates
the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery."
I. Disraeli. Curiosities vf Literatxirc. Characteristics
of Bayle.
" Tea ! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid ; — thou female
tongue-running, smile-soothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cor-
dial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my
life, let me fall prostrate."
CoLLEY Gibber. The Lady's Last Stake, Act I., Sc. I.
*' Teach him how to live.
And, oh ! still harder lesson, how to die."
Beilby Porteus. Death, line 316.
" Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow.
The world would listen then, as I am listening now."
Shelley. To a Skylark, XXI.
" Teachers men honour, learners they allure;
But learners teaching, of contempt are sure."
Crabbe. The Learned Boy.
" Tears are a most worthless token
When hearts they would have soothed are broken ! "
L. E. L. Tlie Painter's Love.
" Tears are the noble language of the eye.
And when true love of words is destitute
The eyes by tears speak, while the tongue is mute."
Herrick. Hesperides, 150.
" Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askalon."
Samuel. Bk. II., Ch. I., ver. 20.
" (O, while you live), tell truth, and shame the devil."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. [Hotspur), Act III., Sc. I.
" (Yet I shall) temper so
Justice with mercy." Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. X., line jj.
" Temperance is the nurse of chastity."
Wycherlev. Love in a Wood [Gripe), Act III., Sc. III.
"(Nor earn that) tempted Fate will leave the loftiest star."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. III., St. 38.
" Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, Pt. I., line 6.
" Tender twigs are bent with ease,
Aged trees do break with bending."
Southwell. Loss in Delay.
THANKS— THAT HAPPINESS, 241
" (Evermore) thanks, the exchequer of the poor ;
Which, till my infant fortune comes to years,
Stands for my bounty."
Shakespeare. Richard II. {Bolins^broke), Act II., Sc. III.
" That all men would be cowards, if they dare,
Some men have had the courage to declare."
Cradee. Tale I., line i.
" (On) that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love."
Wordsworth. Poems of tlic Imagination, XXVI.
" (An old prouerbe sayd is in English,)
That bird or foule is full dishonest
What that he be, and hold full churlish,
That vseih to defoule his owne nest."
Thos. Occleve. The Letter of Cupid.
" That bliss no wealth can bribe, no pow'r bestow,
That bliss of angels, love by love repaid."
Mallett. Amyntas and Theodora, Can. I., line 367.
" That death's unnatural that kills for loving."
Shakespeare. Othello (Desdemona), Act V., Sc. II.
" That eagle's fate and mine are one.
Which on the shaft that made him die,
Espied a feather of his own,
Wherewith he wont to soar so high."
Waller. To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing.
" So the struck eagle sti-etch'd upon the plain,
No more though roiling clouds to soar agaiiif
View'd his own feather on the fatal dart.
And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart."
Byron. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
" Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume
To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,
See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart
Which rank corruption destines for their heart ! "
T. Moore. Corruption.
" That evil is half cur'd whose cause we know."
Churchill. Gotham, Bk. III., line 632.
" That foul bird of rapine whose whole prey
Is man's good name." Tennyson. Merlin and Vivien.
" That great dust-heap called ' history '."
Augustine Birrell. Obiter Dicta. Carlyle.
" That happiness ye seek is not below ;
Earth's sweetest joy is but disguised woe."
Drummond ok Hawthornden. Song.
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242 THAT IN THE CAPTAIN'S— THAT ORBED MAIDEN.
" That in the captain's but a cholerick word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure {Angela), Act II., Sc. III.
" And that which in mean men would seem a fault,
As leaning to ambition or such like,
Is in a king but well beseeming him."
Anon. The Play of Stuckley [Alva), line 1573.
•• Ambition in a private man, a vice,
Is, in a prince, the virtue."
Massinger. The Bashful Lover (Alonso), Act /., Sc II.
" That inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude."
Wordsworth. Poems of the Imagination XII.
" That is not a common chance
That takes away a noble mind." Tennyson. To/. S.
" That island queen who sways the floods and lands
From Ind to Ind." Tennyson. Buonaparte.
" That jewell'd mass of millinery,
That oil'd and curl'd Assyrian Bull
Smelling of musk and insolence." Tennyson. Maud VII., 6.
" That *knuckle end of England — that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and
sulphur." Sydney Smith. Memoirs, Ch. II.
* Scotland.
" That land's enslaved whose sov'ran mind
Collides the conscience of mankind."
Sydney Dobell. A Shower in War Time.
" That little world, the human mind." Rogers. Ode to Superstition.
" That man is sure to lose
That fouls his hands with dirty foes :
For where no honour's to be gain'd,
'Tis thrown away in being maintain'd."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. II., Can. II., line 849.
" That man that hath a tongue I say is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine),
Act III., Sc. I.
" That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. III., Ch. VI.
" That old hereditary bore,
The steward." Rogers. Italy. A Character, line 13.
" That only disadvantage of honest hearts, credulity."
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. II-
" That orb6d maiden, with white fire laden,
Whom mortals call the moon." Shelley. The Cloud, IV.
THAT PORTENTOUS— THAT WHICH WE. 24J
•' That portentous phrase — ' I told you so '."
Byron. Don yuan. Can. XIV., St. 50.
" That prime ill, a talking wife." Prior. Alma, Can. II., line 364.
" That prophet ill sustains his holy call,
Who finds not heavens to suit the tastes of all."
T. Moore. Lalla Rookk, I.
" That rare appendage to a King;
A friend that never played the slave." Eliza Cook. Mclaia.
" That same man that rennith away,
Maie againe fight another daie." Nicholas Udall.
" He that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day."
Sir John Mennis. Musaruni Delicice.
** For those that run away and fiy,
Take place at least of th' enemy."
Butler. Hndibras, Pt. I., Can. III., line 6og.
" For those that fly may fight again
Which he can never do that's slain."
Butler. Hndibras, Pt. III., Can. III., line 243.
" For those that save themselves and fly
Go halves at least i' th' victory."
Butler. Hndibras, Pt. III., Can. III., line 269.
" For he who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day ;
But he who is in battle slain
Can never rise and fight again."
The Art 0/ Poetry on a New Plan. Ed. by
O. Goldsmith.
' That sovereign bliss, a wife." Mallett. Cupid and Hymen.
' That talkative maiden, Rumour." George Eliot. Felix Holt.
' That way madness lies."
Shakespeare. King Lear [Lear), Act III., Sc. IV.
' That we were all, as some would seem to be,
Free from all faults, as faults from seeming free."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Duke), Act III.,Sc. II.
• That which in mean men we entitle patience,
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Duchess of Glosterj,
Act I., Sc. II.
' That which we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost.
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us."
Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothim^ (Friar),
Act IV., Sc. I.
244 THAT VERY THING— THE ARMS ARE FAIR.
" That very thing so many Christians want — Humility."
Hood. Ode to Rae Wilson.
" That's a bad sort of eddication as make folks unreasonable."
George Eliot. Scenes from Clerical Life. Amos Barton
{Mr. Hackit).
" Thauh we hadde ycullid pe, catte — 5ut sholde per come anoper,
To cracchen ons & al oure kynde."
Lang LAND. Piers the Plowman. Passus I., line 199.
" The absent Danger greater still appears,
Less fears he who is near the thing he fears."
S. Daniel. Tragedy of Cleopatra [Radon), Act IV., Sc. I.
" The accusing spirit, which flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath,
blushed as he gave it in ; and the recording angel as he wrote it
down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out for ever."
Sterne. Tristram Sandy, Ch. XLIX.
" (But) the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and
calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished
for ever." Burke. Reflections on the French Revolution.
" The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life :
" Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate 1 "
R. Browning. Bishop Blougram''s Apology.
" The all of things is an infinite conjugation of the verb — 'To Do '."
Carlyle. French Revolution, Bk. III., Ch. I.
" The almighty dollar — that great object of universal devotion through-
out our land 1 " Washington Irving. The Creole Village.
" The angel, Pity, shuns the walks of war ! "
Erasmus Darwin. The Loves of the Plants, Can. III.,
line 298.
" The appetite of the labouring man laboureth for him."
Proverbs. Ch. XVI., ver. 26.
" The apprehension of the good,
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Bolingbroke), Act I., Sc. III.
" The April's in her eyes : it is Love's spring,
And these the showers to bring it on."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Antony),
Act III., Sc. II.
" The •Ariosto of the North."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. IV., St. 40.
* Sir W. Scott.
" — The arms are fair.
When the intent of bearing them is just."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., PL I. (Hotspur), Act V., Sc. II.
THE ATTIC WARBLER— THE BITTER GOES. 245
' The attic warbler pours her throat
Responsive to the cuckoo's note,
The untaught harmony of spring." Gray. Ode to the Spring.
" The bad man's cunning still prepares the way
For its own outwitting." Coleridge. Zapolya, Sc, I.
" The bad man's death is horror : but the just
Keeps something of his glory in the dust."
Habington. Elegie, VIII.
" The beast
With many heads butts me away."
Shakespeare. Coriolanus (Coriolanus), Act IV., Sc. I.
" The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life."
George Eliot. Felix Holt, Ch. XIII.
" The belly is an insatiable creditor, but man worse."
Sir T. Overbury. Characters. Creditors.
" The best elixir is a friend." Somerville. The Hip.
" The best fire doesna flare up the soonest."
George Eliot. Adam Bade (Adam Bcdc), Bk. IV ,
Ch. XXV.
" The best laid schemes o' mice an' men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain
For promis'd joy 1 " Burns. To a Mouse.
" The best may slip, and the most caut' jus fall ;
He's more than mortal that ne'er err'd at all."
Pomfret. Love Triumphant over Reason, line 145.
" The best of men have ever loved repose."
Thomson. The Castle of Indolence, I., line 17.
The best strength of a man is shown in his intellectual work, as that
of a woman in her daily deed and character."
RusKiN. Sesame and Lilies. Preface to 12th Ed.
" The better part of valour is discretion."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. {Falstaff), Act V., Sc. IV.
" It showed discretion, the best part of valour."
Beaumont and Fletcher, King and No King {ist
Sword-man), Act IV.,
Sc. III.
" Even in a hero's heart
Discretion is the better part."
Churchill. The Ghost, Pt. I., line 232.
•' The better wit is, the more dangerous is it."
Landor. Imaginary Conversations. Middleton and
Magliabecchi.
'' The bitter goes before the sweet. Yea, and for as much as it doth, it
makes the sweet the sweeter."
BuNYAN. Pilgrim's Progress [Timorous), Pt. II.
246 THE BLAST— THE BREATHLESS.
" The blast that blows hardest is soon overblown."
Smollett. Song.
" The blaze of a reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the
socket."
Dr. S. Johnson. Letter, ist May, 1780. To Mrs. Thralc.
" The blight of low desires — darkening their own
To thine own likeness." Tennyson. Aylmcr''s Field.
" The blind wild beast offeree." Tennyson. The Princess.
" The bloom of a Rose passes quickly away,
And the pride of a Butterfly dies in a day."
J. Cunningham. The Rose and the Butterfly.
'' The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth, e'er gave,
Await alike th' inevitable hour:
The paths of glory lead but to the grave."
Gray. Elegy in aCoitntry Churchyard.
" The borrower runs in his own debt." Emerson. Compensation.
" The bounds once over-gone that hold men in,
They never stay ; but on from bad to worse.
Wrongs do not leave off there where they begin,
But still beget new mischiefs in their course."
S. Daniel. Civil War, Bk. IV., L
" The brain may devise laws for the blood ; but a hot temper leaps o'er a
cold decree ! "
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Portia),
Act I., Sc. n.
" The brave
Die never. Being deathless, they but change
Their country's arms, for more, their country's heart."
P. J. Bailey. Festus (Fcstus), V.
" The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational ;
But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues.
And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from."
Joanna Baillie. Basil, Act IIL, Sc. I .
" The brave man's courage, and the student's love,
Are but as tools his secret ends to work.
Who hath the skill to use them."
Joanna Baillie. Basil (Dtike), Act IL, Sc. IIL
" The brave only know how to forgive." Sterne. Sermon XII.
" The breath
Of accusation kills an innocent name.
And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life.
Which is a mask without it."
Shelley. The Cenci {Beatrice), Act IV., Sc. IV.
" The breathless silence, which to love
Is all that eloquence can be." L. E. L. The Lost Pleiad.
THE BUSY LARK— THE CLOTHING. 247
' The busy lark, the messenger of day."
Chaucer. The Knightc's Tale, line 1493.
' (Let Hercules himself do what he may,)
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act V., Sc. I.
" Dogs, ye have had your day."
Pope. Homer^s Odyssey, Bk. XXII., line 41.
" Every dog must have his day."
Swift. Whig and Tory.
" The cause of Freedom is the cause of God."
Bowles. To Edmund Burke.
" The cheat at play may use the wealth he's won,
But is not honour'd for the mischief done ;
The cheat in love may use each villain art,
And boast the deed that breaks the victim's heart."
Crabbe. The Borough. Letter XX.
" The cheerful man's a king."
BicKERSTAFF. Love in a Village {Hmvthorn, sings),
Act I., Sc. III.
" The chief glory of every people arises from its authors."
Dr. S. Johnson. Preface to his Dictionary.
" The childhood shews the man,
As morning shews the day."
Milton. Paradise Regained, Bk. IV., line 220.
" The child is father of the man."
Wordsworth. Poems referring to Childhood, I.
" The child's sob curseth deeper in the silence
Than the strong man in his wrath."
E. B. Browning. The Cry of the Children.
" The church and clergy here, no doubt,
Are very much akin ;
Both weather-beaten are without,
Both empty are within." Swift. Extempore Verses.
" (But) the churchmen fain would kill their church,
As the churches have killed their Christ."
Tennyson. Maud V., II.
" The Cincinnatus of the West,
Whom envy dared not hate,
Bequeath'd the name of Washington,
To make man blush there was but one I "
Byron. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, XIX.
" The circumlocution office." C. Dickens. Little Dorrit, Ch. X.
" The clothing of our minds certainly ought to be regarded before that of
our bodies." Steele. Spectator, No. 75.
248 THE COCK— THE CROW.
" The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
Awake the god of day,"
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Horatio), Act I., Sc. I.
" The colt that's back'd and burden'd being young,
Loseth his pride, and never waxeth strong."
Shakespeare. Venus and Adonis, St. 70.
" (I stood beside the grave of him who blazed)
The comet of a season."
Byron. Occasional Pieces. Churchill's Grave.
''The conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts."
Bishop T. Wilson. Maxims, No. 367.
" The conscience is the most elastic material in the world. To-day you
cannot stretch it over a mole-hill, to-morrow it hides a mountain."
Bulwer Lytton. Ernest Maltravers, Bk. I., Ch. VII.
•* The conscious water blush'd its God to see."
R. Crashaw. Epigrammata Sacra, XCVI.
" Nympha pudica Deum vidit et erubuit."
Other versions often appearing are : —
•• The conscious water saw its god and blushed."
" The shy nymph saw her god and blush'd."
•' For the chaste nymph hath seen her god and blush'd."
" The cord breaketh at the last by the weakest pull."
Old Spanish Proverb. Quoted by Bacon. Essay XV.,
0/ Seditions and Troubles.
" The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet,
or the camp." Colton. Lacon, V.
" The course of true love never did run smooth."
Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream {Lysander),
Act I., Sc.I.
" The coward's weapon, poyson."
Ph. Fletcher. Sicelides {Pas), Act V., Sc. III.
*' ' The crane,' I said, ' may chatter of the crane,
The dove may murmur of the dove, but I
An eagle clang an eagle to the sphere.' "
Tennyson. The Princess, III.
" The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn ; and Egypt, Greece,
Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man."
Emerson. History.
" The critic eye, that microscope of wit."
Pope. The Ditnciad, Bk. IV., line 233.
" The crow may bathe his coal-black wings in mire,
And unperceiv'd fly with the filth away ;
But if the like the snow-white swan desire,
The stain upon his silver down will stay ;
Poor grooms are sightless night, kings glorious day.
Gnats are unnoted wheresoe'er they fly.
But eagles gaz'd upon with every eye."
Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece, t^^.
THE CROW— THE DEW. t49
" The crow thinketh her owne birds fairest in the wood."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk, II., Cli. IV.
•• Yet the crow thinkes her black birds of all otiicrs the
fairest." Lupton. All for Money.
" The curtains of yesterday drop down, the curtains of to-morrow roll up ;
but yesterday and to-morrow both are."
Carlyle. Sartor Rcsartus, Bk. III., Ch. VIII.
" The deadliest foe to love, is custom."
BuLWER Lytton. Devereux, Bk. III., Ch. V.
~j
" The deep religion of a thankful heart,
Which rests instinctively in Heaven's law
With a full peace, that never can depart
From its o^vn steadfastness." Lowell. Irene.
" The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow." Shelley. To .
" The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Antonio),
Act I., Sc. III.
*• As devils, to serve their purpose. Scripture quote."
Churchill. The Apology, litie -^ii.
" The devil cannot tie a woman's tongue."
Unknown. Grim, the Collier of Croydon (Castiliano),
Act II., Sc. I.
" (And) the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility." Coleridge. The Devil's Walk.
" The devil has a care of his footmen."
MiDDLETON. A Trick to Catch the Old One (Witgood),
Act I., Sc. IV.
" The devil hath not in all his quiver's choice
An arrow for the heart, like a sweet voice."
Byron. Don Juan, Can. XV., St. 13.
«• The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act II., Sc. II.
" The devil is diligent at his plough."
Bp. Latimer. Sermon of the Plough.
" The Devil, that old stager, at his trick
Of general utility, who leads
Downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way ! "
R. Browning. Red Cotton Night Cap Country, II.
" The devil's sooner raised than laid."
Garrick. Prologue to the School for Scandal.
" The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning."
Psalms. CX., ver, 3.
•• Her birth was of the womb of morning dew,
And her conception of the joyous prime."
Spenser. The Faerie Queene, Bk. III., Can. 6,
250 THE DIGNITY— THE ESSENCE.
" The dignity of the commandment is according to the dignity of the
commanded." Bacon. The Advancancnt of Learning, Bk. I.
" The diff'rence is too nice
Where ends the virtue, or begins the vice."
Popi£. Essay on Man, Ep. II., line 209.
" The dim, dark sea, so Hke unto Death,
That divides and yet unites mankind."
Longfellow, The Building of the Skip.
•' The dirty nurse, experience." Tennyson. The Last Toionament.
" The dreadful touch
Of merchant-marring rocks ? "
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio),
Act III., Sc. II.
•' The drying up a single tear has more
Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore."
Byron. Do7t yuan, Can. VIII., St. 3.
•' The dulness of the fool is the whetstone of his wits."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (Colin), Act I., Sc. II.
" The ear trieth words,
As the palate tasteth meat." Job. Ch. XXXIV., ver. 3.
" The easiest person to deceive is one's own self."
BuLWER LvTTON. The Disowned [Glendower), Ch. XLII.
" The elephant is never won with Anger,
Nor must that man who would reclaim a lion
Take him by the teeth."
Earl of Rochester. *Valentinian {JEcius), Act I., Sc. I.
* This play was otily corrected by the Earl of Rochester ; the
whole authorship is unknown, though some of the
scenes were by y. Fletcher.
•' The empty vessel makes the greatest sound." Old Proverb.
Shakespeare. Henry V. {Boy), Act IV., Sc. V.
" The end crovms all ;
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it."
Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida (Hector), Act IV., Sc. V.
" The last act crowns the play."
Quarles. Emblems, Bk. I. Epigram, 15.
" 'Tis the last act which crowns the play."
N. Cotton. Visions in Verse. Death.
" The end must justify the means." Prior. Hans Carvel, line 67.
" The English winter — ending in July
To recommence in August."
Byron. Don jfuan, Can. XIII., St. 42.
"The essence of humour, sensibility, warm tender fellow-feeling with all
forms of existence." Carlyle. Essav on Richter.
THE EVIL THAT MEN— THE FEAR OF THE LORD. 251
' The evil that men do lives after them ;
The good is oft interred with their bones."
Shakkspeare. jfulius Casar {Antony), Act III., Sc. II.
' The eye is traitor to the heart."
Sir T. Wyatt. That the Eye bcwrayeth, etc.
" The face of every one
That passes by me is a mystery ! "
Wordsworth. The Prelude. Book Seventh.
• The fairest firuits attract the flies." E. Moore. Fable, III.
â– The fairest mark is easiest hit."
Butler. Httdibras, Pt. II., Can. I., line 664.
The fame of success remains, when the motives of attempt are for-
gotten."
RusKiN. The Stoiies of Venice, Ch. I. The Quarry, % 8.
The fame that a man wins himself is best ;
That he may call his own. Honours put to him
Make him no more a man than his clothes do,
And are as soon ta'en off ; for in the warmth
The heat comes from the body, not the weeds :
So man's true fame must strike from his own deeds."
MiDDLETON. The Mayor of Queenborough {Hengist),
Act II., Sc. III.
The fat is in the fire." J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. III.
" The fat's i' th' fire."
HiSTRIOMASTIX. (Gut), Act I., Sc. I.
" All the fat's in the fire."
Smollett. The Reprisal (Brush), Act I., Sc. VIII.
The fatal gift of beauty."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. IV., St. 42.
" The fatal victor of mankind,
Swoln Luxury ! — pale Ruin stalks behind ! "
Pope. Essay on Satire, line 393.
The Fates are just ; they give us but our own ;
Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown."
Whittier. To a Southern Statesman.
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on
edge." Jeremiah. Ch. XXXI., vcr. 29.
The fault unknown is as a thought unacted ;
A little harm, done to a great good end,
For lawful policy remains enacted."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece, 76.
The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip,
To baud the wretch in order." Burns. Epistle to a Young Friend.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."
Proverbs. Ch. I., vcr. 7.
252 THE FEAST— THE FOOL.
" The Feast is good, untill the reck'ning come."
QuARLES. A Feast for Wormes, Sect. 6, Med. 6.
" (There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl)
The feast of reason and the ilow of soul."
Pope. Imitations of Horace, Bk. II., Sat. I., line 131.
" The fire seven times tried this :
Seven times tried that judgment is,
That did never choose amiss.
Some there be that shadows kiss ;
Some have but a shadow's bliss :
There be fools alive Twis,
Silver'd o'er, and so was this.
Take what wife you will to bed,
I will ever be your head :
So be gone, sir : you are sped."
Shakespeare. The Merchant 0/ Venice {Prince of Arragon
reads. Inscription in Silver Casket),
Act II., Sc. IV.
" The first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Northumberland),
Act I., Sc. I.
" The first condition of human goodness is something to love ; the
second, something to reverence."
George Eliot. Scenes from Clerical Life, jfanet's Repentance.
" The first physicians by debauch were made.
Excess began, and sloth sustains the trade."
Dryden. Epistle XIV., To John Dryden.
" The first vertue, sone if thou wilt lere.
Is to restreine, and kepen wel thy tonge."
CHAtJCER. Canterbury Tales. Maunciple^s Tale, line 226.
" The flighty purpose never is o'er-took.
Unless the deed go with it."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act IV., Sc. I.
" The flower she touch'd on, dipt and rose.
And turn'd to look at her." Tennyson. The Talking Oak.
" The food of hope
Is meditated action ; robbed of this
Her sole support, she languishes and dies.
We perish also ; for we live by hope
And by desire ; we see by the glad light
And breathe the sweet air of futurity."
Wordsworth. The Excursion, Bk. IX.
" The fool doth think that he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to
be a fool."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (Touchstone), Act V., Sc. I.
" The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God."
Psalms. Ch. XIV., ver. i.
THE FOOL— THE GENTLE. 253
The fool inherits, but the wise must get."
Caktwright. The Ordinary (Slicer), Act IIL, Sc. VL
The form, the form alone is eloquent !
A nobler yearning never broke her rest
Than but to dance and sing, be ^aily drest,
And win all eyes with all accomplishment."
Tennyson. Early Sonnets, VIII.
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation, and a name."
Shakespeare. Midsummer Niglifs Dream {Theseus),
Act v., Sc. I.
The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb."
Shakespeare. He?iry VI., Pt. II. (Suffolk), Act III., Sc. I.
The fraction of life can be increased in value, not so much by increasing
your numerator, as by lessening your denominator."
Carlyle. Sartor Rcsartus, Bk. II., Ch. IX.
The friend of him who has no friend —
Religion 1 " J. Montgomery. The Pillow.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried.
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new hatched, unfledged comrade."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Polonius), Act I., Sc. III.
The fruits of the earth have their growth in corruption."
C. Dickens. American Notes, Ch. III.
The furthest way about, t' o'ercome,
In the end does prove the nearest home."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. II., Can. I., line 227.
The game is up."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (Belariics), Act III., Sc. III.,
last line.
The gardener Adam and his wife
Smile at the claims of long descent."
Tennyson. Lady Clara Verc de Vere.
(True is, that whilome that good poet sayd,)
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is knowne ;
For a man by nothing is so well bewray'd
As by his manners."
Spenser. The Faerie Queene, Bk. VI., Can. III., St. i.
" Manners makyth man."
Motto of William of Wykeham.
" Manners alone beam dignity on all."
Whitehead. Manners, a Satire, line 76.
" Since all allow that manners make the man."
Ibid., line 82.
" It is not learning, it is not virtue, about which people in-
quire in society. It's manners."
Thackeray. Sketches and Travels in London.
On Tailoring,
254 THE GLASS— THE GOOD.
" The glass of fashion, and the mould of form,
The observed of all observers."
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Ophelia), Act III., Sc. I.
" The fjlory of young men is their strength ;
And the beauty of old men is the hoary head."
Proverbs. Ch. XX., vcr. 29.
" The God of Love is blinde as stone."
Chaucer. The Romaunt of the Rose, Hue 3702.
•' For loue is blinde, and male not see."
GowER. Confessio Amantis, Bk. I.
" But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies they themselves commit."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice [fessica).
Act II., Sc. VI.
" Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind."
Shakespeare. Midsummer NighVs Dnain
(Helena), Act I., Sc. I.
" Merciless love, whom nature hath denied
The use of eyes."
J. Fletcher. The Chances, Act II., Sc. II.
" Cupid is a blind gunner."
Farquhar. Love and a Bottle (Brush), Act I., Sc. I.
" Love is blind."
Ben Jonson. The Poetaster, Act IV., Sc. II.
" Love is always blind." Pope. January and May.
" (Swear by thy gracious self.
Which is) the God of my idolatry."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfttliet (yuliet). Act II., Sc. II.
" The god of our idolatry."
CowPER. The Task, Bk. VI.
" But Mrs. Thrale I she — she is the goddess of my idolatry! '
Fanny Burney. Letter to Miss S. Burncy.
5th July, 1778.
' The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to scourge us."
Shakespeare. King Lear {Edgar), Act V., Sc. IIL
" The good die first,
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust
Burn to the socket." Wordsworth. The Excursion, Bk. I.
" The good needs fear no law,
It is his safety, and the bad man's awe."
Massinger. The Old Law (Evander), Act V., Sc. I,
last lines.
Ihe good receiv'd, the giver is forgot."
CoNGREVE. To Lord Halifax, line 39.
THE GRAND— THE GREATEST. 255
' The grand Perhaps 1 " R. Browning. Bishop Blougram's Apology.
" The grand old name of gentleman,
Defamed by every charlatan,
And soil'd with all ignoble use." Tennyson. In Memoriam, CXI
' The grave itself is but a covered bridge,
Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness ! "
Longfellow. The Golden Legend, V.
" The great beacon-light God sets in all,
The conscience of each bosom."
R. Browning. Strafford, Act IV., Sc. II.
' The great business of life is, to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."
John Morley. Address on Aphorisms. Before the Edinburgh
Philo. Inst. Nov., 1887.
' The great Creator to revere,
Must sure become the creature." Burns. Epistle to a Young Friend.
' The great end of life is not knowledge, but action."
Huxley. Technical Education.
' The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps, with perfect
sweetness, the independence of solitude."
Emerson. Self-Reliance.
' The great mind knows the power of gentleness,
Only tries force because persuasion fails."
R. Browning. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau.
' The great painter, as the great author, embodies what is possible to
man, it is true, but what is not common to mankind."
BuLWER Lytton. Zanoni, Bk. II., Ch. IX.
' The great unwashed." Attributed to Lord Brougham.
Vide — Hain Friswell, Familiar Words, p. 321.
" The great world's altar-stairs
That slope thro' darkness up to God."
Tennyson. In Memoriam, LIV.
The greater cantle of the world is lost
With very ignorance ; we have kiss'd away
Kingdoms and provinces."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra {Scams), Act III., Sc. X.
The greater the truth, the greater the hbel." Lord Mansfield.
" The greatest are misthought
For things that others do."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra),
Act v., Sc. II.
The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy ;
And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory,
Where it may kill with right, to save with pity."
J. Fletcher.* The Lover's Progress (Lisander),
Act III., Sc. III.
• This play was left imperfect by Fletcher, and finished by
another poet, probably Massinger or Shirley.
356 THE GREATEST CLERKS— THE GREY MARE.
" The greatest clerks ben not the wisest men."
Chaucer. The MiUere's Tale.
" The greatest clerks be not the wisest men."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ck. V.
"The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love
of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure."
RuSKiN. Sesame arid Lilies, Lee. I., 3.
"' The greatest enemy to man is man."
Burton. The Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. I., Sec, I.,
Mem. /., Subs. I.
"* The greatest happiness of the greatest number." Dr. Priestley.
" It is the greatest good to the greatest number, which is
the measure of right or v^ong." Bentham.
••That truth once known, all else is worthless lumber ;
The greatest pleasure of the greatest number."
BuLWER Lytton. King Arthur, Bk, VIII., LXX.
" The greatest king is he who is the king
Of greatest subjects." G. West. Institution of the Garter, line ^02.
" The greatest men
May ask a foolish question now and then."
Peter Pindar. The Afple Dumpling and the King.
" The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night,
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light ;
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day's path-way, made by Titan's wheels."
Shakespeare. Romeo arid jftiliet (Friar Lawrence),
Act II., Sc. III.
" The grey-haired saint may fail at last,,
The surest guide a wanderer prove ;
Death only binds us fast
To the bright shore of love."
Keble. The Christian Year. Sth Sunday after Trinity.
" The grey mare
Is ill to live with, when her whinny shrills
From tile to scullery, and her small good man
Shrinks in his arm-chair while the fires of Hell
Mix with his hearth." Tennyson. The Princess.
" The grey mare is the better horse."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. IX.
•• Break her betimes, and bring her under by force,
Or else the grey mare will be the better horse."
Unknown. The Marriage of Wit and Science
(Will), Act II., Sc. I.
" When the grey mare's the better horse."
Butler, Hndibras, Pt. II., Can. II., line 698.
••Then the she-Pegasus shall gain the course,
And the grey mare will prove the better hor? e."
Prick. Epilogue to Lucius.
THE GROUND-^THE HIGHEST PRICE. 257
' The ground that gave them first lias them again :
Their pleasures here are past, so is their pain."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline {Bcllarius), Act IV., Sc. II.
' The grub, that is slighted to-day
As a suitor presuming and bold.
May perhaps be received in a different way,
When soaring on pinions of gold."
Haynes Bayly. The Loves of the Butterflies, VI.
' The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act V., Sc. I.
' The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss, Bk. VI., Ch. III.
" The harder match'd, the greater victory."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. III. [King Edward),
Act v., Sc. I.
" The hastie man never wanteth woe."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. II.
" The hastie man never wanteth woe, they say."
Chapman. Eastward Ho, Act V., Sc. I.
" The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,
For talking age and whispering lovers made."
Goldsmith. The Deserted Village, line 13.
" The healsome porritch, chief of Scotia's food."
Burns. The Cottar's Saturday Night.
" The heart can ne'er a transport know,
That never feels a pain." Lyttelton. Sotig written in 1753, ///.
" The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is desperately sick."
Jeremiah. Ch. XVII., ver. g.
" The Heart— the Heart that's truly blest
Is never all its own ;
No ray of glory lights the breast
That beats for self alone." Eliza Cook. The Heart.
" The hearts of princes kiss obedience,
So much they love it : but to stubborn spirits,
They swell, and grow as terrible as storms."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. (Wolsey), Act III., Sc. I.
" The heavenly rhetoric of thine eye."
Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost (Longaville),
Act IV., Sc. III.
" The heavens hold firm
The walls of thy dear honour ; keep unshak'd
That temple of thy mind."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (2nd Lord), Act II., Sc. I,
•' The highest price we can pay for anything, is to ask it."
Landor. Imaginary Conversations, Eschincs and Pliocion.
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258 THE HIND— THE KEEN,
" The hind that would be mated by the lion,
Must die for love."
Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well (Helena),
Act I., Sc. I.
" The hoary head is a crown of glory."
Proverbs. Ch. XVI., vcr. 31.
"(And claims) the homage of a tear."
Byron. CMlde Harold, Can. II., XXIV.
" The honest man,
Simple of heart, prefers inglorious want
To ill-got wealth." J. Phillips. Cider, Bk. I., line 730.
" (Yet the old proverb I would have them know,)
The horse may starve the whilst the grass doth grow."
John Taylor. A Kicksey-Winsey, Pt. 4, last line.
" The idle singer of an empty day."
Willm, Morris. The Earthly Paradise. Apulogy.
" The idol of my youth,
The darling of my manhood, and, alas 1
Now the most blessed memory of mine age."
Tennyson. The Gardener''s Daughter.
" (At first) the infant.
Mewling and puking in his nurse's arms."
Shakespeare. As You Like It ijaques), Act II., Sc. VII.
" The intellect is finite ; but the affections
Are infinite, and cannot be exhausted."
Longfellow. The Spanish Student, Act I., Sc. I.
" (No, Sir :) the Irish are a fair people : — they never speak well of one
another."
Boswell. Life of Johnson {Dr. Johnson), Fitzgerald's
Ed., Vol. I., p. 521.
" The itch that knows no cure
But daily paper-friction."
R. Browning. The Two Poets of Croisic, LXXVI.
" (But) the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that honour feels."
Tennyson. Locksley Hall.
" The jury, passing on the prisoner's life.
May, in the sworn twelve, have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try : what's open made to justice,
That justice seizes."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Angelo),
Act II., Sc. I.
" (And then) the justice
In fair round belly with good capon lined."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (yaques). Act II., Sc. VII.
" (By breathing in content)
The keen, the wholesome air of poverty.
And drinking from the well of homely life."
Wordsworth. The Excursion. The Wanderer, Bk. I.
THE KING— THE LETTER KILLETH. 259
" The King of France, with forty thousand men,
Went up a hill, and so came down ag;ain."
K. Tarmon. From the Pigges Corantoe.
" The King that is not free is not a king."
G. West. Institution of the Garter, line 1156,
" The kisses of an enemy are profuse."
Proverbs. Ch. XXVII., ver. 6.
" The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above,
and some springing from beneath ; the one informed by the light
of nature, and the other inspired by divine revelation."
Bacon. The Advancement of Learning, Bk. II.
" The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day,
Had he thy reason would he skip and play ?
Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food,
And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. I., line 81.
" The * land of scholars and the nurse of arms."
Goldsmith. The Traveller, line 295.
• Britain.
" The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast.
Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Falstaff), Act IV., Sc, II.
" The law is blind, and speaks in general terms ;
She cannot pity where occasion serves."
T. May. The Heir (Enphues), Act IV.
" The law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not."
Daniel. Ch. VI., ver. 8.
" The lawless science of our law.
That codeless myriad of precedent,
That wilderness of single instances." Tennyson, Aylmer's Field.
" The law's made to take care o' raskills."
George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss (Mr. Tulliver),
Bk. III., Ch. IV.
" The lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies,
and keeps it to himself." Lord Brougham.
" The lean and slipper'd pantaloon.
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (yaques), Act II., Sc. VII.
" The learned pate
Ducks to the golden fool ; all is oblique."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens {Timon), Act IV., Sc. III.
" The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."
St. Paul. Epistle to Corinthians, II., Ch. III., v. 6.
a6o THE LITTLE LIVES— THE MAGIC.
" (And musing on) the little lives of men,
And how they mar this little by their feuds."
Tennyson. Sea Dreams.
" The little sweet doth kill much bitterness." Keats. Isabella, XIII.
" The living Now."
Wordsworth. Memorials of a Tour in Italy, X.
" The long lost ventures of the heart,
That send no answers back again."
Longfellow. The Fire of Drift-Wood.
" The longest sorrow finds at last relief."
W. Rowley. A Woman Never Vexed {Wife), Act IV., Sc. I.
" See how time makes all grief decay."
Adelaide Procter. Life in Death, I.
" The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the
name of the Lord." Job. Ch. I,, ver. 21.
" The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell."
Sir S. Tuke. The Adventures of Five Hours {Don
Octavio), Act V.
" The loss of wealth seldom lessens a man's morality."
J. G. HoLMAN. The Votary of Wealth {Drooply),
Act I., Sc. I.
' The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind."
Goldsmith. The Deserted Village, line 122.
" The love of history seems inseparable from human nature because it
seems inseparable from self-love."
Lord Bolingbroke. On the Study of History. Letter I.
" The love of liberty is the love of others ; the love of power is the love
of ourselves."
W. Hazlitt. Political Essays, On the Connection
between Toad Eaters and Tyrants.
" The love of money is the root of all evil."
Timothy. Ep. I., Ch. VI., ver. 10.
" (And then) the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Mads to his mistress' eyebrow."
Shakespeare. As You Like It {Jaques), Act II., Sc. VII.
" The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact."
Shakespeare. Midsummer NighVs Dream {Theseus),
Act v., Sc. I.
" The lust of blood
That makes a steaming slaughter-house of Rome."
Tennyson. Lucretius.
" The luxury of woe." T, Moore. Juvenile Poems. Anacrontie.
" The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
Lord Beaconsfield. HenriettA Temple, Bk. IV., Ch. I.
THE MAGIC— THE MAN. 261
' The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells."
Bui.wEU Lytton. Eugene Aram, Bk. I., Cli. VII.
The malster leseth time to lere
When the disciple well not here."
Chaucer. The Romannt of the Rose, line 21^9.
The malice of a good thing is the barh that makes it stick."
Sheridan. The School for Scandal [Lady Sneerwell),
ActI.,Sc.I.
• The man in arms 'gainst female charms,
Even he her willing slave is." Burns. Lovely Davies.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night VII., line 496.
The man that has no friend at court,
Must make the laws confine his sport ;
But he that has, by dint of flaws,
May make his sport confine the laws."
Chatterton. The Revenge {Bacchus), Act II., Sc. III.
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus ;
Let no such man be trusted — mark the music."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Lorenzo),
Act v., Sc. I.
•* The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons,
stratagems, and spoils ; but his whole life is already
a treason and a stratagem."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. I., Ch. V.
The man that lays his hand upon a woman, i
Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch I
Whom 't were gross flattery to name a coward."
ToEiN. The Honeymoon, Act II. , Sc. I.
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay.
Provides a home fi:om which to run away."
Young. The Love of Fame, line 171.
The man who by his labour gets
His bread, in independent state.
Who never begs, and seldom eats,
Himself can fix or change his fate." '
Prior. The Old Gentry, V.
' The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder [and
worship], were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and
carried the whole Mecanique Celeste and Hegel Philosophy, and
the Epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories, with their re-
sults, in his single head, — is but a pair of spectacles, behind which
there is no Eye. Let those who have eyes look through him, then
he may be usefiil." Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk I., Ch. X.
262 THE MAN— THE MIND HATH
" The man who consecrates his hours
By virtuous effort and an honest aim, —
At once he draws the stings of life and death."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night IT., line 123.
" The man who does all he can, in a low station, is more a hero than he
who omits any worthy action he is able to accomplish in a great
^ one." Steele. Spectator, No. 248.
" The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors
L is like a potato, — the only good belonging to him is under ground."
^ Sir T. Overbury.
" The man within the coach that sits,
And to another's skill submits,
Is safer much (whate'er arrives)
And warmer, too, than he that drives."
Prior. Alma, Can. III., line 137.
" The many chambered school
Where superstition weaves her airy dreams."
Wordsworth. The Excursion, Bk. IV.
" The many fail : the one succeeds." Tennyson. The Day Dream.
" The many make the household,
But only one the home." Lowell. The Dead House.
" The meanest Briton scorns the highest slave."
Addison. The Campaign.
" The meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."
Wordsworth. Ode XI.
" The memory of the just is blessed ;
But the name of the wicked bh..Il rot." Proverbs. Ch. X., ver. 7.
" The memory of the just survives in Heaven."
Wordsworth. The Excursion, Bk. VII.
" The men of our time are not to be converted or perverted by quartos."
Macaulay. Essay on Milton.
" The mere conquests of the sword are temporary ; their wounds are but
in the flesh, and it is the pride of the generous to forgive and for-
get them : but the slanders of the pen pierce to the heart."
Washington Irving. Rip Van Winkle.
Vide — " There''s no wotind."
" The mightier man, the mightier is the thing.
That makes him honour'd, or begets him hate;
The greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
The moon being clouded presently is miss'd.
But little stars may hide them when they list."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece, 144.
" The milk of human kindness."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Lady Macbeth), Act I., Sc. V.
" The mind hath no horizon,
It looks beyond the eye, and seeks for mind
In all it sees, or all it sees o'erruling."
J. Montgomery. The Pelican Island, Can. I.
•THE MIND— THE NE'ER. ^63
' The mind is its own place, and in itself,
Can make a heav'n of hell, and hell of heav'n."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. I., line 254.
" The mind's the standard of the man." Watts. False Greatness.
" The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Claudia), Act III., Sc. I.
" (Or thinke, that) the moone is made of greene cheese."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II.. Chap. VII.
" The more haste the lesse speede."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk, I., Chap. II.
" The more haste, ever the worse speed."
Churchill. The Ghost, Bk. IV., line 1162.
" The more that the nede is hie.
The more it nedeth to be slie
To him whiche hath the nede on honde."
GowER. Confessio Amantis, Bk. VIII.
" The more the merrier."
J. Fletcher. The Pilgrims (jfuletta), Act I., Sc. J.
•' The most magnificent and costly dome.
Is but an upper chamber to a tomb ;
No spot on earth but has supplied a grave,
And human skulls the spacious ocean pave."
Young. The Last Day, II., line 87.
' ' The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know,
are just the things which no one can see."
Chas. Kingsley. The Water Babies, Chap. II.
" The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands."
Bacon. Essay XL. On Fortune.
" Each person is the founder
Of his owTi fortune, good or bad."
Fletcher and Massinger. Love's Pilgrimage
(Incubo), Act I., Sc. I.
-'Every man is the maker of his own fortune."
Steele. The Tatler, No. 53.
' The nakedness of austere truth."
Wordsworth. The Excursion, The Wanderer, Bk. 1.
" The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trim-
:riings of the vain."
Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield, Chap. IV.,
also She Stoops to Conquer, Act I., Sc. I.
" The nature of bad news infects the teller."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra [Mess.), Act I., Sc. II.
" The ne'er to the church, the further from God."
j. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Chap. IX.
264 THE NEVER IDLE^THE PASSIONS.
"The never idle workshop of Nature."
Matthew Arnold. Elegiac Poems. Epilogue.
" The next way home's the farthest way about."
QuARLES. Emblems, Bk. IV., PL II., Ep. 2.
" The night is long that never finds the day."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Malcolm), Act IV., Sc. III.
" The nightingale, if she should sing by day,
When every goose is cackling, would be thought
No better a musician than the wren."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Portia), Act V., Sc. I.
" The Niobe* of Nations." Byron. Childe Harold, Can. IV., LIV.
* Rome.
" The nobility of labour, — the long pedigree of toil."
LoNGFELLOVi^. NiiYcmberg.
" The noblest mind the best contentment has."
Spenser. The Faerie Qiicene, Bk. I., Can. I., St. 35.
" The northerne wagoner had set
His sevenfold teme behind the stedfast starre."
Spenser. The Faerie Queenc, Bk. I., Can. II., St. i.
" The offender never pardons." Herbert. Jacula Prudentum.
" Forgiveness to the injur'd does belong,
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong."
Dryden. The Conquest of Granada, Ft. II.
(Zulema), Act I., Sc. II.
" The officer who forgets that he is a gentleman does more harm to
the moral influence of this country than ten men of blameless
life can do good."
Lord Stanley. To the Addiscombe Students.
" The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils Himself in many ways."
Tennyson. Morte d'Arthur.
" The only merit of a man is his sense ; but doubtless the greatest
value of a woman is her beauty."
CoLLEY Gibber. The Careless Husband (Lady Betty Modish),
Act II., Sc. I.
" The only pang my bosom dare not bravCf
Must be to find forgetfulness in thine."
Byron. The Corsair, Canto I., XIV.
" The only present love demands is love." Gay. The Espousal.
" The passions, prejudices, interests,
That sway the meanest being, the weak touch
That moves the finest nerve,
And in one human brain
Causes the faintest thought, becomes a link
In the great chain of nature." Shelley. Qneef Mab, II.
THE PATH OF DUTY— THE PRIEST. 265
â– ' The path of duty leads to happiness.
SouTHEY. The Dream, line 65.
" The patient dies while the physician sleeps ;
The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds;
Justice is feasting while the widow weeps ;
Advice is sporting while infection hreeds."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece, 130.
" The pencil's mute omnipotence." T. Moore. Lalla Rookh, II.
" The pension of a prince's praise is great."
Dryden. Threnodia Augustalis.
" The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them
they are ruined."
Murphy. The Upholsterer {Pamphlet), Act II., Sc. I.
" The phantom of a wish that once could move,
A ghost of Passion that no smiles restore."
Tennyson. Eurly Sonnets, VIII.
" The piebald miscellany, man." Tennyson. The Princess.
" The pith o' sense, the pride o' worth,
Are higher rank than a' that." Burns. For a' that and a' that.
" The play's the thing,
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act II., Sc. II.
" The poor make no new friends ;
But oh, they love the better still
The few our Father sends."
Lady Dufferin. Lament of the Irish Emigrant.
" The poorest beggar when he's dead and gone.
Is rich as he that sits upon a throne."
Randolph. Necessary Observations, 26th precept.
" For who's a prince or beggar in the grave ? "
Otway. Windsor Castle.
" The poorest service is repaid with thanks."
Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio),
Act IV., Sc. III.
" The possession of great physical strength is no mean assistance to a
straightforward life."
Augustine Birrell. Obiter Dicta. Pope.
" The pot which goes often to the water, comes home crack'd at last."
J. Howell. Familiar Letters, Bk. I., Sec. I., Letter VI.
" The price of wisdom is above rubies."
Job. Chap. XXVIII., ver. 18.
" The priest continues what the nurse began,
And thus the child imposes on the man."
Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, Pt. III., line 391
266 THE PRIEST— THE PUREST TREASURE.
•' (The proverb old is come to passe,)
The priest when he begins his masse,
Forgets that ever clarke he was ;
He knowth not his estate."
Old Ballad. King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid.
" The progress of truth is slow, but its ultimate triumph is secure."
T. L. Peacock. Melincourt {Fax), Chap. XXIV.
" The proof of gold is fire ; the proof of a woman, gold ; the proof of
a man, a woman." B. Franklin. Poor Richard'' s Almanac.
" The prosperity of fools shall destroy them."
Proverbs. Chap. I., ver. 32.
" The proud are always most provoked by pride."
CowPER. Conversation.
" The proud love no spectator to their emotions."
BuLWER Lytton. The Disowned, Chap. XXV,
" The providence of Heav'n
Has some peculiar blessing giv'n
To each allotted state below."
Akenside. Ode on the Winter Solstice.
" Heaven's all-subduing will
With good the progeny of ill,
Attempr'th ev'ry state below." Akenside. Ode II.
" The prudent man may direct a state ; but it is the enthusiast who
regenerates it, or ruins."
BuLWER Lytton. Rienzi, Bk. /., Chap. VIII.
" The public is a bad guesser, ' stiff in opinion,' and almost ' always in
the wrong '." De Quincey. Essays, Protestantism.
" The public 1 why, the public's nothing better than a great baby."
Chalmers. Letters.
" The public is just a great baby."
Quoted by Ruskin. Sesame and Lilies, Sec. I., 40.
" The puny schoolboy and his early lay
Men pardon, if his follies pass away ;
But who forgives the senior's careless verse.
Whose hairs grow hoary as his rhymes grow worse ? "
Byron. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
" The pure soul
Shall mount on native wings, disdaining little sport,
And cut a path into the heaven of glory,
Leaving a track of light for men to wonder at."
Blake. King Edward the Third {Prince).
" The purest treasure mortal times afford,
Is spotless reputation ; that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
A jewel in a ten-times barr'd-up chest
Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast.
Mine honour is my life ; both grow in one ;
Take honour firom me and my life is done."
Shakespeare. Richard II. {Norfolk), Act I., Sc. I.
THE QUAINT— THE RICH. 267
" The quaint* old cruel cox-comb, in his gullet
Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it."
Byron. Don yuan, Can. XIII., St. 106.
* Isaak Walton.
" The quality of mercy is not strain'd ;
It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd,
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes I
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown :
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power«
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ;
But mercy is above the sceptred sway,
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God'Si
When mercy seasons justice : Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this, —
That in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Portia), Act TV., Sc. I.
" Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,
The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,
Become them with one half so good a grace,
As mercy doeo. "
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Isabella),
Act II., Sc. II.
" Mercy's indeed the attribute of heaven."
Otway. Wiiidsor Castle.
" The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong."
EccLESiASTES. Chap. IX., ver. 11.
" The rain it raineth every day,"
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night (Clown sings), Act V., Sc. I.
" The rank is but the guinea's stamp —
The man's the gowd for a' that."
Burns. For a' that and a' that.
" The remedie is worse than the disease."
Bacon. Essay XV., on Sedition.
" The remedy is worse than the disease."
Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. XVI.
" The rest is silence."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act V., Sc. II.
" The rich and the poor meet together :
The Lord is the maker of them all." Proverbs. Chap. XXII., ver. 2.
268 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE— THE SEED YE SOW.
" The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his
jests, and to his imagination for his facts."
Sheridan. Speech in the House of Commons, in reply to
Mr. Dimdas.
" The ripest fruit first falls."
Shakespeare. Richard II. {Richard), Act /., Sc. I.
"The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief;
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief"
Shakespeare. Othello {Duke), Act I., Sc. III.
" The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears ;
The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears."
Sir W. Scott. The Lady of the Lake, Can. IV., I.
" The rotten pales of prejudice." Tennyson. The Princess, II.
he Rupert of debate."
BuLWER Lytton. The New Timon, Pt. I., St. 6.
" The ruling passion, be it what it will.
The ruling passion conquers reason still."
Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. HI., line 153.
" The rude inelegance of poverty
Reigns here alone."
Bloomfield. The Farmer's Boy, Autumn, line 82.
' The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath."
St. Mark. Chop. II., ver. 27.
" The sacred academy of man's life,
Is holy wedlock in a happy wife."
Quarles. History of Queen Esther, Sec. III., Med. 3.
" The same heart beats in every human breast."
Matthew Arnold. The Buried Life, line 23.
" The same water that drives the mill, decayeth it."
Stephen Gosson. The Schoole of Abuse.
"The Schoolmaster is abroad! and I trust more to him, armed with
his primer, than I do to the soldier in full military array, for up-
holding and extending the liberties of his country."
Lord Brougham. Speech in the House of Commons,
zgth jfan., 1828.
" The sea ! the sea ! the open sea !
The blue, the fresh, the ever free !
Without a mark, without a bound.
It runneth earth's wide region round ;
It plays with the clouds ; it mocks the skies ;
Or like a cradled creature lies." Barry Cornwall. The Sea.
" The seed ye sow, another reaps ;
The wealth ye find, another keeps ;
The robe ye weave, another wears ;
The arm.s ye forge, another bears."
Shelley. To the Men of Englnv,!.
THE SENSE OF DEATH— THE SMOKE ASCENDS. 269
" The sense of death is most in apprehension ;
And the poor beetle that we tread upon,
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Isabella), Act III., Sc. I.
" The sickly food
Of popular applause."
Wordsworth. The Borderers (Oswald), Act IV.
'♦ The sight of lovers feedeth those in love."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (Rosalind), Ac! ' '/., Sc. V.
" The simplest pleasures must welcome be
When a friendly hand prepares them."
Havnes Bayly. They may talk of scenes that are bright and fair.
" The sin that practice burns into the blood
Will brand us after, of whose fold we be."
Tennyson. Merlin and Vivien.
" The single note
From that deep chord which Hampden smote
Will vibrate to the doom." Tennyson. England and America.
" The slave, a member of the country's peace,
Enjoys it ; but in gross brain little wots
what watch the king keeps to maintain the peace,
Whose hours the peasant enjoys."
Shakespeare. Henry V. (King Henry), Act. IV., Sc. I.
" The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much ;
but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep."
EccLESiASTES. Chap, v., ver. 12.
" The sleeping and the dead,
Are but as pictures."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Act II., Sc. II.
" The smallest effort is not lost ;
Each wavelet on the ocean toss'd
Aids in the ebb tide or the flow ;
Each rain-drop makes some flow'ret blow,
Each struggle lessens human woe."
Ch. Mackay. The old and the new, 44.
" The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on ;
And ddves will peck, in safeguard of their brood."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. III. (Clifford), Act II., Sc. II.
" Poor worms being trampled on
Turn tail, as bidding battle to the feet
Of their oppressors."
Randolph. The Muses' Looking-glass (Colax),
Act III., Sc. III.
" The smoke ascends
To heaven as lightly from the cottage-hearth,
As from the haughtiest palace."
Wordsworth. The Excursion, Bk. IV.
270 THE SMOOTHEST COURSE^-THE SPEECHES.
" The smoothest course of nature has its pains,
And truest friends, through error, wound our rest."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night I., line 278.
"The snowy banded, dilettante,
Delicate handed priest. " Tennyson. Maud, VIII.
" The society exists for the benefit of its members; not the members
for the benefit of the society."
Herbert Spencer. The Principles of Sociology, Sec. 222.
" The son of the female is the shadow of the male."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. [Falstaff), Act III., Sc. II.
" The sooty yoke of kitchen vassalage."
Tennyson. Gareth and Lynette.
" The sound is honey, but the sense is gall."
Unknown. Soliman and Perseda [Soliman), Act IV.
" The soul o' the purpose, ere 'tis shaped as act,
Takes flesh i' the world, and clothes itself a king,
But when the act comes, stands for what 'tis worth."
R. Browning. Luria {Luria). Act III.
" The soul of a high intent, be it known,
Can die no more than any soul
Which God keeps by Him under the throne."
E. B. Browning. Napoleon III., in Italy.
" The soul of music slumbers in the shell,
Till worked and kindled by the master's spell,
And feeling hearts — touch them but lightly — pour
A thousand melodies unheard before." Rogers. Human Life.
" The soul, that sample of divinity,
That glorious ray of heavenly light. The soul.
That awful throne of thought, that sacred seat
Of contemplation. The suul, that noble source
Of wisdom, that fountain of comfort, that spring of joy,
That happy token of Eternal life."
Vanburgh. Msop, Pt. I. (Hortensia), Act I., Sc. I.
" The soul's armour is never well set to the heart unless a woman's
hand has braced it ; and it is only when she braces it loosely thai
the honour of manhood fails."
RusKiN. Sesame and Lilies, Sec. II., 65.
" The souls of women are so small.
That some believe they've none at all;
Or if they have, like cripples, still
They've but one faculty, the will."
Butler. Miscellaneous Thoughts.
" The spacious times of great Elizabeth."
Tennyson. A Dream of Fair Women, ver. 2, line 3.
" The speeches of one that is desperate are as the wind."
Job. Chap. VI., ver. 26.
THE SPIRir~THE STRONGEST CASTLE. 271
" The spirit burning but unbent,
May writhe — rebel — the weak alone repent ! "
Byron. The Corsair, Cau. II., X.
" The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
St. Matthew. Chap. XXVI., ver. 41.
" The spirit walks of ev'ry day deceas'd,
And smiles an angel, or a fury frowns."
Young. Night Thoughts, Nighi II., line 180.
" The sports of children satisfy the child."
Goldsmith. The Traveller, line 153.
" The spotless ether of a maiden life."
Wordsworth. The Excursion, Bk. VI.
" The starry Galileo, with his woes."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. IV., LIV.
" The stars that have most glorv, have no rest."
S. Daniel, Civil War. Bk. VIII., CIV.
" The stars to me an everlasting book,
In that eternal register, the sky."
Drayton. Legend of Roberit Duke of Normandy.
" The stately homes of England,
How beautiful they stand !
Amidst their tall ancestral treeSj
O'er all the pleasant land."
Felicia Heman6. The Homes of England.
" The still, sad music of humanity."
Wordsworth. Poems of the Imagination, XXVI.
" The still sow eats up all the draffe."
J. Hevwood. Proverbs, Bk. I. Chap. X.
"'Tis old but true, still swine eat all the draff."
Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mrs,
Page), Act IV., Sc. II.
" The strawberry grows underneath the nettle,
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality."
Shakespeare. Henry V. {Bishop of Ely), Act I., Sc. I.
" The street musicians of the heavenly city.
The birds, who make sweet music for us all
In our dark hours, as David did for Saul."
Longfellow. The Birds of Killingworth.
" (If thou and Nature can so gently part,)
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,
Which hurts, and is desir'd."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra {Cleopatra), Act V.,
Sc. II.
" The strongest castle, tower, and town,
The golden bullet beats it down."
Shakespeare. The Passionate Pilgrim, XVII
i.Ti THE SUBTLEST TEMPTER— THE THREE GREAT
" The subtlest tempter hath the smoothest style,
Sirens sing sweetest when they would betray."
Drayton. Legend of Matilda the Fair.
" The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken."
Longfellow. The Herons of Elmwood.
" The surest road to health, say what they will,
Is never to suppose we shall be ill,
Most of those evils we poor mortals know,
From doctors and imagination flow." Chukchill. Night, line 69.
" The sweetest fruit may often pall the taste,
While sloes and brambles yield a safe repast."
Blacklock. The Plaintive Shepherd, line 47.
" The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
And in the taste confounds the appetite."
Shakespeare. Romeo and yuliet (Friar Laurence), Act IL,
Sc. VI.
" The swiftest harts have posted you by land ;
And winds of all the corners kiss'd your sails,
To make your vessel nimble."
Shakespeare. Cymbelinc (Posthumiis), Act II., Sc. IV.
" The swinish multitude." Burke. On the French Revolution.
" The task he undertakes
Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry,"
Shakespeare. Richard II. {Green), Act II., Sc. II.
" The tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra [Enobarbus), Act I.,
Sc. II.
'• The tell-tale cuckoo : spring's his confidant.
And he lets out her April purposes."
R. Browning. Pippa Passes (Lnigi)
" The tempter or the tempted, who sins most ? "
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure {Angela), Act II., Sc. II.
" The tents of the robber prosper." Job. Chap. XII., ver. 6.
*' The thought of life that ne'er shall cease
Has something in it like despair."
Longfellow. The Golden Legend, I.
" The thousand paths that slope the way to crime."
Byron. Lara, Can. I., II.
" The thrall in person may be free in soul."
Tennyson. Gareth and Lynette.
" The three great elements of modern civilisation, gunpowder, printing
and the Protestant religion."
Carlyle. Essay on the State of German Literature.
THE THREE— THE TREE. 273
" The three nook'd world."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra [Ccesar), Act IV., Sc. VI.
" The time is out of joint."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act I., Sc. V.
" And as the times are out of joint."
Churchill. Tlie Ghost, Bk. IV., line 1300.
" (Oh, gentlemen) the time of life is short !
To spend that shortness basely were too long,
II life did ride upon a dial's point,
Still ending at th' arrival of an hour."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Hotspur), Act V., Sc. II.
" The time runs fastest, where is least regard ;
The stone that's long in falling, falleth hard."
QuARLES. A Feast for Wormes, Sect. 6, Med. 6.
" The tiny-trumpeting gnat can break our dream
When sweetest ; and the vermin voices here
May buzz so loud — v/e scorn them — but they sting."
Tennyson. Lancelot and Elaine.
"The tocsin of the soul — the dinner bell."
Byron. Z)ow jfuan, Can. V., St. 49.
" The toils of law [what dark insidious men
Have cumbrous added to perplex the truth,
And lengthen simple justice into trade]."
Thomson. The Seasons, Winter, line 384.
" The tomb of thy dead self
Which one vexed ghost inhabits, night and day,
Is all, lost child, that now remains of thee."
Shelley. The Sunset.
" (But) the tongue can no man tame."
St. James. Epistle, Chap. III., ver. 8.
" The tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony;
Where words are scarce they're seldom spent in vain ;
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Gaunt), Act II., Sc. I.
" The trav'ller, if he chance to stray.
May turn uncensur'd to his way ;
Polluted streams again are pure,
And deepest wounds admit a cure ;
But woman no redemption knows ;
The wounds of honour never close 1 " E. Moore. Fable XV.
" The tree is known by his fruit." St. Matthew. Chap. XII., ver. 33.
St. Luke. Chap. VI., ver. 44.
" The tree of knowledge blasted by dispute,
Produces sapless leaves instead of fruit."
Denham. The Pros[ress of Learning, line 43.
18
274 ^^^ TREE—THE UNYOK'D.
" Tbe tree of knowledge in your garden grows,
Not single, but at every humble door."
O. W. Holmes. Wind Clouds and Star Drifts, VTII.
" The tribute most high to a head that is royal,
Is love from a heart that loves liberty too."
T. MooRE. Irish Melodies, The Princess Day.
" The true essentials of a feast are only fun and feed."
O. W. Holmes. Ntix post Ccenatica.
" The true Sovereign is the Wise Man."
Carlyle. Essay, on the Death of Goethe.
" The true standard of equality is seated in the mind: those who think
nobly are noble."
BiCKERSTAFF. The Maid of the Mill (Lord Ainsworth),
Act II., Sc. I.
" The true touchstone of desert — success."
Byron. Marino Faliero (Doge), Act I., Sc. II.
" The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as lo
conceal them." Goldsmith. The Bee, No. III.
' ' The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who
belong to them." Burke. To the Comte d'Artois.
" The truly generous is the truly wise ;
And he, who loves not others, lives unblest."
Hume. Douglas {Lady Randolph), Act III.
" The trustless wings of false desire."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece, i.
" The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill
the world with fools."
Herbert Spencer. Essays, State Tampcrings with Money and
Banks.
" The unfenced regions of society."
Wordsworth. The Prelude, Bk. VII.
" The universal cause
Acts to one end, but acts by various laws."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. Ill,, line i
" The Universal Cause
Acts not by partial, but by gen'ral laws ;
And makes what happiness we justly call,
Subsist not in the good of one, but all."
Ibid., Ep.IV., line 35
" The universal nature, too strong for the petty nature of the bard, sits
on his neck and writes through his hand." Emerson. History.
" The universe is but one vast symbol of God."
Carlyle. Sartor Rcsartiis, Bk. III. Chap. III.
" The unyok'd humour of your idleness."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. {Prince Henry), Act. I., Sc. II.
THE VANQUISHED— THE VIRTUES. 275
" The vanquish'd have no friends."
SouTHEY. yoan of Arc, Bk. III., line 465.
" The vasty hall of death." Matthew Aknolu. Requiescat.
" The venom clamours of a jealous woman,
Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth."
Shakespeare. The Comedy of Errors (Abbesi), Act V., Sc. I.
" The very air rests thick and heavily,
Where murder hath been done."
Joanna Baillie. Orra (Orra), Act III., Sc. II.
" The very best of vineyards is the cellar."
Byron. Don jfuan, Can. XIII., St. 76.
" (For) the very knave
Who digs the grave,
The man who spreads the pall,
And he who tolls the funeral bell,
The elm shall have them all 1 "
T. Hood. The Elm Tree, Pt. III.
•• (I am) the very pink of courtesy."
Shakespeare. Romeo and yuliet (Mercutio), Act II., Sc. IV,
" The very pink of perfection."
Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer (Miss Neville),
Act I., Sc. I.
•• The Pink of Perfection."
Haynes Bayly. The Loves of the Butterflies, III.
" The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer."
George Eliot. Felix Holt [Rufus Lyon), Chap. XLIV.
"The villager, born humbly and bred hard,
Content his wealth, and poverty his guard.
In action simply just, in conscience clear,
By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear,
His means but scanty, and his wants but few,
Labour his business, and his pleasure too,
Enjoys more comforts in a single hour
Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power."
Churchill. Gotham, line 117.
" The vile are only vain, the great are proud."
Byron. Marino Faliero (Angiolana), Act II., Sc. I.
'* The vilest infamy is not too deep for the Seraph Virtue to descend and
illumine its abyss."
BuLWER Lytton. The Disowned (Clarence Lynden),
Chap. XIV.
"The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the
sentinel." Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield, Chap. V.
"The virtues of society, are the vices of the saint."
£i<ERSON. Circles.
276 THE VIRTUOUS— THE WHOLE WORLD.
" The virtuous man is free, though bound in chains ;
Though poor, content ; though banished, yet no stranger ;
Though sick, in health of mind; secure in danger;
And o'er himself, the world, and fortune reigns."
" A. W." Cuddy's Emblem, The Christian Stoick.
'• The vulgar falls, and none laments his fate,
Sorrow has hardly leisure for the great."
RowE. Lucan's Pharsalia, Bk. IV.
" The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity."
T. L. Peacock. MeVmcourt {Fax), Chap. XXIV.
" The way to God is by ourselves."
Phineas Fletcher. The Purple Island, To the Reader.
" The way to Hell's a seeming Heav'n."
QuARLES. Etnblemes, Bk. II., Em. XI.
" The weakest arm is strong enough that strikes
With the sword of justice."
John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi (Bosola), Act V.,
Sc. II.
" The weakest goes to the wall."
Shakespeare. Romeo and yuliet {Gregory), Act I., Sc. I.
" The weak must to the wall."
MiDDLETON. The Family of Love {Mistress Purge),
Act v., Sc. III.
" The weakest kind of fruit
Drops earliest to the ground."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Antonio), Act IV.,
Sc. I.
" The weariest and most loathed worldly life,
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
Can lay on nature, is a paradise
To what we fear of death."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure {Claudio), Act III., Sc. I.
" The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our
virtues would be proud, if our faults whip'd them not ; and our
crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues."
Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well (First Lord),
Act IV., Sc. III.
" (Then) the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school."
Shakespeare. As You Like It {Jaques), Act II., Sc. VII.
" (And thus) the whirligig of time brings in his revenges."
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night (Clown), Act V., Sc. I.
"The whole world, without art and dress,
Would be but one great wilderness,
And mankind but a savage herd,
For all that nature has conferr'd."
Butler. The Lady's Answer to Hudibrus.
THE WHY— THE WORLD. 277
" The why is as plain as way to parish church."
Shakespeare. As Yen Like It {Jaqites), Act II., Sc. VII.
" The wicked flee when no man pursueth,
But the righteous are bold as a lion."
Proverbs. Chap. XXXIII., ver. i.
" The will of man is by his reason sway'd."
