: -lV y ^ v ■£-. ° -> *"■'■'* ^ * N ^< s5 SlV' :'■--?. '• ^^ : l| *+,. & - CARLETON'S HOUSEHOLD LIBRARY. ft The value of a thought cannot be told." MANY THOUGHTS OF MANY MINDS. BEING POPULAR QUOTATIONS SELECTED FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE MOST CELEBRATED AUTHORS. 21 #0011 uf Heatig Reference FOR SUCH FAMILIAR WORDS, PHRASES AND EXPRESSIONS AS ARE OFTENEST QUOTED AND MET WITH IN GENERAL LITERATURE; ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED WITH THEIR AUTHORSHIP AND POSITION IN THE ORIGINAL. ALSO, A CAREFULLY PREPARED LIST OF POPULAR QUOTATIONS. FROM THE LATIN, FRENCH, AND OTHER LANGUAGES. TOGETHER WITH A CLASSICAL DICTIONARY OF THE PROMINENT NAMES IN CLASSICAL HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY, AND THE MOST CONSPICUOUS INCIDENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. NEW YORK: i COPYRIGHT, 18b2, BY G. IV. Carleton & Co., Publishers. LONDON : S. LOW, SON & CO. KDCCCLXXXII. ^ V A CONTENTS PART J. PAOl POPULAE ENGLISH QUOTATIONS, . . 5 part n. ANALYTICAL INDEX, 215 part in. QUOTATIONS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES, . 309 PART IV. CONDENSED CLASSICAL DICTIONARY, . 341 CAKLETON'S HAND-BOOK Off POPULAR ENGLISH QUOTATIONS. A. Abandon.— Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante, Inferno. Abide. — Abide with me ; fast falls the eventide ; The darkness deepens, Lord, with me abide ! When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me ! — II. F. L.YTE. — Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live ; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die. — Keble, Evening. Absence Absence makes the heart grow fonder ; Isle of Beauty, fare thee well ! — T. H. Bayley, Isle of Beauty. Abstracts. — They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. —Shakespere, Hamlet. Abundance. — For out of the abundance of the heart the month speaketh. — Matthew, chap, xii., 31 Accident. — The accident of an accident. — Lord Thurlow, Beply U the Duke of Grafton. Account — A beggarly account of empty boxes. — Shakespere, Bo- rneo and Juliet. 1 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Acquaintance. — Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min' ? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o' lang syne ? Burns, Auld Lang Syne. Action. — Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that. Wordsworth, The Borderer*. — Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. — Shakespere, Hamlet. — When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fail and virtuous ACTION is above all the scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us. — J. Shirley, 1C66. Actions. — Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year — Denham, The Sophy. Only the Actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. Shirley, 1666. Actor. — As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well- graced Actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious. — Shakespere, Richard II. Acts. — That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. — Wordsworth, Tinier 'n A dam. — Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Milton, Paradise Lost. Addle Parliament. — A name given to the English Parliament which assembled at London, April 5, 1614, and was dissolved on the 6th of the following June. It was so called because it remonstrated with the king on his levying " benevolences," and passed no Acts. Admirable Doctor. — [Lat. Doctor Mirabilis. ] A title bestowed upon Roger Bacon (1214-1292), an English monk, who, by the power of his genius and the extent of his learning, raised himself above his time, made many astonishing discoveries in science, and contributed much to the extension of real knowledge. Admire. — Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle. Lyttelton, Soliloquy on a Beauty. Adorn. — A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn. Dr. Johnson, On Goldsmith, POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 3 Adullamites. — Politicians who combine to desert their Party at ft, crisis. This nickname originated in the discussions on a Reform Bill in- troduced by Earl Russell's Government in 1866, when Mr. Bright referred to the powerful opposition among the supporters of the Government as a " cave of Adullam," into which went "everyone that was in distress, and everyone that was in debt, and everyone that was discontented," gathering themselves under the leadership of two of the ablest spirits in their party. This opposition from their "candid friends" wrecked the Government, which imme- diately resigned. The reference is to 1 Samuel xxii., 2. Adversity.— If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength ia small. — Proverbs, xxiv. 10. — In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us.- — Rochefoucauld, Maxim 245. — In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's dis- appointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.— Lytton's Lady of Lyons. — Sweet ate the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. Shakespere, As Ton Like It. Advice Advice is often seen, By blunting us, to make our wits more keen. Ibid., Lover's Complaint. Affections. — Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert. —Byron, Childe Harold. Affliction — Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue ; Where patience, honour, sweet humanity, Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish. Mallet and Thomson. — Affliction's sons are brothers in distress ; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss ! Burns, A Winter's Night* Ag«. — Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. — Shakespere, An t. and Cleo. — But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. — Wordsworth. — Crabbed age and youth Cannot live together.— Shakespere, Passionate Pilgrim. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Age.— Good old age. — Genesis, xv. 15. — His hair just grizzled As in a green old age. — Dryden, CSdipu9. - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. — Pope. To Arbuthnot Ages. — Alike all ages : dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze ; And the gay grandsire, sMll'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. Goldsmith, Traveller. — Yet I doubt not through the AGES one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. Agree. — Where they do ageee on the stage, their unanimity ii wonderful. — Sheridan, The Critic. Aim. — Let all the ends thou aim' ST at be thy country's. Thy God's, and truth's. — Shakespere, Henry VIII. Aisle. — Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. — Gray, Elegy. Ale. — A quart of ale is a dish for a king. Shakespere, Winter's Tale. Allegory. — As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. (Mrs. Malaprop.) — Sheridan, T lie Rivals. Alliteration. — Apt alliteration's artful aid. Churchill, Prophecy of Famine. AU-the-Talents Administration — An administration formed by Lord Grenville on the death of Mr. Pitt (June 23, 1806). The friends of this ministry gave it the appellation of " All the Talents," which, being echoed in derision by the opposition, became fixed upon it ever after. The death of Mr. Fox, one of the members, Sept. 13, 1806, led to various changes, and this ministry was finally dissolved in March, 1807. Almighty Dollar. — A personification of the supposed object of Ameri- can idolatry, intended as a satire upon the prevailng passion for gain. The expression originated with Washington Irving : — " The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in thes« peculiar villages." — The Creole Village. Alone. — Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea. — Coleridge, Ancient Marintr. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. fl Alone. — Alone ! — that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard ; Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hope3 laid waste, knells in that word — Alone ! Lytton, The New Timon. — They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. —Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia. — - Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh. Keble, Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity. Ambassador. — An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. — Sir H. Wotton. Ambition — Ambition hath one heel nail'd in hell, Though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. — Lilly. — Ambition is the mind's immodesty. — Davenant. — Ambition, like 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 enf orceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, And offereth violence to nature's self. — Ben JONSON. — Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts. Shakespere, Henry VL — I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels. — Ibid., Henry VIII. — I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent ; but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other side. — Ibid., Macbeth. — Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face ; But when he once obtains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns Ms back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. — Ibid., Jidivs C&sar. — When that the poor have cried, Cassar hath wept : Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. — Ibid. men. — I had most need of blessing, and ' ' amen " Stuck in my throat. — Ibid., Macbeth. Angel. — 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 foi ever. —Sterne, Tristram Shandy. 6 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Angels — But, sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in. Campbell, Pleasures of Hope — Angels and ministers of grace, defend us ! Shakespehe, Hamlet. -- Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Ibid., Macbeth. — Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed : Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly ; angels could no more. -** Young, Night Thoughts. Angel- Visits. — Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave — oh ! leave the light of Hope behind ! What though my winged hours of bliss have beep, Like angel-visits, few and far between. Campbell, Pleasures of Hope. Angels' Visits — How fading are the joys we dote upon 1 Like apparitions seen and gone ; But those which soonest take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong ; Like angels' visits, short and bright, Mortality's too weak to bear them long. John Morris, 1711, The Parting, — The good he scorn'd Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return ; or, if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between. Blair, The Grave. Anger. — Anger is like a full hot horse ; who, being allowed his way, self -mettle tires him. — Shakespere, Henry VIII. — Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man ; it effects nothing it goes about ; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed. — Clarendon. — He carries anger as the flint bears fire ; Which, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again. — Shakespere, jiilius Cassar. — Men in rage strike those that wish them best. — Ibid., Othello. Angle. — I am, sir, a brother of the angle.— Walton, Angler. Angling. — All that are lovers of virtue, ... be quiet, and g« a-ANGLlNG. —Ibid. — Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.-- Ibid. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 7 Angling.— We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could bave made a better berry, but doubtless God never did:" and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. — Ibid. Annals. — If you bave writ your annals true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Flutter' d your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it. — Boy ! — Shakespere, Coriolanus. — Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.— Gray, Elegy. Annie Annie of Tharaw, my light and my sun, The threads of our two lives are woven in one. Longfellow, Annie of Tharavs. Another, yet the same. — Pope, Bunciad, book iii. Tickell, From a Lady in England. Johnson, Life of Bryden. Darwin, Botanic Garden, pt. i. canto 4, line 380. Wordsworth, The Excursion, book ix. Scott, The Abbot, ch. 1. Apoplexy — A slight touch of apoplexy may be called a retaining fee on the part of death. — Menage. (Apothecary. — I do remember an Apothecary, And hereabouts he dwells. — Shakespere, Borneo and Juliet. Applaud. — I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. — Ibid., Macbeth. Apples. — There's small choice in rotten apples. Ibid. , Taming of the Shrew. — While tumbling down the turbid stream, Lord love ns, how we apples swim ! — D. Mallett, Tyburn. Arable. — Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Arable the blest. — Milton, Paradise Lost. Arch. — Triumphal ARCH that fill'st the sky, When storms prepare to part ; I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. Thomas Campbell, To the Rainbow. Arguing. — In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ; While words of learned length and thund'ring sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all he knew. Goldsmith, Beserted ViUage. Argument. — A knock-dowjj argument 'tis but a word and a blow. Dryden, Amphitryon. — It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and I good jest for ever.- -Shakespere, Henry IV. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Arm-chair.— I love it — I love it, and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old arm-chair ! Eliza Cook, The Old Arm- Chain A-roving — So we'll go no more a -roving So late into the night. — Byron, So we'll go. Art. — Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. Dryden, The Cock and i^lxa — Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Longfellow, A Psalm of Life. Artful Dodger. — A sobriquet of one of the characters in Dickens 1 ! " Oliver Twist." He is a young thief, and an adept in villainy. Ashes. — Ashes to ashes. — Common Prayer. — Ashes to ashes, dust to dust; He is gone who seem'd so great. — G-one ; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own, Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. Speak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him, God accept him, Christ receive him. Tennyson, Ode on the Duke of Wellington. Asmodeus. — [Heb. Ashmedai, the destroyer.] In the Jewish demon- ology, an evil spirit, the demon of vanity, or dress, called in the Talmud "king of the devils," whence some assume him to be identical with Beelzebub, and others with- Azrael. In modern times, he has been jocularly spoken of as the destroying demon of matrimonial happiness. — Could the reader take an Asmodeus' flight, and, waving open all roofs and privacies, look down from the roof of Notre what a Paris were it ! — Carlyle. Aspect With grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state ; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin. Sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air. —Milton, Paradise Lout. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 9 Ass. — Egregiouely an ass. — Shakespeke, Othello. — O that he were here to write me down, an ass ! Ibid., Much Ado. Assurance. — I'll make assurance double sure, And take a bond of Fate. — Ibid., Macbeth. Assyrian.— The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold. Byron, Destruction of Sennacherib, Astronomer.— An undevout astronomer is mad. Young, Night Thoughts, Atheist. — An atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended ! — Burns, To a Young Friend. — By night an atheist half believes a God. Young, Night Thoughts, Athens Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.— Milton, Paradise Regained. Atticus. — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ?— Pope, To Arbuthnot, Auburn. — Sweet Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain. Goldsmith, The Deserted VUlage. Audience — Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit AUDIENCE find, though few. Milton, Paradise Lost. Augean Stable. — Corruption or pollution of long standing. Augeas. King of Elis, had a stable large enough to contain three thousand oxen, which had not been cleaned for many years. He hired Hei cules to clean it out in one day, which he accomplished by turning the river Alpheus through it. Author — An author ! "lis a venerable name ! How few deserve it, and what numbers claim ! Unblest with sense above their peers refin'd, Who shall stand up, dictators to mankind ? Nay, who dare shine, if not in virtue's cause ? That sole proprietor of just applause. Young, Night Thoughts. — Most authors steal their works, or buy ; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. Pope, Essay on Criticism. — Choose an author as you choose a friend. Earl of Roscommon. Awake. — Awake, arise, 01 be for ever fallen ! Milton, Paradise Lost. 1* 10 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Axe — When I aee a merchant over-polite to his custodiers, begging them to taste a little brandy, and throwing half hist goods on tli i counter, thinks I, that man has an axe to grind. — C. Miner, Who'll turn Grindstones ? '- No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence ! — Heber's Palestine. — No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets ; no man heard the clink of trowel and pick- axe ; it descended OUT OF heaven from God. — Ecce Homo, last sentence. B. Babe. — Oh ! when a Mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight ? — Southey, Curse of Kekama. Mack. — Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold ; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old. — Still, Gammer Gurton. Bacon. — If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind ! Or, ravish' d with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame ! Pope, Essay on Man. Baited, — His hook he baited with a dragon's tail, And sat upon a rock, and bobbed for whale. William Kino. Ballad-mongers — I had rather be a kitten and crv mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. Shakespere, Henry IV. Ballads — Ballads are the gipsy children of song, born under green hedge-rows, in the leafy lanes and by-paths of literature, in the genial summer-time. — Longfellow. — I knew a very wise man that, believed that, if a man were per- mitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. Fletcher of Saltoun, Letter to Montrott, POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 11 Ballads. — And tall prose writers, stories are so stale, Thai penny ballads have a better sale. Breton, Pasquil, 1600. Ballot-box. — A weapon that comes down as still As snow-flakes fall upon the sod ; But executes a freeman's will. As lightning does the will of God ; And from its force, nor doors nor locks Can shield you; — 'tis the ballot-box. — J. Plerpont. Bank. — I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. Shakespere, Midsummer Night's Dream Barbarians — There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Boman holiday. — Byron, Chttde Harold. Barebones Parliament — A nickname conferred upon the Parliament convened by Cromwell, July 4, 1653. It was composed of 139 persons, who resigned their authority Dec. 12, 1653 ; and it was so called from a leather-seller named Praise-God Barebone, who was one of the principal members. Barleycorn, Sir John In England and Scotland, a jocular name for ale or beer, which is made of barley. Sir John is the subject of a famous old ballad of the same name. In a whimsical English tract of ancient date, entitled ' ' The Arraigning and Indicting of Sir John Barleycorn, Knt.," he is described as of "noble blood, well beloved in England, a great supporter of the crown, and a maintainer of both rich and poor." — Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn ! Wi' tippenny we fear nae evil ; Wi' usquebae we'll face the devil ! — Burns. — John Barleycorn has given his very heart to this liquor [the "Archdeacon"] : it is a superior kind of ale, the Prince of Ales, with a richer flavour and a mightier spirit than you can find else- where in this weary world. — Hawthorne. Barren. — I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren. — Sterne, Sentimental Journey. Bashfulness. — Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproacl to old age.— Aristotle. Bastion. — And topples round the dreary west A looming bastion fringed with fire. Tennyson, In Memoriam. Battle — Battt.e's magnificently stern array. Byron, Childe Harold. — The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a battle wod- Wellinotoh 12 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Battle of the Books The subject of a satirical composition by Swift entitled the " Battle between the Ancient and Modern Books in St. James's Library, ' ' alluding to the controversy regarding the respec- tive merits of ancient and modern learning. Battles. — Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes ; and thrice he slew the slain. Dbyden, Alexander's Feast. Beard. — And dar'st thou then To beard the Hon in his den, The Douglas in his hall ? — Scott, Marmion. Beaten. — Some have been beaten till they know "What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow ! Some kick'd until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather. — Butler, Hudibras. Beauty. — A thing of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams and health, and quiet breathing. Keats, Endymion. — Beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost. Shakespere, P. Pilgrim. — Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Keats, On a Grecian Urn. — Beauty is valuable or worthless according as you invest th€ property to the best advantage. — Lytton, Lady of Lyons. — Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. — Milton, Paradise Regained. — Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face. Shakespere, Henry VL — Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And BEAUTY draws us with a single hair. Pope, Rape of the Lock. , — Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Bthiop's ear. — Shakespere, Romeo. — She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes ; Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. Byron, Hebrew Metodie*. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 13 Beauty Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess The might — the majesty of loveliness ? Byron, Bride of Abydot, Bed — He that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October. — Rollo, Duke of Normandy. — He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October ; But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow. — Anon. — Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber ! Holy angels guard thy bed ! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. — Watts, Cradle Hymn. Bee. — How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower. — Ibid., Song xx. Beef.— Oh ! the roast beef of Old England, And oh ! the old English roast beef. — Fielding, Beer. — What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia ? What event more awfully important to an English colony than the erection of its first brewhouse ? — Sydney Smith. Begging the Question. — This is a common logical fallacy, petitio principii ; and the first explanation of the phrase is to be found in Aristotle's Topioa, viii. 13, where the five ways of BEGGING- the question are set forth. The earliest English work in which the expression is found is '•'•The Arte of Logike planlie set forth in our English Tongue, &c, 1584." Behaviour. — Behaviour is a mirror, in which everyone shows hii image. — Goethe. Belief. — "lis good to doubt the worst, We may in our belief be too secure. — Webster and Rowlex Bell The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. — Young, Night Thoughts. Bells Ring out wild bells to the wild sky. Tennyson, In Memoriam. — Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. — Ibid. u POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Bella-— Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The eager heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be. — Ibid. — Those evening bells ; those evening bells How many a tale their music tells ! Of youth, and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime. Moore, Those M ening Belli Bench. — A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo. — Shenstone. Bevy. — A bevy of fair women. — Milton, Paradise Lost. Bezonian. — Under which king, Bezonian ? speak or die. Shakespere, Henry IV. Bible. — Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, A ruth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. — Cowper, Truth. Bigotry. — Bigotry murders religion, to frighten fools with hei ghost. — Cotton. Biography. — Biography is the most universally pleasant, universally profitable of all reading. — Carlyle. Bird. — And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. Goldsmith, Deserted Village. Birth 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 f orgetfulness, And not in utter darkness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home : Heaven lies about us in our infancy. At length the man perceives it die away, And fade intc the light of common day. Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality «— While man is growing, life is in decrease ; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun. Young, Night T7iought$. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 15 Black. — And finds, with keen, discriminating' sight, Black's not so black ; — nor -white so very white. G. Canning, New MoraZ&y. Black Assize, The A common designation of the sitting of the courts held at Oxford in 1577, during which judges, jurymen, and counsel were swept away by a violent epidemic. Black Death, The. — A name given to the celebrated Oriental plague that devastated Europe during the 14th century. Black Monday — A memorable Easter Monday in 1351, very dark ana misty. A great deal of hail fell, and the cold was so extreme that many died from its effects. The name afterwards came to be ap- plied to the Monday after Easter of each year. My nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last. — Shakespere. Blasphemy. — That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. Shakespere, Measure for Measure. Blessedness. — Blessedness is a whole eternity older than damna- tion.— Jean Paul Bjchter. Blessings. — How blessings brighten as they take their flight ! Young, Night Thoughts. Blind. — A blind man is a poor man, and blind a poor man is ; For the former seeth no man, and the latter no man sees. Longfellow, Poverty and Blindness — He that is stricken blind, cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. — Shakespere, Romeo. Bloody Assizes, The. — A common designation of the horrid judicial massacre perpetrated, in 1685, by George Jeffreys, Lord Chiei Justice of the King's Bench, while on a circuit through the western counties of England. About three hundred persons were executed after short trials ; very many were whipped, imprisoned, and fined ; and nearly one thousand were sent as slaves to the American plantations. Blue-Stocking. — A literary lady. The Society de la Calza {Stocking) was formed at Venice in 1500, — the members being distinguished by the prevailing colour of their stockings, blue. The society lasted till 1590, when some other symbol came into fashion. Bliss. — The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe. — Gray, Ode on Vicissitude. Body. — Here in the body pent, _ Absent from him I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. J. Montgomery, For ever toith the Lord 16 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Bondman's Key. — In a bondman's key, With 'bated breath, and whisp'ring humbleness. Shakespere, Merchant of Venice Bone and Skin. — Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it ; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it. — J. Byrom. Bone to Pick, A. — A difficult undertaking. It was an old marriage custom in Sicily for the bride's father to give the bridegroom a bone, saying, " Pick this in order to show that you can manage a wife, which is more difficult than picking a bone." This is a common explanation ; but the practice of throwing bones to doga is a moire natural method of accounting for the saying. Bookful — The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope, Essay i Criticism. Book of Nature — Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the Book op Nature Getteth short of leaves.— Hood, The Seasons. Books. — Books cannot always please, however good ; Minds are not ever craving for their food. Crabbe, The Borough — Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good ; Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. — Wordsworth. — Books which are no books. — Charles Lamb. — Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in youi hand, are the most useful after all. — Johnsoniana. — Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. Milton, Paradise Regained. — Learning hath gained most by those books by which tin printers have lost. — J. Fuller, Of Books. — Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure, Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.— WORDSWORTH. — Up ! up ! my friend, and quit your BOOKS, Or surely you'll grow double : Up 1 up ! my friend, and clear your looks ; Why all this toil and trouble ?—Ibid. } The Tables Turn**. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 17 Books. — He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a BOOK.