See the same man, in vigour, in the gout; 'Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn; Wise, if a minister; but, if a King, i. POPE Moral Essays. Line 135. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Se Which he wore. d. Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2. Look, as I blow this feather from my face, And as the air blows it to me again, Obeying with my wind when I do blow, And yielding to another when it blows, Commanded always by the greater gust; Such is the lightness of you common men. e. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act III. Sc. 1. Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou com'st; Suppose the singing birds, musicians; The grass whereon thou tread'st, the presence strew'd; The flowers, fair ladies; and thy steps, no Taming of the Shrew. Act V. Sc. 2. What thou would'st highly, That would'st thou holily; would'st not play false, And yet would'st wrongly win. q. Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 5. Why, now I see there's mettle in thee, and even, from this instant, do build on thee a better opinion than ever before. r. Othello. Act IV. Sc. 2. I'm called away by particular business, but I leave my character behind me. Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam engine in trousers. The most reasoning characters are often the easiest abashed. Nothing can work me damage, except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault. CHARITY. Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. 1. ADDISON--The Guardian. No. 166. Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue. r. ADDISON-The Guardian. No. 166. The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fali; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it. S. BACON-Essay. On Goodness. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. t. BURKE Reflections on the Revolution in France. 1790. Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, น. CRABBE-Tales of the Hall. Bk. III. GOLDSMITH-The Traveller. Line 22. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side. GOLDSMITH-The Deserted Village. v. Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity w. HOOD-The Bridge of Sighs. In silence, Line 163. Steals on soft-handed Charity, Till not a woe the bleak world see, x. St. 5. KEBLE-The Christian Year. Sunday After Ascension. St. 6. e. LOWELL--Godminster Chimes. The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in its own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and, identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains. f. HORACE MANN--Lectures on Education. Lecture IV. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. HORACE MANN-Lectures on Education. 9. BRYANT The Hunter of the Prairies. Soon as Aurora drives away the night, Summons the dogs, and greets the dappled morn. t. GAY-Rural Sports. Canto II. Line 93. Love's torments made me seek the chace; Together let us beat this ample field, V. Come, shall we go and kill us venison? 20. As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 1. CHASTITY. So dear to Heaven is saintly Chastity, "Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph, with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of Chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity. a. MILTON-Comus. Line 420. As chaste as unsunn'd snow, Chaste as the icicle, That's curded by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple. C. Coriolanus. Act V. Sc. 3. My chastity's the jewel of our house, Bequeathed down from my ancestors. d. All's Well That Ends Well. Act IV. row. Cheerfulness. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. k. BYRON-Don Juan. Canto IV. St. 4. |