Shakespeare. A Midsummer NighVs Dream {Lysander),
Act II., Sc. III.
" The winged day
Can ne'er be chained by man's endeavour ;
That life and time shall fade away,
While heaven and virtue bloom for ever I "
T. MooRE. To a Boy with a Watch.
" The woes of wedlock with the joys, we mix ;
'Tis best repenting in a coach and six."
Garth. Prologue to Cato.
" The woman is so hard
Upon the man." Tennyson. The Princess.
" The woodcock's early visit and abode
Of long continuance in our temp'rate clime,
Foretell a lib'ral harvest." J. Phillips. Cider, Bk. II., line 177.
" The woods have many ears."
MuNDAV AND Chettle. Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon
{Prior), Act I., Sell.
Vide — " Walls have ears.''
" The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels."
Proverbs. Chap. XXVI., ver. 22.
"The world befits a busy brain."
Byron. Occasional Pieces, Epistle to a Friend, nth Oct., 1811.
" The world but feels the present's spell,
The poet feels the past as well,
Whatever men have done, might do,
Whatever thought, might think it too."
Matthew Arnold. Bacchanalia, II., last lines.
" The world exists for the education of each man."
Emerson. History.
*' The world globes itself in a drop of dew."
Emerson. Compensation.
" The world has little to bestow
Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined."
Mrs. Barbauld. Delia.
* The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflec-
tion of his own face."
W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair, Chap. II.
" The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to
be struck." Emerson. Resources.
278 THE WORLD— THE WRETCH.
"The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold
coin ; whereby, being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust
nothing but the common copper."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. II., Chap. IV.
" The world is good in the lump."
G. CoLMAN, JUN. Torrent, Act I., Sc. II.
" The world is grown so bad,
That wrens may prey where eagles dare not perch :
Since every Jack became a gentleman,
There's many a gentle person made a Jack."
Shakespeare. Richard III. (Gloster), Act I., Sc. III.
" The world is made up for the most part of Fools and Knaves."
Duke of Buckingham. To Mr. Clifford, on his Humane
Reason.
" The world is nat'rally averse
To all the truth it sees or hears,
But swallows nonsense and a lie,
With greediness and gluttony."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. III., Can. II., line 805.
" The world 1 it is a wilderness,
Where tears are hung on every tree."
T. Hood. Ode to Melancholy.
" The world knows nothing of its greatest men."
Sir H. Taylor. Philip von Artevelde, Pt. I. (Artevelde),
Act I., Sc. V.
"The world's a masquerade,
And he whose wisdom is to pay it court.
Should mask his own unpopular penetration
And seem to think its several meanings real."
Sir H. Taylor. Philip von Artevelde, Pt. II. {Sir Fleurant),
Act I., Sc. II.
" The world's a scene of changes, and to be
Constant, in Nature were inconstancy." Cowley. Inconstancy.
" The world's a wood, in which all lose their way,
Though by a different path each go astray."
Duke of Buckingham.
" The world's an inn, and death the journey's end."
Dryden. Palamon and Arcite, Bk. III., line 888.
" The world's turned upside down, from bad to worse,
Quite out of frame, the cart before the horse."
John Taylor. Mad Fashions.
" The worst men give oft the best advice." P. J. Bailey. Festns.
" The wretch who digs the mine for bread,
Or ploughs, that others may be fed.
Feels less fatigued than that decreed
To him who cannot think or read."
Hannah More. Florio, Pt. I.
THE WRONG— THERE ARE NO LOOKS. 279
' The wrong sow by th' eare."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. 11. , Chap. IX.
" Wrong sow by the ear, i' faith."
Ben Jonson. Every Man in his Humour (Downright),
Act II., Sc. I.
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. II., Can. II., line 580.
CoLMAN. The Heir at Law, Act I., Sc. I,
' Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it."
George Eliot. Adam Bede (Mrs. Peyser), Bk. VI.
Chap. XLIX.
' Then, after his brief range of blameless days,
The toll of funeral in an angel ear
Sounds happier than the merriest marriage bell."
Tennyson. The Death of the Duke of Clarence.
' Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while you may go marry ;
For having lost but once your prime
You may for ever tarry." Herrick. Hesperides, 208
' (Not Cassio kill'd ! ) then murder's out of tune.
And sweet revenge grows harsh."
Shakespeare. Othello {Othello), Act V., Sc. II.
' Then none were for the party ;
Then all were for the state ;
Then the great man help'd the poor,
And the poor man loved the great."
Macaulay. Lays of Ancient Rome, Horatius, XXXII.
' Then take what gold could never buy —
An honest bard's esteem." Burns. To John McMurdo.
â– ' Then teach me, Heav'n 1 to scorn the guilty bays,
Drive from my soul that wretched lust of praise ;
Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown :
Oh ! grant me honest Fame, or grant me none 1 "
Pope. The Temple of Fame, Inst lilies.
" Then, when this body falls in funeral fire,
My name shall live, and my best part aspire."
Ben Jonson. The Poetaster {Ovid), Act I., Sc. I.
•' There are deeds
Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue."
Shelley. The Cenci {Beatrice), Act III., Sc. I.
" There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in our philosophy."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I., Sc. V.
" There are no looks like those which dwell
On long-remembered things, which soon
Must take our first and last farewell."
L. E. L. The Improvisatrice.
28o THERE ARE NO TRICKS— THERE BREATHES.
" There are no tricks in plain and simple faith :
But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,
Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;
But when they should endure the bloody spur,
They fall their crests, and, like deceitful jades,
Sink in the trail."
Shakespeare, yulitis CcBsar {Brutus), Act IV., Sc. 11.
" There are quarrels in which even Satan bringing help, were not un
welcome."
Carlyle. French Revolution, Bk. III., Chap. V., Pt. I.
" There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence, that we can scarce
weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue."
Goldsmith. The Good-natured Man {Sir W. Honeywood),
Act I., Sc. I.
" There are some meannesses which are too mean even for man — ^woman,
lovely woman alone, can venture to commit them."
Thackeray. A Shabby Genteel Story, Chap. III.
" There are some moments in our fate
That stamp the colour of our days,
As, till then, life had not been felt." L. E. L. The Improvisatrice:
" (Don't you know, as the French say), there are three sexes — men,
women, and clergymen ? " Sydney Smith. Memoirs.
" There are three wants which never can be satisfied : that of the rich,
who want something more ; that of the sick, who want some-
thing different ; and that of the traveller, who says ' Anywhere,
but here '." Emerson, Considerations by the Way.
" There are times
When simplest things put on a sombre cast."
Keats. Otho the Great, Act IV., Sc. I.
" There are worse losses than the loss of youth."
Jean Ingelow. The Star's Monument.
" There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's
pulse." Sterne. Sentimental Journey.
" There are worse pangs than those of want."
Bulwer Lytton. Eugene Aram {Eugene Aram), Bk. I.,
Chap. VIII.
" There be many Caesars,
Ere such another Julius. Britain is
A world by itself; and we will nothing pay
For wearing our own noses."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (Cloten), Act III., Sc. I.
" There be some sports are painful ; but their labour
Delight in them sets off : some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone ; and most poor matters
Point to rich ends."
Shakespeare. The Tempest {Ferdinatid), Act III., Sc, I.
" There breathes no being but has some pretence
To that fine instinct called poetic sense." O. W. Holmes. Poetry.
\
THERE BURNS— THERE IS A TEAR. 281
•' There burns the quenchless Poetry — Mankind 1 "
BuLWER Lytton. The New Timon, Pt. II., I.
" There is a budding morrow in midnight."
Keats. Sonnet to Homer.
" There is a day of sunny rest
For every dark and troubled night ',
And grief may hide an evening guest,
But joy shall come with early light."
Bryant. Blei.sed ate they that mourn.
" There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."
Proverbs.. Chap. XVIII., ver. 24.
♦' A brother does not always make a friend."
Jeremy Taylor. A Discourse on the Offices of
Friendship.
" There is a harmony
In Autumn, and a lustre in its sky.
Which thro' the summer is not heard nor seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been ! " ^
Shelley. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.
" There is a history in all men's lives.
Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd,
The which observ'd, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life, which in their seeds
And weak beginnings lie intreasured."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. {Warwick), Act III., Sc. I.
" There is a kindly mood of melancholy
That wings the soul, and points her to the skies."
Dyer. The Ruins of Rome, line 346.
" There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the
common good."
George Eliot. Romola, Bk. III. , Chap. LIX.
" There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
There is society where none intrudes.
By the deep sea, and music in its roar."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. IV., CLXXVIII.
" There is a Proverb, and a prayer withal.
That we not to three strange places fall :
From Hull, from Halifax, from Hell, 'tis thus,
From all these three, good Lord deliver us."
John Taylor. A very merry -wherry -ferry voyage.
" There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul."
Emerson. Immortality.
" There is a tear for all who die,
A mourner o'er the humblest grave ;
But nations swell the funeral cry,
And triumph weeps above the brave."
Byron. Oh the Death of Sir P. Pnrhf^
28a THERE IS A TIDE— THERE IS NO FELICITY.
" There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries."
Shakespeare, jfulius Ccesar {Brutus), Act IV. , Sc. III.
" There is but one law for all, namely the law which governs all law,
the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity — the
law of Nature and of Nations."
Burke. The Impeachment of Warren Hastings.
" There is death in the pot." Book of Kings. Bk. II., Chap. IV.,
ver. 40.
•* There's death in the cup — sae beware 1
Nay, more — there is danger in touching ;
But wha can avoid the fell snare ?
The man and his wine's sae bewitching."
Burns. There's Death in the Cup.
"There is in man a higher ? — than love of happiness."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartiis, Bk. II., Chap. IX.
" There is no anguish like an error of which we feel ashamed."
BuLWER Lytton, Ernest Maltravers {Valerie), Bk. II.,
Chap. III.
" There is no courage but in innocence;
No constancy but in an honest cause,"
Southern. The Fate of Capua.
" There is no darkness but ignorance."
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night {Cloton), Act IV., Sc. II.
" There is no death J what seems so is transition ;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life Elysian
Whose portal we call death." Longfellow. Resignation.
" There is no den in the whole world to hide a rogue,
Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass."
Emerson. Compensation.
" (For) there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth :
Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use."
M. TuPPER. Proverbial Philosophy, Of Truth in Things
False, 3.
'• There is no error to be named, which has not had its professors ; and
a man shall never want crooked paths to walk in, if he thinks that
he is in the right way, wherever he has the footsteps of others to
follow."
Locke. Essay on the Human Understanding, Bk. IV.,
Chap. XX., Sec. 17.
"There is no felicity upon earth, which carries not its counterpoise of
misfortunes; no happiness which mounts so high, which is not
depressed by some calamity."
Jeremy Taylor. Contemplation of the State of Man,
Bk. I., Chap'. II.
THERE IS NO FLOCK— THERE IS NO TRUER. 283
" There is no flock, however watched and tended,
But one dead kimb is there 1
There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended,
But has one vacant chair 1 " Longfellow. Resignation.
" There is no hiding Love from Lover's eyes."
Crown. The Destruction of Jerusalem, Pt. I. (Queen Berenice),
Act IV., Sc. I.
" There is no love but at first sight."
Lord Beaconsfield. Henrietta Temple, Bk. II., Chap. III.
"There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil."
Sir P. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. I.
" There is a method in man's wickedness :
It grows up by degrees."
Beaumont and Fletcher. A King and no King,
Act v., Sc. IV.
" There is no music in Nature, neither melody or harmony. Music is
the creation of man."
H. R. Haweis. Music and Morals, Bk. I., i.
" There is no new thing under the sun."
Ecclesiastes. Chap. I., ver. g.
•• There is nothing new under the sun."
Macaulay. Essay on the Diary of Mad. D^Arhlay.
" There is no one like a sister,
In calm or stormy weather,
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands."
Christina Rossetti. Goblin Market.
" There is no peacs, saith the Lord, unto the wicked."
Isaiah. Chap. XLVIII., ver. 22.
" There is no piety but amongst the poor."
Randolph. On the Content he enjoys in the Muses.
•' Religion always sides with poverty."
Herbert. The Church Militant.
" There is no state in Europe where the least wise have not governed
the most wise."
Landor. Imaginary Conversations^ Rousseau and Malesherbes.
" There is no striving with a forward girl,
Nor pushing on a fool."
Joanna Baillie. Orra (Hughobert), Act I., Sc. III.
" There is no true potency, remember, but that of help ; nor true ambi
tion, but ambition to save."
RusKiN. The Crown of Wild Olive, War, 112.
' There is no truer truth obtainable
By man than comes of music."
R. Browning, Parlcyings with certain People,
Charles Avison, 6.
284 THERE IS NO UNION— THERE IS SOME SOUL.
" There is no union here of hearts
That finds not here an end." J. Montgomery. Friends.
" There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio),
Act III., Sc. II.
" There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow."
Dr. Johnson. Letter to Mrs. Thrale, izth April, 1781.
" There is not one among my gentlewomen,
Were fit to wear your slipper, for a glove."
Tennyson. Geraint and Enid.
" There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy."
Swift. Essay, upon the Faculties of the Mind.
" There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know
little." Bacon. Essay XXXI., of Suspicion,
" There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch."
Addison. The Drummer {Vellum), Act V., Sc. I.
" There is nothing on earth so lowly, but duty giveth it importance ;
No station so degrading, but it is ennobled by obedience."
M. TuppER. Proverbial Philosophy, of Subjection, 155.
" There is nothing. Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by
studying little things that we attain the great art of having as
little misery and as much happiness as possible."
BoswELL. Life of Johnson {Dr. Johnson), Fitzgerald's Ed.,
Vol. J., p. 267.
" There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains
and labour." Addison. The Tatler, No. 97.
" There is often less in
The poet's wit than in the player's dressing."
Swift. Epilogue to a Play.
" There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an
inlet to the same, and to all of the same. He that is once admitted
to the right of reason is made freeman of the whole estate."
Emerson. History.
" There is one road
To peace, and that is truth, which follow ye I
Love sometimes leads astray to misery."
Shelley. Julian and Maddalo.
" There is properly no history, only biography." Emerson. History.
" There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
For I did dream of money-bags to-night."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice {Shy lock), Act II.,
Sc. V.
" There is some soul of goodness in things evil.
Would men observingly distil it out."
Shakespeare. Henry V. (King), Act IV., Sc. I
THERE IS TRUTH— THERE'S A FURTHER. 285
" There is truth in falsehood, falsehood in truth."
R. Browning. A Soul's Tragedy, Act II.
" There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds."
Tennyson. In Mcmoriam, XCVI,
" There never lived a mortal man, who bent
His appetite beyond his natural sphere,
But starved and died." Keats. Endymion, IV.
" There never was a good war or a bad peace."
B. Franklin. Letter to Quincy, iith Sept., 1773.
" There smiles no Paradise on earth so fair
But guilt will raise avenging phantoms there."
F. Hemans. The Abencerrage, Can. I., i.
" There swims no goose so grey, but soon or late
She finds some honest gander for her mate."
Pope. The Wife of Bath, line 98,
" There the wicked cease from troubling,
And the weary be at rest." Job. Chap. III., ver. 17.
" There where the wicked cease
" From troubling, and the weary are at rest."
Southey. yoan of Arc, Bk. II., line 285.
"And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary
are at rest."
Tennyson. The May Queen, last line.
"The wicked cease from troubling there.
And the weary be at rest."
Christina Rossetti. A Testimony.
" There was a manhood in his look,
That murder could not kill 1 "
Hood. The Dream of Eugene Aram.
" There was never yet fair woman, but she made mouths in a glass."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Fool), Act III., Sc. II.
" There was never yet philosopher,
That could endure the toothache patiently."
Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothing (Leonato), Act V .,
Sc.I.
" There were no heroes, were there no martyrs ! "
Bulwer Lytton. The Last of the Barons {Adam Warner),
Bk. I., Chap. V.
" There's a dignity in labour
Truer than e'er pomp arrayed ! " Chas. Swain. What is noble?
" There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough hew them how we wiil."
Shakespeare. Hamlcl (Hamlet), Act V., Sc. II.
" There's a further good conceivable
Beyond the utmost earth can realise."
R. Browning. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau.
286 THERE'S A GUDE— THERE'S NO BETTER.
" There's a gude time coming."
Sir W. Scott. Rob Roy, Chap. XXXII.
" There's a joy,
To the fond votaries of fame unkno\vn,
To hear the still small voice of conscience speak
In whisp'ring plaudit to the silent soul."
Hannah More. David and Goliath {Jesse), Pt. I.
" There's a new tribunal now
Higher than God's — the educated man's I "
R. Browning. The Ring and the Book, X., line 1977.
" There's a pleasure sure in being mad,
Which none but madmen know."
Farquhar. The Recruiting Officer {Silvia), Act I., Sc. II.
" There is a pleasure sure
In being mad, which none but madmen know."
Dryden. The Spanish Friar, Act II., Sc. I.
*' There is a pleasure in poetic pains,
Which none but poets know."
CowPER. The Task, Bk. II. , line 283.
" There's a strange secret sweet self-sacrifice
In any desecration of one's soul
To a worthy end." R. Browning. Mr. Sludge, the medium.
" There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft,
To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." Dibdin. Poor jfack.
"There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra {Antony), Act I., Sc. I.
" There's but the twinkling of a star
Between a man of peace and war,"
Butler. Hudibras, Pt, III., Canto I., line 189.
" There's daggers in men's smiles."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Donalbain), Act II,, Sc. III.
" There's many a man alive, that hath outlived
The love o' th' people ; yea, i' the self-same state
Stands many a father with his child."
Fletcher and Shakespeare. The Two Noble Kinsmen
(Palamon), Act V., Sc. VI.
" There's many a one would drive the sun,
Only to set the world on fire."
Eliza Cook. Stanzas to the Young.
" There's naught no doubt so much the spirit calms
As rum and true religion." Byron. Doji yuan, Can. II,, St. 34.
*' There's no art,
To find the mind's construction in the face."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (King), Act I., Sc. IV.
" There's no better sign of a brave mind, than a hard hand."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. II. (George Bevis), Act IV.,
Sc, II.
THERE'S NO ERRING— THERE'S SCARCE. 287
" There's no erring twice in love and war."
PoMFRET. Love Triumphant over Reason, line 88.
" There's no game
So desperate, that the wisest of the wise
Will not take freely up for love of power,
Or love of fame, or merely love of play."
Sir H. Taylor. Philip von Arlcveldc, Pi. I. (xickerman),
Act I., Sc. III.
" There's no love lost between us."
Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer (Tony Lumpkin),
Act IV., Sc. IV.
'There's no slipping up-hill again, and no standing still when once
you've begun to slip down."
George Eliot. Adam Bede {Adam Bede), Bk. /., Chap. IV.
" There's no wound deeper than a pen can give,
It makes men living dead, and dead men live."
J. Taylor. A Kicksey-Winsey, Ft. 7.
" There's not a breath
Will mingle kindly with the meadow air,
Till it has panted round, and stolen a share
Of passion from the heart ! " Keats. Endymion, IV.
" There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away."
Byron. Occasional Pieces, Stanzas for Music.
" There's not a man
That lives, who hath not known his god-like hours,
And feels not what an empire we inherit
As natural beings in the strength of nature."
Wordsworth. The Prelude, Bk. Ill,
" There's not a string attuned to mirth,
But has its chord in melancholy." Hood. Ode to Melancholy.
" There's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream."
T. Mooru. Irish Melodies, Lovers Young Dream.
" There's nothing in this world so sweet as love,
And next tol ove the sweetest thing is hate."
Longfellow. The Spanish Student, Act II., Sc. V.
" There's nothing level in our cursed natures.
But direct villainy."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens (Timon), Act IV., Sc. III.
" There's naught
That's more unsteadfast than a woman's thought."
John Cook. The City Gallant (Spendall).
" There's place and means for every man alive."
Shakespeare. AWs Well that Ends Well {Parolles), Act IV.,
Sc. III.
" There's scarce a thing but is both lov'd and loath'd."
MiDDLETON AND RowLEV. The Changeling {Alscmero),
Act I. , Sc. I.
288 THERE'S SUCH— THEY ARE THE ABSTRACTS.
" There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would,
Acts little of his will."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (King), Act IV., Sc. V.
" Thereby hangs a tail."
Shakespeare. Othello [Clown), Act III., Sc, I.
" Therefore behoveth him a ful long spone
That shall ete with a fend." Chaucek. Sqziirc s Tale, line 10916.
" He must have a long spoone, that shall eat with the
devill."
J. Heywood, Proverbs, Bk. II., Chap V.
" Who dips with the devil, he had need have a long spoon."
Unknown. Appius and Virginia (Haphazard),
[circa 1563).
" I had need of a long spoon, now I go to eat with the devil."
Unknown. Grim, the Collier of Croydon (Grim),
Act v., Sc. I.
" He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil."
Shakespeare. The Comedy of Errors (Dromio),
Act IV., Sc. III.
" These are the English arts, these we profess,
To be the same in misery and success ;
To teach oppressors laws, assist the good.
Relieve the wretched, and subdue the proud."
Halifax. The Man of Honour.
" These two — they dwelt with eye on eye.
Their hearts of old have beat in tune,
Their meetings made December June,
There every parting was to die."
Tennyson. In Memoriam, XCVII.
" Thespis, the first professor of our art,
At country wakes sang ballads from a cnrt."
Dryden. Prologue to Sophonisba.
" They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with
nothing: it is no mean happiness therefore to be seated in the
mean ; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs ; but competency
lives longer."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Nerissa),
Act I., Sc. II.
" They are but beggars that can count their worth."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Act II., Sc. VI.
" They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts."
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. I.
" They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act II., Sc. II
THEY DO ABUSE—THEY THAT BE SLAIN. 289
" They do abuse tlie king that flatter him,
For tlattery is the bellows blows up sin ;
The thing the which is flattered, but a spark,
To which the spark gives heat and stronger glowing."
Shakespeare. Pericles [Pericles), Act /., Sc. II.
" They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."
HosEA. Chap, VIII., ver. 7.
" They love least, that let men know their love."
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona {Lucetta),
Act I., Sc. II.
" They never fail who die
In a great cause : the block may soak their gcre ;
Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs
Be strung to city gates and castle walls —
But still their spirit walks abroad."
Byron. Marino Falieri {Israel Bertuccio), Act II., Sc. II.
" They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright."
Burns. The Cottar's Saturday Night.
" They never taste who always drink ;
They always talk who never think."
Prior. Upon a passage in Scaligeriana.
" They only babble who practise not reflection."
Sheridan. Pizarro (Elvira), Act I., Sc. I.
" They only have lived long, who have lived virtuously."
Sheridan. Pizarro (Alonzo), Act IV., Sc. I.
" They're only truly great, who are truly good."
Chapman. Revenge for Hotionr [Tarifa), Act V.
" And to be noble we'll be good."
Old Ballad of Winifreda,
" 'Tis only noble to be good."
Tennyson. Lady Clara Vere de Vere.
Vide — " To be happy," etc.
" They reck no laws, that meditate revenge."
T. Kyd. The Spanish Tragedy [Viceroy), Act I.
" They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance,
or death."
Shakespeare. The Merry Wives of Windsor (Falstaff),
Act v., Sc. I.
" They stumble, that run fast."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfnliet (Friar Laurence),
ActII.,Sc. III.
" They, sweet soul, that most impute a crime
Are proiiest to it, and impute themselves,
Wanting the mental range." Tennyson. Merlin and Vivien.
" They that be slain wdth the sword are better than they that be slain
with hunger." Jeremiah. Lamentations, Chap. IV., ver. 9.
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290 THEY THAT DWELL— THINGS PAST.
" They that dwell on fortune's call
No sooner rise, but subject are to fall."
T. Lodge. 'The Woimds of Civil War (Marius), Act IV.
" They that fear the adder's sting will not come
Near his hissing." Chapman.
" They that yet never learn'd to live and die,
Will scarcely teach it others feelingly."
R. Baxter, Love breathing Thanks and Praise, Ft, II.
" They w^ell deserve to have
That knovi^ the strong'st and surest way to get."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Richard), Act III., Sc. III.
" They who await
No gifts from chance, have conquered fate."
Matthew Arnold. Resignation.
" They, who climb to wealth, forget
The friends in darker fortunes tried." Bryant. The Yellow Violet.
" They who have much to lose have much to fear."
Burke. On the Policy of the Allies.
" They who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose." Gay. Fables, Pt. I., XXXIV.
" They who possess the prince possess the laws."
Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. /., line 476.
" They who strive
With Fortune, win or weary her at last."
Byron. Werner {yosephine). Act I., Sc. I.
" Thieves for their robbery have authority,
When judges steal themselves."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Angclo), Act II., Sc. II.
" Th' important business of your life is love."
Lyttelton. Advice to a Lady.
Vide — " Man^s Love," etc.
" Thine heart should feel, what thou may'st hourly see.
That duty's basis is humanity."
Bloomfield. The Farmer's Boy, Winter, line 106.
" Things ill-got had ever bad success."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. III. {King Henry),
Act II., Sc. II.
" Things may be useful, though obscure*
The pace that's slow is often sure :
When empty pageantries we prize,
We raise but dust to blind our eye8»
The golden mean can best bestow
Safety for unsubstantial show. "
Warton. The Phaeton, and the one-horse Chair.
" Things past belong to memory alone ;
Things future are the property of hope."
Home. Agis {Lysander), Act II.
THINGS PAST— THIS LITTLE LIFE, agi
"Things past recovery
Are hardly cured with exclamations."
Marlowe. The Jew of Malta (Barabbas), Act I., Sc. II.
" Things rashly undertaken end as ill;
But great acts thrive when reason guides the will."
Fletcher. The Fair Maid of the Inn (Duke), Act I., Sc. II.
" Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Gaunt), Act I., Sc. III.
" Things will work to ends the slaves o' the world
Do never dream of."
Wordsworth. The Borderers (Oswald), Act II.
" (But) thinks, admitted to that equal sky.
His faithful dog shall bear him company."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. I., line iii.
" This barren verbiage, current among men,
Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment."
Tennyson. The Princess, II.
" This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
Good-night, good-night 1 As sweet repose and rest
Come to thy heart, as that within my breast ! "
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Act II., Sc. II:
"This common body,
Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,
Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide,
To rot itself with motion."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Casar), Act I., Sc. IV.
" This dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars."
Mrs. Barbauld. A Stimmer Evening Meditation.
" This fine old world of ours is but a child
Yet in the go-cart. Patience I Give it time
To learn its limbs : there is a hand that guides."
Tennyson. The Princess, Conclusion.
" This Crail bark of ours, when sorely tried,
May wreck itself without the pilot's guilt,
Without the captain's knowledge." Tennyson. Aylmer's Field.
" This is miching mallecho ; it means mischief."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III., Sc. II.
" This is proper to the clown,
Tho' smock'd, or furr'd and purpled, still the clown."
Tennyson. The Princess, IV.
" This little life is all we must endure.
The grave's most holy place is ever sure,
We fall asleep, and never wake again ;
Nothing of us but the mouldering flesh,
Whose elements dissolve and merge afresh
In earth, air, water, plants, and other men."
James Thomson. The City of Dreadful Night, XIV
292 THIS RESTLESS— THOSE BEST.
" This restless world
Is full of chances, which by habit's power
To learn to bear is easier than to shun."
Armstrong. The Art of Preserving Health, Bk. 11.^ line 465.
" This 'tis to be a monarch, when alone
He can command all, but is awed by none."
Massinger. The Roman Actor [Ccesar), Act /., Sc. IV.
" This Triton of the minnows ? "
Shakespeare. Coriolanus {Corlolanus), Act III., Sc. I.
" This was the most unkindest cut of all."
Shakespeare, yiilius Ccesar [Antony), Act III., Sc. II.
" This was the noblest Roman of them all ;
His life was gentle ; and the elements
So mixed in him, that nature might stand up
And say to all the world. This was a man ! "
Shakespeare, jfulius Casar [Antony), Act V., Sc. V.
" This world has angels all too few,
And Heaven is overflowing! " Coleridge. To a Young Lady.
" This world is a rough road, and those who mean to tread it many
years must not think of beginning their journey in buff soles."
Mrs. Thrale. Letter to Fanny Burney. .
" (Pythagoras said, that) this world was like a stage,
Whereon many play their parts : the lookers-on the sage
Philosophers are, saith he, whose part is to learn
The manners of all nations, and the good from the bad to discern. "
R. Edwards. Damo7i and Pithias (Damon).
" All the world's a stage.
And all the men and women merely players."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (yaqucs),
Act II., Sc. VII.
" The world's a stage, each mortal acts thereon."
QuARLEs. History of Queen Esther, Sec. 4, Med. 10.
" Tho' happy men the present goods possess,
Th' unhappy have their share in future hopes no less."
CowLEV. First Nemean Ode of Pindar, V.
" (For) tho' possession be th' undoubted view.
To seize is far less pleasure than pursue."
Garth. Claremont, line 228.
"Tho' truths in manhood darkly join,
Deep seated in our mystic frame.
We yield all blessing to the name
Of Him that made them current coin."
Tennyson. In Memoriam, XXXVI.
" Those best can bear reproof, who merit praise."
Pope Essay on Criticism, Ep. III., line 24.
THOSE EYES— THOU THAT GOEST. 293
" Those eyes which burn through smiles that fade in tears,
Like stars lialt-quenched in mists of silver dew."
Shelley. Prometheus Unbound {Asia), Act II., Sc. I.
" Those rules of old discover'd, not devis'd.
Are Nature still, but Nature methodis'd:
Nature, like liberty, is but restrain'd
By the same laws which first herself ordain'd."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, Ep. I., Hue 88.
" Those that think must govern those that toil."
Goldsmith. The Traveller, litie 311.
" Those that with haste will make a mighty fire,
Begin it with weak straws."
Shakespeare, Julius Casar (Cassius), Act I., Sc. III.
" Those we call the dead
Are breathers of an ampler day,
For ever nobler ends." Tennyson. In Memoriam, CXVIII.
" Those who believe a thing make others believe most."
Landor. Imaginary Conversations, Peter Leopold and
President Du Patey.
" Those who have endeavoured to teach to die well, have taught few
to die willingly."
Dr. Johnson. Letter to Mr. yos. Baretti, 10th jfune, 1761.
" (And) those who live as models for the mass,
Are singly of more value than they all."
R. Browning. Luria (Tiburzio), Act V.
" Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in
general, become of no more value than their dress."
W. Hazlitt. Political Essays, On the Clerical Character.
" (For) those whom God to ruin has design'd,
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind."
Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, Pt. Ill,, line 1094.
" Those you make friends,
And give your hearts to, when they once perceive
The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
Like water from ye, never found again
But where they mean to sink ye."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. [Buckingham), Act II., Sc. I.
" Thou seest, we are not all alone unhappy ;
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (Duke S.), Act II., Sc. VII.
"Thou that goest upon Middlesex juries, and wilt make haste to give up
thy verdict because thou wilt not lose thy dinner I "
MiDDLETON. A Trick to catch the old One (Dantpit),
Act IV., Sc. V.
ag4 THOU WHO STEALEST— THOUGH THE FOX»
"The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine."
Pope. The Rape of the Lock, Can. III., line 21.
•• Thou who stealest fire
From the fountains of the past,
To glorify the present." Tennyson. Ode to Memory.
" Though absent, present in desires they be ;
Our soul much further than our eves can see."
M. Drayton.' The Baron's Wars, Bk. III., XX.
" Though lost to sight to memory dear." Unknown.
Vide — "Distance sometimes," etc.
" Though gay companions o'er the bowl
Dispel awhile the sense of ill ;
Though pleasure stirs the maddening soul,
The heart — the heart — is lonely still."
Byron. Hours of Idleness. I would I were a careless Child.
" Though honesty be no puritan, yet it will do no hurt ; it will wear the
surplice of humility over the black gown of a big heart."
Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well {Clown),
Act I., Sc. III.
" Though language forms the preacher,
'Tis ' good works ' make the man." Eliza Cook. Good Works.
" Though last, not least." Spenser. Colin Clout, line 444.
" Though last, not least in love, yours."
Shakespeare, jfulius Casar (Antony),
Act III., Sc. I.
" Although our last and least."
Shakespeare. King Lear {Lear), Act I., Sc. I.
' Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all."
Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew {Petruchio),
Act II., Sc. I.
" Though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for lii
counsellor."
Shakespeare. The Merry Wives of Windsor {Mrs. Page
reads). Act II., Sc. I.
" Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks,
Poor women's faces are their own faults' books."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lncrece, 179.
" Though Patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod."
Shakespeare. Henry V. {Nym), Act II., Sc. I.
" Though patients die, the doctor's paid :
Licens'd to kill, he gains a place
For what another mounts the gallows."
Broome. Poverty and Poetry.
" Though the fox he follows may be tamed,
A mere fox-tollower never is reclaimed." Cowper. Conversation.
THOUGH THIS BE— THRICE THE BRINDLEV. 295
" Though this be madness, yet there's method in 't."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Polonius), Act II., Sc. II.
" Though those that are betray'd
Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor
Stands in worse case of woe."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (Imogen), Act III., Sc. IV.
" Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil."
Byron. Hours of Idleness, To Eliza.
" Thought is deeper than all speech ;
Feeling deeper than all thought;
Souls to souls can never teach
What unto themselves was taught." C. P. Cranch.
â– ' Thought is the soul of act." R. Browning. Sordcllo, Bk. V.
" Thoughts are but dreams, till their effects be tried,
The blackest sin is cleared with absolution."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece, 51.
" Thoughts are but wandering spirits that depend for their vitality upon
the magnetic currents of feeling."
H. R. Haweis. Music and Morals, Bk. I., II.
" Thoughts shut up, want air.
And spoil like bales unopened to the sun."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night II., line 466.
" (But) thought's the slave of life, and lifetime's fool,
And time that takes survey of all the world
Must have a stop."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. [Hotspur), Act V., Sc. IV.
" (For) thre may kepe a counsel — if twain be awaie."
Chaucer. The Ten Commandments of Love, 49.
" Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Chap. V.
•* Two may keep counsel, when the third's away."
Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus [Aaron),
Act IV., Sell.
" (And strangers tell of) three times skimm'd sky-blue."
Bloomfield. The Farmer''s Boy, Spring, line 254.
" Thrice blest whose lives are faithful prayers,
Wliose loves in higher love endure ;
What souls possess themselves so pure,
Or is there blessedness like theirs ? "
Tennyson. In Memoriam, XXXII.
" Thrice noble is the man who of himself is king."
Phineas Fletcher. Apollyonists, Can. III., St. 10.
" ' Thrice the brindled cat hath mew'd.' ist Witch.
' Thrice ; and once the hedge-pig whined.' " 2nd Witch.
Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act IV., Sc. I.
296 THRO' THE SHADOW— THY LOVE,
" Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day :
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay."
Tennyson. Lockdcy Hall.
'• Through all the drama — whether damn'd or not —
Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot."
Sheridan. Epilogue to the Rivals, line 5.
" Through tatter'd clothes small vices disappear ;
Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with go'id,
And the strong lance of justice hurtling breaks ;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it."
Shakespeare. King Lear [Lear), Act IV., Sc. VI.
" Through thicke and thin, both over banck and bush.
In hope her to attain by hooke or crooke."
Spenser. The Faerie Queene., Bk. III., Can. I., St. 17.
" Through utter weakness pitiably dear.
As tender infants are ; and yet how great I
For all things serve them."
Wordsworth. The Prelude, Bk. VIII.
" Throw mekill discomforting,
Men fallis off into despayring."
Barbour. The Bruce, Bk. III., line 193.
" Throw physick to the dogs, I'll none of it."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act V., Sc. III.
" Th' unhappy man who once has trailed a pen.
Lives not to please himself, but other men."
Dryden. Prologue to Casar Borgia.
" Thus far into the bowels of the land
Have we marched on without impediment."
Shakespeare. Richard III. [Richmond), Act V., Sc. II.
" Thus may we gather honey firom the weed,
And make a moral of the devil himself"
Shakespeare. Henry V. [King Henry), Act IV., Sc. I.
•' Thus some, who have the stars survey'd,
Are ignorantly led,
To think those glorious lamps were made
To light Tom Fool to bed."
Rowe. On a Fine Woman who had a dull Husband, IV.
" Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges."
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night [Clown), Act V., Sc. I.
" Thus we play the fool with the time ; and the spirits of the wise sit in
the clouds and mock us."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. [Prince Henry),
Act II., Sc. II.
" Thy favours are the silly wind.
That kisses ilka thing it meets."
Burns. I do confess thou art sae fair,
" Thy love afar is spite at home." Emerson. Self-Reliance.
THY WIFE— TIME HATH A TAMING. 297
" Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art
the man in the moon."
CoNGREVE. Love in Love, Act II., Sc. VI.
" Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. {Kinq Henry),
Act IV., Sc. IV.
" Time and wind stay no man's pleasure."
R. Southwell. St. Pcfer's Complaint.
••Time and tide stay no man's pleasure.''
R. South WE LI . Loss in Delay.
•* But tide and time for no man stay."
SoMERViLLE. The Scented Miser.
" Tigers have courage and the rugged bear,
But man alone can, whom he conquers, spare."
Waller. Epistle to my Lord Protector.
" Till Cant cease, nothing else can begin,"
Carlyle. The French Revolution, Pt. II., Bk. III.,
Chap. VII.
" Till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen,
We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen."
Rudyard Kipling. An Imperial Rescript.
" (For) time at last sets all things even —
And if we do but watch the hour,
There never yet was human power
Which could evade, if unforgiven.
The patient search and vigil long
Of him who treasures up a wrong." Byron. Mazeppa, VIII.
" Time
Can tarry for no man."
Beaumont and Fletcher. The Scornful Lady {Savil),
Act v., Sc. III.
Vide — " Tide and time," etc.
" Time conquers all, and we must Time obey."
Pope. Pastorals^ Winter, line 88.
" Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth,
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow ;
Feeds on the vanities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow."
Shakespeare. Sonnet LX.
" Time from the brow doth wipe out every stain."
Nash. Summer's Last Will, Sol.
" Time goes on crutches, till love have his rites."
Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothing {Claudio),
Act II., Sc. I.
" Time hath a taming hand 1 "
J. H. Newman. Persecution, last line.
298 TIME HATH FOUND— TIME TRIES A'.
" Time hath found
In desp'rate cures a salve for every wound"
Ph. Fletcher. Piscatorie Eclogues, V., St. g.
" Time himself is bald, and therefore to the world's end will have bald
followers."
Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors {Droinio of Syracuse),
Act II., Sc. II.
" Time is eternity begun." J. Montgomery. A Mother's Love.
" (For) time is like a fashionable host,
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand :
And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly,
Grasps-in the comer : welcome ever smiles,
And farewell goes out sighing."
Shakespeare. Troilus and Cresstda (Ulysses), Act III., Sc. III.
" (Remember that) Time is money."
B. Franklin. Advice to a young Tradesman.
" Time is the nurse and breeder of all good."
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona {Proteus),
Act III., Sc. I.
" Time never lies heavy upon him, it is impossible for him to be alone."
Addison. The Spectator, No. 93.
" Time passeth swift away ;
Our life is frail, and we may die to-day."
Marlowe. Tamburlaine the Great (Mycetes), Act I., Sc. I.
" Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides :
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Cordelia), Act I., Sc. I.
" Time tempers love but not removes,
More hallow'd when its hope is fled :
Oh ! what are thousand living woes
To that which cannot quit the dead ? "
Byron. Occasional Pieces, One Struggle More.
" Time, the wretch's friend,
Life's great physician, skill'd alone to close,
Where sorrow long has wak'd the weeping eye."
Mallet. Amyntor and Theodora, Can. I., line 83.
" Time ! thou beautifier of the dead,
Adorner of the ruin — comforter
And only healer when the heart hath bled †”
Time ! the corrector when our judgments err,
The test of truth, love, — sole philosopher ! "
Byron. ChiUle Harold, Can. IV., St. 130.
" Time to the yielding mind his change imparts,
He varies notions and he alters hearts ;
'Tis right, 'tis just to feel contempt for vice,
But he that shows it may be over nice." Crabbe. Arabella.
" Time tries a'." Old Scotch Proverb.
TIME WASTED— 'TIS BEAUTY. 299
•• Time tries the truth in everything."
TusSER. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
The Author's Epistle, Cluip. I.
' Time wasted is existence ; us'd is life."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night II., line 150.
" Time wears all his locks before,
Take thy hold upon his forehead ;
When he flies he turns no more,
And behind his scalp is naked," Southwell. Loss in Delay.
Vide — "Occasion's bald behind."
" Time, who in the twilight comes to mend
All the fantastic day's caprice."
R, Browning. Strafford, Act V., Sc. II.
" Time
Works miracles. In one hour many thousands
Of grains of sand run out ; and quick as they,
Thought follows thought within the human soul."
Coleridge. The Death of Wallenstein.
" Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light,
To stamp the seal of time in aged things,
To wake the morn, and sentinel the night,
To wrong the wronger till he render right.
To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours,
And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.**
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrcce, 135.
" Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep.
He, like the world, his ready visit pays
Where fortune smiles ; the v/retched he forsakes :
Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe.
And lights on lids unsuUy'd with a tear."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night I., line i.
•' 'Tis a mad world, my masters."
John Taylor. Taylor's Western Voyage, line i.
" 'Tis a truth well known to most,
That whatsoever thing is lost ;
We seek it, ere it come to light,
In every cranny but the right."
CowPER. The Retired Cat, line 95.
" 'Tis always morning somewhere, and above
The awakening continents from shore to shore.
Somewhere the birds are singing evermore."
Longfellow. The Birds of Killingworth.
" 'Tis beauty calls, and glory leads the way."
Nath. Lee. Alexander the Great, Act II., Sc. II.
" 'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud ;
But God, he knows, thy share thereof is small :
'Tis virtue that doth make them most admir'd ;
The contrary doth make thee wondered at :
'Tis government that makes them seem divine."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., PI. III. (YorltS. Act I., Sc. IV.
300 'TIS BETTER— 'TIS HARD FOR KINGS.
" 'Tis better far to love and be poor, than be rich with an empty heart."
Lewis Morris. Songs of Two Worlds, Love in Death.
" 'Tis better once to die, than still to fear
And many times to die, than be
Oblig'd past payment to an enemy."
Dryden. The Conquest of Granada, Pi. 11. (Almahide),
Act I., Sc. II.
" 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp
Than with an old one dying."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Enobarbus),
Act I., Sc. II., XIII.
" 'Tis better to be brief, than tedious."
Shakespeare. Richard III. (First Murderer), Act I., Sc. IV.
" 'Tis better to be left than never to have been loved."
Congreve. The Way of the World {Mrs. Marwood),
Act II., Sc. I.
" 'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all."
Tennyson. In Memoriam, XXVII.
" 'Tis better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perch'd up in a glistering grief.
And wear a golden sorrow, "
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. [Anne Bullen), Act II., Sc. III.
" 'Tis but half a judge's task to know."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, Pt. III., line 2.
•' 'Tis double death to drown in ken of shore."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece, 160.
" 'Tis easier far to lose than to resign," Lyttelton. Elegy.
'• 'Tis easier to advise • bear up,' than bear."
R. Browning. Balattstion's Adventure.
" 'Tis education forms the common mind ;
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined,"
Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. I., line 149.
" 'Tis eminence makes envy rise,
As fairest fruits attract the flies." SwiFT. To Dr. Delany.
" 'Tis foolish to depend on others' mercy I
Keep yourself right, and even cut your cloth, sir,
According to your calling."
Fletcher. The Beggar's Bush (Second Merchant),
Act IV., Sc. I.
" 'Tis from high life high characters are drawn;
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn."
Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. I., line 135.
" 'Tis hard for kings to steer an equal course.
And they who banish one oft gain a worse."
Dryden. Tarquin and Tullia.
'Tin HARD TO SAY— 'TIS NOT HER COLDNESS. joi
â– Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill,
Appear in writing or in judging ill."
I'oPE. Essay on Criticism, Pt. I., line i.
" 'Tis hard to venture where our betters fail,
Or lend fresb interest to a twice-told tale."
Byron. Hints from Horace.
" 'Tis heaven alone that is given away,
'Tis only God may be had for the asking."
Lowell. Vision of Sir Launftd, Prelude, Pt. I.
" 'Tis impious in a good man to be sad."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night IV., line 675.
" 'Tis inhumanity to bless by chance."
Young. Love of Fame, Sat. III., line 182.
" 'Tis in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find
pleasure to be deceived."
Locke. Essay on the Human Understanding, Bk. III.,
Chap. X., Sec. 34.
" 'Tis infamy to die and not be missed."
C. Wilcox. The Religion of Taste.
" 'Tis mad idolatry
To make the service greater than the god."
Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida {Hector), Act II., Sc. II.
*' 'Tis man's worst deed
To let the ' things that have been ' run to waste,
And in the unmeaning present sink the past."
C. Lamb. Sonnet VIII.
" 'Tis merry in the hall, when beards wag all." Old Proverb.
" 'Tis merry in hall, when beards wag all."
HiSTRioMASTix. Philarchus, Act II., Sc. I., line 343.
" 'Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine
On vain refinements vainly to refine.
To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign,
To boast of apathy when out of pain."
Churchill. Farewell, line 47.
" 'Tis my vocation, Hal 1 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation."
Shakespeare. Hctiry IV., Pt. I. (Falstaff), Act I., Sc. II.
" 'Tis next to conquer, bravely to defend."
Garth. The Dispensary, Can. III., line 222.
" 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call.
But the joint force and full result of all."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, line 245.
" 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up.
But to support him after."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens (Timon), Act I., Sc. /.
" 'Tis not her coldness, father,
That chills my labouring breast ;
It's that confounded cucumber
I've ate and can't digest."
Thos. Ingoldsbv. The Confession.
302 'TIS NOT IN MORTALS— 'TIS THE CURSE.
" 'Tis not in mortals to command success ;
But we'll do more, Sempronius : we'll deserve it."
Addison. Cato. Fortius, Act I., Sc. II.
" 'Tis not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die."
J. Montgomery, The Issues of Life and Death.
'"Tis not what man Does which exalts him,
But what man Would do ! " Browning. Saul, XVIII.
" 'Tis not where we be, but whence we fell ;
The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell."
Sir S. Tuke. The Adventures of Five Hours (Don Octavio),
ActV.
" (For) 'tis not wise to be severe." Dryden. Epilogue, II
" 'Tis now the very witching hour of night ;
When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet). Ac* III., Sc. II.
" 'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
Another thing to fall."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure {Angela), Act II., Sc. I.
" 'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels
Reveal themselves to you." R. Browning. Paracelsus, V.
" 'Tis plenty, in small fortune, to be neat."
W. King. The Art of Cookery, line 156.
" 'Tis safer to
Avoid what's grown, than question how 'tis born."
Shakespeare. Winter's Tale {Camillo), Act I., Sc. II.
" 'Tis strange the Hebrew noun which means ' I am,'
The English always use to govern d n."
Byron. Don yuan. Can. I., St. 14.
" 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle.
Should let itself be snuffed out by an article."
Byron. Don jfuan. Can. XI., St. 59.
" 'Tis sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn
together." Sterne. Sentimental journey.
" 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark
Our coming, and look brighter when we come."
Byron. Don yuan. Can. I., St. 123.
'"Tis the common disease of all your musicians, that they know no
mean, to be entreated either to begin or end."
Ben Jonson. The Poetaster {yulia), Act II., Sc. I.
" 'Tis the curse ot the service,
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
Not by the old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to the first."
Shakespeare. Othello (Jago), Act I., Se. I,
'TIS THE EYE— 'TIS WOMAN ALONE. 303
" 'tis the eye ot childhood
That fears a painted devil."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act II., Sc. Ill,
" 'Tis the good reader that makes the good boolc."
Emerson. Success,
" 'Tis the hard grey weather
Breeds hard English men."
C. KiNGSLEY. Ode to the North-east Wind.
'• 'Tis the pest
Of love that fairest joys give most unrest." Keats. Endymion, II.
«' 'Tis the soldiers' life
To have their balmy slumbers wak'd with strife."
Shakespeare. Othello (Othello), Act II., Sc. III.
" 'Tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petard."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (King), Act IV., Sc. IV.
" Tis the sublime of man,
Our noontide majesty, to know ourselves
Parts and proportions of one wondrous whole I "
Coleridge. Religious Musings.
' 'Tis the talent of our English nation,
Still to be plotting some new reformation."
Dryden. Prologue to Sophonisba.
" 'Tis the taught already that profits by teaching.'*
R. Browning. Christmas Eve, No. IV.
" 'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss."
Shakespeare. Pericles Pericles)^ Act I., Sc. II.
" 'Tis true, perfection none must hope to find
In all the world, much less in womankind."
Pope. January and May, line 190.
" 'Tis vain to quarrel with our destiny."
MiDDLETON. A Trick to catch the Old One, Witgood,
Act IV., Sc. IV.
" 'Tis we alone
Can join the patience of the labouring ox
Unto the eagle's foresight."
C. KiNGSLEY. The Saint's Tragedy (Conrad), Act I., Sc. II.
" 'Tis when the wound is stiffening with the cold,
The warrior first feels pain ; 'tis when the heat
And fiery fever of the soul is past.
The sinner feels remorse."
Sir W. Scott. The Monastery, Chap. XXIII.
" 'Tis woman alone, with a purer heart.
Can see all these idols of life depart,
And live the more, and smile and bless
Man in his uttermost wretchedness." Barry Cornwall. Woman.
304 TITLE AND ANCESTRY— TO BE, OR NOT TO BE.
:' Title and ancestry render a good name more illustrious, but an ill one
more contemptible." Audison.
" Titles, the servile courtier's lean reward,
Sometimes the pay of virtue, but more oft
The hire which greatness gives to slaves and sycophants."
RowE. jfane Shore, Act II., Sc. I.
" With their authors, in oblivion sunk,
Vain titles lie ; the servile badges oft
Of mean submission, not the meed of worth."
Thomson.
*' Titles are marks of honest men and wise ;
The fool or knave who wears a title, lies."
Young. The Love of Fame, Bk. I., line 147.
" To a mother, a child is everything ; but to a child, a parent is only a
link in the chain of her existence."
Lord Beaconsfield. Venetia {Lady Annabel), Bk. IV.,
Chap. XIV.
" To act well
Brings with itself an ample recompense."
SouTHEY. yoan of Arc, Bk. VIII., line 619.
" To alter favour ever is to fear."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Lady Macbeth), Act I., Sc. V.
" To be a fine gentleman is to be a generous and a brave man."
Steele, The Spectator, No. 75.
" To be a kingdom's bulwark, a king's glory,
Yet loved by both, and trusted and trustworthy,
Is more than to be king." Coleridge. Zapolya, Sc. I.
" To be great is to be misunderstood." Emerson. Self -Reliance.
' ' To be great, be wise :
Content of spirit must from science flow,
For 'tis a godlike attribute to know."
Prior. Solomon, Bk. I., line 41.
" To be happy here is man's chief end,
For to be happy he must needs be good."
KiRKE White. To Contemplation.
Vide — " They only arc truly great," etc.
" To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten
thousand."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act II., Sc. II.
" To be, or not to be, — that is the question —
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them ? To die — to sleep-
No more ; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die- -to sleep ; — â–
TO BE WEAK— TO BUSINESS. 30^
To sleep ! perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may comei
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause : there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life ;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin ? Who would fardels bear.
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death, —
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, — puzzles the will.
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of ?
Thus, conscience does make cowards of us all ;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard their currents turn awry.
And lose the name of action. — Soft you now I
The fair Ophelia ! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III., Sc. I.
" To be weak is miserable.
Doing or suffering." Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. I., line 157.
" To be wise, and love,
Exceeds man's might ; that dwells with gods above."
Shakespeare. Troiltis and Cressida (Cressida), Act III., Sc. II.
*' 'Tis hard to be in love and to be wise."
Nath. Lee. The Princess of Cleve (Nemours),
Act /., Sc. III.
" To be wroth with one we love,
Doth work like madness in the brain."
CoLERlDQE. Christabel, II.
" To hear all naked truths.
And to envisage circumstance, all calm,
That is the top of sovereignty." Keats. Hyperion, II.
" To bear is to conquer our fate."
Campbell. On visiting a Scene in Argyleshire.
"To build from matter is sublimely great,
But gods and poets only can create."
Pitt. To the Unknown Author of the Battle of the Sexes.
" To business that we love, we rise betime.
And go to't with delight."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Antony),
Act IV., Sc. IV.
30
joe TO CHEAPEN TRUTH— TO FLY THE BOAR.
" To cheapen truth that every one may buy,
You must so thin the gold as makes it worthless."
P. J. Bailey. Festus [Lucifer), XI.
" To cities and to courts repair,
Flatt'ry and falsehood flourish there ;
There all thy wretched arts employ.
Where riches triumph over joy,
Where passions do with int'rest barter.
And Hymen holds by mammon's charter ;
Where truth by point of law is parry'd,
And knaves and prudes are six times marry'd."
Prior. The Turtle and the Sparrow, line 432.
" To contemplation's sober eye,
Such is the race of man,
And they that creep and they that fly,
Shall end where they began." Gray, Ode to the Spring.
" To converse with historians is to keep good company."
Lord Bolingbroke. Of the Study of History, Letter II.
" To do great right, do a little wrong ;
And curb this cruel devil of his will."
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio),
Act IV., Sc. I.
" To doubt her fairness were to want an eye,
To doubt her pureness were to want a heart."
Tennyson. Launcelot and Elaine.
" To doubtful masters do not headlong run.
What's well left off were better not begun." Randolph.
'' To err is human, to forgive divine."
Pope, Essay on Criticism, Pt. II., line 525.
" To exult
Ev'n o'er an enemy oppress'd, and heap
Affliction on th' afflicted, is the mark
And the mean triumph of a dastard soul."
Smollett. The Regicide (Dunbar), Act II., Sc. VII.
" To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the
heaven." Ecclesiastes. Chap. III., ver. i.
• • To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength.
Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,
And so your follies fight against yourself.
Fear, and be slain ; no worse can come to fight :
And fight and die is death destroying death ;
Where fearing dying pays death servile breath."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Carlisle), Act III., Sc. II
" To follow foolish precedents and wink
With both our eyes, is easier than to think."
Cowper. Tirocinium.
" To fly the boar before the boar pursues,
Were to incense the boar to follow us ;
And make pursuit where he did mean no chase."
Shakespeare. Richard III. (Hastings), Act III., Sc. II.
TO GET BY GIVING— TO NONE MAN SEEMS. 307
" To get by giving, and to lose by keeping,
Is to be sad in mirth, and glad in weeping."
Chris. Harvie. The Syttagogue, The Church Stile,
" To get goods is the benefit of Fortune, to keepe them the gift of wis-
dome." Lyly. Letters of Euphms, To Aldus.
" To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess."
Shakespeare. King John [Salisbury), Act IV., Sc. II.
" (But) to have power to forgive,
Is empire and prerogative ;
And 'tis in crowns a nobler gem
To grant a pardon than condemn."
Butler. Hudibras, to his Lady.
" To have the feelings of gentility, it is not necessary to have been
born gentle." C. Lamb. Last Essays of Elia Blakesmoor.
" To judge wisely I suppose we must know how things appear to tho
unwise."
George Eliot. Daniel Deronda, Bk. IV., Chap. XXIX.
" To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die." Campbell. Hallowed Ground.
" To live long is almost every one's wish, but to live well is the ambition
of a few." J. Hughes. The Lay Monastery, No. 18.
" To love her is a liberal education." Steele. The Tatler, No. 49.
" To loyal hearts the value of all gifts
Must vary as the givers." Tennyson. Launcelot and Elaine.
" (He ne'er consider'd it as loath),
To look a gift-horse in the mouth."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. /., Can. I., line 490.
" To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath."
George Eliot. Romola, Chap. XXXIX.
" To make, you must be marred, —
To raise your race, must stoop, — to teach them aught, must learn, —
Ignorance, meet halfway what most you hope to spurn,
r the equal." R. Browning. Fifine at the Fair, LXXV.
" To meet, to know, to love — and then to part,
Is the sad tale of many a human heart."
Coleridge. Couplet, written in a volume of poems.
" To mourn a mischief that is past and gone.
Is the next way to draw new mischief on."
Shakespeare. Othello (Duke), Act I., Sc. II.
" To none man seems ignoble, but to man."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night IV., line 483.
3o8 TO NURSE— TO SPEND THE TIME.
" To nurse a blind ideal like a girl."
Tennyson, The Princess, III.
'' To observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for the observer's sake."
Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. I., line ii.
" To offend, and judge, are distinct offices.
And of opposed natures."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Portia),
Act II., Sc. IX.
" To place and power all public spirit tends,
In place and power all public spirit ends,
Like hardy plants, that love the air and sky,
When out, 'twill thrive — but taken in, 'twill diel "
T. Moore. Corruption.
" To read with profit, is of care ; but to write aptly, is of practice."
M. TuppER. Proverbial Philosophy, Of Writing, lo.
" To rear their graces into second life ;
To give society its highest taste.
Well order'd home, man's best delight, to make ;
And by submissive wisdom, modest skill,
With every gentle care deluding art,
To raise the virtues, animate the bliss.
And sweeten all the toils of human life :
This be the female dignity and praise. "
Thomson. The Seasons, Autumn, line 6oi.
" To rest the weary and to soothe the sad.
Doth lessen happier men, and shames at least the bad."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. II., St. 68.
" (I mean not) to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde."
Lyly. Euphues, Euphues to Philautus.
" To see her is to love her,
And love but her for ever ;
For nature made her what she is.
And never made anither." Burns. Bonie Lesley.
"â– Oh ! she was good as she was fair,
None — none on earth above her I
As pure in thought as angels are,
To know her was to love her."
Rogers, facqueline, I,
Vide also — " Nature's richest," etc.
" To shoot at crows is powder flung away."
Gay. Ep. IV., last line.
" To show an unfelt sorrow, is an office
Which the false man does easy."
Shakespeare. Macbeth [Malcolm), Act II., Sc. III.
" To spend the time luxuriously
Becomes not men of worth."
S. Daniel. Ulysses and the Syren, 15.
TO STRICTEST JUSTICE— TO-MORROW TO FRESH. 309
•' To strictest justice many ills belong,
And honesty is often in the wrong."
RowE. Lticiin^s Pharsalia, Bk. VIII., line 657.
" To suckle fools and chronicle small beer."
Shakespeare. Othello (Togo), Act II., Sc. I.
" To tell tales out of schoole, that is her great lust.
Look what shee knoweth, blab it wist and out it must."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Chap. X.
"To the noble mind,
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Ophelia), Act III., Sc. I.
' To the pure all things are pure."
St. Paul. Epistle to Titus, Chap. I., ver. 15.
" To the pure all things are pure."
Shelley. The Revolt of Islam, VII., XXX.
•' To thine own self be true ;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Polonius), Act I., Sc. III.
" To triumph o'er ourselves is the only conquest where fortune makes no
claim. In battle, chance may snatch the laurel from thee, or
chance may place it on thy brow; but in a contest with thyself,
be resolute, and the virtuous impulse must be the victor."
Sheridan. Pizarro (Rolla), Act IV., Sc. II.
" To wilful men
The injuries that they themselves procure
Must be their schoolmaster."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Regan), Act II., Sc. IV.
" To work a fell revenge a man's a fool.
If not instructed in a woman's school."
Fletcher. The Spanish Curate {Don Jamie), Act V., Sc. I.
" To-day is yesterday return'd ; return'd
Full power'd to cancel, expiate, raise, adorn,
And reinstate us on the rock of peace."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night II., line 316.
" To-day
Takes in account the work oi yesterday."
R. Browninq. Sordello, Bk. V.
" Together both, ere the high lawns appear'd
Under the opening eye-lids of the morn,
We drove afield, and both together heard
What time the grey-fly winds her sultry horn,
Batt'ning our flocks with the Iresh dews of night
Oft till the star that rose at evening bright,
Tow'rds Heav'n's descent had sloped his west'ring wheel."
Milton. Lycidas.
" To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new." Milton. Lycidas,
3IO TOO EAGER CAUTION— TREASON HATH.
" Too eager caution shows some danger's near,
The bully's bluster proves the coward's fear."
Crabbe. The Parish Register, Pt. I.
" Too early seen unknown, and known too late."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfuliet {Romeo), Act I., Sc. V.
" Too sweet to last." Sir W. Jones. Turkish Ode to Neshishi.
" To joys, too exquisite to last."
J. Montgomery. The Little Cloud.
" It was a dream of perfect bliss,
Too beautiful to last."
Haynes Bayly. It was a Dream, I.
" She floats, the vision of a dream,
Too beautiful to last."
Longfellow. The Ballad of Carmelhan.
" Oh I they're too beautiful to live, much too beautiful 1 "
C. Dickens. Nicholas Nickleby {Mrs. Kenwigs),
Chap. XIV.
" Too bright, too beautiful to last."
Bryant. The Rivulet.
" Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
Shakespeare. Romeo and yuliet [Friar Laurence),
Act III., Sc. VI.
" Tortures were framed to dread the baser eye.
And not t' appal a princely majesty."
T. Lodge. The Wounds of Civil War {Cornelia), Act IV.
" Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra {Lapidus), Act II., Sc. II.
" (For) toyle doth give a better touch
To make us feel our joy,
And ease findes tediousness, as much
As labour yields annoy." S. Daniel. Ulysses and the Syren, 28.
" Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young,"
Whittier. Mary Garvin.
" Travel's a miniature life,
Travel is evermore a strife."
Clouoh. Mari Magna, The Lawyer's First Tale, IV.
*' Travellers ne'er did lie,
Though fools at home condemn 'em."
Shakespeare. The Tempest {Antonio), Act III., Sc. Ill,
" Treason doth never prosper ; what's the reason ?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
Sir J. Harrington. Epigrams.
" Treason hath blistered heeles, dishonest things
Have bitter Rivers, though delicious Springs."
G. Chapman. Byron^s Tragedie {Henry), Act I., Sc. I.
TREASON IS— TRUE MODESTY. 311
'* Treason is but trusted like the fox,
Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd, and lock'd up,
Will have a wild trick of his ancestors."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. {Worcester), Act V., Sc. II.
" Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmation strong
As proofs of holy writ."
Shakespeare. Othello {lago), Act III., Sc. III.
" Triumphs for nothing, and lamenting toys,
Is jollity for apes, and grief for boys."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline {Gtdderius), Act IV., Sc. II.
" True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon."
Butler. Hndibras, Pt. III., Can. II., line 175.
" True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun." Barton Booth. Song.
" True courage, as well as true wisdom, is not distrustful of itself."
W. Hazlitt. Political Essays, Illustrations of Vetns,
10th Dec, 1813.
" True dancing, like true wit, is best exprest
By nature only to advantage drest."
SoAME Jenyns. The Art of Dancing, Can. II., line 117.
" True fiction hath an higher end, and scope
Wider than fact ; it is nature's possible.
Contrasted with life's actual mean." P. J. Bailey. Festus, Proem.
"True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends.
But in the worth and choice."
Ben Jonson. Cynthia's Revels {Arete), Act III., Sc. II.
" True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings."
Shakespeare. Richard III. {Richmond), Act V., Sc. II.
" True love in this differs from gold and clay.
That to divide is not to take away."
Shelley. Epipsychidion,
" True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven :
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die ;
It is the secret sympathy.
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind."
Sir W. Scott. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Can. V., XIII.
" True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a
due estimate of them."
J, C. Hare. Guesses at Trttth, Taylor and Wilton''s Ed., 1851,
Vol. I., p. 8.
312 TRUE NOBILITY— TRUTH IS TOO RESERVED.
" True nobility is exempt from fear."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. II. (Suffolk), Act IV., Sc. I.
" True poets are the guardians of state,"
Roscommon. Essay on Translated Verse.
" True virtue, wheresoe'er it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about
it, and is in every place, and in each sex of equal value."
Vanburgh. The Provoked Wife {Constant), Act III., Sc. I.
" Trust flattering life no more, redeem time past,
And live each day as if it were thy last."
Drummond of Hawthornden, Flowers of Sin, Death's
Last Will.
' Trust me not at all or all in all." Tennyson. Merlin and Vivien.
" Trust none ;
For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
And hold-fast is the only dog."
Shakespeare. Henry V. {Pistol), Act II., Sc. III.
" Trust not before you trie :
For under cloke of great goodwill,
Doth fained frienship lie."
Turberville. To Browne of Light Beliefe, I.
" Trust not him that hath once broken faith."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. III. {Queen Elizabeth),
Act IV., Sc. IV.
" (O, noble emperor, do not fight by sea).
Trust not to rotten planks."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra {Soldier),
Act III., Sc. VII.
" Truth crushed to earth shall rise again;
The eternal years of God are hers ;
But error wounded writhes in pain.
And dies among her worshippers." Bryant. The Battlefield.
" Truth hath a quiet breast."
Shakespeare. Richard 1 1. [{Norfolk), Act I., Sc. III.
'* Truth illuminates and gives joy, and it is by the bond of joy, not of
pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held."
Matthew Arnold. Essays on Criticism, jfoubcrt.
" Truth is always strange, —
Stranger than fiction." Byron. Don jfuan. Can. XIV., St. loi.
" Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sun-
beam." Milton. The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.
" Truth is the summit of being ; justice is the application of it to others."
Emerson. Character.
" Truth is too reserved and nice,
T' appear in mix'd societies ;
Delights in solit'ry abodes,
And never shows herself in crowds."
Butler. The Elephant in the Moon.
TRUTH IS TRUTH— 'TWAS IN HEAVEN. 313
" (For) truth is truth
To th' end of reckoning."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Isabella), Act V., Sc, I.
" Iriith is within ourselves ; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate'er you may believe.
There is an inmost centre in us all,
Where truth abides in fulness." R. Browning. Paracelsus, I.
" Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense."
Lord Bolingbroke. Reflections upon Exile.
" Truth loves open dealing."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. (Qneen Katharine), Act III., Sc. I.
" Truth makes true love doubly sweet to know."
Leigh Hunt. The Gentle Armour, Can. I., line 36.
" Truth needs no colour, with his colour fixVJ,
Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay :
But best is best, if never intermix'd ? " Shakespeare. Sonnet, CI.
" Truth needs not the foil of rhetoric."
MiDDLETON. The Family of Love {Glister), Act V., Sc. III.
" Truth never hurts
The teller." R. Browning. Fiflne at the Fair, XXXII.
" Truth never was indebted to a lie."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night VIII., line 587.
" Truth of any kind breeds ever new and better truth."
Carlyle. The French Revolution, Pt. I., Bk. VI., Chap. I.
" Truth of itself is of sufficient worth,
Nor needs it gloss of art to set it forth." Drayton. The Owl.
" Truth remains true, the fault's in the prover."
R. Browning. Chrl'.tmas Eve, No. IV.
" Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."
Matthew Arnold. Sohrab and Rustuni.
" Truth that peeps
Over the glass's edge when dinner's done."
R. Browning. Bishop Blougram's Apology.
" Truth I though the Heavens crush me for following her."
Carlyle. Sartor Resartus, Bk. II., Chap. VII.