— Shake spebe, Love's Labour's Lost. — As good almost kill a man as kill a good BOOK ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself. — Milton, Areopagttka. — A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit em' balmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — Ibid. —- Books are men of higher stature, And the only men who speak aloud for future times to hear. E. B. Browning. — If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader ! — Thackeray. — A novel was a book Three-volumed, and once read, and oft cramm'd full Of poisonous error, blackening every page ; And oftener still, of trifling, second-hand Remark, and old, diseased, putrid thought, And miserable incident, at war With nature, with itself and truth at war ; Yet charming still the greedy reader on, Till done, he tried to recollect his thoughts, And nothing found but dreaming emptiness. — PoLLOK. — Bead not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and con- sider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are \o be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. Bacon, Essay*. Bores — Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the bores and bored. Byron, Von Juan. Borrower. — Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — to thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. — Shakespere, Samlet. Bounty — Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to misery (all he had) a tear, He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. Gray, Elegy. Bow. — Two strings to his bow. — Hooker's Polity. Butler, Sudibras. Churchill, The G7u?st. Fielding, Love in Several Masques. 18 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Boy. — ah 1 happy years ! once more who would not be a boy ? Byron, (Jhilde Harold — Eager-hearted as a boy, when first be leaves his father's field. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. — The boy stood on the burning deck, "Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. —Mrs. Hemans, Casablanca. — Twelve years ago I was a boy, A happy boy, at Drury's. — Praed, School and School-fellows. Boz. — A pseudonym under which Charles Dickens contributed a series of "Sketches of Life and Character" to the London "Morning Chronicle." Of this norn de plume he has given the following ac- count : — " Boz. my signature in the ' Morning Chronicle,' was the nicknama of a pet child, younger brother, whom I had dubbed Moses, in honour of the ' Vicar of Wakefield,' which, being facetiously pronounced through the nose, became Boses, and beiDg shortened, Boz. Bos waa a very familiar household word to me long before I was an author, and bo I came to adopt it." — Though a pledge I had to shiver, And the longest ever was, Ere his vessel leaves our river I would drink a health to Boz. — Hood. Brain. — With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. Churchill, Epistle to Hogarth. Brains. — Beard was never the true standard of brains. — T. Fuller. Brandy. — Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. — Boswell, Life of Johnson. Brave. — How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes bless'd ! — Collins, Ode, 1746. — None but the brave deserves the fair. — Dryden, Alexander's Feast. — Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more ! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore ! Cowper, On the Loss of the Royal Gmrge. B»»vest of the Brave — A title conferred upon the celebrated Marshal Ney (1769-1815) by the French troops at Friedland (1807), on account of his fearless bravery. He was in command of the right wing, which bore the brunt of the battle, and stormed the town. Napoleon, as he watched him passing unterrified through a showei of balls, exclaimed, "That man is a lion;" and henceforth th« army styled him Le Brave des Braves. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 19 Breach. — Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall np with our English dead ! 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 : Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Shakespere, Henry Y. Bread.— Bread is the staff of life. — Swift, Tale of a Tub. Breeches Bibles — A name given to editions of the so-called Genevan Bible (first printed at Geneva, by Rowland Hall, 1560, in 4to), from the peculiar rendering of Gen. iii. 7. Brevity. — Brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes. Shakespere, Hamlet. — Brevity is the body and soul of wit. It is wit itself, for it alone isolates sufficiently for contrasts; because redundancy or diffuseness produces no distinctions. — Jean Paul Richter. Bridge of Sighs [It. Ponte del Sospiri] The name popularly given to the covered passage-way which connects the Doge's palace in Venice with the state prisons, from the circumstance that the condemned prisoners were transported over this bridge from the hall of judg- ment to the place of execution. Hood has used the name as the title of one of his poems. — I stood in Venice, on the Bridge op Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand. — Byron, Childe Harold,. Brief. — ' Tis better to be brief than tedious. Shakespere, Richard III. Bright. — All that's bright must fade, — The brightest still the fleetest ; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest ! — Moore, All that's Blight. Brightest. — Brightest and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid. — Heber, Epiphany. Britain. — When Britain first, at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of her land, And guardian angels sung the strain : Rule Britannia ! Brit anni a rules the waves I Britons never shall be slaves. — Thomson. Brother Jonathan. — [America.] When Washington was in Massa- chusetts with his army, he was often in great difficulty for supplie* of all kinds ; and having often been assisted by Jonathan Turnbull ; governor of Connecticut, he was wont, in cases of emergency, tc say that he would " consult Brother Jonathan," and the saying passed into a by- word. «0 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Bull, John. — A well-known collective name of the English nation, first used in Aibuthnot's satire, "The History of John Bull," usually published in Swift's works. In this satire, the French are designated as Lewis Baboon, the Dutch as Nicholas Frog, etc. The " History of John Bull " was designed to ridicule the Duke of Marlborough. ' ' One would think that, in personifying itself, a nation would be apt to picture something grand, heroic, and imposing ; but it is characteristic of the peculiar humour of the English, and of their love for what is blunt, comic, and familiar, that they have embodied their national oddities in the figure of a sturdy, corpulent old fellow, with a three-cornered hat, red waistcoat, leather breeches, and stout oaken cudgel. Thus they have taken a singular delight in exhibiting their most private foibles in a laughable point of view, and have been so successful in their delineation that there is scarcely a being in actual existence more absolutely present to the public mind than that eccentric? personage, John Bull." — W. Irving. Bumper When the English were good Catholics, they usually drank the Pope's health in a full glass every day after dinner — au bon pere: whence bumper.— Cocchi. Butterfly — I'd be a butterfly ; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.— T. H. BAYLEY. Cabal, The. — A name given in English history to a famous cabinet council formed in 1670, and composed of five unpopular ministers of Charles II., namely, Lords Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauderdale. The word " cabal " — at that time in common use to denote a junto or set of men united for political purposes — having been popularly applied to this ministry as a term of reproach, it was soon discovered to be a sort of anagram made up of the initials of the names of the several members. Cadmean Victory, A Greek Proverb. A Cab-mean victory was one in which the victors suffered as much as their enemies. Caesar — But yesterday, the word of Cesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. Shakespere, Julius Caesar. — Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First, his Cromwell- aad George the Third — ("Treason!" cried the Speaker) — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. P. Henry. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 11 Caesar.— Conjure with them, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as &ESAB. Now, in the names of all the gods at once, Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, That he is grown so great ? Age, thou art sham'd Borne, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods. Shakespere, Julius CcR&ar. - Imperial CAESAR, dead, and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. — Ibid., Hamlet. •• Not that I loved CAESAR less, but that I loved Rome more. Ibid., Julius Cazsar. Cake — Would'st thou both eat thy cakes and have it ? G. Herbert, The Size. Cakes and Ale. — Sir To. Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale ? Olo. Yes, by Saint Anne ; and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too. — Shakespere, Twelfth Wight. Calamity. — Calamity is man's true touchstone. Beaumont and Fletcher. - Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt from the darkest storm. — Colton, Lacon. Caledonia. — Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood ; Land of the mountain and the flood. Scott, Last Minstrel. Calendar Rhyming. — Junius, Aprilis, Septenq; Nouemq; tricenos, Vnum plus reliqui, Februs tenet octo vicenos, At si bissextus fuerit superadditur vnus. Hollnshed's Chronicles, 1577, — Thirty dayes hath Nouember, Aprill, June, and September, February hath xxviii alone, And all the rest have xxxi. —Grafton's Chronicles, 1590. — Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February eight-aud-twenty all alone, And all the rest have thirty-one ; Unless that leap-year doth combine, And give to February twenty -nine. Return from Parnas&ui. 22 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Calm — Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will ; Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! Wordsworth, Sonnets. — Calm is the morn without a sound, Calm as to suit a calmer grief. — Tennyson, In Memoriam. Calumny. — Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt uoi escape calumny. — Shakespere, Hamlet. — Calumny will sear virtue itself. Ibid., A Winter' s Tale. Candour. — Candour is the brightest gem of criticism. — Disraeli. Capulets. — I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. — Edmund Burke. Care.— And is there care in Heaven ? — Spenser, Faerie Queene. — Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. Shake spere, Borneo and Juliet. — Care's an enemy to life. — Ibid., Twelfth Night. — Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin, so merry, draws one out. — Dr. WOLCOT. — Cast all your care on God : that anchor holds. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. — Hang sorrow ! Care will kill a cat, And therefore let's be merry. — G. Wither. — I am sure care' s an enemy to life. Shake spere, Twelfth Niglit. Cares. — And the night shall be filled with music, And the CARES that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Longfellow, The Day is Done, Castles. — Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up. — Lytton. Catching a Tartar. — Encountering an opponent of unexpected strength. In a battle, an Irishman (according to Captain Grose) called out to his officer, " I have caught a Tartar." " Bring hie* here, then," was the reply. "He won't let me," rejoined Pat. And as the Turk carried off his captor, the saying passed into a proverb. Censure — Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for beiug eminent. — Swift. — The villa. Va's censure is extorted praise. — Pope. Cerberus You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemer are you? (Mrs. Malaprop.)— Sheridan, The Rivals. at onoe, POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 23 Chance. —And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. Tennyson, In Memoriam. Change. — All is change, woe or weal ; Joy is sorrow's brother ; Grief and gladness steal Symbols of each other : Ah ! welaway ! — Ibid. , Poems, 1830. — CHANGE amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. — GOETHE. — Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway. — SPENSEB. — Some force whole regions, in despite 0' Geography, to CHANGE their site ; Make former times shake hands with latter, . j And that which was before, come after ; But those that write in rhyme still make The one verse for the other's sake ; For one for sense, and one for rhyme, I think's sufficient at one time. — Butler, Hudibras. Character. — Character gives splendour to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and grey hairs. — Emerson. Characters Characters never change. Opinions alter, — characters are only developed. — Disraeli. Charge. — "Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion. — Scott, Marmion. Charity. — Gently to hear, kindly to judge. — Shakespere. — Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. — 1 Peter, iv. S. — He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. — Shakespere, Henry IV. — Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler, sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human. — Burns, Address to the Unco' Quid. Charm.- -To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art. Goldsmith, Deserted ViUags. Chastity. — So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. — MlLTON. Gomu*. — 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity : She that has that is clad in complete steel. — Ibid. Chatterton. — I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride. Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence 24 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Ohauoer. — Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fame's eternal beadroll worthie to be fyled. Queen*. Cheated. — Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. — Butler, Eudibraa. Cherry Ripe.— Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones, — come and buy ; If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer, there, Where my Julia's lips do smile, There's the land, or cherry-isle. — Herrick, Cherry Ripe. — There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies grow ; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow : There cherries grow that none may buy Till cherry ripe themselves do cry. Richard Allison, 1606. Cherub. — There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. — C. Dibdin. Chickens. — To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatohed. Butler, Hudibrm. Child. — A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in eveiy limb, What should it know of death ?- -Wordsworth, We are Seven* --• Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age, Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before, Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Pope, Essay on Man. — By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd ; The sports of children satisfy the child. Goldsmith, Traveller. — How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child ! — Shakespere, King Lear. — The child is father of the Man. Wordsworth, My Heart Leapt Up. Childhood The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. — Milton, Paradise Regained. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. M Childhood. — 0, 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 nursed 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. Mooke, Fire Worshipper* Children. — Ah ! what would the world be to us, If the children were nc more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. Longfellow, Children. — As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Milton, Paradise Regained. — Children like olive plants round about thy table. Psalm exxviii. 3. Chinaman, John. — A cant or popular name for the Chinese. The earliest known instance of its use is in "A Letter to the Committee of Management of Drury Lane Theater, London, 1819." Chivalry It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning star full of life, and splendour, and joy. Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age op chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has suc- ceeded. — Ed. Burke, French Revolution. Christian. — A Christian is the highest style of man. Young, Night Tlwughts. — I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another'i misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, Christians. — Qhristians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. Byron, Don Juan. Christmas. — At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. Tusser, The Farmer's Diet ** POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Christmas. — Some say, that ever 'gainst that season ccmes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no sjnrit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. Shatcespere, Hamlet. Church. — The Church of England hath a Popish liturgy, a Calvin istic creed, and an Arminian clergy. — Ascribed to Pitt. — To be of no church is dangerous. Eeligion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. — Johnson, Life of Milton. — Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. Pope, Moral Essays. Circumlocution Office. — A designation made use of by Dickens in "Little Dorrit," in ridicule of official delays and indirectness. The Circumlocution Office is described as the chief of "pub- lic departments in the art of perceiving how not to do it" The name has come into popular use as a synonym for governmental routine, or "red tape," or a roundabout way of transacting public — Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving how not to do it. — Dickens, Little Dorrit. — The administrative Reform. Association might have worked for ten years, without producing half of the effect which Mr. Dickens has produced in the same direction by flinging out the phrase, "The Circumlocution Office." — Masson. Claes — Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new. Burns, Cotter' 1 s Saturday Night. Classic Ground. — For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. Addison, Letter from Italy. Clay.— The precious porcelain of human clay. — Byron, Don Juan. Cleanliness. — Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. " CLEANLINESS u indeed next to godliness." — John Wesley. — Ev'n from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid. — Thomson. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 27 Cliff.— As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Goldsmith, Deserted Village. Climb. — Fain would I climb but that I fear to fall. Sir. W. Raleigh, Written on a pane of glass, in Queen Elizabeth 's presence. Cloud,— Ham. Do you see yonder clotjd that's almost in shape of a camel? Pol. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Ham. Methinks it is like a weazel. Pol. It is back'd like a weazeL Ham. Or, like a whale ? Pol. Very like a whale.— Shakesfere, Hamlet. Cloud of witnesses. — Hebrews xii. 1. Cock and Bull Story. — An improbable story. Numerous mistakes were made in interpreting hieroglyphic writings in the middle of the seventeenth century ; the figures being so uncouth, and the rendering so unsatisfactory, that in two of the most common illus- trations, it was alleged of some translators " they had mistaken a cock for a bull." Cocker, According to — Arithmetically correct. Cocker published a treatise on arithmetic, which, notwithstanding its great original popularity, is now obsolete. " According to Hoyle," needs no explanation. Cockney School, or Cockney Poets. — A name given by some of the English critics to a literary coterie whose productions were said " to consist of the most incongruous ideas in the most uncouth language." In this sect were included Leigh Hunt, Shelley, Keats, and others ; and the Quarterly Revieio (April, 1818) charged the first with aspiring to be the " hierophant " of it. Coffee. — Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half -shut eyes. Pofe, Rape of the Lock. Cogitation. — His cogitative faculties immers'd In cogibundity of cogitation. — Henry Caret, Chronon. Coincidence. — A " strange coincidence," to use a phrase By which such things are settled nowadays. — Byron, Don Juan- Cold — The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love oan scarce deserve the name. — Ibid., The Giaour. 2S POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Colossus Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates ; The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Shakespere, Julius Omsar. Come one, come all ! — Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. — Scott, Lady of the Lake. Commandments. — Set my ten commandments in your face.— Shakespere, Henry VI. Selimus, Emperor of the Tur/cs, 1594 Westward Ho! 1607. Erasmus, Apophthegms. Commentators — Oh ! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain ; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun. Crabbe, The Parish Register. — How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. Young, Love of Fame. Comparisons. — Comparisons are odious. — Burton, Anat. of Mel. Heywood, A Woman killed with Kindness. Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. — Are odorous. — Shakespere, Much Ado. — Are offensive. — Don Quixote. — She and comparisons are odious.— Dr. John Donne. Concatenation. — A concatenation accordingly. Goldsmith, She Stoops. Conduct. — His CONDUCT still right, with his argument wrong. Ibid., Retaliation. Confidence. — Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an ag«i bosom. — W. Pitt. Confusion. — Confusion now hath made his master-piece. Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence The life o' the building. — Shakespere, Macbeth. — With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. — Milton, Paradise Lost. Conscience A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal : and h« should care no more for that phantom " opinion " than he should fear meeting a ghost if he cross the churchyard at dark. — LytTON — A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. — Shakespere, Henry VI tl POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 29 Conscience. — Conscience doth make cowards of us all. Shakespere, Hamlet — My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. — IMd., Richard IIL Consent. — And whispering, " I will ne'er consent," consented. Byron, Don Juan. Consideration. — Consideration, like an angel, came And whipp'd th' offending Adam out'of him. Shakespere, Henry V. Constable — Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last.— Butler, Hudibras. Contented. — I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented ; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired ; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it. — CER- VANTES, Don Quixote. Contentment. — The noblest mind the best contentment has. Spenser, Faerie Queene Corporations. — Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be out- lawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls. — Sir Edwarij Coke. Correspondent I will be correspondent to command, And do my spriting gently. — Shakespere, Tempest. Counsel. — Counsel may stop awhile what will not stay. Ibid., Lover's ComplaiiKr Counsels. — Ah, gentle dames ! it gars me greet, To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises. — Burns, Tarn O'Shanter. Counsellors. — In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. Proverbs xi. 1 i. Country. — Our COUNTRY ! in her intercourse with foreign natioua, may she_ always be in the right ; but our country, right or wrong. — Stephen Decatur, Toast at Norfolk, 1816. — There's no glory like his who saves his country. Tennyson, Queen Mary, — 'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Farquhar, Beaux Stratagem Coward. — When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. — Dr. Sewell. Cowards. — Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Shakespere, Julius Casar 30 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Cowards. — Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome bj those who nobly dare — Queen Elizabeth. Creature — A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. Wordsworth, She was a Phantom Creed. — And so the "Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the cre-ed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought ; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef. — Tennyson, In Memoriam. — Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn ; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. Wordsworth, Sonnets. Creeds — Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree ? Moore, Come send round the wine. — The knots that tangle human creeds.— Tennyson, Poems. Cricket Save the cricket on the hearth. — Milton, II Penseroso. Crime. — It is more than a crime, it is a political fault ; words which I record because they have been repeated and attributed to other* — Memoirs of FoucM. Crimes. — Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged CRIMES, Unwhipp'd of justice. — Shakespere, King Lear. Critical. — For I am nothing, if not critical. — Ibid., Othello. Critics. — A man must serve his time to ev'ry trade, Save censure ; critics all are ready-made, Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote : A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault, A turn for punning, call it Attic salt ; To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet : Fear not to he, 'twill seem a lucky hit ; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit ; Care not fcr feeling, pass your project jest. And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. Byron, English Barde. POPULAR QVOTATIOm 31 Cruel. — I must be cruel, only to be kind : Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. Shakespere. Hamlet. Cuckoo O cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice ?— Wordsworth, To the Cuckoo. Crown. — Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. Shakespere, Henry I V. Cupid. — This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid ; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, Th' anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. Ibid., Love's Labour's Lost. Curfew. — The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Gray, Elegy. Curses — " Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost ! " — Lytton, Lady of Lyons. Custom — But to my mind, — though I am native here, And to the manner born, — it is a custom More honoured in the breach, than the observance. Shakespere, Hamlet. Cut — This was the most unkindest cut of all. — Ibid., Julius Casar. Cut off. — Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhousel'd, disappointed, unaneled ; No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. — Ibid., Hamlet. Cuttle, Captain A character in Dickens's "Dombeyand Son," com- bining great humour, eccentricity, and pathos, distinguished for hit simplicity, credulity, and generous trustfulness. One of his famotu expressions is, " When found, make a note of." Cynosure. — Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes. — Milton, DAUegro. 32 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. D. Dagger.— Is this a DAGGER which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee i I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling, as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? Shake spere, MacbetX Daggers-Drawing.— Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing. — Butler, Mudibras. Daisy. — Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures white and rede, Soch that men callen DAISIES in our toun. Chaucer, Legend of Good Women, — That well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all. — Ibid. — Small service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest friends, bright creature ! scorn not one : The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. Wordsworth, To a Child, — The poet's darling. — Ibid., To the Daisy. — Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature.— Ibid. — Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. — Burns, To a Daisy, — Myriads of daisies have shown forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away ; less happy than the one That, by the unwilling ploughshare, died to prove The tender charm of poetry aad love. Wordsworth, Poems, 188& Dame. — Where sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.— Burns, Tarn 0\lhanter. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. S3 Daniel. — A Daniel come to judgment ! Shakespere, Merchant of Venice. — A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew ! Now, infidel, I have thee on the hip. — Ibid. Dare. -I DARE do all that may become a man ; Who dares do more, is none. — Ibid., Macbeth. - Letting I dare not wait upon I would, Lik3 the poor cat i' the adage. — Ibid. — What man dare, I dare : Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcian tiger ; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.— Ibid. Dark. — Dark with excessive bright. — Milton, Paradise Lost. — I am just going to leap into the dark. — Rabelais. Darkness. — Darkness which may be felt. — Exodus x. 21. — Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible. Milton, Paradise Lost. Davy Jones. — A familiar name among sailors for death, formerly foi the evil spirit who was supposed to preside over the demons of the sea. He was thought to be in all storms, and was sometimes seen of gigantic height, showing three rows of sharp teeth in his enor- mous mouth, opening great frightful eyes, and nostrils which emitted blue flames. The ocean is still termed by sailors Dav^ Jones's Locker. Dawn. — The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato, and of Rome. — Addison, Goto. Day — " I've lost a day " — the prince who nobly cried, Had been an emperor without his crown. Young, Night Thoughts. — Philip. Madam, a day may sink or save a realm. Mary. A day may save a heart from breaking too. Tennyson, Queen Mary. — Now's the day, and now's the hour, See the front o' battle lour. — Burns, Scots wha hae. — Sweet DAY, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky.— G. Herbert, Virtue. «— The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. — Longfellow, The Day is Bone 2* 34 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Days. — My days are in the yellow leaf ; The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone ! — Byron, On ray Thirty -sixth Tear, — Of all the days that's in the week I dearly love but one day, And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday. H. Carey (1743), Sally in our AUey. Dead. — Dead, for a ducat, dead. — Shakespere, Hamlet. — There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead. Thomson, The Seasons, Winter. Death. — Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. — Bishop Hall, Epistles. — A double death, to drown in ken of shore. Shakespere, Lucrece. — Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible. — Ibid., Henry IV. — And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings. Ibid. , Richard II. — By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honor'd, and by strangers mourn'd. Pope, Unfortunate Lady. — Death is the crown of. life : Were death deny'd, poor men would live in vain ; Were death deny'd, to live would not be life ; Were death deny'd, ev'n fools would wish to die. Young, Night Thoughts. Every man at time of DEATH, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind ; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, like the stone- cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men. Tennyson, Queen Mary. — Deliverer ! God hath anointed thee to free the oppressed, and crush the oppressor. — W. C Bryant. — Heaven gives its favourites early death. Byron, Uldlde POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 3d Death.— How wonderful is Death ! Death and his brother Sleep. — Shelley, Queen Mab. — God's finger touched him, and he slept. Tennyson, In Memoriam, — He fell asleep. — Acts vii. 60. — I fled, and cried out Death! Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded Death. Milton, Paradise Lost* — - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the North-wind's breath, And stars to set ; — but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, Death ! Hemans, The Hour of Death. — Men must endure their going hence, Even as their coming hither. — Shakespere, King Lear. — Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it ; be died, As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 't were a careless trifle. — Ibid., Macbeth. — eloquent, just and mightie Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawne together all the f arre stretched greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie and ambition of men, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet /— Sir Walter Raleigh, Historie of the World. — Oh, God ! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood. — Byron, Prisoner of OhUlon. — The quiet haven of us all. — Wordsworth. — There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, hnwsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. — There is no death ! What seems so is transition ; This lif e of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death. — Longfellow, Resignation, — 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. — Shakespere, Measure for Meusura. 36 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Death. — The shadow cloak'd from head to foot, Who keeps the keys of all the creeds. Tennyson, In Memoriam — 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. Shake spere, Measure for Measure. — To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late, And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods ? — Macaxjlay, Lays, Horatiiu. — Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care ; The opening bud to Heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. — Coleridge, On an Infant. Deed. — A deed without a name. — Shakespere, Macbeth. — How far that little candle throws its beam ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Ibid. , Merchant of Venic* Deeds. — Deeds, not words. Beaumont and Fletcher. Butler, Hudibrae — 'Tis deeds must win the prize. Shakespere, Taming of the Shrew. — For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. Congreve, The Mourning Bride. — How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done ! — Shakespere, King John. — Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them to men's eyes. Ibid., Hamlet. Delays — All delays are dangerous in war. Dryden, Tyrannic Love. — Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. Shakespere, Henry VI. Denmark. — Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Ibid. Hamlet Deputation.— Deputation : A noun of multitude, which signifies many, but does not signify much.— W. E. Gladstone. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 37 Derby Dilly. — So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby Dilly, carrying' Three Insides. G. Canning, The Loves of the Triangles Descent.-— From yon blue heaven above ns bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Tennyson, Lady Clara. Desert, —Oh ! 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. Despair. — Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone. Shelley, The Revolt of Islam. •Devil. — Devil take the hindmost. — Beaumont and Fletcher. Butler, Hudibras. Prior, Ode on taking Nemur. Pope, Dunciad: Burns, To a Haggis. — Go, poor devil, get thee gone ; why should I hurt thee ? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. Steene, Tristram Shandy. — He must go that the devil drives. Peele, Edward I. Shakespere, AIVs Well. ■*— He must have a long spoon that eats with the Devil. — Chaucer, The Sguiere's Tale. Marlowe, The Jew of Malta. Shakespere, Two Gentlemen. Apius and Virginia. — He who will give the Devil his due. Shakespere, Henry IV. — The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. Ibid., Merchant of Venice — The Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape. Ibid., Hamlet. — The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. Eabelais. — God never had a church but there, men say, The Devil a chapel had raised by some wyles. I doubted of this saw, till on a day I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Giles. Drummond, Posthumous Poem* — 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, True-Born Englishman. 38 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Devil. — No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds ■ chapel hard by. — Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. — "Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel. Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. Dews. — The dews of the evening- most carefully shun, — Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. Chesterfield, Advice to a Lady in Autumn. Dial. — True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun. — Barton Booth, 1733. — True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon. — Butler, Hudibras. Diamonds. — Diamonds cut diamonds. — Ford, Lover's Melancholy. Die. — Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside La thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world. — Shakespere, Measure for Measure. • — But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat. — Pope, Moral Essays. — But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can DIE Is where he dies for man ! — M. J. BARRY. — He that dies pays all his debts. — Shakespere, Tempest. — He that dies this year is quit for the next.— Ibid., Henry IV. — All that lives must DIE, Passing through nature to eternity. — Ibid. , Hamlet. — To DIE is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never break, nor tempests roar ; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. S. Garth, The LHapensary. — They never fad who die In a great cause. — Btron, Marino Faliero. • - To live in hearts we leave behind, Is rot to die. — Campbell, Hallowed Ground. Digestion.— Now, good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both ! — Shakespere, Macbeth. Dirty Work — Destroy his fib, or sophistry — in vain I rhe creature's at his dirty work again. — Pope, To Arbuthnoi. POPULAJt QUOTATIONS. *9 Discontent. — Now is the winter of our DISCONTENT Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that lower'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths ; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments ; Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front. Shakespere, Richard III, Discourse. — Bid me discotjkse, I will enchant thine ear. Ibid, Venus and Adonfa. — In discourse more sweet, For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Milton, Paradise Lost — Sure, He that made us with such large DISCOURSE, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason, To fast in us unus'd. — Shakespere, Hamlet. Discretion. — Discretion and hard valour are the twins of honour. And, nursed together, make a conqueror ; Divided, but a talker. — Beaumont and Fletcher. — Discretion the best part of valour. — Ibid. — The better part of valour is discretion. —Shakespere, Henry IV. Churchill, The Ghost. Disease. — He who cures a disease may be the skilfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. — T. Fuller. — Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all. — Shakespere, Hamlet. — Desperate diseases need desperate cures. — Proverb. Disorder.— You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admir'd disorder. — Shakespere, Macbeth. Disputing.-- The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches. Sir Henry Wotton 40 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Dissension. — Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity. Moore, The Light of the Harem Dissimulation — Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy ; for it asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell the truth and to do it. — Bacon. Distance. — 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, Ditto to Mr. Burke. — At the conclusion of one of Mr. Burke's eloquent harangues, Mr. Cruger, finding nothing to add, or perhaps, as he thought, to add with effect, exclaimed earnestly, in the language oi the counting-house, "I say ditto to Mr. Burke, I say ditto t<* Mr. Burke." — Prior, Life of Burke. Doctor Fell. — 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 Browne, 1704. Doctors Who shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me ? Pope, Moral Essays. Doctrine. — Prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks. —Butler, Hudibras. — Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there. Pope, Essay on Criticism. — What makes all doctrines plain and clear ? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again ? Two hundred more. — Butler, Hudibi'M. Dog. — And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound, And curs of low degree. — Goldsmith, On a Mad Dog, — The DOG, to gain his piivate ends, Went mad, and bit the man. — Ibid. — The man recovered of the bite ; The dog it waa that died — Ibid. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 41 Dog. — I am his Highness's dog at Kew ; Pray tell me, sir, wliose dog are you ? — Pope, Windsor Forest. — Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. Shakespere, Hamlet. Dogs. — Let DOGS delight to bark and bite, For G-od hath made them so ; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature to. — Watts, Song xvi. Domestic Joy. — How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic jot. Johnson, Lines addtd to Goldsmith's Traveller, j Done. — 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. — Shakespere, Macbeth. — What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. Burns, Address to the Unco 1 Guid. Dotes. — But, 0, what damned minutes tell he o'er, Who dotes, yet doubts ; suspects, yet strongly loves ! Shakespere, OtheUtK. double. — Double, double toil and trouble. — Ibid., Macbeth. Double Sense. — And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. — Ibid. Doubt.— There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. — Tennyson, In Memoriam. — When in doubt, win the trick. — Hotle, Mules for Learners. — To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved. — Shakespere, QtheUo. Doubts — Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good- we oft might win. By fearing to attempt. — Ibid., Measure for Measure. — But now, I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. — Ibid., Macbeth. 42 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. ' Down. — He that is down can fall no lower. — Butler, Hudibrcu. — He that is down needs fear no fall. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress. Downs. — All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd. Gay, Sweet William? 's FarexeU Dream. — A change carne o'er the spirit of my DREAM. Byron, The Bream. — I had a dream which was not all a dream. — Ibid., Darkness. Dreams. — Till their own dreams at length deceive 'em, And, oft repeating, they believe 'em. — Prior, Alma. — To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light ! — Scott, Marmion, — True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. Shake spere, Borneo and Juliet* Drink. — I drink no more than a sponge. — Rabelais. — If on thy theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men DRINK : Good wine, a friend, because I'm dry, Or least I should be by-and-by, Or any other reasons why. — H. Aldrich, Biog. Brit. — Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.— Ben Jonson, The Forest. Drown. — Lord, methought, what pain it was to drown 1 What dreadful noise of water in mine ears ! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes ! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wracks ; A thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon ; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea ; Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems. Shakespere, Ru hard TIL Drum. --Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried. But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him- alone with his glory I C. Wolfe, 1 823, Burial of Sir John Moor* POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 43 Dryden Waller was smooth, but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full responding- line, The long majestic march, and energy divine. — Pope, Horase. Duke Humphrey. — A name used in an old expression, " To dine with Duke Humphrey," that is, to have no dinner at all. This phrase is said to have arisen from the circumstance that a part of the public walks in Old Saint Paul's, London, was called Duke Hum- phrey's Walk, and that those who were without the means of de- fraying their expenses at a tavern were formerly accustomed to walk here in hope of procuring an invitation. — It distinctly appears . . that one Diggory Chuzzlewit was in the habit of perpetually dining with Duke Humphrey. So constantly was he a guest at that nobleman's table, indeed, and so unceasingly were his grace's hospitality and companionship forced, as it were, upon him, that we find him uneasy, and full of constraint and re- luctance ; writing his friends to the effect, that, if they fail to do so and so by bearer, he will have no choice but to dine again with Duke Humphrey. — Dickens. — In the form Humfrey, it [Hunifred] was much used by the great house of Bohun, and through his mother, their heiress, de- scended to the ill-fated son of Henry IV. , who has left it an open question whether dining with Duke Humphrey alludes to the re- port that he was starved to death, or to the Elizabethan habit for poor gentility to beguile the dinner hour by a promenade near hia tomb in old St. Paul's. — Yonge. Dunce. — How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. Cowper, The Progress of Error. Dust. — Dust to dust. — Common Prayer. — Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. — Genesis iii 19. Duties. — Duties are ours ; events are God's. — Cecil. Duty. — Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staft supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake. — D. Jerrold. — Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this pre- cept well to heart : "Do the DUTY which lies nearest to thee," which thou knowest to be a duty ! Thy second duty will already have become clearer. — T. Carlyle. — Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's soul ia his own. — Shakespere, Henry V. -;- Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband. Ibid. , Taming of the Shrew. Dwarf. — A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on,— Coleridge, The Friend. 44 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Dwarf. — A DWARF on a giant's shoulders sees further of the two, Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. — Grant them but dwarfs, yet stand they on giant's shoulders, and may see the further. — Fuller, The Holy State. Dyer. — My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the DYEH'a hand. — Shakespere, Sonnets. Dying.— Dying, bless the hand that gave the blow. Dryden, Spanish Friar. — The air is full of fareweDs to the dying. Longfellow, Resignation. E. Eagle. — 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. E. Waller, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing. — So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. Byron, English Bards. Ear. — One eare it heard, at the other out it went. Chaucer, Troilus and Greseide. Bars. — Heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. 2 Timothy, iv. 3. Earth. — Alas ! for love if thou art all, And naught beyond, O Earth ! — Hemans, Graves of a Household. — Earth, lie gently on their aged bones. — S. May. — Lie heavy on him, Earth ! For he Laid many a heavy load on thee. Epitaph on Sir John VanbrugK — Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. Moore, Gome ye Disconsolate. -- Earth, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood. — Shelley, Alastor. — EARTn, air, and ocean, glorious three. R. Montgomery, Woman, -Shall I not take mine EASE in mine inn ? Shakespere, Henry IV. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 45 El Dorado. — [Sp., the Golden Land.] A name given by the Spaniards to an imaginary country, supposed, in the 16th century, to be situ- ated in the interior of South America, between the Rivers Orinoco and Amazon, and abounding in gold and all manner of precious stones. Expeditions were fitted out for the purpose of discovering this fabulous region ; and, though all such attempts proved abor • tive, the rumours of its existence continued to be believed down to the beginning of the 18th century. — In short, the whole comedy is a sort of El Dorado cf wit, where the precious metal is thrown about by all classes as carelessly as if they had not the least idea of its value. — Moore. Elia. — A pseudonym under which Charles Lamb wrote a series of cele- brated essays, which were begun in the i- London Magazine," and were afterwards collected and published by themselves. — Comfort thee, thou mourner, yet a while ; Again shall Elia's smile Refresh thy heart, where heart can ache no more. "What is it we deplore ? — Laxdor. — He is also the true Elia, whose essays are extant in a little volume published a year or two since, and rather better known from that name withoui a meaning than from anything he has done, or can hope to do, in his own. — C. Lamb, Autobiographical Sketch, 1827. Emerald Isle. — A name sometimes given to Ireland on account of the peculiar bright green look of the surface of the country. It was first used by Dr. "William Drennan (1734-1820), author of " Glen- dalough, and other poems." It occurs in his poem entitled "Erin." — When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island : he saw it was good. The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled, it shone, In the ring of this world the most precious stone. Arm of Erin, prove strong : but be gentle as brave, And, uplifted to strike, still be ready to save : Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defile The cause or the men of the Emerald Isle. Empty. — My Lord St. Albans said that nature did never put her pre- cious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads. Bacon, Apophthegms. — Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath bailt many stories high. — T. Fuller, Andronicus. End. — The exd must justify the means. — Prior, Hans Carvel Ends. — There's a divinity that shapes our ENDS, Rough-hew them how we will — Shakespere, Hamlet 46 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Enemy. — O that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains ! — Siiakespere, Othello. Enough — Enough is good as a feast. Ray, Proverbs. Bickerstaff, Love in a VMagt. Engineer. — For 'tis the sport to have the f.ngineeb Hoist with his own petard.— Shakespeke, Hamifit. England. — Be England what she will, "With all her faults she is my country still. Churchill, Tht PomwiL — England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country ! — Cowper, Task. — Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Naught shall make um rue, If England to itself do rest but true. Shakespere, King John. — This England never did, nor never shall . Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. — Ibid. '•*- This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle. This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise ; This fortress, built by Nature for herself, Against infection and the hand of war ; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set hi the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands ; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this ENGLAND. Ibid., Richard 21. English. — Here will be an old abusing of . . . the king's English. Ibid., Merry Wive* Ensign. — Th' imperial ensign, which, full high advanc'd, Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. Milton, Paradise Lost Envy. — Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. Thomson, The Stasont. — Env r is a kind of praise. — Gay. — Enyy will merit as its shade pursue, But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. Pope, Essay on Criticitm POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 47 Envy. — Envy, eld&st-born of hell, embrued Her hands in blood, and taught the sons of men To make a death which nature never made, And God abhorred ; with violence rude to break The thread of life, ere half its length was run, And rob a wretched brother of his being. With joy Ambition saw, and soon improved The execrable deed. "Twas not enough By subtle fraud to snatch a single life ; Puny impiety ! Whole kingdoms fell To sate the lust of power : more horrid still, The foulest stain and scandal of our nature, Became its boast. One murder made a villain : Millions, a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah ! why will kings forget that they are men ? And men that they are brethren *? Why delight In human sacrifice ? Why burst the ties Of nature, that should knit their souls together In one soft bond of amity and love ? — Bishop POR'IEOUS. Epitaph. — Let there be no inscription upon my tomb ; lei no man •write my epitaph : no man can write my epitaph. BOBERT EHMETT. — Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false. — Bybon, EnglisJi Bards. Equity. — Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tia all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot a Chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same in the Chancellor's con- science. — Selden, fable Talk. Equivocation. — How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. — Shakespere, Hamlet. — - To doubt the equivocation of the fiend, That lies like truth : Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane. — Ibid., Macbeth. Err — To err is human, to forgive divine. — Pope, Essay on Criticifm. Error — Errors like straws upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls must dive below. Dryden, AUfor Lon. — It is much easier to meet with ERROR than to find truth ; erroi is on the surface, and can be more easily met with ; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.— Goethe. ** POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Eternal City, The. — A popular and very ancient designation of Roma, which was fabled to have been built, under the favour and im- mediate direction of the gods. The expression, or its equivalent, frequently occurs in classic authors, as Livy, Tibullus, Quintilian, &c. In the iEneid, Virgil, following the received tradition, represents Jupiter as holding the following language to Venus, in reference to the Romans, who were supposed to be the descendants of her son iEneas : — To them no bounds of empire I assign, No term of years to their immoktal line.- Dryden, Trans. Eternity. — Eternity, whose end no eye can reach. Milton, Paradise Lost, Evening. — Evening came. The setting sun stretched his celestial rods of light Across the level landscape, and, like the Hebrews In Egypt, smote the rivers, brooks, and ponds, And they became as blood. — Longfellow. — Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompany'd ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton, Paradise Lost. Events. — 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. Campbell's LochieVs Warning. Everyone. — Everyone is as God made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. — Don Quixote. Evil. — Evil is wrought by want of thought As well as want of heart. — Hood, The Lady's Dream. — 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. Shakespere, Julius Cmar. — Trom seeming ev~l still educing good. — Thomson, Hymn. — Of two EVILS, the less is always to be chosen. Imitation of Christ POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 49 Evil. — One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. — Wordsworth, Tables Turned. — So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me, is lost. Evil, be thou my good.— Milton, Paradise Lost. — There is some soul of goodness in things EVIL, Would men observingly distil it out. — Shakespere, Henry V. Example — Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. Rev. R. CECiii. Excess. — To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue "Onto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. — Shakespere, King John. Exile. — There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin ; The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill ! For his country he sighed, when at twilight repairing, To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill. Campbell, The Exile of Erin. Expectation. — Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises. — Shakespere, AWs Well. — 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear ; Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were. Sir J. Suckling, Against Fruition. Experience — Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that ; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. — B. Franklin. — Experience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other. — T. Carltle. — I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than EXPERIENCE to make me sad. — Shakespere, As You Like It. — Long experience made him sage. Gay, The Shepherd and the Philosopher. Extremes. — Extremes in nature equal good produce ; Extremes in man concur to general use. — Pope, Moral Essays. Eye. — All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye. Ibid., Essay on Criticism. 3 60 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Eye.— An unforgiving EYE, and a damned disinheriting countenance. Sheridan, School for Scandal. — The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart. Words-worth, A Poet's Epitaph. Eyes. — Eyes that dioop like summer flowers. — L. E. L. — Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. Tennyson, In Memoriam. F. Face. — He had a face like a benediction. Cervantes, Don Quixote. — Her FACE is like the milky way i' the sky, A meeting of gentle lights without a name. Sir John Suckling, Brennoralt. — There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face. Shakespere, Macbeth. — Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much lesa time, and are much less likely to deceive us. — Lavater. — Sea of upturned faces. — Sir W. Scott, Bob Boy. Daniel Webster, Speech, Sept. 1842. Facts. — Facts are stubborn things. — Smollett, Trans. Gil Bias. — But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed. — Burns, A Dream. — The right honourable gentleman is indebted to bis memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. Sheridan, Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas. Fail. — Macb. If we should fail, — Lady M. We fail ! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail. — Shakespere, Macbeth. — In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As— fail. — Lytton, Richelieu. Failings — And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side. Goldsmith, Deserted ViUagt. Faint — Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. — Britain, Ida. King, Orpheus and Eurydice. Burns, To Dr. Bla-zkhclc, Oolmjuj, Love Lavghs at Locksmiths. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 51 Faith. — His FAITH, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. Cowley, On Grashavs. — In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. — Pope, Essay on Man. — welcome purely' d Faith, white-handed Hope. Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings ! — MlLTON. — Perplex'd in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Bslieve me, than in half the creeds. Tennyson, In Memoriam. — 'Tis hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. Wordsworth, Sonnets. Faithful. — So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he. — Milton, Paradise Lost. Fallen. — Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood ; Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed ; On the bare earth expos' d he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. — Dryden, Alexander's Feast. False. — But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. — Milton, Paradise Lost. — False as dicers' oaths. — Shakespere, Hamlet. Falsehood. — A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Ibid. , Merchant of VentM. — Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.— Sheridan, The Duenna. — Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touch'd lightly ; for no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper. — Milton, Paradise Lost. Fame — Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slit the thin-spun life. — Ibid., Lycidas. 