That light we see is burning in my hall. SHAKESPEARE. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. An Honest Man's Fortune. ADMIRATION. She is pretty to walk with, And pleasant, too, to think on. Brennoralt, Act ii. J. FLETCHER. SIR J. SUCKLING, But from the hoop's bewitching round, Fables: The Spider and the Bee. That eagle's fate and mine are one, E. MOORE. Which, on the shaft that made him die, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing. E. WALLER. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! That I might touch that cheek! Romeo and Juliet, Act ii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE. T. MOORE. Is she not more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy when they love? The Fair Penitent, Act iii. Sc. 1. Faustus. N. ROWE. O, thou art fairer than the evening air C. MARLOWE. The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound. Odes, CXLIII. Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds HAFIZ. Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Paradise Regained, Bk. II. MILTON. ADORNMENT. The ornament of beauty is suspect, SHAKESPEARE. A native grace Sat fair-proportioned in her polished limbs, She 's adorned J. THOMSON. Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,— Can see her beauty in. The Honeymoon, Act iii. Sc. 4. Terrible he rode alone, With his Yemen sword for aid But the notches on the blade. The Death Feud. An Arab War Song. J. TOBIN. Anonymous Translation. ADVENTURE. Naught venture, naught have. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. October's Abstract. T. TUSSER. We must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. Julius Cæsar, Act iv. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE. Fierce warres, and faithful loves shall moralize my song. Faërie Queene, Bk. I. Proem. E. SPENSER. Send danger from the east unto the west, By Heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, K. Henry IV., Pt. I. Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE. A wild dedication of yourselves To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Winter's Tale, Act iv. Sc. 3. ADVERSITY. Sweet are the uses of adversity, SHAKESPEARE. Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, As You Like It, Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE. Calamity is man's true touchstone. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues. Paradise Lost, Bk. VII. Tho' losses and crosses Be lessons right severe, There 's wit there, ye 'll get there, Epistle to Davie. MILTON. R. BURNS. By adversity are wrought The greatest work of admiration, On the Earl of Southampton. Aromatic plants bestow S. DANIEL. No spicy fragrance while they grow; The Captivity, Act i. Jacqueline. O. GOLDSMITH. The Good are better made by Ill, Daughter of Jove, relentless power, S. ROGERS. Thou tamer of the human breast, Hymn to Adversity. 'T is better to be lowly born, T. GRAY. And range with humble livers in content, King Henry VIII., Act ii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE. As if Misfortune made the throne her seat, And none could be unhappy but the great. The Fair Penitent: Prologue. N. ROWE. None think the great unhappy, but the great. Love of Fame, Satire I. DR. E. YOUNG. My pride fell with my fortunes. As You Like It, Act i. Sc. 2. We have seen better days. Timon of Athens, Act iv. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE. If ever you have looked on better days; If ever been where bells have knolled to church. As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7. SHAKESPEARE. O, who can hold a fire in his hand Or wallow naked in December snow, SHAKESPEARE. A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. King Lear, Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE. Eating the bitter bread of banishment. King Richard II., Act iii. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE. For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. Merchant of Venice, Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE. Lord of himself,-that heritage of woe! Lara, Canto I. LORD BYRON. Lord of thy presence, and no land beside. King John, Act i. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE. Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those whom most he likes. Verses to his Friend under Affliction. J. POMFRET. As sunshine, broken in the rill, Fire Worshippers. T. MOORE. On Fortune's cap we are not the very button. Hamlet, Act ii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE. Cheered up himself with ends of verse, Hudibras, Pt. I. Canto III. O life! thou art a galling load, Despondency. S. BUTLER. R. BURNS. A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. Comedy of Errors, Act ii. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE. Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; Henceforth I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, R. BURNS. Enough, enough, and die. King Lear, Act iv. Sc. 6. SHAKESPEARE. On me, on me Dirge. Time and change can heap no more! R. H. HORNE. I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, For when at worst, they say, things always mend. To a Friend in Distress. DR. J. OWEN. The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Macbeth, Act ii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE. Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward To what they were before. Macbeth, Act iv. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE. I am not now in fortune's power; Hudibras, Pt. I. Canto III. The worst is not S. BUTLER. So long as we can say, This is the worst. King Lear, Act iv. Sc. 1. ADVICE. SHAKESPEARE. The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts. Festus: Sc. A Village Feast. P. J. BAILEY. |