" Truth's golden o'er us although we refuse it —
Nature through cobwebs we string her." R. Browning.
" Turn cat in the pan very prettily."
R. Edwards. Damon and Pithias, Carisophus.
" 'Twas a thief said the last kind word to Christ,
Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft."
R. Browning. The Ring and the Book, VI., line 869.
" 'Twas in Heaven pronounced, and 'twas whispered in Hell."
Catherine Fanshaw. Enigma written at Dcepdene.
314 'TWAS ONLY FEAR— TWO STRINGS.
I " 'Twas only fear first in the world made gods."
Ben Jonson. Sejanus (Sejanus), Act 11. , Sc. II.
" 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild."
Collins. The Passions, line 28.
" 'Twas the season fair and mild
When April has crept itself to May."
Shelley. Rosalind and Helen.
" 'Twere more than woman to be wise,
'Twere more than man to wish thee so ! " T. Moore. The Ring.
" Twinn'd as horses ear and eye." Tennyson. The Princess.
"'Twixt kings and their inferiors there's the ods.
These are mere men, we men, yet earthly gods."
G. Chapman. Revenge for Honour (Abraham), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Two are better than one." Ecclesiastes. Chap. IV., ver. 9.
" Two Harveys had a mutual wish,
To please in separate stations ;
The one invented * sauce for fish,'
The other ' Meditations '.
Each has his pungent powers applied
To aid the dead and dying ;
That relishes a sole when fried.
This saves a soul from frying." Anon.
" Two heads are better than one."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Chap. IX.
" Two heads being better than one."
Southey. The Devil's Walk, 39.
" Two human loves make one divine."
E. B. Browning. Isabel's Child.
" Two of a thousand things are disallow'd,
A lying rich man, and a poor man proud."
Herrick. Hesperides, 18.
" Two of a trade can ne'er agree." Gay. Fables, XXI.
" Two points in the adventure of the diver,
One, — when a beggar, he prepares to plunge,
One, — when a prince, he rises with his pearl."
R. Browning. Tciracelsus, I.
' ' Two stars ke.'.p not their motion in one sphere ;
Nor can one England brook a double reign."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Prince Henry),
Act v., Sc. IV.
" Two strings t' his bow."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. III., Can. /., line 3
•• 'Tis good in every cause, you know.
To have two strings unto our bow."
Churchill. The Ghost, Bk. IV., line 1296
TWO WOMEN— UNLESS ABOVE HIMSELF. 315
" Two women placed together make cold weather."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. (Chamberlain), Act I., Sc. IV.
" Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. I. {Bedford), Act II., Sc. II.
" Uncursed by doubt, our earliest creed we take ;
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake ;
The simple lesson which the nursery taught
Fell soft and stainless on the buds of thought,
And the full blossom owes its fairest hue
To those sweet tear-drops of affection's dew."
O. W. Holmes. A Rhymed Lesson.
" Under a jealous prince
A great's as prejudicial as an evil fame."
Sir S. Tuke. The Adventures of Five Hours {Don Antonio),
Act II.
" Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. (King Henry),
Act III., Sc, I.
" Unhappy White I when life was in its spring,
And thy young muse first waved her joyous wing,
The spoiler swept that soaring lyre away,
Which else hath sounded an immortal lay.
Oh I what a noble heart was here undone,
When science self destroyed her favourite son."
Byron. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,
" Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd.
No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Ghost), Act I., Sc. V.
" Unrespited, unpitied, unrepriev'd."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. II., line 1S5.
" Unwept, unnoted, and for ever dead."
Pope. Homer''s Odyssey, Bk. V., line 401.
Quoted by Cambridge. The Scriblcriad, Bk. I.,
line 83.
"Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. IV., St. 179.
" To this vile dust, from whence he sprung.
Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung."
Sir W. Scott. Lay of the Last Minstrel,
Can. VI., Si. i.
"Unwept, unshrouded, and unsepulchred.'
SouTHEY. A Tale of Paraguay, XI.
" Unless above himself he can
Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! "
S. Daniel. Epistle to the Countess of Cumberland, St. 12.
\/
3ifi UNLESS SOME SWEETNESS—USE NOT TO LIE.
" Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie,
Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie ? "
W. King. Art of Cookery, line 136.
" Unless you can swear, ' For life, for death ! '
Oh, fear to call it loving !
Unless you can die when the dream is past —
Oh, never call it loving."
E. B. Browning. A Woman's Shortcomings.
" Unnumber'd spirits round thee fly,
The light militia of the lower sky."
Pope. The Rape of the Lock, Can. I., line 41.
" Unquiet meals make ill digestions."
Shakespeare. The Comedy of Errors {Abbess), Act V., Sc. L
" Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring ;
Unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers ;
The adder hisses where the sweet birds sing ;
What virtue breeds, iniquity devours :
We have no good that we can say is ours,
But ill-annexed opportunity
O'er kills his life, or else his quality."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece, 125.
" Unruly children make their sire stoop."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Gardener), Act III., Sc. IV.
" (For) unstain'd thoughts do seldom dream on evil ;
Birds never lim'd no secret bushes fear."
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece, 13.
" Until the mystery
Of all this world is solved, well may we envy
The worm, that, underneath a stone whose weight
Would crush the lion's paw with mortal anguish,
Doth lodge, and feed, and coil, and sleep in safety."
Wordsworth. The Borderers {Marmaduke), Act IV.
" Unto the end shall charity endure,
And candour hide those faults it cannot cure."
Churchill, The Apology, line 310.
" Use and Worth,
That guard the portals of the house."
Tennyson. In Mcmoriam, XXIX.
" Use can almost change the stamp of Nature."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III., Sc. IV.
"Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping ? "
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act II., Sc. II.
" Use makes a better soldier than the most earnest considerations of
duty." Emerson. Courage.
" Use not to lie, for that is unhonest : speak not every truth, for that is
unneedful ; yes, in time and place, a harmless lie is a great deal
better than a hurtful truth."
Roger Ascham. Letter to Mr. C. Howe.
VAIN IS THE GLORY— VICE, THAT DIGS. 317
" Vain is the glory of the sky,
The beauty vain of field and grove,
Unless, while with admiring eye
We gaze, we also learn to love."
Wordsworth. Poems of the Fancy, XX.
•' Vain pleasures sting the lips they kiss,
How asps are hid beneath the bowers of bliss ! "
Sir V\^ Jones. The Palace of Fortune, line 241.
" Valour's whetstone, anger,
Which sets an edge upon the sword, and makes it
Cut with a spirit."
Randolph. The Muses' Looking-Glass (Colax),
Act III., Sc. III.
" ['Tis an old maxim of the schools,
That] vanity's the food of fools."
Swift. Cadentis and Vanessa, line 758.
" Vanity's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour."
COWPER, The Task, Bk. II., line 606.
" [I have no spur,
To prick the sides of my intent, but only]
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself.
And falls on the other."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Macbeth), Act I., Sc. VII.
"Venus smiles not in a house of tears."
Shakespeare. Romeo and jfuliet (Paris), Act IV., Sc. I.
"Veracity is the heart of morality."
Huxley. Science and Culture, Universities Actual and Ideal.
*' Verse comes from Heav'n, like inward light;
Mere human pains can ne'er come by't ;
The God, not we, the poem makes ;
We only tell folks what he speaks."
Prior. Epistle to Fleetwood Shephard.
" Very like a whale."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (Polonins), Act III., Sc. II.
" Vex not thou the poet's mind
With thy shallow wit :
Vex not thou the poet's mind ;
For thou canst not fathom it." Tennyson. The Poet's Mind.
" (And) vexed with mirth the drowsy ear of night."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. I., St. 2.
" Vice engenders shame, and folly broods o'er grief."
PiaoR. Solomon, Bk. II., line S77.
"Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness."
Burke. On the French Revolution.
" Vice, that digs her own voluptuous tomb."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. /., St. 2.
3i8 VICIOUS FOLKS— VIRTUE IS HONOUR.
" Vicious folks aye hate to see
The works of virtue thrive." Burns. The Tree of Liberty.
" Victor from vanquish'd issues at the last,
And overthrower from being overthrown."
Tennyson. Gareth and Lynette.
" Victuals and ammunition
And money too, the sinews of war."
Beaumont and Fletcher. The Fair Maid (First Magistrate),
Act I., Sc. II.
" Moneys are the sinews of war."
Fuller. Holy and Profane States, Holy State,
The Good Soldier.
"Vigour from toil, from trouble patience grows."
Beattie. The Minstrel, Bk. II., St. 5.
*' (For) villanie maketh villeine,
And by his dedes a chorl is seine."
Chaucer. Rontaunt of the Rose, line 2181.
*' Violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumphs, die ; like fire and powder.
Which as they kiss, consume."
Shakespeare. Romeo and yuliet (Friar Laurence),
Act II., Sc. VI.
" Violent fires soon burn out themselves."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Gaunt), Act II., Sc. I.
" Virtue best loves those children that she beats."
Herrick. Hesperides, 822.
" Virtue gives herself light through darknesse for to wade."
Spenser. The Faerie Queene, Bk. I., Can. I., St. 12.
" Virtue, not in action, is a vice ;
And, when we move not forward, we go backward." Massinger.
" Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph,
Make atheists of mankind." Dryden. Cleomenes.
" Virtue in youth no stable footing finds.
And constancy is built on manly minds."
RowE. Ltican^s Pharsalia, Bk. VIII., line 367.
" Virtue is her own reward."
Prior. Ode in Imitation of Horace, Bk. III., Ode II.
"Virtue's its own reward."
Vanburgh. The Provoked Wife (Lady Brute),
Act I., Sc. I.
•• They know that virtue is its own reward."
Gay. Epistle to Methuen.
" Amen ! and virtue is its own reward ! "
Home. Douglas (Glenalvon), Act III., Sc. I.
" Virtue is honour, and the noblest titles
Are but the public stamps set on the ore
To ascertain its value to mankind."
West. Institution of the Garter, line 335.
VIRTUE IS LIKE—WAKE NOT A SLEEPING. 319
" Virtue is like pretious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or
crushed ; for Prosperity doth best discover vice ; but Adversity
doth best discover virtue." Bacon. Essay V., 0/ Adversity.
" Virtue is never aided by a vice."
Ben Jonson. The New Inn [Lovcl), Act IV., Sc. III.
" Virtoe is the fount whence honour springs."
Marlowe. Tamburlaine the Great, Pt. I. (Tamburlaine),
Act v., Sc. II.
" Virtue is the roughest way,
But proves at night a Bed of Down."
Sir Henry Wotton. Upon the sudden restraint of the
Earl of Somerset.
" Virtue is the shoeing-horn of justice."
Unknown. The Return from Parnassus {Kemp),
Act IV., Sc. III.
" Virtue itself escapes not calumnious strokes."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Laertes), Act I., Sc. III.
" Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied ; \
And vice sometime's by action dignify'd." \
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence),
Act II., Sc. III.
"Virtue never grows old." Herbert, Jacula Prudenttim.
" Virtue only makes our bliss below ;
And all our knowledge is ourselves to know."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. IV., line 397.
" Virtue solely is the sum of glory,
And fashions men with true nobility."
Marlowe. Tamburlaine the Great, Pt. I. {Tamburlaine),
Act v., Sc. II.
" Virtue was never built upon ambition,
Nor the soul's beauties bred out of bravery."
Fletcher. The Loyal Subject (Viola), Act III., Sc. II.
"Virtue, without talent, is a coat of mail without a sword; it may,
indeed, defend the wearer, but will not enable him to protect his
friend." Colton. Lacon, XXI.
" Virtue's the paint that can make wrinkles shine."
Young. Love of Fame, Sat. V., line 522.
" Virtuous and vicious ev'ry man must be,
Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. II., line 231.
"Visible governments are the toys of some nations, the diseases of
others, the harness of some, the burdens of more."
Ruskin. Sesame and Lilies, Lecture I., 42.
" Wake not a sleeping wolf."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Chief Justice)
Act I., Sell.
320 WALLS HAVE EARS— WASTE THEIR MUSIC-
"Walls have ears."
Wycherley. Love in a Wood {Gripe), Act III., Sc. III.
" For by old proverbs it appears,
That walls have tongues, and hedges ears." Swift.
" For echo will repeat, and walls have ears."
Pitt. Epistle to Mr. Spence.
" Walls have ears."
Byron. Marino Faliero, Act V., Sc. I.
Vide — " The woods have," etc.
" War, he sung, is toil and trouble.
Honour but an empty bubble." Dryden. Alexander's Feast.
" War is a fire struck in the Devil's tinder-box."
Howell. Familiar Letters, Bk. II., Letter XLIII.
To Lord R.
" War is honourable
In those who do their native rights maintain ;
In those whose swords an iron barrier are
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak."
Joanna Baillie. Ethwuld [Hereulf), Act I., Sc. III.
' War, ... is natural to women, as well as men — at least, with
their own sex 1 "
Sydney Smith. Letter to Lady Holland, gth December, 1807.
' ' War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight,
The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade."
Shelley. Queen Mab, IV.
" War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands."
Beilby Porteus. Death, line 178.
" War made in earnest makes war to cease,
And vigorous prosecution hastens peace."
Sir S. Tuke. The Adventures of Five Hours (Don Antonio),
Act II.
" War seldom enters but where wealth allures."
Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, Ft. II., Une 706.
" War, the needy bankrupt's last resort."
RoWE. Lucan's Pharsalia, Bk. I., line 3^3.
"War's a game which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at." CowPER. The Task, Bk. V., line 189.
" War's the rash reaper, who thrusts in his sickle
Before the grain is white."
Sir W. Scott. Halidon Hill {Prior), Act I., Sc. I.
" Waste is not grandeur."
Mason. The English Garden, Bk. II., line 20.
" Waste their music on the savage race."
Young. Love of Fame, Sat. V., line 228.
" Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
Gray. EUgy in a Country Churchyard.
WATER, WATER— WE DO THAT, 321
" Nor waste their sweetness on the desert air."
Chu'rchill. Gothiwi, Bk. II., line 20.
' Water, water, every\vherc,
And all the boards did shrink ;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink."
Coleridge. The Ancient Mariner, II., ver. 9,
' We all love a pretty girl— undei the rose."
BiCKERSTAFF. Love in a Village (Hawthorn sings),
Act II., Sc. II.
' We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided
each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate."
Emerson, Resources.
' We are all of ns more or less the slaves of opinion,"
W. Hazlitt. Political Essays, On Court Influence.
' (For) we are ancients of the earth,
And in the morning of the times." Tennyson. The Day Dream.
" We are ourselves
Our heaven and hell, the joy, the penalty.
The yearning, the fruition."
Lewis Morris. Epic of Hades, Tantalus.
• We are praised, only as men in us
Do recognise some image of themselves.
An abject counterpart of what they are.
Or the empty thing that they would wish to be."
Wordsworth. The Borderers {Oswald), Act IV.
" We are puppets, man in his pride, and Beauty fair in her flower ;
Do we move ourselves, or are we moved by an unseen hand at a
game
That pushes us off from the board, and others ever succeed ?
Ah yet, we cannot be kind to each other here for an hour ;
We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame ;
However we brave it out, we men are a little breed."
Tennyson. Maud, IV., 5.
" We are Time's subjects."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. {Hastings), Act I., Sc. III.
" We, by our sufferings, learn to prize our bliss."
Dryden. AstrcBa Redux.
" We could never have loved the earth so well, if we had had no child-
hood in it."
George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss, Bk. I., Chap. V.
•'We did sleep day out of countenance."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Enobarbus),
Act II., Sc. II.
" We do that in our zeal,
Our calmer moments are afraid to answer.'
I Sir W. Scott. Woodstock, Chap. XVII.
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322 WE HAND FOLK~WE MUST NOT.
" We hand folk over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves."
George Eliot, Adam Bcde, Chap. XLII.
••We have a crow to pull."
J. Hevwood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Chap. V.
" We'll pluck a crow together."
Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors {Dromio of Eph.),
Act III., Sc. I.
•f ' ' We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to
make us love another."
Swift. Thoughts on Various Subjects.
" We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act III., Sc. II.
" We, ignorant of ourselves, '
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good ; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers."
Shakespeare. Antony aud Cleopatra (Menecrates),
Act II., Sc. I.
" We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British Public in one of its
periodical fits of morality."
Macaulay. Essay on Moore's Life of Lord Byron.
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Ophelia), Act IV., Sc. V.
" We live and learn, but not the wiser grow."
Pomfret. Reason, line 112.
" We live by the gold for which other men die."
Prior. The Thief and Cordelier,
••We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial ;
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."
P. J. Bailey; Festus.
" We look before and after, and pine for what is not."
Shelley. Ode to a Skylark.
" We met — 'twas in a crowd." Haynes Bayly. We met, St. 1.
" We mourn the guilty, while the guilt we blame."
Mallett. Prologue to The Siege of Damascus.
" We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake ; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held."
Wordsworth. Poems to National Independence, Pt. I., XVI.
" We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey.
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch, and not their terror."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure (Angela), Act II., Sc. I.
WE MUST TAKE— WEARING THE WHITE. 323
' We must take our poets as we do our meals — as they are served up to
us." Aug. Birrell. Obiter Dicta, Mr. Browning's Poetry.
" We ne'er can be
Made happy by compulsion." Coleridoe. The Three Graves.
' We only part to meet again,
Change as ye list, ye winds I my heart shall be
The faithful compass that still points to thee."
Gay. William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan.
' We paint the devil foul, yet he
Hath some good in him, all agree."
Herbert. The Temple, The Church, Sin.
' We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills."
Emerson. Self-Reliance.
' We should marry to please ourselves, not other people."
BiCKERSTAFF. The Maid of the Mill {Lord Ainsworth),
Act III., Sc. IV.
' We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow ;
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, Pi. II,, line 438.
Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound.
Which takes not solid virtue for its ground."
Churchill. Gotham, line 107.
" Weaker than a woman's tear,
Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance."
Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida (Troilus), Act I., Sc. I.
Weakness never need be falseness : truth is truth in each degree,
Thunder-pealed by God to Nature, whispered by my soul to me."
Browning. La Saisiaz, line 1878.
' Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes :
Antiquity and birth are needless here ;
'Tis impudence and money makes a peer."
Defoe. The True-born Englishman, Pt. I.
Wealth may seek us ; but wisdom must be sought."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night VIII., line 621.
" Weariness
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard."
Shakespeare. Cymbeline (Belarius), Act III., Sc. VI.
" Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower."
Tennyson. In Memoriam, CXXXI,
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life.
Before a thousand peering littlenesses,
In that fierce light which beats upon a throne,
And blackens every blot."
Tennyson. Idylh of the King, Dedication.
324 WEDDING IS DESTINY— WHAT A FOOL.
" Wedding is destiny,
And hanging likewise."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Chap. III.
"Marriage and hanging go by destiny."
MiDDLETON. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside [Lady
Kix), Act III., Sc. III.
Fletcher. A Wife for a Month {Menallo),
Act II., Sc. I.
" If matrimony and hanging go
By dest'ny, why not whipping too ? "
Butler. Hudibras, Bk. I., line 839.
" Wedding is the hardest band
That ony man r.jy tak on hand."
Barbour. The Bruce, Bk. I., line 267.
" Wedlock's a pill
Bitter to swallow
And hard of digestion."
BiCKERSTAFF. The Padlock {Don Diego), Act I., Sc. I.
" Weeping is the ease of woe."
R. Crashaw. Sainte Mary Magdalene, XIII.
" Welcome the coming, speed the going guest."
Pope, Iinitatio7is of Horace, Bk. II., line 159.
•' True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."
PoPfc. Homer's Odyssey, Bk. XV., line 83.
" ' Well, you may fear too far.' [Albany.)
' Safer than trust too far.' " (Goneril.)
Shakespeare. King Lear, Act I., Sc. IV
" Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast.
Yet love breaks through, and picks them all at last."
Shakespeare. Venus and Adonis, 96.
"Were man
But constant, he were perfect."
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus),
Act v., Sc. IV.
' Were 't not for gold and women, there would be no damnation."
ToURNEUR. The Revenger's Tragedy [Vendice), Act II., Sc. I.
" Were there no women, men might live like gods."
Dekker. The Honest Whore. Pt. II. (Hippolito),
Act III., Sc. I.
" ' Were women never so fair, men would be false.' (Campaspe.)
' Were women never so false, men would be fond.' " [Apelles.)
Lyly. Campaspe, Act III., Sc. III.
" What a falling off was there I "
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Ghost), Act I., Sc. V.
"What a fool
An injury may make of a staid man ! "
Keats. Otho the Great, Act III., Sc. I.
WHAT A HELL— WHAT CANNOT. 325
" What a hell of witchcraft lies
In the small orb of one particular tear ?
But with the inundation of the eyes
What rocky heart to water will not wear ? "
Shakespeare. A Lover^s Complaint.
" What a piece of work is a man I How noble in reason ! how infinite in
faculty I in form and moving, how express and admirable 1 in
action, how like an angel ! in apprehension, how like a god I the
beauty of the world I the paragon of animals ! "
Shakespeare. Hamlet [Hamlet), Act II., Sc. II.
" What an impostor Genius is —
How with that strong mimetic art,
Which is its life and soul, it takes
All shapes of thought, all hues of heart,
Nor feels itself, one throb it makes."
T. Moore. Rhymes on the Road, VIII.
" What ardently we wish, we soon believe."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night VII., Pt. II., liiie 1311.
" (Forj what are men who grasp at praise sublimCs
But Dubbles on the rapid stream of time.
That rise and fall, that swell and are no more,
Born and forgot, ten thousand in an hour ? "
Young. Love of Fatne, Sat. II., line 285.
" What are the fields, or flow'rs, or all I see ?
Ah ! tasteless all, if not enjoyed with thee."
Parnell. Eclogues, Health.
" (For) what are the voices of birds
Ay, and of beasts — but words, our words,
Only so much more sweet ? " R. Browning. Pippa Passes.
" What better school for manners, than the company of virtuous
women ? "
Hume. Essay XIV., The Rise of Arts and Sciences.
" (For) what can earth produce, but love,
To represent the joys above ?
Or who, but lovers, can converse.
Like angels, by the eye discourse ? "
Butler. Hudihras, to his Lady.
" What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ?
Alas 1 not all the blood of all the Howards."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. IV. , line 215.
" What can we reason, but from what we know ? "
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. I., line 18.
" What cannot be cured must be endured." Old Proverb.
'• What cannot be eschew'd, must be embrac'd."
Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor (Page),
Act v., Sc. V.
3*6 WHAT CUSTOM— WHAT IS A MAN.
" No sky is heavy if the heart be light,
Patience is sorrow's salve : what can't be cur'd,
So Donald right areads, must be endur'd."
Churchill. The Prophecy of Famine, line 361,
" What custom hath endear'd
We part with sadly, though we prize it not."
Joanna Baillie. Basil {Rosinberg), Act I., Sc. II.
" What deep wounds ever closed without a scar ? "
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. III., LXXXIV.
" What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things."
Pope. The Rape of the Loch, Bk. I., line i.
" What does the world, told a truth, but lie the more ? "
R. Browning. The Ring and the Book, Bk. X., line 673.
" What effect
Hath jealousy, and how befooling men,
It makes false true, abuses eye and ear,
Turns mere mist adamantine, loads with sound
Silence, and into void and vacancy
Crowds a whole phalanx of conspiring foes ? "
R. Browning. The Ring and the Booh, Eh. IX., line 385.
"What female heart can gold despise ?
What cat's averse to fish ? "
Gray. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat.
" What foreign arms could never quell.
By civil rage and rancour fell "
Smollett, The Tears of Scotland,
" What happiness to reign a lonely king ? "
Tennyson. The Comijig of Arthur.
" What hearts have men I they never mount
As high as woman in her selfless mood."
Tennyson. Merlin and Vivien.
" What ills from beauty spring."
Dr. Johnson. The Vanity of Human Wishes, line 321.
" What is a king ? a man condemn'd to bear
The public burthen of a nation's care."
Prior. Solomon, Bk. III., line 270.
" Wliat is a law, if those who make it
Become the forwardest to break it ? "
Beattie. The Wolf and the Shepherds.
" What is a lie ? 'Tis but
The truth in masquerade."
Byron. Don jfuan. Can. XL, St. 37-
" What is a man,
If his chief good, and market of his time.
Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act IV., Sc. IV.
WHAT IS AUGHT— WHAT IS THE STRAW. 327
" What is aught, but as 'tis valued ? "
Shakesi'EARE. Troilus miJ Cressida {Troilus), Act II., Sc. II.
" What is beauty ? a mere quintessence,
Whose life is not in being, but in seeming,"
G. Chapman. All Fooles {Reynal^o), Act I., Sc. I.
" What is done wisely, is done well."
Shelley. The Cenci {Beatrice), Act IV., Sc. IV.
" (For) what is form, or what is face,
But the soul's index, or its case ? "
N. Cotton. Visions in Verse, Pleasure.
" What is genius, but deep feeling
Waken'd by passion to revealing?
And what is feeling, but to be
Alive to every misery.
While the heart, too fond, too weak,
Lies open for the vulture's beak ? " L. E. L. The Golden Violet.
" What is grandeur, what is power ?
Heavier toil, superior pain :
What the bright reward we gain ?
The grateful mem'ry of the good." Gray. Ode for Music, V.
" What is honour ? a word.
What IS that word honour ? air."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. I. {Falstaff), Act V., Sc. I.
" What, is my beaver easier than it was ? "
Shakespeare. Richard III. {King Richard), Act V., Sc. III.
"What is nearest touches us most. The passions rise higher at
domestic than at imperial tragedies."
Dr. Johnson. Letter to Mrs. Thrale.
" What is opportunity to the man who can't use it ? An unfecundated
egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity."
George Eliot. Scenes from Clerical Life, Amos Barton.
" What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be
folly in that of a great kingdom."
Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations.
" (For) what is Right
But equipoise of Nature, alternating
The Too much and Too little ? "
Lewis Morris. The Epic of Hades, Tantalus.
" What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."
Tom Brown. New Maxims.
" What is strength without a double share
Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome,
Proudly secure, yet liable to fall
By weakest subtleties, not made to rule,
But to subserve where wisdom bears command I "
Milton. Samsoi Agonistes {Samson).
" What is the straw to the wheat ? "
Jeremiah. Chap. XXIII., ver. 2S.
328 WHAT IS THE WORTH— WHAT NEED A MAN.
" What is the worth of anythins;
But for the happiness 'twill bring ? "
Cambridge. Leariiiug, a Dialogue, line 23.
" What is there in the vale of life,
Half so delightful as a wife ;
When friendship, love, and peace combine,
To stamp the marriage bond divine ? "
CowPER. Love abused, Hue i.
" What is there in this vile earth that more commendeth a woman than
constancy ? " Lyly, Euphues mid his England.
" What is this fame, thus crowded round with slaves ?
The breath of fools, the bait of flattering knaves."
Granville. Itnitation of second Chorus in Act II. oj
Senecah Thyestes.
" What is to be broke will be broke."
George Eliot. Adam Bede [Mrs. Peyser), Bk. II., Chap. XX.
" (For) what is wedlock forced, but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife ?
Whereas the contrary bringeth forth bliss,
And is a pattern of celestial peace."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. I. [Siiffolk), Act V., Sc. VI.
" What is woman ? only one of
Nature's agreeable blunders."
Mrs. Cowley. Who's the Dupe ? Act II., Sc. II.
" (For) what is worth in anything,
But so much money as 'twill bring?"
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. II., Can. I., line 465.
" What lost a world, and bade a hero fly ?
The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye."
Byron. The Corsair, Can. II., 15.
" What may long abide above this ground,
In state of bliss and healthful happiness."
Shakespeare {Attributed to), Locrine, Prologue.
" What medicine then can such disease remove,
Where love draws hate, and hate engendereth love ? "
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. III.
" What merit to be dropp'd on fortune'.s hill ?
The honour is to mount it."
Sheridan Knowles. The Hunchback {Walter), Act I., Sc. I.
" What mighty magic can assuage
A woman's envy and a bigot's rage ? "
Granville. The Progress of Beauty, line 161.
" (Ah, me I) what mighty perils wait
The man who meddles with a state."
Churchill. The Duellist, Bk. III., line i.
" What need a man foretell his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid ? "
Milton. Comus {First Brother).
WHAT NEED TO STRIVE— WHAT WE ALL. 329
' What need to strive with a life awry ? "
R. Browning. The Last Ride Together.
" (Ah, me 1) what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron ! "
Butler. Htidibras, Pt. I.,Can. III.,Uns i.
" What poor an instrument
May do a noble deed."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra {Cleopatra)
Act v., Sc. II.
" What reason weaves, by Passion is undone."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. II., line /^2
" What seems to us but sad funereal tapers,
May be heaven's distant lamps." Longfellow. Resignation.
" What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue ! "
Burke. Speeeh at Bristol on declining the Poll, a.d. 1780.
" What should they know of England who only England know ? "
RuDYARD Kipling. The English Flag.
" What signifies a few foolish angry words ? they don't break bones
nor give black eyes."
Duke of Buckingham. The Militant Couple {Bellair).
" What strong mysterious links enchain the heart,
To regions where the morn of life was spent."
James Grahame. The Sabbath, line 404.
" What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted I
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just ;
And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel.
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."
Shakespeare. Henry VI., Pt. II. (King), Act III., Sc. II.
" What takes our heart must merit our esteem."
Prior. Solomon, Bk. II., line loi.
" What though youth gave love and roses,
Age still leaves us friends and wine."
Moore, Spring and Autumn.
" What time to tardy consummation brings,
Calamity, like to a frosty night
That ripeneth the grain, completes at once."
Sir H. Taylor. Philip van Artevelde, Pt I. (Artevelde),
Act IV., Sc. II.
" What trouble waits upon a casual frown. "
Bloomfield. The Farmer's Boy, Summer, line 388,
" What 'twas weak to do,
'Tis weaker to lament once being done."
Shelley. The Cenci [Beatrice), Act V., Sc. III.
" What we all love is good touched up with evil —
Religion's self must have a spice of devil."
A. H. Clough. Dipsychus (Spirit), Sc. Ill
330 WHAT WE DO— WHATEVER IS.
" What we do determine, oft we break,
Purpose is but the slave to memory."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Player King), Act III., Sc. II.
" What weapons has the lion but himself? "
Keats. King Stephen, Sc. III.
" What will I, if I gain the thing I seek ?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy :
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week ?
Or sells eternity to get a toy ?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy ?
Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,
Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down ? "
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece, 31.
" What will not constant woman do for love
That's lov'd with constancy ! Set her the task.
Virtue approving, that will baffle her ! "
Sheridan Knowles. The Hunchback (yulia), Act IV., Sc. II.
" What will not woman, when she loves ?
Yet lost, alas I who can restore her ? " Rogers. Jacqueline, I.
" What woman can resist the force of praise? " Gay. Trivia, Bk. I.
" What would you weigh 'gainst love ?
That's true ? Tell me with what you'd turn the scale ?
Yea, make the index waver ? Wealth ? a feather 1
Rank ? tinsel against bullion in the balance !
The love of kindred ? That to set 'gainst love 1
Friendship comes nearest to 't ; but put it in.
Friendship will kick the beam I weigh nothing 'gainst it !
Weigh love against the world !
Yet are they happy that have nought to say to it."
Sheridan Knowles. The Hunchback [yulia), Act IV., Sc. II.
" What wounds sorer than an evil tongue ? " Phillips. Pastoral, II.
" What youth deemed crystal, age finds out was dew,
Morn set a-sparkle, but which noon quick dried,
While youth bent gazing at its red and blue,
Supposed perennial, — never dreamed the sun
Which kindled the display would quench it too."
R. Browning, yocoseria, jfochanan, Hnkkedosh.
" Whate'er I am,
Nor I, nor any man that but man is,
With nothing shall be pleas'd, till he be eas'd
With being nothing."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Richard), Act V., Sc. V.
" Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,
Not one will change his neighbour with himself."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. II., line 261.
" Whatever is, is right, says Pope,
So said a learned thief ;
But when his fate required a rope
He varied his belief." Anonymous.
WHAT'S A BUTTERFLY— WHEN A MAN. 331
" What's a butterfly ? at best
lie's but a caterpillar drest." Gay. Fables, Pt. I., XXIV.
' What's all the noisy jargon of the schools,
But idle nonsense of laborious fools,
Who fetter reason with perplexing rules? " Pomfret. Reason.
*' What's beauty but a corse ?
What but fair sand-dust are earth's purest forms ?
Queens' bodies are but trunks to put in worms."
MiDDLETON AND Dekker. The Hottest Whore, Pt. I. (Dnke),
Act I., Sc. I.
• What's built upon esteem can ne'er decay."
Walsh. To his Book.
'â– What's done, cannot be undone."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Lady Macbeth), Act V., Sc. I.
â– What's female beauty, but an air divine
Through which the mind's all-gentle graces shine ? "
Young. Satire VI., line 151.
â– What's gone, and what's past help,
Should be past grief."
Shakespeare. A Winter's Tale {Paulina), Act III., Sc. II.
What's in a name ? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet ;
vSo Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title : — Romeo, doff thy name ;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself."
Shakespeare. Romeo and yuliet {jfuliet), Act II., Sc. II.
" What's there in a name ? "
Churchill. The Farewell.
'• What's one man's poison, signer,
Is another's meat or drink."
Fletcher. Love's Cure {Piorato), Act III., Sc. II.
' What's the best news with you ? "
Th. Holcroft, Duplicity {Sir Hornet Armstrong),
Act III., Sc. II.
' Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap."
St. Paul. Ep. to the Galatians, Chap. VI., ver. 7.
' (So) when a great man dies,
For years bejond our ken.
The light he leaves behind him lies
Upon the paths of men." Longfellow. Charles Sumner.
When a man is his own enemy, he is very unreasonable if he expect
other men to be his benefactors."
BuLWER Lytton. What will he do with it ? {^aife),
Bk. v.. Chap. IV.
33a WHEN A MAN— WHEN DID WOMEN.
" When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo,
His best friends hear no more of him."
Shelley. Letter to Maria Gisbornc.
" When Adam delv'd and Eve span,
Who was then a gentleman ? "
John Ball. {A priest who took part in the Wat Tyler riots.)
Unknown, yack Straw (Parson Ball), Act I.,
circa 1604.
" When affection only speaks,
Truth is not always there."
MiDDLETON. The Old Law [Leonides), Act IV., Sc. II.
"â– When all is won that all desire to woo.
The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost."
Byron. Childc Harold, Can. II., XXXV.
" When all the blandishments of life are gone.
The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on."
Dr. G. Sewell. The Suicide, Bk. XI., Ep. LV.
" When bad men combine, the good must associate ; else they will fall
one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle."
Burke. On the Present Discoiitents.
" When beggars die, there are no comets seen ;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."
Shakespeare, jfzdins Casar [Calphurnia), Act II., Sc. II.
" When better choices are not to be had,
We needs must take the seeming best of bad."
S. Daniel. Civil War, Bk. II., XXIV.
' When Caesar says, Dp this, it is perform'd."
Shakespeare, jfulius Ccesar {Antony), Act I., Sc. II.
" When change itself can give no more,
Tis easy to be true." Sedley. Reasons for Constancy.
" When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks ;
When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand ;
When the sun sets, who doth not look for night ?
Untimely storms make men expect a dearth."
Shakespeare. Richard III. {Third Citizen), Act III., Sc. III.
" When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very
apt to grow shy of their creditors' company."
Vanburgh. The Provoked Wife {Lady Brute),
Act III., Sc. I.
" When devils will the blackest sin put on.
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows."
Shakespeare. Othello {lago), Act II., Sc. III.
" When did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend ? "
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice {Antonio),
Act I., Sc. III.
'â– ' When did women ever yet invent ? " Tennyson. The Princess.
WHEN DIDO— WHEN KINGS. 333
" When Dido found /Eneas would not come,
She mourned in silence, and was di do dum."
PoRSON. Facetice Cantab.
" (It is a rule in friendship,) when distrust enters in at the fore-gate.
Love goes out at the postern."
J. Howell. Familiar Letters, Bk. I., Sec. V., Letter XX.
To Dr. H. W.
" When fails our dearest friend,
There may be refuge with our direst foe."
Sheridan Knowles. The Wife (Mariana), Act V., Sc. II.
"When fair occasion calls, 'tis fatal to delay."
RowE. Lucan's Pharsalia, Bk. I., line 513. '
" When Fortune, in her shift and change of mood,
Spurns down her late belov'd, all his dependants,
Which labour'd after him to the mountain's top.
Even on their knees and hands, let him slip down,
Not one accompanying his declining foot."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens [Poet), Act I., Sc. I.
" When Fortune favours, none but fools will dally."
Dryden. Epilogue VIII., To The Duke of Guise.
" When found make a note of."
C. Dickens. Dombey and Son {Capt. Cuttle), Chap. XV.
'• When goodwill is show'd, though 't come too short,
The actor may plead pardon."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra),
Act II., Sc. V.
" When Greeks join'd Greeks, then was the tug of war,
The labour'd Battel sweat, and conquest bled."
Nat. Lee. Alexander the Great (Clytus), Act IV., Sc. II.
" When headstrong passion gets the reins of reason.
The force of nature, like too strong a gale.
For want of ballast, oversets the vessel."
B. HiGGONS. The Generous Conqueror.
" When honour's lost, 'tis a relief to die ;
Death's but a sure retreat from infamy."
Garth. The Dispensary, Can. V., line 321.
" When ingratitude barbs the dart of injury, the wound has double
danger in it."
Sheridan. The School for Scandal {yos. Surface),
Act IV., Sc. III.
" When is a man strong, until he feels alone ? "
R. Browning. Colombe's Birthday, Act III.
" When kings the sword of justice first lay down.
They are no kings, though they possess the crown :
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things :
The good of subjects is the end of kings 1 "
Defoe. The True-born Englishman, Pt. II.
334 WHEN LAW— WHEN POPES.
" When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong."
Shakespeare. King jfohii (Constance), Act III., Sc. I.
" When love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforced ceremony ;
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith."
Shakespeare, yulius Ccesar [Brutus), Act IV., Sc. II.
" When love once pleads admission to our hearts
(In spite of all the virtue we can boast)
The woman that deliberates is lost."
Addison. Cato (Marcia), Act IV., Sc. I.
" When Love owes to Nature his charms,
How vain are the lessons of art I "
Horace Smith. Horace in London, Bk. I., Ode XIX.
' ' When love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony."
Shakespeare. Lovers Labour Lost {JBirom), Act IV., Sc. III.
'* When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy
What art can wash her guilt away ?
" The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame firom every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom is — to die."
Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield, Chap. XXIV.
" When maidens sue,
Men give like gods."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure {Lucio), Act I., Sc. IV.
" When musing on companions gone.
We doubly feel ourselves alone."
Sir W. Scott. Marmion, Can. II., Introduction.
" When Nature's happiest touch could add no more.
Heaven lent an angel's beauty to her face."
Mickle. Mary, Queen of Scots.
" When our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors."
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Lady Macduff), Act IV., Sc. II.
" When pain ends, gain ends too."
R. Browning. A Death in the Desert.
" When people's feelings have got a deadly wound, they can't be cured
with favours."
George Eliot. Adam Bede (Adam Bcde), Bk. V.,
Chap. XLVIII.
" When Popes damn Popes, and councils damn them all,
And Popes damn councils, what must Christians do ? "
R. Baxter. Hypocrisy.
WHEN PRIDE—WHEN THE JUDGMENTS. 335
" When pride cometh, then cometh shame."
Proverbs. Chap. XL, ver. 2.
" When princes meet, astrologers may mark It
An ominous conjunction, full of boding,
Like that of Mars with Saturn."
Sir W. Scott. Quentin Durward, Chap. XXXI.
" When remembrance wracks the mind,
Pleasures but unveil despair."
Burns. Frae the Friends and Land I Love.
" When rich villains have need of poor ones.
Poor ones may make what price they will."
Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothing (Borachio),
Act III., Sc. III.
" When scandal has new minted an old lie,
Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply,
'Tis called a satire, and the world appears
Gathering around it with erected ears." Cowper. Charity.
" When shall all men's good
Be each man's rule, and universal Peace
Lie like a shaft of light across the land,
And like a lane of beams across the sea ? "
Tennyson. The Golden Year.
" ' When shall we three meet again,
In thunder, lightning, or in rain ? * {1st Witch.)
' When the hurly-burly's done.
When the battle's lost and won.' " {2nd Witch.)
Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act I., Sc. I
" (And she may still exist in undiminished vigour) when some traveller
from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his
stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins
of St. Paul's."
Macaulav. Essay on Ranke's History of the Popes.
" When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions! "
Shakespeare. Hamlet {King), Act IV., Sc. V.
" When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."
Shakespeare. Julius Ccesar {Antony), Act III., Sc. 11.
"When the cat's away, the mice will play." Old Proverb.
" Playing the mouse in absence of the cat."
Shakespeare. Henry V. (Westmoreland),
Act I., Sc. II.
'• When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something."
R. Browning. Bishop Blougram's Apology.
" When the judgment's weak,
The prejudice is strong."
Kane O'Hara. Midas, Act I., Sc. II,
;)
336 WHEN THE LIQUOR'S— WHEN WAS PUBLIC.
" When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin ? "
R. Browning. The Flight of the Duchess, XVI
" When the man wants weight, the woman takes it up,
And topples down the scales." Tennyson. The Princess.
" When the people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion
becomes one."
BuLWER Lytton. Ernest Maltravers, Bk. VI. y Chap. V.
" (For) when the power of imparting joy
Is equal to the will, the human soul
Requires no other heaven." Shellev. Queen Mab, II.
" When the stool's rotten enough, no matter who sits on it."
George Eliot. Scenes from Clerical Life, Amos Barton
{Mr. Hackit).
â– â– vVhen the sunne shineth, make hay."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Chap. III.
" When th' iron is hot, strike."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Chap. III.
" Strike whilst the iron is hot."
Webster. Westward Hoc.
" When thieves fall out, true men come to their good."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Chap. IX.
" When Rogues fall out, honest men get their own."
Sir M. Hale.
** Mr. Hain Friswell, in Familiar Words, p. 277, says, ' In
a case before Sir Matthew Hale, the two litigants
unwittingly set out that at a former period they
had in conjunction leased a ferry to the injury of
the proprietor, on which Sir M. Hale made the above
remark '."
"When things are helpless, patience must be used."
W. Houghton. Englishmen for my Money {Moore),
Act v., sc. in.
" When, though the innate Hope be dead,
Her ghost still haunts the mouldering heart.
No — pleasures, hopes, affections gone.
The wretch may bear, and still live on.
Like things, within the cold rock found
Alive, when all's congeal'd around."
T. Moore. Lalla Rookh, Vlll.
" When to sin our biass'd nature leans,
The careful devil is still at hand with means."
Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. I., line 79.
" When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
The post of honour is a private station."
Addison. Cato {Cato), Act IV., Sc. IV.
" (For) when was public virtue to be found
When private was not ? Can he love the whole
Who loves no part ? He be a nation's friend
Who is, in truth, the friend of no man there."
CowPER. The Task, Bk. V,
WHEN WE ARE BORN— WHERE IGNORANCE. 337
" When we are born, we cry, that we are come
To this great stage of fools."
Shakespeare. King Lear {Lear), Act IV., Sc. VI.
" When well apparel'd April on the heel
Of limping winter treads."
Shakespeare. Romeo and yuliet {Capulet), Act I., Sc. II.
" When yellow waves the heavy grain." Burns. Tlie Vision.
" When you sleep in your cloak there's no lodging to pay."
Whvte Melville. Boots and Saddles.
" When youth is fallen, there's hope the young may rise,
But fallen age for ever hopeless lies."
Crabbe. The Borough, Letter XXI.
" Whenever the faculties of men are at their fulness, they must express
themselves by art."
RusKiN. The Crown of Wild Olive, War, 93.
" (But) where a Passion, yet unborn perhaps,
Lay hidden as the music of the moon
Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale."
Tennyson. Aylmer's Field.
" Where boasting ends, there dignity begins."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night VIII., line 509.
" Where demonstrations come in the van, remonstrations come in the
rear."
Landor. Imaginary Conversations, Don Victor Suez and
El Rey Netto.
" Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity.
So it be new, there's no respect how vile.'*
Shakespeare. Richard II. {York), Act II., Sc. I.
•' Where glory recommends the grief.
Despair disdains the healing."
Sir W. Raleigh. The Silent Lover.
" Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to conterfeit a gloom." Milton. // Penseroso, line 79.
" Where God hath a temple, the Devil hath a chapel."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. III., Sec. IV., Subs. I.
" No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a
chapel hard by." Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.
" Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The devil always builds a chapel there:
And 'twill be found upon examination.
The latter has the largest congregation."
Defoe. The True-born Englishman, Pt. /., line I.
" Where history's pen its praise or blame supplies.
And lies like truth, and still most truly lies."
Byron. Lara, Can. I., XI.
" Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise."
Gray. Ode on the distant prospect of Eton College.
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338 WHERE IMPERFECTION— WHERE THE GREAT.
' Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.
Where sin ends, bliss." P. J. Bailey. Festiis {Festtis), II.
" Where is any author in the world,
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? "
Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost {Biron), Act IV., Sc. III.
" Where is the man who has the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will ?
For if she will, she will, you may depend on't,
And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't."
Anonymous.
" Where is the heart that has not bow'd
A slave, eternal Love, to thee ?
Look on the cold, the gay, the proud,
And is there one among them free ? " L. E. L. The Troubadour.
" Where is Truth, if there be no self-trust ? "
Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece, 23.
'' Where justice reigns, 'tis freedom to obey."
J. Montgomery. Greenland, Can. IV.
" Where law ends, tyranny begins."
Earl of Chatham. Speech on Wilkes Case, gth Jan.,
1770.
" Where London's column, pointing at the skies,
Like a tall bully lifts the head and lies."
Pope. Ep. III., Of the Use of Riches, line 339.
" (For) where no hope is left, is left no fear."
Milton, Paradise Regained, Bk. III., line 206.
"Where no oxen are, the crib is clean."
Proverbs. Chap. XIV., ver. 4.
" Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel ;
Where none are beaux, 's to be a belle :
Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown ;
Both are most valued, where they are known."
Lyttelton. Soliloquy.
" Where one danger's near,
The more remote, tho' greater, disappear.
So, from the hawk, birds to man's succour flee.
So from fir'd ships, man leaps into the sea."
Cowley. Davideis, Bk. III., line 31.
' Where the bee sucks, there lurk I ;
In a cowslip's bell I lie :
There I couch when owls do cry."
Shakespeare. The Tempest (Ariel), Act V., Sc. I.
' Where the broad ocean leans against the land."
Goldsmith. The Traveller, line 288.
•' Where the great offence is, let the great axe fall."
Shakespeare. Hamlet (King), Act IV., Sc. V.
" Where the fault springs, there let the judgment fall."
Herrick. Hesperides, 608.
WHERE THERE IS NO— WHISPERING. 339
" Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavour."
Dr. Johnson. The Rambler, No. no.
" Where there is strife betwixt a man and wife, 'tis hell,
And mutual love may be compar'd to heaven."
Joshua Cooke, attributed to. How a Man may choose a gaud
Wife from a bad {Old Arthur), Act I., Sc. I,
"Where, through the long drawn aisle and fretted vault.
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise."
Gray. Elegy in a Country Churchyard.
" Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
O. W, Holmes. Homesick in Heaven,
" Where yet was ever found a mother.
Who'd give her booby for another ? " Gay. Fable III,, line 33.
"Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart, untravell'd, fondly turns to thee."
Goldsmith, The Traveller, line 7.
" Where'er
One meek heart prays, God's love is there t "
Praed. The Legend of the Drachenfels.
'• Wherever woman has a tongue, there Mrs. Grundy has a home."
BuLWER Lytton. Kenelm Chillingley, Bk. II., Chap. XV.
" Whether we be young or old,
Our destiny, our being's heart and home,
Is with infinitude, and only there."
Wordsworth. The Prelude, Bk. VI.
" Which of your philosophical Systems is other than a dream — theorem ;
a net quotient, confidently given out, where divisor and divident
are both unknown ? "
Carlyle. Sartor Resartns, Bk. I., Chap. VIII.
" While man possesses heart or eyes,
Woman's bright empire never dies 1 " Moore. Aspasia.
" While the grim porter watches ev'ry door,
Stern foe to tradesmen, poets, and the poor."
Smollett. Advice {Poet), line 31.
" While there is life there's hope." Gay. Fables, Pt. /., XXVII.
" Whiles I am a beggar, I will rail,
And say, there is no sin but to be rich ;
And being rich, my virtue then shall be,
To say, there is no vice but beggary."
Shakespeare. King John {Bastard), Act I., Sc. I.
" Whimsey, not reason, is the female guide."
Granville. The Vision, line Si.
" (And) whispering, ' I will ne'er consent,' consented."
Byron. Don jfuan, Can I., St. 117.
340 WHISPERING TONGUES—WHO CAN HOLD.
" (But) whispering tongues can poison truth."
Coleridge. Christabcl, II.
" Who alone suffers, suffers most i" the mind,
Leaving free things and happy shows behind ;
But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip,
When grief hath males, and bearing fellowship."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Edgar), Act III., Sc. VI.
"Who bates mine honour, shall not know my coin."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens {Sempronius),
Act III., Sc. III.
" Who bathes in worldly joyes, swimmes in a world of fears."
Ph. Fletcher. The Purple^ Island, Can. VIII., St. 7.
" Who best
Can suffer, best can do ; best reign, who first
Well hath obeyed."
Milton. Paradise Regained, Bk. III., line 194.
" Who blurs fair paper with foul bastard rhymes,
Shall live full many an age in latter times :
Who makes a ballad for an alehouse door,
Shall live in future times for evermore."
Unknown. The Return from Parnassus [jfudicio),
Act I., Sc. II.
" Who bravely dares, must sometimes risk a fall."
Smollett. Advice {Friend), line 208.
" Who builds a church to God, and not to fame,
Will never mark the marble with his name."
Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. III., Of the Use of Riches, line 285.
" Who by aspersions throw a stone
At the head of others, hit their own."
Herbert. The Temple, 2'he Church, Charms and Knots.
" Who can answer where any road leads to ? "
Owen Meredith. Lucile, Pt. I., Canto IV., St. 2\'
" Who can apply the futile argument
Of finite beings to infinity ?
He might as well compress the universe
Into the hollow compass of a gourd,
Scoop'd out by human art ; or bid the whale
Drink up the sea it swims in." KiRiiS White. Time, line 298.
" Who can bring a clean thing out an unclean ? "
Job. Chap. XIV., ver. 4.
" Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? "
Goldsmith. The Traveller, line 64.
" (O), who can hold a fire in his hand,
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast ?
Or wallow naked in December snow
WHO CAN PAINT— WHO FOR PREFERMENTS. 341
By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ?
Oh, no ! the apprehension of the good
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse :
Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more
Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Bolmgbroke), Act I., Sc. III.
'» Oh 1 who can hold a fire in his hand,
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ?
Or wallow naked in December's snow,
By bare remembrance of the summer's heat ? "
CoLLEY Gibber. Richard III., altered by {King
Henry), Act I., Sc. I.
" Who can paint
Like Nature ? Can imagination boast
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? "
Thomson, The Seasons, Spring, line 465.
" Who can refute a sneer ? "
Paley. Mora! Philosophy, Bk. V., Chap. IX.
" Who conquers, wins by brutal strength the prize.
But 'tis a godlike work to civilise."
TiCKELL, On the Prospect of Peace.
" Who does the best his circumstance allows.
Does well, acts nobly ; angels could no more."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night II., line 90.
" Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat."
Piozzi. Life of Dr. jfohnson.
" Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight ? "
Marlowe. Hero and Leander, Sestiad, I.
Shakespeare. As You Like It {Phebe), Act III., Sc. V.
" Who ever trusted to his native strength.
But fell at length ? "
QuARLES. Emblems, Bk. II., Em. XIV.
" Who falls for love of God shall rise a star."
Ben Jonson. Underwoods, XXXII., To a Friend.
" Who falls in honourable strife,
Surrenders nothing but his life;
Who basely triumphs casts away
The glory of the well-won day."
J. Montgomery. Thoughts on Wheels, No. I., The Combat.
'• Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please."
Colley Gibber. Love in a Riddle, Act I.
" Who for preferments at a court would wait,
Where every gudgeon's nibbling at the bait ?
What fish of sense would on the shallow lie,
Amongst the little starving wriggling fry,
That throng and crowd each other for a taste
Of the deceitful, painted, poison'd paste ;
When the wide river he behind him sees.
Where he may launch to liberty and ease ? "
Otway. Epistle to Mr. Duke.
342 WHO FOR SYMPATHY— WHO NOURISHETH.
" Who for sympathy may seek that cannot tell of pain ? "
Sir W. Scott. Harold the Dauntless, Introduction.
" Who friendship with a knave hath made
Is judg'd a partner in the trade." Gay. Fables, Pt. /., XXIII.
•' Who games, is felon of his wealth,
His time, his liberty, his health."
N. Cotton. Visions in Verse, Pleasure.
" Who goes gleaning
Hedgeside chance-blades, while full-sheaved
Stand corn-fields by him ? " R. Browning. Waring.
•' Who goes to bed, and doth not pray,
Maketh two nights to every day."
Herbert. The Temple, The Church, Charms and Knots.
" Who has not knovim ill fortune, never knew
Himself or his own virtue." Thomson. Alfred, Act I., Sc. I.
" Who hath not paused while Beauty's pensive eye
Ask'd from his heart the homage of a sigh ? "
Campbell. The Pleasures of Hope, II.
" The tribute of a sigh."
Sir W. Scott. The Lord of the Isles,
Can. IV., VIII.
' ' Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once." R. Browning. Balaustion's Adventure.
Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife ? "
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Chap. XI.
•' Who keeps one end in view, makes all things serve."
R. Browning. In a Balcony.
" Who knows most, doubts most ; entertaining hope,
Means recognising fear."
R. Browning. The Two Poets of Croisic, CLVIII.
" Who lets slip Fortune, her shall never find."
Cowley. Pyramus and Thisbe, XV.
" Who lives to N attire rarely can be poor ;
Who lives to Fancy never can be rich."
Young, Night Thoughts, Night VI., line 530.
" Who never doubted, never half believed,
Where doubt, there truth is, — 'tis her shadow."
P. J. Bailey. Festus, Bk. VI.
" Who never sold the truth to serve the hour.
Nor palter'd with eternal God for power."
Tennyson. Ode to the Duke of Wellington.
" Who not inflam'd, when what he speaks he feels. "
Young. Night Thoughts, Night VI.
" Who nourisheth a lion must obey him."
Ben Jonson. Sejanns (Tiberius), Act III., Sc. III.
WHO OBSERVES— WHO STEALS. 343
" Who observes strict policy's true laws,
Shifts his proceedings to the varying cause."
M. Drayton. The Baron's Wars, Bk. I., LVII.
" Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write."
Crabbe. Edward Shore.
" Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. I., line 648.
" Who pants for glory finds but short repose."
Pope. Imitations of Horace, Bk. II., Ep. I.
" Who plays for more
Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart."
Herbert. The Temple, The Church Porch.
" Who quick be to borrow, and slow be to pay,
Their credit is naught, go they never so gay."
TussER. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, Good
Husbandry Lessons, 33.
" Who reverenced his conscience as his king;
Whose glory was, redressing human wrong ;
Who spake no slander, no, nor listen'd to it ;
Who loved one only and who clave to her."
Tennyson. Idylls of the King, Dedication.
" Who seeth not the filthiness of euil, wasteth a great foile to perceiue
the beauty of vertue." Sir P. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. II.
" Who shall contend with time — unvanquish'd time,
The conqueror of conquerors, and lord of desolation ? "
Kirke White. Time, line 561.
" Who shall decide, when doctors disagree,
And soundest casuists doubt like you and me ? "
Pope. Moral Essays, Ep. III., line i.
" Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never
hit the mark : yet as sure he is, he shall shoot higher than he
who aims but at a bush." Sir P. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. II.
" Who aimeth at the skie
Shoots higher much than he that means a tree."
Herbert. The Temple, The Church Porch.
" Who shuts his hand hath lost his gold,
Who opens it hath it twice told."
Herbert. The Temple, The Church, Charms and Knots.
" Who sleeps the longest is the happiest ;
Death is the longest sleep."
Southern. Tlie Fatal Marriage (Isabella), Act V., Sc. II.
" Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him.
And makes me poor indeed."
Shakespeare. Othello (lago), Act III., Sc. III.
344 WHO THAT MEDLBTH—WHOEVER WOULD BE.
" Who that medleth least, shall save himself from smart :
Who stirres an oar in every boate, shall play a foolish part."
Unknown. Description of an Ungodly Worlde, last lines.
" Who, to a woman trusts his peace of mind,
Trusts a frail bark with a tempestuous wind."
Granville. The British Enchantress {Amadio),
Act II., Sc. I.
" Who to the life an exact piece would make,
Must not from others' work a copy take."
Cowley, To the Royal Society.
" Who will in tyme present pleasure refrayne,
Shall in tyme to come the more pleasure obtayne."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk, I , Cn.ip. Xl.
" Who will not change a raven for a dove ? "
Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream {Lysander),
Act III., Sc. HI.
" Who will not mercie unto others show,
How can he mercie ever hope to have ? "
Spenser. The Faerie Qiieene, Bk. VI., Can. I., St. 42.
" Who with a little cannot be content,
Endures an everlasting punishment." Herrick. Hesperides, 608.
" Who would be a father ! "
Shakespeare. Othello (Brabautio), Act I., Sc. I.
" Who would be free themselves must strike the blow."
Byron, Childe Harold, Can. II., XXXV.
" Who would not give a trifle to prevent
What he would give a thousand worlds to cure ? "
Young. Night Thoughts, Night VII., line 1131.
" Who would run, that's moderately wise,
A certain danger for a doubtful prize ? "
PoMFRET. Love triumphant over Reason, line 85.
" Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome at an Inn."
Shenstone. Written at an Inn at Henley.
" Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow
upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve
better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country,
than the whole race of politicians put together."
Swift. Gtilliver's Travels, Brobdignag, Chap. VII.
" Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see.
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, line 253.
" Whoever would be pleas'd and please,
Must do what others do with ease." Nugent. Epistle to a Lady.
WHOM THE HEART— WHY IS A GARDEN'S. 345
' Whom the heart of man shuts out,
Sometimes the heart of God takes in." Lowell. The Forlorn.
' Whose wehh was want, whose plenty made him poor. "
Spenser. The Faerie Queetie, Bk. I., Con. IV., St. 29.
" And plenty makes us poor."
Dryden. The Medal, line 126.
' Whose work is done ; who triumphs in the past ;
Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night II., line -^23'
' Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein."
Proverbs. Chap. XXXI., ver. 27.
' Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing."
Proverbs. Chap. XVIII., ver. 22,
' Whoso reapes above the rest,
With heapes of hate, shall surely be opprest."
Sir W. Raleigh. In Commevdation of the Steele Glas.
" If on the sudden he begins to rise;
No man that lives can count his enemies."
MiDDLETON. A Trick to catch the Old One.
' Whosoe'er would reach the rose,
Treads the crocus under foot."
E. B. Browning. Bertha in the Lane.
" Whosoever can,
And will not cherish virtue, is no man."
Ben Jonson. The Poetaster [Ceesar), Act V., Sc. I.
â– Why comes temptation but for man to meet,
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so be pedestaled in triumph ? "
R. Browning. The Ri^ig and the Book, Bk. X., line 1185.
' Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow,
Being so troublesome a bedfellow ?
O polish'd perturbation ! golden care !
That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide.
To many a watchful night ! Sleep with it now,
Yet not so sound and half so deeply sweet
As he whose brow with homely biggen bound
Snores out the watch of night. O, Majesty!
When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit
Like a rich armour worn in heat of day.
That scalds with safety."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. {Prince Henry),
Act IV., Sc.IV.
' Why is a garden's wildered maze
Like a young widow, fresh and fair ?
Because it wants some hand to raise
The weeds which have no business there ! "
T. Moore. To Lady H
346 WHY, LET THE STRICKEN— WINE WHETS THE WIT.
" Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
The hart ungalled play :
For some must watch, while some must sleep;
So runs the world away."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act III., Sc. II.
" Why waste a word or let a tear escape
While other sorrows wait you in the world ? "
R. Browning. Bnlaustion's Adventure,
" Why, what is Love but Fortune's tennis-ball ? "
Unknown. Soliman and Perseda {Fortune), Act I.,
circa A.D. 1600.
" Why, were the need of Temple, when the walls o' the world are
that ? " R. Browning. Epilogue.
" Why with old truth needs new truth to disagree ? "
R. Browning. Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, II.
" Wicked mirth never true pleasure brings,
But honest minds are pleased with honest things."
Beaumont and Fletcher, generally ascribed to. The Knight
of the Burning Pestle, Prologue.
'« Will Fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters ?
She either gives a stomach, and no food, —
Such are the poor, in health ; or else a feast.
And takes away the stomach, — such are the rich,
That have abundance and enjoy it not."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. {King Henry),
Act IV., Sc. IV.
" Will the line stretch out to the crack of doom ? "
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Macbeth), Act IV., Sc. I.
" Will toys amuse when med'cines cannot cure ? "
Young. Night Thoughts, Night II., line 67.
" Will was his guide, and griefe led him astray."
Spenser. The Faerie Queene, Bk. I., Can. 1., St. t2.
" Win her with gifts, if she respect not words :
Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind.
More than quick words, do move a woman's mind."
Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona {Valentine),
Act III., Sc. J.
" Wine and women into apostasie,
Cause wise men to fall." Lydgate. The Remedie of Love.
" Wine makes love forget its care,
And mirth exalts a feast." Parnell. Anacreontic, II., St. 2.
" Wine, that makes cowards brave, the dying strong,
Is a poor cordial 'gainst a woman's tongue."
Somerville. The Wife, line 27.
" Wine whets the wit, improves its native force.
And gives a pleasant flavour to discourse."
PoMFRET. The Choice, line 55.
WINES THAT— WIT AND JUDGMENT. 347
" Wines that, heaven knows when,
Had sucked the fire of some forgotten sun,
And kept it thro' a hundred years of gloom."
Tennyson. The Golden Supper.
" Wines work when vines are in the flower."
Butler. Hndibras, Pt. II., Can. I., line 286.
" Winter comes, to rule the varied year."
Thomson. The Seasons, Winter.
" O, winter, ruler of the inverted year."
CowPER. The Task, Bk. IV.
" Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile."
Shakespeare. King Lear [Albany), Act IV., Sc. II.
"Wisdom crieth aloud in the street." Proverbs. Chap. /., ver. 20.
" Wisdom is a pearl with most success
Sought in still water and beneath clear skies."
Cowper. The Task, Bk. III.
" Wise books
For half the truths they hold are honoured tombs."
George Eliot. The Spanish Gipsy (Sephardo).
" Wise bearing or ignorant courage is caught, as men take diseases,
one of another : therefore let men take heed of their company."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Pt. II. [Falstaff), Act V., Sc. I.
" Wise men and Gods are on the strongest side."
Sir C. Sedley. Death of Marc Afitony (Archytes),
Act IV., Sc. II.
" Wise men know that their business is to examine what is, and not to
settle what is not."
Chas. Kingsley. The Water Babies, Chap. II.
" Wise men propose, but fools assist them."
Prior. Alma, Can. III., line 185.
" Wise nature ever, with a prudent hand,
Dispenses various gifts to ev'ry land ;
To ev'ry nation frugally imparts
A genius fit for some peculiar arts."
SoAMES Jenyns. The Art of Dancing, Can. II., line 55.
" Wisest men
Have err'd, and by bad women been deceiv'd ;
And shall again, pretend they ne'er so wise."
Milton. Samson Agonistes (Chorus).
" Wishers were ever fools."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra {Cleopatra),
Act IV., Sc. XV.
" Wishing of all employments is the worst."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night IV., line 71.
" Wit and judgment often are at strife,
Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, line 82
c
34S WIT AND THE WORLD— WITHOUT A NOTION.
" Wit and the world were born without a mother."
J. Berkenhead. On the Happy Collection of Mr. Fletcher's
Works.
" Wit is the Muse's horse, and bears on high
The daring rider to the Muse's sky."
Parnell. Oil Different Styles of Poetry, line 15.
" Wit's whetstone, Want." J. Taylor. Penniless Pilgrimage.
" With all the lumber of six thousand years."
Blair. The Grave, line 540.
" With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder."
Shakespeare. Richard II. {Gaunt), Act II., Sc. I.
" With faint praises one another damn."
Wycherley. The Plain Dealer, Prolo0ie.
" Damn with faint praise."
Pope. Prologue to the Satires.
" With fame, in just proportion, envy growo ;
The man that makes a character makes foes."
Young. To Mr. Pope, Epistle I., line 28.
" With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe."
Campbell. LochieVs Warning.
" With news the time's with labour, and throws forth
Each minute some."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra (Caiiidius),
Act III., Sc. VII.
" With ravish'd ears
The monarch hears;
Assumes the god.
Affects to nod.
And seems to shake the spheres."
Dryden. Alexander's Feast, II.
" Withhold not correction from the child."
Proverbs. Chap. XXIII., ver. 13.
" Within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king,
Keeps death his court ; and there the antick sits,
Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp ;
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
To monarchise, be fear'd, and kill with looks;
Infusing him with self and vain conceit, —
As if this flesh, which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable ; and humour'd thus,
Comes at the last, and with a little pin
Bores through his castle-wall, and — farewell, king I "
Shakespeare. Richard II. {Richard), Act III., Sc. II.
" Without a notion of a law-maker, it is impossible to have a notion of
a law, and an obligation to observe it."
Locke. Essay on the Human Understanding, Bk. I.,
Chap. IV., Sec. 8.
WITHOUT BLACK— WOM AM IS THE LESSER. 349
Without black velvet breeches what is man ? "
Bramston. The Man of Taste.
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be
poor." Dr. Johnson. The Rambler, No. 57.
• Without his roe, like a dried herring."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet [Mcrcutio), Act II., Sc. IV.
" Without our hopes, without our fears,
Without the home that plighted love endears,
Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh 1 what were man ? a world without a sun."
Campbell. The Pleasures of Hope, II.
' Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."
Emerson. Manners.
" Without virtue wealth avails not ;
And virtue without wealth exerts less pow'r,
And less diffuses good."
Prior. First Hymn of Callimachus, To yupiter.
' Wives are young men's mistresses ; companions for middle age ; and
old men's nurses."
Bacon. Essay VIII., Of Marriage and Single Life.
" Woe awaits a country, when
She sees the tears of bearded men."
Sir W. Scott. Marmion, Can. V., XVI.
" Woe doth the heavier sit.
Where it perceives it is but faintly borne."
Shakespeare. Richard II. (Gaunt), Act I., Sc. III.
' Woe to the crown that doth the cowl obey ! "
Wordsworth. Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Pt. I., XXIX.
" Woman, —
Charming woman, can true converts make ;
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
Virtue in them appears so bright, so gay,
We hear with transport, and with pride obey."