62 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Fame. — Above all Greek, above all Roman fame. — Pope's Horaee. — All crowd, who foremost stall be danm'd to fame. Ibid., Dunciad. — Ab ! wbo can tell bow bard it is to climb The steep wbere Fame' s proud temple sbines afar ? Beattie, The Minstrel. — Better than fame is still the wish for fame, The glorious training for a glorious strife. — Lytton. — Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. — Milton. Lycidas. — Folly loves the martyrdom of FAME. Byron. Death of Sheiidan. — Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those wbo fear not guilt yet start at shame. Churchill, The Author • — Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call ; She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all. Pope, Windsor Forest. — Nothing can cover his high fame, but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories. But the eternal substance of his greatness ; To which I leave him. — Beaumont and Fletcher. — The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outiives in fame the pious fool that raised it. Colley Cibber, liichard lit - The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. Byron, Don Juan. — The perfume of heroic deeds. — Socrates. — Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown ; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! Pope, Windsor Forest. — What is the end of fame ? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper. — Byron, Don Juan. — What rage for fame attends both great and small ! Better be d — d than mentioned not at all. — Dr. J. WoLCOTT. — What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own ? — Cowley, The Motto. Familiarly. — Talks as familiarly of roaring bons, As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs ! Shakesfere, King John. Families. — Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. Defoe, True- Born Englishman. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 53 Famous. — I awoke one morning and found myself famous. Byron, Memorials by Moore. Fancy. — Bright-eyed fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn, Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Gray, Progress of Potty. — Pacing through the forest, Chewing the end of sweet and bitter FANCY. Shakespere, As Ton Like It. Far. — Far as the solar walk or milky way. — Pope, Essay on Man. Farewell.— Fare thee well ! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well.— Byron, 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. Shakespere, Henry VIII. — Farewell ! a word that must be, and hath been — A sound which makes us linger ; — yet — farewell. Byron, Ghilde Harold. ~ - Farewell ! For in that word, — that fatal word, — howe'er We promise — hope — believe, — there breathes despair. Ibid., The Corsair. — Farewell, happy fields, Where joy forever dwells : hail, horrors ; hail. Milton, Paradise Lost. — Farewell ! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal availed on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky. Byron, FareweU! if ever. — I only know we loved in vain — I only feel — farewell ! — farewell ! — Ibid. 0, now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content 1 Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! 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 ! And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell 1 Othello's occupation's gone ! Shakespere, Othelh. 64 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Farewell. — The bitter word which closed all earthly friendships, and finished every feast of love,— fake well. Pollok, The Course of Time. Fasten — Fasten him as a nail in a sure place. — Isaiah, xxii. 23. Fat — "Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. Boswell, Johnson. Fata Morgana. — The name of a potent fairy, celebrated in the tales of chivalry, and in the romantic poems of Italy. She was a pupil of the enchanter Merlin, and the sister of Arthur, to whom she discovered the intrigue of Queen Guinevere with Lancelot of the Lake. In the "Orlando Inamorato" of Bojardo, she appears at first as a personification of Fortune, inhabiting a splendid resi- dence at the bottom of a lake, and dispensing all the treasures of the earth ; but she is afterwards found in her proper station, subject, with the other fairies and the witches, to the all-potent Demogorgon At the present day, the appellation of Fata Morgana is given to a strange meteoric phenomenon, nearly allied to the mirage, witnessed, in certain states of the tide and weather, in the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily, and occasionally, though rarely, on other coasts. It consists in the appearance, in the air over the surface of the sea, of multiplied inverted images of objects on the surrounding coasts, — groves, hills, and towers,— all represented as in a moving picture. The spectacle is popularly supposed to be produced by the fairy whoBe name is given to it. Fate. — A few seem favourites of fate, In pleasure's lap carest ; Yet, think not all the rich and great Are likewise truly blest. — Burns, Man was Made to Mourn. — Ask me no more ; thy fate and mine are seal'd ; I strove against the stream and all in vain : Let the great river take me to the main : No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield ; Ask me no more. Tennyson, The Pi-incest. — Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. Pope, Essay on Man. — And binding nature fast in FATE, Let free the human will. — Ibid., Universal Prayer. ~ Perish the thought ! No, never be it said That fate itself could awe the soul of Richard. Hence, babbling dreams ; you threaten here in vain : Conscience, avaunt, Richard's himself again ! Hark ! the shrill trumpet sounds, to horse, away, My soul's in arms, and eager for the fray. Colley Cibber, Richard III, POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 65 Father. — Father of all ! in every age In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovab, Jove, or Lord. — Pope, Universal Prayer. — Her father lov'd me ; oft invited me ; Still qnestion'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd. I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history : "Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Bough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process. Shake spebe, OtheUo, — If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. — Johmoniana. — It is a wise father that knows his own child. Shakespere, Merchant of Venue. — With filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, ' ' My father made them all ! " Cowper, The Task. Fathom. — Full FATH03I five thy father lies ; Of his bones are coral made- Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. — Shakespere, Tempest. Fault. — And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. — Ibid. , King John. — Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it. Ibid., Measure for Meaturt — He that dees one fault at first, And lies to hide it, makes it two. — Watts, Song xv. — Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie ; A FAULT which needs it most grows two thereby. H ebbert, The Church Porch. 66 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Faults.— They Bay, best men are moulded out of faults. Shakespere, Measure for Measure. Faultless. — Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope, Essay on Oriticism, Favourite A favourite has no friend. — Gray. Fear. — Early and provident FEAR is the mother of safety. Ed. Burke. — Fear is the mother of safety. — Sir H. Taylor. — Fear God. Honour the King. — 1 Peter, ii. 17. — Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude ; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment. Goldsmith. — 0, FEAR not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, — Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. — Longfellow, The Light of the Stars. Fears. — Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. — Shakespere, Macbeth. Feast. — A feast of fat things. — Isaiah, xxv. 6. Feather in your Cap. — A success or triumph. The feather has always been used as an emblem of rank as well as ornament. Latham states that, amongst some wild Indian tribes, every warrior who kills an enemy puts a feather into his cap for each victim. Features. — Features — the great soul's apparent seat. W. 0. Bryant. Feet. — Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light ; But O, she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. — Sir J. SUCKLING. — Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bopeep, Did soon draw in again. — Robert Herrick. Fie, fob, fum. — Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man. — Shakespere, King liea/r. Fields. — His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a babbled of gr*e* fields. — Shakespere, Henry V. Fight.— Fight the good fight.— 1 Timothy, vi. 12. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 57 Fight. — That same man, that runnith awaie, Maie again fight an other daie. — Erasmus, Apothegms. — For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do "that's slain. — Butler, Hudibras. Fights. — He that fights and runs away May turn and fight another day ; But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again. — Ray, History of the Eebellion. — 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 of Poetry, Edited by O. Goldsmith (?), Fine — That air and harmony of shape express, Fine by degrees and beautifully less. — Prior, Henry and Emma,. Fire. — A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. Shakspere, Henry VI. Firmament. — The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. — Addison, Ode. First — To the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. General Lee, Eulogy on Washington. Fish — Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring. — Sir H. Sheers, Satyr on the Sea Officers. Tom Brown, yEneus Sylvius's Letter. Dryden, Epilogue to the Duke of Guise. Fishes. — 3 Fisherman. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in tha sea. 1 Fisherman. Why, as men do a-land : the great ones eat uy the little ones. — Shakespere, Pericles. Fits. — 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. Collins, The Passions. Flatterers. — By flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause. — Pope, To Arbuthnot. — When flatterers meet, the Devil goes to dinner. — Defob. Flattery. — Flattery is the bellows blows up sin. Shakespere, Pericles, — Parent of wicked, bane of honest deeds. — Prior. 3* 58 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Flattery. — 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.— Swift, Cadenus and Vane*$a, Flea. — So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; And these have smaller still to bite 'em ; And so proceed ad infinitum. — Ibid., Poetry, a Rhapsody Fleas — Great fleas have little fleas Upon their backs, to bite 'em ; And little fleas have lesser fleas, And so ad infinitum. — Lowell, Biglow Papers. Flesh. — flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified ! Shakespere, Borneo and Juliet. — O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew ; Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. O God ! God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! — Ibid., Hamlet. Flirtation. — I assisted at the birth of that most significant word " flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world. — Chesterfield, The World. Flower. — And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. — Wordsworth, Early Spring. Flowers Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. Longfellow, Flowers. Flying Dutchman. — The name given by sailors to a phantom ship, supposed to cruise in storms off the Cape of Good Hope. Accord- ing to tradition, a Dutch captain, bound home from the Indies, met with long-continued head-winds and heavy weather off the Cape of Good Hope, and refused to put back as he was advised to do, swearing a very profane oath that he would beat round the Cape, if he had to beat there until the Day of Judgment. He was taken at his word, and doomed to beat against head -winds all his days. His sails are believed to have become threadbare, and his ship's sides white with age, and himself and crew reduced almost to shadows. He cannot; heave-to, or lower a boat, but sometimes hails vessels through his trumpet, and requests them to take letters home for him. The superstition has its origin, pro- bably, in the looming, or apparent suspension in the air, of some ship out of sight — a phenomenon sometimes witnessed at sea, and caused by unequal refraction in the lower strata of the atmosphere. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 69 Foe. — He makes no friend who never made a foe. — Tennyson. Foemen. — The stern joy which warriors feel la foemen worthy of their steel.— Scott, Lady of the Lake. Pool. — At thirty, man suspects himself a FOOL ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. Young, Night Thoughts. — Be wise with speed ; A fool at forty is a fool indeed. — Ibid., Love of Fame. — Every FOOL will be meddling. — Proverbs, xx. 3. — No creature smarts so little as a FOOL. — Pope, To Arbuthnot. — They fool me to the top of my bent. — Shakespere, Hamlet. — In this fool's Paradise he drank delight. Craf.be, The Borough. Pools. — Fools admire, but men of sense approve. Pope, Essay on Criticism -- Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. — B. Fkanklin. — Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Pope, Essay on Criticism. — The Paradise of fools, to few unknown. Milton, Paradise Lost. — She was a wight. — if ever such wight were, — Des. To do what ? Iago. To suckle FOOLS, and chronicle small beer. Des. 0, most lame and impotent conclusion ! — Ibid. , Othello. Poot. — Hy FOOT is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor. Scott, Bob Boy. "Force. — Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. Milton, Paradise Lost. Forefathers. — Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. — Gray, Elegy. Forgave. — A coward never forgave. It is not in his nature.— Sterne. Forgiveness. — Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. Drtden, Conquest of Granada. Forlorn Hope. — The leading company in an attack. From the German Verloren haufe — lost troop or band. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Fortune. — Fortune ! if thou'll but gie me still Hale breeks, a scone, an' whisky gill, An' rowth o' rhyme to rave at will, Tak' a' the rest ; An' deal't about as thy blind skill Directs the best.— Burns, Scotch Drink. — "When fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. Shakespebe, King John. Fragments.-— Gather up the FRAGMENTS that remain, that nothing b« lost.— -John, vi. 12. Frailty. — Frailty ! thy name is woman. — Shakespebe, Hamlet. France. — " They order," I said, " this matter better in France." Sterne, Sentimental Journey. Free. — Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not, "Who would be FREE, themselves must strike the blow ? Byron, Childe Harold. — Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. Milton, Paradise Lost. — We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespere spake, the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. — Wordsworth, Sonnets. Freedom. — Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won. — Byron, The Giaour. — Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstain'd what there they found, — Freedom to worship God. Mrs. Hemans, The Pilgrim Fathers. — This hand to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow ; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade. J. Q. Adams, Written in an Album. — Yet, Freedom ! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind. Byron, Childe Harold, »- Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage ; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.— Bichard Lovelace, To Althea. - POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 61 Freeman,~He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. Cowfeb, The Task. — - He was the freeman whom the truth made free ; Who, first of all, the bands of Satan broke ; Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, In spite of fools consulted seriously. Pollok, Course of Time. Freemen. — Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. — GarricK. Friend — A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity. Napoleon I. — A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversitj Proverbs, xvii. 17. — A FRIEND should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. Shake spere, Julivs Ccesar. — Faithful are the wounds of a friend. — Proverbs, xxvii. 6. — Give me the avow'd, the 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 ! G. Cahning, New Morality. — There is no man so friendless but that he can find a FRIENE sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. — Lytton. — Mine own familiar friend. — Psalm lv. 14. — Officious, innocent, sincere; Of every friendless name the friend. Dr. Johnson, Verses on Levet. — The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. — Cowper, Friendship. Friends. — Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny, and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. — Coleridge, Ghristabel. — 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. Shakespere, Hamlet. ~ He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back. Goldsmith, Retaliation, €2 POPULAE QUOTATIONS. Friends.- I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. — Cowper, The Task. — Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes ; they were easiest for his feet. — Selden, Table Talk. Friendship Friendship ! mysterious cement of the soul ! Sweet'ner of life ! and solder of society ! — Blair, The Grave. — A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. Pope, Homer's Iliad. — What is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep ? — Goldsmith, TJie Hermit. Fudge, Mr. — A contemptuous designation bestowed upon any absurd or lying writer or talker. — There was, sir, in our time, one Captain Fudge, commander of a merchantman, who upon his return from a voyage, how ill fraught soever his ship was, always brought home to his owners a good cargo of lies, insomuch that now aboard ship the sailors, when they hear a great lie told, cry out, " You Fudge it." Bemarks upon the Navy (London, 1700). — With a due respect to their antiquity, and the unchanged reputa- tion always attached to the name, we have lorig held in high con- sideration the ancient family of Fudges. Some of them, as we know, have long resided in England, and have been ever ready to assist in her domestic squabbles and political changes. But their favourite place of residence we understand to be in Ireland. Their usual modes of expression, indeed, are akin to the figurative talk of the Emerald islanders. — British and Foreign Beview. Future. — Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! — Longfellow, A Psalm of Life. Galled Jade. — Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung Shakespere, Hamlet. Gath.— Tell it not in Gath.— 2 Samuel, i. 20. Gem. — Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. — Gray, Elegy. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 63 Gentleman — And thus he bore without abuse The grand old name of gentleman, Defamed by every charlatan, And soil'd with all ignoble use. Tennyson, In Memoricm. — Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, And take him for the gretest gentilman. Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale. — He is gentil that doth gentil deeds. — Ibid. — The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer ; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit. The first true gentleman that ever breathed. T. Dekker, The Honest Wlwre. — Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth, come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the prof ettys ; and also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne. Juliana Berners, Heraldic Blazonry. Gentlemen. — His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen. Dryden, Absalom. — Like two single gentlemen, rolled into one. G. Colman, Lodgings for Single Gentlemen. Ghost There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this. — Shakespere, Hamlet. — Vex not his ghost ; 0, let him pass : he hates him, That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. — Ibid., King Lear. Giants. — There were giants in the earth in those days. — Genesis, vi. 4 Girdle. — I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes. — Ibid. , Midsummer NigMs Bream. Glad. — Often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore. — Wordsworth, The Fountain. Glory. — Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace. good-wiD toward men. — Luke, ii. 24. — Glory is priceless. — Lytton, Lady of Lyons. — But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth. Wordsworth, Immortality. — Gashed with honourable scars, Low in glory's lap they he ; Though they fell, they fell like stars. Streaming splendour through the sky. J. Montgomery, The Battle of Alexandria. 64 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Glory Go where glory -waits thee ; But, while fame elates thee, Oh ! still remember me. — Moore, Irish Melodies. — The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hoar, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. — Gray, Elegy. — The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to GLORY, or the grave ! Thos. Campbell, Hohenlindm. — "Who track the steps of glory to the grave. Byron, Death of Sheridan. Go.— Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. — Shakes? ere, Macbeth. God. — All is of God. If He but wave His hand, The mists collect, the rains fall thick and loud ; Till, with a smile of light on sea and land, Lo ! He looks back from the departing cloud. Angels of life and death alike are His ; Without His leave they pass no threshold o'er ; Who, then, would wish or dare, believing this, Against His messengers to shut the door ? Longfellow, Tlie Two Angels. — Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. Pope, Essay on Man. God made. — God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. Cowley, The Garden. — God made the country, and man made the town, What wonder, then, that health and virtue — gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all — should most abound, And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves ? Cowper, The Task. Gog and Magog. — Popular names for two colossal wooden statues in the Guildhall, London. It is thought that these renowned figures are connected with the Corinasus and Gotmagot of the Armoiican chronicle quoted by Geoffrey of Monmouth. The former name has gradually sunk into oblivion, and the latter has been split by popu- lar corruption to do duty for both. Our Guildhall giants boast of almost as high an antiquity as the Gog and Magog of the Scriptures, as they, or their living prototypes, are said to have been found in Britain by Brute, a younger son of Anthenor of Troy, who invaded Albion, and founded the city ol POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 65 London, at first called Troy-novant, 3000 years ago. However the fact may have been, t,he two giants have been the pride of London from time immemorial. The old giants were burned in the great fire, and the new ones were constructed in 1708. They are fourteen feet high, and occupy suitable pedestals in Guildhall. There can be little doubt that these civic giants are exaggerated representatives of real persons and events. — Chambeks. Gold. — All that glisters is not gold. Shake spebe, Merchant of Venice. — All is not GOLD that glisteneth. Middleton, A Fair Quarrel. — All thing, which that shineth as the GOLD Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told. Chaucer, The Ohanones Yemannes Tale. — All is not GOLDE that outward sheweth bright. Lydgate, On Human Affairs. — Gold all is not that doth golden seem. Spenser, Faerie Queene. — All is not gold that glisters. — Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. — All, as they say, that glitters is not gold. Dryden, Hind and Panther. — Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. — Hood, Miss Kilmansegg. — Saint-seducing gold. — Shakespere, Borneo and Juliet. — For GOLD in phisike is a cordial ; Therefore he loved gold in special. — Chaucer, Prologue. Gone Before. — Not lost, but gone bepobe. — Seneca. — Gone before To that unknown and silent shore. Charles Lamb, Hester. — Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves, — not dead, but gone before, — He gathers round him. — S. Rogers. G-ood. — And learn the luxury of doing good. — Goldsmith, Traveller — Do GOOD by stealth, and blush to find it fame. — Pope, Horace. Good, the more Communicated, more abundant grows. Milton, Paradise Lost. — Hold thou the good ; define it well : For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell. — Tennyson, In Memorianu 66 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Good. — There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Shakespere, Hamlet, — For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give ; Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified. Ibid., Borneo and Juliet. — How indestructibly the GOOD grows, and propagates itsedf , even among the weedy entanglements of eviL — Carlyle. — Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good, Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. Tennyson, Lady Clara — O yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill. — Ibid., In Memoriam. — 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 By thinking on fantastic Summer's heat ? O, no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Shakespere, King Richard 11. — The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still. — S. Rogers, Jacqueline. Goodness — Abash'd the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely. — Milton, Paradise Lost. Good Old Rule. — Because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave. Good Samaritan.— Yes ! you will find reople ready enough to do the good Samaritan without the oil and the twopence. — Syenei Smith, Wit and Wisdom. Gorgons. — G-orgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. Milton, Paradise Lost. Government — All government, indeed every human benefit and en- joyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on com* promise and barter. — Edmund Burke. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 67 Grace.— From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Pope, Essay on Criticism. — See, what a grace nras 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. Shakespere, Hamlet. Grace of God — In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the GRACE op God to man at length manifested. — R. Hurd, Sermons, 1808. Gracious. — The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours secret, sweet, and precious. — Burns, Tam at snvie have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs Shakespere, Julius Gtxsar. 80 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Idle — As IDLE as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.— Coleridge, Ancient Mariner. — Satan finds some mischief still For idle Lands to do. —Watts, Divine Songs. Idleness. — Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness. —Pope, The Dunciad. Idler. — An idler is a watch that wants both hands ; As useless if it goes as if it stands. — Cowper, Retirement. If. — Your IP is the only peacemaker ; much virtue in if. Shakespere, As You Likn It Ignorance — From ignorance our comfort flows ; The only wretched are the wise. — Prior, To Montague. — Ignorance is the curse of God: knowledge, the wing where with we fly to heaven. — Shakespere, Henry VI. — Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. — Gray. Ill got. — Things ill got had ever bad success, And happy always was it for that son Whose father, for his hoarding, went to hell. Shakespere, Henry VI. Imagination. — The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. — Ibid., Mid. NigJit's Dream. — O, who cam 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, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat. O, no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. — Hid., Richard I£, — The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A looal habitation and a name. — Ibid., Mid. Night's Dream. POPULAB QUOTATIONS. 81 Imitated Humanity. — I hare thought some of Xature's jo\imeymen had made men, and not made them -well; they imitated humanity so abominably. — Shakespere, Hamlet. Imitation. — Imitation is the sincerest flattery. — Colton, Lacon Immortal. — Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. — Wobdsworth, Immortality. Immortality. — It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality '? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being. Through what new scenes and changes must we pass I The wide, th' unbounded prospect, lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is all nature cries aloud, Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where '? — this world was made for Caesar. Tm weary of conjectures — this must end 'em ! {laying his 7iand on his sword Thus am I doubly arm'd ; my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end ; But this informs me 1 shall never die. The soul, secure in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, "Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. — Addison, Cato. Impeachment. — I own the soft impeachment. (ITrs. Italaprop.) Sheridan, The Rivals. Inactivity The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. — Sir J. 3Iackintosh. Inch. -Give an inch, he'll take an ell. — John Webster, Sir Thomat Wyatt. Hobbes, Liberty and Necessity. 4* 82 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Inconstancy. — Inconstancy falls off ere it begins. — Shake SPBBK. Ind. —A poetical contraction for India. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind. Satan exalted sat. — Milton, Paradise Lost. Indemnity. — Indemnity for the past and security Lr the future. Pitt. Independence. — Thy spirit, Independence, let me share ; Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. Smollet, Ode to Independence. — Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long aa she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. — Pope, Letters. Indolence. — Enjoyment stops where indolence begins. Pollok, Course of Time. — The mother of misery.— Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. Infant.— 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. Inhumanity. — Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns, Man was made to mourn. Inn. — Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The wannest welcome at an inn. — Shenstone. Innocent. — Oh keep me innocent, make others great ! Caroline of Denmabk. Innumerable. — Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dew -drops, which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. Milton, Paradise Lost. Intellect — The march of intellect.— So uthey, Colloquies. •— The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the Devil. — Goethe, Correspondence. Intentions. — Good intentions are, at least, the seed of gcod actions ; and every man ought to sow them, and leave it to the soil and the seasons whether they come up or no, and whether he or any other gather the fruit.— Sib W. Temple. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 83 ntercourse. — Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. — Pope, Eloisa. Iron. — Ay me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! — Butler, Hudibras. — Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. — Proverbs xxvii. 17. — Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air. — Gray, The Fatal Sisters. — The iron entered into his soul. — Psalm cv., 18. — Sterne, Sen timental Journey. Iron Duke. — A familiar title given to the Duke of Wellington. According to the Rev. G. R. Gleig, this sobriquet arose out of the building of an iron steamboat, which plied between Liverpool and Dublin, and which its owners called the " Duke of Wellington." The term Iron Duke was first applied to the vessel ; and by-and- by, rather in jest than in earnest, it was transferred to the Duke himself. It had no reference whatever, at the outset, to any peculiarities or assumed peculiarities, in his disposition ; though, from the popular belief that he never entertained a generous feeling toward the masses, it is sometimes understood as a figura- tive allusion to his supposed hostility to the interests of the lower orders. ironsides. — A name given to the English soldiers who served under Cromwell at Marston Moor, on account of the great victory they there gained over the royalist forces, a victory which gave them a world-wide renown for invincible courage and determination. fsland — 0, it's a snug little island ! A right little, tight little island !— Thos. Dlbdin. Ivy. — Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old ! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green. — Dickens, Pickwick. Jack-in-the-Green. — A character— a puppet — in the May-day games of England. Dr. Owen Pugh says that jack-in-the-green, on May-day, was once a pageant representing Melva, or Melvas, "ting of the county now called Somersetshire, disguised in green boughs, as he lay in ambush to steal King Arthur's wife, as she went oul hunting. 84 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Jack-in-the-Green.— Yesterday, being May-day, the more secluded parts of the metropolis were visited by jack-in-the-green, and the usual group of grotesque attendants. — Times, 1844. Jealous. — Trifles, light as air. Are to the JEALOUS confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. — Shakespere, Othello. Jealousy — Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. Milton, Paradise Lost. — O, beware, my lord, of jealousy ; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. — Shakespere, Othello. Jehu. — Like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi ; for he driveth furiously. — 2 Kings ix. 20. Jeremy Diddler. — A character in Kenny's farce of ' ' Raising the Wind," who is represented as a needy and seedy individual, always contriving by his songs, bon-mots, or other expedients, fco borrow money or obtain credit. Jest. — A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.— Shakespere, Love's Labour. — Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles. — Milton, D Allegro. — Of all the griefs that harass the distress' d, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. — Dr. Johnson, London. Jew.— This is the Jew That Shakespere drew. Joke. — L college joke to cure the dumps. Swtpt, Cassimus and Peter. — And gentle dulness ever loves a joke. — Pope, Dunciad. Joy. — Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice ! And then flows all that charms our ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. — Coleridge, Dejection. — Nor p?ace nor ease the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. Mrs. Greville. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 85 Joy. — Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings. Byron, Childe Harold. — There's not a JOY the world can give hke that it takes away. Ibid., There's not a joy. Judge.— If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here die allow thee to be a competent judge. — Walton, Angler. — The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. — Ed. Burke. Judgment. — judgment ! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. — Shakespere, Julius Casar. Judgments. — 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. Pope, Essay on Criticism. — But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So, in our very judgments. — Sm J. Suckling, Aglaura. Jwry. — In my mind he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said, that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Com- mons, the whole machinery of the state, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing TWELVE good men into A box. — Lord Brougham, Present State of th« Law. — The JURY, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try. Shakespere, Measure for Measure. Jurymen The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang, that JURYMEN may dine. Pope, Rape of the Lock. Justice. — Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solii pudding against empty praise. — Ibid., Dunciad. — There, take, says Justice, take ye each a shell ; We thrive at Westminster on fools like you ; 'Twas a fat oyster — live in peace — adieu. Ibid., Windsor Forest, Verbatim from BoUeav. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Ketch, Jack. — A hangman or executioner; — commonly so called, front one John Ketch, a wretch who lived in the time of James II. , and made himself universally odious by the butchery of many brave and noble victims, particularly those sentenced to death by thft infamous Jeffreys during the " Bloody Assizes." Kick. — A kick that scarce would move a horse May kill a sound divine. — Cowper, The Yearly Distress. Kin A little more than kin, and less than kind. Shakespere, Hamlet. Kind. — A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. David Garrick, On Quitting the Stage, — Heaven in sunshine will requite the kind. — Byron. Kindness. — Kindness, nobler ever than revenge. Shakespere, As You Like R — Milk of human kindness. — Ibid., Macbeth. King. — A KING of shreds and patches. — Ibid., Hamlet. — Ay, every inch a king. — Ibid. , King Lear. — God bless the King, I mean the faith's defender ; God bless — no harm in blessing — the pretender ; But who pretender is, or who is king, — God bless us all, — that's quite another thing. J. Byrom, extempore. — God save our gracious king, Long live our noble king, God save the king. — H. Carey. — Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. Shakespere, Henry VIII. — 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 the Bedchcvn&ei Boor of Charles II. — Not all the water in the rough, rude sea, Can wash the balm off from an anointed king. Shakespere, Eiohard H. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 87 King. — The king is but a man, as I am. the violet smells to him as it does to me. — Shakespere. — The klng of terrors. — Job xviii. 14. — There's such divinity doth hedge a klng, That treason can but peep to what it would. Shakespere, Hamlet. Kings. — Kind as kings upon their coronation day. Dryden, The Hind and Panther. — Kings are like stars — they rise and set — they have The worship of the world, but no repose. — Shelley, Hellas. — Ktngs may be blest, but Tarn was glorious. O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. — Burns, Tarn d Shunter. — - Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebeLs from principle. — Ed. Burke. — The right divine of kings to govern wrong. — Pope, Duntiad. King Cole. — Old Klng Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he._ TTalliwell, J\ wrsery Rhymes of England — The venerable Ktng Cole "would find few subjects here to acknowledge his monarchy of mirtb. — E. P. Whipple. King of France. — The Klng of France, with forty thousand men, Went up a hill, and so came down agen. B. Tarlton, From the Pigges Corantoe. Knave. — A crafty knave needs no broker. — Shakespere, Henry V. — Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove ; that is, more knave than fool. — Marlowe, Jew of Malta. Knell. — Hear it not, Duncan ; for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell ! — Shakespere, Macbeth. Know.- Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng. — Mllton, Paradise Lost. Knowledge And all our knowledge is ourselves to know. Pope, Essay on MajK — Half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Ibid., Moral Essays. — Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast, Pull of sad experience, moving toward the stillness of his rest. Tennyson, Locksky Hall 88 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Knowledge.— Knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow. Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell ; That mind aud soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster. — Tennyson, In Memoriam. — Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject oureelveB, or we know where we can find information upon it. — Boswell, Life of Johnson. — Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have of ttimes no connection : knowledge dwells In beads 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 t' enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Cowper, The Task. — Knowledge is power. — Bacon, Meditations. — Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way througa the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value. — Chesterfield, Letters. — <; The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties." Title of « book by G-. L. Craik, published in 1830 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Labour. — Labour, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven. Carlyle. — Love labour ; for if thou dost not want it for food, thoa mayest for physic. — W. Penn. — The LABOUR we delight in physics pain. Shakespere, Macbeth. Ladies. — But — oh ! ye lords of ladies intellectual ! Inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all ? Byron, Don Juan. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 89 Lads. — Golden LADS and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. — Shakespere, Cymbeline. Lake Poets, Lake School, Lakers, or Lakists. — A nickname given by the critics, about the beginning of the present century, to "a certain brotherhood of poets" — to use the language of the Edin- burgh Review, vol. xi. p. 214 — who "haunted for some yeara about the Lakes of Cumberland," and who were erroneously thought to have united on some settled theory or principles of composition and style. Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge were regarded as the chief representatives of this so-called schoo), but Lamb, Lloyd, and Wilson were also included under the same designation. Lamb. — God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Sterne, Sentimental Journey. Land. — A land flowing with milk and honey. — Exodus iii. 8. — Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime ; Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime ? Byron, Bride of Abydoa. — There is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven, o'er all the world beside ; Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? Art thou a man ? a patriot ? look around ; Oh, thou shalfc find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home. J. Montgomery, Home. Land o' Cakes — A name sometimes given to Scotland, because oatmeal cakes are a common national dish, particularly among the poorer classes. — The lady loves, and admires, and worships everything Scottish ; the gentleman looks down on the Land op Cakes like a superior intelligence. — Black wood's Magazine. Land of Nod. — The state or condition of sleep. — "And d'ye ken, lass," said Madge, "there's queer things chanced since ye hae been in the Land op Nod ? " — Sir W. Scott. -- This figure is evidently borrowed from the use of the English word nod, as denoting the motion of the head in drowsiness. But it was also, most probably, at first employed as containing a ludicrous allusion to the language of Scripture in regard to the conduct of the first murderer: "And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the Land op Nod."— Genesis iv. 16. 90 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Lark. — Hark, hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chalic'd flowers that lies ! And winking May-buds begin To ope their golden eyes.— Shakespere, Cymbeline. • — The raven doth not hatch a lark. — Ibid., Titus Androniens. Lasses — Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work, she classes, ; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O ! Burns, Green grow the Basket Last. — Though last, not least in love. — Shakespere, Julius Ccesar. Late — Better late than never. — Tusser; Points of Husbandry. Laugh. — And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. — Byron. Don Juan. — A LAUGH is worth a hundred groans in any market. Lams, Essays. — They laugh that win. — Shakespere. — The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. — Goldsmith. Law. — Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth, Between two horses, which doth bear him best, Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye — I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment ; But in these nice sharp quillets of the LAW, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. Shakespere, Hem'y VI. — Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. Goldsmith, Traveller, — Law is a bottomless pit ; it is a cormorant, a harpy that devour* everything. — Arbuthnot. — Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. — Sir John Powell, Coggs v. Bernard. — Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. — Milton, Tetrarchordon. — Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things hi heaven and earth do her homage, the very least aa feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her powec — Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 9l Law. — The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yei face while it picks yer pocket ; and the glorious uncertainty of ii is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. — Macklin, Love d la Mods, — Where LAW ends, tyranny begins. — Pitt, Speech, Case oj Wilkes. Lawyers. — A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.— B. Franklin. Lawfully. — He that will do all that he can lawfully would, if he durst, do something that is not lawful — Jeremy Taylor, Sermons. Lay on. — Lay on, Macduff ; And danin'd be he that first cries, ' ' Hold, enough ! " Shakespere, Macbeth. Leaf. — Turn over a new leap. — Middleton, Anything for a Quiet Life. Learning. — A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. — Pope, Essay on Criticism. — A progeny of LEARNING. (Mrs. Malaprop. ) Sheridan, The Rivals. — Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful arid excel- lent things in the world in skilful hands ; in unskilful, the most mischievous. — Pope, Letters. Leaves — Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green. Byron, Sennacherib, — Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower. — Milton, Paradise Lost. Lender. — The borrower is servant to the lender. — Proverbs xxii. 7. Length. — A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope, Essay on Criticism. Let us do or die — Beaumont and Fletcher, The Island Princess. Burns, Scots Wha hae. Campbell, Gertrude. Liar.— Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar oi the first magnitude.— Congreve, Love for Love. — When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's fire-- Ha 1 how soon they all are silent ! Thus truth silences the liar. Longfellow, T) anslatiom &2 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Libel. — The greater the truth, the greater the libel. LORD MANSE/ELD. Liberty. — A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. — ADDISON, Cato. — Ay, down to the dust with thern, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty' s war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains. Moore, Entry of the Austrian* into Naples «— Give me again my hollow tree, A crust of bread and liberty. — Pope, Horace. — He that roars for liberty Faster binds a tyrant's power ; And the tyrant's cruel glee Forces on the freer hour. — Tennyson, Vision of Sin. — I must have liberty withal. — Shakespere, As You Like It. — Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take ; but, as for me, give me liberty, or death I — Patrick Henry, Speech. — Liberty's in every blow ! — Burns, Scots Wha hae. «— Licence they mean when they cry liberty. Milton, On Detraction. — O liberty ! liberty ! how many crimes are committed in thy name ! — Madame Roland. — The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood oi tyrants. — Barere, Speech in the Convention Rationale. Library.— My library Was dukedom lar-e enough.— Shakespere, Tempest. Lie. — And after all, what is a LIE ? *Tis but The truth in masquerade. — Byron, Don Juan. — Like one, Who having, unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie. — Shakespere, Tempest. — Some LIE beneath the churchyard stone, And some before the speaker. Praed, Sclwol and Sc7ioolfellow$ — What is weak must lie ; The lion needs but roar to guard his young. Tennyson Queen Mary. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 93 life. — Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further ! — Shakespeke, Macbeth — A man's life's no more than to say one ! Ibid, Catch, then, 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. Johnson, Winter. Life like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. — Shelley, Adovm. Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear ; Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not " good night," but in some brighter clime Bid me " good morning." — Mrs. Barbauld, Life. Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. J. Gay, My own Epitaph. Life is a shuttle.— Shakespere, Merry Wives. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. Ibid. , King John. Life's but a walking shadow ; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. — Ibid., Macbeth. The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; 'Twas therefore said, by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears. Mrs. Thrale, Three Warning*, Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things— God. Bailey, Festu*. 9i POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Life.— Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou liv'st Live well ; how long- or short permit to Heaven. Milton, Paradise Lost — ■ Tell me not, in mournful numbers, ' ' Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Longfellow, A Psalm of Life. — The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. - -Shakespere, AlPs Well. — To know, to esteem, to love — and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart ! Coleridge, On taking leave of ——, — For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. Pope, Essay on Man — His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. Cowley, On the Death of Grashaw. — I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. I think there be six Richmonds in the field. Shakespere, Richard III. — In the midst of life we are in death. — Church Burial Service. This is derived from a Latin antiphon, said to have been compo/ed by Notker, a monk of St. Call, in 911, while watching some wo k- men building a bridge at Martinsbrucke, in peril of their lives. II forms the groundwork of Luther's antiphon, De Morte. — O LIFE ! how pleasant in thy morning, Young fancy's rays the hills adorning ! Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like school-boys at th' expected warning, To joy and play.— Burns,, To James Smith. -- On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Season the card, but passion is the gale. Pope, Essay on Man. — When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 90 Lies worse ; and while it says, " We shall be blest With some new joys," cuts off what we possessed. Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. Dryden, AuruK/jteb*. Light,— A light heart lives long. Shakespere, Love's Labour's Lost. — And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. — Milton, 11 Penseroso. — Gospel light first dawned from Bullen's eyes. Gray, Fragments. — Hail, holy light ! offspring of heaven first-born. Milton, Paradise Lost. — He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day ; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun. — Ibid., Comua. — Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. Lbid. , Paradise Lost. — Misled by fancy's meteor-ray, By passion driven ; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. — Burns, The Vision. — The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream. Wordsworth, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm. Lightning.— 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. Shakespere Midsummer Mght. Likewise — Go. and do thou likewise. — Luke x. 37. Limbo, or Limbus — [Lat., limbus, a border.] A region supposed by some of the old scholastic theologians to he on the edgi ot confines of hell. Hero, it was thought, the souls of just men, not admitted into heaven or into purgatory, remained to await the general resurrection. Such were the patriarchs and other pious ancients who died before the birth of Christ. Hence the limbo was called Limbus Patrum. According to some of the schoolmen, there was also a Limbus Puerorum, or Infantum, a similar place 96 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. allotted to the bouIs of infants dying nnbaptized. To these wer« added, in popular opinion, a Limbus Fatuorum, or Fool's Paradise, the receptacle of all vanity and nonsense. Of this superstitious belief Milton has made use in his " Paradise Lost." See Book III. v. 440-497. Dante has fixed his Limbo, in which the dis- tinguished spirits of antiquity are confined, as the outermost of the circles of his hell. Limbs. — Her gentle limbs she did undress, And lay down in her loveliness. — Coleridge, Christdbel. Line What ! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom ? Shakespere, Macbeth. Linen. — It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. — Hood, Song of the Shirt. Lines. — The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places. Psalm xvi. 6. iLdps. — Take, O, take those LLPS away, That so sweetly were forsworn ; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn ; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, seal'd in vain. Shakespere, Measure for Measure, Liquor. — You cannot judge the liquor from the lees. Tennyson, Queen Marp, Liquors — For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. Shakespere, As You Like It. Little. — These little things are great to little man. Goldsmith, Traveller. JLiittle said. — And I oft have heard defended Little said is soonest mended. — G-. Wither. Live. — For we that live to please must please to live. Dr. Johnson, A Prologue. — 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 views let both united be ; I live in pleasure when I live to thee. Doddridge, Epigram on his Family Arm* — So LIVE that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 9T Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him. and lies down to pleasant dreams. Bryant, Thanatopsi*. — Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die ; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. — Pope, Ode on Solitude. — Thus from the time we first begin to know, We live and learn, but not the wiser grow. — J. POMFBET. — 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. Ballet, Festus. Lives. — Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Longfellow, A Psalm of Life. Locks Thou canst not say I did it : never shake Thy gory locks at me. — Shakespere, Macbeth, Lodge. — for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. — Cowper, The Task. Lonely. — So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. — Coleridge, Ancient Mariner. Look. — For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? Gray, Elegy. — Look before you ere you leap. — Btttler, Hudibras. — Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go. — Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Looked. — Looked unutterable things.— Thomson, Seasons. Looks — Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. Goldsmith, Deserted Village. 5 98 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Looks — Looks kill love, And love by looks reviveth.— Shakespere, Venus and AdonU Lord. — But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the stye refines ! Pope, Essay on OriUchm. — Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. — Sir H. WOTTON. Lord Harry. — A vulgar name for the devil. — By the Lord Harry. — Sheridan. Loss. — That loss is common would not make My own less bitter — rather more ; Too common ! never morning wore To evening but some heart did break. Tennyson, In Memoriam. Lost. — Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.— Shakespere, AlPs Wett. — For '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 Oat. — 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. —Tennyson, In Memoriam. — What though the field be lost ? All is not lost ; th' unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield. Milton, Paradise Lost. Lothario — One of the dramatis personce in Rowe's tragedy, " The Fail Penitent." His character is that of a libertine and seducer. He ia usually alluded to as "the gay Lothario." — Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario ? — RO"WE. Love. — All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire it most are fortunate, As I am now ; but those who feel it most Are happier still. — Shelley, Prometheus Unbound. - And we shall sit at endless feast, Enjoying each the other's good : What vaster dream can hit the mood Of love on earth ?— Tennyson, In Memoriam. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 99 Love.— An oyster may be crossed in love. — Sheridan, Th6 Critic. — Better to love amiss, than nothing to have loved. Crabbe, Tales. — But LOVE is blind, and lovers cannot see The petty follies that themselves commit. Shakespere, Merchant of Yerdtt — Bat there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream. — Moore, Love's Young Dream. — Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. — Shakespere, Hamlet. — Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my souL But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. — Ibid., Othello. — Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lover's perjury. Drtdes, Palamon and Areite. — For aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or history. The course of true love never did run smooth. Shakespere, Mid. MghVa Dream, — 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 negotiate for itself, And trust no agent. — Ibid. , Much Ado. — Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring. — Hilton, Paradise Lost. — Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. Cong re ve, Mourning Brida. — He spake of love, such love as spirits feel La worlds whose course is equable and pure ; Kb fears to beat away, — no strife to heal, — The past unsigned for, and the future sure. Wordsworth, Laodamia. — I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. — Lovelace, To Lucasta. — If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married, and have more occasion to know one another : I hope upon familiarity will grow more contempt. — Shakespere, Merry Wives. 100 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Love — In her first passion, -woman loves her lover : In all the others, all she loves is love. — Byron, Don Juan. — In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove ; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts cl love. — Tennyson, Locksley Hall. — It were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. — Shakespere, AWs Well. '— Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments : LOVE is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. — Ibid. , Sonnets. — Let those love now who never loved before, Let those that always loved now love the more. Parnell, Pervigilium Veneru. — Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is — Lord forgive us !— cinders, ashes, dust. — Keats, Lamia. — Love is hurt with jar and fret ; Love is made a vain regret. Tennyson, The Miller's Daughter. — Love is indestructible : Its holy flame for ever burneth ; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth ; It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there. Southey, The Curse of Kehama. — Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench lova either can the floods drown it. — Proverbs. — Love, like death, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the sceptre.— Lytton, Lady of Lyons. — Love me little, love me long. — Marlowe, Jew of Malta. ■— You say to me-wards your affection's strong ; Pray love me little so you love me long. Herrick, Love me little. — Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Scott, Last Minstrd. