Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.1 Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; Line 81. Line 104. Line 226. Night iv. Line 10. Man makes a death which Nature never made. A Christian is the highest style of man.1 Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. Line 15. Line 17. Line 71. Line 118. Line 233. Line 676. Line 788. Line 843. Night v. Line 177. Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, 1 See Shakespeare, page 143. 2 See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 198. Dryden, page 272. 8 Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long. Line 600. 4 See Dryden, page 268. 5 See Dryden, page 270. GOLDSMITH: The Hermit, stanza 8. We see time's furrows on another's brow, Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 627. Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.1 While man is growing, life is in decrease; Line 661 Line 717. That life is long which answers life's great end. Line 773. The man of wisdom is the man of years. Line 775. Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.3 Line 1011. Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. Night vi. Line 309. And all may do what has by man been done. Line 606. Night vii. Line 496. Too low they build, who build beneath the stars. Prayer ardent opens heaven. A man of pleasure is a man of pains. Night viii. Line 215. Line 721. Line 793. Line 1015. To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain. Final Ruin fiercely drives -- 'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand, Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man. Night Thoughts. Night ix. Line 644. An undevout astronomer is mad. Line 771. Line 1267. Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 51. Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, Line 89. Line 145. Line 147. Line 238. Satire ii. Line 83. And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone. Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, Line 165. Line 207. 1 See Sir Thomas Browne, page 218. 2 See Nicholas Rowe, page 301. 8 Speech was made to open man to man, and not to hide him; to promote commerce, and not betray it. LLOYD: State Worthies (1665; edited by Whitworth), vol. i. p. 503. Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. ROBERT SOUTH: Sermon, April 30, 1676. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. GOLDSMITH: The Bee, No. 3. (Oct. 20, 1759.) Ils ne se servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs pensées (Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts). VOLTAIRE: Dialogue xiv. Le Chapon et la Poularde (1766). When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated name, on the chance of reclaiming it if it took. Thus he assigned to Talleyrand, in the "Nain Jaune," the phrase, “Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.” FOURNIER L'Esprit dans l'Histoire, Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed. Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 282. And waste their music on the savage race.1 Satire v. Line 228. For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme, Satire vi. Line 190. Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; One to destroy is murder by the law, Line 208. Satire vii. Line 55. How commentators each dark passage shun, Line 97. To Mr. Pope. Epistle i. Line 28. Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, Line 277. Lines written with the Diamond Pencil of Lord Chesterfield. Time elaborately thrown away. The Last Day. Book i. Book ini. There buds the promise of celestial worth. In records that defy the tooth of time. The Statesman's Creed. Great let me call him, for he conquered me. The Revenge. Act i. Sc. 1. Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, Act v. Sc. 2. 1 And waste their sweetness on the desert air. GRAY: Elegy, stanza 14. CHURCHILL Gotham, book ii. line 20. The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The Revenge. Act v. Sc. 2. And friend received with thumps upon the back.1 Universal Passion. BISHOP BERKELEY. 1684-1753. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; 2 A fifth shall close the drama with the day: On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America. Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old. Can Love be controlled by Advice?8 [Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.1 Siris. Par. 217. JANE BRERETON. 1685-1740. The picture placed the busts between But Folly 's at full length. On Beau Nash's Picture at full length between the Busts of 1 The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves, by thumping on your back. 2 See Daniel, page 39. COWPER: On Friendship. Westward the star of empire takes its way. - Epigraph to Bancroft's History of the United States. 3 AIKEN: Vocal Poetry (London, 1810). 4 Cups That cheer but not inebriate. COWPER: The Task, book ir. (This epigram is generally ascribed to Chesterfield. See Campbell, English Poets," note, p. 521.) 5 DYCE: Specimens of British Poetesses. |