Farquhar. The Constant Couple {Sir Harry Wildair),
Act v., Sc. III.
• Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm ; and rightly to rule her, requires as
great talents, as to govern a state."
FooTE. The Devil upon Two Sticks {Margaret),
Act I., Sc. I.
' Woman is a creature without reason, who pokes the fire from the top."
Archbishop Whately,
' Woman is not undevelopt man,
But diverse." Tennyson. The Princess.
' Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine,
Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine."
Tennyson. Locksley Hall.
350 WOMAN J THE PRIDE—WOMAN'S LOVE.
r
"Woman ! the pride and happiness of man,
Without whose soft endearments Nature's plan
Had been a blank, and life not worth a thought ;
Woman ! by all the Loves and Graces taught,
With softest arts, and sure tlio' hidden skill,
To humanise and mould us to her will ;
Woman ! with more than common grace form'd here
With the persuasive language of a tear
To melt the rugged temper of our isle,
Or win us to her purpose with a smile ;
Woman 1 by fate the quickest spur decreed,
The fairest, best reward of every deed,
Which bears the stamp of honour."
Chtjrchill. The Times, line 301.
" Woman, wakeful woman's never weary,
Above all, when she waits to thump her deary."
Thos. Tngoldsby. Ingoldsby Legends, The Ghost.
" Woman wronged, can cherish hate
More deep and dark than manhood may."
Whittier, Mogg Megone, Pt. I.
" Womankind more joy discovers
Making fools than keeping lovers."
Rochester. Daphne and Strephon, a Dialogue.
" Womanliness means only motherhood ;
All love begins and ends there, — roams enough,
But, having run the circle, rests at home."
R. Browning. The Inn Album, VIL
" Woman's at best a contradiction still."
Pope. Epistle II. , To a Lady.
" Woman's love is but a blast,
And turneth like the wind."
Sir T. Wyatt. The Carefiil Love Complaineth.
*' He waters, plows, and soweth in the sand,
And hopes the flick'ring wind with net to hold,
Who hath his hopes laid upon woman's hand."
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. II., Eclogues, Geron
and Philisides.
•• And love ties a woman's mind
Looser than with ropes of hay."
Marvell. Anictas and Thestylis making Hay-
ropes.
'• But, ah I the setting sun proclaim'd
That women's vows are — wind."
J. Cunningham. The Hawthorn Bower, I.
*• Woman, thy vows are traced in sand."
Byron. Hours of Idleness, To Woman.
" Woman's faith, and woman's trust —
Write the characters in dust."
Sir W. Scott. The Betrothed, Song, Chap. XX.
WOMAN'S PLEASURE—WOMEN WERE MADE. 351
" Woman's pleasure, woman's pain —
Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain."
Tennyson. Locksley Hall.
* Woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is
not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all."
BoswELL. Life 0/ jfohnson {Dr. Johnson), Fitzgerald's Ed.,
Vol. I., p. 285.
" Women and men of wit are dangerous tools,
And ever fatal to admiring fools."
Rochester. A Satire against Mankind.
" Women and music should never be dated."
Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer (Miss Hardcastle),
Act III., Sc. I.
" Women are angels, wooing ;
Things won are done ; joy's soul lies in the doing."
Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida (Cressida), Act I,, Sc. II.
" Women are in churches, saints ; abroad, angels ; and at home, devils.'
G. WiLKiNS. The Miseries of Enforced Marriage [Ilford),
Act I.
" Women are most fools when they think they're wisest."
Beaumont and Fletcher. The Scornful Lady (Lady),
Act IV., Sc. J.
" Women be weak, and subject most to change,
Nor long to any can they stedfast be,
And as their eyes, their minds do ever range,
With every object varying that they see."
Drayton. Eclogue, VIII. {Gorbo).
" Women, like princes, find few real friends :
All who approach them their own ends pursue ;
Lovers and ministers are seldom true."
Lyttelton. Advice to a Lady.
" Women love most, by whom they are most tried."
Anonymous. A Warning for Fair Women, Act I., line 267,
circa 1599.
" Women love out of fancy,
Men from advice."
Shakerley Marmion. The Antiquary {Moccinigo), Act II.
" Women want but way
To praise their deeds, but men want deeds to praise."
Beaumont and Fletcher. The Coxcomb (Ricardo),
Act V.,Sc. III.
" Women were created for the comfort of men."
J. Howell. Familiar Letters, Bk. II., Letter LI.,
To Master Sergeant D.
" Women were made to give our eyes delight :
A female sloven is an odious sight."
Young. Love of Fame, Sat. VI., line 225.
352 WOMEN WHO— WORTH MAKES THE MAN.
" Women who have been happy in a first marriage, are the most apt to
venture upon a second."
Addison. The Drummer {Lady Truman), Act II., Sc. I.
" Women's jars breed men's wars."
Fuller. Holy and Profane States, Holy State, The Wise
Statesman.
" Women's weapons, water-drops."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Lear), Act II., Sc. IV.
" And thou wilt turn av/ay
From woman's tears: yet are they woman's wealth."
P. J. Bailey. Festus [Elissa), Bk. XXXI.
" Woodman, spare that tree !
Touch not a single bough."
Geo. T. Morris. Woodman, Spare that Tree.
" Words are Hke leaves, and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, Pt. II., line 309.
" Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them : but they
are the money of fools."
T. HoBBES. The Leviathan, Pt. /., Chap. IV.
" Words are women, deeds are men."
Herbert, jfacula Prudentum.
'■• That words are the daughters of earth, and that things
are the sons of heaven. "
Dr. Johnson. Preface to his Dictionary.
Vide — " Deeds aer,'" etc.
" Words may be false and full of art,
Sighs are the nat'ral language of the heart I "
Shadwell. Psyche {Cupid), Act III.
" Words pay no debts."
Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida {Pandarus),
Act III., Sell.
" Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {King), Act III., Sc. III.
" Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live."
Coleridge. Work Without Hope, last lines.
" Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart."
Shelley. The Cenci {Beatrice), Act V., Sc. II.
" Worth a king's ransom."
Shakerlev Marmion. The Antiquary (Antiquary), Act II.
•* Worth is by worth in ev'ry rank admir'd."
Savage. Epistle to Aaron Hill.
" Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. IV., line 203.
WORTHLESS THINGS— WRONGED ME. 353
" Worthless things receive a value, when they are made the offerings of
respect, esteem, and gratitude."
Locke. Essay on the Human Understanding, Dedicatory
Epistle.
" Would yee both eat your cake and have your cake ? "
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Chap. IX.
" Would'st thou both eat thy cake and have it ? "
Herbert. The Temple, The Church, The Site.
"One canno*^ eat one's cake a*i have it too."
BicKERSTAFF, Thomos and Sally.
" Would you have your songs endure ?
Build them on the human heart I "
R. Browning. Sordello, Bk. II.
" Would you praise Caesar, say ' Caesar,' go no further."
Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra {Enobarbus),
Act III., Sell.
" Wouldst thou approve thy constancy, approve
First thy obedience."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. IX., line 367.
'* Wouldst thou behold his monument ? look around I "
Rogers. Italy, Florence.
This is apparently but a mere imitation of Sir C. Wren's
Epitaph in St. PauVs Cathedral :
" Si monumentum requiris, circumspice ".
" Wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice ? "
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Shylock),
Act IV., Sc. I.
" Wouldst thou have that
Which thou esteemest the ornament of life,
And live a coward in thine own esteem ? "
Shakespeare. Macbeth {Lady Macbeth), Act I., Sc. VI,
" Wouldst thou ken Nature in her better part ?
Go, search the cots and lodges of the hind."
Chatterton. (Rowley), Eclogue III., 1,
" Wounds are ill cured with a good intent."
Butler, Cat and Puss, line 108.
" Write me down an ass I "
Shakespeare. Much Ado about Nothing {Dogberry),
Act IV., Sc. II.
" Writing will remain
When words but spoken may be soon forgot."
Anon. The Play of Stuckley {Lady), line 1722.
" Wronged me I in the nicest point,
The honour of my house."
Otway. Venice Preserved {Priuli), Act I., Sc. I.
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354 YE ARE BETTER— YOU CANNOT MAKE.
" Ye are better than all the ballads.
That ever were sung or said ;
For ye are living poems,
And all the rest are dead." Longfellow. Children,
" Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel."
St. Matthew. Chap. XXIII., ver. 24.
'â– * Ye sacred nurseries of blooming youth !
In whose collegiate shelter England's flowers
Expand, enjoying through their vernal hours
The air of liberty, the light of truth ;
Much have ye suffered from Time's gnawing tooth."
Wordsworth. Sonnet II., Ft. HI., Oxford.
" Ye think the rustic cackle of your bourg,
The murmur of the world." Tennyson. Idylls of the King, Enid.
" Years steal
Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb."
Byron. Childe Harold, Can. III., St. 8.
" Yes ! we may judge the measure of the grief
Which finds in misery's eloquence relief;
But who shall pierce those depths of silent woe
Whence breathes no language, whence no tears may flow,
The pangs that many a noble breast hath proved,
Scorning itself that thus it could be moved."
F. Hemans. The Abencerrage, Can. II., St. 3.
" Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to sleep."
Proverbs. Chap. VI., ver. 10.
Ibid. Chap. XXIV., ver. 33.
" Yet, in our ashen cold, is fire yreken."
Chaucer. Canterbury Tales, Reeve's Prologue, line 3880.
♦* E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries,
E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires."
Gray. Elegy in a Country Chttrchyard.
" Yet Nature's charms, the hills and woods.
The sweeping vales, the foaming floods.
Are free alike to all." Burns. Epistle to Davie.
" You are old, Father William, the young man cried."
SouTHEY. The Old Man's Comforts.
" You bid your treasurer on a time,
To give me reason for my rhyme ;
But from that time and that season
I have had nor rhyme or reason."
Charles Churchyard, attributed to.
Vide — Hain FrisweU, Familiar Words, p. 270.
" You cannot get blood out of a stone." Old Proverb.
" You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." Old Proverb.
" Who can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear ? "
FooTE. The Mayor of Garratt {Bruin),
Act I., Sc. I.
YOU CANNOT MAKE— YOU THAT CHUSE. 355
" You cannot make gross sin look clear ;
To revenge is not valour, but to bear."
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens {First Senator),
Act III., Sc. V.
" You may as well
Forbid the sea for to obey the moon,
As, or by oath, remove, or counsel, shake
The fabric of his folly, whose foundation
Is pil'd upon his faith, and will continue
The standing of his body."
Shakespeare. The Winter^s Tale [Camillo), Aet I., Sc. II.
Vide — " I pray you think," etc.
" You may know him by his company."
Wycherley. Love in a Wood [Sir Simon), Act I., Sc. I.
" You must be pretty deep to catch weasels asleep,
Says the proverb : that is ' take the Fair unawares '."
Thos. Ixgoldsbv. a Lay of St. Gengulphus.
" You must cut your coat according to your cloth." Old Proverb.
"According to her cloth she cut her coat."
Drvden. The Cock and the Fox.
" You must practise
The manners of the time, if you intend
To have favour from it."
Massinger. The Unnatural Combat (Montrevillc),
Act I., Sc. I.
" You never know what life means till you die :
Even throughout life, 'tis death that makes life live,
Gives it whatever the significance."
R. Browning. The Ring and the Book, XI., line 2375.
" You shall find us in our salt-water girdle."
Shakespeare. Cymhcline [Cloten), Act III., Sc. I.
" You shall never take a woman without her answer, unless you take hei
without her tongue."
Shakespeare. ^5 You Like It {Rosalind), Act IV., Sc. I.
"You take my house when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house ; you take my life
When you do take the means by which I live. "
Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice {Shylock), Act IV., Sc. /,
" You that chuse not by the view.
Chance as fair, and chuse as true 1
Since this fortune falls to you,
Be content and seek no new.
If you be well pleased with this,
And hold your fortune for your bliss.
Turn you where your lady is.
And claim lier with a loving kiss."
Shakespeare. Mercliant of Venice {Bassanio), Act III., Sc. II.
Inscription on the leaden casket.
356 YOUNG MEN— YOUTH NO LESS.
" Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts ;
Old age is slow in both."
Addison. Cato (Syphax), Act IT., Sc. V.
"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men
are fools." Chapman. All Fools, Act V., Sc. I.
" Young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes."
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet {Friar Laurence),
Act II., Sc. III.
" Young twigges are sooner bent than old trees."
Lyly. Euphues and his England.
" Your bait of falsehood takes the carp of truth."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Polonius), Act II., Sc. I.
" Your • if ' is the only peace-maker ; much virtue in • if."
Shakespeare. As You Like It (Touchstone), Act V., Sc. IV.
" Your sorrow, only sorrow's shade,
Keeps real sorrow far away." Tennyson. Margaret.
" Your worm is your only emperor for diet ; we fat all creatures else, to
fat us ; and we fat ourselves for maggots."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act IV., Sc. III.
" Youth, beauty, graceful action, seldom fail ;
But common interest always will prevail :
And pity never ceases to be shown
To him who makes the people's wrongs his own."
Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. I., line 723.
" Youth calls for Pleasure, Pleasuie calls for Love."
Akenside. Love, An Elegy.
" Youth can reach
Where age gropes dimly." R. Browning. A Death in the Desert,
" Youth fades ; love droops ; the leaves of friendship fall ;
A mother's secret hope outlives them all."
O. W. Holmes. A Mother's Secret, last lines.
" Youth is lovely, age is lonely,
Youth is fiery, age is frosty." LONOFELLOW. Hiawatha, IV.
" Youth is the proper time for love*
And age is virtue's season." Granville. Corinna.
" Youth looks on life as purest gold ;
Age reckons the alloy."
J. E. Carpenter. Romance of the Dreamer.
" Youth means love.
Vows cait't change nature, priests are only men."
R. Browning. The Ring and the Book, I., 1056.
" (For) youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears,
Than settled age his sables and his weeds.
Importing health and graveness."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {King), Act IV., Sc. VII.
YOUTH ON THE PROW— ZED / THOU. 357
" (In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ;)
Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the helm." Gray. The Bard.
" Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, —
Not in flasks and casks and cellars."
Longfellow. Drinking Song.
" Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show ',
We may our ends by our beginnings know."
Denkam. On Prudeticc, line 225.
" Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
And hell was built on spite, and heav'n on pride."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. III., line 261.
" Zed I thou unnecessary letter 1 "
Shakespeare. King Lear (Kent), Act II., Sc. IJ.
APPENDIX
' A ballad to the wandering moon."
Tennyson. In Mcmorian, LXXXVI.
' A bird in the hande is worth two in the wood."
The Parlemetit of Byrdes.
" Something in hand is better than no birds."
Ben Jonson. Magnetic Lady (Compass), Act
II., Sc. I.
Vide pp. I and 37.
" (When he speaks
The air), a charter'd libertine is still."
Shakespeare. King Henry V. {Canterbury), Act I., Sc. II.
' (But he is) a child of Natur', and a child of Freedom ; and his
boastful answer to the despot and the tyrant is, that his bright
home is in the setting sun."
C. Dickens. Martin Chnzzlewit (Pogram), Ch. XXXIV.
A cynic is a kind of inverted confessor, perpetually making enemies
for the sake of what he knows to be false."
W. H. Mallock. The New Republic {Rob. Leslie), Bk. I., Ch. I.
A delusion, a mockery and a snare."
Lord Denman. O'Connell v. The Queen.
A distinction without a difference."
Fielding. Tom Jones, Bk. VI., Ch. XII.
A duke is no more a duke to his valet-de-chambre than you or I."
Thackeray. Pendennis, Ch. XXXVI.
(I say with Didacus Stella) a dwarf standing on the shoulders of
a giant may see farther than a giant himself."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritusto the
Reader.
" A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the
two."
Herbert. Jacula Prudentum.
" A dwarf may see farther than a giant, when he has
the giant's shoulders to mount on."
Coleridge. The Friend, Sect. I., Essay VI J.
359
36o A FLATTERER— A WIT WITH DUNCES
" A flatterer is the shadow of a fool."
Sir T. Overbury. Characters. A Flatterer.
" A fool must now and then be right by chance."
CowpER. Conversations, line 96.
" A free confession of a fanlt wins pardon,
But being seconded by desert, commands it."
Massinger. The Bondman (Timagoros), Act TIT., Sc. IV.
' A head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute
any mischief."
E. H. Clarendon. Hist, of the Rebellion, Bk. VII., § 84.
Vide p. 6.
" The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct,
or the hand to execute." Junius.
" A little round, fat, oily man of God."
Thompson. The Castle of Indolence, Can. I., St. 69.
" A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief."
Isaiah. Ch. LI 1 1., ver. 3.
" She was a woman acquainted with grief."
Chas. Reade. Christie Johnstone, Ch. III.
" A man burdened with a secret should especially avoid the intimacy
of his physician."
N. Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter, Ch. IX.
" A penny for your thought."
Swift. Intro, to Polite Conversation. Vide p. 10.
" A. pure hand needs no glove to cover it.'
N. Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter, Ch. XII.
" A rum one to look at, a devil to go."
Barham. Ingoldsby Legends. The Smuggler' s Leap.
" A saint's nose
Smells brimstone, though incense be burned for a lure."
R. Browning. Ponie deli Angelo, Venice.
" A steady patriot of the world alone.
And friend of every country — but his own."
Canning. A nti- Jacobin.
" A wit with dunces and a dunce with wits."
Pope. The Dunciad, Bk. IV., line 30.
" He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among
rakes."
Macaulay. Review of Aiken's Life of Addison.
" Temple was a man of the world among men of
letters, and a man of letters among men of the
world."
Macaulay. Review of Life and Letters of
Sir W. Temple.
A WOMAN DTCTATES—AMID THE ROSES 361
' A woman dictates before marriage, in order that she may have
ai; nppctite for subiiiission afterwards."
George Eliot. Middlei)iaicli, Ch. IX.
" A wouKUi hath nine lives like a cat."
Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. IV. Vide p. 28.
" A woman's tongue, I see, is like a bell
That, once set going, goes itself."
Greene. Tti Qitoque.
" Acquaintance I would have, but when 't depends
Not on the number, but the choice of friends."
Cowley. Essays. Of Myself.
" Across the walnuts and the wine."
Tennyson. The Miller's Daughter, St. IV.
" Affection shall solve the problem of freedom yet."
Walt Whitman. Drum Taps.
" Afflictions turn our blood to ink, and we
Commence, when writing our eternity."
Henry Vaughan. On Sir Thos. Bodlcy's Library, line 21.
" Ah, love, but a day
And all the world has changed."
R. Browning. James Lee's Wife.
" All good things
Are ours, nor soul helps flesh now, than flesh helps soul."
R. Browning. Rabbi Ben Ezra.
" All partings foreshadow the great final one."
Dickens. Bleak House, Ch. LVIII.
" All the land that lies between the two ends of the rainbow."
Sir W. Scott. Heart of Midlothian (Jeanie Deans), Ch. X VII.
" All the world and his wife."
Swift. Polite Conversation, Dia. III.
" All things come to him who will but wait."
Longfellow. Tales of a Wayside Inn. ist day. Student's
Tale.
" Everything comes if a man will only wait."
Beaconsfield. Tancrcd, Bk. IV., Ch. VIII.
" Almightie gold."
Ben Jonson. Letter to Eliz. Countess of Rutland. Vide p. 244
" Ambition has but one reward for all :
A little power, a little transient fame,
A grave to rest in and a fading name 1 "
Winter. The Queen's Domain, line 90.
'' Amid the roses fierce repentance rears
Her snaky crest."
Thompson. T/ic Seasons. Spring, line 996.
362 AN ACTION— AVARICE IS ALWAYS POOR
" An action is the perfection and publication of thought."
Emerson. Nature.
" An honest man's the noblest work of God."
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. IV., line 248.
Vide p. 212.
" An unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war."
S. Butler. Speech in the Rump Parliament.
" An untimely grave."
Thos. Carew. On the Duke of Buckingham.
" Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! "
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Hamlet), Act I., Sc. IV.
" Another lean unwashed artificer
Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death."
Shakespeare. King John (Hubert), Act IV.. Sc. II.
" Clubs upstairs
To which the lean unwashed artificer repairs."
CowPER. Table Talk, line 151.
" Art is not imitation but illusion."
Chas. Re.\de. Christie Johnstone, Ch. XII.
" Art is truth and truth is religion."
Thackeray. The Newcomes, Vol. II., Ch. XXVII.
" As certain as a gun."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. I., Canto III., line 12.
" As sure as a gun."
Dryden. Tlie Spanish Friar, Act III., Sc. II-
" As cold as cucumbers."
Beaumont and Fletcher. Cupid' s Revenge {Nisi:s),Act. I., Sc. I.
" As flat down as pancakes."
MiDDLETON. The Roving Girl, Act I., Sc. I.
" As sober as a judge."
Fielding. Don Quixote in England, Act III., Sc. XIV.
" Sober as a judge."
Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Mason.
" As the greatest only are,
In his simplicity sublime."
Tennyson. Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington, St. 4.
" As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."
Froude. SJiort Studies on great Subjects. Education.
" At daggers-drawing,
And one another clapper-clawing."
Butler. Hudibras, Pt. II., Canto II., line 79.
" Avarice is always poor."
Pindar. Odes for 1785, VI.
BE BOLDE—mUSHING 363
" Be bolde, be bolde, and everywhere be bolde."
Spenser. Faery Qitccue, Bk. III., Canto XI., St. 54.
" Be less ashamed to confesse thy ignorance, than by holding a
ioolish argument, to betray it."
Eliz. Joceline. Mother' s Legacy, § 8.
" Be the day never so long.
Evermore at last they bring to evensong."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. VII.
" For though the day appear ever so long.
At last the bell ringeth to evensong."
Stephen ?Iowes. The Passetime of Pleasure,
Cap. XLII., St. 10.
" No day is so long
But it comes at last to vesper-song."
Longfellow. Tales of a Wayside Inn. The
Student's Second Tale.
" Beauty stands
Only in the admiration of weak minds
Led captive ; cease to admire and all her plumes
Fall flat, and shrink into a trival toy.
At every sudden slighting quite abashed."
Milton. Paradise Regained, Bk. II., line 220.
" (That is the true) beginning of our end."
Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V., Sc. I.
" (They say) best men are moulded out of faults."
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure {Mariana), Act V.,
Sc. I.
" Better then a poke in the eye with a sharp stick."
Whyte Melville. Uncle John (Delancy), Ch. XIX.
" Between these two persons, who never agreed in any humour but
in disagreeing, is issued forth IMistress Mopsa, a fit woman to
partake of both their perfections."
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia, Bk. I.
" Agreed to differ."
SouTHEY. Life of Wesley.
" So I have talked with Betsy, and Betsy has talked
with me
And have agreed together that we can't never agree."
Carleton. Farm Ballads. Betsy and I are out.
" Black misfortune's baleful train ! "
Gray. Ode on. Eton College.
" Blood is thicker than water." Old Proverb.
" Elude is thicker than water."
Sir W. Scott. Guy Manncring, Ch. XXXVIII.
" Blushing is the colour of virtue."
M. Henry. Commmcntaries. Jeremiah III.
364 BOOKS— DUNCAN
" Books are embalmed minds."
BovEE. Summaries of Thow^ht. Books.
" Books are true levellers." Channing. Oh Self-culture.
" Brennyd cat dredeth fcir."
Chaucer. The Pardonere and Tapstre, line 78. Vide p. 42.
" Caesar had perished from the world of men.
Had not his sword been rescued by his pen."
Henry Vaughan. On Sir T. Bodley's Library, line 15.
" Circumstances alter cases."
Haliburton. The Old Judge, Ch. XV.
" Civilisation bows to decency."
R. Browning. The Ring and the Book.
" Conscience, in most souls, is like an English sovereign — it reigns,
but it does not govern."
W. H. Mallock. The New Republic (Robt. Leslie), Bk. I.,
Ch. IV.
" Culture is not a substitute for life, but the key to it."
W. H. Mallock. The New Republic (Robt. Leslie), Bk. III.,
Ch. II.
" Darkness which may be felt." Exodus. Ch. X., vcr. 21.
" Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just."
Henry Vaughan. They are all gone.
" Deep sounds make lesser noise than shallow pools,
And sorrow ebbs being blown with wind of words."
Shakespeare, Lucrcce, 190,
" Dim with the mist of years."
Byron. Childe Harold. Canto II., St. 2.
" Do or die." Fletcher. The Island Princess (Armusia), Act II.,
Sc. II.
*' Let us do or die."
Campbell. Gertrude of Wyoming, Pt. III., St. 37.
Burns. Bruce' s Address to his Army at Bannock-
burn, St. 6.
" Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that has survived the Fall ! "
CowPER. The Task. The Garden, Bk. III.
" Dress is characteristic of manners, and manners are the mirror
of ideas." Alison. Hist, of Europe, Ch. VII.
" Drunkenness which is the highway to Hell."
Eliz. Joceline. Mother's Legacy, § 9.
Vide p. 63.
" Duncan is in his grave !
After life's iitful fever he sleeps well."
Shakespeare. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act III., Sc. TI.
DUTY— FIT ('TIS VERY CLEAR) 365
Duly bafore decency."
Captain Marryat. MidsJiipman Easy {Bn'ggs), Ch. XI.
Enough is as good as a feast."
Heywood. Proverbs, Bh. II., Ch. XI.
" Enough is equal to a feast."
Fielding. The Coveut Garden Tragedy, Act I.,
Sc. VIII. Vide p. 65.
Ever the latter ende of joy is wo."
Chaucer. The Nonnes Prieste's Tale, line 15211.
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old."
Swift. Thoughts or. Various Subjects.
Every man meets his Waterloo at last."
Wendell Phillips. Speech, ist Nov. 1859.
Everyone lives by selling something whatever be his right to it."
R. L. Stevenson. Essay on Beggars.
Evil shall he have that evil wol deserve."
Chaucer. The Princesse's Tale, line 13562.
Example is always more efficacious than precept."
S. Johnson. Rasselas, Ch. XXX.
Vide p. 69.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes."
Froude. Short Studies on Great Subjects. Party Politics.
Failure, that thorny crown of all great souls."
A. E. J. Legge. An Encounter.
Fame is but noise ; all learning's but a thought ;
Which one cherishes, another sets at nought.
Nature mocks both, and wit still heaps ado ;
But death brings knowledge and assurance too."
Henry Vaughan. Daphnis (Damon), line 99.
Fame is what you have taken.
Character's what you give ;
When to this truth you waken.
Then you begin to live.
Bayard Taylor. Improvisations, St. 2.
' Fame's a pearl that hides beneath a sea of tears."
W. E. Henley. Echoes. II., line i.
' Feld hath eyen, and the wood hath eres."
Chaucer. Canterbury Tables. The Knigkie's Tale, line 1523.
" Fields have eies and woodes have eares."
J. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. V.
' Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives."
Swift. Polite Conversation, Dia. JI.
" fit ('tis very clear)
To carry guts, my brethren, to a bear."
Peter Pindar, The Lousiad, Canto II., line ^yg.
366 FREEDOM— HE'S ARMED WITHOUT
" Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know."
CowpER. Table Talk, lino 261.
" Ful wise is he that can himselven knowe."
Chaucer. The Moiikc's Tale, line 14145. Vide p. 138.
" Generosity is in general the child of easy circumstances."
Alison. History of Europe, Ch. XC.
" God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant
and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past
ages." Channing. On Sclf-cuUitre.
" God helps those who help themselves."
A.Sidney. Discourse concerning Government, Ch. II., Sec.
XXIII.
" Providence helps those who help others."
Kipling. The Light that Failed, Ch. XII.
Vide p. 86.
" Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better."
Emerson. Considerations by the Way.
" Government of the people, by the people, for the people."
Abraham Lincoln. Speech at Gettysburg, igth Nov. 1863.
" Had we never lov'd sae kindly.
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted."
Burns.
" Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books."
Carlyle. Life of Frederic the Great, Bk. XVI., Ch. I.
" ' Hast thou found me, O mine enemy ? ' ' Yea, I have found t ce
because thou hast sold thyself to work iniquity.' "
Kings. Bk. I., Ch. XXL, ver. 20.
" He is gentil that doth gentil dedis."
Chaucer. The Wife of Bathe's Tale, line 6752.
*' He is yet the wisest man
Who is not wise at all."
Wordsworth. The Oak and the Broom,
J^ He is only fantastical who is not in fashion."
^ Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, Ft. III., Mem. IL,
Sttbsec. III.
" He knew what is what."
Skelton. Colin Cloute, line 1106.
" He knew what's what."
Butler. Hitdibras, Ft. I., Canto I., line 149.
" He's armed without that's innocent within."
Pope. Epistle I., Bk. I., line 94.
HEALTH— IGNORANCE 367
" Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise of health."
Thompson. The Castle of Indolence, Canto II., St. 55.
" Heaven lies about us in our infancy."
Wordsworth. Ode V.
" How much a dunce that hath been sent to roam,
Excels a dunce, that hath been kept at home."
CowPER. Progress of Error, line 415.
" How taken in this idle world by show !
Birth, riches, arc the Baals to whom we bow;
Preferring, with a soul as black as soot,
A rogue on horseback, to a saint on foot."
Peter Pindar. The Lousiad, Canto I., line 479.
" Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be
planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations,
in the same worn-out soil."
N. Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter, Introductory Chapter.
" Humanity is one of the best fruits of refinement."
Prescott. Mexico, Ch. VI.
" Huzzaed out of my seven senses."
Spectator. No. 616. Letter.
" I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the
Lord." Revelations. Ch. /., vcy. 8.
" I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty."
Drvden. The Maiden Queen, Act III., Sc. I.
" Fat, fair and forty."
Sir W. Scott. St Ronan's Well, Ch. VII.
" I have played the fool."
Samuel. Bk. I., Ch. XXIV., ver. 21. {Saul.)
" I smell a rat."
MiDDLETON. Blitrt Master Constable.
Act III., Sc. III. Vide p. 229.
" I was never less alone than when by myself."
Gibbon. Memoirs, Vol. II., p. 117.
" If you wish to be powerful, pretend to be powerful."
Horne Tooke. Advice to the Friends of the People.
" Ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. III., Sec. IV., Mem. I.,
Stibsec. II.
" Ignorance is the mother of devotion."
Jeremy Taylor, Letter to a Person newly converted.
" Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to
me."
Dryden. The Maiden Queen, Act I.,
Sc. III.
368 HE CAN RULE— KNOW ONE FALSE STEP
" He can rule the great, that cannot rule the small."
Spenser. Faery Queene, Bk. V., Canto IL, St. 43.
" In men's most dark extremity
Oft succour dawns from Heaven."
Sir W. Scott. Lord of the Isles, Canto I., St. 20.
" It is a fowle byrd that fyleth his owne nest."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. IL, Ch. V.
Vide p. 241.
" It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle."
Herbert. Jacitla Prudentum.
" It is a work good and prudent to be able to guide one man ; of
larger extended virtue to order well one house : but to govern
a nation piously and justly, which only is to say happily, is
for a spirit of the greatest size and divinest metal."
Milton. Of Reformation in England, Bk. 1 1., first lines.
" It is not necessary to hold a candle to the sun."
A. Sidney. Discourses on Government, Ch. II.,
Sc. XXIII.
" And hold their farthing candle to the sun."
Young. Sat. VII., line 56.
" It easeth some, though none it ever cur'd,
To think their dolour others have endur'd."
Shakespeare. Litcrece. 226.
Vide p. 196.
" It matters not how strait the gate.
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate :
I am the captain of my soul."
W. E. Henley. Lines to R. T. H. B.
" Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked."
Deuteronomy. Ch. XX XI I., ver. 15.
" Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth.
When thought is speech, and speech is truth."
Sir W. Scott. Marmion, Canto II. , Introduction.
" Justice without wisdom is impossible."
Froude. Short Studies on great Subjects. Party
Politics.
" Kisses are
Silent petitions still with willing lovers."
Ben Johnson. The Devil is an Ass (Fitzdottcrell),
Act I., Sc. II.
" Kissing's the prologue to sin."
Charles Reade. Christie Johnstone, Ch. X.
" Know one false step is ne'er retrieved."
Gray. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, 7.
KNOWLEDGE— MAD AMBITION 369
" Knowledge is not happiness, and science
But an exchange of ignorance for that
Which is another Icind of ignorance."
' Byron. Manfred, Act II., Sc. IV.
" Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys and destiny obscure ;
Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile,
The short and simple annals of the poor."
Gray. Elegy in a Cottntry Churchyayd, St. 8.
" Let still the woman take
An elder than herself ; so wears she to him.
So sways she level in her husband's heart."
Shakespeare. Twelfth Night (Duke), Act IV., Sc. II.
" Let thy attyre be comely, but not costly."
Lyly. Euphues.
" Neat, not gaudy."
Lamb. Letter to Wordsworth, 1806.
" Neat, but not in the least gaudy."
Thackeray. Pendennis {Faker), Ch. XIII.
Vide p. S^-
" Life is but to do a day's work honestly, and death, to come home
for a day's wages when the sun goes down."
Whyte Melville. Uncle John, Ch. XII.
" Like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshi ; for he driveth
furiously." Kings. Bk. II., Ch. IX., ver. 20.
" Like our shadows
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night V., line 661.
" Like them who have the jaundice, to whom everything appeareth
yellow." Sir P. Sidney. Arcadia.
" All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, Pt. II., line 358.
" Literature is the thought of thinking souls."
Carlyle. Sir W. Scott. London and Westminster Review,
1828.
" Lorse of catell may recovered be.
But lorse of time shendeth us."
Chaucer. The Man of Lawe's Prologue, line 4447.
" Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy."
Eui.wer Lytton. Ricnzi, Bk. VII., Ch. IV.
" Love knoweth no lawes." Lyly. Euphues.
" Lytle money, lytle law." The Parlement of Byrdes.
" Mad ambition trumpeteth to all."
Willis. Poem delivered at Yale, 1827.
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370 MAIDENS— NEITHER CAST YOUR PEARLS
" Maidens should be mild and meek,
Swift to hear and slow to speak."
Charlotte M. Yonge. Scenes and Characters. Motto
to Ch. VI.
"(There's a damned proverb in your way:) many things happen
betwixt the cup and the lip, you know."
Dryden. Amphitryon, Act IV., Sc. I.
" Many headed multitude."
Sir p. Sidney Arcadia, Bk. II.
Shakespeare. Coriolainis (ist Citizen),
Act II., Sc. III.
" Marriage and hanging go by destiny : matches are made in heaven."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pi. III., Sec. II., Mem. II.,
Subsec. V.
" Marriage is a desperate thing."
Selden. Table Talk. Marriage.
" Moche crye and no wuU."
John Fortescue. De Laudibus Leg. Anglics, Ch. X.
Vide p. 19.
" Morals are a personal affair ; in the war of righteousness every
man fights for his own hand."
R. L. Stevenson. Lay Morals, Ch. II.
" More bleak than ash-buds on the first of March."
Tennyson. The Gardener's Daughter.
" More domestic unhappiness has come of easy fainting, Doll, than
from all the greater passions put together."
Dickens. Barnaby Rudge {Varden), Ch. XIX.
" Much of a muchness."
Vanburgh. The Provoked Husband, Act I., Sc. I.
" My deare my better half."
Sir p. Sidney. Arcadia. Argalus to Parthenia, Bk. III.
" O how thy worth with manners may I sing,
When thou art all the better part of me."
Shakespeare. Sonnet XXXIX.
" Best image of myself and dearer half."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. V., line 95.
' ' My foot is on my native heath, and my name is Macgregor."
Sir W. Scott. Rob Roy, Ch. XXXIV.
" Nature's prime impulse, earthly appetite."
R. Browning. Aristophanes' Apology.
" Nede has no pere ;
Him behoves serve himself that has no swain."
Chaucer. The Reve's Talc, line 4024.
" Neither cast your pearls before swine."
St Matthew. Ch. VII., ver. 6.
NIGHT— ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE 371
" Night — the nurse of thoughts."
Henry Vaughan. Daphnis {Mcnalcas), line 182.
" No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him. There is always work
And tools to work withal, for those who will ;
And blessed are the horny hands of toil."
J. R. Lowell. A Glance behind the Curtain.
" No one likes to be disturbed at meals or love."
Byron. Don Juan, Canto I., St. LXXXIX.
" No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage ground
of truth." Bacon. Of Truth.
" None so blind as those that will not see."
M. Henry. Cominentaries. Jeremiah XX.
" There is none so blind as they that won't see."
Swift. Polite Conversation, Dia. III.
" Not ever
Tlie justice and the truth o' the question carries
The due o' the verdict with it."
Shakespeare. Henry VIII. {King), Act V.,
Sc. I.
" Not lost but gone before."
M. Henry. Commentaries. Matthew, Ch. II.
Vide p. 182.
" Nothing keeps in such awe as perfect beauty ; — now there is some-
thing consoling and encouraging in ugliness."
Sheridan. The Duenna {Isaac Mendoza), Act II.,
Sc. I.
" Now is the stately column broke,
The beacon-light is quench' d in smoke.
The trumpet's silver sound is still,
The warder silent on the hill."
Sir W. Scott. Marmion, Canto I., Introduction.
" O sweet womankind, how I love thee for that heavenly gift of
lying." Dryden. Sir Martin Mar-all, Act II., Sc. I.
" O ! woman, woman ! whether lean or fat.
In face an angel, but in soul a cat ! "
Peter Pindar. The Lousiad, Canto II., line 445.
" Of all pain, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain."
Cowley. Anacreontics. Gold, line 3.
" On their own merits modest men are dumb."
G. Colman the Younger. Epilogue to Hcir-at-Law.
" One foot in the grave."
Beaumont and Fletcher. The Little French Lawyer,
{Dinant), Act I., Sc, I.
372 ONE RELIGION— REASON IS THE LIFE
" One religion is as true as another."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, PL III., Sec. IV., Mem.
II., Siihsec. I.
" One science only will one genius fit ;
So vast is science, so narrow human wit."
Pope. Essay on Criticism, Pt. I., line 60.
" Only they
Conquer love, that run away."
Cowley. Conquest by Flight.
" Our birth is nothing but our death begun."
Young. Night Thoughts, Night V., line 717.
" Our creature comforts."
M. Henry. Commentaries. Psalm XXXVII.
" Our country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she
always be in the right ; but our country, right or wrong."
Stephen Decatur. Toast given at Norfolk, April 18 16.
" Our style bewrays us."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy. Dcmocritus to the
Reader.
" Over the hills and far away."
Gay. The Beggar's Opera, Act I., Sc. I.
" Overwork's only miurderous idleness."
RuDYARD Kipling. The Light that Failed (Dick),
Ch. VI.
" Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all good words
for the lips."
Dickens. Little Dorrit {Mrs General), Bk. II., Ch. IV.
" Penny wise and pound foolish."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the
Reader.
" (as don two) pigges in a poke."
Chaucer. The Reve's Talc, line 4276.
Vide p. 126.
" Pitie renneth sone in gentil herte."
Chaucer. The Knight's Tale, line 1761.
The Merchant's Tale, line 9860,
" Poets, like angels, where they once appear
Hallow the place."
Henry Vaughan. To the River Noca, line 15.
" Rattle liis bones over the stones !
He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns ! "
Thos. Noel. The Pauper's Ride.
" Reason is the Ufe of the law."
Sir Edward Coke. First Institute.
RED AS A ROSE— SO WAS HERE 373
" Red as a rose is she."
Coleridge. Ancient Mariner, Pt. I.
" Republic of letters."
Fielding. Tom Jones, Bk. XIV., Ch. I.
" Riches grow in Hell."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. I., line 690.
(" That aphorism vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which, however,
we can find nowhere in his works that) ridicule is the test of
truth." Carlyle. Voltaire. Foreign Review,
1829.
" Right as a trivet."
Barham. Ingoldsby Legends. The Auto-da-fe.
" Rob Peter and pay Paul."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the
Reader.
" Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and
in their death they were not divided."
Samuel. Book II., Ch. I. {David), ver. 23.
" Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned.
Mindless of its just honours ; with this key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart."
Wordsworth. Scorn not the Sonnet.
" With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart."
R. Browning.
" She's adorned
Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely, —
The truest mirror that an honest wife
Can see her beauty in."
ToBiN. The Honeymoon, Act III., Sc. IV.
" Sighs, those false alarms of grief."
Henry Vaughan. Fiola, line 11.
" Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time."
Carlyle. Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster
Review, 1838. Vide p. 234.
" Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
O. W. Holmes. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table, VI.
" Slaves cannot breathe in England."
CowpER. The Task, Bk. II., line 40.
" (Here Skegg lies) snug
As a bug in a rug."
B. Franklin. Letter to Miss Georgina Shipley. Sep. 1772.
" So was here joly whistle well ywette."
Chaucer. The Rcve's Tale, line 4153.
374 SPARING JUSTICE— THE BLOOD MORE STIRS
" Sparing justice finds iniquity."
Shakespeare. Lucrece. 241.
" Style is the dress of thoughts."
Lord Chesterfield. Letter to his Godson, 24th N'ov. 1749.
" Style is the image of character."
Gibbon. Memoirs of my Life, p. i. Vide
p. 63.
" Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives
longer."
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (Nerissa), Act I.,
Sc. II.
" Sweet April showers do spring May flowers."
Tusser. 500 Points, XXXIX.
" Talent is that which is in a man's power ; genius is that in whose
power a man is."
J. R. Lowell. Among my Books. 1st Series. Rousseau and
the Sentimentalists.
" Terror is the most common source of cruelty."
Alison. History of Europe, Ch. XIV.
" That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed
with profit."
Alcott, Table Talk, Bk. I. Learning-Book.
" That man may last but never lives,
"Who much receives, but nothing gives ;
Whom none can love, whom none can thank —
Creation's blot, creation's blank."
Thomas Gibbons. Where Jesus dwelt.
" That unrest which man miscalls delight."
Shelley.
" That which was glory in the mother of God
Had been, for instance, damnable in Eve."
R. Browning. The Ring and the Book.
" The accident of an accident."
Lord Thurlow. Speech in reply to Lord Grafton,
" The author himself is the best judge of his own performance."
Gibbon. Memoirs of My Life and Writings.
" The better day the better deed."
Middleton. The Phoenix, Act III., Sc. I.
" The better the day, the better the deed."
Walker's Parcemiologia. Circa, 1672.
" The blind hysterics of the Celt."
Tennyson. In Memoriam, VIII.
" The blood more stirs.
To rouse a lion than to start a hare."
Shakespeare. Henry IV., Ft. I. (Hotspur), Act I., Sc. III.
THE BOOK— THE GRAVEYARD 375
' Hie book ot female logic is blotted all ov?r with tears, and Justice
in theii courts is for ever in a passion."
Thackeray The ^'irs,imans, Cli. IV.
" The 'oravest are the tenderest,— =â–
The loving avf the daring '"
Bavard Tayhor The Soiif; of the Camp.
'â– The chaptei 01 knowledge is a very short one, but the chapter
ot accidents is a very long one"
I CRD Chesterfield Letter to Solomon DayroUes, 16th Feb.
'•753-
' The charii; ot friendship is liberty, and he that would destroy
ttie one destroys, without designing it, the better half of the
''ther.'' E. .Iibbqn. Letter to Mr Poytcous,
1753.
' Tne cnaracter ot a people iependt more on its drinks than on
itf food."
BuLWER Lytton The Parisian;, (Savarin), Bk. VI., Ch. I.
*' The deat -\ddei tnat stoppeth hei ear i which hearkeneth not
tt the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely."
Psalms. LVIIL, ver. 4.
" AS deaf as an adder." Old Proverb.
" III so profound abysm 1 throw all care
Ot other's voices, *hat my adder's sense
To critic and flatterer stopped are."
Shakespeare. Sonnet CXII.
" The dazzling linf>
NVhere mortal and immortal merge, •'
And huriian dies divine '
W Wilson. The fir<it Skv'lark of Spring, last lines.
" The falling out of faithful! friends is the renuying of love."
R. Ep WARPS. The Paradise of Dainty Devices.
" Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of
aftection." Lyly. Eiiphues.
" The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love."
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. III.
Sec. II.
" The finest edge is made blunt with a whetstone."
Lyly. Euphiies.
" The good are made better by ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still."
Rogers. Jacqueline, St. 3.
" The graveyard may be the cloak-room to Heaven ; but we must
admit that it is a very ugly and offensive vestibule in itself,
however fair may be the life to which it leads."
R. L. Stevenson. Sketches, III. The Wreath of Immor-
telles.
376 THE GREATEST— THE PRIMROSE PATH
" The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
Carlyle. Heroes and Hero-Wovship, Ch. II.
" The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touched by the thorns."
T. Moore. O think not my Spirit.
" The hearts that dare are quick to feel
The hands that wound are soft to heel."
Bayard Taylor. Soldiers of Greece, St. i.
" The house is never built for less than the builder counted on."
Chas. Reade. The Cloister and the Hearth {Catherine),
Ch. I.
" The kiss, snatched hasty from the sidelong maid."
Thompson. The Seasons. Winter, line 625.
" The law is a ass — a idiot."
Dickens. Oliver Twist (Bumble), Ch. LI.
" The light that never was on sea or land."
Wordsworth. Elegiac Pieces, VI.
" The lilies and languors of virtue.
The roses and raptures of vice."
Swinburne. Faustina.
" The magic of a face."
Thos. Carew. Epitaph on Lady S ,
" The man who smokes, thinks like a sage, and acts like a
Samaritan." Lytton. Night and Morning, Ch. VI.
" The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world
brother."
Dickens. Barnaby Rudge {Harcdale),
Ch. LXXIX.
" The mighty dead." Pope.
" The mirth and fun grew fast and furious."
Burns. Tarn 0' Shanier.
" The one remains, the many change and pass.
Heaven's light for ever shines. Earth's shadows fly ;
Life like a dome of many-coloured glass
Stains the white radiance of Eternity
Until Death tramples it to fragments."
Shelley. Adonais, LI I.
" The people arose as one man."
Judges. Ch. XX., ver. 8.
" The praises of an enemy are always suspicious."
Alison. History of Europe, Ch. XXXV.
" The primrose path of dalliance."
Shakespeare. Hamlet {Ophelia), Act I., Sc. III.
THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS— THE TOOLS 377
" The prince of darkness is a gentleman."
Shakespeare. King Lear (Edgar), Act III., Sc. IV.
Suckling. The Goblin.
" The reason why so few marriages are happy, is because young
ladies spend their time in maldng nets, not in making cages."
Swift. Thoughts on Various Subjects.
" The retort courteous ; the quip modest ; the reply churlish ;
the reproof valiant ; the counter-check quarrelsome ; the lie
with circumstance ; the lie direct."
Shakespeare. As you like it {Touchstone), Act V., Sc. IV.
" The right divine of kings to govern wrong."
Pope. Dunciad, Bk. IV., line 183.
" The same ambition can destroy or save,
And make a patriot as it makes a knave ! "
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. II., line 201.
" The self-educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities."
Isaac Disraeli. Literary Character, Ch. VI.
" The sight of you is good for sore eyes."
Swift. Polite Conversation, Dia. I.
" (I am escaped with) the skin of my teeth."
Job. Ch. XIX., vcr. 20.
" The spirit of the world,
Beholding the absurdity of men —
Their vaunts, their feats — let a sardonic smile.
For one short moment, wander o'er his hps.
That smile was Heine ! "
M. Arnold. Poems. Heine's Grave.
" The sunshine broken in the rill.
Though turned astray is sunshine still."
T. Moore. Lalla Rookh. The Fire-Worshippers.
" The survival of the fittest."
Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology, Vol. I., Ch. XII.
" The elegant simplicity of the three per cents."
Lord Stowell. (Vide Campbell's Lives of Lord Chancellors.)
" The sweet simplicity of the three per cents."
Lord Beaconsfield. Endymion.
" The tide tarrieth no man."
John Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. III.
Vide p. 279.
" The timid are always cruel."
Gibbon. Decline of the Roman Empire, Ch. XVIII.,
last sentence.
" The tools to him that can handle them."
Carlyle. Sir W. Scott. London and Westminster Review,
1838.
378 THE TRUEST ELOQUENCE— THEY ARE MOST
" The truest eloquence is that which holds too mute for anplause."
BuLWER Lytton. The Parisians (Graham Vane), Bk IX.,
C". IV.
" The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
Genesis. Ch. XXVII., ver. 22.
" The wealthy curled darlings of our nation."
Shakespeare. Othello (Brahardic), Act I.,
Sc II.
" The wolfe from the door
To ward and kepe,
From their ghostly shepe
And their spiritual lammes."
Skelton. Colin Clout, line 130.
" The woods of freedom are seductive to all : its evils are known
only to the actual sufferers."
Alison. History of Europe, Ch. X.
" The world gains with every broken heart a further step."
A. E. J. Legge. An Encounter.
" The world was sad — the garden was a wild ;
And man, the hermit, sighed — till Woman smiled."
Campbell. The Pleasures of Hope, Pt. II., line 37.
" There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue." Burke. The Present State of the Nation.
" There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth,
many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never
was seen, nor never shall be."
Bishop Hall. Contemplations, Bk. IV. The Veil of Moses.
Vide p. 82.
" There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so
strange."
Daniel Webster. Argument on the Murder of Captain White.
" There were giants in the earth in those days."
Genesis. Ch. VI., ver, 4.
" There's not that work
Of careful nature or of cunning art,
How strong, how beauteous, or how rich it be.
But falls in time to ruin."
{Attributed to) Shakespeare. Sir John Oldcastle [Cobham),
Act v., Sc. IV.
" There's small choice in rotten apples."
Shakespeare. Taming of the Shrew {Hortensio), Act I,,
Sc. I.
" They also serve who only stand and wait."
Milton. Sonnet XIX.
" They are most firmly good who best know why."
Sir T. Overbury. A Wife, line 180.
THEY ONLY FALL— TRUTH IS THE HIGHEST 379
" They only fall, that strive to move.
Or lose that care to keep."
Owen Meredith. The Wanderer, Bk. III., St. 6.
" They whom truth and wisdom lead
Can gather honey from a weed."
CowPER. The Pineapple and the Bee, line 35.
" Thick as autumnal leaves, that strew the woods
In Vallombrosa."
Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. I., line 302.
" Think naught a trifle, though it small appear ;
Small sands like mountain, moments make the year.
And trifles life."
Young. Love of Fame, Sat. VI., line 208.
" Though every prospect pleases
And only man is vile."
Bishop Heber. " From Greenland's Icy Mountains."
" Three things a wise man will not trust.
The wind, the sunshine of an April day.
And woman's plighted faith."
SouTHEY. Madoc in Azthan, Pt. XXIII., line 51.
" Through thick and thinne."
Chaucer. The Reve's Tale, live 4064.
Vide p. 296.
" 'Tis always morning somewhere in the world."
Horne. Orion, Bk. III., Ch. II., line 44.
" 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear ;
Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were."
Sir S. Suckling. Against Frttition.
" To be beautiful is enough. If a woman can do that well : who
shall demand more from her."
Thackeray. The Newcomes (Clive Newcome),
Ch. XXV.
" To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite, and money but
the second."
R. L. Stevenson. Lay Monks, Ch. IV.
" To the untrue man the whole universe is false."
N. Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter, Ch. XI.
" To Truth's house there is a single door,
Wliich is experience. He teaches best
Who feels the heart of all men in his breast.
And knows their strength or weakness through his own."
Bayard Taylor. Temptation of Hassad Ben Khaled, St. 3.
" Truth is the highest thing that man may kepe."
Chaucer. The Frankeleine's Tale, line 11789.
38o TWO IRONS— WHATEVER MAKES MEN GOOD
" (It- IS always good
When H man has", two irons iii the fire "
Beacmont and [^LETCHER The banhful friends Black-
snout), /iCi I. Sc II
" Two people who cannot attord to play cards loi money some-
times sit down to ct game for iove "
Dickens, Nicholas NicHleby Ch. I
" Unstable as water thou shalt not excel"
GENESib Ch XLIX , I'er 4.
"' Upsprings the iark
Shrill- voiced and loud, the messenger ot morn "
Thompson. The Seasons Spnngiims. line i()0.
" Vessels large may venture more,
But httle boats should keep near shore"
B. Franklin. Poor Richard's Almanac.
" Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining to the night.''
Milton. Camus, line 221.
" We are our own fates. Our own deeds
Are our doomsmen. Man's life was made
Not for men's creeds.
But men's actions."
Owen Meredith. Luciie, Pt. J I . Canto V.. St. S,
" We're charmed with distant views of happiness.
But near approaches make the prospect less."
Yalden. Against Enioyment.
" As distant prospects please us, but when near
We find but desert rocks and lleeting air '
Garth. The Dispensary.. Cantu III , line 27.
vide p. (?l.
" What do the damn'd endure, but to despair,
But knowing Heaven, to know it lost for ever ? "•
Congreve. The Mourning Bride {Alweria), Act III.,
Sc. VI.
" What do we live for, if it is not to make life les;* difficult to each
other." George Eliot. Mtddlemarch.
" What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper
of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a
feather."
Dickens. Old Curiosity Shop (Dick Swiveller), Ch. II.
" Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well,"
Lord Chesterfield. Letter to his Godson. \oth March 1746.
" Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens."
Daniel Webster. Speech at Plymouth, 22nd Dec. 1820.
WHE^ fORrUNE—WIS'E IS THE MILK 381
" When Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye."
Shakespeare. 'vj;/g John [Pandulpho), Act III., Sc. IV.
" When the age is in, the wit is out.'
Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing (Dogbeiry),
Act III , So. V.
â– ' When the stormy \vmds do blow."
Martviv Parker, Song.
" When the battle ra,c;es loud ana long,
And the stormy winds do blow."
Campbell. Ye Mariners of England.
' Whert Nature's end of language is declin'd,
'\nd men talk only to conceal the mind."
Young. Love of Fame, Sat. JI.. line 207.
" Where the heart is prepared for evil, opportunity is seldom long
wanting."
Sir W. Scott. The Heart of Midlothian, Ch. II.
" White lies are but the gentlemen ushers to black ones."
Marry AT. Pe(er Simple {O'Brien), Ch. XXXIV.
" Who breathes must sutier, and who thinks must mourn,
.\nd he alone is blessed, who ne'er was born."
Prior. Solomon, Bit. 111., line 240.
" Who dares this pair of boots displace,
Must meet Bombastes face to face."
Rhodes, Bombastes Futioso, Act I., Sc. IV.
" Who sayth little he is wise,
Vor lytle money is soon spende.
And tew wordes, aie soone amende."
The Parlement of Byrdes.
" Whoever walk? a, furlong without sympathy, walks to his own
luneral drest ir> his shroud."
Walt Whitman. Song of Myself.
" Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but
considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye."
St Matthew, Ch. VII., ver. 3.
" He can well, in mine eye, seen a stalk ;
But in his owen, he cannot seen a balk."
Chaucer. The Reve's Prologue, line 3917.
" ' Will you walk into my parlour ? ' said a spider to a fly."
Mary Howitt. The Spider and the Fly.
" Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike."
Pope. Prologue to Satires, line 203.
" Wine is the milk of old men, and praise of old women."
Bulwer Lytton. The Parisians (Signora Venosta), Bk. II.,
Ch. VIII.
382 WIT IS fWT TRUTH— YOUTH IS A BLUNDER
" Wit is but truth made miiusuig."
BuLWER I.YTTON The Parisians {Enguerrand) Bh Vj ,
Ch. I
" With age comes raution ■•
And stinging pleasures please less 9nd stmp more."
R. Brom'-ning. The Rctiiyi: of the Dmsss
" Yet know that kings are gods on earth ;
And those that pull them down,
Shall find it is no less than death.
To tamper with a crown."
Marchmond NedhaM. a Short H siory of the English
Feoelhon, i6bi
" You can and you can't,
You \\'ill and you won't ;
You'll be damn'd if you do,
You'll be damn'd if you don't."
Dow Depnitinn of Calv'ms/n
" Youth is a blunder ; manhood i struggle :, old age a regret."
Beaconsfielu. Coning^by. Bh. TJI . Ch (
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
"A. W." : i6th century, 59, 61, 151,
181, 220, 276.
Addison, Joseph : 1672-1719, 2, 3,
IS. 39, 44, 71, 75, 79, 88, 97, 125,
153, 172, 262, 284, 298, 302, 304,
334> 336' 352, 356.
Akenside, Mark : 1721-1770, 44, 144,
160, 218, 266, 356.
Alfokd, Dean: 1810-1871, 140.
Armstrong, John : 1732-1779, 79,
292.
Arnold, Sir Edwin : 1832, living, 87,
121, 196, 202, 206.
Arnold, Matthew : 1822-1888, 264,
268, 27s, 277, 290, 312, 313.
Ascham, Roger : 1515-1568, 96, 133,
141, 316.
Bacon, Francis, Lord: 1560-1626,
2, 8, 9, 48, 60, 86, 100, 112, 132,
135. 139. 146. 149. 167, 168, 197,
210, 213, 214, 216, 217, 231, 248,
250, 259, 263, 267, 284, 319, 349.
Bailey, P. J. : 1816, living, i, 2, 3,
57, 66, 135, 246, 278, 306, 311,
322, 338, 342, 352.
Baillie, Joanna : 1764-1851, 15, 44,
69, 81, 229, 246, 275, 283, 320,
326.
Baker, Sir R. : 1568-1645, in.
Balfour, Rt. Hon. Arthur James,
living, 133, 201.
Barbauld, Anna Letitia: 1743-
1825, 230, 277, 291.
Barbour, John : 1316-1396, 80, 97,
157. 296. 324-
Barrie, J. M. : living, 185.
"Barry Cornwall" (B. W. Procter)-
1790-1874, 104, 138, 153, 155, 171,
268, 303.
Barton, Bernard : 1784-1849, 237.
Baxter, Richard : 1615-1691, ir,
23, 25, 27, 56, 97, no, 122, 158,
191, 2«o, 334.
Bayly, Thomas Haynpzs : 1797-1839,
61, 185, 193, 257, 269, 275, 310,
323.
Beaconsfield, Earl of: 1805-1881,
13, 94, 145, 205, 260, 283, 304.
Beattie, Dr. James: 1735-1803, 108,
123, 131, 234, 318, 326.
Beaumont, Francis : 1586-1615, 90.
Beaumont and Fletcher : 2, 10, 29,
35, 44, 54, 115, 118, 150, 161, 175,
191, 214, 224, 236, 245, 283, 297,
318, 346, 351.
Bentham, Jeremy : 1749-1832, 256.
Berkenhead, J. : •1615-1679, 348.
Bible, The :
y1c/s of the Aposiles, 26, 133, 171.
Daniel, 259.
Ecclesiastes, 7, 14, 21, 45, 127, 192,
267, 269, 283, 314.
Ecclesiasticus, 102, 306.
Esdras, 90.
Exodus, 234.
Genesis, 22, 42, 51.
Isaiah, 19, 283.
James, St., 36, 273.
Jeremiah, 31, 42, 45, 251, 257, 269,
327-
Job, 70, 134, 159, 172, 194, 222, 250,
260, 265, 270, 272, 285, 340.
John, St., II, 100, 137, 205.
Kings, Book of, 11, 131, 282.
Luke, St., 206, 273.
Mark, St., II, 173, 268.
Matthew, St., 122, 179, 237, 271,
273. 354-
Paul, St., 4.1, 69, 106, 129, 142, 193,
215, 259, 309, 331.
Peter, St., 150.
Proverbs, 3, 4, 9, 11, 13, 15, 27, 28,
37, 40, 77, 86, 100, 101, 102, 106,
no, 128, 133, 141, 143, 212, 217,
223, 233, 235, 244, 251, 254, 258,
262, 266, 267, 277, 281, 335, 338,
345. 347. 348, 354-
Psalms, 116, 138, 249, 252.
Samuel, Books of, in, 131, 204, 240.
Timothy, 260.
BiCKERSTAFF, ISAAC : 1735-1805, 24,
33. 65, 76. Ill, 142. 236, 247, 274,
321, 323, 324, 353,
* About
(383)
384
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
BiRRELL, Augustine: living, 5, 241,
265, 323.
Blacklock, Dr. : 1721-1791, 78, 144,
217, 272,
Blackmoke, Sir Richard : 1658-
1729, 72, 125, 160.
BLACKSTONK.SirWM. : 1723-1780, 161.
Blair, Robt. : 1699-1746, 35, 57, 82,
89, 146, 185, 233, 348.
Blake, William : 1757-1827, 23, 32,
69, 78, 143, 198, 205, 266.
Bloomfikld, Robert: 1766-1823,63,
65, 80, 121, 199, 268, 290, 295, 329.
BoLiNGBROKE, Viscount : 1678-1751,
68, 109, 173, 260, 313.
Bonar, Dr. HoRATius : 1808-1869, 20.
Booth, Barton : 1681-1733,311.
BoswELL, James: 1740-1795, 8, 107,
133, 179, 180, 216, 258, 284, 351.
Bowles, William Lisle : 1762-1850,
239. 247-
Bramston J. : ob. 1744, 349.
Bright, Right Hon. John : 1811-1889,
56-
Brinklow, Henry: ob. 1546, 77, 164.
Brooke, Lord: 1554-1628, 66, 75, 76.
Broome, Dr. William : 1689-1745,
95, 100, 158, 181, 210, 221, 294.
Brougham, Lord : 1779-1868, 255,
259, 268.
Brown, Tom : 1663-1704, 117, 327.
Browne, Sir Thomas : 1605-1682, 5,
21, 27, 47, 104, 117, 174, 2X6.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett:
1805-1861, 139, 146, 167, 247, 270,
316.
Browning, Robert: 1812-1889, i, 14,
18, 20, 22, 27, 35, 38, 41, 48, 57,
58, 67, 68, 83, 86, 87, 88, 107, 112,
114, 115, 124, 130, 136, 141, 144,
146, 154, 156, 160, 162, 163, 176,
193, 196, 200, 205, 207, 211, 213,
214, 237, 239, 244, 249, 255, 258,
270, 272, 283, 285, 286, 293, 295,
299, 300, 302, 303, 3C7, 309, 313,
314, 323, 325, 326, 329, 330, 333,
334. 335. 336. 342, 345. 346, 3So>
353, 355, 356.
Bryant, W. C. : 1794-1878, 86, 156,
281, 290, 310, 312.
Buckingham, George Villiers,
Duke of: 1627-1688, 49, 117.
Buckingham, Sheffield, Duke of:
1649-1720, 214, 278, 329.
BUNYAN, John : 1628-1688, i, 28, 38,
76, 100, 227, 245.
Burke, Edmund : 1730-1797, 6, 22,
138, 164, 165, 184, 237, 244, 272,
374, 282, 290, 317, 329, 332.
Burney, Fanny (Madame D'Arblay) :
1752-1840, 254.
Burns, Robert : 1759-1796, 2, 4, 6,
8, 19, 24, 29, 32, 34, 38, 48, 59,
71, 75, 76, 77, 78, 84, 85, 89, 105,
113, 126, 135, 136, 139, 143, 157,
162, 172, 173, 185, 186, 187, 189,
208, 212, 215, 218, 228, 234, 245,
251, 255, 257, 261, 265, 267, 279,
282, 289, 296, 308, 318, 335, 337,
?54-
Burton, Robert : 1576-1640, i, 35,
39. 43. 50- 79- 99. 102, 116, 124,
130, 178, 184, 185, 210, 256, 337.
Eutler, Samuel : 1612-1680, 2, 13,
19, 52, 59, 60, 78, 89, 90, 95, 100,
102, no, 121, 137, 148, 154, 158,
163, 169, 178, 183, 190, 195, 199,
203, 216, 227, 229, 235, 236, 242,
243, 251, 253, 256, 270, 276, 278,
279, 286, 307, 311, 312, 314, 324,
325, 328, 329, 347, 353.
Byrom,John: 1691-1793,27.
Byron, Lord : 1788-1824, 2, 5, 7, 9,
13, 16, 17, 22, 27, 32, 40, 42, 44,
46, 48, 56, 58, 60, 65, 69, 72, 73,
78, 81, 91, 97, 104, 107, 117, 118,
121, 126, 127, 129, 143, 147, 149,
150, 157, 158, 161, 162, 165, 169,
171, 179, 180, 181, 191, 193, 194,
196, 198, 202, 204, 208, 214, 217,
221, 223, 226, 229, 230, 232, 235,
238, 240, 241, 243, 244, 247, 248,
250, 251, 258, 264, 266, 267, 271,
272, 273, 274, 275, 277, 281, 287,
289, 290, 294, 295, 297, 298, 301,
302, 308, 312, 315, 317, 320, 326,
328, 332, 337, 339, 344, 350, 354.
Cambridge, Richard : 1717-1802,
81, 147, 315, 328.
Campbell, Thomas : 1777-1844, 14,
16, 42, 49. 50, 61, no, 128, 146,
170, 174, 305, 307, 342, 348.
Canning, George : 1770-1827, 84.
Capel, Lord Arthur : ob. 1648,
235.
Carey, Henry :*i69o-i743, 25, 86, 129.
Carlyle, Thomas : 1795-1881, 3, 5,
6, 8, 15, 22, 52, 62, 83, 89, 90, 105,
109, 131, 134, 140, 148, 153, 159.
160, 174, 175, 182, 203, 214, 216,
217, 220, 230, 234, 242, 244, 249,
250, 253, 261, 272, 274, 278, 280,
282, 297, 313, 339.
Carpenter, J. E. : 356.
Carter, Elizabeth : 1770-1806, 2^,0.
Cartwright, William : 1615-1643,
173. 253.
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
385
Cawthorn, James : 1719-1761, 65.
Chalmilus, Dr. Thomas : 1780-1847,
266.
Channing, W. E. : 1780-1842, 67.
Chapman, George ; *i557-i634, 3, 7,
24, 31, 54, 56, 68, 77, 93, loo, 102,
112, 124, 151, 152, 156, 159, 191,
224, 227, 257, 289, 310, 327, 356.
Charles I. : 1600-1649, 176.
Charles II. : 1630-1685, 28.
Chatham, Earl of : 1708-1778, 50,
175, 338.
Chatter TON, Thomas : 1752-1770,
81, 97, 141, 175, 221, 3I3.
Chaucer, Geoffrey: 1328-1400, 8,
21, 29, 45, 65, 79, 80, 81, 102, 118,
126, 133, 157, 164, 170, 185, igi,
196, 247, 252, 254, 256, 261, 288,
295, 318, 354.
Chesterfield, Earl of: 1694-1773, 4,
17. 25. 33. 47. 52. 59. 68, 69, 120,
137, 165, 177, 197, 217, 239.
Chettle, Henry : ob. 1607, 277.
Churchill, Charles: 1731-1764, i,
6, 17, 23, 27, 32, 36, 43, 74, 97,
105, 116, 138, 178, 195, 205, 241,
245, 249, 263, 272, 273, 275, 301,
314, 321, 323, 326, 328, 331,
35°-
Churchyard, Charles : 1520-1604,
354-
CiUHER, Colley : 1671-1757, 5, 14, 16,
23. 35. 71. 79. 84, 94, loi, 102,
106, 128, 139, 15s, 156, 173, 193,
195, 201, 203, 2IO, 216, 222, 238,
240, 264, 341.