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 101 Love. — Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. Shakespere, Twelfth Night* — 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. — Ibid., Henry VIII. , — Lurv ? what's luw ? thou can luvv thy lass an' 'er munny too, Maakin 'em goa togither, as they've good right to do. Tennyson, Northern Farmer : New Stylo. — Man's LOVE is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. — Byron, Bon Juan. — Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast. Wordsworth, Laodamia. — None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair. Lyttelton, Epigram. — O Love, fire ! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.— Tennyson, Fatima. — O, my love's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June ; O, my love's like the melody, That's sweetly played in tune. — Burns, A Bed, Bed Boas. — Oh ! they love least that let men know their love. Shakespere, Two Gentlemen. — Passing the love of women. — 2 Samuel i. 26. — Perhaps it was right to dissemble your LOVE ; But — why did you kick me down stairs ? J. P. Kemble, The Pand, — She never told her LOVE ; But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat, like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. — Shakespere, Twelfth Night. 102 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Love. — Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. — Sir W. RALEIGH, Poems. — The revolution that turns us all topsy-turvy — the revolution of love. — Lytton, Lady of Lyons. — 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. Scott, Lady of the Lake. — The same love that tempts us into sin, If it be true love, works out its redemption ! Lytton, Lady of Lyons. — They sin who tell us love can die : With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. — Southey, The Curse of Kehama. — ■ 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. — Scott, Last Minstrel. — When love begins to sicken and decay, It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. Shatcespere, Julius Omar. — Who LOVE too much hate in the like extreme. Pope, Homer's Odyssey. Loved. — Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted ! — Burns, Aefond Kiss. — - Who ever loved that loved not at first sight ? Marlowe, Hero and Leander. Loveliness Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn' d the most. — Thomson, Seasons, POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 103 Lover. — The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Shakespere, Mid. Night's Dream. Lovers. — Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. Pope, Art of Sinking in Poetry. Lover's eyes. — A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. Shakespere, Love's Labour's Lost, Lover's hours — Lovers' hours are long, though seeming short. Ibid. , Venus and Adonis, Lowly Verily I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glist'ring grief, And wear a golden sorrow. — Ibid., Henry VIII. Lustre. — I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me ; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip. — Sheridan, The Duenna. Luxury It was a luxury — to be ! — Coleridge, Retirement. — For all their luxury was doing good. — S. Garth, Claremont. — He tried the luxury of doing good.— Crabbe, Rail Tales. — O luxury ! thou curst by heaven's decree. Goldsmith, Deserted Village. Lyre. — Who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all. Moore, On the Death of Sheridan, 104 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. M. M?b. — The name given by the English poets of the 15th and succeeding centuries to the imaginary queen of the fairies. Shakespere haa given a famous description of Queen Mab in Borneo and Juliet, act i. sc. 4. The origin of the name is obscure. By some it is derived from the Midgard of the Eddas. — O, then, I see, Queen Mae bath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Over men's noses as they he asleep. Shakespere, Borneo and Juliet. — Mab, the mistress fairy, That doth nightly rob the dairy, And can hurt or help the churning As she please, without discerning ; She that pinches country wenches If they rub not clean their benches, But if so they chance to feast her, In a shoe she drops a tester. — Ben Jonson. — If ye will with Mab find grace, Set each platter in its place ; Rake the fire up and get Water in ere sun be set ; Sweep your house ; who doth not so, Mab will pinch her by the toe. — Herrick. — The name Martha, as used in Ireland, is only an equivalent foj the native Erse Meabhdh, Meave or Mab, once a great Irish princess, who has since become the queen of the fairies : Martha, for Queem Mab !— Yonge. Mad. — There is a pleasure In being mad which none but madmen know. Dryden, The Spanish Friar. — That he is mad, 'tis true : 'Tis true, 'tis pity ; and pity 'tis, 'tis true. Shakespere, Hamlet. Made.— I am fearfully and wonderfully made. — Psalm czxxix. 14 Madness — Moody madness laughing wild, Amid severest woe.— Gray, Eton College. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 105 Madness, — Though this be MADNESS, yet there's method in it Shakespere, Hamlet, Maga A popular sobriquet of Blackwood's Magazine, the contributors to which have embraced many of the most eminent writers of Great Britain, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, De Quincey, Landor, and others. The name is a contraction of the word Magazine. — - On other occasions he was similarly honoured, and was invariably mentioned with praise by "Wilson, the presiding genius of Maga. — Dr. Shelton McKenzie. Mahomet. — " If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill." — Lord Bacon. Maid. — Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart ! — Byron, Maid of Athena. Maiden. — A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms. — Tennyson, Lady Clara. — Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen, Here's to the widow of fifty ; Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, And here's to the housewife that's thrifty. Let the toast pass ; Drink to the lass ; I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass. Sheridan, School for Scandal — Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair. Byron, Ghilde Harold Maids. — Maids are May when they are maids ; But the sky changes when they are wives. Shakespeke, As You Like It. Main. — Plac'd far amid the melancholy main. Thomson, Castle of Indoknee. Main Chance. — Say wisely, Have a care o' th' MAIN chance, And look before you ere you leap ; For as you sow, y' are like to reap. — Butler, Hudibras. — Be careful still of the main chance. — Dryden, Persius. Malaprop, Mrs.— A character in Sheridan's comedy of The BiyaU ; — noted for her blunders in the use of words. The name is obviously derived from the French mal a propos, unapt, ill-timed. 5* 106 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Malaprop, Mrs — The conclusion drawn was, that Childe Harold, Byron, and the Count in Beppo, are one and the same person, thereby making me turn out to be, as Mrs. Malaprop says, "like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once. " — Byron. - - Mrs. Mat aprop' s mistakes in what she herself calls * ' orthodoxy " have been often objected to as improbable from a woman in hei rank of life ; but though some of them, it must be owned, are ex- travagant and farcical, they are almost all amusing ; and the lucki- ness of her simile, ' ' as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile," will be acknowledged as long as there are writers to be run away with by the wilfulness of this truly " headstrong" species of composition. — Moore. Mammon Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven ; for e'en in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific. — Milton, Pdradise Lost. Man A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause ? Pope, Prologue to Addison's Cato. ■ - A little round fat oily man of God. Thomson, Castle of Indolence. — A MAN after his own heart. — 1 xiii. 14. — A MAN he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Goldsmith, Deserted ViUage. — A man of my kidney. — Shakespere, Merry Wives. — A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long, But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. Dryden, Absalom. — And all may do what has by MAN been done. Young, Night Thought*. — And what have kings that privates have not too ? The king is but a man as I am.- Shakespere, Henry V. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 107 Man. — A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp -looking wretch, A living dead man.— Shakespere, Comedy of Errors. — A nice MAN is a man of nasty ideas. — Swift, Thoughts. — A noticeable man with large grey eyes. Wordsworth, Stanzas written on Thomson. — An honest man, close button' d to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. Cowper, Epistle to HiU. A prince can make a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he maunna fa' that. Burns, A Man's a Man for a 1 that. - A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Pope, Essay on Man. - From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, " An honest man's the noblest work of God." Burns, Cotter's Saturday Nights - Make yourself an honest MAN, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. — Carlyle. - A sadder and a wiser MAN, He rose the morrow morn. — Coleridge, Ancient Mariner. - Awake, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since lif e can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. Pope, Essay on Man. But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, — His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep. — Shakespere, Measure for Measure. Give me that man, That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, aye; in my heart of hearts, As I do thee. Something too much of this. — Ibid., Hamlet, 108 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Man.— God made him, and therefore let him pass for a MAN. Shakespebe, Merchant of Venice God's most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, Is man — arrayed for mutual slaughter ; Yea, Carnage is his daughter. — WORDSWORTH, Ode. — He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. — Shakespebe, Hamlet. — He was a MAN Who stole the livery of the court of heaven To serve the devil in. — Pollok, Course of Time. — He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. — Bybon, Don Juan. — His life was gentle ; and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, " This was a man ! " Shakespebe, Julius Casar — I could have better spared a better man. — Ibid., Henry IV. — I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning. — Ibid., King Lear. — I've seen yon weary winter's sun, Twice forty times return ; And every time has added proofs That man was made to mourn. — Bubns, Man was made. — Know then thyself, presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankin d is man. — Pope, Essay on Man. — Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise. — Ibid., Homer's Iliad. — Man delights not me, — no, nor woman either. Shakespebe, Hamlet. — Man is a two-legged animal without feathers. — Plato. Plato having defined a man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, he (Diogenes) plucked a cock, and, bringing him into the school, said, ' ' Here is Plato's man. " From which there was added to the definition, " with broad, flat nails."— Diogenes Laertius. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 109 Man. — Mai : is an animal that cooks his victuals. — Ed. Burke. — 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. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us stilL Fletcher, Upon an Honest Man's Fortune, — Man is one world, and hath another to attend him. Geo. Herbert, Man. — Man proposes, but God disposes. — Imitation of Christ. — Man's heart deviseth his way : but the Lord directeth his steps. Proverbs xvi. 9 — Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. — Burns, Man was made. — Man ! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. Byron, Childe Harold. — Man wants but little, nor that little long. Young, Night Thoughts. — Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long. — Goldsmith, Tlie Hermit. — Nathan said unto David, thou art the man.— 2 Samuel xii. 7. — Of man's first disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world and all our woe. Milton, Paradise LM — Once, in the flight of ages past, There lived a man. — J. Montgomery, The Common Lot. • — Press not a falling man too far. Shakespere, Henry VIII. — Strive still to be a man before your mother. Cowper, Motto of No. 3. Connoisseur — Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cur* — Th»t old man eloquent. Milton, To the Lady Margaret Ley. 110 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Man. — The worll was sad — the garden was a wild ; And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled. Campbell, Pleasures of Hope. — This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhang- ing firmament, this rnajestical roof, fretted with golden fire, why. it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congrega- tion of vapours. What a piece of work is a man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite in faculties ! in form and moving, how express and admirable ! in action, how like an angel ! in appre- hension, how like a god ! — Shakespere, Hamlet. — To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature. —Ibid., Much Ado. — When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die ?— Hood's Ballads. — Why Should every creature drink but I ? Man of morals, tell me why ? Cowley, Imitated from Anaereon. Man in the Moon. — A name popularly given to the dark lines and spots upon the surface of the moon which are visible to the naked eye, and which, when examined with a good telescope, are dis- covered to be the shadows of lunar mountains. It is one of the most popular and perhaps one of the most ancient, superstitions in the world, that these lines and spots are the figure of a man leaning on a fork, on which he carries a bundle of thorns or brush- wood, for stealing which, on a Sunday, he was transported to the moon. (See Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 1, and Tempest, ii. 2.) The account given in Numbers xv. 32, et seq., of a man who was stoned to death for gathering sticks upon the Sabbath day, is undoubtedly the origin of this belief. — I saw the man in the moon. Dekker, Old Fortunatus, 1588. Man of Straw. — A Nonentity. At first the term arose from sc;are crows stuffed with straw. Afterwards in the Greek courts false witnesses could at all times be obtained, their distinctive feature being straw shoes. In the courts at Westminster Hall, many years ago, a similar class of miscreants could be procured, tlw signal for infamy being a straw in the shoe. Manners. — Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtuosi We write in water.— Shakespere, Henry VIII. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Ill Mariners. — Te mariners of England ! That guard our native seas : Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze ! Campbell, Te Mariners of England. Marriage.— Hasty marriage seldom proveth well Shaeespere, Henry VI. Marriages — The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. Married — A young man married is a man that's marr'd. Sttakespere, AWs WeU. — Thus grief still treads upon the heel of pleasure : Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. Congreve, Old Bachelor. Martyr. — It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr. ZNAPOLEON I. Martyred. — For some not to be martyred is a martyrdom. Dr. Donne. Martyrs — The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. — Plures emcimur, quoties metimur a vobis ; semen est sanguia Christianorum. — Teetullian, Apologet. Master. — Such mistress, such Xan. Such master, such man. — Tusser, April's Abstract. Matter. — Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. St ta kespere, Samlet. — He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. Proverbs xvii.- 9. — When Bishop Berkeley said " there was no MATTER," And proved it — 'twas no matter what he said. Byron, Don Juan. Meant. — Where more is meant than meets the ear. Milton. 11 Penseroso. Measures.— Measures, not men, have always been my mark. Goldsmith, The Good-Naiured Alan. — The cant of " not men, but measures." — Ed. Burke. Meat. — God sendeth and giveth, both mouth and the meat. Tusskb, Good Husbandry. 112 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Meat.— God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks. — Rvy's Proverbi Garrick, Epigram on Goldsmith's Retaliation. Medes and Persians. — The law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. — Daniel vi. 12. Medicine. — By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seirt the doctor too. — Shakespere, Cymbeline. Meditation. — In maiden meditation, fancy free. Ibid. , Mid. Night's Dream. Meet — 1st Witch. When shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain ? 2nd Witch. When the hurly-burly's done, When the battle's lost and won. — Ibid., Macbeth. Melancholy. — Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's naught in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy ; sweetest melancholy ! J. Fletcher, The Nice Valour. — Moping MELANCHOLY, Moon-struck madness. — Milton, Paradise Lost. — There's not a string attuned to mirth, But has its chord in melancholy. — Hood, Ode to Melancholy. Memory. — And, when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left, Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory, images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed. Wordsworth, The Excursion. — Memory, the warder of the brain.— Shakespere, Macbeth. — Remember thee ? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee ? Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records. — Ibid., Hamlet. — The MEMORY of the just is blessed.— Proverbs x. 7. Men. — All MEN think all men mortal but themselves. Yodng, Night Thought*. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 113 Men. — Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price." — Coxe, Memoirs of Walpole. — I never conld believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. — Richd. Rumbold (when on the scaffold). — I said in my haste, all MEN are liars. — Psalm cxvi. 11. — Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights ; Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous. Shakespere, Julius Omir> — Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain ; And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing ; But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, Works all her folly up, and casts it outward To the world's open view. — Dryden, Love. — Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. — Byron, Don Juan, — Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. Young, Night Thought*. — I hold it truth, 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. — Oh, shame to men ! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational. — Milton, Paradise Lost. — O, what men dare do ! what men may do ! what men daily dc, not knowing what they do ! — Shakespere, Much Ado. — Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea and one on shore ; To one thing constant never. — Ibid. — The world knows nothing of its greatest MEN. Sir H. Taylor, Philip Van Arteneldn Menial.— A pampered menial drove me from the door. — T. Moss. 1U POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Mercy.— A God all mercy is a God unjust. Young, Night Thotghtt. — And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own ; And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. — Byron, The Giaour. — Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. — Gray, Elegy. — No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, 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 does. — Shakespere, Measure for Measure. — Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. Ibid., Timon of Athens. Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. — Ibid., Titus Andronicus. — The greatest attribute of Heav'n is MERCY ; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory, Where it may kill with right, to save with pity. Beaumont and Fletcher — Teach me to feel another's wee, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. — Pope, Universal Prayer. — 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 : '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 this 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's, 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. — Shakespere, Merchant of Venie*. ■— Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have ? Spenser, Faerie Queen*. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 118 Mercy. — Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And he that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. — Shakespere, Measure for Measuie. Merits. — No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike hi trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. — Gray, Elegy. — On their own merits modest men are dumb. G. Colman the Younger, Epilogue to the Heir-at'Lavk Mermaid. — What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.— Fr. Beaumont, Letter to Ben Jonson. Merry. — A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. — Shakespere, A Winter's Tale. — A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. — Proverbs. — 'Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all. — Ttjsser, August' 's Abstract. Merry Andrew. — [A buffoon.] In the ancient Feast or Holiday of Fools a Merry Andrew was introduced amongst the grotesqua characters. Mice. — But mice, and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year. Shakespere, King Lear. Midnight Oil — A common phrase, used by Quarles, Shenstone, Cow per, Lloyd, and others. — Whence is thy learning ? Hath thy toil O'er books consum'd the midnight oil ? Gay, Shepherd and Philosopher. Mighty — How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle 2 Samuel i. 25. Milkmaid. — I would I were a milkmaid, To sing, love, marry, churn, brew, bake, and die, Then have my simple headstone by the church, And all things lived and ended honestly. Tennyson, Queen Mary. 116 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Miller. — There was a jolly miller once Lived on the river Dee ; He work'd and sung from morn till night : No lark more blithe than he. And this the burthen of his song For ever used to be : — I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me. — I. Bickerstaff. Mills. — Though the mills of G-od grind slowly, yet they grind ex- ceeding small ; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. — Longfellow, Retribution. Milton — That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton. — Wordsworth, The Excursion. — Three Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two. Dryden, Under Milton's Picture* Mind. — A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. Milton, Paradise Lost. — Macbeth. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff' d bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doctor. Therein the patient Must minister to himself. Macbeth. Throw physic to the dogs ; I'll none of it. Shakespere, Macbeth. — It is the mind that makes the body rich. Ibid. , Taming of the Shrew. .— My lord, 'tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. — Ibid., Henry VI — Feared, but alone as freemen fear ; Loved, but as freemen love alone ; He waved the sceptre o'er his kind By Nature's first great title — mind. Rev. G. Croly, Periclea. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 117 Mind. — My mind to me an empire is, While grace affordeth health.— R. Southwell, Jesuit, 1595. — My MIND to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God and Nature hath assigned. Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. Byrd, Psalmes, Sonnets, &c, 1588. — - 0, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, scholar's, soldier's eye, tongue, sword. Shakespere, Hamlet. — Out of mlnd as soon as out of sight. — Lord Brooke, Sonnets. — And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. Imitation of Christ. — The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. Goldsmith, Deserted Village. Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measur'd by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man. Watts, Horce Lyricm. Minstrel. — The way was long, the wind was cold ; The minstrel was infirm and old.— Scott, Last Minstrel. Mirth — As Tammie gloured, amazed and curious, The mirth arid fun grew fast and furious. Burns, Tarn Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever. — Burns, Tarn «' Shanter. — Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. — Dbyden, Alexander's Feast. 138 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Pleasure. — There is a pleasure in the pathless wood*, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar : I love not Man the less, but Nature more. Byron, Childe Harold. Poems. — He wrote poems and relieved himself very much. When a man's grief or passion is at this point, it may be loud, but it is not very severe. When a gentleman is cudgelling- his brain to find any rhyme for sorrow, besides borrow or to-morrow, his woes are nearer at an end than he thinks. — Thackeray. Poet. — Call it not vain ; — they do not err Who say that when the poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. — SCOTT, Last Minstrel — Ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear : A simple race ! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. — Ibid. Poetry. — Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. — Ed. Burke. — Means not, but blunders round about a meaning And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad. — Pope, To Arbuthnot. Poets. — Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares, The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Wordsworth, The Poets. — God's prophets of the beautiful, these poets were. E. B. Browning, A Vision. — Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them ; and the truth of truths is love. Bailey, Festus. — There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know. — Cowper, The Task. Poet's Corner — An angle in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, popularly so called from the fact that it contains the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, and other eminent English poets, and memorial tablets, busts, statues, or monuments to many who are buried in other places. Poison.— What's one man's poison, signor, la another's meat or drink. Beaumont and Fletcher, Love'i Ovf. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 139 Pomp. — The POMPS and vanity of this wicked world. Church Catechism. — 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 falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. — Shakespere, King Henry VIII. Poor. — Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. — Ibid.,OtheUo. — Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune ; He hath not the method of making a fortune. Gray, On his awn Character Posterity. — As though there were a tie, And obligation to Posterity, "We get them, bear them, breed and nurse. What has posterity done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our neck to gripe of noose ? J. Trumbull, McFingaL Pot.— There is death in the POT. — 2 Kings iv. 40. Poverty. — Ap. My poverty, but not my will, consents. Rom. I pay thy poverty, and not thy will. Shakespere, Romeo and Juliet, Power. — Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches ; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men and of the human frame A mechanized automaton. — Shelley, Queen Mab. Powers. — The powers that be. — Romans xiii. I. Praise — Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. — Pope, To Arbuthnot. — Good things should be praised. Shakespere, Two Gentlemen. — Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise. Milton, Paradise Lou HO POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Praise. — Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise. — Pope. Horace* — The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less and glows in every heart. Young, Love of Fame, Prayer. — More things are wrought by prater than thia world dream* of.— Tennyson, Idylls. — Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. J. Montgomery, What is Prayer f Prayeth. — He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. — Coleridge, Ancient Mariner. — He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small. — Ibid. Preached. — I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. R. Baxter, Love Breathing Thanks and Praise* Precept. — Precept must be upon precept. — Isaiah xxviii. 10. Preparation. — Piercing the night's dull ear ; and from the tents, The armorers, accomplishing, the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. — Shakespere, Henry V. Presbyter. — New presbyter is but old priest writ large. — Milton. Prey. — Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects its ev'ning prey. Gray, The Bard Pride. — And the devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. Coleridge, The DeviPs Thought*. — He passed a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility ; And he owned with a grin, That his favorite sin Li pride 'tat apes humility. — Soutkey, T\e DeviPs Walk, POPULAR QUOTATIONS. HI Pride. — In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Pope, Essay on Man. — Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Ibid. , Essay on Criticism. — Pauline, by pride Angels have fallen ere thy time ; by pride — That sole alloy of thy most lovely mould. Lytton. Lady of Lyons. — Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. — Proverbs xvi 18. — Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. Goldsmith, Traveller. Pride's Purge. — In English history, a name given to a violent inva- sion of Parliamentary right, in 1649, by Colonel Pride, who, at the head of two regiments, surrounded the House of Commons, and seized in the passage forty-one members of the Presbyterian party, whom he confined. Above one hundred and sixty others were excluded, and none admitted but the most furious and de- termined of the Independents. These privileged members were called the Bump. Primrose. — A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. — Wordsworth, Peter Bell. — Primrose, first-born child of Ver, Merry spring-time's harbinger. Beaumont and Fletcher, Two Noble Kinsmen. Prince. — The prince of darkness is a gentleman. Shakespere, King Lear. Princes. — Whose merchants are princes. — Isaiah xxiii. 