MAN.

Without our hopes, without our fears,
Without the home that plighted love endears,
Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh! what were man?-a world without a sun.
a. CAMPBELL-Pleasures of Hope.
Pt. II. Line 24.

Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to necessity; and thus, in reality triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.

Mur. We are men, my liege.
Mac.-Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men.
d. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 1.

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty, in form, and moving, how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me, no nor women neither, though by your smiling, you seem to say so.

e. Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2.

What is a man

If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed?

f.

Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 4.

Why, he's a man of wax.

9. Romeo and Juliet. Act I. Sc. 3.

Ah! how unjust to nature, and himself,
Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man.
1. YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night II.
Line 112.

Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

T. YOUNG-Paraphrase of Job. Line 187. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He, who made him such!

S.

YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night I.

Line 68.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

2.

EMERSON-Social Aims.

But I,--that am not shap'd for sportive tricks,

Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass. Richard III. Act I. Sc. 1.

2.

MARTYRDOM.

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded

That all the Apostles would have done as they did.

y.

Z.

BYRON-Don Juan. Canto I. St. 83. Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star. BEN JONSON-Underwoods. An Epistle to Master John Selden. He strove among God's suffering poor One gleam of brotherhood to send; The dungeon oped its hungry door To give truth one martyr more, Then shut, and here behold the end! LOWELL-On the Death of C. T. Torrey.

aa.

Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been
To public feasts, where meet a public rout,
Where they that are without would fain go
in,

And they that are within would fain go out.
q.
Sir JOHN DAVIES-Contention.
The husband's sullen, dogged, shy,
The wife grows flippant in reply;
He loves command and due restriction,
And she as well likes contradiction.
She never slavishly submits;
She'll have her way, or have her fits.
He this way tugs, she t'other draws;
The man grows jealous, and with cause.
T. GAY-Cupid, Hymen, and Plutus.

Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2.

God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts in one.

Henry V. Act V. Sc. 2.

Happy in this, she is not yet so old
But she may learn; happier than this,
She is not bred so dull but she can learn;
Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit
Commits itself to yours to be directed,
As from her lord, her governor, her king.
S. Merchant of Venice, Act III. Sc. 2.

He counsels a divorce: a loss of her,
That, like a jewel, has hung twenty years
About his neck, yet never lost her lustre;
Of her, that loves him with that excellence
That angels love good men with; even of her
That when the greatest stroke of fortune falls,
Will bless the king.

t.

Henry VIII. Act II. Sc. 2.

He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.
U. King John. Act II. Sc. 2.