Clough, Arthur Hugh : 1819-1861,
30, 75, 105, 133, 310, 329.
Coke, Sir Edward : 1549-1634, 9.
Colkridge, Samuel Taylor: 1772-
1834, 10, 12, 13, 22, 28, 51, 59, 91,
98, 155, 157, 164, 168, 187, 190,
194, 230, 245, 249, 292, 299, 303,
304. 305. 307. 321. 323. 340. 349.
352.
Collins, William : 1720-1756, 61,
114, 205, 314.
CoLMAN, G. : 1733-1794, 4, 19, 279.
Colman, G., jun. : 1762-1836, 12, 34,
108, 119, 278.
CoLTON, C. C. : 1790-1832, 27, 39, 70,
123, 125, 132, 181, 248, 319.
CoNGREVE, William : 1670-1729, 39,
41, 42, 59, 92, 99, 106, no, 146,
164, 172, 173, 197, 214, 225, 254,
297, 300.
Cook, Eliza : 1812-1889, 5, 37, 77,
105, 115, 193, 234, 243, 257, 286,
294.
Cook, John : early 17th century, 8,
287.
Cooke, Joshua : early 17th century,
115, 152, 178, 338.
Cotton, Nathaniel: 1707-1788, 20,
104, 112, 122, 167, 212, 250, 327,
342.
Co'aley, Abraham : 1618-1667, 24,
55, 87, no, 142, 150, 191, 194,
205, 206, 208, 2i8, 224, 233, 278,
292, 338, 342, 344.
CovvLEV, Mrs. : 1743-1809, 328,
CowPER, William : 1731-1800, 6, 13,
14, 16, 23, 25, 30. 32, 51, 54, 73,
77, 87, 88, 116, 124, 138, 168, 171,
175, 181, 183, 215, 219, 226, 254,
266, 286, 294, 299, 3061 317, 320,
328. 335. 336, 347.
Crabbe, Rev. George : 1754-1832,
II, 14, 33, 38, 41, 45, 55, 65, 70,
135. 143. 150. 161, 240, 241, 247,
298, 310, 337, 343.
Cranch, Christopher P. : 1813, liv-
ing, 295.
Crashaw, Richard : 1613-1650, 95,
107, 155, 184, 248, 324.
Croly, George : 1780-1860, 175.
Crown, John : -1703, 85, 283.
Cunningham, John : 1729-1773, 230
246, 350'
Daniel, Samuel: 1562-1619, 17, 22,
34. 36. 37. 38. 46, 55. 60, 71, 77,
90, 91, 96, TOO, 136, 139, 159, 168,
175, 200, 206, 208, 213, 223, 225,
226, 244, 246, 271, 308, 310, 315,
332,
Darwin, Erasmus: 1731-1802, 104,
244.
D'Avenant, Charles : 1656-1714,
55-
Davies, Sir John : 1569-1626, 180.
Davison, Francis: i575-*i6i9, 231.
Davison. Walter : i58o-*i6o8, 153.
Defoe, Daniel : 1661-1731, 63, 77,
323, 333, 337.
Dekker, Thomas: 1580-1639, 10,
45. S3. i°9. "89, 324, 331.
Denham, Sir J. : 1615-1668, 79, 93,
151, 162, 178, 273, 357.
De Quincey, Thomas: 1785-1859,
81, 266,
DiBDiN, Charles : 1745-1814, 67.
Dibdin, Thomas: 1771-1841, 286.
Dickens, Charles: 1S12-1870, 16,
31, 48, 49, 88, 90, 112, 129, 135,
162, 164, 177, 183, 187, 198, 247,
253, 310, 333.
Dickinson, J. : 1688-1747, 43-
386
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
DiGBY, Kenelm H. : 1800-1888, 122,
154, 165, 167, 2og.
D'ISRAELi, Isaac : 1767-1848, 105,
240.
DoBELL, Sydney : 1824-1874, 28, 121,
242.
DODDERIDGE, P. : 1702-1751, 148.
DoDSLEY, Robert : 1703-1764, 74,
197, 220.
Donne, Dr. J. : 1573-1631, 50, 105.
Dorset, Earl of : 1638-1706.
Drayton, Michael: 1563-1631, 38,
45- 59. 79. 80, 124, 141, 143, 170,
181, 196, 204, 208, 214, 226, 271,
272, 294, 313, 343, 351.
Drummond, of Hawthornden : 1585-
1649, 113, 166, 228, 241, 312.
Dryden, John: 1631-1700, 11, 16, 19,
22, 23, 27, 28, 30, 31, 37, 39, 40,
44, 52, 59, 66, 71, 80, 82, 83, 86,
87, 88, go, 91, 94, 98, 103, 106,
108, 112, 137, 138, 140, 146, 159,
165, 170, 171, 176, 181, 188, 196,
204, 207, 208, 211, 212, 213, 214,
215, 219, 221, 223, 227, 230, 236,
238, 252, 264, 265, 267, 278, 286,
288, 290, 293, 296, 300, 302, 303,
318, 320, 321, 333, 336, 345, 348,
355, 356.
Dufferin, Lady: 1807-1867, 265.
Duke, Richard: 1668-1711, 71, 76.
D'Urfey, Thomas : 1628-1723.
Dyer, John : 1700-1758, 7, 64, 134, 281.
Edwards, Richard: 1523-1566, 4,
75, 81, 142, 292, 313.
" Eliot, George" (Mrs. Cross) : 1820-
1880, 14, 15, 24, 25, 26, 29, 40, 41,
46, 58, 60, 69, 93, 95, 108, 115,
122, 126, 129, 133, 134, 135, 136,
137, 147, 163. 168, 175, 178, 179,
184, 197, 198, 200, 201, 203, 204,
215, 2i8, 243, 244, 245, 252, 259,
275. 279, 281, 287, 307, 321, 322,
327, 328, 334, 347.
Elizabeth, Queen : 1533-1603, 230.
Elliott, Ebenezer : 1781-1849, 182.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: 1803-1882,
8, 25, 34, 43, 47, 53, 60, 66, 67, 68,
86, 98, 103, 105, III, 139, 140,
141, 142, 144, 145, 155, 174, 178,
183, 201, 205, 213, 219, 221, 222,
230. 246, 248, 255, 274, 275, 277,
281, 282, 284, 296, 303, 304, 312,
316, 321, 323, 349.
Falconer, William : *i73o-i769, 2.
Fanshawe, Catherine : 1764-1834,
314-
Farquhar, George: 1678-1707, 77,
139, 203, 254, 286, 349.
FiF,LD, Nathaniel : 1587-1633, 97.
Fielding, Henry : 1707-1754, 54,
149.
Fletcher, John : 1576-1625, lo, 65
66, 103, 107, 149, 150, 159, 162
184, 227, 254, 255, 263, 286, 291
300, 309, 319, 324, 331.
Fletcher, Phineas: 1584-1650, 18,
35. 71. 95. 96. 125. 152, 153, 156,
177, 199, 200, 225, 228, 235, 248,
276, 295, 298, 340.
Foote, Samuel: 1722-1777, 54, 56,
205, 349, 354.
Ford, John: i586-*i64o, 45, 60, 77,
143, 150, 200, 216.
Franklin, Benjamin: 1705-1790, 8,
16, 23, 24, 62, 70, 86, 99, 109, 159,
169, 176, 198, 204, 212, 266, 285,
298.
Fuller, Thomas: 1608-1661, 97, 99,
102, 141, 163, 166, 169, 192, 194,
237. 318, 352.
Garrick, David: 1716-1779, 3, 70,
136, 207, 249.
Garth, Samuel: 1670-1719, 21, 50,
61, 94, 277, 292, 300, 333,
Gascoigne, George : *i537-i577, 18,
19, 46, 65, 67, 94, 218.
Gay, John: 1688-1732, 6, 9, 17, 25,
43, 51, 66, 77, 97, 112, 125, 141,
145, 150, 162, 180, 210, 223, 264,
290, 308, 314, 318, 323, 330. 331,
339. 342.
Gibbon, Edward : 1737-1794, 6, 109.
" Glasse, Mrs." (Dr. John Hill) : 1716-
1755. 77-
Goldsmith, Oliver: 1729-1744, 13,
23, 29, 30, 39, 41, 51, 53, 62, 69,
78, 81, 93, 95, 1x8, 124, 125, 13s,
137, 140, 141, 143, 145, 161, 164,
170, 183, 195, 204, 206, 225, 23s,
257, 259, 260, 263, 271, 274, 275,
280, 287, 293, 334, 338, 339, 340,
351.
GossoN, Stephen : *i555-i623, 1, 99,
220, 268.
GovvER, John : 1327-1402, 38, 155,
254, 263.
Grahame, James: 1765-1811, 92,
329-
Granville, George, Lord Lans-
downe: 1667-1735, 35, 43, 151,
188, 191, 205, 211, 328, 339, 344,
356,
Gray, Thomas: 1716-1773, 3, 18, 44,
73, 82, 89, 93, us, 123, 214, 216,
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
387
220, 228, 232, 237, 238, 245, 246,
306, 320, 326, 327, 337, 339, 354,
357.
GREiiN, Matthew: 1697-1737, 43,
177, 2og, 211, 213.
Habington, W. : 1605-1645, 245.
Hale, Sir Matthew: 1609 -1676,
336.
Halifax, Marquis of: 1630-1695, 81,
no, 137, 288.
Hall, Bishop : 1574-1656, 169.
Halleck, Fnzc;uEEN : 1790-1867,
236.
Hammond, James : 1710-1742, 76,
174.
Hare, J. C. : 1795-1835, 2, 86, 92,
104, 108, 162, 181, 214, 311.
Harrington, Sir J. : 1561-1612, 310.
Harvie, Christopher : 1597-1663,
99. 307-
Haughton, William : early 17th
century, 232.
Havard, William: 1710-1778, 200.
Haweis, Rev. H. R. : living, 283, 295.
Hazlitt, William : 1778-1830, 10,
37i 78. 159' 210, 260, 293, 311,
321.
Heber, Bishop : 1783-1826, 57.
Hemans, Felicia : 1793-1835, 58,
114, 145, 182, 194, 236, 271, 285,
354-
IIendyng, 75, 233.
I lERBERT, George : 1593-1632, 14,
17, 36, 50, 56, 61, 87, 107, 124,
160, 164, 177, 210, 220, 264, 283,
319. 323. 337. 340, 342, 343. 352.
353.
Herbert of Cherbury, Lord : 1581-
1648, 98, 202, 227.
Hekrick, Robert: 1591-1674, 27,
39, 67, 70, 78, 83, 90, 97, 98, 106,
107, 115, 121, 123, 147, 150, 151,
178, 199, 221, 229, 240, 279, 314,
318, 338, 344.
Herring, Archbishop: 1693-1757, 70.
Heyvvood, John: *i5oo-i565, 2, 5, 7,
8, 10, 12, 21, 27, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37,
42, 43, 48, 51, 55, 65, 74, 75, 77,
82, 87, 94, 97, 100, 103, 109, III,
118, 125, 126, 133, 136, 147, 148,
157, 168, 171, 176, 178, 179, 182,
183, 191, 198, 203, 212, 215. 217,
218, 223, 229, 230, 233, 249, 251,
256, 257, 263, 271, 279, 288, 295,
309, 314, 322. 324, 336, 342, 344,
353-
Heywood, Thomas: *i57o-i65o, 222.
Higgons, Bevil: 1670-1735, 237, 333.
Hobbes, Thomas: 1588- 1679, 352.
Hogg, Jamfs : 1772-1835, 92, 224.
Holcroft, T. : 1774-1809, 15, 63, 81,
149, 215, 331.
Holman, J. G, : 1764-1817, 21, 67,
260.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell: 1809-
1894. 7. 9. 15. 42, 57. 68, 71, 106,
108, 109, 134, 13s, 142. 144, 158,
178, 219, 274, 280, 315, 339, 356.
Home, John : 1722-1808, 99, 120, 173,
290, 318.
Hood, Thomas : 1798-1845, 8, 10, 11,
18, 26, 67, 119, 154, 192, 193, 197,
203, 235, 239, 244, 275, 2S5, 287.
Hook, Theodore : 1788-1841,65.
Houghton, Lord: 1809-1885, 9, 90.
Houghton, W. : , 336.
Howard, Sir R. : 1626-1698, 62.
Howell, James: 1595-1666, 24, 58,
61, 82, 89, 143, 149, 153, 169, 174,
197, 265, 320, 333, 351.
Hughes, John : 1677-1720, 75, 307.
Hume, David: 1711-1776, 27, 31, 55,
274. 325
Hunt, Leigh: 1784-1859, 182, 235,
313-
Huxley, Professor: 1825-1895, lao,
130, 134, 148, 255, 317.
Ingelow, Jean: 1830, living, 55,
158, 280.
Inglelend, Thomas: end of i6th
century, 9.
"Ingoldsby, Thomas" (Rev. R. H.
Barham): 1789-1845, 62, no, 176,
301, 350, 355.
Irving, Washington : 1783-1859, 14,
105, 147, 162, 179, 244, 261.
Jenyns, Soame: 1705-1787, 56, 69,
70, 311, 347.
Johnson, Dr. Samuel : 1709-1784, 9,
II, 24, 46, 57, 74, 97, 102, 105,
140, 142, 144, 148, 204, 205, 228,
233, 246, 247, 284, 293, 326, 327,
339. 349. 352-
Jones, Sir \V. : 1746-1794, 93, iii,
150, 207, 222, 310, 316.
Jonson, Ben : 1574-1637, 2, 5, 6, 15,
19, 21, 23, 26, 31, 36, 40, 42, 45,
51, 54, 63, 64, 84, 89, 100, loi,
103, 104, no, 117, 123, 136, 140,
142, 151, 153, 176, 206, 207, 210,
225, 229, 234, 239, 254, 279, 302,
311, 313, 319, 341, 342, 345.
Keats, John: 1796-1821, 14, 26, 34,
35, 61, 72, 92, 97, 112, 132, 150,
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
172, 206, 208, 221, 233, 260, 280,
281. 285, 287, 303, 305, 324. 330.
Keble, John : 1789-1866, 256.
Kenrick, William : ob. 1779, 126.
King, William : 1663-1712, 11, 14,
19, 34, 71, 120, 195, 302, 316.
KiNGSLEY, Charles: 1819-1875, 8,
32, 61, 68, 78, 145, 204, 263, 303,
347-
Kipling, Rudyard: living, 177, 193,
297, 329.
Knowles, J. Sheridan: 1784-1862,
2. 37. 131. 328, 330, 333.
Kyd, Thomas: late i6th century, 124,
289.
*' L. E. L." {Letitia Elizabeth Landon) :
1802-1838, 18, 48, 63, 78, 83, 91,
113, 133, 159, 225, 228, 240, 246,
279, 280, 327.
Lamb, Charles : 1775-1834, 15, 104,
147, 166, 301, 307.
Landor, Walter Savage: 1775-
1864, 9, 23, 59, 130, 132, 177, 215,
236, 245, 257, 283, 293, 337.
Langhorne, John: 1735-1779, 181,
233.
Langland, William: *i332-i4oo, 58,
141, 168, 176, 244.
Latimer, Bishop Hugh : *i49o-iss5,
36, 49, 167, 218, 249.
Lee, Nathaniel: *i656-i69i, 87,
104, 106, 155, 208, 299, 305, 333.
Lloyd, D. : 1625-1691, 199, 228.
Locke, John : 1632-1704, 19, 46, 88,
100, 122, 134, 174, 177, 179, 282,
301, 348, 353.
Lodge, Thomas : •1556-1625, 290, 310.
Logan, John : 1747-1788, 31, 119,
172, 213.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth :
1807-1882, 17, 18, 25, 27, 29, 39,
41, 58, 69, 72, 76, 79, 87, 93, 119,
129, 134, 135, 145, 146, 147, 154,
^77> I79> 189, 197, 201, 203, 212,
224, 225, 231. 232, 234, 250, 255,
258, 260, 264, 271, 272, 282, 283,
299. 310, 329, 331, 354. 356, 357.
Lovelace, Sir Richard : 1618-1658,
31, 116, 235.
Lowell, J. Russell: 1819-1891, 35,
59, 62, 64, 65, 95, 105, 183, 188,
249, 262, 301, 345.
Lupton, W. : ob. 1726, 249.
Lydgate, John : *i375-*i46r, 21 ,31,
152, 235, 346.
Lyly, John : 1553-1606, 4, 10, 22, 24,
42, 48, 55, 74, 99, loi, 135, 147,
148, 155. 307. 308, 324, 328, 356.
Lyttelton, Lord: 1709-1773, 181,
257, 290, 300, 338, 351.
Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Earl :
1805-1872, 5, 14, 19, 22, 25, 36, 46,
48, 55, 66, 74, 93, 98, 122, 137,
144, 150, 154. 158, 165, 167, 179,
181, 194, 197, 204, 207, 208, 210,
211, 214, 217, 222, 225, 232, 239,
248, 249, 250, 255, 256, 261, 266,
268, 275, 280, 281, 282, 285, 331,
336, 339-
Macaulay, Lord : 1800-1859, 12, 24,
26, 103, 126, 210, 262, 279, 283,
322, 335.
Machin, Lewis: early 17th century,
54, 103.
Mackay, Charles : 1814- , 269.
Mackenzie, Sir George : 1626-1714,
71-
Mackintosh, Sir James: 1765-1832,
165.
Macklin, Charles : 1690- 1797, 29.
Mallett, David : 1700-1765, 104,
142, 155, 231, 241, 243, 298, 322.
Malone, , 132.
Manners, Lord John : 1721-1770,
143-
Mansfield, Lord : 1709-1793, 255.
Marlowe, Christopher : 1564-1593,
II, 16, 22, 40, 49, 52, loi, 13s,
149, 153, 170, 215, 291, 298, 319,
341-
Marmion, Shakerley : 1601-1639,
29, 72, 90, 129, 170, 202, 351,
352.
Marston, John: *i575-*i63S, 52, 82.
Marvell, Andrew: 1620-1678, 27,
96, 172, 199, 350.
Mason, Rev. William: 1725-1797,
20, 72, 74, 75, 320.
Massinger, Philip: 1584-1640, 15,
19, 22. 25, 30, 38, 54, 57, 87, 94,
96, 130, 179, 188, 191, 239, 242,
254, 263, 292, 318, 355.
May, Thomas : 1595-1650, 259.
Mennis, Sir John : 1598-1671, 243.
Meredith, George: 1828, living, 55,
87.
"Meredith, Owen" (second Earl
Lytton) : 1831-1891, 340.
Mickle, William Julius : 1734-
1788, 63, 334.
Middleton, Thomas: 1570-1627, 6,
8, 24, 29, 38, S3, 62, 77, 79, 82, 90,
91, 100, 103, III, 115, 117, 121,
123, 128, 137, 139, 153, 189, 201, j
213, 217, 222, 249, 251, 276, 287,
293. 303. 313. 324. 331. 332. 34S-
INDEX OF A UTHORS.
389
Mii.TON, John : 1608-1674, 5, 17, 27,
28, 32, 37. 38. 43. 47. 50. 56. 58,
59, 60, 71, 72, 77, 78, 86, 80, 89,
92, 105, 107, 116, 124, 129, 136,
139, 146, 147, 148, 154, 159, 168,
169, 171, 182, 183, 184, 185, 199,
205, 211, 216, 221, 229, 231, 234,
240, 247, 263, 305, 309, 312, 315,
327, 328, 337, 338, 340. 343. 347,
353.
MiNCHiN, J. G. Cotton: 1851, living,
127.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley :
1690-1762, 10, 51, 83, 127, 145,
162, 174, 180, 205, 209.
Montgomery, James : 1771 r854, 3,
51, 85, 139, 15s, 196, 211,^ 253,
262, 284, 298, 302, 310, 338, 341.
Montgomery, Robert : 1807-1855,
64.
Montrose, Marquis of: 1614-1650,
95, 118.
Moore, Edward : 1720-1757, 34, 88,
146, 210, 273.
Moore, Thomas: 1779-1852, 10, 16,
18, 20, 22, 30, 40, 42, 56, 61, 71,
73, 86, III, 113, 114, 115, 131,
134, 137, 144, 146, 147, 153, 158,
173. ^77. 180, 183, 192, 193, 195,
215, 221, 233, 234, 241, 243, 260,
265, 274, 277, 287, 308, 314, 325,
329. 336. 339. 345-
More, Hannah: 1745-1794, 22, 122,
126, 141, 185, 192, 278, 286.
MORLEY, Rt. Hon. John : living, 255.
Morris, George P. : 1S02-1864, 352.
Morris, Lewis: 1833, living, 44, 114,
139, 144, 152, 168, 216, 300, 321,
327-
Morris, William: 1834. 1896, 41,
75. 258.
Morton, Thomas : 1764-1820, 27, 120.
Moss, Thomas: *i740-i8o8, 207.
MULGRAVE, Earl of: 1649-1721, 219.
MuNDAY, Anthony : 1553-1633, 277.
Murphy, Arthur : 1727-1805, 47,
265.
Nash, Thomas: i567-*i6oi, 34, 71,
297.
Nelson, Earl : 1758-1805, 3.
Newman, Cardinal John Henry:
1801-1890, 140, 186, 297.
Normanby, Marquis of: 1797-1863,
213.
Norris, Rev. John, of Bemerton,
1657-1711, 146, 200, 201, 214.
Northhrooke, ob. 1575, 198.
Nugent, Ean : ob. 1788, 219, 344.
OccLEVE, Thomas (or Hoccleve):
*r370-*i454, 241.
O'Haka, is.ANE: 1722-1782, 335.
O'Keefe, J. : 1747-1833, 217.
Old Proveriial /expressions, 9, 10, 12,
29. 39. 70. 85, 86, 87, 94, 109, 137,
141, 143, 146, 147, 153, 164, 176,
212, 220, 222, 298, 301, 325, 335,
354. 355-
Otway, Thomas : 1651-1685, i, 4, 39,
76, 109, 137, 190, 238, 265, 267,
341, 353.
OvERBURY, Sir Thomas: 1581-1613,
24, 34, 64, 127, 129, 142, 174, 24s,
262.
Owen, Robert: 1771-1858, 162.
Paine, Thomas : 1737-1809, 198.
Paley, William : 1743-1805, 341.
Parnell, Dr. Thomas: 1679-1718,
19, 211, 325, 346, 348.
Payne, J. H. : 1792-1852, 109.
Peacock, Thomas Love : 1785-1866,
55, 68, 84, 163, 230, 266, 276.
Phillips, Ambrose: 1675-1749, 12,
34. 33°-
Phillips, John: 1676-1708, 258, 277.
" Pindar, Peter " (Dr. John Wolcot)
1738-1819, 45, 74, 196, 256.
Pitt, Christopher: 1699-1748, 55,
305, 320.
Foe, Edgar Allan: 1809-1849, 21,
31, 128, 172, 186, 214.
Pomfret, John : 1667-1703, 51, 102,
178, 179, 215, 245, 287, 322, 325,
331, 344, 346.
Pope, Alexander : 1688-1744, 4, 5,
7, 16, 18, 19, 20, 30, 31, 32, 34, 40,
41, 44, 47, 52, 53, 55, 56, 59, 61,
70, 71, 78, 79, 84, 90, 93, 95, 110,
111, 112, 113, 118, 123, 126, 127,
130, 131, 133, 138, 139, 140, 141,
144, 150, 158, 160, 163, 167, 169,
171, 172, 174, 176, 182, 191, 193,
197, 198, 200, 204, 210, 212, 215,
219, 220, 223, 226, 227, 231, 234,
236, 240, 247, 248, 250, 251, 252,
254, 259, 268, 274, 279, 285, 291,
292, 293, 294, 297, 300, 301, 303,
306, 308, 315, 316, 319, 323, 324,
325, 326, 329, 330, 338, 340, 343,
344. 347. 348, 350, 352. 357-
PORSON, R. : 1759-1808, 120, 333.
PoRTEOus, Beilby: 1731-1808, 198,
240, 320.
Porter, Henry: 15 — 16—, 1, 58,
207.
Praed, W. Mackworth : 1802-1839,
339-
39°
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
Priestley, Dr. Joseph: 1733-1804,
29, 200, 256.
Prior, Matthew: 1664-1721, 7, 16,
ig, 20, 21, 24, 33, 37, 66, 69, 76,
98, 105, III, 113, 115, 119, 123,
125, 136, 138, 158, 160, 172, 190,
191, 201, 202, 204, 219; 223, 225,
229, 243, 250, 256, 261, 262, 289,
304, 306, 317, 318, 322, 326, 329,
347. 349-
Procter, Adelaide: 1825-1864, 63,
144, 152, 233, 260.
QuARLES, Francis: 1592-1644, 33,
67, 82, 94, 96, 97, 99, 124, 160,
162, 176, 179, 186, 201, 202, 238,
250, 252, 264, 268, 273, 276, 292,
341-
Raleigh, Sir Walter: 1552-1618,
70, 72, 225, 337, 345.
Randolph, Thomas: 1605-1634, 25,
39, 67, 87, 99, loi, no, 140, 159,
164, 165, 188, 265, 269, 283, 306,
317-
Reynolds, F. : 1765-1841, 18, 28, 57,
112.
Rochester, Earl of: 1647-1680, 108,
132, 184, 250, 350, 351.
Rogers, Samuel: 1762-1855, 5, 98,
149, 161, 176, 182, 208, 242, 270,
308, 330, 353.
Roscommon, Earl of: *i634-i684, 33,
48, 125, 312.
RossETTi, Christina: 1830-1894, 225,
283, 285.
RowE, Nicholas: 1673-1718, 16, 28,
60, 140, 276, 296, 304, 309, 318,
320, 333.
Rowley, William: early 17th cen-
tury, 66, 121, 123, 201, 260, 287.
RusKiN, John: 1819, living, 7,
67, 90, 104, III, 205, 233, 240, 24s,
251, 256, 266, 270, 283, 319, 337.
Savage, Richard: 1698-1743, 108,
138, 195, 213, 237, 352.
Scott, Sir Walter : 1771-1832, 4, 10,
14, 15, 23, 37, 41, 47, 49, 53, 56,
64, 72, 123, 124, 126, 127, 135, 146,
147, 152, 163, 164, 176, 185, 190,
196, 229, 231, 268, 286, 303, 311,
315, 320, 321, 334, 335, 342, 349,
350-
Sedley, Sir Charles: 1639-1701, 151,
347.
Seldicn, John: 1584-1654, 195, 239.
Sewell, Dr. George: ob. 1726,
332-
Shadwell, Thomas: 1640-1726, 50,
156, 352.
Shakespeare, William: 1:^54-1616.
A/l's Well That Ends Weil, 16, 32,
82, 83, 93, 96, 97, loi, no, 149,
169, 192, 202, 258, 276, 287, 294.
Antony and Cleopatra, 11, 17, 23, 35,
38, 43, 46, 62, 66, 69, 80, 85, 103,
108, 121, 129, 141, 156, 172, 173,
176, 205, 214, 233, 244, 255, 263,
271, 272, 273, 286, 291, 300, 305,
309, 312, 321, 322, 329, 333, 347,
348, 353-
As You Like It, 13, 25, 31, 34, 40, 44,
47« 76- 78, 80, 83, 89, 102, III,
112, 121, 138, 157, 165, j66, 171,
221, 238, 250, 252, 258, 259, 260,
269, 276, 277, 292, 293, 341, 355,
356.
CoTTtedy of Errors, 14, 69, 112, 124, 221,
226, 275, 288, 298, 316, 322.
Ccriolanus, 22, 47, 174, 245, 292.
Cymbeline, 39, 42, 43, 48, 52, 59, 62,
67, 71, 79, 94, loi, 102, 107, 120,
I37i 163, 168, 178, 186, 192, 200,
208, 210, 226, 230, 231, 236, 253,
257, 272, 280, 295, 311, 323, 355.
Hamlet, 2, 3, 6, 7, 18, 28, 30, 33, 38,
41, 46, 50, 51, 55, 60, 80, 84, 85,
94, loi, 103, 113, 116, 118, 125,
128, 132, 140, 142, 143, 147, 157,
158, 164, 170, 174, 176, 187, 188,
189, 197, 199, 203, 216, 217, 221,
237. 239. 247. 248, 249, 253, 254,
257, 265, 267, 273, 279. 285, 288,
291, 295, 302, 303, 304, 305, 309,
315, 316, 317, 319, 322, 324, 325,
326, 330, 335, 338, 352, 356.
Henry IV., Part I., 27, 29, 44, 77, 85,
87, 98, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, 125,
129, 130, 140, 149, 183, 196, 204,
222, 240, 244, 245, 259, 273, 274,
295. 301, 3". 314. 327-
Henry IV., Part II., 5, 8, 12, 17, 24,
29. 57. 58. 65, 99, 112, 113, 127,
132, 136, 171, 199, 218, 221, 228,
239, 252, 270, 281, 296, 297, 315,
319, 321, 345, 346, 347.
Henry V., 17, 32, 51, 52, 68, 84, 85,
126, 127, 177, 185, 221, 233, 250,
269, 271, 284, 294, 296, 312, 335.
Henty VI., Part I., 48, 81, 85, 124,
163, 224, 315, 328.
Henry VI., Part II., 6, 14, 51, 58, 63,
143. ^73> 223, 228, 229, 253, 286,
312, 329.
Henry VI., Part III., 2, 7, 35, 36, 51,
75- 79. 85, 94. 132. 257, 269. 290,
299, 312.
INDEX OF A UTHORS.
391
Henry VIII., r, 19, 26, 28, 53, 56, 73,
106, 167, 200, 204, 212, 257, 293,
300, 313, 315.
Julius CcBsar, 4, 23, 38, 42, 52, 54, 81,
89, 95, 112, 115, 117, 119, 123, 130,
134, 156, 165, 166, 182, 186, 188,
251, 280, 282, 292, 293, 294, 332,
334. 335-
King John, 12, 35, 50, 52, 91, io6, 113,
134, 144. 175. 177. 19s. 307. 334.
339-
King Lear, 5, 20, 43, 68, 76, 95, 108,
114, 136, 142, 152, 165, 166, 170,
186, 187, 201, 203, 207, 223, 243,
254, 285, 294, 296, 298, 309, 324,
337. 340, 347. 352. 357-
Locrine, 38, 96, 328.
Love's Labour Lost, 6, 8, 19, 95, 176,
233, 236, 257, 334, 338.
Lucrece, 15, 34. 59, 68, 91, 138, 166,
167, 187, 210, 218, 219, 229, 230,
248, 251, 262, 265, 274, 294, 295,
299, 3CX), 316, 330, 338.
Macbeth, 3, 26, 27, 36, 40, 41, 45, 49,
62, 71, 84, 88, 92, 93, 117, 118,
121, 130, 131, 136, 139, 140, 143,
146, 165, 172, 177, 183, 184, 192,
220, 226, 227, 234, 252, 262, 264,
286, 29s, 296, 303, 304, 308, 317,
322, 331, 335, 346, 353.
Measure for Measure, 3, 63, 69, 88, 94,
106, 160, 168, 189, 200, 201, 231,
234, 238, 242, 243, 258, 263, 267,
269, 272, 276, 290, 302, 313, 322,
334-
Merchant of Venice, 3, 6, 7, 21, 22, 61,
68, 74, 93, 96, 113, 114, 116, 119,
128, 132, 14a, 149, 156, 169, 184,
185, 189, 224, 229, 246, 249, 250,
252, 254, 261, 264, 267, 276, 284,
288, 308, 332, 353, 355.
Merry Wives of Windsor, 9, 28, 29,
36, 122, 127, 137, 144, 179, 187,
190, 289, 294, 325,
Midsummer Night's Dream, 41, 47,
118, 127, 128, 153, 176, 226, 248,
260, 277. 344.
Much Ado about Nothing, 8, 14, 25,
29, 50, 68, 74, 81, 102, 125, 190,
224, 243, 297, 335, 353-
Othello, 4, 39, 46, 68, 74, 88, 92, 97,
100, 113, 120, 122, 138, 143, 156,
165, 166, 167, 168, 171, 186, i8q,
195, 208, 209, 216, 224, 241, 268,
279, 288, 302, 303, 307, 309, 311,
332. 343. 344-
Pericles, 75, 77, 121, 134, 190, 199, 289,
303-
Richard II., 17, 20, 30, 49, 52, 54, 58,
64, 65, 66, 67, 86, 91, 103, 114,
117, 120, 129, 141, 16S, 170, 182,
195, 212, 229, 238, 241, 243, 244,
266, 268, 272, 273, 290, 291, 306,
312, 316. 318, 330, 337, 341, 348,
349-
Richard III., 5, 6, 14, 26, 88, 92, 118
125, 136, 172, 177, 184, 206, 224
226, 232, 237, 239, 278, 296, 300,
306, 311, 327, 332.
Romeo and Juliet, 11, 17, 30, 40, 45,
5°. 54. 57. 62, 63, 70, 91, 96, 107,
114, 116, 131, 150, 151, 15s, 168,
173. 175. 177. 181, 187, 188, 189,
196, 227, 231, 235, 254, 256, 272,
275, 276, 288, 289, 291, 310, 317,
318, 319, 331, 337, 349, 356.
Sonnets, etc., 15, 34, 44, 45, 52, 68, 83,
95. 132. 142. 148, 152, 153. 186,
218, 239, 271, 297, 313, 325.
Taming of the Shrew, 29, 62, 100, 134,
164, 180, 183, 195, 206, 237, 265,
294.
Tempest, 14, 99, 143, 168, 202, 280,
310, 338-
Timon of Athens, 74, 98, loi, 167, 183,
188, 207, 209, 259, 287, 301, 333,
340. 355-
Titus Androntcus, 49, 97, 171, 224,
232, 238, 295.
Troilus and Cressida, 40, 61, 102, 128,
144, 167, 198, 199, 206, 233, 238,
250, 298. 301, 305, 323, 327, 351,
352.
Twelfth Night, 33, 36, 45, 127, 147,
154. 155. 205, 207, 223, 229, 231,
267, 276, 282, 296.
Two Gentlemen of Verona, 60, 63, 70,
76, 115, 117, 157, 193, 220, 242,
289, 298, 324, 346.
Venus and Adonis, 46, 56, 71, 80, 91,
150, 157, 216, 248, 324.
Winter's Tale, 9, 11, 13, 28, 31, 44,
197, 213, 302, 331, 355,
Shelley, Percy Bvsshe: 1792-1822,
6, 10, 12, 20, 36, 44, 51, 69, 72, 92,
105, 107, 114, 115, 116, 130, 145,
148, 156, 160, 161, 163, 166, 167,
171, 173, 17s, 176, 183, 188, 190,
194, 195, 212, 227, 232, 240, 242,
244, 249, 264, 268, 273, 279, 281,
284, 293, 309, 311, 314, 320, 322,
327, 329, 332, 336, 352.
Shenstone, William : 1714-1763, 51,
142, 151, 191, 192, 344.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley: 1751-
1780, I, 25, 28, 37, 47, 108, IIS,
iig, 120, 137, 157, 225, 261, 268,
289, 296, 309, 333.
392
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
Shirley, Jambs : 1594-1666 : 57, 199,
209.
Sidney, Sir Philip: 1554-1586, 7, 10,
37- 45. 49. 59. 128, 175, 178, 181,
183, 188, 197, 218, 242, 283, 288,
328, 343, 350.
Skelton, John : uncertain, 1529, 43,
157, 218.
Smith, Adam: 1723-1790, 169, 180,
219.
Smith, Edmund : 1668-1710, 79, 232.
Smith, Horace: 1780-1849, 47. :kio,
334.
Smith, Rev. Sydney: 1771-184.5, 63,
135, 178, 211, 220, 242, 280, 320.
Smollett, Tobias : *i72o-i77i, 93,
226, 246, 251, 306, 326, 339,
340.
Somerville, William : 1692-1743,
4, 10, 64, 80, 108, 169, 183, 245,
297. 346.
South, Dr. R. : 1633-1716, 143.
Southern, Thomas : 1660-1746, 53,
154, 157, 164, 207, 232, 282, 343.
Southey, Robert : 1774-1843, 19, 47,
55, 58, 72, 106, 152, 158, 170, 174,
196, 203, 217, 265, 275, 285, 304,
314, 315, 354.
Southwell, R. : 1560-1595, 88, 148,
172, 178, 192, 203, 206, 223, 226,
237, 240, 297, 299.
Spencer, Herbert: 1820, living,
34, 69, 168, 199, 202, 211, 214, 219,
270, 274.
Spenser, Edmund: 1553-15991 i, 4,
19, 20, 37, 42, ss> 56. 60, 64, 66,
70, 83, 84, 88, 91, 113, 120, 129,
134, 153, 178, 180, 195, 226, 249,
253. 264, 294, 296, 318, 344, 345,
346.
Spratt, Thomas : 1636-1713, 209.
Stanley, Lord (Earl of Derby) : 1799-
1869, 264.
Stanley, Thomas : 1664-1698, 181.
Starkey, Thomas : loi, 103,
141, 163, 164.
Steele, Sir R. : 1671-1729, 8, 32, 98,
109, 112, 214, 247, 262, 263, 304,
307-
Stepney, George: 1663-1707, 164,
198.
Sterling, John: 1806-1844, 215.
Sterne, Laurence: 1713-1768, 24,
61, 87, 231, 244, 246, 280, 302.
Strachey, W. : early 17th century,
122.
Suckling, Sir John : 1613-1644, 107.
Surrey, Earl of: *i5i6-i547, 42, 94,
235.
Swain, Charles: 1803-1874, 105,
285.
Swii'T, Dean Jonathan : 1667-1745,
4, 15, 41, 46, 75, 92, 103, 107, 140,
iS7> 167, 174, 206, 247, 284, 300,
320, 322, 344.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles :
1837, living, 39, 46, 159, 180,
207.
Sylvester, Joshua: 1563-1618,65.
Symcn, 2.
Tarlton, R. : ob. 1588, 259.
Tate, Naiium : 1652-1715, 82.
Taylor, Sir Henry: 1800-1886, 101,
237, 278, 287, 329.
Taylor, Jeremy: 1613-1667, 57, 68,
75, 281, 282.
Taylor, John (The Water Poet) :
1580-1654, 60, 258, 278, 281, 287,
299, 348.
Temple, Sir William: 1628-1700,
145-
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord: 1809-1892,
If 3i 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 25, 29, 31, 32,
33, 37, 42, 43, 44, 47, 48, 53, 54,
55, 56, 61, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69,
73. 7^< 79- 80, ^6, 87, 8g, 95, 96,
97, loi, 103, 107, 108, 109, 114,
116, 118, 122, 125, 126, 129, 131,
138, 139, 146, 147, 150, 154, 155,
158, 160, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169,
170, 174, 175, 178, 179, 180, 182,
184, 185. 186, 187, 188, 190, 191,
194, 198, 204, 208, 209, 210, 213,
218, 219, 222, 226, 227, 228, 231,
233, 234, 238, 241, 242, 246, 247,
248, 250, 252, 253, 255, 256, 258,
259, 260, 262, 264, 265, 269, 270,
272, 273, 277, 284, 285, 288, 289,
291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 300,
306, 307, 308, 312, 314, 316, 317,
318, 321, 323, 326, 332, 335, 336,
342, 343, 347, 349, 351, 354, 356.
Thackeray, W. M. : 1811-1863, 96,
133, 210, 253, 277, 280.
Thomson, James : 1700-1748, 32, 35,
47. 49. 53. 59. 66, 79, 83, 156, 2x8,
225, 24s, 273, 304, 308, 341, 342,
347-
Thomson, James : 1834-1882, 78, 143,
291.
Thrale, Mrs. : 1739-1821, 292.
Tickell, Thomas : 1686-1740, 39,
n8, 204, 239, 341.
TilXOTSON, Archbishop : 1630-1694,
128.
ToBiN, John : 1770-1804, 261
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
393
ToMKiNS, John: 1598-1615, 114.
ToUKNKUK, CvRii. : late i6th, early
i7tli century, 99, 171, 324.
Towndey Mysteries, 30.
TuKK, Sir Samuel : 1610-1673, 72, 96,
98, 260, 302, 315, 320.
TUPPEK, Martin: 1810, living, 5.
66, 75, 87, 282, 284, 308.
TURBERVILLE, Geokge : *i53o-*i6oo,
21, 66, 153, 212, 312.
TussER, Thomas: 1515-1580, 3, 12,
48, 124, 126, 132, 147, 148, 158,
178, 299, 343.
Udall, Nicholas : •1504-1556, 28.
Vanbrugh, Sir John : *i666-i726, 16,
50, 84, 88, 92, 106, 212, 215, 220,
270, 312, 318, 332.
Vaux, Lord: doubtful, 1522, 31.
Waller, Edmund: 1605-1687, 5a,
200, 209, 231, 241, 297.
Walpole, Horace: 1717-1797, 3,
144, 203.
Walsh, William : 1663-1708, 4, 151,
331-
Walton, Izaak: 1593-1683, 26, 88.
Warren Hastings: 1733-1818,192.
Warton, Joseph : 1722- 1800, 162,
190, 192.
Warton, Thomas: 1728-1790, 61, 90,
290.
Watson, Thomas: *i5S7-i592, 151.
Watts, Isaac : 1674-1748, 56, 145,
159, 198, 219, 263.
Webster, John : early 17th century,
57, 82, 130, 139, 204, 276, 336.
Wesley, John : 1703-1791, 48, 204.
West, Gilbert: 1706-1756, 69, 205,
217, 256, 259, 318.
Whately, Archbishop : 1787-1863,
109, 349.
White, Henry Kirke: 1785-1806,
39, SI, 85, 89, 211, 304, 340, 343.
Whitejiead, William: 1715-1785,
253.
Whittier, J. Greknleaf: 1808-1892,
37, 84, 86, 104, 154, 1S7, 195, 225,
229, 231, 310, 350.
Whyte-Melville, G. J. : 1821-1878,
38, 78, 199, 208, 230, 337.
Wilcox, C. : 1794-1827, 301.
WiLKiNS, George: early 17th cen-
tury, 63, 351.
Wilson, Robert: end of 16th cen-
tury, 39, 157.
Wilson, Bishop T. : 1663-1755, 131,
248.
Wither, George : 1588-1667, 24, 93,
141, 222.
Wordsworth, William : 1770-1850.
2, 9, 10, II, 13, 16, 21, 25, 30, 36,
47, 60, 63, 64, 70, 73, 74, 75, JT,
80, 82, 92, 98, 107, 109, 120, 130,
149, 154, 174, 181, 197, 200, 202,
211, 212, 216, 223, 229, 235, 236,
238, 241, 242, 247, 251, 252, 254,
258, 260, 262, 263, 269, 271, 274,
287, 296, 316, 317, 321, 322, 339,
349 > 354-
Wotton, Sir H. : 1568-1639, 93, 149,
155, 185, 319.
Wyatt, Sir Thomas: 1503-1544, 12,
13, 80, 123, 192, 251, 350.
Wycherley, William : 1640-1715,
I, 29, n6, 130, 175, 240, 320 348,
355-
y alden, Thomas : 1671-1736, 207.
VorNG, Edward: 1684-1765, 4, 5, 9,
12, 17, 25, 26, 28, 31, 33, 45, 56,
57, 63, 64, 65, 71, 76, 82, 97, 99,
tiS. 131. 133. 145. 146. 154. 160,
161, 162, 169, 173, 174, 175, 190,
195, 196, 198, 199, 203, 206, 210,
211, 213, 234, 236, 239, 261, 262,
263, 270, 271, 295. 299, 301, 304,
307, 309, 313, 319, 320, 323, 325.
337. 341. 342, 344. 345. 348, 351-
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
A. B.C., Man is man's — i6o.
Abettors, Men blame the — of their
weak resolves, i66.
Abodes, Truth delights in solitary —
312.
Abra, 16.
Abraham, O father — 185.
Abridgment, An — of all that is plea-
sant in man, 23.
Absence, 16.
,, is all love's crime, 24.
,, makes the heart grow fonder,
61.
,, of occupation is not rest, 16.
,, sweeteneth friendship, 61.
Absent, 294.
Absolution, Blackest sin, cured
with — 295.
Absolved, He's half — who has con-
fessed, 98.
Abstracts and brief chronicles of the
time, 288.
Abundance, The rich have — and en-
joy it not, 346.
Abundant, Good communicated
grows more — 88.
Abuse, Stumbling on — 187.
Academy, The sacred — of man's life,
268.
Accidents will occur, 16.
Accomplishment, And win all eyes,
with all — 253.
Account, Sent to my — 315.
Accusation, Innocence an armed
heel to trample — 130.
,, The breath of — kills an in-
nocent name, 241.
Aces, Gentlemen whose chariots roll
upon the four — 84.
Achieved, Nothing is — before it be
attempted, 183.
AcniNC,, An — void, 23.
Acorn, The creation of a thousand
forests lies in one — 248.
Acquaintance, A good friend, but
bad — 5.
,, Near — doth diminish fear, 175.
Acre, An — in Middlesex, 24.
An — of performance, 24.
Ere with spur we heat an —
197.
Act, Few love to hear the .-^ins they
love to — 75.
Give no unproportioued thought
his— 85.
Life is — 144.
Our outward-— is prompted
from within, 202.
The last — crowns the play,
250.
Thought is the soul of — 295.
Acting, The — of a dreadful thing, 38.
Action, A generous — is its own
reward, 4.
And lose the name of — 50, 305.
Dreams grow holy put in — 62.
Every — admits of being out-
done, 67.
Every human — gains in
honour, 67.
He that, to his prejudice, will
do a noble — 102.
I must mi.x myself with — 118.
is transitory, 16.
No — ever done but leaves a
record, 177.
Pleasure and — make the hours
seem short, 208.
Prudence the utmost — of the
inward life, 213.
Suit the — to the word, 237.
The end cro\\'ns every — 67.
The end of life, not knowledge
but— 255.
,, Time, place, and — may with
p:iin be wrought, 83.
Actions, All great — the wished course
run, 19.
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396
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Actions are our epochs, 17.
Be the fair level of thy — laid,
33-
Great — not always sons of
great resolutions, 89.
How many honest — are lost,
112.
mightier than boastings, 39.
Only the — of the just smell
sweet, 199.
„ Prodigious — as well done by
weaver as prince, 213.
Actor, The — may plead pardon when
goodwill is show'd, 333.
Acts, Great — thrive when reason
guides, 291.
,, Heaven has countless eyes to
view men's — 190.
„ Our — our angels are, 200.
„ Our resolves look down upon
our — 18.
„ Unremembered — of kindness
and of love, 241.
Adah, The gardener — and his wife,
253.
,, the goodliest man of men
since bom, 17.
,, When — delved and Eve span,
332.
,, Whipp'd the offending — 51.
Adder, The — hisses where the sweet
birds sing, 316.
,, The bright day brings forth
the — 134.
Address, A silent — the eloquence of
sincerity, 13.
Adepts in the speaking trade, 17.
Adieu, Drop a tear and bid — 197.
,, my native land, adieu, 119.
,, she cries, 17.
Adorn, Touched nothing he did not —
II.
Adorned like sweet May, 17.
,, Most — when unadorned, 35.
Advantage a better soldier than
rashness, 17.
,, Let not slip — 157.
Adventure, two points in the — of the
diver, 314.
Adversary, Oh that mine — had
, written a book, 194.
y Adversity breeds discontent, 152.
,, Can he that has a wife e'er
feel — 44.
,, doth best discover virtue, 319.
,, Fortune's sharp — 191.
,, Friendship made more sacred
by— 82.
,, grows a winning fight, 114.
Adversity, In the autumn of— 188.
,, Sweet are the uses of — 238.
Adversity's sweet milk, 17.
Advice, A woman seldom asks — 15.
,, Be niggards of— on no pre-
tence, 32.
,, is sporting while infection
breeds, 265.
,, Men love from — 351.
,, seldom welcome, 17.
,, The worst men give oft the
best — 278.
.^neas. When Dido found— would
not come, 333.
Aery, i.
Affection, Entire — hateth nicer
hands, 66.
,, The ire of a crushed — 58.
,, would be Hke an ill-set book,
121.
Affections, Better severity than im-
potent — 38.
,, drawn together by fine spur
threads, 302.
,, if they were taken away, 122.
,, The — are infinite, 258.
,, Woman's whole existence is a
history of the — 162.
Affirmative, Two negatives make
an — 117.
Affliction, Of all— taught a lover
yet, 191.
Affronts are innocent where men are
worthless, 17.
,, Young men soon give and soon
forget— 356.
After-love, Scorn at first makes —
the more, 220.
Age, 8.
A reforming — is fertile of im-
postors, 12.
A tart temper never mellows
with — 14.
ache, penury, and imprison-
ment, 276,
An — that melts in unper-
ceived decay, 24.
An old — of cards, 16.
cannot wither her, 17.
Crabbed — 52.
Fallen — for ever hopeless lies,
337-
for talking, 257.
Green old — 91.
He was not of an — but for all
time, 104.
He who would be great must
understand his omti— 105.
is frosty, 3^6.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
397
Age is full of care, 52,
,, is lonely, 356.
,, is opportunity, 17.
,, is virtue's season, 356.
„ Old— 195.
„ Old — is slow to give and forget
affronts, 356.
,, reckons the alloy in life, 356.
„ Settled — his sables and his
weeds, 356.
„ Slow consuming — 228.
„ Still grows worse by — 18.
„ still leaves us friends and wine,
329-
„ The— of chivalry has gone,
244.
„ The most blessed memory of
mine — 258.
„ With peace and gentle virtue —
would dwell, 205.
„ Youth can reach where — gropes
dimly, 356.
,, Youth shows what man's — is
like to be, 357.
Agent, Trust no— 81.
Ages, Heir of all the — 53.
,, How soon the tale of — may be
told, 114.
Wakens the slumbering — 237.
Agony, Some strong swimmer in his —
13-
Agree, Two of a trade can ne'er —
314-
Agreeable, It is in most men s power
to be — 75.
Aid, Apt alliteration's artful — 27.
,, He needs no — who doth his
lady's will, 97.
,, Heaven's best — wasted upon
men false to themselves, 107.
Aim, a noble — as a noble deed, 10.
, , Life too short for any distant —
I4S-
,, Mankind to teach, be this the
monarch's — 162.
,, The — makes great the life, 244.
„ The most skilful archer may
miss his — 33.
AiB, 18.
Castles in the — 46.
It is a nipping and an eager —
132.
Music, mosaic of the — 172.
Not a breath will mingle kindly
with the meadow — 2S7.
ocean, earth, beloved brother-
hood, 64.
Philosophy will empty the
haunted — 206.
Air, The — rests thick where murder
hath been done, 275.
,, Waste his sweetness on the
desert — 82.
Airs, Discord makes the sweetest — 60.
Aisle, Through the long drawn— 339.
Alchemy, Philosophy, roguery of —
206.
Alchymy, Gilding pale streams with
heavenly-^ 83.
Alderman, Dull as an — at church, 63.
,, You can't make an ape an — 4.
Ale, a quart of — a dish for a king, 11.
Alike, Praising all — is praising none,
210.
Aliment, Study the— of youth, 236.
All but parts of one stupendous whole,
19.
,, is fish that cometh to the net,
18.
,, The — of things, 244.
Allegiance tempted too far, 22.
Allegory, Headstrong as an — 28.
Alliteration, 27.
Alloy, Age reckons the — in life, 356.
Alms, the vehicles of prayer, 22.
Almsmen, Bees the — of spring bowers,
35-
Alone, A wise man is never — 15.
, , He only is — who lives not for
another, 98.
,, I did it, 22.
,, Man was not formed to live —
161.
,, Never less — than when alone,
176.
,, 'I'hey are never — that are
accompanied with noble
thoughts, 288.
,, 'Tis impossible for him to be —
293.
,, When is a man strong until he
feels— 333.
Alps on Alps in clusters swelling, 22.
Altars, Strike for your — 236.
Altar-stairs, The world's great —
255-
Alteration, Changes fill the cup
of — 122.
Ambition, All my — to please, 20.
, , Cassar's — 43.
,, can creep, 22.
,, dares not stoop, 23.
,, doth caress its own sure fate,
157-
,, cnforceth all laws, 23.
,, Far better never to have heard
the name of — 73.
„ Fling away— 53.
398
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Ambition has its disappointments, 23.
,, Ill-weaved — how much art thou
shrunk, 125.
,, is no cure for love, 23.
,, Let proud — pause, 142.
,, like a torrent ne'er looks back,
23-
„ Love is not much unlike — 152.
,, Love is wiser than— 153.
,, Love that fires — 155.
,, Love to woman is more than —
to man, 154.
,, loves to slide, not stand, 23.
,, makes more slaves than need,
23-
^ „ No true — but ambition to
save, 283. t-
„ offereth violence to nature's
self, 23.
„ Satire teaches — to be wise, 219.
,, should be made of sterner stuff,
23. 335-
,, the growth of every clime, 23.
,, the soldier's virtue, 23.
,, To reign is worth — 38.
,, Vaulting — which o'erleaps it-
self, 317.
,, vice in a private man, virtue in
a prince, 242.
,, Virtue was never built upon —
319-
Ambitious, All women are — 22.
Amiss, Nothing can be — when duty
tendereth, 176.
,, Nothing comes — so money
comes, 183.
Ammunition, the sinews of war, 318.
Ancestors, The fox will have a wild
trick of his — 311.
Ancestry, 262, 304.
Ancients, We are — of the earth, 321.
Angel, Consideration like an— 51.
,, Love like an^ 12.
,, Man, in action how like an —
325.
,, She drew an — down, 98.
,, The recording — dropped a
tear on the word, 244.
Angei.s, 26, 302.
,, are bright still, 26.
,, could no more, 341.
,, Fools rush in where — fear to
tread, 78.
,, from friendship gather half
their joys, 26.
,, If — fight, weak men must fall,
120.
,, Like — visits, few and far be-
tween, 146.
Angels painted fair to look like
women, 190.
, , Philosophy will clip an — wings,
206.
,, This world has — all too few,
292.
Though women are — 295.
,, Till we are built like — 297.
We should agree as — 52.
,, Women are — wooing, 351.
,, Women are — abroad, 351.
Anger, A grievous word stirreth up—
13-
,, is like a full hot horse, 26.
never made good guard for
,, itself, 176.
,, The elephant is never won
with — 250.
,. valour's whetstone, 317.
Angling Is like poetry, 26.
Anguish, Beauty and — 33.
,, Need there groan a world in —
176.
,, No — like an error of which we
feel ashamed, 282.
,, One pain is lessened by
another's — 91, 196.
Animal, Each — by natural instinct
taught, 64.
,, Man is a toad-eating — 159,
,, Man is a tool-making — 159.
,, Man is a tool-using — 159.
, , Man is naturally a proud — 160.
Animals are such agreeable friends, 26.
,, Man the paragon of — 325.
Answer, A soft — turneth away wrath,
13-
, , You should never take a woman
without her — 355.
Ant, Go to the — thou sluggard, 86.
Anthem, The pealing — swells the note
of praise, 339.
Antheming a lonely grief, 26.
Antick, There the— sits, 348.
Antidote, Some sweet oblivious — 45.
,, Science the — to enthusiasm,
219.
Anvil, A good sword on an — 22.
Anxieties, Life is too short for mean —
145-
,, Our comforts often produce
our — 135.
Anywhere out of the world, 26.
Apathy, Boast of — when out of pain,
301.
Ape, An — will never be a man, 24.
,, Man like an angry — 160.
, , You can't make an — an alder-
man, 4.
INDEX OF SUnyECTS.
399
Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet,
20, '40.
Apology, Never make an— before you
be accused, 176.
Apparel, Every true man's — fits your
thief, 6g.
,, Fashion wears out more — than
the man, 74.
,, Men's behaviour should be like
their — 167.
, , The — oft proclaims the man,
si-
Appeal, Posterity the high court of—
210.
,, unto Csesar, 26.
Appearance, Judge not according to
the — 137.
Appearances, There's no trusting
to — 137.
Appendage, That rare— to a king,
246.
Appetite, 285.
, , Cloy the hungry edge of — 340.
,, Good digestion wait on — 88.
,, The — of the labouring man,
244.
,, To breakfast with what — you
have, 26.
Applaud to the very echo, 27.
Applause, A forced love needs no
great— 97.
,, He only is a great man who
can neglect — 98.
,, In the vain laughter of folly,
wisdom loses half its — 129.
,, The sickly food of popular —
269,
,, the spur of noble minds, 27.
Apple, The— of the eye, 138.
Apples and crabs may grow on the
same tree, 27.
,, on the dead sea-shore, 56.
Appliances, Desperate diseases re-
lieved by desperate — 60.
Application, Justice the— of truth to
others, 302.
Apprehension, Man in — like a god,
^ 325-
„ The — of the good gives greater
feeling to the worse, 244,
341.
Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley,
27.
Approve all nature to my heart, 10.
April, Kisses balmier than the buds
of- 138.
,, Men are — when they woo,
165.
The lovely — of her prime, 44.
April, Well-apparel'd — on the heel
of winter treads, 337.
„ When — has crept itself to
May, 314.
Arabs, A wise proverb the — have, 55.
Ararat, Since the ark rested on
Mount — 53.
Arbiter, Sole— of fate, 231.
Arbitrator, That old common —
time, 250.
"Arcades Ambo," 27,
Architects, All are — of fate, 18.
Ardennes waves above them her green
leaves, 27.
Argument, Finer than the staple of
his — 95.
„ Necessity is the — of tyrants,
178.
,, The futile — of finite beings to
infinity, 340.
Ariosto, The — of the north, 244.
Arm, The weakest — strong enough
that strikes with the sword
of justice, 276.
Armour, Rich — worn in heat of day,
345-
,, The soul's — 270.
Arms are fair when borne with just
intent, 27, 244.
, , Honest hearts make iron — 109.
,, In — and science 'tis the same,
125-
,, My soul is up in — 174.
,, take your last embrace, 70.
,, The — ye forge another bears,
288.
, , The nurse of — 259.
Array, Battle's magnificently stem —
32-
Arrow, An — from the Almighty's
bow, 78.
Arrows, Taunts are not so sharp as —
39-
Art, 27.
All nattire is but — 20.
Can — or genius guide the
heart, 44.
Gentle, care-deluding — 308.
Hell gives us — to reach the
depths of sin, 107.
In profuse strains of unpre-
meditated — 92.
Infantine — divinely artless, 130.
is man's instrument, 174.
Men's faculties must express
themselves by — 337.
Nature, which is above all^
55-
Nature, the — of God, 21, 174.
400
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Art, One native charm, more dear
than all the gloss of — 170.
,, Poetry, source of human —
210.
,, quickens nature, 27.
,, The world without — would be
one great wilderness, 276.
,, Truth needs not the gloss of —
313-
Artificial, All thmgs are — 21.
Artillery, Love's great — 155.
Artistry's hunting curse, 27.
Artless, Infantine art divinely — 130.
Arts, Poetry, the queen of — 209.
,, The — of peace are great, 205.
,, The English— 288.
"As YOU like" is a bad finger post,
29.
Ashen, In our — cold, is fire yreken,
354-
Ashes, All — to the taste, 56.
, , In our — live their wonted fires,
354-
Turn to — on the lips, 56.
Ask what is human life, 30.
,, who is wise, 30.
Askalon, Publish it not in the streets
of — 240.
Asleep, Death rock me — 57.
,, Sucks the nurse — 62.
Aspect, Always changing in her —
mild, 56.
Aspersions, Who by— throw a stone,
340-
Aspires, He that to nought — 102.
Asps are hid beneath the flowers of
bliss, 317.
Ass, An — may bray a good while, 24.
,, An — ■should like an ass be
treated, 43.
,, Hood an — in reverend purple,
no.
,, Patience is the virtue of an —
205.
, , Write me down an — 353.
Assassination, If the — could tram-
mel up the consequence, 121.
Assent is power, 30.
Assurance, I'll make — doubly sure,
118.
Astronomer, An undevout — is mad,
25-
Atchiever, When the — brmgs home
full numbers, 14.
Atheist-laugh, An, 24.
Athens, Inspir'd like — and adorn'd
like Rome, 204.
At rEMPT, Honour is won with brisk—
no.
Attempt, Success remains, when the
motives of — are forgotten,
251-
,, the end, 31.
Attempted, Nothing is achieved be-
fore it be — 183.
,, Something — something done,
232.
Attend, At church on Sunday to— 30.
Attendance, To dance— 56.
Attention, People who have their —
fixed on one object, 205.
,, The tongues of dying men
enforce — 273.
Attiee, Great men are seldom scru-
pulous in their — 90.
,, My nurse though homely in —
173-
,, The mind's for ever bright —
134-
Attribute, The greatest — of heaven,
mercy, 255.
,, 'Tis a god-hke — to know, 304.
AL"THi>r, Choose an — as you would
choose a friend, 48.
, , No — ever spared a brother, 66.
,, None but an — knows an
author's cares, 181.
, , The great — embodies what is
possible, 255.
Authority, ' Drest in a little brief—
63, 160.
,, forgets a dying king, 31.
Authors, A people's glory arises from
its — 247.
, , grow dear as they grow old, 31.
Autumn, 281.
, , An — 'twas that grew the more
by reaping, 108.
, , the Sabbath of the year, 31.
,, Yellow — 19.
Avalanche, Passion the— of the
human heart, 204.
Avarice of everything is nothing's
father, 31.
,, on stilts, 23.
,, Rich, beyond the dreams of —
216.
,, the spur of industry, 31.
, , The worst — that of sense, 32.
Avenger, Soon or late, love is his
own — 232.
Away, He who fights and runs — 243.
Awe, He who holds no laws in — 104.
,, Law is the bad man's — 254.
,, Till superstition taught the
tyrant — 74.
Awry, Enterprises their currents turn-
So.
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
401
Awry, Perspectives eye'd — 64.
,, What need to strive with a
Hfe — 329.
Axe, An — to grind, 24.
Babble, They only — who practise not
reflection, 289.
Baby, Dost thou not see the — at my
breast, 62.
,, The public is a great — 266.
Bach, She bears a duke's revenues on
her — 223.
, , We' 11 d ie with harness on our —
40.
With his— to the field, 348.
Bad, From — to worse, 278.
, , He that's merciful to the — loi.
It's wiser being good than —
136.
,, The good from the — to dis-
cern, 292.
,, The world is grown so — that
wrens may prey, 278.
,, When no better choice is, we
must take best of — 332.
Bag and baggage, 31.
Bail, Whilst a good conscience is my —
235.
Bait for a knave, 3.
Love is a — for fools, 151.
Baiting-place of wit, 49.
Bald as a coote, 31.
Time is — 298.
Ball, Society is a masked — 230.
Ballad, Who makes a — to an ale-
house door, 340.
Ballad-mongers, 117.
Ballads, Ye are better than all the —
354-
Balm in Gilead, 31.
, , Life's best — forgetfulness, 145.
,, of woe, 49.
Bane, Study is the — of boyhood, 236.
Banishment, Eating the bitter bread
of- 65.
Bank, How sweet the moonlight sleeps
upon this — 114.
„ I know a — whereon the wild
thyme grows, 118.
,, Over — and bush, 296.
Bankrupt of life, 31.
Banners, Hang out our — on the out-
ward walls, 93.
Baud, The petty nature of the — 274.
Bake-gnawn l.y treason's tooth, 43.
Bargain, In the way of a— 129.
,, Necessity never made a good —
176.
Bark, The shatter'd— 57.
Bark, This frail — of ours, 291 .
,, Who trusts his peace of mind
to a woman, trusts a frail —
344-
Barkis is willin", 31.
Base in kind, 32.
, , is the slave who pays, 32.
Baseness, Detraction but varlet of--
40.
,, None but the base delight in —
181.
,, Some kinds of — are nobly
undergone, 280.
Basilisk, 1 had rather stand in the
shock of a — 117.
Basis, Duty's — is humanity, 63, 290.
Bath, Sore labour's — 227.
Battering the gates of heaven, 32.
Battle, The — is not to the strong,
267.
Battle-fire, Who would not brave
the — 223.
Bays, Teach me, Heav'n, to scorn the
guilty — 279.
Be easy, 32.
,, What never shall — 344.
Beach, You may as well go stand upon
the — 119.
Beacon-light, Conscience the great —
255-
Beadroll, Fame's eternal, 55.
Beans, Helpless as spilled — on a
dresser, 59.
Bear, A — robbed of her whelps, 141.
Easier to advise "bear up"
than — 300.
How easy is a bush supposed
a— 128.
She will sing the savageness
out of a — 224.
To — all naked truths, 305.
To — is to conquer our fate,
305-
To learn to — 292.
To revenge is not valour, but
'o — 355.
Beard the lion in his den, 56.
,, Tradition wears a snowy — 310.
Beards, 'Tis merry in hall, when —
wag all, 301.
Bearing, A wse— 347.
Beast, Man a — when shame stands
off from him, 159.
,, Music's force can tame the
furious — 172.
,, No — so fierce but knows pity,
177.
,, The — with many heads, 245.
, , The blind wild — of force, 246.
26
402
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Beasts, Nature teaches — to know
their friends, 174.
,, Of all — the man beast is the
worst, 191.
Beauties are tyrants, 33.
Beautifier, Rank is a great — 214.
Beautiful, For she was — 107.
It is only — to do the thing we
are meant for, 133.
She's — and therefore to be
woo'd, 224.
Too — to live, 310.
Beauty, 17, 34, 35, 301.
A — masked, i.
a mere quintessence, 327.
An added — to the earth, 104.
and anguish, 33.
Brittle — that nature made so
frail, 42.
but a curse, 331.
but a damask'd skin, 72.
calls and glory leads the way,
299.
can do more than gold, 87.
cannot supply the absence of
good nature, 88.
dies when virtue lives, 89.
fair in her flower, 321.
Faults conspicuous grow in —
Female — but an air divme,
331'
Her — and brain go not to-
gether, 107.
Her — hangs upon the cheek of
night, 107.
Her — made the bright world
dim, 107.
in distress, 161.
is a witch, 81.
like wit, to judges should be
shown, 338.
needs no pencil, 313.
neglected, perisheth apace, 27.
No — like the beauty of the
mind, 178.
of old men is the hoary head,
254-
oft doth make woman proud,
299.
She walks in — 223.
Sorrow more beautiful than —
233-
Struck blind with — 236.
The fatal gift of — 251.
To draw — shows a master
hand, 94.
True— tries, 56.
Virtue is — 127.
Beauty, What author teaches such —
as a woman's eye, 338.
,, What ills spring from — 326.
„ within itself should not be
wasted, 157.
Beaux, Where none are — 'tis useless
to be a belle, 338.
Beaver, I saw young Harry with his —
oil, 119.
,, Is my — easier than it was,
327-
Bed, He that is beaten, may be said to
lie in honour's truckle — 121.
„ If he that in the field is slain,
be in the — of honour laid,
121,
„ Oh — delicious bed, 192.
„ Virtue proves at night a — of
dowTi, 319.
„ Who goes to — and doth not
pray, 342.
Bedfellow^, The crown, so trouble-
some a — 345.