8. Principle. — I don't believe in principle, But, oh ! I du in interest. — Lowell, Biglow Papers. Principles. — Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener changed their prlnclples than shirt. Young, Epistle to Mr. Pope, Piint — Fir'd that the house rejects him, " Sdeath ! I'll PRINT it, And shame the fools." — Pope, To Arbuthnot. 142 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Print.— Some said, " John, print it," others said, " Not so. w Some said, "It might do good," others said, "No." Btjnyan, Pilgrim's Progress. — 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in PRINT ; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. Byron, English Bard*. Prison. — A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive ; Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. Inscription on Edinburgh Old Tolbooth. Procrastination. — Procrastination is the thief of time. Young, Night Thoughts. — Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. B. Franklin, Poor Richard. Profession. — I hold every man a debtor to his profession ; from th« which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto. — Bacon, Maxims of the Law. Promises. — Promises were the ready money that was first coined and made current by the law of nature, to support that society and commerce that was necessary for the comfort and security of man- kind. — Clarendon. Promising. — Promising opens the eyes of expectation. Shake spere, Timon. Prophet. — A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his own house. — Matthew xiii. 57. Prophets. — Is Saul also among the prophets? — 1 Samuel x. 11. — - Perverts the prophets, and purloins the psalms. Byron, English Bards. Prose. — Things attempted yet in prose or rhyme. Milton, Paradise Lost. Protest. — The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Shakespere, Uanniet, Prove. —Prove all things: hold fast that which is good. 1 Thm. v. 2i POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 143 Proverb. — A PHI verb and a by-word among all people. 1 Kings ix. 7. — My definition of a proverb is, the wit of one man, and the wis dom of many. — Earl Russell, To Sir J. Macintosh. Proverb'd. — I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase. Shakespere, Borneo and Juliet. Proverbs. — Jewels five-words long, That on the stretched forefinger of all time Sparkle for ever. — Tennyson, The Princess. Providence. — There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Hamlet. Pulpit. — And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. — Butler, Hudibras. Pun. — A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. — J. Dennis, 1734. — People that make PUNS are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. — Holmes, Autocrat of the Break- fast Table. — Pretend to be deaf ; and after he has committed his pun, and just before he expects people to laugh at it, beg his pardon, and request him to repeat it again. After you have made him do this three times, say, " Oh, that is a pun, I believe ! " I never knew a punster venture a third exhibition under similar treatment. It requires a little nicety so as to make him repeat it in proper time. If well done the company laugh at the punster, and then he is ruined for ever. — Maginn, Maxims. Punishment Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Milton, Paradise Lost. Pure. — Unto the pure all things are pure. — Titus i. 15. Turitans. — The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but beause it gave pleasure to the spectators.— Macaulay, History of England. Pythagoras. — Glo. What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild-fowl ? Mai That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird. Clo. What thinkest thou of his opinion? Mai. I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion. Shakespere, Twelfth Night 144 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Quality. — Come give us a taste of your quality. Shakespere, Hamlet, act iv. so. 8. Quarrel. — Beware Of entrance to a quarrel ; but, being in, Bear't that the opposer may beware of thee. Ibid., act i. sc. 3. — Greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. — Ibid., act iv. sc. 4. — The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands ; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. Sheridan, The Rivals, act iv. sc. 3. — What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. Shakespere, Ring Henry IV., part ii. act iii. sc. 2. Quarrels. — They who in quarrels interpose Must often wipe a bloody nose. — J. Gay, The Mastiffs. — Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat. Shakespere, Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 1. Quarry. — So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd His nostrils wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Milton, Paradise Lost, book x. I. 279. Queen o' the May. — You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear ; To-morrow '11 be the happiest time of all the glad New Year ; Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day ; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. — Tennyson, The May Queen. Qaestions. — Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, act iii Quips. — Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity; Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles.— Milton, L 1 Allegro, L ft. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 145 Race — He lives to build, not boast, a generous BACK ; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. — R. Savage, The Bastard. Rank. — Bank is but the guinea's stamp, A man's the gowd for a' that. Burns, Is therefor Honest Poverty. Rascals. — O Heaven ! that such companions thou'dst unfold, And put in every honest hand a whip, To lash the rascals naked through the world. Shakespere, Othello, act iv. sc. 2. Rat. — Smell a rat. — Ben. Johson, Tale of a Tub, act iv. sc. 3. Butler, Hudibras, part i. canto i. 1. 281. Farquhar, Love and a Bottle. — Quoth Hudibras, " I smell a RAT ; Balpho, thou dost prevaricate. " Butler, Hudibras, part i. canto i. 1. 281. Razors. — A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down. Dr. Wolcot, Farewell Odes, ode iii. Read. — Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Collect, Second Sunday in Advent. Reading. — Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. . . . Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Bacon, Essay 1, Of Studies. — Readlng what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. Cowper, Task, book h. Reason. — Give you a reason on compulsion ! If reasons were as plenti* f ul as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. —Shakespere, Henry IV., act ii. sc. 4. — Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback ; set it of on one side, and it tumbles over on the other. — Luther. — I have no other but a'woman's reason : I think him so because I think him so. Shakespere, Two Gentlemen of Verona, act i. sc. 9. 7 146 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Reason. — I was promised on a time To have REASON for my rhyme : From that time \into this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason. Spenser, Lines on his Promised Pension. Reason, Goddess of. — A personification of those intellectual powers which distinguish man from the rest of the animal creation ; deified in 1793 by the Revolutionists of France, and substituted as an object of worship for the divine beings of the Christian faith. Rebellion Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. From an in- scription on the cannon near which the ashes of President John Bradshaw were lodged, on the top of a high hill near Martha Bay in Jamaica. — Stiles' s History of the Three Judges of King diaries I. This supposititious epitaph was found among the papers of Mr. Jefferson, and in his handwriting. It was supposed to be one of Dr. Franklin's spirit-stirring inspirations. — Randall's Life of Jefferson, vol. iii. p. 585. Rebels — Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are REBELS from principle. — Burke, On the French Revolution. Recoiled — And back recoiled, he knew not why, Even at the sound himself had made. Collins, Ode to the Passions, 1. 19. Records. — In RECORDS that defy the tooth of time. Young, The Statesman's Greed. Reign. — Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. Milton, Paradise Lost, book i. 1. 261. Reign of Terror. — A term applied to a period of anarchy, blood- shed, and confiscation, in the course of the French Revolution, during which the country was under the sway of the actual terror inspired by the ferocious measures of its governors, who had estab- lished it avowedly as the principle of their authority. It com- menced after the fall of the Girondists, May 31, 1793, and extended to the overthrow of Robespierre and his accomplices, July 27, 1794. Thousands of persons were put to death during this short time. Religion. — Religion, blushing, vales her sacred fires, And unawares morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine ; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restor'd ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch 1 lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all. Pore, The Dunciad, book iv. 1. 649. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 147 Religion. — An 1 for a mantle large and broad He wrapt him in religion. — Burns, The Holy Fair. Remedies. — Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Whioh we ascribe to heaven. Shakespere, AWs WeU, act i. sc. 1. Remedy. — Remedy worse than the disease. —Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles. Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure, act iii. bc. 2. Suckllng's Letters: A Dissuasion from Love. Dryden Juvenal, satire xvi, L 32. — Things without all remedy Should be without regard : what's done is done. Shakespere, Macbeth, act iii. sc. 2. Remember. — I rememder, 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 further off from heaven Than when I was a boy. — Hood, I Remember. Remote. — Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow. Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 1. Remuneration. — Biron. What is a remuneration ? Costard. Marry, sir, half -penny farthing. Shakespere, Love's Labour Lost, act iii. sc 1. Repentance, — He who seeks repentance for the past Should woo the angel Virtue in the future. Lytton, Lady of Lyons. Reputation. — It is a ma xim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. — Monk, Life of Bentley. — Reputation, reputation, reputation ! 0, I have lost my repu- tation ! I have lost the immortal part of myself, sir, and what re» mains is bestial. — Shakespere, Othello, act ii. sc. 3. Respectable. — Q. What do you mean by "RESPECTABLE " ? A. He always kept a gig. — ThurtelVs Trial. Rest. — Absence of occupation is not REST. A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. — Cowper, Retirement. — Silken rest Tie all my cares up. Beaumont and Fletcher, Four Plays in One, bc. 3. Retreat. — In all the trade of war no feat Is nobler than a brave retreat. Butler, Hudibras, part i, canto iii. L 607. 148 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Retreat. — 'Tis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To peep at such a world. — Cowper, The To,sk, book iv. L 88. Revelry. — Midnight shout and revelry. Tipsy dance and jollity.— Milton, Com'is, 1. 103. -.- There was a sound of revelry by nignt, And Belgium's capital had gathered then, Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell. Byron, CMlde Harold, canto iii. at 21 Revels. — Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air : And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud- capp'd 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. — Shakespere, Tempest, act iv. ac. 1. Revenge Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. Milton, Paradise Lost, book ix. 1. 171 — Sweet is revenge — especially to women. Byron, Don Juan, canto i. st. 124. Revolutions Vain revolutions, why lavish your cruelty on the great? Oh that we — we, the hewers of wood and drawers of water — had been swept away, so that the proud might learn what the world would be without us ! — Lytton, Lady of Lyons. Rhetoric— For rhetoric he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Butler, Hudibras, part i. canto i. 1. 81. Rhine. — The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne ; But tell me, nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? — Coleridge, Cologne. Rhyme. — He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. — Milton, Lycidas. — Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Butler, Hudibras, part i. canto i. 1, 46& POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 149 Rhyme nor Reason. — Pierre Patelin, quoted by Tyndale (1530). Spenser On his Promised Pension. Peele, Edward I. Shake- spere, As You Like It, act iii. sc. 2 ; Merry Wives of Windsor, act v. sc. 5 ; Comedy of Errors, act ii. sc. 2. Sir Thomas More advised an author, who had sent him a manuscript to read, " to put it in rhyme." This being done, Sir Thomas said, "Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme : before it waa neither rhyme nor reason." Rhyming. — I was not born under a RHYMING planet. Shakespere, Much Ado, act v. sc. 2. Riband. — A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair: G-ive me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. E. Waller, On a Girdle. Rich. — Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Pope, To Arbuthnot, 1. 169. Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. Moore, Rich and Rare. Riches. — Let none admire That riches grow in hell : that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. — Milton, book i. 1. 690. Right. — The right divine of kings to govern wrong. Pope, The Bunciad, book iv. 1. 188. — Whatever is, is right. — Ibid., Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. 294. Righteous. — Be not righteous overmuch.— Ecclesiastes vii. 16. Rights of Man, — They made and recorded a sore of instihite and digest of anarchy, called the rights op man. — Ed. Burke, On the Army Estimates. Roads. — Had you but seen these roads before they were mad >, You'd lift up your hands and bless General Wade. Attributed to Captain Grose by CAUPiFin. Robb'd. — He that is ROBB'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all. Shakespere, Othdlo, act iii. sc. 3. Robbing — By robbing Peter he paid Paul .... and hoped tfl catch larks if ever the" heavens should fall. — Rabelais, book L ch.5 150 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Robin •Redbreast.— Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Webster, The White Devil, act i. sc. 2 Robinson, Jack. — A name used in the phrase "Before one could saj Jack Robinson," meaning a very short time. This saying is sai J by Grose to have originated from a very volatile gentleman of that appellation who would call on his neighbours and be gone before his name could be announced. The following lines " from an old play " are elsewhere given as the original phrase : — " A warke it ys as easie to be doone, As tys to saye, Jack ! robys on." Rocket.— The final event to himself (Mr. Burke) has been that, aa he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.— Thomas Paine, Letter to the Addrt Rod — Love is a boy by poets styl'd ; Then spare the rod and spoil the child. Butler, Hudibras, pt. ii. canto i. 1. 843. Rogues. — When rogues fall out, honest men get their own. In a case before Sir Matthew Hale, the two litigants unwittingly let out, that at a former period, they had, in conjunction, leased a ferry to the injury of the proprietor, on which Sir Matthew made the above remark. Roman. — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. — Shakespere, Julius Ccesar, act iv. sc. 3. Rome. — In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. Ibid. , Hamlet, act i. sc. 1. — While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, — the World. Byron, Childe Harold, canto iv. st. 145. — When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done. — Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. 4, mem. 2, subs. 1. St. Augustine was in the habit of dining upon Saturday as upon Sun lay ; but, being puzzled with the different practices then prevailing (for they had began to fast at Rome on Saturday), he consulted St. Ambrose on the subject. Now at Milan they did not fast on Saturday, and the answer of the Milan saint was this: ' ' When I am here, I do n ot fast on Saturday ; when at Rome I do fast on Saturday." " Quando hie sum, non jejuno Sabbato ; quando Romse sum, jejuno Sabbato." — St. Augustine, EpkUt XXXVI to Casulamu. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 151 Room.- -Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race ; Give ample room:, and verge enough, The characters of hell to trace. Gray, The Bard, LI. 1, line 1. Rose. — 'Tis the last ROSE of summer, Left blooming alone. — Moore, Last Rose of Summer. Rcss, Man of. — Rise, honest muse ! and sing the Man of Ross. Pope, Moral Essays, epistle iii. 1. 250. Round Table — A huge circular marble table, at which, according to the old romancers, King Arthur and his knights were accustomed to sit. Some say there were only thirteen seats around it, in mem- ory of the thirteen apostles. Twelve only were occupied, and by knights of the highest fame. The thirteenth represented the seat of the traitor Judas. According to others there were seats for fifty or sixty, and an empty place was left for the sangreaL Rowland for an Oliver. — Rowland and Oliver were two of the most famous in the list of Charlemagne's twelve peers ; and their ex- ploits are rendered so ridiculously and equally extravagant by the old romancers that from thence arose that saying, amongst our plain and sensible ancestors, of giving one a ' ' Rowland for Hia Oliver, " to signify the matching one incredible lie with another. — Thomas Warburton. Rubicon. — Passing the Rubicon. Taking up a decisive position. The Rubicon was a small stream in the northern boundary of Italy, which the Roman generals were prohibited from passing while in command of an armed force. Caesar crossed it at the breaking out of the civil war. Rubies. — Some asked me where the rubies grew And nothing I did say, But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Herrick, The Rock of Rubies and Quarrie of Pearls. Ruffles. — Give ruffles to a man who wants a shirt. — Sorbiere, The French Anas. Tom Brown, Laconics. — Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt ; It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. Goldsmith, The Haunch of Venisjn. Riunp Parliament A derisive epithet applied to a remnant of the famous Long Parliament of England, which re-assembled on the 6th of May, 1659, after the dissolution of the Parliament sum- moned by Richard Cromwell on the 27th of January, and dissolved by him on the 22nd of April of the same year. 1&2 POPLLAB QUOTATIONS. Sabbath. — Hail Sabbath ! thee I hail, the poor man's day. Grahame, The Sabbath, 1. 40. 'Sack. — Oh monstrous ! but one halfpenny-worth of bread to this inbol erable deal of sack ! Shake sperb, jdewry IV. part 1, act ii. sc. 4. Safe Bind. — Dry sun, dry wind, Safe bind, safe find.— Tusser, Paints of Husbandry. Saint. — Saint abroad, and a devil at home. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, part 1. — 'Tis from high life high characters are drawn ; A SAINT in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope, Moral Essays, ep. i. 1. 135. Saints.— That saints will aid if men will call : For the blue sky bends over all ! Coleridge, Christabel, conclusion of part i Salt. — Alas ! you know the cause too well The salt is spilt, to me it fell.— Gay, Fable 37. Sambo. — A cant designation of the negro race. No race has ever shown such capabilities of adaptation to varying soil and circum- stances as the negro. Alike to them the snows of Canada, th« hard, rocky land of New England, or the gorgeous profusion of tha Southern States. Sambo and Cuffey expand under them all. — H. B. Stowe. Sang. — Perhaps it may turn out a SANG, Perhaps turn out a sermon. — Burns, Epistle to a Young Friend. Sangreal. — A vessel made of a single precious stone (usually said to be an emerald\ from which our Saviour was supposed to have „ drunk at the last supper, and which was afterwards filled with the blood which flowed from the wounds with which he waa pierced at the crucifixion. It is fabled to have been preserved by Joseph of Arimathea. Various miraculous properties are attribu- ted to this dish, such as the power of prolonging life, preserving chastity, and the like ; and it is a frequent subject of allusion in some of the old romances as an object in search of which numer- ous knights-errant, particularly those of the Round Table, spent their lives. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 153 Satan.— Get thee behind me, Satan. — Matthew, xvi. 23. — High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ononis and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her longs barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence. — Milton, Paradise Lost, book ii. 1. 1 — Satan ; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven. — Ibid., book v. 1. 658. — Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees. Cowper, ExJwrtation to Prayer. Satanic School, The. — A name often given to a class of writers whose productions are thought to be characterised by an impa- tience of all restraint, a disgust at the whole constitution of society, an impassioned and extravagant strain of sentimentality, and a presumptuous scorn of all moral rules, as well as of the holiest truths of religion. Southey, in the preface to his "Vision of Judgment," was the first to use this degrading appellation. Of the writers who have been included under it, Byron, Shelley, Moore, Bulwer, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Paul de Kock, and Georgea Sand are the most prominent. Satire. — Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? Pope, To Arbuthnot, 1. 307. — Satire should, like a polish'd razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Lady M. W. Montague. — Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope, Hwace, Satire i. book ii. 1. 69. Sauce. — What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Tom Brown, New Maxims, vol. iv. p. 123. Saul. - The young king Saul was very tall, And never king was taller ; But tho' King Saul was very tall, Far better kings were smaller. For all his size, he was not wise ; Nor was he long anointed Ere people said, with shaking head, " We're sadly disappointed." — Anon. Bawney A sportive designation applied by the English to the Scotch. It is a cormption of Sandie, the Scottish abbreviation oi Alexander. 7* 154 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Sawney. — 1 muse how any man can say that the Scotch, as a peopift, are deficient in humour ! Why, Sawney has a humour of his owb so strong and irrepressible that} it broke out all the stronger in spite of worldly thrift, kirk-session, cutty-stool, and lecture?. Hartley Coleridge. Say. — Though I say it that should not say it.— Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit at Several Weapons, act ii. sc. 2. Fielding, The Miser, act iii. sc. 2. Cibber, Rival Fools, act ii. ; Fall of British Tyranny, act iv. sc. 2. Scandal. — Her tea she sweetens as she sips with scandal. S. Rogers, Epil. written for Mrs. Siddons. — No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope. Siieridan, The Critic, act. ii. sc. 1. Scandals. — And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame ; On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. Stephen Harvey, Juvenal. Scarecrows. — A mad fellow met me on the way, and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets, and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such SCARECROWS. I'll not march through Coventry with them, that's flat : nay, and the villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had gyves on; for, indeed, I had the most of them out of prison. There's but a shirt and a half in all my com- pany ; and the half-shirt is two napkins, tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves. Shakespere, Henry IV. , Part i. act iv. sc. 2. Scars. — He jests at scars that never felt a wound. Ibid. , Romeo and Juliet, act. ii. sc. 2. Scene. — View each well-known scene : Think what is now, and what hath been. Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto vL st. 2. Schemes. — The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley ; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy.— Burns, To a Mouse. Schoolmaster. — Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this. age. . There is another personage, a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The scnoOL- MASTER is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. — Lord Brougham, Speech, January 29, 1828. Scion. — Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou ? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead ? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Borne less majestic, less beloved head ? Byron, Childe Harold, canto iv. at. 168. tUtuijAB QUOTATIONS. 158 Scotland. — Stand* Scotland where it did ? Shakespere, Macbeth, act iv. bc. 3 Sea. — Although its heart is rich iL pearls arid ores, The sea complains upon a thousand shores : Sea-like we moan for ever. — Alexander Smith. — Praise the sea, but keep on land. George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. — The sea ! the sea ! the open sea ! The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! — B. W. Proctor, The Sea, — "We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. — Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, pt. ii. Sear. — My way of life Is f all'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Shakespere, Macbeth, act v. sc. 3 See.— wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. — Burns, To a Louse. — To see, and eek for to be seye. Chaucer, The Wif of Bathes Prologue, 1. 6134, — To see and to be seen. — Ben Jonson, E-pithalamion, st. 3, L 4. Dryden, OticVs Art of Love, bk. LI. 109. Goldsmith, Citizen of the Woiid, letter 71. Seem. — Hen should be what they seem. Shakespere, Othello, act iii. sc. 3 Seigniors Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors, My very noble and approv'd good masters, That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her : The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace; For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round unvarnished tale deliver Of iny whole course of love. — Ibid., act i. sc. 3. 156 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Self-love. — Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self -neglecting. — Shakespere, King Henry V* f act ii. ac. 4. Sense. — What thin partitions sense from thought divide. Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. 226. Sentiment. — Sentiments! Don't tell me of sentiment. What bt»ve I to do with sentiment ? — Murphy, The Apprentice, act i. Serpent. — Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove ; that is, more Imave than fool. Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, act ii. — The trail of the serpent is over them all. Moore, Paradise and the Peri. Servant. — A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room as for thy laws Makes that and the action fine. — G. Herbert, The Elixir. — Servant of God, well done. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. vi. 1. 29. Serve. — Thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest ; They also SERVE who only stand and wait. Ibid. , On his Blindness. Seven Champions of Christendom. — St. George, the patron saint of England ; St. Denis, of France ; St. James, of Spain ; St. Anthony, of Italy ; St. Andrew, of Scotland ; St. Patrick, of Ireland ; and St. David, of Wales. They are often alluded to by old writers. " The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom " is the work of Richard Johnson, a ballad-maker of some note at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries. Shadow — Hence, horrible shadow ! Unreal mockery, hence ! — Shakespere, Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. Shadows. — By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. Ibid. , King Richard III. , act v. so. 3. — Show his eyes, and grieve his heart ; Come like shadows, so depart. — Ibid., Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. — The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feel- ingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. —Edmund Burke, Speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 157 Shaft. — 0, many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant ! And many a word at random spoken, May soothe, or wound, a heart's that broken. Scott, Lord of the Isles, canto v. at. 18. Shakespere, — Kitty. Shikspur ? Shikspur ? Who wrote it ? No, 1 never read Shikspur. Lady Bab. Then you have an immense pleasure to come. J. Townley, 1778, High Life below Stairs, act ii. sc. 1. — Soul of the age ! The applause ! delight ! the wonder of our stage ! My Shakespere, rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a rcom. Bex Jonson, To the Memory of Shakespere. — He was not of an age, but for all time. — Ibid. — Sweet swan of Avon ! — Ibid. — Under a starry-pointing pyramid. Dear son of memory, great heir of fame. Milton, Epitaph on S/iakespere, 1. 