Bedfellows, Misery acquaints a man
with strange — 168.
Bee, Where the — sucks, 338.
Beehives, Drones rob — 63.
Been, What we have — makes us what
we are, 201.
Beer, Chronicle small — 309.
„ Hops and turkeys, carps and —
III.
Bees know there is rich juice in poison
flowers, 35.
Beetle, The sharded— is a safer hold,
192.
Beetles, What — we are in our own
affairs, 112.
Before, How carve a way in the life
that lies — 112.
,, Not dead but gone — 182.
Beggar, A — that is dumb may chal-
lenge double pity, 225.
„ and king with equal steps, 232.
,, Wealth an ugly — 349.
,, Whiles I am a — 339.
Beggar'd all description, 35.
Beggars, Falsehood worse in kings
than — 71.
,, Love -is love in — as in kings,
220.
,, Mounted — ride their horses to
death, 35.
,, must not be choosers, 35.
,, None but — live at ease, 181.
,, They are but — that can count
their worth, 288.
,, When — die, there are no
comets seen, 332,
INDEX OF SUBySCTS.
403
Beggary in the love that can be
reckoned, 286.
,, There's no vice but — 339.
Beginnings, O small — ye are great
and strong, 188.
,, The greatest things take rise
from the smallest — 29.
We may our ends from our —
know, 357.
Behaviour, Men's — should be like
their apparel, 167.
Being, Every human — is capable of
rectitude, 67.
Belief, 7.
, , the soul of fact, 30.
Believe, Those who — 293.
,, What ardently we wish we
soon — 325.
Bell, God comes to see us without —
86.
,, In a cowslip's — I lie, 338.
Belle, Where none are beaux, useless
to be a— 338.
Bell-man, The owl the fatal— 136.
Bellona, 205.
Bellows, Jealousy is the — of the
mind, 136.
Bells, Cap and — 9, 30.
,, Like sweet — jangled out of
tune, 147.
Belly, Idle hand hath empty — 120.
The — is an insatiable creditor,
245-
Below, I shall know thy voice and
answer from — 116.
,, Man wants but little here —
61.
Benefits forgot; 80, 195.
Kind — oft flow from means
unkind, 138.
Benevolence, 36.
Bequest, Who toils to leave as his —
104.
Best, He prayeth — who loveth best,
98.
He's liked — 36.
,, is — if never intermix'd, 313.
,, Love betters what is — 149.
,, The — may slip, 245.
What began — can't end worst,
136.
Bktrayed, When once love's — 42.
Hkttek-half, 37.
Bias, Commodity the — of the world,
50-
Bible, A man may learn from his— 8.
Big with the fate of Rome, 39.
Biggen, He whose brow with homely —
bound, 345.
Bigot, What can assuage the rage of
the— 328.
Bigotry murders religion, 39.
Billet, Every bullet has its — 67.
Billing, Amorous and fond and —
235-
Bind, Fast find, fast — 74.
Biography, There is no history, only —
284.
Bird, A — in the hand, i, 37.
,, That foul — whose prey is man's
good nam-?, 241.
,, The — is foul that defiles his
own nest, 241.
,, You can tell the — by the song,
43-
Birds, A— weight, i.
,, Fine feathers make fine — 76.
,, meet — 87.
,, never lim'd, no secret bushes
fear, 316.
, , of a feather, 39.
,, quick to fly, 39.
,, Somewhere, the — are singing
evermore, 299.
,, The adder hisses where the —
sing, 316.
,, The crow thinketh her own —
fairest, 249.
,, the street musicians of the
heavenly city, 271.
, , What are the voices of — 325.
Birth, Her — was of the womb of
morning dew, 249.
,, Our — is but a sleep and a for-
getting, 200.
,, Pride of — 11.
,, Quackery gives — to nothing,
214.
Bitter, The — goes before the sweet,
245-
Bitterness, Little sweet kills much—
260.
Blackberries, If reasons were as
plenty as — 122.
Blackguards both, 27.
Blackness in Moors, 53.
Bladders, Like boys that swim on —
73-
Blame, In part she is to — who has
been tried, 127.
,, Shame the shroud that over-
shadoweth^ 223.
,, where you must, 39.
Blandishments, When all the— of
life are gone, 332.
Blasphemy, In the soldier is flat — 242.
Blast, Every — brings forth a fear,
202.
404
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Blast, The— that blows hardest is
soon overblown, 246.
,, When the — of war blows in
our ears, 127.
Blasts, Unruly — wait on tender
spring, 316.
Blemishes, Read not my— in the
world's report, 214.
Bless, A hand to — 6.
Blessed, It is more — to give than re-
ceive, 133.
Blessing, A double — a double grace,
3-
„ God's rarest — a good woman,
87.
Blessings, Mistaken — prove the
greatest curse, 169.
,, wait on virtuous deeds, 39.
Blest, He who blesses most is — 104.
,, Man never is, but always to
be — III.
Blight, The— of low desires, 246.
Blind, A noble mind makes envy —
10.
„ Be to her faults a little — 33.
,, Cupid always painted — 153.
,, Eyes to the — 70.
„ fear that seeming reason leads,
40.
„ If the — lead the blind, 122.
„ Justice is — 137.
,, Love is — 254.
,, We darkling grope, not know-
ing we are — 190.
Blindness is the first-bom of excess,
40.
Bliss, By our sufferings we learn to
prize our — 321.
,, Every private — must spring
from social — 69.
„ Faint is the — that never passed
through pain, 71.
,, of angels, love by love repaid,
241.
„ Some have but a shadow's —
252.
„ Sorrows short which gain eter-
nal — 20.
„ That — no wealth can bestow,
241.
„ That sovereign — a wife, 243.
,, Virtue only makes our — 319.
,, Where ignorance is — 337.
Where sin ends — begins, 338.
Blocks with which we build, 203.
Blood, A noble's — i.
, , Brain may devise laws for the —
246.
„ Drones suck not eagles' — 63.
Blood, Licks the hand raised to shed
his— 259.
,, never better sacrificed, 173.
, , One drop of — drawn from thy
country's bosom, 196.
,, serves to wash ambition's
hands, 40.
,, Simple faith more than Nor-
man — 138.
,, the god of war's rich livery,
40.
,, The lust of — 260.
,, There is no caste in — 206.
,, You cannot get — out of a stone,
354-
Bloom, The — of the rose passes quickly
away, 246.
Blot, What poets discreetly — 209.
Blow, A — with a word, i.
, , Ere justice doomed the — 106.
, , Who would be free themselves
must strike the — 344.
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid, 40.
,, We scorn fortime most when
she offers — 80.
Blunder, In men this — 22.
Blunders, Woman, one of imture's
agreeable — 328.
Bluster, The bully's — proves the
coward's fear, 310.
Boar, To fly the — before the—
pursues, 306.
Boast not thyself of to-morrow, 40.
,, The — of heraldry, 246.
Boastful breath is not a bowstring,
39-
Boasting, Where — ends, dignity be-
gins, 337.
Boastings, Actions mightier than—
39-
Boat, My soul is an enchanted — 173.
,, Who stirs an oar in every —
344.
Boats, Fortune brings in some — that
are not steer'd, 79.
Bodies, Conceit in weakest — 50.
Bodkin, His quietus make with a
bare — 305.
Body, Death but entombs the — 56,
Dress covers the mortal — 63.
He that stabs another can kill
his — 102.
I never knew so yoimg a —
with so old a head, 142.
I-earn to make a — of a
limb, 141.
This common — 291.
When that this— did contain
a spirit, 125.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
405
Body, Will continue the standing of
his — 355.
Bold, Desire with small encourage-
ment grows — 59.
,, Despair makes wicked men —
59-
,, Fortune only truckles to the —
80.
Boldness, Familiarity begets — 72.
Bolt, A fool's — is soon shot, 233.
Bond, And take a— of fate, 118.
,, Beauty's silken — 35.
, > No — but to do just commands,
67.
Bondage, A whole eternity in — 3.
Disguise our — as we will, 61.
, , is hoarse, 40.
,, Keep free from the foul yoke
of sensual — 123.
Let them fear — 143.
,, Sing our — freely, 200.
Bonds, He loves his — who submits to
a second yoke, 97.
Bone, He mouths a sentence as curs
mouth a — 97.
, , It's bred in the — 136.
Bones, Angry words break no — 329.
England keep my — 106.
The good men do is oft interred
with their — 81.
Boobies, 40.
Booby, No mother will change her —
for another, 339.
Book, A beggar's — i.
,, A good— the best of friends,
5-
A good — is precious life-blood,
S-
Affection would be like an ill-
set — 121.
,, As good kill a man as a — 28.
He who destroys a good — -ii.
Oh ! that mine adversary had
\vritten a — 194.
,, The good reader makes the
good — 303.
,, The stars an everlasting — 271.
„ There must be a man behind
the — 239.
,, Would shut the — and sit him
down and die, 112.
Books are men of higher stature, 41.
,, cannot always please, 41.
, , Deep versed in — 59.
,, in the running brooks, 76.
,, Keep a good student from his—
137-
„ Learning hath gained most by
lost — 141.
Books, My only — were women's
looks, 173.
,, No furniture so charming as—
178.
„ Of making many — there is no
end, 192.
„ Some— are to be tasted, 231.
„ Tenets turn with — 163.
„ Wise — are honoured tombs,
347-
,, Women's faces are their own—
294.
Bore, Every human being becomes
a — 67.
,, That old hereditary — the
steward, 242.
Bores, Two mighty tribes, the— and
bored, 230.
Born, Better had they ne'er been — 37.
, , Better to be lowly — 300.
,, but to die, 41.
,, It is as natural to die as to
be — 132.
,, to be a slave, 32.
, , When we are — we cry, 337.
Borrow, Not so good to— as to be
able to lend, 182.
,, Who quick be to — 343.
Borrower, Neither a— nor a lender
be, 176.
,, The — runs in his own debt,
246
Borrowing dulls the edge of hua
bandry, 176.
, , He that goes a — goes a sorrow-
ing, 99.
Bosom, Confidence is of slow growth
in an aged — 50.
,, One — to recline upon, 195.
,, One drop of blood drawn from
thy country's — 196.
Bosom-hell, Conscience the— of guilty
man, 51.
Bottle, A generous— 4.
,, May we never want a friend,
nor a — to give him, 164.
Boundless risk must pay for bound-
less gain, 41.
Bounds, A slighted woman knows
no — 106.
, , The — once gone over, 246.
Bounty like a drop of water dis-
appears, 41.
Bourg, The rustic cackle of your —
354-
Bourn, A flaw in happiness to see
beyond our — 132.
„ from whence no traveller re-
turns, 305.
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INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Bow, As unto the — the cord is, 29.
, , Two strings to one — 314.
Bow-string, Boastful breath is not
a— 39-
Bowels of compassion and mercy, 41.
, , Thus far into the — of the land,
296.
Bower, Fancy builds her — in scenes
to come, 73.
Box, In the wrong — 129.
Boy, Better build schoolrooms for the —
37-
„ Further from heaven than when
a— 119.
„ Once more who would not be
a— 195.
„ To be a soaring human— 187.
Boyhood is a summer sun, 41.
, , Study the bane of — 236.
Braid, To — thy brow, 15.
Brain, Children of an idle — 63.
„ Doth work like madness in
the — 305.
„ Many the — brought never
child to birth, 163.
„ Memory the warder of the —
165.
„ Never was there idle — 66.
„ Poems the hop grounds of the —
2og.
„ The — may devise laws for the
blood, 246.
BbAINS, Mental power cannot be got
from ill-fed — 168.
„ That men should put an enemy
into their mouths to steal
away their — 186.
Brass, Injuries are writ in — 130.
,, Men's evil manners live in —
167.
Brave, All trust is— 19.
„ Coward sneaks to death, the —
live on, 332.
„ How sleep the — who sink to
rest, 114.
„ None but the — deserve the
fair, 181.
„ The — never die, 246.
„ The unforgotten — 48.
„ The unreturning — 27.
,, Triumph weeps above the —
281.
Breach, A custom more honoured in
the — 132.
Bread, Cast thy — upon the waters, 45.
„ eaten in secret is pleasant, 235.
„ Halfaloaf better than no — 37.
„ I know which side my — is
buttered, 118.
Bread, No labour, no — 178.
,, O God that — should be so
dear, 193.
,, The bitter — of disappoint-
ment, 65.
,, the staff of life, 41.
,, The wretch who digs the mine
for — 278.
Breakfast, And then to — 26.
Breast, Dumb presages of my speak-
ing — 186.
„ Every want that stimulates
the — 69.
„ Hope, richest treasure of a
generous — no.
,, Hope springs eternal in the
human — in.
„ Music hath charms to soothe
the savage — 172.
„ One — laid open were a school,
196.
,, The baby at my — 62.
Breasts, Buried seeds of brooding
virtue lie in savage — 192.
Breath, A — can make them, 124.
„ Back to its mansion call the
fleeting — 44.
„ Chaucer, whose sweet — 56.
„ Every gasp of — brings forth a
warning gfrief, 202.
„ Fame a — 204.
„ One more unfortunate weary
of — 197.
,, Summer's ripening — 291.
Breathes there a man, 41.
Breeches, Without black velvet—
what is man, 349.
Breed is stronger than pasture, 41.
,, We men are a little — 321.
Breeze, Death rides in every passing —
57-
,, There's a story m every — 183.
Brevity is the soul of wit, 41.
Briars, How full of — is this working-
day world, 112.
Bribes, Won by — 228.
Bride, A happy bridesmaid makes a
happy — 6.
,, Happy — on whom the sun
shines, 39.
Bridesmaid, A happy — makes a
happy bride, 6.
Bridge, Faith builds a — from this
world, 71.
„ of groans across a stream of
tears, i.
,, The grave is but a covered—
255-
Bridle, A — for the ass, 15.
INDEX OP SUBJECTS.
407
Brief as the lightning, 41.
Better to be — than tedious,
300.
,, In wooing sorrow let's be —
129.
Bright, All that's — must fade, 20.
Angels are still — 26.
Britain, 25
is a world by itself, 280.
,, still to — true, 32.
British forces are unused to fear, 42.
,, The— public, in one of its fits
of morality, 322.
„ wrongs must be righted by
— hands, 32.
Briton, A — a subject not a slave, 2.
,, The meanest — scorns the
highest slave, 262.
Britons never will be slaves, 218.
Broke, What is to be — will be — 328.
Broken, A threefold cord is not
quickly — 14,
Broker, A crafty knave needs no — 2.
Brood, The strong hind who breeds
his — 114.
Brooks, Books in the running — 76.
Brother, A — doesn't always make a
friend, 281.
,, No author ever spared a — 66.
,, There is a friend that sticketh
closer than a — 281.
Brotherhood, Earth, ocean, air, be-
loved — 64.
Brother's, Am I my — keeper, 22.
, , A — sufferings claim a — pity, 2.
Brow, Smoothing the rugged — of
night, 229.
,, Time delves the parallels in
beauty's — 297.
, , Time from the — doth wipe out
every stain, 297.
,, To braid the — 15.
,, What a grace was seated on
this— 221.
, , Whose diapason lies within a —
17-
Brown, Done so uncommonly — 62,
Brows of grace, 26.
Brunck, That most learned Pro-
fessor — 120.
Brute, No friend so cruel as a reason-
ing — 178.
„ The man that blushes is not
quite a — 261.
Bubble, Love is a golden — 151.
,, Seeking the — reputation, 221.
,, War is an empty — 320.
Bubbles, Men but — on the stream of
time 325.
Bucket, Like a— in a well, 185.
Buckingham, So much for— 79.
Bud, Loathsome canker lies in sweet-
est — 148, 218.
,, Nipt in the — 177.
Buildings, To ruinate proud — with
thy hours, 299.
Builds, He — highest who with most
art destroys, 96.
Bull, Oil'd and curl'd Assyrian —
242.
Bullet, Every— has its billet, 66.
„ The golden — beats down the
strongest castle, 271.
Bully, Poverty is a — if you are afraid
of her, 210.
Bulwark, Self-defence sole— of all
right, 221.
,, To be a kingdom's — 304.
Bumper, Life's a — filled by fate, 144.
Bundle, Life is a — of little things,
144.
Bungler, Every — can command hard
features, 94.
Burden, Love is a— 151.
,, Oh heavy — of a doubtful mind,
186.
Burdens, Great honours are great —
89.
Burial, Carrion men groaning for —
54-
Burke, Saved her venom to create a —
192.
Burning, One fire burns out an-
other's — 196.
Bursts, Preluded those melodious —
56.
Bush, Good wine needs no — 89.
,, He who aims but at a — 343.
,, How easy is a — supposed a
bear, 128.
,, Myself have lim'd a — 173.
,, Over bank and — 296.
,, The hawthorn — 257.
Business, Despatch is the soul of—
59, 284.
,, Prayer all his — 211.
,, The — of wise men, to examine
what is, 347.
„ The great — of life, 255.
„ The high — of the public good,
64.
„ The important — of your life is
love, 290.
„ To — that we love, we rise be-
times, 305.
Bust, Animated, 44.
Butter would not melt in her mouth,
223.
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INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Butterfly, A — but a caterpillar
dressed, 331.
,, The pride of a— dies in a day,
246.
Buy, Whatever thou art chaunced at
the — 22.
By-word, A — among all peoples, n.
Cabinet, The — the camp or the
court, 248.
Cable, No— can so forcibly draw as
love, 178.
Cackle, The rustic— of your bourg,
354- ^ ,
CiESAR, But yesterday the word of —
42.
„ I appeal unto — 26.
„ I come to — 81.
„ Imperial — dead and turned to
clay, 125.
„ Jupker of men, 43.
„ One — lives, a thousand are
forgot, 196.
,, Would you praise — 353.
Cesar's ambition, 43.
,, There be many — 280.
Cage, Nor iron bars a — 235.
,, Our — we make our choir, 200.
Cain the first city made, 87.
Cake, He that will have — out of the
wheat, 102.
,, You can't eat your — and have
it, 353.
Calamity, 329.
,, and love can ill agree, 150.
„ He is valiant that boldly
bears — 96.
„ man's true touchstone, 44.
„ No happiness not depressed by
some — 282.
„ The respect that makes — of so
long life, 305.
Caledonia, O — stern and wild, 185.
Calendars, Events are the best — 145.
Calling, Cut your cloth according to
your — 300.
Calmness is not always the attribute
of innocence, 44.
Calms appear when storms are past,
44.
Calumny, Excess of — has little foun-
dation, 70.
„ Thou shalt not escape — 33.
,, will sear virtue itself, 44.
Calvin, That land of — 220, 242.
Camel, Swallow a — 354.
Camp, Love iiales the court, the — 127.
Cahps, Too trained in— to learn a
statesman's art, 113.
Canal, Speech, thought's — 234.
Candid, Be — where we can, 39, 140.
Candles, Night's — are burnt out, 177.
Candour hides those faults it cannot
cure, 316.
Canker, Loathsome — lies in sweetest
bud, 148, 218,
Canker-bit, 43.
Cannikin, When the liquor's out, why
clink the — 336.
Cannons, Great debts are like — 228.
,, Hugest — burst with over-
charge, 224.
Cant, 297.
,, Sentimentalism is twin-sister
to — 131.
Cantle, The greater — of the world,
255-
Cap and bells, 9, 30.
Capacities, Perfect love, love in all —
205.
Capon, With good — lin'd, 258.
Caprice, The fantastic day's — 299.
Captain ill, 45.
Captious, If that she be not proud
or — 69.
Captive, 2.
,, good, 45.
Cards, An old age of— x6.
Care, 45.
,, For want of — thousands have
died, 79.
„ Golden— 345.
„ keeps his watch in every old
man's eye, 131.
„ One dram of joy must have a
pound of — 196.
„ Our progress through the world
is trouble and — 201.
„ Riches are the parents ot
eternal — 217.
„ Slight — for grief we do not
share, 228.
„ Sport that wrinkled — derides,
234-
,, Take her up tenderly, lift her
with — 239.
„ The devil has a— of his foot-
men, 249.
„ The public burden of a
nation's — 326.
„ will kill a cat, 93.
,, will make a face, 27.
Careless, Content is — 55.
Cares, His — dividing, 5.
,, Thieves and — 68.
Carp, The— of truth, 356.
Carps and beer came into England,
III.
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
409
Carrion men, 54.
Cart, Sung ballads from a — 288.
„ The — before the horse, 278.
Case, A rotten — abides no handling,
12.
Casement, Woman's wit will out at
the — 157.
Casks, Full — give little sound, 229.
,, Youth dwells not in — and
cellars, 357.
Cast, I have set my life upon a — 118.
,, Simplest things put on a
sombre — 280.
Castle, A — is but a house, 2.
,, A man's house is his — 9.
Castles in Spain, 45.
,, in the air, 46.
Casuists, In good or ill leave — on the
shelf, 98.
„ Soimdest — doubt like you and
me, 343.
Cat, As many lives as a — 28.
,, Care will kill a — 93.
,, Harmless, necessary — 6.
,, The — will mew, 247.
„ Thrice the brindled — hath
mewed, 295.
„ Turn — in pan, 313.
„ Vigilant as — to steal cream,
29.
,, We had belled the — 244.
„ What — is averse to fish, 326.
,, When the — is away, 335.
Catastrophes, The greatest— trace-
able to love of pleasure, 256.
Caterpillar, A butterfly but a—
dressed, 331.
Cathay, A cycle of — 37, 296.
Cathedral, In the vast — leave him,
129.
Cato, How many a vulgar — 232.
Cattle, Friendship is more than —
81.
Caucasus, By thinking on the frosty —
340-
Cauldron bubble, 62.
Cause, A good — need not be pa-
troned, 5.
,, A just — is strong, 6.
,, A noble — doth ease a grievous
case, 10.
„ He lives in fame that dies in
virtue's — 97.
„ He loves but ill, that loves not
for a— 97.
„ How light a — may move dis-
sension, 18.
„ me no causes, 54.
„ One — supreme, 231,
Cause, Self can cloud the brightest —
221.
,, Self is first in every — 221.
,, Strong men believe in — and
effect, 222.
,, The universal — 274.
,, They never fail who die in a
great — 289.
Causes, What dire offence from amor-
ous — springs, 326.
Caution, Too eager — shows some
danger near, 310.
Cautious, The most — may fall, 245.
Caviare, To the general— 46.
Cease, Where change shall — 39.
Celebrity may blush and be silent,
46.
Celerity, admired by the negligent,
46.
Celibacy is always a muddy horse-
pond, 163.
Cellar, The best of vineyards is the —
275-
Cellars, Youth dwells not in casks
and — 357.
Cells and gibbets for the man, 37.
,, Love delights in rural — 150.
Censorious, Be not too rigidly — 33.
Censure, 9.
,, is the tax a man pays to the
public, 46.
„ Take each man's — 84.
,, Ten — wrong for one who
writes amiss, 240.
,, the mark of the elect, 46.
Centre, There is an inmost — in us
all, 313.
Cerberus, 107.
Ceremonies, I never stood on — 119.
Certainties are past remedies, 62.
Cervantes, 46.
Chain, Commerce binds nations in a
golden — 83.
Chair, No fireside but has one vacant —
283.
Chalice, Commend the ingredients of
our poison'd — 121.
Chalk and cheese, to compare, 27.
,, No more like than — to cheese,
179.
Chance, 20.
,, as fair, and choose as true,
355-
,, Better debtor for a rood to —
37-
,, In reproof of — lies the proof of
men, 128.
,, It's no;, a common — that takes
away a noble mind, 242.
4IO
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Chance, They who await no gifts
from — 290.
'Tis inhumanity to bless by—
Chance-blades. Who goes gleaning
hedge-side— 342.
Chances, Against ill— men are merry,
17-
„ mock the cup of alteration, 112.
The restless world is full of—
292.
Change, All things will— 184.
Down the ringing grooves ot—
80. ^ ,
lays not its hand on truth, 46.
", Man is hurled from— to— 160.
„ Often— doth please a woman's
mind, 192.
„ Than live to see time's bitter—
193-
,, When— itself can give no
more, 332.
„ Where— shall cease, 39.
Women subject to— 351.
Changes fill the cup of alteration, 112.
The world's a scene of— 278.
Chaos come again, 46, 47.
Chapel, Where God hath a temple,
the devil hath a— 337-
Character, a reserved force, 47.
is what God knows of us, 210.
", must be kept bright, 47.
teaches above our wills, 323.
Characters, From high life high-
are drawn, 300.
Charge, Chester, charge, 47. .
Charity, Alas for the ranty of Chris-
tian — 18,
„ begins at home, 47.
„ He only judges right who ne er
abandons — 98.
„ meek-ey'd daughter oi the
skies, 185.
„ Rob in the behalf of— 61.
shall endure unto the end, 316.
", The summer calm of golden—
237.
„ Zfeal, not— became the guide,
357.
CHAKM, Every woman hath some
witching — 69.
„ One native— more dear than
gloss of art, 170.
Charmer, Were t'other dear— away,
112.
Charms fly at the touch of philosophy,
„ Ladies owe to changes halt
their- 139.
CHARMS,Man the slave of female— 261.
strike the sight, 47.
that nature's hand denies, 56.
Clarence, Duke of— 279.
Charter, A glorious— 5.
Chaste, Be thou— as ice, 33.
as the icicle, 47.
Chastity, Better to die renowned for—
38-
Temperance is nurse of— 240.
Chatter, The hare-brained— of irre-
sponsible frivolity, 94.
Chaucer, Dan— the first warbler, 56.
Dan— well of English unde-
fyled, 55. ,
Cheap, A glutted market makes pro-
vision — s
And flesh and blood so— 193.
',', 111 ware is never— 124.
Cheat, The— at play, 247.
, , The— in love, 247.
Woman's vows are all a— 108.
Cheated, Let's not be 43.
Cheek by jowl, 47-
Feed on her damask— 223.
',', Her beauty hangs upon the—
of night, 107.
That I might touch that— 188.
Cheer, Cups that— 54.
,, Make good— 48.
Cheerfulness, 47.
Cheese, No more like than chalk is
to— 179- , .
„ The moon is made of green—
263.
To compare chalk and — 27.
Cherry, As— is to— 28.
Cherub, If a— in the shape ot a
woman, 120.
There's a sweet little— that sits
up aloft, 286.
Cherubims, Quiring to the young-
eyed — 149-
Chess-game, Their high— 52.
Chester, Charge— charge, 47.
Chickens, Count not your— 52.
Curses like young— 55.
Chiding, Better a little— 36.
Chield, A— 2.
Child, A— were better unborn than
untaught, 2.
,, a simple — 13.
An old man twice a— 25.
", Art is— of nature, 27.
" Behold the— 36.
„ Burnt— fire dredth, 4a,
' Cupid is a— 150.
Faction, disappointment s rest-
less — 70.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
411
Child, Fashion is a wayward — 74.
, , He that will not use the rod on
his — 102.
,, How sharper than a serpent's
tooth, to have a thankless —
114.
,, Life but a froward — 145.
,, Man but a froward — 161.
,, Man lives beyond sixty, nor
outgrows the — 159.
„ Meet nurse for a poetic — 185.
„ O hateful error, melancholy's —
186.
„ Old age a second — 195.
„ Poetry is the — of nature, 209.
,, Sleep, silence" — 228.
,, Spare the rod and spoil the —
102.
„ The — imposes on the man, 265.
„ The — is father of the man,
247.
,, The — must teach the man, 86.
„ The sports of children satisfy
the — 271.
„ This fine old world of ours is
but a — 291,
„ 'Tis a wise father that knows
his own — 132.
„ To a mother a — is everything,
304-
„ Withhold not correction from
the— 348.
Childhood, The — shows the man, 47,
247.
„ The eye of — fears a painted
devil, 303.
„ whose every happiness is love,
48.
Children and fools cannot lie, 48
„ Dreams, the — of an idle brain,
63-
„ gathering pebbles on the shore,
27. 59-
„ How many troubles are bom
with — 113.
„ increase the cares of life, 48.
„ make misfortunes more bitter,
48.
„ Men are but — of a larger
growth, 165.
„ mitigate the remembrance of
death, 48.
„ sweeten labours, 48.
,, symbols of marriage between
love and duty, 147.
„ The sports of — satisfy the
child, 271.
„ Unruly — make their sire stoop,
316.
Children, Virtue loves best those —
she beats, 318.
Chimney, Woman's wit will fly out at
the— 157.
China, Survey mankind from — to
Peru, 142.
CHn/ALRY, Flowers of— 72.
Choice, Be ignorance thy — where
knowledge leads to woe, 123.
,, Hobson's — 109.
,, The devil hath not in his
quiver's — 249.
,, The nation's — 10.
Choices, When better— are not to be
had, 332.
Choir, Our eyes we make our — 20a
Choose an author, 48.
,, Of two evils — the least, 191.
Ye that — not by the view, 355.
Choosers, Beggars must not be — 35.
Chord, Smote the — of self, 155.
Chords, Closer — than those of life,
213.
, , Dissonant — beget divinest har-
monics, 216.
,, that vibrate sweetest pleasure,
48.
Chorl, By his dedes a — is seen, 318.
Christ, A thief said the last kind
words to — 313.
,, Ah ! — that it were possible,
17-
Chbistian, A— is God Almighty's
gentleman, 2.
, , Alas for the rarity of — charity,
18.
Chhistians, Dear is the spot where —
sleep, 182.
„ have burnt each other, 48.
,, What these — are, 185.
,, When Popes damn Popes what
must — do, 334.
Christmas, 48.
Chronicles, Abstract and brief— of
the time, 288.
Church, A man may cry — 8.
,, and clergy are very much akin,
247.
, , As plain as way to parish — 277.
,, At — on Sundays to attend, 30.
,, Dull as an alderman at — 63.
,, The nearer the — the further
from God, 263.
, , We press too close in — 146.
Who builds a — to God, 340.
Churches, God builds His temple on
the ruins of — 86.
Churchmen fain would kill their
church, 247.
412
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Churchyards, When— yawn, 302.
CiNCiNNATUS, The — of the west, 247.
CiPHER-KKV, L;iughter the — 140.
Circle, Love is a — 151.
Circumlocution office, 48, 247.
Circumstance, Man is the creature
of — 162.
,, To envisage — all calm, 305.
Circumstances, Men are the sport
of — 165.
„ Shallow men believe in — 222.
„ Who does the best his — allow,
does well, 341.
Cisterns, Broken — 42.
Citations of writers, 100.
Cities, Love in — never dwells, 150.
,, Seven — warr'd for Homer
dead, 222.
,, To — and to courts repair, 306.
City, Language is a — 140,
Civilisation, 48.
,, The three great elements of —
272.
Civilise, 'Tis a godlike work to — 341.
Clamours, The — of a jealous woman,
275-
Clay, And — differs in dignity, 48.
,, Gold pure — 72.
„ Imperial Csesar dead and
turned to — 125.
„ Kings' misdeeds cannot be hid
in — 138.
„ Men but gilded loam or
painted — 266.
Clean, A new broom sweeps — 10.
Cleanliness is next to godliness, 48.
Clear as a whistle, 27.
Cleopatra, 328.
Clergy, weather-beaten without,
empty within, 247.
Clerk, The priest forgets that ever he
was — 266.
Clerks, The greatest — be not the
wisest men, 256.
Clever, Be good, and let who will
be — 32.
Clients, Good counsellors lack no —
88.
^LIMB, Fain would I — 70.
,, He who would — 105.
Climbers, Hasty — quickly catch a
faU, 94.
Climbs, He that — highest, has the
greatest fall, 99.
Clime, Ambition is the growth of
every — 23.
„ Love is a pleasing but a vari-
ous — 151.
„ Morn in the eastern — 185.
Clime of the unforgotten brave, 48.
Climes, Humours turn with — 163.
,, The product of all — 71.
Cloak, Fear is like a — 74.
,, Under — of goodwill, 312.
,, When you sleep in your —
337-
Cloaks, When clouds are seen wise
men put on their — 332.
Clock, Labouring men oftenest count
the — 139.
,, Lovers ever run before the —
156.
,, Our life's a — 202.
Clocks, Merry larks are plough-
men's — 168.
Cloth, Cut your coat according to
your— S3, 300, 355.
,, Spoil his coat with scanting a
little— 126.
Clothe my naked villainy, 26.
Clothed, Beauty best — when un-
clothed, 35.
Clothes, God sends cold after — 87.
,, In tattered — small vices dis-
appear, 296.
,, Wedding — 15.
Clothing of our minds, 247.
Cloud, 116.
,, Nature is a mutable — 174.
Clouds, As if an angel dropped down
from the — 119.
,, As the sun breaks through the
darkest — 29.
„ Head in the — 5.
„ Spirits of the wise sit in the —
296.
,, When — are seen, 332.
Clown, The — 291.
,, Makes a — a winged mercury,
IS-
Coach, The man that sits within the —
262.
,, 'Tis best repenting in a — and
six, 277.
Coal, Envy's a— 66.
Coal-black better than another hue,
49.
Coals, Heap — of fire, 106.
Coat, Cut your — to match your cloth,
55. 355-
^ Spoiling his — with scanting of
his cloth, 126.
COATS-OF-ARMS, 13.
Cobbler, An hale — better than a sick
king, 24.
,, Mock not the — for his black
thumbs, 169.
Cobwebs, Laws are like — 140.
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
413
Cobwebs, Nature through — we string
her, 313.
Cock, A — that's silent and a hen that
crows, 124.
„ The — that is trumpet to the
morn, 248.
Cockloft, Often the — is empty, 192.
Cocksure, 49.
Cocoon, Toiling out his own — 69.
CODLIN, not Sliort, 49.
COKFiN, Care to our — adds a nail, 45.
Cokkin'd up in crust, 49.
Coil, AVhen we have shuffled off this
mortal — 305.
Coin, Him that made them current —
292.
„ Light— 291.
„ The world mistakes any gilt
farthing for a gold — 278.
„ Who baits mine honour shall
not know my — 340.
Coins, Authors grow dear like — 31.
Cold as turkeys coftin'd in crust, 49.
, , God sends — after clothes, 87.
„ Hot love soon — in.
,. Lovers grow — 156.
„ Shy she was and I thought
her — 224.
Colossus, Doth bestride the narrow
world like a — 95.
Colour, Truth needs no — 313.
Colours, Beauty is of all — 35.
Colt, The — that's burdened being
young, 248.
Column, Where London's — pointing
at the skies, 338.
Come, First — first served, yy.
Comedy, Life a — to him who thinks,
144.
Comets, When beggars die there are
no — seen, 332.
Comfort, a cripple, and comes ever
slow, 124.
„ How cold the — in good-bye,
112.
„ is in heaven, 49.
„ Often to our — 192.
„ Our — flows from ignorance,
123.
w Some drops of — on the favour'd
fall, 45-
,, Theie is no — in shame, 128.
Comforter, Sleep — of minds opprest,
228.
,, The true — death, 58.
Comforts, Our chief — often produce
our anxieties, 135.
,, Past all — here, 204.
Coming events, 49.
Coming, The — of a strong desire, 35.
Commandment, The dignity of the —
250.
Commandments, I'd set my ten — in
your face, 51.
Commands, Every good servant does
not all — 67.
Commerce, Friendship's a — between
equals, 81.
„ Generous — binds the nations,
83-
,, Let wealth and — die, 143.
Commodity, 1 will turn diseases to — 5.
,, the bias of the world, 50.
Common, Trick of the English nation
to make a good thing — 136.
Commonplace, A rich— 214.
Communications, Evil — corrupt good
manners, 69.
Companion, The gencFous man has
his — 98.
Companions, Gay — o'er the bowl, 294.
,, When musing on — gone, 334.
,, Wives are — for middle age,
349-
Company, A crowd is not— 2.
,, Few are qualified to shine in —
75-
„ Good— 88.
„ His faithful dog shall bear
him — 291.
„ Sad souls are slain in merry —
219.
„ Society is a joint-stock — 230.
„ To converse with historians is
to keep good — 306.
,, You may know him by his —
355-
Comparison, Our discontent is ftom —
201.
Comparisons are odious, 50.
Compass, The faithful— that still points
to thee, 323.
,, Truth lies within a certain —
313-
Compassion, Bowels of — 41.
Competency, 288.
Complaint, Life is a fatal — 142.
Complexion, Beauty not confin'd to
any— 35.
,, Mislike me not for my — 169.
Compliment, The tinsel clink of — 291.
Compulsion, I would give no man a
reason on — 122.
, , We can't be made happy by —
323.
Compunction, 245.
Concealment, like the worm in the
bud, 223.
414
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Conceit strongest in weakest bodies,
SO-
Conception, Her — was of the joyous
prime, 249.
Concern, Our country's welfare our
first — 200.
Concessions, Life subsists by recip-
rocal — 144.
Conclusion, A foregone — 4.
Concord, Love quarrels end in pleas-
ing— 154.
Condemn, It is nobler to pardon than
to— 307.
Condition, Bed, a heaven whatever
its — 192.
, , The first — of human goodness,
252.
Conduct, The — of our lives, 248.
,, The — of great kingdoms, 327.
Conference makes a ready man, 214,
Confessed, He's half absolved who
has — 98.
Confidence, a plant of slow growth,
so-
, , Brisk — best with woman copes ,
42.
Confusion, Show nothing but — 64.
,, So quick bright things come
to — 41.
, , worse confounded, 50.
Conjunction, When princes meet it
is an ominous — 335.
Conquer, Tis next to— bravely to
defend, 301.
Conqueror, Humanity always be-
comes a — 115.
,, Time the — of conquerors, 343.
Conquers, Who — wins by brutal
strength, 341.
Conquest, Force first made — 79.
,, has explored more than curio-
sity, 50.
,, pursues where courage leads,
50-
To triumph o'er ourselves the
only — 309.
Conquests of the sword temporary,
262.
Conscience, 50, 51, 286.
, , A burden'd — 2.
, , Ambition enforceth all — 23.
, , Collides the — of mankind, 242.
„ Dirty work w ants no — 60,
,, does make cowards of us all,
305.
\ ,, hath a thousand several
tongues, 172.
,, He is naked whose — is cor-
rupted, 329.
Conscience is a coward, 51.
,, is a domestic enerny, no.
,, Lovetoo young to know what —
is, 153.
, , Man's — 9.
, , Man's — the oracle of God, 162.
, , O the cowardice of a guilty —
188.
, , Policy sits above — 209.
, , the beacon-light of God, 255.
, , the most elastic material, 248.
Who reverenced his — as his
king, 343.
Consent, Silence gives — 225.
Consented, Whispering I will ne'er
consent — 339.
Consequence, If assassination could
trammel up the — 121.
,, To betray us in deepest — 192.
Consequences, Logical — the scare-
crows of fools, 148.
Consideration, Every personal —
that we allow, 68.
,, like an angel came, 51.
Consoler, Death the— 58.
Conspiracies, O curst fate of all— 188.
Constable, Outrun the — 203.
Constancy is built on manly minds,
318,
,, No — but in an honest cause,
982.
,, What commendeth a woman
more than — 328.
,, Wouldst thou approve thy —
353-
Constant, Man were perfect were
he — 324.
,, Nothing — but inconstancy,
284.
,, To be — in nature were incon-
stancy, 278.
, , To one thing — never, 224.
Constraint, Graver hours that
bring — 89.
Construction, No art to find the
mind s — in the face, 286.
Consummation, 'Tis a — devoutly to
be wished, 304.
,, What time to tardy — brings,
329-
Contagion, Hell breathes out — 302.
Contemplation, The sober eye of—
306.
Contempt of fame, 51.
,, Pride sups on — 212.
Contemptible, Benevolence be-
comes — 36.
Content, 51.
„ Be — and seek no new, 355.
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
415
Content, Draw upon — for deficiencies
of fortune, 102.
, , Farewell — 74.
,, Happiness of sweet retired —
93-
,, He that wants money, means,
and — 102.
,, in useful studies spent, 179.
,, is careless, 55.
,, is crowned, 65.
., O sweetness of — 188.
, , of spiri t musl from science flow,
304-
„ Our — is our best having, 200.
,, Poor and — is rich, 209.
,, Range with humble livers in —
300.
,, When our desire is got with-
out — 184.
,, Who with a little cannot be —
344.
Contentment, 93.
Contests, What mighty — rise from
trivial things, 326.
Continents, The awakening — 299.
Contradiction, Everlasting yea,
wherein all — is solved, 153.
, , Woman at best a — 350.
Your sex all a — 237.
Contrasts, Pleasiu-e delights in — 208.
Contumely, The proud man's — 305.
Convenience suggested elbow-chairs.
Convert, A— but a fiy, 2.
Converts, Vacant pulpits would
more — make, 171.
,, Woman can true — make, 349.
Cooks, The devil sends us — 87.
Coote, Bald as a — 31.
Copper, The common — 278.
Copy, From other's work a — take, 344.
Coquette, 223.
,, He who keeps sway over the
heart of a — 105.
Cord, A threefold— 14.
,, No — can draw like love with
a thread, 178.
,, The — breaketh at last by the
weakest pull, 248.
Cordial, Wine a poor — against a
woman's tongue, 346.
Cordials all their virtue lose, 51.
Corn in Egypt, 51.
, , Sowed cockle, reaped no — 233.
,, Who could make two ears of —
where one grew before, 344.
Wreathed with nodding — 19.
Cornfields, Full-sheaved stand— 342.
Cornish, Thirty thousand— men, 26,
Coronets, Kind hearts are more
than — 138.
Correction, A fool despiseth his
father's — 4.
,, Withhold not — from the child,
348.
Corruption, Fruits of the earth have
their growth in — 253.
,, wins not more than honesty,
S3-
Corse, Beauty but a — 331.
Cost, Man seeks his good at the
world's — 160.
,, When all is won, the prize
hardly worth the — 332.
Cot, Better to love in the lowliest — 38.
Cots, Go search the — of the hind, 353.
Cottage, The — more virtuous than
the palace, 126.
,, The — suffers for errors of the
court, 248.
Cough, A — ready made, 17.
Councillors of state sit plotting, 52.
,, Safety in the multitude of — 128.
Counsel, Give — to the mind, 84.
, , Hard for women to keep — 112.
,, O that men's ears should be
deaf to— 188.
,, Three may keep — 295.
Counsellor, Love admits not reason
for his — 294.
Counsellors, Good — lack no clients,
88.
Countenance, A merry heart maketh
a cheerful — 9.
,, A — more in sorrow, 2.
,, Sleep day out of — 321.
Counterfeit, Sleep, death's — 226.
Counters, Words are wise men's —
352.
Country, A prophet hath no honour
in his — II.
,, Do more service to his — 344.
, , God made the — 87.
,, Good news from a far — 28.
,, He who loves not his — 105.
,, Let all thy ends be for thy —
53-
The undiscovered — 305.
,, Who loves his — cannot hate
mankind, 105.
,, Woe waits a — 349.
Courage, 52.
Conquest pursues where—
leads, 50.
, , Ignorant — 347.
,, Necessity does the work of—
175-
,, No — but in innocence, 282.
4i6
INDE^ OF SUByECTS.
Courage, Screw your— to the sticking
place, 220.
,, The brave man's — 246.
True— not distrustful of itself,
3"-
Course, Hard for kings to steer an
equal — 300.
The— of true love, 248.
" The swift— of time, 70.
Court, A friend at — 81, 261.
Death keeps his— withm the
hollow crown, 348.
,, Love rules the — 127.
„ The cottage suffers for every
error of the — 248.
„ The virtuous— the world to
virtue draws, 15.
Who for preferments at a—
would wait, 341.
Court-polish soon turns gold yellow,
Courtesy, The very pink of— 275.
There is always time fox — 145-
Courtier, Guile of thankful falsehood,
like a — 72.
Courts and camps, 52.
To cities and to-y repair, 306.
Courtship, Men dream in — iii.
Cousin, Selfishness is love's— 221.
Cow, To face a— 14.
Coward. Conscience is a — 51.
,, I was a— on instinct, 130.
Live a — in thine own esteem,
353.
„ One hundred times in life a—
dies, 52.
„ race of politicians, 344.
The— sneaks to death, 332.
COWARDS: 50, 52, 261.
,, Conscience makes— ot us all,
So» 305-
„ Men would be— if they dared,
241.
„ Only— dare affront a woman,
203.
,, Peace and plenty breed— 208.
„ What can ennoble — 325.
, , Wine makes — brave, 346.
COWARDICE, All doubt is— 19.
It is — to seek safety in nega-
tion, 133.
„ Lying's a certain mark ol —
157.
„ Pale, cold— in noble breasts,
243.
COXCOMB, The quaint, old, cruel— 267.
Coxcomb's feathers, 55.
COY, Then be not— but use your time,
279.
Cozening hope, 52.
Crabbed age, 52.
Crabs and apples may grow on the
same tree, 27.
Harsh as — 15.
Cradle, 7. , ,
A traveller from the— to the
grave, 161.
Craft. Fight— with— 76.
Crane, The— may chatter of the—
248.
Cranny, In every— but the right, 299.
Crape, A saint in— 300.
Cream, As vigilant as a cat to steal—
29.
Create, Gods and poets only can—
305-
Created half to rise, 52.
Creation, Man destroys at will the
whole — 64.
Ruin drives her ploughshare
o'er — 76.
The— of forests in one acorn,
248.
Creator, The great— to revere, 255.
The law of our— 282.
Creature, Drink, pretty— 63.
,, Each— loves his kind, 147.
Man the — of circumstances,
162.
To revere the Creator becomes
the — 255.
„ Who kills a book, kills a
reasonable — 28.
Wine is a good familiar — 88.
Creatures, Spiritual— walk the earth
unseen, 168.
We feed all— to fat us, 356.
Credit, How little— the quotations
deserve, 100.
Who quick f e to borrow, have
no— 343. . .
Creditor, The belly an nisatiable—
245- â–
Creditors, Debtors apt to grow shy
of their— 332.
Credulity, 242.
Creed, Necessity the— of slaves, 175.
Uncursed by doubt, our
earliest— we take, 315.
Creeds, More faith in honest doubt
than half the— 285.
Creep, Ambition can — 22.
They that— 306.
Crestfallen, As— as a dried pear,
28. „
Crib, Clean— where no oxen are, 338.
Cricket, Merry as a— 168.
Crime, Absence is all love's— 24.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
417
CKi.\rK and punishmem, 53.
Consecrate a — 18 r.
Commit a — the world is made
of glass, 282.
Flattery's the nurse of — 'j'j.
He acts the third — that de-
fends the first, 31. <
Man never so near to — 186.
No — so great as daring to
excel, 178
Of mirth to make a trade maj'
be a — 192.
The thousand paths that slope
the way to — 272.
When single thought is civil —
224.
Crimks, Distuigvush'd from the list of
common — 122.
Linked with one virtue and a
thousand — 147.
,, Our — would despair, 276.
,, Repentance for past — is easy,
215-
, , They that most impute a — 289.
, , Though men can cover — 294.
Cripple, Beat a — with his own
crutches, 194.
,, Comfort's a — 124.
Criterion, Speech, thought's — 234.
Critic, Be each — the good-natur'd
man, 39.
,, The name of a — 105.
Criticism, He wreathed the rod of —
with roses, 105.
Criticisms, Animals pass no — 26.
Critics all ready-made, 9.
like flocks of sheep, 53.
that others' names deface, 53.
C'ROCODiLii:, Each drop of woman's
tears would prove a — 122.
Crocus, Who would reach the rose,
treads the — under foot, 345.
Cromwell, 53.
Some — guiltless of his country's
blood, 232.
Crookk, By hooh or — 43, 296.
Cropt, Notched and — scrivener, 15.
Crow, Pluck a good — 209.
,, The — may bathe his coal-black
wings in mire, 248.
„ The — thinks her own birds the
fairest, 249.
,, Think thy swan a — 50.
We have a — to pluck, 322.
Crowd, A — is not company, 2.
,, Among the honest shoulders of
the — 23.
,, Civic manhood firm against
the — 231.
Crowd, Far from the madding — 73.
, , How vain the ardour of the — •''
"5- ^
,, We met, 'twas m a — 322.
Crowds, Truth never shows herself
in — 312.
Crown, A — by freedom shaped, 92.
,, A — if it hurts, not worth wear-
ing, 2.
,, A — or a tomb, 2.
,, A virtuous woman a — to her
husband, 15.
,, Death is the — of life, 57.
,, Deserves to wear a more re-
splendent — 102.
,, He stands near death who
stands too near a — 175.
,, Hoary head a — of glory, 258.
,, Love the brightest i&\\e\ of a —
iSS-
,, Sorrow's — of sorrow, 191.
,, The — of justice, 255.
,, The hollow — that rounds the
temples of a king, 348.
, , Uneasy lies the head that wears
a — 228.
,, Why doth the — lie there upon
his pillow, 345.
,, Woe to the — that obeys the
cowl, 349.
Crowned, Content is— 65.
Crowns are empty things, 333.
,, Fearless minds climb soonest
into — 75.
Crows, Are fair with — 63.
So shows a dove trooping
with — 107.
,, To shoot at — is powder flung
away — 308.
Cruel as death, 53.
,, I must be — only to be kind,
118.
,, No fiend so — as a reasoning
brute, 178.
Cruelty to beat a cripple with his
own crutches, 194.
Crust, Coffin'd up in — 49.
Crutch, Literature is a very bad — 147.
Crutches, Cruelty to beat a cripple
with his own — 194.
Hours in absence have — 201.
Time goes on — 297.
Cry, All — and no wool, 19.
havoc, 54.
The bubbling — 13.
The — is still, they come, 93.
With no language but a — 25.
CucK me no cuckes, 54.
Cuckoo, The — 218.
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INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Cuckoo, The tell-tale— 272.
Cucumber, That confounded — 301.
Cud, The thrice-turned — of wrath, 47.
Cunning outwits itself, 245.
Cup, Every inordinate — is unblessed,
68.
,, In folly's — 126.
,, Leave a kiss within the — 63.
,, The — of alteration, 112.
,, There is death in the — 282.
Cupid is a blind gunner, 254.
,, is a child, 150.
,, is painted blind, 153.
Cups that cheer, 54.
Cur, a puppy — 9.
,, Defamation like a vile — 120.
Cure, Ambition is no — for love, 23.
,, Give a trifle to prevent what he
would give worlds to — 344.
„ Man finds a poison where he
sought a — 161.
„ Prevention is better than — 212.
„ The deepest wounds admit a —
273-
,, Yet shun the — 19.
Cured, What cannot be — 325, 326.
Curiosity, Conquest has explored
more than — 50.
, , does make pilgrims, 55.
Currents, In the corrupted — of this
world, 128.
,, Enterprises their — ttirn awry,
SO-
Curs, Small — not regarded when they
grin, 228.
Curse, An open foe may prove a — 25.
„ Artistry's haunting — 27.
,, Ignorance is the — of God, 124.
,, Mistaken blessings prove the
greatest — 169.
,, Man's state implies a neces-
sary — 162.
Cursed be the gold, 55.
Curses like young chickens, 55.
Curtains, The — of to-morrow roll
up, 249.
, , The — of yesterday drop down,
249.
Cushion, Them as have never had a —
279.
Cushions, Honest men the — on which
knaves repose, 109.
Custom, 55.
,, A — more honoured in the
breach, 3, 132.
,, always wrong, 174,
,, in sin, 53.
,, The deadliest foe to love is —
249,
Custom to whom — is due, 215.
,, We part sadly with what —
hath endeared, 326.
Customs, Nice — court'sy to great
kings, 177.
Cut and come again, 55.
Cut my coat after my cloth, 55.
,, This was the most unkindest —
292.
Cymball, Talk a tinckling — 2.
Cynicism, intellectual dandyism, 55.
Dagger, Infirm of purpose, give me
the — 130.
,, Is this a — 131.
Daggers, There's — in men's smiles,
286.
Damn with faint praise, 55, 348.
Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, 56,
Dance attendance, 56.
Dancing, 56.
,, like wit, is best expressed, 311.
Dandyism, Intellectual— 55.
Danger deviseth shifts, 56.
,, spurre of great mindes, 56.
,, The absent — appears greater,
244.
,, The — o'er, God forgotten, 201.
,, where one is near, more remote
disappear, 338.
,, Who would run a certain — for
a doubtful prize, 344.
Dangerous, If a little knowledge is —
120.
Dangers breed fears, 56.
,, In needful — ever choose the
least, 191.
Daniel, A — come to judgment, 3.
Dake to be true, 56.
Dark, Birds meet birds and jostle in
the— 87.
Darkness and despair, 30.
,, He sees enoug! J who sees his—
98.
,, Jaws of — 41.
,, like a drunkard reels, 256.
,, The instruments of — 192.
,, There is no — but ignorance,
282.
,, Visible — 56.
Darling, The — of my manhood,
258.
Dart, Love's — is dipped in poison,
151-
,, That polishes the — 4.
Daughter, Charity, mcek-ey'd— of
the skies, 185.
, , If you have a — she's the plague
of your life, 120.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
4ig
Days,
Dead
Daughter, Marry your — when you i Dav,
can, 164.
of earth and water, 116.
,, of the gods, 3.
, , What a plague is an obstinate —
120.
Daunted, A heart u' spotted is not
easily — 6.
Daw, a — not reckoned a religious
bird, 8.
Daws, My heart upon my sleeve for —
to peck at, 120.
Dawn, The dewy star of— 48.
Day, a — in such serene enjoyment, 3.
, , A — of virtuous liberty, 3.
A pin a — 11.
, , A white — in our lives, 208.
, ,' Awake the god of — 248.
,, Breathers of an ampler — 293.
,, Casts away the glory of a well-
worn — 341.
, , Death will have his — 58.
, , Each — a life, 64.
,, Every dog must have his — 67,
247.
,, Every meanest — the conflu-
ence of two eternities, 131.
, , For ever and a — 78.
, , Honour, darling of one short —
72.
How slow the — slides on, 1 14.
, , if I squander a wavelet of thee,
193-
,, Jocund — stands tiptoe on the
mountain tops, 177.
,, Live each — as if thy last, 312.
,, Love is an April's doubting —
151-
, , May live to fight another — 242.
,, Morning shows the — 47.
,, News the manna of a — 177.
,, Night in her vaulted prison
stows the — 218.
, , Peace rules the — 205.
Sabbath the poor man's — 92.
Sufficient unto the — the evil
thereof, 237.
„ The bright — brings forth the
adder, 134.
,, The busy lark, the messenger
of — 247.
,, The gay beams of lightsome —
123.
,, The idle singer of an empty —
258.
,, The night long that never finds
the — 264.
, , The spirit walks of every —
deceased, 271.
The uncertain glory of an
April— 193.
The winged — can ne'er be
chained, 277.
There is a — of sunny rest,
281.
Time and the hour runs through
the roughest — 49.
Truth freshest in the fashion of
the — 14.
We did sleep — out of counte-
nance, 321.
We sweep into the younger —
296.
What a — may bring forth,
40.
Abridge my doleful — 57.
After his brief range of blame-
less — 279.
Fallen on evil — 71,
garish eye, 56.
Live laborious — 72.
Man is of few — 161.
The — of our youth, 193.
This wonder lasted nine — 65.
to come, III.
as a door nail, 58.
Better be with the — 36.
Breathes there a man with soul
so — 41.
Consult the — upon the things
that were, 51.
Expect no praise till you are —
70.
for a ducat, 1 13.
He mourns the — who live as
they desire, 97.
He who hath bent him o'er
the — 104.
Man not completely born till
he be— 8.
No bolts for the — 178.
Not — but gone before, 182.
The — but as pictures, 269.
The true way to mourn the —
2/4-
'i ime, thou beautifier of the —
Dead Sea Apples on the — shore, 56.
,, fruits, 56.
Dear, A man love's the thing he hath
bought most — 8.
,, Authors grow — as they grow
old, 31.
,, Forbidden wares sell twice as —
79-
,, O God, that bread should be
so — 193,
Dearer, Love is— than life, 56.
420
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Dearth, Untimely storms make men
expect — 332.
Death, 13, 57, 58, 193.
,, A — for love is martyrdom, 3.
,, A keeper back of — 52.
„ A sunburst in the storm of — 14.
„ After — the doctor, 17.
„ after life doth greatly please,
226.
„ All ways lead to — 22.
„ and dice level all distinctions,
56.
„ at last crowns love, 152.
„ Beggars mounted ride their
horses to — 35.
„ but a sure retreat from infamy,
333-
„ but entombs the body, 56.
„ Courage scorns the — 52.
,, Cruel as — 53.
,, Destroying — 306.
,, Every fear brings forth a — 202.
,, Fear is stronger than — 75.
„ Full of— as a hot wind's blight,
58.
,, gives life wings, 145.
,, has his court, 348.
,, hath a thousand doors, 57.
,, how sweet to those who weep,
"4-
,, In every partmg there is an
image of — 126.
,, in life, 185.
,, is a port, 57.
,, is immortality, 85.
,, is the longest sleep, 343.
, , is unnatiu-al that kills for loving,
241.
,, Lack of fellowship is — 75.
„ lays his icy hand on kings, 57.
„ Life is perfected in — 139.
„ Life a paradise to what we fear
of — 276.
,, Love can vanquish — 150.
„ Love is a living — 151.
„ Man has no haven till he land
at— 159.
,, nature's signal of retreat, 57.
,, Near — he stands, 175.
,, Never gallop Pegasus to — 176.
,, No alternative but — 154.
„ No life has ever truly longed
for — • 178.
,, Not to do is — 144.
,, Nothing rocks love asleep but —
184.
„ Only — can close the jealous
eyes, 116.
„ only grasps, 57.
Death only to be felt, 3.
,, Opportunity of a noble — 166.
,, pale priest, 57.
,, Quackery gives — to all things,
214.
,, Rashly importunate gone to
her — 197.
,, Sharper than the stings of— 18.
,, Sleep a boundary between—
and existence, 202.
,, Sleep brother to — 226, 227.
,, Sleep but a short — 228.
,, Sleep, thou ape of— 226.
,, sleep's ally, 226.
,, Something after— 305.
,, Sorrow the way to — 233.
,, Terror in — 139.
,, Thebadman's— is horror, 215.
,, The dim dark sea, so like
unto — 250.
,, The downward slope to — 33.
,, The dull cold ear of— 44.
,, The life Elysian whose portals
we call — 282.
,, The pain without the peace
of— 16.
„ the poor man's friend, 185.
,, The stroke of— as a lover's
pinch, 271.
,, The valiant never taste of—
52.
,, The vast democracy of— 232.
,, The vasty hall of— 275.
,, The world's an inn, and— the
journey's end, 278.
,, There is — in the pot, 282.
,, There is no — 282.
'Tis— that makes life live, 355.
, , 'Tis double— to drown in ken
of shore, 300.
,, 'Tis not the whole of— to die,
302.
,, where is thy sting, 193.
,, Who comes at last, it is but—
49-. , ,
will seize the doctor, 43.
Death-bed, 203.
Deaths, Cowards die many times
before their — 52.
Debate, The Rupert of— 268.
Debt, He pays the half who does con-
fess the — 98.
, , The borrower runs in h is own —
246.
Debtors are apt to grow shy of their
creditors' company, 332.
Debts, 228.
He that dies pays all— 99.
„ Words pay no — 352.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
421
I 'ECAY, Ajje that mells in unperceived —
24.
,, This muddy vesture of — 149.
,, Man a — 161.
Dpxeivkr, Man a— 161.
Dfxeiving, Vain to find fault with
arts of — 301.
December, Men are — when they wed,
165.
Decency, Want of — \z want of sense,
125.
Deck, To walk the monarch of her
peopled — 223.
, , When her — knocks heaven, 64.
Decree, A hot temper o'erleaps a
cold — 246.
Decrees are — dead to infliction,
200.
Deed, A — without a name, 3.
A noble aim as a noble — 10.
A poor instrument may do a
noble — 329.
Better not do the— 37.
Boast the — that breaks the
victim's heart, 247.
Divorce the feeling from the —
61.
Man's worst — 301.
One brave — makes no hero,
195-
One good — dying tongueless,
197.
This foiJ — 54.
Dkeds, a chorl is seen by his — 318.
are done for fellowship, 75.
are men, 58, 352.
are mightier than words, 39.
are the pulse of time, 58.
Blessings wait on virtuous — 39.
Fame the fragrance of heroic —
72.
Florid praise cannot blazon
evil — 181.
Foul — will rise, 80.
Great — cannot die, 89.
Ill — are doubled with an evil
word, 124.
Men want — to praise, 351.
Men's words bolder than
their— 168.
Our — determine us, 201.
Our — still travel with us from
afar, 201.
Royal — make long destinies,
218.
The place dignified by the
doer's — 82.
The sight of means to do ill —
113-
Deeds, Vanity that prompts ambition's
little — 142.
,, We live in — not words, 322.
,, Women want way to praise
their — 351.
Deep is a wounded heart, 58.
,, Smooth waters run — 229.
,, The boundless — 18.
, , You must be — to catch weasels
asleep, 355.
Defamation, 120.
Defence, Immodest words admit of
no — 126.
„ In cases of — 126.
,, Never make a — before you be
accused, 176.
,, So the proportions of — are
filled, 126.
Defend, Bravely to — is next to con-
quer, 301.
Degrees, Fine by — 76.
,, What wound ever healed but
by — 113.
Deity offended, 24.
Delay of justice is injustice, 59.
,, The law's — 305.
,, When fair occasion calls, fatal
to — 333.
Delays are dangerous, 59.
,, Long demurs breed new — 148.
Delight, Go with — to business that
we love, 305.
,, hath a joy, 59.
,, Love is a sour — 151.
,, War the priest's — 320.
Delights, To scorn — 72.
,, Violent — have violent ends,
318.
Delinquency, Every unpunished — 69.
Delinquencies, Has a family of— 69.
Demagogues, The vilest specimens
of human natiu^e found
among — 126.
Democracy, 59.
,, The vast — of death, 232.
Demonstrations, 337.
Demurs, Long — breed new delays,
148.
Den, Beard the lion in his — 56.
, , There is no — to hide a rogue,
282.
Denmark, Something rotten in the
state of — 232.
Dependent, Fortune's frail — 64.
Descent, Smile at the claims of long —
253-
,, Sorry pre-eminence of high
233.
Description, Bcggar'd all — 35.
422
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Desert, Content can rear a garden
in a — waste, 51.
„ Oh that the — were my dwell-
ing-place, 194.
f, Use man after his — who should
'scape whipping, 316.
, , With the best — goes diffidence.
67.
Deserve, Once to distrust is never
to — 195.
Desire, Hope, thou nurse of young —
III.
„ Prayer is the soul's sincere —
211.
„ The — of the moth for the star,
249.
„ The trustless wings of false —
274.
DilslRES, Women's — are thousand
miles about, 171.
Desk, A votary of the — 15.
Desolate, None utterly — 179.
Desolation, Time the lord of — 343.
Despair, Closing in darkness and — 30.
,, disdains the healing, 337.
,, Friendship can smoothe the
front of^ 81.
„ makes bad men bold, 59.
,, Mix myself with action, lest I
wither by — 118.
„ Pleasures but unveil — 335.
„ Reason with — 211.
,, Shall I, wasting in — 222.
,, The midriff of — 13.
,, To gain— 59.
Despairing, 296.
Despatch, the soul of business, 59,
284.
Despondency, Youth subject to fits
of— 185.
Despot, Man who wert once a — 161.
Destinies, Royal deeds make long —
218.
Destiny, Hanging and marriage go
by— 93-
,, It is vain to quarrel with — 303.
,, Let determined things go to —
141.
,, No man can be wiser than —
179.
Destruction, A fool's mouth is his —
4-
,, By — dwell in doubtful joy, 184.
„ Pride goeth before— 2 1 2.
Determination, A well-made man
has a good — 98.
Detraction but baseness' varlet, 40.
Dew, Stars half quenched in mists of
silver — 293.
Dew The— of thy birth, 249.
,, The world globes itself in a
drop of — 277.
,, What youth deemed crystal,
age finds out was — 330.
Dewy with nature's tear-drops, 27.
Device, High— is still the highest
force, 108.
Devil, 249.
Better sit still than rise to meet
the— 38.
Curb this cruel — of his will,
306.
Give the — his due, 85.
Hate like a — 12.
He must have a long spoon
that shall eat with the— 288.
He that boasteth of sin is a —
99.
I hate him as I hate the — 117.
Make a moral of the — 296.
Must needs, that the — drives,
97. 176.
No man means evil but the—
179.
Pays toll to the — 104.
Religion's self must have a
spice of — 329.
take the hindmost, 59.
Tell truth and shame the — 240.
The careful — 336.
The — hath some good in him,
323-
The — sends us cooks, 87.
The ingredient a — 68.
We paint the — foul, 323.
We shall know the — by his
horns, 199.
Wedlock's the — 295.
When most I play the^ 26.
Where God hath a temple, the
— hath a chapel, 337.
Devils, Better the — than a woman's
slave, 38.
,, When — will the blackest sin
put on, 332.
Devotion, 60.
,, All is holy where — kneels, 106.
,, Curiosity does no less than —
55-
,, The — to something afar, 249.
Devotion's every grace, 113.
Dial, True as the— to the sun, 311.
Diamond me no diamonds, 54.
Diamonds cut — 60.
Dian's temple, 47.
Dice, Death and — 56.
,, Keep a gamester from the —
137-
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
423
Dido. When— found ^Eneas would
not come, 333.
Die, And sluill Trelawny — 26.
Better once to — than still to
fear, 300.
Better to — than live with
shame, 38.
Better to — than see Time's
cliange, 193.
Born but to — 41.
Great spirits never — 90.
He is not valiant that dares —
96.
He that begins to live begins
to — 99.
He that rightly lives will
nobly — 96.
I change but I cannot — 116.
Infamy to — and not be missed,
301.
It IS as natural to— as to be
bom, 132.
Let us do or — 143.
Only they know how to live,
who live to — 199.
Still harder lesson, how to —
240.
There is a tear for all who —
281.
Those who bravely — 131.
Those who teach to — 293.
To — is to live, 128.
To — the surest way to live,
158.
Diet, Your worm is the only emperor
for— 356.
Difference, The — is too nice, 250.
Difficulty, Every— yields to the
enterprising, 67.
Diffidence, With the best desert
goes — 67.
Digestion, Good — wait on appetite,
88.
„ Things sweet to taste, soiu: in —
291.
,, Wedlock a pill, hard of — 324.
Digestions, Unquiet meals make ill —
316.
Dight, Storied windows richly — 60.
Dignity be2;ins where boasting ends,
337-
„ Clay differs m — 48.
,, Female — 308.
„ Man's daily work declares his —
j:;9.
,, The — of the commandment,
250.
,, There's a — in labour, 285.
Dinner. A fat lapdog after — 63.
Dinner, Better a— of herbs, 37.
, , Much depends on — 226.
,, Truth peeps over the glass's
edge when — is done, 313.
Dinner-bell, The — 273.
Direct, Who can — when all pretend
to know, 340.
Direction, All chance — aa
of speech, 59.
Dirty work, 30.
Disappointments, Ambition has its —
23-
,, restless child, 7a
Disasters, 60.
Disbelief, Faith implies — of a lesser
fact, yi
DisCHORD makes the sweetest airs, 60.
Discomforting, Through much-
men fall into despair, 296.
DiscoMMENDETH, He who Others
obliquely— 104.
Discontent, Adversity breeds — 152.
,, An age of splendid — 3.
,, is want of self-reliance, 60.
,, Our — is from comparison, 201.
,, The winter of our — 184,
Discontentment, Presuming favour-
ites bring — 90.
Discord, All — harmony, 2a
Discourse, Wine gives a pleasant
flavour to — 346.
Discretion, A fair woman without —
27,
, , Covering — with a coat of folly,
52.
„ goes a gentle pace, 60.
,, is always required, 137.
,, Let your — be your tutor, 143.
,, That honourable stop, not to
outsport — 143.
,, the better part of valour, 345.
Discussion, Political — 127.
Disease, Before the coming of a
strong— 35.
,, Evil spreads as necessarily as —
69.
,, Life's an incurable — 142.
,, The remedy worse than the —
267.
Diseases desperate grown, 60,
,, I will turn commodity to — 5.
, , Poison a remedy in some — 209.
Disgrace, Men are always honest
in— 77.
Disguise Honesty, needs no — 76.
Dish, Welcome makes scarce one
dainty — 14.
Dishonesty, Natural— 24,
Disposition, A gentle— 106.
424
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Disposition, A man's— 9.
Disproportions break harmony, 90.
Disputation, He'd run in debt by —
95-
Dispute, Could we forbear — 52.
,, The tree of knowledge blasted
by — 273.
Dissension between hearts that love,
18.
,, Civil — is a viperous worm,
48.
DissEWSiONS like small streams be-
gin, 61.
Dissimulation, Artificial — 24.
Dissipation, From — we learn to enjoy
solitude, 208.
Dissolve, The bands of life — 52.
Distance lends enchantment to the
view, 61.
,, Notes by — made more sweet,
61.
Distinctions, Level all — 56.
Distress exalts our mercy, 94.
,, Presence of mind and courage
in — 211.
,, Virtue in — 318.
,, What gay — 45.
Distressed, Religion a comfort to
the— 180.
Distrust, Once to — is never to de-
serve, 195.
,, When — enters at the foregate,
333.
Ditch, Die in the last — 6a
Diver, The— 314,
Dividing, By — we fall, 43.
Divine, A kick may kill a sound — 6.
,, Government makes women
seem — 299.
,, We become — 43.
Divinity, There's a — that shapes our
ends, 285.
,, There's such a — doth hedge a
king, 288.
,, They say there is — in odd
numbers, 289.
" Do this," When Csesar says — 332.
Doctor, After death the — 17.
,, Death will seize the — 43.
,, God and the — 201.
„ Hood an ass in purple, he shall
pass for a — no.
Doctors, 294.
,, Who shall decide when — dis-
agree, 343.
Doctrine, Better heresy of — 37.
Dorrs, Talkers never great — 90, 237,
239-
Dog, a hair of the — 5.
Dog, a living — better than a dead
lion, 7, 8.
„ A mastiff — 9.
„ Every— must have its day, 67,
247.
,, Help your lame — o'er a stile,
107.
,, His faithful — shall bear him
company, 291.
,, Holdfast is the only — 312.
„ I had rather be a — 117.
,, Impatience does become a —
that's mad, 205.
,, Is thy servant a — 131.
,, It is evil waking a sleeping —
133-
,, Love me, love my — 153.
„ not savage because its hair is
rough, 131.
„ Staff quickly found to beat a—
14.
Dogs of war, 54.
,, Throw physic to the — 296.
Doing, or suffering, 305.
Dollar, The almighty— 244.
Dominion, Man's — has broken nature's
social union, 162.
Done, Deeds let escape never to be—
58.
,, If it were well — 121.
,, What's — cannot be undone,
331-
Doom, Guilt meets a — 77.
,, Regardless of their — 18.
,, To the crack of — 346.
Doomsday, Every day is — 179.
Door, A— without a lock, 3.
,, Every — is barred with gold, 67.
,, Life knocked laughing at the—
144.
„ Love gains the shrine when
pity opes the — 207.
„ The grim porter watches
every— 339.
„ Who writes a ballad for an ale-
house — 340.
Door-nail, Dead as a — 58.
Doors, Death hath a thousand — 57.
Dotage, 20.
Doubt, Experience leaves no room
for — 219.
,, is cowaidice, 19.
,, More faith in honest — 285.
,, Never stand to — 31.
,, Uncurscd by— our earliest
creed we take, 315.
,, Where — is, truth is, 342.
Doubts, Our — are traitors, 201.
,, Who knows most — most, 342.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
42?
Douglas. The — in his hall, 56.
DovK, So shows a snowy — 107.
The — may murmur of the —
248.
Who will not Thange a raven
for a — 344.
Doves will peck in safeguard of their
brood, 269.
Dower, Heart is woman's — 159.
Down, He that is — need fear no fall,
100.
,, The stain upon his silver — 248.
Draffe, The still sow eats up all the —
271.
Drama, The— 296.
Draught, Slavery a bitter — 61.
Drawing-rooms, 8.
Dread, Sable night, mother of — 218.
Dreadful, All things less — than they
seem, 21.
Drkam, a change came o'er my — 2.
A — within a — 21.
, , Hope the — of those that wake,
III.
, , Life a — in death's eternal sleep,
143-
Love's young — 287.
Men — in courtship, iii.
,, The gnat oan break our — 273.
To sleep, perchance to — 305.
Dream-theorem, Philosophical sys-
tems a — 339.
Dreams, children of an idle brain, 63.
,, Fanatics have their — 72.
,, grow holy put in action, 62.
,, Love a golden bubble full of —
151-
,, of truth, 63.
,, Thoughts are but — 295.
,, We are such stuff as — are
made of, 202.
Dress, 293.
,, A gaudy — 4.
,, A peasant's — befits a peasant's
fortune, 10.
,, covers the mortal body, 63.
Dresser, Spilled beans on a — 59.
Dressing, Less in the poet's wit, than
the player's — 284.
Drest in a little brief authority, 63.
Drink, Cannot make a horse — 8.
,, makes men hungry, 63.
,, pretty creature, 63.
,, to me only with thine eyes, 63.
,, They never taste who always —
289.
Drones suck not eagles' blood, 63.
Drop, Our bounty like a — of water, 41.
Dross, Each ounce of — 64.
Drunk, He that killeth a mnn — loi.
,, He that's — o'ernif^lit, 63.
,, It is a duty to lead the — 132.
,, Man, being reasonable, must
get— 158.
,, Not necessary to l)e — to relish
drunkenness, 133.
Drunkenness, darling favourite of
hell, 63.
,, Not necessary to be drunk to
relish — 133.
Dry, Drunk o'ernight i' the morning's —
63-
Ducat, Dead for a — 113.
Due, Give the devil his — 85.
Dues, Render to all their — 215.
Duke of Windlestraw, Naked —
148.
Dull as a twice-told tale, 63.
,, as an alderman at church,
63-
, , is the jester, 63.
Dulness, Gentle — loves a joke, 84.
,, The — of the fool, 250.
Dumb, Better — than superstitious, 36.
,, jewels move a woman's mind,
63-
Dumpling, Creation of a world little
more mysterious than cook-
ing of a — 131.
Dupe, Man a — 161.
Durance, In — vile, 126.
Dust, Actions of the just blossom in
the — 199.
,, All the ways of men but — 21.
,, are our frames, 63.
„ Gilded— 63.
„ Give the grave its kindred —
193-
,, Gold's gold, though dim in
the— 88.
,, Life makes the soul dependent
on the — 145.
, , Provoke the silent — 44.
Whose — is both alike, 48.
Dust-heap, That great— called his-
tory, 241.
Duties, Property has its — 213.
,, well-performed and days well-
spent, 189.
Duty, At twenty she mocks at the —
you taught her, 120.
,, Children, the symbol of marri-
age between love and — 147.
,, Do the — which lies nearest
thee, 62.
,, hath no place for fear, 225.
,, He gives nothing who gives
from a sense of — 95.
426
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Duty is a path which all may tread,
139-
Love is kin to — 152.
Nothing so lowly but — giveth
it importance, 284.
Some sense of — 231.
The — a woman oweth to her
husband, 237.
The path of — is the way to
glory, 182.
The path of — leads to happi-
ness, 265.
Use, a better soldier than—
316.
Who promotes his country's
welfare best proves his —
200.
Duty's basis, 63.
Dwell, In extremes to — 12.
Dwelling, A Godhead's — 22.
Dwelling-place, That the desert
were my — 194.
Dye, Gives sin a lovely — 53.
,, I will stand the hazard of the —
118.
Dying, Wine, that makes the — strong,
346.
Dyke, Little rat that borest in the—
x8.
Each, 64.
Eagle, A hooded — among blinking
owls, 6.
,, A lover's eye will gaze an — 8.
„ An — clang an — to the sphere,
248.
, , Like a young — who has lent his
plume, 241.
„ So the struck — stretch'd upon
the plain, 241.
,, The foresight of the — 303.
,, The sharded beetle a safer hold
than the — 192.
Eagles are gazed upon by every eye,
248.
,, Drones suck not — blood, 63.
„ Shall — not be — 222.
,, What — we are in other men's
matters. 1 12.
,, Wrens prey where — dare not
perch, 278.
Ear, A flea in his — 4.
,, A knavish speech in a foolish —
7-
„ A sovereign's — 13.
„ A word in your — 16.
„ Give every man thine — 84.
„ Like a rich jewel in an ifethi-
op's — 107.
Ear, None please the fancy who
offend the — 94.
,, One— heard it, 196.
„ The dull cold — of death, 44.
,, The — trieth words, 250.
,, The toll of funeral in an
angel's — 279.
,, The wrong sow by the — 279.
,, You cannot make a silk purse
out of a sow's — 354.
Earnest, All must be — 2a
,, Life is — 145.
Ears, Forests have — 79.
,, Friends, Romans, countrymen,
lend me your — 81.
,, He that goes to law holds a
wolf by the — 99.
^, Let the sound of music creep
in our — 114.
„ Like softest music to attend-
ing— 114.
,, Pitchers have — 206, 229.
„ The wagging of an ass's — 40.
,, The woods have many — 277.
,, Walls have — 320.
„ With ravish'd — the monarch
hears, 348.
Earth, A paradise of — 10.
„ An added beauty to the — 104. ,
„ For — too dear, 107.
„ If that the — could teem with
woman's tears, 122.
„ Is there on — a space so dear,
131-
„ Lards the lean — 140.
,, Making — an hell, 126.
,, Men differ as Heaven and —
165.
„ Morn sow'd the — with orient
pearl, 185.
„ Nothing but crosses on the —
49.
,, ocean, air, 64.
„ She had given her all on —
107.
„ The noblest thing on — 65.
„ Two paces of the vilest — 125.
,, We are ancients of the — 321.
„ We love the — because of our
childhood, 321.
„ Words are the daughters of—
352.
Earthly fame, 64.
Ease finds tediousness, 310.
,, Grief finds some — 91.
„ He lives at — that freely lives
97-
„ He's best at — that meddleth
least, 98.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
427
Rase, He writes well who thinks
witli — 105.
leads to habit, 6^.
Must do what otliers do with —
344-
None but beggars live at — 181.
Prodigal of — 31.
Some — it is, hid sorrows to
declare, 231.
Take mine — at mine inn, 222.
'Tis — our sorrows to reveal,
91.
East is — and west is west, 193.
Easy as lying, 28.
,, Be — 32.
Eat, I'll make you — your words, 65.
Eaten me out of house and home, 65.
Eating the bread of banisliment, 65.
Echo, A name's mere — 14.
answers, where? 65.
Applaud to the very — 27.
Fame's but a hollow — 72.
Fame's loudest trump leaves
but a dying — 72.
lost and languishing, 146.
Sounds that still — 56.
The cave where — lies, 40.
will repeat, 320.
Ecstasy, To lie in restless — 36.
Eden birds of early youth, 63.
Edge, The children's teeth are set
on — 251.
,, Truth peeps over the glass's —
313-
Edged tool, 14.
Editor, Every able — a ruler of the
world, 89.
Education forms the common mind,
300.
,, It's a bad sort of — makes folk
unreasonable, 244.
,, makes the man, 65.
,, The world exists for the — of
each man, 277.
Eel, As slippery as an — 29.
,, The — of science by the tail,
130.
Effeminate, None but those whose
courage is unquestionable
can afford to be — 181.
Effort, The smallest — is not lost,
269.
Efforts, The greatest — traceable to
love of praise, 256.
Egg, Opportunity an unfecundated —
327-
,, The plain — of the nightingale,
337-
Eggs. As like as— 28.
Egress, Our — from the world, 201.
Egypt, Corn in — 51.
Egyptians, They spoiled the — 234.
Either, How happy could I be with—
112.
Elbow, Out at— 203.
Elbow-chairs, Convenience sug-
gested— 175.
Elect, Censure, the mark of the — 46.
Election, In the— of a wife, to err is
to be undone, 128.
Elemental, All subsists by— strife,
20.
Elements, Passions the— of life, 20.
,, The — so mixed up in him, 292.
Elephant, The — is never won with
anger, 250.
Elizabeth, Great — 56.
, , The spacious times of great —
270.
Elixir, The best — is a friend, 245.
Elm, The — 275.
Eloquence, Copiousness of words is
false — 51.
,, Discretion of speech more
than — 60.
„ In misery's — relief, 354.
,, Let my looks be then my — 186.
,, Talking and — not the same,
239-
Eloquent, Love makes those that
have it — 149.
,, Men are more — than women
made, 165.
,, The form alone is — 253.
Embrace, Arms take your last — 70.
Embroidery, The wise admire the
mind's — 134.
Eminence makes envy rise, 300.
Eminent, Censure, the tax of being —
46.
Emperor, Your worm is the only — for
diet, 356.
Empire is a feather for a fool, 65.
,, Love knows no other but his
own — 151.
Man must rule the — of him-
self, 161.
,, My mind to me an — is, i"2.
,, Woman's bright — 339.
Emotion comes from nature, 82.
Emotions, The proud love no spectator
to their — 266.
Employment, The hand of little — 257.
Employments, Wishing is the worst
of all— 347.
Emulate the Greek and Roman
name, 16.
Enchanting spirit, dear variety, 65.
428
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Enchantment, Distance lends — to
the view, 6i.
Encouragement, Desire with — grows
bold, 59-
End, Attempt the— 31.
„ Love is life's — 15a.
,, me no ends, 54.
„ Shall vain words have an — 222.
„ The — crowns all, 250.
„ The — must justify the means,
250.
„ 'Tis not the fight that crowns
us, but the — 123.
„ To be happy is man's chief —
304-
„ Universal cause acts to one —
274.
„ Who keeps one — m view, 342.
Endeavour, Where there is no hope,
there can be no — 339.
,, Wing'd day can ne'er be
chained by man's — 277.
Endowments, Any man's excellent —
72.
Ends, Delays have dangerous — S9'
„ For ever nobler — 293.
„ Greatness and goodness not
means but — 91.
„ Govern and carry her to her —
64.
„ Men's — more marked, 170.
„ Most poor matters point to
rich — 280.
,, There's a divinity doih shape
our — 285.
„ Things will work to — 291.
„ We may our— from our be-
ginnings know, 357.
With old odd— 26.
Endurance, Patient — is god-like, 232.
,, the crowning quality, 65.
Endured, What can't be cured, must
be — 325, 326.
Enemies, Friends are more dangerous
than— 81.
„ It's foolishness to tun down
your — 135.
„ No man can count his — who
suddenly rises, 345.
Enemy, A thing devised by (he — 14.
,, A weak invention of the — 14.
,, Be able for thine — 149.
„ Conscience is a domestic — no.
„ Honour is a public — no.
„ How goes the — 1 12.
„ Security is mortals chiefest —
220.
f, The greatest — to man is man,
3561
Enemy, 'Tis best to weigh the— 126.
,, To be obliged past payment to
an — 300.
,, To exult o'er an — oppressed,
306.
,, When a man is his own — 331.
Energy, Ridicule is the stifler of all—
217.
Engineer hoist with his own petard
303.
Engines, Mortal — whose rude
throats, 74-
England, 32,
,, Hail to the state of — 92.
,, If — to herself do rest but true,
175-
,, If the head and heart of — were
one, 121.
,, keep my bones, 106.
„ like a little body with a mighty
heart, 185.
„ Men of — 167.
,, mother of parliaments, 65.
„ Nor can one — brook a double
reign, 314.
„ That knuckle end of — 220,242.
„ The capital of — 242.
„ The people of — 265.
,, The stately homes of — 271.
„ What should they know of —
who only — know, 329.
English, English flag stayed on the
bones of the — 177.
„ 'Tis the talent of our — nation,
303.
,, Well of — undefyled, 55.
Englishman, 5, 24.
Englishmen, Liberty the chartered
right of— 143.
Enough as good as a feast, 65.
Enslaved, All spirits are — 20.
Enterprises, Impediments to great—
100.
,â– of great pith and moment, 50,
SOS-
Enterprising, Every difficulty yields
to the — 67.
Entertainment, Do not dull thy
palm with — 85, 253.
Enthusiasm, Science the antidote to
the poison of — 219.
,, the genius of sincerity, 66.
,, the leaping of lightning, 66.
Enthusiast, The — wins or regene-
rates a state, 266.
Envy, 10, 66.
„ Base — withers at another's joy,
32.
„ Eminence makes — rise, 300.
INDEX OF SUByECTS,
429
Envy, Expect not praise without — 70.
,, grows in proportion with fame,
348.
,, Not more by — than excess of
praise, 71.
,, What magic can assuage a
woman's — 328.
Epochs, Actions are our — 17.
Equal, An Englishman suffers no
stranger to be his — 24.
,, in true marriage Hes, 65.
Equality breeds faction, 66.
,, In a general state of — 133.
,, is no rule in love's grammar,
66.
,, The true standard of — 274.
Equals, Friendship only exists be-
tween — 81.
Erase, Error a scribbled sheet on which
we must first — 123.
Err, Art may — 27.
,, Re;is'ning but to — 41.
,, To — is human, 306.
Error, A double — sets us right, 3.
,, a hardy plant, 66.
,, a positive fact, 124.
,, All men liable to — 19.
„ By — we know things falsely,
43-
„ is a scribbled sheet, 123.
„ is immense, 313.
„ melancholy's child, 186.
„ No anguish like an — of which
we are ashamed, 282.
„ One thing to show a man he is
in— 134.
„ There is no — but has in it
some truth, 282.
„ There is no — but has had its
professors, 282.
,, We, erring, still find excuse
for — 190.
„ wounded writhes in pain, 312.
Errors, A monarch's — are forbidden
game, 14.
„ Good men sometimes warmly
engaged in — 88.
,, If to her share some female —
fall, 123.
„ upon the surface flow, 66.
Estate, Envy the smoke of low — 66.
, , Fallen from his high — 71.
,, Small shots paid often waste a
vast — 147.
EsTEKM, An honest bard's — 279.
,, Live a coward in thine own —
353-
„ My dearest meed a friend's —
17%
Esteem, The deep fixed soil of — 81.
,, What takes our heart must
merit our — 329.
,, What's built upon — 331.
Ethereal mildness, 49.
Eternal, An — now, 24.
,, Hope springs — in the human
breast, in.
„ The— soil, 66.
Eternities, Every day the confluence
of two — 131.
Eternity, Silence is of — 234.
,, Time is — begun, 298.
Ether, The spotless — of a maiden
life, 271.
Ethiopian, Can the — change his
spots, 45.
Europe, Better fifty years of — 37, 296.
,, "The glory of — is extinguished
for ever, 244.
Eve, Since — ate apples, 226.
,, The fairest of her daughters —
17-
,, When Adam delved and —
span, 332.
Event, Heaviness foreruns the good —
17-
Events are the best calendars, 145.
,, Bad — peep out of the tail of
good purposes, 31.
,, Coming — cast their shadows
before, 49.
Ever, I go on for — 166.
Evermore, Thanks— 67,
Everything, Politeness gains — 209.
,, that lives, lives not alone, 69.
Evil, 20, 69.
,, A smaller — allowed to procure
greater good, 125.
,, Good touch'd up with — 329.
,, He who does — that good may
come, 104.
„ is half cured whose cause we
know, 241.
,, Man creates the — he endures,
158.
,, Money the root of all — 260.
,, Most — from doctors and
imagination flows, 272.
„ Nothing so — but may be con
verted to purposes of good,
209.
„ Pain is no — unless it conquers
us, 204.
„ The — that men do lives after
them, 81, 251.
,, 'Vice lost half its — 317.
„ Who seeth not the filthiness
of— 343-
430
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Evils, Don't let us make imaginary —
62.
,, Of two — I have chose the
least, 191.
Example a lesson all men can read,
69.
,, leads us, 70.
,, One foul sentence doth more
hurt than foul — 197.
Examples draw when precept fails, 69.
Excel, No crime so great as daring
to— 178.
, , Where none admire, 'tis useless
to— 338.
Excellence, There are some faults
nearly allied to — 280.
Excellent, Base envy hates the — 32.
Excess, 70, 307.
, , Blindness the first-born of — 40.
,, of praise, 71.
Exchange no robbery, 70.
Exchequer , Thanks the — of the poor,
67, 241.
Exclamations, Things past recovery
are hardly cured with — 291.
Excuse, A bad — better than none, i.
Executioner, Revenge proves its
own — 216.
Exercise, 29.
, , Reading is to the mind what —
is to the body, 214.
Existence, Fellow-feeling with all
forms of — 250.
,, Love is woman's whole — 162.
,, Sleep a boundary between
death and — 214.
Time wasted is — 299.
Exits, For men to take their — 57.
Expect not praise, 70.
Expectation oft fails, 192.
,, The— of finding many friends,
204.
Experience, 70.
,, He hazardeth that waxeth wise
by — 96.
„ It is costly wisdom that is
bought by — 133.
„ Learning teacheth more than —
141.
„ Moment's insight worth a
life's — 9.
„ No man's knowledge can go
beyond his — 179.
„ Sad — leaves no room for
doubt, 219.
„ Tho dirty nurse — 250.
Experienced, Poets sympathise with
what they have never — 122.
Explanations, Do not survive— 133.
Express, He that is but able to— 100.
Extremes, 70.
,, Fame impatient of — 71.
,, Love in — can never endure,
150.
Extremity, False hope lingers in — 52.
Exult, To — o'er an enemy oppressed,
306.
Eve, a woman's — 338.
,, April's in her — 244.
,, Care keeps his watch in every
old man's — 131.
,, Dead sea fruits that tempt
the— 56.
,, Day's garish — 56.
„ Eagles are gazed upon will)
every — 248.
,, Far from — far from heart, 75.
,, Heaven in her — 89.
,, In the twinkling of an — 129.
,, Keepmeas the apple of thine —
138.
,, Love's special lesson to please
the — 156.
„ nature's walks, 70.
„ on— 288.
,, Take some new infection to
thy — 196.
,, The critic — 248.
„ The — is traitor to the heart,
251.
,, The — of childhood, 303.
,, The heavenly rhetoric of
thine — 287.
„ The inward — the bliss of soli-
tude, 242.
,, The mind sees beyond the —
262.
,, The sleepy — 141.
,, To contemplation's sober —
306.
, , To glad me with its soft black —
193-
,, To the mayne — 22.
,, While beauty's pensive — 342.
,, Who but lovers can discourse
viith the — 325.
Eyes, A Uw angry words don't give
black — 329.
,, A lover's — 8.
,, A suppressed resolve will be-
tray itself in the — 14.
,, by tears speak, 240.
„ Drink to me only with thine —
63-
,, Fields have — 79.
,, Her — are homes of silent
prayer, 107.
,, look voiu" last, 70.
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
431
Kyks, Love a fire sparkling in
lovers' — 151.
Love looks not with the — 153.
Love's tongue is in the — 156.
Only human — can weep, 199.
Our— are sentinels unto our
judgments, 201.
Our soul much further than
our — can see, 294.
Read their history in a
nation's — 214.
Rhetoric of persuading — 17.
Shook the holy water from
her — 223.
Sleep dwell upon thine — 227.
The outward — present the
object, 135.
Those — which burn through
smiles, 293.
Through the hollow — of death,
66.
to the blind, 70.
To wink with both our — 306.
Two — see better than one,
163.
What at a distance charms
our — 230.
While man has — 339.
Woman's bright story is told
in her — 158.
, , Young men's love lies in their —
356-
Fabric, Siiake the — of his folly, 355.
Fack, Care will make a — 27.
,, False — must hide, 71.
,, He looks the whole world in
the^ 25.
,, Heaven lent an angel's beauty
to her— 334.
,, Honest labour bears a lovely —
109.
,, I'd set my ten commandments
in your — 51.
,, 111 may a sad mind forge a
merry — 124.
,, Knavery's plain — 138.
,, Look on her — 123.
,, Paint your — 62.
,, The — ofevery one is a mystery,
251-
,, The schoolboy with his shining
morning — 276.
,, To find the mind's construction
in the— 286.
Packs, A sea of upturned — 220.
,, but a gallery of pictures, 2.
,, I'oor women's — their own
faults' books, 294.
Faces, Sweet — make good fellows
fools, 238.
Fact, Belief the soul of — 30.
,, Error a positive — 124.
,, Faith implies disbelief in a
lesser — 71.
,, Fiction hath a wider scope
than — 311.
Faction, disappointment's restless
child, 70.
,, Equality breeds scrupulous —
66.
Facts, In this life we want nothing
but — 129.
,, Indebted to his imagination
for his — 268.
Faculties, In the soul are many
lesser — 129.
, , of men must express themselves
by art, 337.
Faculty, Our imaginative — king over
us, 182.
Fade, All that's bright must — 20.
Fail, Youth, beauty, graceful action
seldom — 356.
Failures, 92.
Fair, Arms are — 27.
,, Die because a woman's-^ 222.
,, Faults that are rich and — 74.
,, If she be not — to me, 222.
,, None are — but who are kind,
181.
„ None but the brave deserves
the— 181.
„ None without hope e'er loved
the brightest — 181.
,, She's — whose beauty makes
her gay, 224.
,, Take the — unawares, 355.
,, Were woman never so — 324.
Fairest, Tlie crow thinks her black
birds — 249.
Fairness, To doubt her — 306.
Faith, 280.
,, always implies disbelief, 71,
,, and unfaith, 126.
,, builds a bridge, 71.
,, Call no — false, 44-
,, Fanatic — 71.
,, is in fulness or nought, 154.
,, Love laughs at — 8i.
,, No longer by implicit — we err,
T78.
,, Our airy — 28.
,, Our — comes in moments, aoi.
,, .Simple — more than Norman
blood, 128.
,, Tiiere are no tricks in simple —
280, 334.
432
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Faith, There lives more — in honest
doubt, 285.
„ Trust not him who has once
broken his — 312.
,, unfaithful, 108.
9, Whose foundation is piled upon
his — 355.
„ Woman's — written in dust,
350.
,, Your — once plighted, 56.
Faiths, Men's — are as wafer cakes,
312.
Falcons, If all the world were — 222.
Fall, Better go afoot than ride and —
38.
,, between two stools, 38.
,, Birds quick to fledge, quick
to— 39.
„ By dividing we — 43.
„ Hasty climbers catch a — 94.
,, He that climbs highest has the
greatest — 99.
„ He that is down need fear no —
100.
„ O what a — was there, 188.
„ Pride must have a — 212.
„ Who bravely dares must risk
a— 340.
Fallen, How are the mighty — iii.
Falling, What a — off was there, 324.
Falls, Some — means the happier to
arise, 231.
„ Who — for love of God, 341.
,, Who — in honourable strife,
341-
False, All not — which seems a lie, 19.
,, man hath sworn, 53.
,, Men who to themselves are —
107.
,, The — sincere, 220.
, , Were woman never so — 324.
Falsehood and flattery, 306.
,, and fraud, 71.
,, hath a goodly outside, 189.
,, hath no might against truth, 31,
,, leaves a poison stain, '/j.
„ Love cannot feed on — 150.
„ Some — mingles with all truth,
231.
„ There is truth in — 285.
,, Time's glory to unmask — 299.
,, Wedded fast to some dear — 71.
„ With guile of thankful — 72.
,, worse in kings than beggars, 71.
,, Your bait of — 356.
Falsehoods, Blunt truths more mis-
chief than — do, 40.
Falseness, Weakness need never be —
333-
Falstaff lards the lean earth, 140.
Fame, 71, 72.
,, a breath, 204.
,, A great — as prejudicial as an
evil, 315.
, , A pa ge records the fall of — 114.
,, Above all Greek and Roman —
16.
,, Acquire too high a — 38.
,, Blush to find it — 61.
,, Chief heroes in the sacred list
of — 167.
,, Contempt of — begets contempt
of virtue, 51.
,, dearer is than gold, 56.
,, Drying up a single tear has
more honest — 250.
, , Earthly — a frail dependent on
fortune, 64.
,, Envy grows in proportion
with — 348.
,, Eternal beadroll of — 55.
,, Grant me honest — 279.
, , Happy the man who has never
known — 93.
,, He lives in — that dies in
virtue's cause, 97.
,, Love of — 287.
,, Man dreams of — 158.
,, Man fond of nothing more
than breath of — 160.
,, Man's true — 251.
,, On this foundation will I build
my — 16.
,, Our rival's hurts create our —
125.
,, Risen on liberty's nuns to —
73-
,, the bait of flattering knaves,
328.
,, the breath of fools, 328.
,, The dull reward of futiu-e —
145-
,, The — a man makes for himself
is best, 251.
,, The — of success remains, 251.
,, Who builds a church to God
and not to — 340.
Familiar, Be thou — but by no means
vulgar, 33, 85.
Familiarity begets coldness, 72.
Families, In the best regulated — 16.
Family, A — of delinquencies, 69.
,, 111 thrives the hapless — 124.
Famine can smile, 72.
Famous, I'll make thee — by my sword,
118.
Fanatics have their dreams, 7a.
Fancy, 72, 73, 129, 177.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
433
Fancy, None please the — who offend
the ear — 94.
,, Not expressed in — 51.
,, Of most excellent — 18.
,, So full of shapies is — 229.
„ Sweet and bitter — 47.
,, Who lives to — 342.
, , Women love out of — 351.
Fancy-free, In maiden meditation —
127.
Far, He seems so near and yet so —
103.
Far-fetch'd, 73.
Fardels, Who would — bear, 305.
Fare thee well, and if for ever, 73.
Farewell, Goes out sighing — 298.
,, Our first and last — 279.
,, the tranquil mind, 74.
to all my greatness, 73,
Farthing, Any gilt — 278.
Fashion, 74.
,, guides us still, 61.
, , The glass of — 254,
,, Truth freshest in — of the day,
14.
Fashions, Old — please me best, 195.
Fast, Surfeit the father of much— 238.
Fat, Laugh and be — 140.
„ The — is in the fire, 251.
„ We — ourselves for maggots,
356.
„ Who drives — oxen should
be— 341.
Fate, All are architects of — 18.
,, Ambition doth cause its own
sure — 157.
„ Big with the — of Rome, 39.
,, Big with the — of Europe, 39.
„ God fits for — 293.
„ He fears his — 95.
„ Invisible spirits play prelude
of our — 93.
„ laughs at probabilities, 74.
„ Leave the rest to — 244.
,, Life a bumper filled by — 144.
,, Live with a thrifty, not a
needy — 147.
„ Man's — and woman's, con-
tending powers, 211.
„ Men at some time masters of
their — 165.
„ never wounds more d' ep, 74.
„ O curst — of all conspiracies,
188.
„ Take a bond of — 118.
(, Tempted— will leave the loftiest
star, 240.
M That eagle's— and mine are
one. 241.
2
Fate, The power of time and — 229.
,, The vulgar falls and none
laments his — 276.
,, There are some moments in
our — 280.
,, They have conquered — 290.
„ To bear is to conquer our —
305-
,, When — summons, 19.
,, Will in us over-ruled by — 135.
,, Wives are sold by — 127.
Fates, 111 — may hurt us, 121.
,, The — are just, 251.
Father, A wise son maketh a glad —
15-
„ Avarice of everything is no-
thing's— 31.
„ Cowards — cowards, 52.
,, It is a wise — 132.
, , Who would be a — 344.
Fathers, The — have eaten sour
grapes, 251.
,, We think our — fools, 323.
Fault, A — which needs it most, 56.
„ He is all — that hath no — 96.
„ He that doth one — at first,
56.
„ If lovers should mark every-
thing a — 121.
„ Immoderate valour swells into
a — 125.
„ In vain to find a — 301.
„ The unknown — 251.
,, Where springs the — 338.
Faults, A subiect may proclaim a
subject's — 14.
„ Bad men excuse their — 31.
„ Be a little blind to her — 33.
„ Conscience has not strength to
prevent — 51.
„ Free from all — 243,
„ in beauty conspicuous grow,
125-
„ Men's — seldom to themselves
appear, 167.
„ Our — whip our virtues, 276.
„ Parents wink at children's —
154-
„ Poor women's faces their*—
books, 294.
„ Shame derides them who
cover — 298.
tt Some — nearly allied to ex-
cellence, 280.
„ that are rich and rare, 74.
„ What a world of vile ill-fav-
oured — 190.
Favour, If you intend to have — 355,
,, Kissing goes by — 138.
434
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Favour, Poor wretches that depend on
greatness' — 138.
,, To alter — ever is to fear, 304.
Favourite, A — has no friend, 3.
,, Drunkenness the darling — 63.
Favourites discontentment bring,
90.
Favours, A prince's — fall on few, 11.
,, How wretched the man who
hangs on princes' — 73.
,, Many deserve not, yet axe
steeped in — 163.
,, People's feelings can't be cured
with — 334.
Fawning, That in his — bites, 95.
Fe, fo, and fum, 76.
Fear admitted into public councils,
125.
and be slain, 306.
Blind — 40.
British forces unused to — 42.
Defect of judgment cure of —
59-
Dire is the omen when the
valiant — 60.
Duty hath no place for — 225.
Entertaining hope means re-
cognising — 342.
Every blast brings forth a —
202.
Every — brings forth a death,
202.
Hate casts out — 150.
hath a hundred eyes, 74.
He that is void of — loa
is like a cloak, 74,
is my vassal, 52.
Knowledge is the antidote to —
139-
Let them — bondage who are
slaves to — 143.
Love casts out — 150.
Love more prevalent than — 75.
Near acquaintance doth di-
minish reverent — 175.
Nothing so rash as — 183.
of the Lord the beginning of
wisdom, 251.
oppresseth, strength, 306.
Perfect love casteth out — 205.
Resignation tempers — 216.
Sable night, mother of dread
and — 218.
stronger than death, 75.
The brave man is not he who
feels no — 246.
They who have much to lose
have much to — 290.
To whom — is due, 215.
Fear too far safer than trust too far,
324-
,, True nobility is exempt from —
312.
,, 'Twas only— first in the world
made gods, 313.
,, We hate that which we — 129. ^
,, Where no hope is left is no —
338.
, , Who can tell the end of what
we — 126,
,, Wit waits on — 56.
Work of — 43.
Fears, Dangers breed — 56.
, , Our — do make us traitors, 334.
,, Our hopes belied our — 203.
,, Swims in a world of — 340.
Feast, All guests where hope holds
the — 19.
,, By bare imagination of a — 340.
,, Enough as good as a — 65.
„ Fortune gives a — 340.
,, Haste to the beginning of a —
94-
„ He that is of a merry heart
hath a continual — 100.
,, Lord of the — 102.
,, Mirth exalts a — 346.
,, The beginning of a — 259.
,, The — is good till the reckon-
ing come, 252.
,, The — of reason, 252.
,, The true essentials of a — 274.
Feather, A— will turn the scale, 3.
,, Adds — to the heel, 15.
,, Birds of a — 39.
,, Empire's a — for a fool, 65.
Feathers, All that wear— 20.
Fine — make fine birds, 76.
Feature, On every — she's wrote the
man, 195.
Features, Every bungler can com-
mand hard — 94.
Feeble, Not enough to help the— up,
301.
Feed, 274.
Feeder, Eager feeding doth choke
the — 342.
Feeling, A fellow— 3.
,, deeper than all thought, 295.
,, Divorce the — from the deed,
61.
,, is to be alive to every misery,
327-
,, Magnetic currents of — 295. !
Feelings, People's — can't be cured
with favours, 334.
Feels, When what he speaks he—
342-
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
435
Feet, Chase the glowing hours with
flying — i8o.
,, Man's best things lie about
his — 9.
Muse of the many twinkling —
171.
Nothing walks with aimless —
184.
was I to the lame, 70.
„ With his — to the foe, 348.
Felicity, No — but has its counter-
poise, 282.
,, Our own — we make or find,
235.
Fell, Doctor — 117.
Whoever trusted to his
strength — at length, 341.
Fellow, A — of infinite jest, 18.
,, Hail — well met, 92.
Fellows, Yonder lady o'er her —
shows, 107.
Fellowship is heaven, 75.
Felon, Who games is — of his wealth,
342.
Female, Son of the — shadow of the
male, 270.
Fence, How small a — love sets be-
tween the king and hind,
114.
Festival, Life is a — only to the wise,
144.
Fetters, A fool loves his — 4.
, , No man loveth his — 179.
Few, Party, the madness of many for
gain of a — 204.
,, Where bleed the many to en-
rich the — 142.
Fibs, Ask me no questions, I'll tell you
no — 29.
Fiction is nature's possible, 311.
,, may deck the truth, 75.
,, Truth is stranger than — 312,
Fidelity ennobles servitude, 75.
Field, If he that in the — is slain, 121.
,, Man for the — 158.
,, of glory, 4.
,, The sweetest flower of all the —
57-
With his back to the — 348.
Fields, If — are prisons, 121.
,, tasteless all if not enjoyed by
thee, 325.
Fiend, No — can match the fury of a
woman, 106.
Fikrce, It's safer being meek than —
136.
'Fiercest, Benefits tame the — 36.
Fife, The ear-piercini; — 74.
Fifty, He who at — is a fool, 104,
Fight, Adversity grows a winning —
114.
,, The end crowns us, not the —
67, 123.
, , To — and die, 306.
FiLTiiiNESS, Who seeth not the — (A
evil, 343.
Find, Fast bind, fa:.— 74.
Fink by degrees, 76.
Finger-post, As you like is a Lad —
29.
Finisher, He that of greatest works
is — loi.
Fire, 36, 76.
,, A little — quickly trodden out,
7-
,, burn and cauldron bubble, 62.
,, Extreme gusts will blow out —
294.
„ Fantasy's hot — 311.
,, Gie me a spark o' nature's — 84.
,, Hatred is like — 95.
„ Heap coals of — on his head,
106.
,, In our ashen cold is — yreken,
354-
,, Little — grows great with little
wind, 294.
,, Oil to the — 194.
,, One — burns out another's
burning, 91, 196.
,, Out of the frying-pan into the —
203.
„ The best — doesn't flare up
soonest, 245.
„ The fat is in the — 251.
„ The — shows not in the flint,
209.
,, The — tried this seven times,
252.
,, the proof of gold, 266.
,, Thosethat with haste will make
a mighty — 293.
,, Thou who stealest— from the
fountains of the past, 294.
„ War a — struck in the devil's
tinder-box, 320.
„ When this body falls in
funeral — 279.
„ Who can hold a — in his hand,
340.
,, Years steal — from the mind,
354-
Firebrands of the furies, 6.
l'"iRKS, Huge — abide, 229.
,, In our ashes live their wonted —
354-
,, Love finds an altar for for-
bidden — 150.
436
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Fires, Poor men must be content to 1
sit bv little — 209.
„ Strike 'for your altars and
yoiu" — 236.
, , Violent — soon bum themselves
out, 318.
Fireside, No— but has one vacant
chair, 283.
Firm as man's sense, 76.
First-born, Blindness the— of excess,
40.
Fish, Neither — nor flesh, 176.
,, One invented sauce for — 314.
„ Pikes caught when little— go
by, 206.
„ What cat's averse to— 326.
„ What— would on the shallow
lie, 341.
Fish-like, A — smell, 14.
Fits, 'Twas sad by — 314.
Flag, English— stayed on the bones
of the English, 177.
,, Like to a vagabond— 291.
Flame, Love's holy — 152.
Flasks, Youth dwells in fountains, not
in— 357-
Flatterer, He is a — 52.
,, He that loves to be flatter'd,
worthy of the — loi.
Flatterers as much friends as wolves,
77-
„ shrink from decayed fortunes,
82.
Flattery, 77, 289.
,, and falsehood, 306.
,, Every woman to be gained
by — 69.
„ Imitation is the sincerest form
of — 125.
„ Men's ears not deaf to — 188.
,, never lost on poet's ear, 176.
,, No vizor becomes villainy like—
180.
Flavour, Wine gives a pleasant— to
discourse, 346.
Flea, A— hath smaller fleas that on
him prey, 174.
„ A — in his ear, 4.
Fleas, 111 living in a hen-roost for
them as don't like— 135.
Fledge, Birds quick to — 39.
Fleet, A— of glass, 4.
Fleeting, Time is — 27.
Flesh, Much study a weariness of
the — 192.
„ Neither fish nor— 176.
,, Oh that this too, toosolid— 188.
^ Pity and need make all— kin,
206,
Flesh, The— is weak, 271.
'Twill not out of the— 136.
Flies, Fairest fruits attract the— 251,
300.
roor- will tickle lions, being
dead, 209.
Flint, The— shows not the fire till
struck, 209.
,, Weariness can snore upon the —
323.
Flock, I am a tainted wether of the—
116.
„ 111 fares it with the— if the
shepherds wrangle, 124.
„ One sickly sheep infects the—
„ There is no— but one dead
lamb is there, 283.
Flocks, Battening our— 309.
Flood, A painful passage o'er a rest-
less — 30.
Bid the main— bate his usual
height, 119.
Floods, The— free alike to all, 354.
Floor of heaven, 149.
Flower, About the opening of a— 122.
,, Beauty a — 34.
,, Crowned with a — 209.
„ Full many a— is born to blush
unseen, 82, 237, 320.
,, He lurks in every— 57.
,, In chaste hearts to bloom a
deathless — 109.
,, Man a — 46.
,, Man cometh forth like a— 161.
,, May prove a beauteous — 291.
„ See this— short-lived beauty of
an hour, 221.
,, that smiles to-day, 83.
,, The— she touched on, 252.
,, The rose is prized beyond the
sculptured — 156.
,, The sweetest— of all the field,
57.
The white— of a blameless
life, 323.
„ Tip-tilted like the petal of a—
146.
„ Wearing the weight of learning
like a.-— 323.
,, Who sows a field or trains a —
84.
I 'i.ovvERET, The meanest — of the vale,
220.
Flowers, England's— 354.
Fair— that are not gathered m
their prime, 71, 157.
g, £ brins:; fresh showers for the
thirsty— 116,
INDEX OF SUBJECTS,
437
Flowers, Nature rears her — 236.
,, of chivalry, 72.
,, The heart that is soonest awake
to the — 144.
Flunkey, 5.
Fly, a convert but a — 2.
,, They that creep and they
that — 306.
,, Those that — may fight again,
243-
Foe, Better new friend than old — 37.
„ Fortune's friend is mishap's —
80.
„ Foxes rejoice, here buried lies
your — 80.
„ Give me the erect, the manly —
84.
„ He makes no friend who never
made a — 97.
„ He makes a — who makes a
jest, 97.
„ He wants worth who dares not
praise a — 103.
„ Heat not a furnace for your —
so hot, 106.
,, Open— may prove a curse, 25.
„ Our refuge with our — 333.
,, The deadliest — to love, 249.
,, The man-beast the crudest —
191.
„ To fear the — 306.
,, Who overcomes by force, over-
comes but half his — 343.
With his feet to the— 348.
FoEMEN, Faint friends most cruel — be,
70.
Foes once met, 81.
,, The man that makes a char-
acter makes — 348.
Foil, Truth needs not the — of rhetoric,
313-
Follies, Whipt with his own — 62.
,, Your — fight against yoiu-self,
306.
Followers, Time will have bald —
298.
Folly, 77.
,, Blush — 40.
,, Cold wisdom waiting on super-
fluous — 83.
,, He who hath not a dram of —
104.
,, In the cup of — 126.
,, In the vain laughter of — 129.
,, Most loving, mere — 171.
„ of our pursuits, 183.
„ Shake the fabric of his — 355.
, , Shoot — as he flies, 70.
-,, The — of the world, 134.
Folly, The results of shielding men
from — 274.
„ 'Tis — to be wise, 337.
„ When lovely woman stoops
to— 334.
,, With a coat of — 52.
Fond, Men would be — 324.
Fonder, Absence makes the heart
grow — 61.
Fondness, Fancy's — for the child she
bears, 181.
Food, Chewing the — 47.
,, doth choke the feeder, 348.
,, for powder, 77.
„ Love is — for fortune's tooth,
238.
„ Minds are not ever craving for
their — 44.
„ The sickly — of popular ap-
plause, 269.
Fool, A — at forty, 4, 33.
,, A — loves his fetters, 4.
„ A — never has thought, 4.
„ A — or a physician, 9.
,, A rod for the back of a —
15-
„ At thirty man suspects himself
a— 31.
„ Better a witty — than a foolish
wit, 36.
„ Bolt of a — soon shot, 233.
„ Cap and bells for a — 9.
„ despiseth his father's correc-
tion, 4.
,, Empire's a feather for a — 65.
,, Find a man whom woman has
not made a — 76.
„ Fortune's — 116.
», He is a — who cannot live on
his wit, 96.
„ He is a — who thinks to turn a
woman's will, 96.
„ He who at fifty is a — 104.
„ Let the — the toils of war pur-
sue, 142.
,, Life time's — 295.
„ Love but a school to breed a —
,, Love's not time's — 155.
,, No — to an old — 178.
,, None but a — is always right,
181.
„ Opinion is but a — 199.
„ People never so near playing
the — 205.
„ Speak not in the hearing of a —
233-
„ The dulness of the — 25a
„ The — consistent, 220.
438
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Fool, The— hath said in his heart,
252.
, , The— thinks he is wise, 252.
,, The learned pate ducks to the
golden— 259.
,, The straightened forehead of
the— 55.
,, The wise man gets, the — in-
herits, 253.
,, The wisest heart a — 190.
,, There is no pushing on a — 283.
,, To work revenge a man's a —
309-
,, Use you like a — 62.
,, What a — an injury may make
of a man, 324.
,, White hairs ill become a — 112.
Foolishness to run down yotir enemies,
135.
Fools, 77.
,, A wilderness of — 7.
,, assist wise men, 347.
,, Children and — speak true, 48.
,, Fashions are for — 74.
,, "Good nature oft the defence
of — 192.
,, How many — serve mad jeal-
ousy, 112.
,, Idleness the holiday of — 120.
,, Knaves starve not in a land
of— 138.
, , Logical consequences the scare-
crows of — 148.
,, Old men know young men
are — 356.
„ Painted — are caught with
silken shows, 204.
,, Poverty, the reward of honest —
210.
,, Pride, the never-failing vice
of — 212.
,, rush in where angels fear to
tread, 78.
,, Shame shall be the promotion
of — 223.
„ Sweet faces make good fel-
lows — 238.
,, The prosperity of — 266.
,, The world is made up of — 278.
,, their gold give, 84.
,, They are — who roam, 122.
,, To suckle — 309.
,, To this great stage of — 337.
„ Vanity, the food of — 317.
„ We the bubbled — 206.
„ We think our fathers — 323.
,, When fortune favours, only —
dally, 333.
„ who came to scoff, 78.
Fools will prate o' right and wrong,
78.
, , Wishers were ever — 347.
,, Woman more joy discovers
making — 350.
, , Women are^ when they think
they are wisest, 351.
Women ever fatal to admir-
ing— 351-
,, Young men think old men
are — 356.
Foot, A — more light, 4.
, , Better to go on — 38.
,, Let thy — be seldom in thy
neighbour's house, 143.
,, Pride Cometh back on — 212.
Footmen, The devil has a care of
his — 249.
Footprints on the sands of time, 147.
Force, High device is still the highest —
108.
,, Some patient — 231.
,, The blind wild beast of — 246.
, , Who overcomes by — 343.
,, Wit is a form of — 40.
Forcible, More — when join'd, 20.
Forearmed, Forewarned — 79.
FOREGATE, When distrust enters at
the— 333.
Foregone conclusion, 4.
Forehead, Take thy hold upon
time's — 299.
,, The straightened — of the fool,
55-
Foreign, All praise is — 2a
Forests have ears, 79.
Forelock, Take occasion by the —
239-
Foretop, Catch occasion by the — 46.
Forewarned, forearmed, 79.
Forget, The hardest science to — 191.
Forget-me-nots, Stars the — of the
angels, 225.
FORGETFULNESS, 264.
,, a pleasing virtue, 79.
,, life's best balm, 145.
Forgive, Goodness still delighteth
to — 89.
,, the poet and approve the friend,
79-
, , To — is divine, 306.
, , To have power to — 307.
Forgiveness to the injured doth be-
long, 264.
Forgot, By the world — 112.
Forgotten, Better a little well kept,
than a deal — 36.
Forlorn, He who wants children is—
"3-
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
439
Form is the soul's index, 327.
,, Perspectives ey'd awry dis-
tinguish — 64.
„ Rusticity's ungainly — 318.
„ The — alone is eloquent, 253.
„ The influence of a — 20.
,, The mould of — 254.
Forms, The — of things unknown,
253.
Fortitude, Impudence nearly allied
to — 125.
Fortune, 79, 80, 290.
,, A man's — in his own hands,
263.
A peasant's — 10.
Ambition prefers the ice of —
23-
Draw upon content for defici-
encies of — 143.
Earthly fame a frail dependent
on — 64.
Fool of — 116.
Given hostages to — 100.
If you hold yoiu" — for your
bliss, 355.
Sharp adversity of — 191.
Since this — falls to you, 355.
Taken at the flood, leads on
to— 282.
The fiu-ious fickle wheel of —
84.
The least rub in your — 293.
The slings and arrows of out-
rageous — 304.
They who strive with — 290.
To get goods, the benefit of —
307-
Whatever — lavishly can pour,
45-
When — favours, 333.
When — spurns her late be-
loved, 333.
Where — smiles, 299.
Who has not known ill — never
knew himself, 342.
Who lets slip — 191, 342.
Will — never come with both
hands full, 346.
Fortunes, Flatterers shrink from de-
cayed — 82.
,, Friends in darker — tried, 290.
„ Man's — according to his pains,
121.
,, Manners change with — 163.
Forty, A fool at — 4, 33.
,, Passing rich on — pounds,
204.
Forward, When we move not — we
move backward, 318,
Foster-nurse, Repose — of nature,
201.
Foul, Nothing — to those tliat wm,
183.
Foundation, Excess of praise has
little — 70.
,, On this — 16.
,, Our airy faith will no — 28.
,, Whose — is piled upon his faith,
355-
Fount, Virtue the — of honour, 319.
Fountain, Knowledge no more a
sealed — 139.
Fountains, The— of the past, 294.
, , Youth pei-petual dwells in — 357.
Fowl, Strange — light upon neighbour-
ing ponds, 236.
Fox, The — barks not when he steals
cfae lamb, 253.
„ Though the — may be tamed,
294.
„ Treason is trusted like the—
3"-
Fox-follower, A — never is re-
claimed, 294.
Foxes rejoice, here buried lies yotu
foe, 80.
Fraction, The— of life, 253.
Fragrance, Fame the — of heroic
deeds, 72.
Frailty, thy name is woman, 80.
Frame, The world quite out of — 278.
Frames, Dust are our — 63.
France, A sage in — 30.
Frankfort, I went to — 120.
Fraud, Falsehood and — 71.
Fray, Haste to the end of a — 94.
,, My soul's in arms and eager
for the — 173.
,, The latter end of a — 259.
Free, All go — when multitudes offend,
140.
,, As faults from seeming — 243.
,, He that is one man's slave is —
from none, 100.
,, Nature's charms — to all, 354.
,, One struggle more and I am —
198.
,, The virtuous man is — 276.
,, Treads o'er the hearts of the —
16.
,, We must be — or die, 322.
,, Who would be — himself must
strike the blow, 344.
Freebooter, Unrestrained — 64.
Freedom, 16, 80.
,, Fairest deeds of — 192.
„ Hail to the crown by — shaped,
92.
440
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Freedom, Individual — mute, 224.
„ Man sighs for — 158.
„ Shall the braggart shout for —
188.
„ shriek'd as Kosciusko fell, no.
„ The cause of — the cause of
God, 247.
„ The sweetest — is an honest
heart, 143.
„ to obey where justice reigns,
338.
French of Stratford-atte-Bowe, 80.
Frenzy, Melancholy the nurse of —
164.
Friend, 80, 81.
,, A favourite has no — 3.
,, A — that never played the
slave, 243.
„ A good — but bad acquaint-
ance, 5.
„ A pretended — 25.
„ Above our life we love a stead-
fast — i6.
„ Better new — than old foe, 37.
„ Can he be a nation's — 336.
„ Candid — 84.
,, Credit me — 53.
,, Death, the poor man's dear-
est — 185.
„ Fancy, the — of woe, 72.
,, Flattery monstrous in a — 77.
,, Forgive the poet and approve
the — 79.
,, He makes no — who never
made a foe, 97.
,, Keep thy — 149.
, , Keeps the world thy — 30.
, , May we never want a — 164.
,, Of him who has no — 253.
, , The best elixir is a — 245.
, , There's a — that sticketh closer
than a brother, 281.
,, Time the wretch's — 298.
,, When did friendship take a
breed for barren metal of
his — 332.
„ When fails our dearest — 333.
Friends, 81, 293.
,, A soul remembering my good —
117.
„ Age leaves us — 329.
„ Animals are such agreeable —
26.
,, Faint — 70.
„ Flatterers look like — 77.
,, He casts off his — 95,
,, Grapple thy — to thy soul, 253.
„ It is seldom safe to instruct
our — 132.
Friends, Nature teaches beasts to
know their — 174.
,, No quality will get a man
more — 180.
,, Old — are best, 195.
,, Plenty can separate — 208.
,, The — in darker fortunes tried.
290.
The— thou hast, 85.
,, The poor make no new — 265.
,, The vanquished have no — 275.
,, True happiness not in the mul-
titude of — 311.
,, Truest — through error, wound
our rest, 270.
,, With — to enjoy our days, 106.
,, Women find few real — 351.
Friendship, 4, 9, 26, 81, 82, 98, 332.
,, Distance endears — 6i.
,, Love the marrow of — 153.
,, Most in feigning — 171.
,, O summer — 188.
,, The leaves of — fall, 356.
,, The use and noble end of —
237-
,, Under cloak of good will,
feigned — 312.
., Who with a knave hath—
made, 342.
Frivolity, Chatter of irresponsible—
94.
Frolics, A youth of— 16.
Front, Life wears a rugged and dan-
gerous — 144.
, , Salute fairly on the — 153.
Frost, Curdled by the— 47.
,, Like an untimely — 57.
Frown, Out-frown false fortune's —
203.
„ What trouble waits upon a
casual — 329.
Frugality, None can be rich with-
out— 349.
Fruit, The ripest — falls first, 268.
„ The sweetest — may often pall
the taste, 272.
,, The tree known by his — 273.
,, Weakest — drops earliest, 276.
Fruits, Dead Sea — 56.
,, Fairest — attract the flies, 251,
300.
,, of the earth have growth in
corruption, 253.
Fry, Amongst the little starving, wrig-
gling— 341.
,, In his own grease I made
him — 126.
Frying-pan, Out of the — into the fire,
303.
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
441
Fume, Mockery the — of little hearts,
169.
Fun, 274.
Funeral, As griefless as a rich man's—
28.
Furies, Firebrands of the — 6.
Furnace, Heat not a — for your foe
so hot, 106.
Furniture, No — so charming as
books, 178.
,, Science, a first-rate piece of —
219.
Fury, Beware the — of a patient man,
39-
,, of a disappointed woman, 106.
,, Naked piety does more than —
173-
Future things, the property of hope,
290.
Fyled, Worthie to be — 55.
Gain, Desire of— 59.
Despair to — 59.
Light — makes heavy purse,
146.
Like for like is no — 147.
Oar of — 2.
To lose a rotting member is
a — 23.
Gains, If little labour, little are our —
121.
Gale, Simplest noCe that swells the —
220.
Galileo, 276.
Gall, Fortune hath honey in her — 70.
Gallop, Beggars on horseback ride
a — 35.
Gallows, Gams a place for what
another mounts the — 294.
Gallowses, Desolation of — 120.
Gambling, 343.
Game, A monarch's errors are for-
bidden — 14.
,, The — is up, 253.
,, There's no — so desperate, 287.
,, War is the statesman's — 320.
Woman is man's — 160.
Game-cocks, Wits are — to one
another, 66.
Games, Who — is felon of his wealth,
342-
Gamester, Lookers-on see more than
the — 149.
,, You can't keep a — from the
dice, 137.
Gander, No goose but finds some —
285.
,, Sauce for the goose, sauce for
the — 327.
Gaoler to bring forth monstrous
malefactor, 43.
Gaolers, Desolation of— and gal-
lowses, 120.
G.\rden, a — like a young widow, 345.
,, Content can rear a — in a
desert waste, 51.
God first planted a— 86, 87.
Garland, The sweetest— to the
sweetest maid, 239.
Garments, 83.
Gate, Death the— of life, 58.
Gates, Battering the — of heaven, 32.
,, The — are passed and heaven
is won, 137.
Gath, Tell it not in— 240.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 83.
Gaudy, Rich, not — 51.
Gay, She's fair whose beauty only
makes her — 224.
Gazelle, I never loved a dear — 193.
Gem, Full many a — 82, 237.
General, Caviare to the— 46.
Generous, The truly- 274-
George the Third, 127.
Gentility, 307.
Gentle, Not necessary to be born —
307-
Gentleman, God Almighty's— 2, 86.
Since every Jack became a —
226.
That smooth-faced — commo-
dity, 50.
The grand old name of — 255.
The officer who forgets he is
a — 264.
To be a fine — 304.
Who was then a — 332.
Gentlemen who chariots roll upon
the four aces, 84.
Gentlewoman, A — made ready, 12.
Gentleness, The great mind knows
the pow er of — 255,
Genius, 82, 83.
,, an impostor, 325.
,, but excites, 239.
,, can't be forced, 4-
,, Hope with — hand in hand,
SO-
„ is contemplative heroism, 108.
„ is deep feeling waken'd by
passion, 327.
,, married to science, 199.
Gesture, In every — dignity and love,
89.
Get, The surest way to — 290.
Ghost, A — of passion, 265.
Ghosts, Fame, a revenue payable to
our — 71.
442
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Giant, Tyrannous to use strength like
a— 133. 189.
Gibbets for the man, 37.
Giddy, An habitation — and unsure,
24.
,, He that is — thinks the world
tiiins round, 100.
Gift, Every man has his — 68.
,, 111 father, no — 124.
„ The fatal — of beauty, 251.
„ The — without the giver is
bare, 183.
„ Throw no — against the giver's
head, 37.
GiFTiE, Wad some power 'the — gie us,
189.
Gift-horse, To look a — in the mouth,
307-
Gifts, Rich — wax poor, 216, 309.
,, Win her with — 346.
GiLEAD, Balm in— 31.
Gilded, A— pill, 24.
,, tombs do worms enfold, 21.
Girdle, Find us in our salt water —
355-
Girl, No striving with a forward —
283.
„ To nurse a blind ideal like a —
308.
„ We all love a pretty — under
the rose, 321.
Girl-graduates, Sweet— 238.
Girls, The truth of— 42.
Give, He gives by halves who hesitates
to— 95.
,, More blessed to — 133.
„ Not what we — 183.
Giver, The gift without the— is bare,
183.
„ The good received, the — is
forgot, 254.
Givers, When — prove unkind, 216.
Giving, To get by — 307.
Gladness, Teach me half the — 240.
Glances, Stolen — 235.
Glare, Maidens ever caught by — 157,
Glareth. All that — not gold, 21.
Glass, Beauty a — 34.
,, Commit a crime, the world is
made of — 282.
„ The — of fashion. 254.
„ Thou art thy mother's — 44.
Glazed with blinding tears, 64.
Gleaning, Who goes— hedge-side
chance-blades, 342
Glisters, All that— is not gold. 21.
Globe, This — the stage 145.
„ Through the sb idow of the —
296.
Gloom, Lethe's — 16.
,, Teach light to counterfeit the—
337.
Glorious, I'll make thee— by my pen,
118.
Glory, A field of— a field for all, 4.
,, A people's — arises from its
authors, 247.
„ Accursed is the march of that —
16.
„ and empire dangerous to
females, 85.
„ Beauty calls and — leads the
way, 299.
,, But one path leads to — 22.
,, Go where — waits thee, 86.
,, Goodness has his — 90.
„ is the sodger's prize, 85.
„ like a circle in the water, 85.
„ No ray of — lights the breast,
257-
„ of young men their strength,
254-
,, recommends the grief, 337.
,, seldom comes till a man be
dead, 221.
„ So doth the greater — dim the
less, 229.
,, Trailing clouds of — 20a
„ The days of our youth, the
days of our — 194.
„ The extreme of — 90.
„ The just keeps his — in the
dust, 245.
„ The path of duty is the way
to— 182.
„ The paths of — lead but to the
grave, 246.
„ The stars that have most —
271.
„ The sum of — 319.
„ The temple of — the tomb, 85.
„ The uncertain — of an April
day, 193.
„ The voice of — impotent to
pierce the tomb, 85.
„ Time's — 299.
,, Who pants for — 343.
Gloss, Beauty a shining — 34.
,, Truth needs not the — of art,
313.
Glove, That I were a— upon that
hand, 188.
,. Were fit to wear your slipper
for a — 284.
Gnat, Strain at a — and swallow a
camel, 354.
The tiny-trumpeting — 273.
Gnats are unnoted where they fly, 248.
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
443
Go-cart, A child yet in the — 291.
God, 86, 87.
A — alone can comprehend
a— S-
accept him, Christ receive him,
129.
Air, the breath of — 18.
All nature the art of — 21.
All service counts the same
with — 20.
An honest man the noblest
work of — 212.
and your native land, 236.
Assumes the — 348.
disposeth, 160.
for us all, 68.
fulfilsHimselfinmanyways,264.
Had I but served my — 53.
Idolatrj' to make the service
greater than the — 301.
Ignorance the curse of — 124.
is forgotten and the doctor
slighted, 201.
Justice is like the kingdom of —
137-
Looks through nature up to —
226.
Love which is the essence of —
I5S-
Makes a pander of his — 16.
Man is not as — i6o.
Man's conscience the oracle
of — 162.
Mercy an attribute to — 267.
Nature imitates — 174.
Nature the art of — 174.
Nature the handmaid of — 174.
Nature the time-vesture of —
175-
Nor paltered with eternal — for
power, 342.
not we the poem makes, 317.
of my idolatry, 62, 254.
of war's rich livery, 40.
only knows who has found
truth, 68.
Oiu- — and soldier we alike
adore, 201.
said, "let Newton be," 174.
Shall man be more just than —
222.
Stars, the thoughts of — 234.
The cause of freedom, the
cause of — 247.
The conscious water saw its —
248.
The eternal years of — 312.
The fool hath said, There is
no — 252
God, The nearer the church the further
from — 263.
The imiverse, symbol of — 274.
The way to — by ourselves, 276.
'Tis only — may be had for the
asking, 30T.
Vindicate the ways of — to
man, 140.
Where every — did seem to set
his seal, 221.
Where — hath a temple, 337.
Who builds a church to — 340.
Who destroys a good book
kills the image of — 28.
Who falls for love of — 341.
who loveth us, 98.
Whom man shuts out — takes
in. 345-
whose puppets we are, 20.
Without pain, what room for
thanks to — 214.
Godlike, Man most — being most a
man, 160.
Godliness, Cleanliness is ne.xt to — 48.
Gods, A daughter of the — 3.
,, and poets only can create, 305.
,, fear first in the world made,
313-
,, Men, yet earthly — 314.
„ The — are just, 254.
,, Wise men and— are on the
strongest side, 347.
Gold, 88.
,, A good heart's worth — 5.
,, A visionary reef of — 4.
,, All that glisters is not — 21.
,, Beauty provoketh thieves
sooner than — 34.
,, can do much, 87.
,, Cursed be the — 55.
,, Dearer is fame than — 56.
,, Each ounce of — 64.
,, Fire the proof of — 266.
,, for which other men die, 322.
,, Give fools their — 84.
,, in time does wear away, 81.
,, is the touchstone to try men,
166.
„ more — begets, 8a
„ Oh cursed lust of — 185.
,, Patines of bright — 149.
,, Plate sin with — 207, 296.
, , pure clay, 72.
,, the proof of a woman, 266.
,, To gild refined — 307.
What female heart can — d»
spise, 326.
, , What — could never buy, 279.
Where all are slaves to — 228.
444
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Gold, Who shuts his hand hath lost
his— 343.
,, You must so thin the — 306.
„ Youth looks on hfe as purest —
356-
Golden, Tnith's— o'er us, 313.
Goldsmith, ii.
Good, 88.
„ A vain pursuit of fugitive
false — 30.
„ As — as a play, 28.
„ Be — and let who will be clever,
32-
„ Beauty a doubtful — 34.
„ Evil minds change — 69.
„ Evil only — perverted, 69.
„ He that is merciful to the bad
is cruel to the — loi.
„ He that is once — loi.
tt He whose conscience can re-
ceive no — 105.
„ Hold thou the — 109.
„ in everything, 76.
„ It is an ill wind turns none
to — 132.
„ Kings too tame are despic-
ably — 138.
„ Knowledge of — 139.
„ Man seeks his own — 160.
„ Nothing lovelier in woman
than to study household —
184.
„ Nothing so evil but may be
converted to — 209.
„ Nothing so — as it seems, 184.
„ Nothing so — but may be
abused, 184.
„ old times, 22.
„ received, the giver is forgot,
254.
„ The apprehension of the — 244,
341- ^
„ The — die first, 254.
„ The — needs fear no law, 254.
„ The — oft interred with their
bones, 81, 251.
„ The greatest — to the greatest
number, 256.
„ The luxury of doing — 21, 141.
„ The memory of the — 327.
„ The public — 61.
„ There's a — beyond earth's
utmost, 285.
„ Till time has stol'n the
slighted — 183.
„ 'Tis only noble to be — 289,
f. To be happy man must be—
304-
M Too much of a — thing, 6§.
Good touched up with evfl, 399.
,, Universal — 20.
,, When shall all men's — 335.
,, Worst speak something — 61.
Good-bye, How cold the comfort in—
112.
Goodness, 105.
,, delighteth to forgive, 89.
„ Greatness and — are not means,
91.
„ There is some soul of — in
things evil, 284.
„ Time's rude hand defies — 89.
„ Wisdom and — to the vile seem
vile, 347.
Good-night, 291.
Good-will, Under cloke of — 312.
Good works make the man, 294.
Goods, 307.
Goose, No — but finds some gander,
285.
,, Sauce for the — 327.
Gourd, Into the hollow compass of
a— 340.
Government, 319.
,, makes women seem divine, 299.
Governors, Our supreme — the mob,
203.
GowD, The man's the — for a' that, 340.
Grace, A double blessing, a double —
3-
„ Celebrity may win a — 46.
„ Comely — 20.
„ For softness she and sweet
attractive — 78.
„ me no — 54.
„ Mickle is the powerful — that
lies in plants, 187.
„ Nor hath constrained laughter
any — 124.
J,, See what a — was seated on
this brow, 221.
„ was in all her steps, 89.
,, Wear the brows of — 26.
Grain, When yellow waves the heavy —
337.
Grammar, Equality no rule in love's —
66.
Grand as a rich man's funeral, 28.
Grandeur, Waste is not — 320.
,, What is — 327.
Grape, Who will destroy the vine for
one— 330.
Grapes, The fathers have eaten sour—
251.
Grasps, Death only — 57.
Grass, All flesh is— 19.
„ The horse starves while the —
grows, 358.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
44=;
Gratitude, 105.
,, Silence the — of true affection,
225.
The still small voice of — 238.
Grave, 7.
,, Bring my grey hairs with sorrow
to the — 42.
,, From the cradle to the — 161.
,, Grief is as certain as the — 45.
,, Glory's — 48.
,, Hungry as the — 53.
,, Inch-high above the — 146.
,, No spot on earth but has sup-
plied a — 263.
,, Repentance clothes the — 215.
,, Rumour can ope the — 218.
,, The — but a covered bridge,
255.
,, The — discredits beauty, 35.
,, The — not life's goal, 145.
,, The paths of glory lead to the
— 248.
,, There's a mourner o'er the
humblest — 281.
,, Victory or a — 2.
,, Who's a prince or beggar in
the — 265.
Graves, Strike for the green — of your
sires, 236.
Grease, She frieth in her own — 126.
Great, And the poor man loved the
— 279.
„ How indigent the — 115.
„ It is not the — that are wise,
134-
„ None completely wretched but
the— 181.
„ None think the — unhappy,
28.
„ Nothing is — but the wealth of
nature, 183.
,, Once good, always — loi.
„ Only truly — who are truly
good, 289.
„ Rightly to be — 217.
,, Some are born — 231.
,, The — unwashed, 255.
„ The — are proud, 275.
„ Sorrow has hardly leisure for
the — 276.
„ The pompous misery of being
— 209.
, , To be — be wise, 304.
,, To be — is to be misunder-
stood, 304.
Greater, How can the less the —
comprehend, 112.
Greatest, The — are misthought,
255-
Greatness, A long farewell to all my
— 73-
,, and goodness not means, 91.
, , knows no friendship, 82.
., Some achieve — 231.
Greek, 'Bove any — 16.
Greeks, When — joined — 333.
Green as hope before it grieves, 91.
,, in judgment, 173.
old age, 91,
Grey, My — goose-quill, 193.
,, The — fly winds her sultry
horn, 309.
,, The — mare will prove the
better horse, 256.
Grief, 91.
,, Antheming a lonely — 26.
, , best pleased with griefs society,
219.
„ Each substance of a — 64.
,, Every breath brings forth a
warning — 202.
„ Every one can master a — 68.
„ Excessive — 169.
„ Fellowship of — 196, 219.
„ Folly broods o'er — 317.
„ He robs himself that spends a
bootless — 268.
,, In — we know the worst of
what we feel, 126.
„ In much wisdom is much —
127.
,, led him astray, 346.
„ Love is a sacred — 151.
„ may hide an evening guest,
281.
, , Much — shows want of wit, 231.
,, Nothing speaks — 183.
,, One — brings forth twain, 45.
,, Our — how swift, 201.
„ Patience on a monument,
smiling at — 147, 223.
,, Perched up in a glistening —
300.
„ Reason sets limits to the longest
— 214,
„ Silent — 84.
„ Some — shows much of love,
231.
„ The man subdued by — 68.
,, The poor have small leisure
for — 229.
,, There is such length in — 129,
,, 'Tis a greater — to bear love's
wrong, 132.
„ to man, as certain as the grave,
45-
„ treads upon the heels of plea-
sure, 92.
446
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Grief we do not share, 228.
,, We may judge the measure of
the — 354.
,, What's past help, should be
past— 331.
,, When — hath mates, 340.
,, Where glory recommends the
— 337-
,, Why need a man foretell his —
328.
Griefless as a rich man's funeral, 28.
Griefs are silent, go.
,, Small — find tongues, 229.
Grievance, Should stern justice blot
a — 224.
Grieve, Better one suffer than a nation
— 37-
Grin, Every — draws a nail out of our
coffin, 45.
Grind, An axe to — 24.
Grinstones, Hold their noses to —
109.
Grip, Oppression's iron — 234.
Grizzled, His hair just — 91.
Groan of a martyr's woe, 78.
Groans, A bridge of — i.
Groat, ii.
Groom, The — retails the favours of
his lord, 228.
Grooms, Poor — are sightless night,
248.
Grossness, Vice lost half its evil by
losing all its — 317.
Ground, Fickle is the — whereon
tyrants tread, 75.
,, me no grounds, 54.
,, Pleasure nests upon the — 212.
„ The — that gave them first,
257-
„ Weakest fruit drops earliest to
the — 276.
Group, A little — of wise hearts, 7.
Grove, Love rules the — 127.
Growth, Ambition the — of every
clime, 23.
Grub, The — that is slighted to-day,
257-
Grundy, Mrs. — 120, 339.
Guardian-angel, 5.
Guardians, Poets the true — of the
State, 312.
Gudgeon, Where every — is nibbling
at the bait, 341.
Gudgeons, To swallow — ere they're
catched, 52.
Guess, Human science is uncertain —
"5-
Guest, Grief may hide an evening —
281.
Guest, Welcome the coming, speed
the parting — 324.
Guests, A woeful hostess brooks not
merry — 15.
,, All men are — 19.
„ He that would have fine — 103
,, Unbidden — 315.
Guide, Love's a blind — 155.
,, of human life, 55.
,, philosopher, and friend, 172.
,, The surest — may a wanderei
prove, 256.
„ Whimsey is the female — 339.
,, Will was his — 346.
,, Zeal, not charity, became the —
357.
Guides, Ye blind — 354.
Guinea, The jingling of the — 258.
Guilt, God hath yoked misery to—
86.
,, hardest, nearest home, 9a.
,, to the victor, 211.
Guiltiness will speak, 92.
Guilty, We mourn the — 322.
Gullet, In his — should have a book,
267.
Gum, Poesy is as a — 209.
Gun, A giddy son of a — 4.
Gunner, Cupid is a blind — 254.
Gunpowder, 272.
Guns, As— destroy, 220.
Gusts, Extreme — will blow out fire
and all, 294.
Habit, A civil — covers a good man, 2.
,, Costly thy — 51.
,, Ease leads to — 65.
„ Honour peereth in the meanest
— 29.
,j Man is the creature of — 162.
„ Scan outward — by the inward
man, 199.
,; Use doth breed— in a man,
US-
Habitation, An— giddy and un-
sure, 24.
Hair, A — of the dog that bit us, 5.
„ Beauty draws us with a single —
34. 197-
„ Cavil on the ninth part of a —
129.
„ Fancy grows colder as the
silvery — 72.
„ My — is grey, but not with
years, 172.
„ Nonsense throned in whiskered
— 211.
„ One woman's — draws more
than oxen, 197.
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
447
Hair, Rough — does not make a
savage dog, 131.
,, Treachery lurks under thf^
fairest — 79.
Hairs, My grey — with sorrow to the
grave, 42.
,, Superfluity comes sooner by
white — 288.
,, White — ill become a fool, 112.
Hale, Sir Matthew, 336.
Half, My better — 37.
,, to rise and — to fall, 5a.
Half-happy is miserable, 92.
Halifax, 281.
Hall, The Douglas in his — 56.
,, 'Tis merry in — 301.
Halter, Made of silk, a — still, 5.
Halves, He gives by — who hesitates
to give, 95.
Hampden, 232, 269.
Hand, A— to bless, 6.
,, A — to execute, 6.
„ A hard — sign of a brave
mind, 286.
„ A hard heart worse than a
bloody — 352.
„ A spending — 13.
„ A string may jar in the best
master's — 33.
„ And waved her lily — 17,
„ Beauty and anguish, — in — 33.
„ Better one bird in — 37.
„ Change lays not her — upon
truth, 46.
„ Charms that Nature's — denies,
56-
„ Death lays his icy — 57,
„ Each petty — can steer, 64.
,, I see a — you cannot see, 118.
„ Idle — has empty belly, 120.
„ Licks the — raised to shed his
blood, 259.
„ Love's own — the nectar pours,
155-
„ Mad ambition's gory — 157.
„ O for the touch of a vanished —
186.
„ O that I were a glove upon
that— 188.
„ Offence's gilded — 128.
,, Some — to raise the weeds, 345.
„ The — of little employment,
257-
„ The handle towards my — 131.
„ There is a — that guides, 291.
„ Time hath a taming — 297.
„ Time's rude — 89.
„ To die upon the — I love so
well, 118.
Hand, To draw beauty shows a
master — 94.
,, Who can hold a fire in his —
340-
,, Who hath his hope laid on a
w Oman's — 350.
,, Who shuts his — hath lost his
gold, 343.
,, Whose — wounds but to heal,
231.
Handle, The — towards my hand,
131-
Handling, A rotten case abides no—
12.
Handmaid, Nature the — of God, 174.
Hands, An idler a watch that wants
both — 25.
,, Blood serves to wash am-
bition's — 40.
,, Entire affection hateth nicer —
66.
„ Fair words want giving — 71.
,, Men use broken weapons
rather than bare — 166.
„ Soiled by rude — 55.
Handsome is as— does, 93.
Hanged, He that hath an ill name is
half — 100.
,, I'll see thee — first, 118.
Hanging and wooing go by destiny,
93. 324-
,, the worst use to put a man to,
93-
Hangman, A burden'd conscience
never needs a — 2.
Hap, No — so hard but may in fine
amend, 178.
Happiness, hi.
Divided — never known, 128.
How are we made for — 1 14.
If solid — we prize, 122.
It is a flaw in — to see beyond
our bourn, 132.
No — not depressed by cala-
mity, 282.
Riches cannot always piu--
chase — 217.
The greatest — of the greatest
number, 256.
The — ye seek is not below,
241.
The path of duty leads to—
265.
There is in man a higher than
love of — 282.
to die and live in memory, 133.
True — 311.
What — to reign a lonely king,
326.
448
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Happiness, What may long abide in
state of — 328.
,, Worth of anything, the — it
will bring, 328.
Happy, Better be — than wise, 36.
,, Better some unhappy than
none — 133.
„ How — could I be with either,
112.
„ If thou wouldst be — learn to
please, 123.
„ To be — man must be good,
304-
„ We can't be made — by com-
pulsion, 323.
Hare, First case your — then cook it,
77-
,, Mad as a March — 157.
, , To run with the — 308.
Harebell, E'en the light — 4.
Hard to part with those we love, 18.
Hardiness, Hardness is mother of—
208.
Harm, A little — done to a good end,
251.
Harmony, 17.
,, All discord — 2a
,, By — our souls are swayed, 43.
,, By — the world was made, 43.
„ Disproportions break — 90.
„ is in immortal souls, 149.
„ Natiu"e's unchanging — 175.
„ The touches of sweet — 114.
,, There is a — in autumn, 281.
,, Untaught — of spring, 245.
Harms, Of two — choose the lesser,
191.
We beg often our own — 32a.
Harness, We'll die with — on our
back, 4a
,, You can't tell a horse by the —
137-
Harp, Love took up the — of time,
155-
Harry, I saw young — 119
Harvest, The woodcock's early visit
foretells a liberal — 277.
Harveys, Two — had a mutuad wish,
314-
Haste, 92, 94.
,, Married in — 164.
,, More — less speed, 263.
,, More — than good speed, 170.
Hate, A wrong'd woman's — 106.
,, casts out fear, 150.
„ My only love sprang from my
early— 173.
M Next to love the sweetest thing
is — 287.
Hate, One shriek of — 198.
,, Sweet love can turn to deadly-*
238.
, , Wnere love draws — 328.
,, Who reaps above the rest,
with — shall be opprest, 345.
, , Woman wrong'd can cherish—
350.
Hatred like fire, 95.
, , Love turned to — 106.
Haunches, The gnawing sloth on the
deer's — 20B.
Have, Keep all you — 137.
,, They well deserve to — 290.
Haven, Man has no — till death, 159.
,, The peaceful — 57.
Havoc, Cry— 54.
Hawk, From the — birds to man's
succour flee, 338.
Hay, When the sun shineth make —
336-
Hazards, Great things achieved
through great — 90.
He that fights and runs away, 243.
Head, A good heart better than a
good— 5.
A — to contrive, 6.
At his — a grass green turf, 30.
Can art or genius guide the —
44.
Fears and cares havmt tDe
tyrant's — 75.
God's universe within our —
131-
Heap coals of fire on his —
106.
His heart runs away with his —
108.
It argues a distempered — 131.
Man, a creature of a wilful —
159-
Man with the — 158.
Off with his — 79.
On horror's — horrors accumu-
late, 195.
Reading without thinking never
makes a clear — 214.
So young a body with so old
a — 142.
Some — beneath a mitre swells,
30-
The beauty of old men the
hoary — 254.
The hoary — a crown of gloiy,
258.
Throw no gift at the givers —
37-
To shift their follies on
another's — 19.
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
449
liii^AD, Uneasy lies the — that wears
a crown, 228, 315.
,, With all my imperfections on
my— 315-
Heads, Great heights hazardous to
weak — 89.
,, So many — so many wits, 230.
,, Two — are better than one,
314-
Heaustkong as an allegory, 28.
Healek, Time the only — 298.
Healing, Despair disdains the — 337.
Health, Composition of — 47.
,, Importing — and graveness,
356.
,, the first good lent to man, 106.
,, The surest road to — 272.
Heap, Struck all of a — 236.
Heart, A good — 5.
,, A hard — worse than a bloody
hand, 352.
,, A — to resolve, 6.
,, A — unspotted not easily
daunted, 6.
, , A heavy — 6.
,, A merry — 9.
,, A willing — adds feather to the
heel, 15.
„ A woman's — the true shop of
variety, 185.
,, An innocent — a brittle thing,
25-
„ Better heresy of doctrine than
heresy of — 37.
,, Deep is a wounded — 58.
,, Devotion's every grace except
the — 113.
,, Did approve all nature to my
— 10.
„ enchained to where morn of
life was spent, 329.
„ England, a little body with a
mighty — 185.
„ Faint — never won fair lady,
71-
,, Far from eye, far from — 75.
„ Forlorn the — that music can-
not melt, 131.
,, God builds His temple in the —
86.
„ Grief whispers the o'erfraughl
-84.
„ He that buildeth on the vulgar
— 24.
„ He that is of a merry— 100.
„ He that hath the truth at his—
104.
„ He who wears his — on his
sleeve, 105.
Heart, Heaven asks no surplice round
the — 106.
,, His — runs away with his head,
108.
,, Hope's ghost haunts the moul-
dering— 336.
,, How often woman's — 113.
,, How weak the — of woman,
"5-
,, I will wear him in my — of
hearts, 84.
,, If England's head and — were
one, 121.
„ If thj' — fail thee, why climb,
70.
„ is woman's dower, 159.
„ It's a poor — that never re-
joices, 135.
„ Love will have the whole of
every woman's — 154.
,, Many the — broke beneath its
girdle-girth, 163.
,, More congenial to my — 170.
,, My — untravelled, 339.
,, My muse tho" homely may
touch the — 173.
,, Nature never betrayed the -
that loved her, 174.
„ Nothing is impossible to a
willing — 183.
,, O what a noble — was here
undone, 315.
,. of God takes in, 345.
,, One can't tear out one's — 196.
,, One cut from venison can speak
to the — 196.
,, One — to be his only one, 195.
,, Our being's — and home, 339.
,, Praise foreign that comes not
to the — 20.
,, Pray heaven for a human — 210.
,, Preaching down a daughter's
— 186.
,, Rich with an empty — 300.
, , Sighs, the natural language of
the— 352.
,, Sorrow burns the — to cinders,
232.
„ Sphere of woman's glories, the
— "S-
„ Surplice of humility, over the
black gown of a big — 294.
„ Than what is harder, his Jew-
ish — 119.
„ The deep religion of a thankful
— 249.
„ The devil hath not an arrow
for the — like a sweet voice,
249.
29
450
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Heart, The eye is traitor to the — 251.
,, The — can ne'er a transpou
know, 257.
The — is deceitful, 257.
The — is lonely still, 294.
The — never all its own, 257.
The — not the brain, attains
the highest, 134.
The long-lost ventures of the —
260.
The sad tale of many a human
— 307-
The same — beats in every
human breast, 268.
Then burst his mighty — 130.
To doubt her were to want a —
306.
What stronger breastplate than
a — untainted, 329.
What takes our — 329.
What the false — doth know,
71-
Where'er one meek — prays,
339.
Where is the — that has not
bowed a slave to love, 338.
Woman with the — 158.
Heart-break, Better a little chiding
than a deal of — 36.
Heart-throbs, We should not count
time by — 322.
Hearth, Woman for the— 158.
Hearts, A little group of wise — 7.
Broken — die slow, 42.
Chaste — uninfluenced by
change, 109.
Cherish those — that hate thee,
S3-
Conduct of lives, proof of sm-
cerity of — 348.
Courage from — 52.
He who wins a thousand com-
mon — 105.
Honest — make iron arms, 109.
If — be true, 121.
Kind — are more than coro-
nets, 138.
Love that two — makes one,
155-
Maidens' — are always soft,
157*
No union of — but finds an
end, 284.
of princes kiss obedience, 257.
Patience all the passion of great
-65.
The swiftest — 272.
To live in — we leave behind,
307-
Hearts, Where two fond — 277.
Willing— 43.
,, Young men's love lies not in
their — 356.
Heat in inverse proportion to know-
ledge, 127.
,, Iteration generates — 136.
Heath-flowter, From the — dashed
dew, 4.
Heaven, 106, 107.
A time to every purpose under
— 306.
A wretch who takes his lusts
to— 16.
Allot all hours to — 222.
and virtue bloom for ever, 277.
asks no surplice round the
heart, 106.
Better reign in hell than serve
in— 38.
By suffering we attain to — 211.
Comfort's in — 49.
Fellowship is — 75.
Floor of — 149.
Fretted with the gusts of — 119.
Further from — than when a
boy, 119.
God's in His — 87.
Good wine carrieth a man to—
89.
Hard mtist he wink that shuts
his eyes from — 94.
Her more than all in — 107.
Human soul requires no other
— 336-
in her eye, 89.
In hope to merit — 126.
is overflowing, 292.
itself descends in love, 60.
lent an angel's beauty to her
face, 334.
Love keeps the door of — 115.
Make a — of hell, 118.
Man has the regard of— 159.
Marriages are made in — 164.
Martyrs forget the pain by
which they purchased — 164.
Mutual love is — 339.
Music, all of — we have below,
172.
One shriek of hate jars all the
hymns of — 198.
Our thoughts are heard in
203.
Pleasure lent by — 208.
Pray — for a human heart, 210.
Prayer ardent opens — 211.
still guards the right, 120.
The eye of — to garnish, 307.
INDEX OF SUByECrS.
451
Heaven, The gates are passed and —
is won, 137.
,, The loss of — 260, 302.
,, The mind can make a hell of
— 263.
,, The providence of — 266.
,, The way to hell's a seeming —
276.
„ Things are the sons of — 352.
„ 'Tis — alone that is given away,
301.
,, 'Twas in — pronounced, 314.
,, We are ourselves our — 321.
„ What a — love is, 189.
„ When her deck knocks — 64.
,, Where imperfection ceases —
begins, 338.
,, Whose deeds partake of—
72.
Heaviness, An— that's gone, 143.
,, foreruns the good event, 17.
Heavens, The— hold firm the walls
of thy dear honour, 257.
,, Truth, though the — crush me,
313-
Hedge, Another look over a — 197.
Hedge-pig, The— whined, 295.
Heel, A willing heart adds feather to
the— 15.
Heels, A good man's fortune may
grow out at — 5.
„ At his — a stone, 130.
,, Grief treads upon the — of
pleasure, 92.
,, Treason hath blistered — 310.
Height, I see but cannot reach the —
119.
Heights, Great — hazardous to weak
heads, 89.
Heir, Creation's — 53.
,, of all the ages, 53.
,, Philosophy, great and only —
206.
Helen, Like another— 146.
Hell, 106, 107.
,, Better to reign in — 38.
,, breathes out contagion to the
world, 302.
„ built on spite and heaven on
pride, 357.
„ Doubly dear to the prince of—
122.
„ Drunkenness the darling
favourite of — 63.
„ Envy's a coal come hissing hot
from — 66.
„ Fiend from — 44.
„ Forced wedlock a — 328.
„ Hull, and Halifax, 281.
Hell, Jealousy, the injured lover's —
136.
,, Lack of fellowship is — 75.
„ Loss of the heaven, greatest
pain in — 260, 302.
,, Make a heaven of — 118.
,, Merit heaven by making earth
an — 126.
„ Mix'd with cunning sparks of
-67.
„ Paint the gates of — 204.
,, Procuress to the lord of — 109.
,, Quiet a — to quick bosoms, 214.
,, Sin makes — a paradise, 79.
„ Slander meanest spawn of—
226.
„ Strife between man and wife
is— 339-
„ take the hindmost, 59.
„ That deep torture may be
called an — 79.
„ The fear of — is a hangman's
whip, 251.
,, The mind can make a heaven
of — 263.
,, The way to — 276.
,, The wicked have their proper
-78.
, , To want fame is a — 93.
,, 'Twas whispered in — 314.
,, What a — love is, 189.
,, When her keel ploughs — 64.
,, Who would not break loose
from — 148.
„ Women differ as heaven and —
165.
Helm, Pleasure at the — 357.
Help, 107.
,, God helps those that — them-
selves, 86.
,, No true potency but that of —
283.
,, Since there's no — 226.
,, What's past — 331.
Helpless, When things are — 336.
Hen, a — that crows, 124.
Hen-roost, It's ill livin' in a — 135.
Herald, Rustic — of the spring, 218.
Heraldry, The boast of— 246.
Heralds, Love's — should be thoughts,
Herbs, Better a dinner of — 37.
,, Small — have grace, 125.
Herd, Mankind but a savage — 276.
Heresies, New truths begin as—
Heresy of doctrme, 37.
Heritage of woe, 149.
Hermit, Out-weeps a — ac^.
452
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Hero, 105, 262.
,, Every — becomes a bore at
last, 67.
,, Fiction cast a borrowed blaze
round the — 75.
,, One brave deed does not make
a— 195.
Herod, Out-herods— 203.
Heroes, No — were there no martyrs,
285.
,, The chief — in the list of fame,
167.
Heroism, 108. .
Herring, Neither fish, flesh, nor good
red— 176.
,, Like a dried — 349.
Heterodoxy, 200.
High and low mate ill, 187.
,, Indifferent judge between —
and low, 49.
High-fantastical, Fancy alone is —
229.
Hill, A heaven-kissing — 221.
,, What merit to be dropped on
fortune's — 238.
Himself, Who knew not ill-fortune
never knew — 342.
,, Who lives unto— 179.
Hind, Go search the lodges of the — 353.
,, How small a fence love sets
between king and— 114.
,, The — that would be mated by
the lion, 258.
Hindmost, Devil take the— 59.
Hindoo, Who marries, dies, or turns —
332.
Hindrance, Help refused is — found,
107.
Historian, n.
Historians, To converse with — 306.
History, 109.
Read their — in a nation's eyes,
214.
That great dust-heap called —
241.
The happiest nations have
no— 257.
The love of — 260.
There is a — in all men's lives,
281.
,, There is no — 284.
Hoarse, Bondage is — 40.
" HOBSON'S CHOICE," I09.
" Hold, enough, " Damned be he who
first cries — 140.
" Hold-fast" is the only dog, 312.
Hole, Might stop a— 125.
„ The mouse that trusts to one
poor — 118.
Holiday, Idleness the — of fools, 120.
,, Night is love's — 177.
Holidays, If all the year were — 120.
Holy, All is — where devotion kneels,
106.
Homage, The — of a sigh, 342.
,, The — of a tear, 258.
The silent — of thoughts un-
spoken, 272.
Home, Charity begins at — 47.
,, Come — to roost, 55.
,, Eaten me out of house and —
65-
,, Fancy hath no present — 73.
,, Freedom's — 48.
,, Guilt hardest, nearest — 92.
,, He that doth live at — 99.
,, is — 109.
,, London, the needy villain's
general — 148.
,, Mrs. Grundy has a — in every
woman's tongue, 339.
,, Only one makes the — 262.
,, Oxford, the muses' native —
204.
,, That dear hut our — 122.
,, There's no place like — 109.
,, Thy love afar is spite al — 296.
,, Where we live is — 339,
,, Without the — that love en-
dears, 349.
Homely, Home is home though never
so— 109.
Homer all the books you need, 214.
,, Seven cities warr'd for — dead,
222.
Honest, The soul that is— 159.
,, To be — 304.
Honesty, Corruption wins not more
than— 53.
, , He that loseth — loi.
,, is the best policy, 109.
,, needs no disguise, 76.
,, often in the wrong, 309.
,, once pawned, never redeemed,
139-
,, Though — be no puritan, 294.
Honey, Fortune hath gall in her^ 79.
,, The sweetest — is loathsome,
272.
,, We may gather — from the
weed, 296.
Honeycomh, He is not worthy of the—
96.
Honour, 9, no, 168, 266.
,, A prophet without — ii.
,, but an empty bubble, 320,
,, Clear — 48.
„ darling of one short day, 72.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
45.'
HoNOUR dearer than life, 144-
„ His — rooted in dishonour
stood, 108.
,, If 1 lose mine — 121.
„ is a word, 327.
„ is to mount fortune's hill, 328.
„ Loved I not — more, 116.
,, New-made — forgets men's
names, 177.
„ Peace with — 205.
,, peereth in the meanest habit, 29.
,, Perseverance keeps — bright,
206.
,, Posterity pays every man his —
210.
,, Phirity feminine of — 314.
,, Seek — first, 221.
,, springs from virtue, 319.
„ The heavens hold firm the
walls of thy — 257.
,, The — of my house, 353.
The hurt that— feels, 258.
,, The post of — 336.
„ The sodger's wealth is — 35.
,, The wounds of — never close,
'273-
,, to whom — is due, 215.
,, When — is lost, 333.
,, Who ba.ts mine — 340.
,, Virtue is — 318.
Honours, Bears his blushing — 73.
, , Great — are great burdens, 89.
,, New — cleave not to their
mould, 177.
,, not won, easily put off, 251.
Hoods make not monks, 19.
Hook, By — or by crook, 43, 296.
Hop-grounds, Poems — of the brain,
209.
Hope, 50, no, in.
,, A mother's secret — 356.
,, begins where folly ends, 77.
,, brightest when it dawns from
fears, 268.
,, cannot die, 145.
,, Cozening — 52.
„ doth hold the feast, 19.
,, Entertaining — means recog-
nising fear, 342.
„ falls like Lucifer, 73.
„ False — 52.
„ He hath persecuted time with
-96.
„ His — treacherous whose love
dies, 109.
,, Leaves green as — 91.
„ may vanish, 145. !
,, of every little thing takes hold,
59- 1
Hope shines dimly, 45.
,, That lively — designs, 7a
,, The food of — 252.
,, Themiserablehave no medicine
but — 263.
,, The unhappy have their share
in future — 292.
,, Things future, tiie property of
— 290.
Though the innate — be dead,
336.
,, True — is swift, 311.
,, We live by — 252.
,, Where there is no — there can
be no endeavour, 33.
„ While there is life there's —
339-
,, without an object cannot live,
352-
Hopeless, Fallen age for ever — lies,
337-
Hopes, Like an interdict upon her —
73-
,, of golden rules, 206.
,, Our — belied our fears, 203.
Hops and turkeys, carps and beer, in,
Horatio, 18.
Horizon, The mind hath no— 262.
Horrors accumulate, 195.
Horse, A whip for the — 15.
An two men ride of a — 25.
,, As tedious as a tired — 98.
,, Bring a — to the water, 8.
,, My kingdom for a — 6.
,, Never borrow a — you don't
know, 176.
,, O for a — with wings, 186.
, , One man may better steal a —
197.
„ Philosophy a good— in the
stable, 206.
,, Rub a galled — he will kick,
218.
,, The cart before the — 278.
,, Thegalled — will soonest wince,
142.
, , The grey mare is the better —
256.
,, The — may starve while the
grass grows, 258.
,, Wit is the muses' — 348.
,, You can't judge a — by the
harness, 137.
1 lORSEBACK, Beggars on — 35.
,, Pride goeth forth on — 212.
Horsemanship, Witch the world with
noble — 119.
HoRSEPOND, Celibacy always a muddy
— 163.
454
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Horsepower of the understanding,
66.
Horses, Twinn'd as — eye and ear,
314-
Host, Reckoners without their — 215.
,, Sleep, indifferent — 228.
„ Time is like a fashionable —
298.
Hostess, A woeful — brooks not
merry guests, 15.
Hound, To run with the hare, and
hunt with the — 308.
Hoint, An — never breaks squares in
love, 24.
„ Beauty dead within an — 34.
„ Catch the transient — 46.
„ Ever thus from childhood's —
193-
„ Grief makes one — ten, 91.
„ One crowded — of glorious
life, 196.
„ One self-approving — 198.
„ Poor little life that toddles
half an — 209.
„ Short-lived beauty of an — 221.
„ The tyrant's glee forces on the
freer — loi.
„ The witching — of night, 302.
,, Who never sold the truth to
serve the — 342.
Hours, God-like— 287.
„ Graver — that bring constraint,
98.
„ m absence have crutches, 201.
„ in love have wings, 201.
„ Pleasure makes the — seem
short, 208.
„ Seven — to law, 22a.
„ Six — in sleep, 222.
,, To chase the glowing — 180.
House, E^ten me out of^ and home,
65-
„ Every spirit makes its — 68.
„ full of feasting with strife,
37-
„ Let thy foot be seldom m thy
neighbour's — 143.
„ The honour of my — 353.
„ With a contentious woman in
a wide — 133.
„ Worse than a smoky — 98.
„ You take my — when you take
the prop, 355.
House-dog, The— of the throne, 72.
Household, The many makes the—
262.
House of Lords, A naked— 148.
Housetop, Better to dwell in the cor-
ner of the — 133.
Houses, A plague o' both your — 11.
,, Old — mended, 195.
Howards, Not all the blood of all the
— 325.
Hoyland, Nature made an — 175.
Hue, Blood which runneth of one —
206.
„ Coal-black better than another
—49.
„ Robe the mountain with its
azure — 61.
Hull, 281.
Human life, 30.
,, things subject to decay, 19.
Humanity, A rarer spirit did never
steer — 11,
„ always becomes a conqueror,
"5-
„ Duty's basis is — 63, 290.
,, Sorrow is a foe to — 233.
,, The still, sad music of — 271.
Humble, Poverty makes some — 210.
„ she should be, who would
please, 223.
Humbleness of mind, 41.
Humility becomes a man, 127.
„ The pride that apes — 249.
„ The surplice of — 294.
,, the thing Christians want, 244.
Humour, Every — hath its adjunct
pleasure, 68.
„ The unyoked — of yoiu- idle-
ness, 274.
Humours turn with climes, 163.
Hunger, 115.
„ a foe to sleep, 116.
,, still increases with the store,
170.
Hungry as the grave, 53.
,, Drink makes men — 63.
Hunting-run, Life but a— 208.
Hurly-burly, When the — is done,
335-
Hurt, The — that honour feels, 258.
Hurts, Our rival's — create our fame,
125.
Husband, A light wife makes a heavy
— 7-
,, A virtuous wife a crown to her
— 15-
„ As the — is, the wife is, 29.
,, Chords, closer than of life,
unite the — to the wife, 213.
Husbandry, Borrowing dulls the edge
of — 176.
Husbands, Let — govern, 128.
Hut, Love in a — 150.
Hymen holds by Mammon's charter,
306
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
455
Hyperion, Curls of— 221.
Hypocrisy, 122.
the only evil that walks in-
visible, 116.
Hypocrite, An — a gilded pill, 24.
„ Man ever was a — 158.
,, No man a — in his pleasures,
179.
"I DARE not" waited on "I would," 14^
I told you so, 243.
Ice on summer seas, 3.
,. To smooth the — 307.
Icicle, Chaste as the — 47.
Idea, To teach the young — 59.
Ideal, To nurse a blind — like a girl,
308.
Ideals, Our — framed according to
the measure of our thoughts,
201.
Idiot, Life, a tale told by an — 146.
Idle as a painted ship, 28.
Idleness, 120.
,, only refuge of weak minds,
120.
„ The unyok'd humour of your
— 274.
Idler, a watch that wants both hands,
25-
Idol, Beauty, the eye's — 72.
, , Fame, the — to which the finest
spirits, 72.
,, Power is the grim — 210.
,, The — of my youth, 258.
,, The world's great — 55.
Idolatry, Mad — to make the service
greater than the god, 301.
,, The god of my — 62, 254.
"If" the only peacemaker, much
virtue in " if,'' 121, 356.
Ignoble, To none man seems — but
to man, 307.
Ignorance, 123, 124.
„ By — we know not things neces-
sary, 43.
Fonder than — 323.
He that voluntarily continues
in — 102.
Human pride invents names to
hide its — 115.
Meet — half way, 307.
No darkness but — 2S2.
Our lives are shortened by our
— 202.
The greater cantle of the world
is lost with — 255.
Where— is bliss, 337.
Ignorant, He whom idleness ke»^ps —
105.
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil
word, 124.
,, Discreeter to anticipate a
lesser — 191.
fares it with the flock, 124.
fares the land, 124.
father's no gift, no knowledge,
no thrift, 124.
Knowledge of good bought
dear by knowing — 139.
Life an — whose only cure is
death, 204.
may a sad mind forge a merry
face, 124.
news conies apace, 124.
news hath wings, 124.
That prime — a talking wife,
243-
thrives the hapless family, 124.
ware is never cheap, 124.
Wherefore should — ever flow
from — 190.
Ill-got, Things — had ever bad suc-
cess, 290.
Ills, No sense have they of — i8.
,, To hastening — a prey, 124.
Illusion, There's nothing but — true,
57-
Image, The fleeting — of a shade, 107.
Imagination, Can — boast hues like
nature, 341.
„ Gifted with an egotistical — 13.
„ Indebted to his — for his facts,
268.
Imitation the sincerest form of flattery.
Immensity, The sea, in all its vague—
135.
Immortality, Death is — 85.
,, He ne'er is crowned with — 97.
Impatience does become a dog that's
mad, 205.
Impeachment, I own the soft — 119.
Impediment, Let his lack of years be
no — 142.
Impediments, Wife and children — to
great enterprises, loa
Imperfection, 338.
Impious in a good man to be sad, 301.
Imposition, Reputation an idle and
most false — 216.
Impossibilities, A wise man never
attempts — 15.
,, The most magnificent promises
of — 24.
Impossible, Nothing is— to a willing
heart, 183.
Impostors, A reforming age fertile
of— la.
456
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Improvement, He who seeks the
mind's — 105.
Impudence antl money makes a peer,
323-
,, emboldens a man to undertake
any task, 125.
, , Good men starve for want of —
40.
,, nearly allied to fortitude, 125.
Incense, Finest spirits i^l all ages burnt
their — 72.
With breath all— 60.
Inch, Every — a king, 68.
Inches, All men philosophers to their —
19.
Inch-high the grave above, 146.
Inclination, We should have no law
but the — of the moment,
122.
Inclinations, Men's thoughts are
according to their — i68.
Incomplete, The— 27.
Inconstancy, Nothing constant in
the world but — 284,
Incorruptible, Sea-green — 220.
Independence, 261.
Index, Form is the soul's — 327.
Index-learning turns no student
pale, 130.
Indifferent, How many honest
actions are lost for want of
being — 112.
Indiscretion, All's not offence that —
finds, 20.
Individual, God enters by a private
door into every — 86.
Indolence is king for life, 192.
Indulgence, Study is the — of man-
hood, 236.
Industry a loadstone to draw all
good things, 130.
,, Avarice the spur of — 31.
,, Experience is by — achieved, 70.
Inebriate, Cups that cheer but not —
54-
Inebriated with the exuberance of
his own verbosity, 13.
Infamy, Bettertodie than live with — 38.
,, Death's a sure retreat from —
333.
„ No wound so sore as sting of —
180.
„ The vilest — 275.
,, to die and not be missed, 301.
Infancy, Nations, like men, have
their — 173.
Infant, An — crying in the night, 25.
,, The — mewling and puking,
258.
Infantine, Genius has somewhat of
the— 83.
Infants, all ihinys serve them, 296.
Infection, Advice is sporting while —
breeds, 265.
Inferiors, 'Twixt kings and their —
there's the odds, 314.
Infinitude, A threatening — 3.
, , Our being's home is with — 339.
Infinity, How can finite reason
reach — 112.
Infirmities, A friend should bear a
friend's — 4.
Infirmity, That last — of a noble
mind, 72.
Influence, All must feel the — 2a
Ingratitude, 40, 80.
,, more strong than traitor's
arms, 130.
,, of men, 120.
,, When — barbs the dart of in-
jury, 333.
Ingredient, The — a devil, 68.
Ingredients, Commend the— of our
poisoned chalice to our own
lips, 121.
Ingress, Our — into the world, 201.
Inhumanity, Man's — to man, 162.
,, No greater shame to man
than — 178.
,, 'Tis — to bless by chance, 301.
Iniquity, Where virtue breeds — de-
vours, 316.
Injuries are writ in brass, 130.
,, It costs more to revenge than
to bear — 131.
,, men's schoolmaster, 309.
Injury, Love's wrong greater grief
than hate's known — 132.
,, sooner forgotten than an insult,
25-
,, When ingratitude barbs the
dart of — 333.
Injustice, Delay of justice is — 59.
Inn, Found the warmest welcome at
an— 344.
,, Shall I not take mine ease at
mine — 222.
,, The world's an — 278.
Innocence, 4.
,, an armed heel to trample
accusation, 130.
„ Calmness not always an attri-
bute of — 44.
„ Female — o'ercome, 224.
„ Ignorance is not — but sin,
124.
,, In modest — 24.
,, is strong, 130.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
457
Innocence, Justice stumbles on —
sometimes, 137.
should be unsuspicious, 130.
There is no courage but in —
282.
Inquisitiveness seldom cures jealousy,
130.
Insight, 9.
iNsriRER, Poverty, thou great — 210.
Instances, Full of wise saws and
modern — 83.
,, That wilderness of single —
259-
Instinct, By natural— taught, 64-
,, is a great matter, 130.
,, leaps, 239.
Institution, An — the shadow of one
man, 25.
Institutions, In all human — a
smaller evil allowed, to pro-
cure a greater good, 125.
Instruct, Seldom safe to — 132.
Instruction, Sweet — flows in every
rill, 195.
Instructions, Teach bloody— which,
being taught, return to
plague the inventor, 121.
Instrument, A poor — may do a
noble deed, 329.
,, Art is man's — 174.
,, Nature is God's— 174.
Insult, An injury sooner forgotten
than an — 25.
Insurrection, 38.
Integrity of life, fame's best friend,
130.
Intellect can raise a pile that ne'er
decays, 130.
,, Simple woman is weak in —
226.
The — is finite, 258.
Intemperance, Boundless — a tyr-
anny, 41.
Intent, The soul of a high — cannot
die, 270.
,, Wounds ill cured with a good
— 353-
Intentions, Hell is paved with good
— 107.
,, Worst things sometimes pro-
ceed from good — 29.
Intercourse, chief link in chain of
human society, 82.
„ The gradual culture of kind —
81.
Interest, Common — always will
prevail, 356.
,, is the lie, 55.
Interim, 38.
Interpretation will misquote our
lonks, 149.
Interpretek, Each may be his own —
28.
,, Whilst every man's his own —
178.
Interpreters, God hath His small—
86.
Intolerable, Everything becomes —
to the man subdued by grief,
68.
Intoxication, The best of life is but
- 158.
Intrude, Good manners can never —
88.
Invent, When did woman ever yet —
332-
Invention, Necessity is the mother of
— 175-
Inventor, Bloody instructions return
to plague the — 121.
Inventors, We are all— 321.
Ire of a crushed alfection, 58.
Irish are a fair people, 258.
,, No poisonous reptiles found
on — ground, 192.
Iron, Strike while the — is hot, 336.
„ What perils environ the man
who meddles with cold —
329-
ISAAK Walton, 267.
Israel, 11.
Itch, The — that knows no cure, 258.
Iteration generates heat instead of
progress, 136.
Jack, Since every — became a gentle-
man, 226.
,, There's many a gentle person
become a — 226, 278.
,, To keep watch for the life of
poor — 286.
Jade, Let the gall'd — wince, 142.
,, Philosophy, an errant — on a
journey, 206.
Japan, A madman in — 30,
Jargon of the schools, 136, 331.
Jars, Women's — breed men's wars,
352.
Jaws of darkness, 41.
Jealous, Man grows cold and woman
-158.
Jealousy, 311.
,, Beware, my lord, of — 39.
,. How many fools serve maci —
112.
„ Inquisitiveness seldom cures —
130.
,, is the bellows of the mind, 136^
458
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Jealousy, Self-harming — 221.
,, the injured lover's hell, 136.
,, What effect hath — 326.
Jealousy's peculiar nature, 133.
Jehovah has triumphed, 233.
Jest, A fellow of infinite — 18.
,, He makes a foe who makes a
— 97.
,, Lues a — 145.
,, War, the lawyer's — 320.
Jester, Dull is the — 63.
,, How ill white hairs become a
— 112.
Jesters do oft prove prophets, 136.
Jest's, A^ prosperity, 6.
Jests, Indebted to his memory for his
— 268.
Jew, I pray you, think you question
with the — 119.
Jewel, A — in a ten times barr'd up
chest, 266.
„ Immediate — of their souls, 88.
„ Like a rich — in an ^thiop's
ear, 107.
„ of gold in a swine's snout, 27.
,, Plain dealing is a — 207.
,, Within our breasts this — lies,
122.
Jewels, Dumb — more than quick
words do move a woman's
mind, 63, 346.
,, orators of love, 136.
Jews, 11.
Job, As poor as — 29.
JOCKY of Norfolk, be not too bold,
136.
John of Gaunt, Old— 195.
Joint, The times are out of — 273.
Joke, A — is a very serious thing,
6.
„ Gentle dulness ever loves a —
84.
Jokes, Hackneyed — 9.
Joke's, When the — unkind, 63.
Journalism, Great is— 89.
Journeymen, Nature's— 189.
Journey's end. Death the — 278.
Jove, If — stray, who dares say — doth
ill, 121.
„ laughs at lover's perjuries, 30.
,, The front of — himself, 221.
„ They are near lightning that
are near to — 175.
Jowl, Cheek by — 47.
Joy, A— above the rest, 68.
„ Ail who would win — mustshare
it, 22.
^ A thing of beauty is a — for
ever. 14.
Joy, Base envy withers at another's—
32.
,, bright stranger, 233.
,, By bond of — men's spirits
held, 312.
„ By destruction dwell in doubt-
ful— 184.
„ Delight hath a — 59.
,, Delights in — 239.
,, Earth's sweetest — but dis-
guised woe, 241.
,, Extremest ills possess a — 196.
,, for ever, my task is done, 137.
„ He who can draw a — from
rocks and woods, 104.
„ is the best of wine, 136.
,, Memory, bosom-spring of —
164.
„ none so great but runneth to
an end, 178.
„ O running stream of sparkling
— 187.
„ One dram of — must have a
pound of care, ig6.
„ shall come with early light,
281.
„ Strength not born amidst —
236.
„ There is a — above the name
of pleasure, 194.
„ There's not a — the world can
give, 287.
„ Truth gives — 312.
,, When power of imparting —
equal to will, 336.
,, Whereby we pass to — 57.
Joys, Angels from friendship gather
half their — 26.
„ Briefly die their — 42.
„ Fairest — give most unrest,
303.
„ Present — more than prospect
of distant good, 211.
„ Present — sweeter for past pain
— 211.
,, Who bathes in wOildly — 340.
Judge, Half the task of a— to know,
300.
,, No man's a faithful — in his
own cause, 179.
,, There sits a— no king can
corrupt, 106.
,, Thou uouldst make mine
enemy my — 194,
„ To— 307.
„ To oflend and to — are distinct
. offices, 308.
Judges, The hungry — 294.
,, When — steal themselves, 29a
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
459
Judging, Writing or— ill, 301.
Judgment, Defect of— 59.
,, is not always requiicd, 137.
,, Our eyes are sentinels unto our
— 201.
„ Reserve thy — 84.
„ When I was green in — 173.
„ When — weak, prejudice
strong, 335.
„ Where the fault springs let the
— fall, 338.
,, Wit and — often at strife, 347.
Julius C^,sar, 137.
June, Their meetings made December
— 288.
Jupiter of men, 43.
Juries, Thou that goest upon Middle-
sex — 293.
Jury, The— 258.
Jurymen, Wretches hang that — may
dine, 294.
Just, He that is void of fear may soon
be — 100.
„ The memory of the — is blessed,
262.
„ The memory of the — survives,
262.
Justice, 9, 137.
,, a virtue shar'd by all, ii.
,, Delay of — is injustice, 59.
„ Ere — doomed the blow, 106.
„ From shaven chins never came
better — 82.
„ Hard is the task of — 94.
„ is application of truth to others,
312.
„ is feasting while the widow
weeps, 265.
„ Offence's gilded hand may
shove by — 128.
„ Should stern — blot a griev-
ance, 224.
„ Temper — with mercy, 240.
„ The crown of — 255.
„ The — in fair round belly, 258.
,, The strong lance of — 207, 296,
,, The sword of — 276.
,, To strictest — many ills belong,
309-
„ Virtue is the shoeing-horn of —
319-
„ Where — reigns tia freedom to
obey, 338.
Keei,, When her — ploughs hell, 64.
Keei'ER, Am I my brother's — 22.
Kekpkr-back of death, 52.
Keeping, To lose by — 307.
Kick, A— 6.
Kill, A word's enough to raise man-
kind to — 16.
,, Hates any man the thing he
would not — 95.
,, Licensd to — 294.
Kin, a little more than — 7.
,, One touch of nature makes the
whole world — 198.
,, Pity and need make all flesh —
206.
Kind, A fellow-feeling makes one — 3.
,, A little less than — 7.
„ Base in — 32.
,, Be to her virtues very — 33.
,, Dumb jewels in theirsilent — 63.
„ Each animal spares his own —
64.
I, Each creature loves his — 147.
„ He looks so cold she thinks
him — 103.
„ I must be cruel onlv to be —
ii8.
„ None are fair but who are —
181.
Kindness, Christ took the— and for-
gave the theft, 313.
,, counterfeiting absent love, 187.
,, ever nobler than revenge, 138.
,, speaks in the air it gilds, 225.
,, The milk of human — 262.
Kino, A divine sentence in the lips of
the— 3.
„ A peasant sleeps while cares
awake a — i8i.
,, A hale cobbler better than a
sick — 24.
„ Authority forgets a dying — 31.
„ Beggar and — with equal steps,
232.
„ Can wash the balm from an
anointed — 182.
„ Every inch a — 68.
„ Every subject's duty, duty of
the— 68.
„ God save the — 86.
„ Here lies our mutton-eating —
108.
„ Here lies our sovereign lord
the— 108.
,, How small a fence love sets
between the — and the hind,
114.
,, Law is — of all, 140.
„ Love is a present for a mighty —
220.
„ Man is a name of honour for
a— 159.
„ Minions loo great argue a —
too weak, 9a
46o
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
King of shreds and patches, 6.
,, Quart of ale a dish for a — ii.
,, Sometimes better for a — to be
feared than loved, 78.
„ That is not free, no — 259.
„ That rare appendage to a —
243-
,, The cheerful man's a — 247.
„ The greatest — 256.
,, The hollow crown that rounds
the temples of a — 348.
,, The — of France went up a
hill, 259.
„ There sits a judge no — can
corrupt, 106.
,, There's such a divinity doth
hedge a — 288.
„ They do abuse the — that flatter
him, 289.
,, Thrice noble the man of him-
self — 295.
,, What is a — 326.
,, What happiness to reign a
lonely— 326.
,, What watch the — keeps to
maintain the peace, 269.
,, When George III. was — 127.
,, Who breaks no law is subject
to no— 102.
,, With half the zeal I served
"ly — S3-
King Stephen, 138.
Kingdom, 6.
,, Content's a — 51.
,, My mind to me a — is, 172.
Kingdoms, We have kissed away —
255-
Kings are like stars, 213.
,, Courtesy the obedience due
to — 190.
„ Death lays his icy hand on —
57-
„ Falsehood is worse in — 71.
,, glorious day, 248.
,, have no repose, 213.
in awe, 55.
,, Laws are vain if they can be
destroyed by — 140.
,, Love is love in beggars as in —
220.
,, Man owns the power of — 160.
,, may love treason but the traitor
hate, 213.
,, Nice customs court'sy to
great — 177.
„ own the power of love, 160.
f, seldom enjoy content, 51.
„ The good of subjects is the end
of— 333-
Kings, Time's glory to calm contend-
ing— 299.
,, 'Tis hard for — to steer an
equal course, 300.
,, 'Tis the curse of — to be
attended by slaves, 134.
,, too tame, despicably good,
138.
,, 'Twixt — and their inferiors
there's the odds, 314.
,, will be tyrants from policy, 138.
Kingsale, 138.
Kiss, Claim her with a loving — 355.
,, Come let us — and part, 226.
,, Leave a — within the cup, 63.
,, Like Dian's — 146.
,, One kind — before we part,
197.
,, Ride us a thousand furlongs
with one soft — 197.
,, Time to fear when tyrants seem
to— 134, 303.
Kisses balmier than buds of April, 138.
Stolen — are always sweeter,
235-
,, The — of an enemy profuse,
259-
Kissing goes by favour, 138.
is the key o' love, 138.
Kite, The body of a — 7.
Kitten, I had rather be a — and cry
mew, 117.
Knave, A bait for a— 3.
,, A — a plant of every soil, 6.
,, The — who wears a title lies,
304-
,, Who friendship with a — hatii
made, 342.
Knavery, Plain face of^ never seen
till used, 138.
Knaves and prudes are six times
married, 306.
,, Fame the bait of flattering —
328.
,, Fine speeches the instruments
of — 76.
,, Fools grudge at — in place, 77.
,, laugh fools to scorn, 78.
,, pursue fools, 77.
,, repose and fatten on honest
men, 109.
,, starve not in the land of fools,
138.
,, thrive without one grain or
sense, 40.
,, World made up of fools and—
278.
Knocks, People willing to take hard—
for nothing, 205.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
461
Know, You may — him by his com-
P'l'iy. 355-
KNOWI.KDGli, 138, 139.
,, All our — is ourselves to know,
319-
,, Be ignorance thy choice
where— leads to woe, 123.
,, Extend thy mind o'er all the
world in — 32.
,, Fools hate — 77.
, , He that increaseth — increaseth
sorrow, 127.
Heat in inverse proportion to —
127.
,, If a little — is dangerous, 120.
,, 111 father, no gift, no — 124.
,, It is the province of — to speak,
135-
,, Man loves — 160.
,, Man without — 9.
,, No man's — can go beyond
his experience, 179.
,, Opinion — in the making, 199.
,, perpetually on voyages of dis-
covery, 240.
,, Philosophy, great and only heir
of all human — 206.
,, Science is organised — 219.
,, Sorrow is — 91.
,, The fear of the Lord is the
beginning of — 251.
The — of man as the waters,
159-
,, The tree of — in your garden
grows, 274.
,, The tree of — not that of life, 91.
,, the wing wherewith we f^y to
heaven, 124.
Known, All we live to know is — 41.
,, Not well understood as good
not — 183.
Knuckle-end, Scotland— of England,
220.
Kosciusko, ho.
Labour, 139.
, , Better owe a yard of land to —
37-
If little — little are our gains,
121.
No — no bread, 178.
,, The nobility of — 264.
,, There's a dignity in — 285.
,, With news the time's with —
348.
I.AiiouRS, Lingercfl — come to nought,
88.
Labyrinth, He thrids the — of the
mind, 103.
Ladder, He that will rise to the top
of a — 103.
,, Lowliness is young ambi-
tion's — 156.
Ladies bend sweet looks, 114.
,, if fair have the gift to know it,
121.
,, like variegated tulips, 139.
,, Sigh no more — 224.
Lady, Claim your — with a loving kiss,
35S-
,, Faint heart ne'er won fair — 71.
Laid, The devil sooner raised than —
249.
Lake, Life is a — 57.
,, Marriage a stormy — 163.
Lamb, An Englishman flattered, a —
24-
,, God tempers the wind to the
shorn— 87.
,, In peace was never — more
mild, 129.
„ The fox barks not when he
steals the — 253.
,, The — thy riot dooms to bleed,
259-
Lame, Feet was I to the — 70.
,, 'Who reproves the — 100.
Lament, Past sorrows let us mod-
estly — 204.
Lamentation, Moderate — 169.
Lamp, Reason the twinkling — 214.
Lamps, Heaven's distant — 329.
,, Stars, those glorious — 296.
Lancaster, Time-honoured — • 195.
Land, Adieu, my native — 119.
,, God and your native — 236
,, III fares the — 124.
,, Lord of himself, though not
of — 149.
,, mortgaged may return, 139.
,, My own, my native — 41.
,, of meanness, 7.
,, of scholars, 259.
,, Praise the sea but keep on the—
210.
,, The — that is enslaved, 242.
,, Thus far into the bowels of
the — 296.
,, 'Where the ocean leans against
the— 338.
Lands, Money buys — 127.
Lane, Straight down the crooked —
235.
Language, Every— is a temple, 68.
,, forms the preacher, 294.
,, is a city, 140.
is the dress of thought, 140.
,, Tears the— of the eye, 240.
462
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Language, The persuasive — of a tear,
350.
Languages, No sense at all in several —
100.
Languish, One grief cures with an-
other's — 91, 196.
Lap-dog, A fat — after dinner, 63.
Lakk, a leg of a — 7.
,, I rise with the — 217.
,, The — at heaven's gate sings,
94.
,, The busy — 247.
Larks, Merry — are ploughmen's
clocks, 168.
Last, An eternal now doth ever — 24.
,, Live each day as if thy — 312.
,, not least, 294.
,, Too sweet to — 310.
Late, Better — than never, 37.
,, Known too — 310.
Laugh, 140.
,, The loud — 260.
,, They — that win, 97.
Laughing the clouds away, 60.
Laughter, 140.
„ Hath only a scornful tickling —
59-
„ holding both his sides, 234.
,, No grace in constrained — 124.
,, Shake the midriff of despair
with — 13.
Laurel never grows for sluggards'
brows, 79.
Law, 140.
By nature's kindly — 36.
Custom, that unwritten — 55.
Custom which is before all —
55-
God is thy— 86.
He that goes to — 99.
impossible without a lawmaker,
99.
is the bad man's awe, 254-
Let a man keep the — 141.
Love a breach of reason's —
151-
Love knows no — 155, 187.
Love's — is out of rule, 155.
Must perish by the — 104.
Need hath no — 176.
of the Medes and Persians, 259.
Order is heaven's first — 200.
Pity, the virtue of the — 207.
Rests on Heaven's — 249.
Self-defence, nature's eldest —
221.
Seven hours to — 222.
The good needs fear no — 254.
The — is blind, 259.
Law, The — is ended as a man is
friended, 164.
,, The — made to take care o'
raskills, 259.
,, The lawless science of our —
259-
,, The toils of — 273.
,, The wicked prize buys out
the— 128.
„ There is but one — for all, 282.
,, Truth by point of — is parry'd,
306.
,, 'We must not make a scare-
crow of the — 322.
,, What is — if those who make
it break it, 326.
,, When — can do no right, 334.
„ Where — ends tyranny begins,
338.
,, Who breaks no — 102.
, , Whose seat is — 92.
Lawn, Twice a saint in — 30a
Laws, The universal cause acts by
general — 274.
,, They seek no — 289.
„ They who possess the prince
possess the — 290.
Lawyer, The — 259.
Lawyers, 140.
Lay, Discord often makes the sweeter —
60.
Leach, A skilful — 13.
Leaf, Fallen into the sere and yellow —
172.
,, The actor's — 20a
Leaks, Many little — may sink a ship,
163.
Leap, Look ere ye — 148.
Learn, A man never too old to — 8.
,, It is always safe to — 132.
, , We live and — 322.
Learners teaching, 240.
Learning, 141.
,, A little — is a dangerous thing,
7-
„ A pride of — II.
„ Just enough of — to misquote, 9.
„ Much — doth make thee mad,
171.
„ To all the heights of — bred,
198.
„ Wearing the weight of — light-
ly. 323-
Least, Last not — 294.
,, Of two ills choose the — 191.
Leather, The rest but — and prunella,
352-
Leave, Occasion smiles upon a second
— 3-
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
463
Leaves green as hope, 91.
,, The — of friendship fall, 356.
Words are like— 352.
Leer, Assent with civil — 55.
Lei'T, Better to be— than never to
have been loved, 300.
,, What's well — off, 306.
Legiance with love, 141.
Legion, My name is — 173.
Legislation, Learn earth ere teach
heaven — 141.
Leisure, Answers — 94.
Married in haste, repent at —
92, 164.
, , Small— have the poor for grief,
229.
Leke, I hold that mouse not worth a
— 118.
Lely on animated canvas stole, 141.
Lend, Not so good to borrow as to be
able to — 182.
,, less than thou owest, 95.
Lender, Be neither a borrower nor a
— 176.
Leopard, Can the — change his spots.
Leprosy, An itchmg — of wit, 207.
Less, Fine by degrees and beautifully
-76.
,, He pleas'd us more had he
pleas'd us — 97.
,, How can the — comprehend
the greater, 112.
Lesson, Example all the — men can
read, 69.
Life's true — 239.
,, Love's special — 156.
The si m pie — which the nursery
taught, 315.
Letter, The— killeth, 259.
,, Zed, thou unnecessary — 357.
Letters are the elixir of love, 153.
,, are the life of love, 143.
,, Fair words in foulest — 346.
Levity, Love is not for — 155.
Liable, All men — to error, 19.
Liar, A poor man better than a — 11.
Liars should have good memories, 143.
Libel, Greater the truth, greater the —
255-
Liberty begets desire of more, 170.
,, He that roars for — loi.
,, Hours that bring constraint to
sweeten — 89.
, , If fields are prisons, where is —
121.
Nature like — 293.
plucks justice by the nose, 200.
,, Preferring hard — 211.
Liberty, Risen on ruins of — 73.
,, The air of — 354.
,, the chartered right of English-
men, 143.
,, Where he may launch to — and
ease, 341.
Lids unsullied with a tear, 299.
Lie, A harmless — 316.
,, A — which is half a truth, 7.
,, All not false which seems a —
19-
„ but the truth in masquerade,
326.
,, Drink makes men — 63.
,, Love of — 260.
,, Nothing can need a — 56.
,, The world swallows a — 278.
,, To — is unhonest, 316.
,, Truth never was indebted to a
— 313-
Lies, Particular — may speak a general
truth, 204.
Life, 144, 145, 146, 202, 291.
,, a dream, 143.
,, a fatal complaint, 142.
,, A hundred times in — 52.
,, a short summer, 46.
,, A well-written — 15.
,, A woman's seen in private—
127.
,, Above our — we love a friend,
16.
, , All covet — 19.
,, An ill — 204.
,, an incurable disease, 142.
,, and time shall fade away, 277.
,, Bankrupt of — 31.
,, Bread is the staff of — 41.
,, Compunction the beginning of
a new — 245.
,, Custom the guide of human —
55-
,, Dearer is love than — 56.
,, Death makes — live, 355.
, , Death the gate of — 58.
, , Dissolve the bands of — 52.
,, Dost thou love — 62.
, , Each day a — 64.
,, Elysian — whose portals we
call death, 232.
,, entombs the soul, 56.
,, Eschew the idle — 66.
,, Every hour shall end a human
-67.
,, Fellowship is — 75.
,, finds tongues in trees, 76.
,, Friendship the wine of — 82.
,, He sins against this — 99.
„ He that despises — 96.
464
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
Life, Heart enchain'd to where morn
of — was spent, 329.
„ Her waist is ampler than her —
108.'
High— 300.
His — was gentle, 292.
how pleasant is thy morning,
186.
I have set my — upon a cast, ii8.
Integrity of — 130.
is a lake, 57.
is but a span, 108.
Is nalved truth not actable in —
131-
is perfected in death, 139.
is short, 27.
Jump the — to come, 121.
It is not the whole of — to live,
302.
Long quaffing maketh short —
148.
Love is an ever-dying — 151.
Love is second — 153.
Love's sweet — is o'er, 195.
Man's — being too short, 162.
Man's love of man's — a thing
apart, 162.
may be prolonged by medicine,
43-
Mine honour is my — 168.
My May of — 172.
never lacks power to dismiss
itself, 182.
No — has ever longed for death,
178.
Not one — shall be destroyed,
184.
Nothing in his — became him,
183.
O death in^ 185.
One crowded hour of glorious
— 196.
Our — is frail, 298.
Poor little— that toddles half
an hour, 209.
Progress is the law of — 213.
Railing at — and yet afraid of
death, 195.
Reason, the twinkling lamp of
wandering — 214.
Relief to any laden — 44.
She walks the waters like a
thing of — 223.
Small occasions strew the path
of — 229.
Sorrow the putrefaction of
stagnant— 233.
Surrenders nothing but his —
341-
Life, That best portion of a good
man's — 2^1.
that ne'er shall cease, 272.
The advancing winter of our —
72.
The busy scenes of crowded—
142.
The fraction of — 253.
The great business of — 255.
The greatest risk in — 43.
The important business of youi
— 290.
The sacred academy of man'^
-265.
The soldier's— 303.
The spirit giveth — 259.
The spotless ether of a maiden
— 271.
The weariest — 276.
The web of our — 276.
The white flower of a blameless
— 323-
Time used is — 299.
To let out — 57-
To sweeten all the toils of
human — 308.
Travel's a miniature — 310.
Tree of knowledge not that of
— 91-
Trust flattering — no more, 312.
Vanity's the spice of — 317.
Virtue blooms on the wreck of
-85.
What is human — 30.
What is — but a hunting-run,
208.
Where there's — there's hope,
339-
You never know what — means
till you die, 355.
You take my— 355.
Youth looks on — as gold, 356.
Light, A — that flows from regions
out of sight, 73.
An infant crying for the — 25.
Checkering the clouds with
streaks of — 256.
Dim religious — 60.
He who receives— 105.
Lead, kindly — 140.
Long the way that leads up to
-148.
That fierce — that beats upon a
throne, 323.
The fountam of — 105.
The licight that lies for ever in
the — 119.
When a great man dies, the —
he leaves, 331.
INDEX OF SUByECTS.
465
I.IGHTNING. Brief as the— 41.
,, Enthusiasm, the leaping of —
66.
,, They are near — that are near
Jove, 175.
Lights, Small — soon blown out, 229.
Like as eggs, 28.
,, as peas, 28.
I shall not look upon his —
again, 103.
,, quits — 94.
,, to — is no gain, 147.
,, will to — 147.
Liked, He's best— 36.
Likings, Our timid— kill, 202.
Lily, To paint the — 307.
Limb, Learn to make a body of a —
141.
Years steal vigour from the —
354-
Limbs, Give it time to learn its — 291.
Limits, Stony — cannot keep love out,
235-
Line, Will the — stretch out to the
crack of doom , 346.
Linen, Love is like — 152.
Lion, A living dog better than a dead
— 7-
and stoat have isled together,
147.
Beard the — in his den, 56.
Englishman threatened, a — 24.
In war, never — raged more
fierce, 129.
, , Men tremble when the — roars,
228.
The hind that would mate the
— 258.
The righteous are bold as a —
277.
W hat weapons has the — 330.
Who nourisheth a — 342.
Lions, Poor flies will tickle dead —
209.
Lips, Sweet — whereon perpetually did
dwell, 238.
Truth on the — of dying men,
313-
,, Turn to ashes on the — 56.
,, When I ope my — 116.
Liquor, The fire that mounts the —
106.
,, When the — is out, 336.
Liquors, Fill the cup of alteration with
divers — 112.
Listeners, Thoughts not said for
lack of — 158.
I.ITERATUKK is a very bad crutch,
147.
Little, Who with a — cannot be con-
tent, 344.
,, World has — to bestow, 277.
LiTTi.K.N'Ess, Pride is — 212.
Live, He is cowardly that fears to—
96.
,, He that begins to — 99.
,, Only they know how to — 199
,, Teach him how lo — 240.
,, To die is to — 128.
,, To — in hearts we leave behind,
307-
I, To — long, every one's wish,
307-
Too beautiful to — 310.
,, While you — 148.
Lived, They only have — long, 289.
Livers, Range with humble — 300.
Livery, God of war's rich — 40.
,, Shame the — of offending
minds, 223.
,, The light and careless — 356.
,, The shadow'd — of the bur-
nished sun, 169.
Lives, A white day in our — 208.
,, As many — as a cat, 28.
,, Everything that — 69.
,, He rightly — 96.
,, In the music of men's — 114.
,, In the wreck of noble — 129.
,, of great men all remind us,
^ ^47-
,, Our — shortened by ignorance,
202.
,, Our past — build our present,
202.
,, The conduct of our — 248.
,, The little — of men, 260.
,, There is a history in all men's
— 281.
,, Thrice blest whose — 295.
Living, Consult the— 51.
Load, Life without love a — 146.
Loadstone, Industry is a — 130.
Loaf, Bettei half a — than no bread,
37-
,, Easy of cut — to steal a shive,
171.
Loan oft loses botli itself and friend,
176.
Loathed, Loved and — 287.
Lobsters, To lose a match with — 114-
Lock, A door without a — 3.
Locks, Love picks all — 324.
,, Time wears all his — before, 220
London, 242.
,, A — pride, 11.
Eternal — haunts us still, 86.
that great sea, 148.
466
INDEX OF SUByBCTS.
Lx)NDON, the needy villain's general
home, 148.
London-bridge, On a broken arch of
— 335-
Long, Art is— 27.
,, As merry as the day is — 29.
,, Love me little, love me — 153.
,, They live — that live well, 97.
Look ere ye leap, 148.
,, The first, last — by love re-
veal'd, 229.
„ The silent rhetoric of a — 225.
Lookers-on, 149.
Looking-glass, The world is a — 277.
Looks, How sweet are — 114.
,, Interpretation will misquote
our — 149.
„ My only books were women's
— 173-
,, Saucy — 236.
„ That dwell on long remem-
bered — 279.
Lord, Folly with allegiance, a fallen —
156.