4. Shallow A country Justice, in Shakespere's "Merry Wives of Wind- sor," and in the Second Part of " King Henry the Fourth." — "A nurse of this century is as wise as a justice of the quorum and custalorum in Shallow's time." — Macaulay. Shape. — Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape. That I will speak to thee. — Shakespere, Hamlet. — The other shape — H shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart. Melton, Paradise Lost, book ii. L 665. — Whence and what art thou, execrable shape ?—3id., L 681. — Shapes that come not at an earthly call Will not depart when mortal voices bid. — Wordsworth, D(on Sheet. — A wet sheet and_a flowing sea, •A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast. — Allan Cunningham. 158 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Shepherd's Boy. — Here's a shepherd's boy, piping as though He never should be old. — Sidney, Arcadia, book i. Shilling. — Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A splendid shilling. — J. Phillips, The Splendid Shilling. Shriek. — A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony. — Byron, Don Juan, canto L st. 53. Shrine. — Shrine of the mighty ! can it be That this is all remains of thee '{—Ibid., The Giaour, 1. 106. Sick. — They are as SICK that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. — Shakespere, Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 2. Sick Man of the East. — A name popularly given to the Turkish empire, which, under Soliman the Magnificent (1495-1566), reached the summit of its prosperity, and has ever since steadily declined. At the present day, Turkey is mainly indebted for ita existence to the support of foreign powers. The expression, ' ' SiCK Man, " as applied to Turkey, originated with the emperor Nicholas of Russia in 1S44. Sighed. — Sighed and looked, and sighed again. Dryden, Alexander's Feast, 1. 120. — Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson, The Seasons : Summer, 1. 1188. Sight. — Visions of glory, spare my aching SIGHT ! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul ! Gray, The Bard, HI. L L 11. Sights — Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespere, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. — Milton, L 1 Allegro, L 129. Silence — Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty : A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. Slr Walter Raleigh, The Silent Lover, v. 6. Silent Sister, The. — A name given to Trinity College, Dublin, on account of the little influence it exerts in proportion to ita resources. i — Neither Oxford nor Cambridge. I am certain, would blush to own my labours in this department (classic criticism and exegesis', and yet I was an alumnus of her whom they used to style the SILENT 8ISTER. — KEIGETLEY. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 159 Silent Sister. — Trinity College itself held its ground and grew wealthy only to deserve the name of the silent sister, while ita great endowments served effectually to indemnify it against tha necessity of conforming to the conditions under which alone its ex • ample could be useful to the whole nation.— Goldwin Smith. Simile. — One simile that solitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines. Pope's Horace, epistle i. book ii. L 111. Sinews of War, The iEschines {Adv. Ctesiph. ch. 53; ascribes tc Demosthenes the expression, "the sinews of affairs are cut." Diogenes Laertius, in his "Life of Bion " (lib. iv. c. 7, § 3), repre- sents that philosopher as saying " that riches were the sinews oi business," or, as the phrase may mean, " of the state." Sing. — Oh she will sing the savageness out of a bear. Shakespere, Othello, act iv. sc. 1. Singers — Let the singing SINGERS With vocal voices, most vociferous, In sweet vociferation, out-vociferize Ev'n sound itself. — Henry Carey, Ghronon., act i. sc. 1. Sins — Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. — Butler, Hudibras. Six Hundred Pounds. — I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end. Swtft, Imitation of Horace, book ii. sat. 6. Sixpence. — I give thee sixpence ! I will see thee d — d first. G-. Canning, Friend of Humanity. Slander. — No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile. Shakespere, Cymbeline, act iii sc. 4 Slanderous. — Done to death by slanderous tongues. Ibid., Much Ado, act v. sc. 3. Slave — I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep. And tremble while I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever eam'd. Cowper, Task, 1. 29 Slaves. — Slates cannot "breathe in England : if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. — 1 vid. . bk. ii. 1. 40 160 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Sleep. — Death's half-brother, sleep. — Dryden, The ^32n eid, book vi. — Now blessings light on him that first invented sleep ! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak ; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for fcb a hot. — Cervantes, Bon Quixote, part ii. ch. 67. • — O sleep ! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, pt. v. — 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. Shake spere, Macbeth, act ii. sc. 2. — Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil, nor night of waking. Scott, Lady of the Lake, canto 1, st. 31. — Sleep that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye. Shakespeee, Midsummer Night's Dream, act iii. sc. 2. — Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! Young, Night Thoughts, Night i. L 1. Slippery. — He that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. Shakespere, King John, act iii. sc. 4. Sluggard. — 'Tis the voice of the sluggard, I heard him complain, " You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again." Watts, The Sluggard. Smell. — A very ancient and fish-like smell. Shakespere, Tempest, act ii. sc. 2. — The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril. — Ibid., Merry Wives, act iii. sc. 5. Smile. — One may smile and smile, and be a villain. Ibid., Hamlet, act i. so. 5. Smiles. — Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. Milton, Paradise Lost, book ix. I. 239. Snake. — We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it. Shakespere, Macbeth, act iii. bo. %. Snug. — Here Skugg Lies snug As a bug In a rug. — B. Franklin, Letter to Miss Oeorgina Shipley. Socrates. — Socrates . . . Wham well inspired, the oracle pronounced Wisest of men. — Milton, Paradise Regained, book iv. 1. 274 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 16 i Solitude.- -In SOLITUDE, where we are least alone. Byron, Childe Harold, canto iii. st. 90. — I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd, How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet. Cowper, Retirement,, L 739. — O Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? — Ibid., Alexander Selkirk. — Solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return. Milton, Paradise Lost, book ix. 1. 249. Something — There's something in a flying horse, And something in a huge balloon. Wordsworth, Peter Bell, Prol. st. 4. Son. — And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son. Dryden, Achitophel. Song. — Odds life ! must one swear to the truth of a song ? Prior, A Better Answer. — Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song. Waller, To Creech, 1. 10. — Unlike my subject now shall be my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long. Chesterfield, Impromptu Lines. Sophonisba.— O Sophonisba ! Sophonisba, ! Thomson, Sophonisba, act iii. hc. 2. *„,* In the second edition this line was altered to " O SophonVbA J I am wholly thine." The wags of the day parodied the original lip*w, " Jamie Thomson ! Jamie Thomson, O ! " Sorrow. — Down, thou climbing SORROW ! Thy element's below. — Shakespere, King Lear. • -- Give sorrow words ; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. Ibid., Macbeth, act iv. sc. 3. — Ilere bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish — Earth has no SORROW that Heaven cannot heal. Moore, Come, y& Disconsolate. — The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown. Cowper, To an afflicted Protestant Lady. 162 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Sorrow. — This is the truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. — Tennyson, Loc/csley Hall. Sorrows. — Here I and SORROWS sit ; Here is my throne ; bid kings come bow to it. Sha£espere, King John, act iii. bc. 1 Soul. — Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant ; Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant ; Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. — The Lie. %* This poem is traced in manuscript to the year 1593. It first ap- peared in print in Davison's Poetical Phapsody, second edition, 1608. It has been assigned to various authors, but on Raleigh's side there is good evidence, beside the internal testimony, which appears to us irre- sistible. Two answers to it, written in Raleigh's lifetime, ascribe it to him ; and two manuscript copies of the period of Elizabeth bear the title of " Sir Walter Raleigh, his Lie." — Chambers's Cyclopedia. — He had kept The whiteness of his SOUL, and thus men o'er him wept. Byron, Childe Harold. — There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Pope, Satire. — I am positive I have a SOUL ; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the con- trary. — Sterne, Sentimental Journey. Souls.— Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin ; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. Dryden, Marriage a la Mode, act. ii. sc. 1 Sovereign — "When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me. — . Lord Thurlow, 27 Pari. Hist. 680 ; Ann. Beg. 1789. Sow. — Wrong sow by the ear. — Ben Jonson, Every Man in hia Humour, act ii, sc. 1. Butler, Hudibras, part ii. canto iii. line 580 Colman, Heir-at-Law, act i. sc. 1. Spade u — Call a spade a spade. — Plutarch. — "Never mind," said Philip, "the Macedonians are a blunt people ; they call a spade a spade." — Kennedy, Demosthenes, vol, i p. 249. Sparrow. — There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Shakespere, Hamlet, act v. sc. 2 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 163 Speech. — Speech is silver, silence is gold. — German Proverb. — Speech is like cloth of Arras, opened and pnt abroad, wherebj the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. — Plutarch, Life of Themistocles. Bacon's Essays, On Friendship. Speech -was given to man to conceal his thoughts. — lis n'employont les paroles que pour deguiser leurs pensees. Voltaire, Dialogue xiv. Le Chapon et la Poulard*. — Where Nature's end of language is declined, And men talk only to conceal the mind. Young, Love of Fame, Satire ii. 1. 207. %* The germ of the above saying is to be met with in Jeremy Taylor ; South, Butler, Young, Lloyd, and Goldsmith have repeated it after him. Spider. — The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Pope, Essay on Man, epistle i. 1. 217. — Much like a subtle spider -which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide ; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side. Sir John Davies (1570-1626), The Immortality of the Soul Spire. — Who taught the heaven-directed spire to rise ? Pope, Moral Essays, epistle hi. 1. 261. Spires. — Spires whose " silent finger points to heaven." "Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. vL — Ye distant spires, ye antique towers. Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton GoUege, at. 1. Spirit. — I am thy father's spirit ; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be "V) ears of flesh and blood. List, list, list ! Shakesperk Hamlet, act i. sc. 5. 164 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Spirits. — Glen. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man ; But will they come when you do call for them ? Shakespere, King Henry IV., pt. i. act hi. bo. 1. - Black spirits and white, Red spirits and gray, Mingle, mingle, mingle, You that mingle may. — Ibid., Macbeth. Spiritual. — Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 677. Sport. — Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe. — Ibid., V Allegro, 1. 31. Spot Out, damned spot ! out, I say ! Shakespere, Macbeth, act v. sc. 1. Spring. — Come, gentle spring ! ethereal mildness ! come. Thomson, The Seaevx& — " Come, gentle spring ! ethereal mildness ! come." O Thomson ! void of rhyme as well as reason ; How could'st thou thus poor human nature hum ? There's no such season ! — Hood. Stage All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, — His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,' Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, Math a woful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. 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. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lin'd, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shift* Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacle on nose, and pouch on side • POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 165 Hia 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. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Shake speke, As you Like It, act ii. sc. 7. «~ The world's a theatre, the earth a stage Which God and nature do with actors fill, T. Heywood, Apology for Actors, 1612. Stairs The great world's altar-STAiRS, That slope through darkness up to God. Tennyson, In Memoriam, liv. Stalking Horse — A decoy. Horses and other animals are trained to pretend to be eating while sportsmen shoot at their game from the off-side. Star. — The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold. — Milton, Comus. — Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart. Wordsworth, London, 1802. Stars. — At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads. — Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 34, — Ye little stars ! hide your diminish'd rays. Pope, Moral Essays. — The sentinel STARS set their watch in the sky. Thomas Campbell, The Soldier's Dream. Btate. — A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ; An hour may lay it in the dust. — Byron, Ghilde Harold. — Greatest scandal waits on greatest state. Shakespere, Lucrece. — I have done the state some service, and they know it : — No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shaU these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice : then, must you speak Of one that lov'd, not wisely, but too well ; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplex'd in the extreme ; of one, whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away, Richer than all his tribe ; of one, whose subdu'd eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their med'cinable gum.^lbid., Othello, act v. sc. 2. 166 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. State -What constitutes a state ? Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain. And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W. Jones, Ode in Imitation of Alcorn*. Steal. — Convey, the wise it call. Steal ? foh ! a fico for the phrase Shakesfere, Merry Wives, act i. sc. 3. — Steal ! to be sure they may, and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. — Sheridan, The Critic, act i. sc. 1. Steel. — My man's as true as steel. Shake spere, Borneo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 4. Stenches. — I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks. — Coleridge, Cologne. Stephen King Stephen was a worthy peer, His breeches cost him but a crown ; He held them sixpence all too dear, With that he called the tailor lown. Shake spere, Othello, act ii sc. 3. Stone The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Emerson, The Problem. — The STONE that is rolling can gather no moss. Tusser, Good Husbandry. Storm Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? Shakespere, King Lear, act iiL so. 4 iitory. — Aye free, aff-han' your STORY tell, When wi' a bosom crony ; But still keep something to yoursel Ye scarcely tell to ony.— Burns, To a Young Friend. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 167 Story STOR7 ! G-od bless you ! I have none to tell, sir. G. Canning, The Friend of Humanity and the Knife- Grinder , Stranger. — He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Proverbs xi. 15. Streamlet. — No check, no stay, this stkeamlet fears How merrily it goes ! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years And flow as now it flows. — Wordsworth, The Fountain. Streams. — You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow. D. Everett, Lines written for a School Declamation. Strength. — O ! it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Shakespere, Measure f oi' Measure, act ii. sc. 2. Strike. — Strike — for your altars and your fires ; Strike — for the green graves of your sires ; God, and your native land ! Fitz-Greene Halleck, Marco Bozzaris. — Strike, but hear. Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if ha was going to strike, Themistocles said, "Strike, if you will, but hear." — Plutarch, Life of Themistocles. — Strike while the iron is hot. — John Webster, Westward Ho, act ii sc. 1. Farquhar, The Beautf Strategem, act iv. sc. 1. Strings, — 'Tis good in every case, you know, To have two STRINGS unto your bow. Churchill, The Oliost, book iv. Strokes. — Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. Shakespere, King Henry VI , part iii. act ii. sc. 1. Stump Orator. — A vulgar speaker. An American expression, derivod from Congress candidates addressing the electors from the stumpa of trees. The tub- orators, who spoke from inverted casks in Swift's time, is an equivalent English phrase. Style.— Style is the dress of thoughts.— Chesterfield, Letter, Not 24, 1749. 168 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Style. — Such laboured nothings, in so strange a STYLE, Amazed th' unlearned, and make the learned smile. Pope, Essay on Criticism, part ii. I I26w Sublime. — The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous" makes the sublime again. — T. Paine, Age of Reason, part ii, fiaccess — 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius ; we'll deserve it. Addison, Oato, act i. so. 2. Sunbeams. — He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials her- metically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. — Swift, Gullivefs Travels. Sunless. — How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land ! Wordsworth, On the Death of Hogg. Sunshine. — Sunshine, broken in the rill, Though turned astray, is sunshine still. Mooke, The Fire Worshippers. Sweetness. — The two noblest things, which are sweetness and light. Swift, Battle of the Books. Sweets. — Sweets to the sweet : farewell ! Shakespere, Hamlet, act v. sc. 1. — The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets. Gay, The Beggars' Opera, act ii. sc. 2. Swithin, St Bishop of Winchester, and tutor to King Alfred, canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. He is said to have wrought many miracles, the most celebrated being a rain of forty days' continuance, by which he testified his displeasure at an attempt of the monks to bury him in the chancel of the minster, instead of the open churchyard, as he had directed. Hence the popular superstition, that if it rain on St. Swithin's day (July 15), it will rain for forty days thereafter. Bwore " Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my uncle Toby, "but nothing to this." — Sterne, Tristram Sliandy, vol. iii chap. xL Syllables. — Syllables govern the world. — Selden, Power. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 169 Taffy. — A sobriquet for a Welshman, or for the Welsh collectively, The word is a corruption of David, one of the most common oi Welsh names. Taken When taken To be well shaken.— G-. Colhan, The Newcastle Apothecary. Tale. — And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale. Shakespere, As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7. — And thereby hangs a tale. Ibid. , Taming of the Shrew, act iv. sc. 1. — And what so tedious as a twice-told tale ? Pope, Odyssey, bk. xii. last line. — I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres. Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, list ! Shakespere, Samlet, act. L sc. 5. — O Reader ! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, gentle Eeader ! you would find A tale in everything. — Wordsworth, Simon Lee. Task. — And now my task is smoothly done, 1 can fly, or I can run. — Milton, Comus, line 1012. — Each morning sees some task begun, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow, The Village Blacksmith. Tea Tea! thou soft, thou sober sage and venerable liquid; thon female-tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tip- pling cordial, to whose'glorious insipidity I owe the happiest momenta of my life, let me fall prostrate.— Collet. Cibber, The Lady't Last Stake, act i. sc. 1. 8 170 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Tear. — O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies In the small orb of one particular tear ! Shakespere, A Lover's Complaint, st. xliL — The tear down childhood's cheek that flows Is like the dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry. Scott, Rokeby, canto iv. st. 12 — That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. S. Rogers, To a Tear. Tears — And often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffer'd. My story being done She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. She swore — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful : She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That Heaven had made her such a man ; she thank'd me. Shakespere, Othello, act i. sc. 3. — Her briny tears did on the paper fall. Cowley, To the Reader, verse 2. — If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. Shakespere, Julius Ccesar, act iii. sc. 2. — More TEARS are shed in playhouses than in churches. Guthrie, Gospel in Ezekiel, chap. xt. — Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Tennyson, The Princess, canto iv. — The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase. — Shakespere, jlsTou Like U, act ii. sc. 1. Teath. — For her teeth, where there is one of ivory, its neighbor in pure ebony, black and white alternately, just like the keys of a harpsichord. — Sheridan, The Duenna, act ii. sc. 3. Tumper. — Ye gods, it doth amaze ine, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone. —Shakespere, Julius Caesar, act i. so. 8. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 171 Tenor. — Alon g the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. — G-RAY, Elegy. Text. — You shall see a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. — SHERIDAN. School for Scandal, act i. sc. 1. Thanks. — I can no other answer make but thanks, And thanks ; and ever oft good turns Are shuffled ofE with such uncurrent pay. Shakespere, Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. 3. Thievery. — I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea : the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears : the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement : each thing's a thief. Ibid., Timon of Athens, act iv. sc. 8. Think — Think of that, Master Brook. Ibid., Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii. sc. 5. — Who dares think one thing, and another tell My heart detests him as the gates of hell. Pope, Homer's Iliad, bk. ix. L 412. Thinking Thinking is but an idle waste of thought ; For naught is eveiything, and everything is naught. Smith, Rejected Addresses (Imitation of Lord Byron). Thought Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. — And. Marvels. — The dome of thought, the palace of the Soul. Byron, (Jhilde Harold, canto ii. st. 6. Thoughts.— To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Wordsworth, Immortality, st. 11 — To their own second and sober thoughts. Mathew Henry, Exposition, Job vi. 29 Thrones. — Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. - Milton, Paradise Lost, book v. line 601. Thunder — They will not let my play run; and yet they steal mj thunder. — John Dennis, 1794. 172 POPULAR QUOTATION'S. Thwack. — With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crab- tree and old iron rang. Butler, Hudibras, part i. canto ii. line 83t, Tide. — Nae man can tether time or TIDE, The hour approaches, Tarn maun ride. Burns, Tarn 6 1 Shanter. — 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. Shakespere, Julius Ccesar, act iv. so. 3. Timbrel — Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea ! Jehovah has triumph'd — his people are free. Moore, Sound the Loud Timbrel. Time. — Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is th« stuff life is made of.— B. Franklin, Poor Richard. — Panting time toil'd after him in vain. Dr. Johnson, A Prologue. — The flood of time is setting on, We stand upon its brink. — Shelley, Revolt of Mam, st. 27. — The inaudible and noiseless foot of time. Shakespere, AWs Well, act v. sc. 3. — There's a gude time coming. — Scott, Rob Roy, ch. xxxii. — The time is out of joint ; cursed spite ! That ever I was born to set it right. Shakespere, Hamlet, act i. sc. 5. — Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Ibid., Twelfth Nig7it, act v. sc. 1. — Time rolls his ceaseless course. Scott, Lady of the Lake, canto iii. st. I — Time will teach thee soon the truth, There are no birds in last year's nest ! Longfellow, It is not always May. — Too late I stayed — forgive viae crime, — Unheeded flew the hours ; How noiseless falls the foot of time, That only treads on flowers. — W. R. Spencer, 1770-1834. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 173 Title.— A successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark. — Dryden Absalom* Tobacco. — Divine in hookahs, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich and ripe ; Like other charmers, wooing the caress ; More dazzlingly when daring in full dress ; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties — Give me a cigar ! Byron, The Island, canto ii. st. 19 — Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest. Ibid., canto ii. st. 19. — Divine tobacco. — Spenser, Fairy Queen, bk. iii. canto v. v. 32. — What a glorious creature was he who first discovered the use oi tobacco. — Fielding, The Grub Street Opera, act iii. sc. i. To be. — 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 heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep ; To sleep : perchance to dreara : ay, there's the rub • For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, 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, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd 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 undiscover'd 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.— Shakespere, Hamlet, act iii. bo. L 174 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. To-day Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer. Young's Night Thoughts, Nigh* L line 390. — Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call TO -DAT his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. Dryden, Imitation of Horace, book L ode 29, 1. Go. Tomb. — E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. — Gray, Elegy. To-morrow. — Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. — Proverbs xxvii. 1. — To-morrow is a satire on to-day And shows its weakness.— Dr. Young, Old Man's Relapse. — To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time ; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle ! 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. — Shakespere, Macbeth, act v. sc. 5. — To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new. Milton, Lycidas, 1. 193. Tongue. — That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. Shakespere, Two Gentlemen, act iii. sc. 1. — The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere, Is to restreine, and kepen wel thy tonge. Chaucer, The Manciple's Tale, 1. 17281. Tongues.— From the strife of tongues. — Psalm xxxi. 20. Toothache. — For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. Shakespere, Much Ado, act. v. sc. 1. Trade. -Two of a trade seldom agree. — Bay's Proverbs. Murphy, The Apprentice, act iii.. Gay, Old Hen and the Cock. Translated. — Bless thee, Bottom ! bless thee ! thou art translated. Shakespere, Midsummer Night's Dream, act iii. so. 1. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 17fi rreason. — Treason doth never prosper : what's the reason ? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. Sir J. Harrington, Epigrams, bk iv. ep. 5. Tree.— In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. xi. 3. Tiick — I know a trick worth two of that. Shakespere. King Henry IV., part i. act ii sc. 1. Trifle — Think nanght a triple, though it small appear ; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life. — Young, Love of Fame, satire vi. 1. 208. Triton — A triton among the minnows. A giant among pigmies. This is Shakesperian ; but as the saying really is " Triton of the minnows," it has more of a satirical aspect than belongs to it aa used by us. Triton was a sea deity — half man, half fish — who ruled the waves at pleasure. True blue. — Presbyterian true blue. Butler, Hudibras, part l canto i. L 191. Truth. — And TRUTH severe, by fairy fiction drest. Gray, The Bard, iii 3, 1. 3. — For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. Dryden, The Hind and Panther, 1. 33 — For truth is precious and divine, Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Butler, Hudibras, part ii. canto ii. 1. 357. — No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage* ground of truth. — Bacon, Essay 1, Of Truth. — O, while you five, tell truth, and shame the Devil. Shakespere, King Henry IV., part i act iii. sc. 1. — 'Tis strange — but true ; for truth is always strange ; Stranger than fiction. — Byron, Don Juan, canto xiv. st. 101 — Truth crushed to earth shall rise again : The eternal years of God are hers ; But error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers. — Bryant, The Battle-field. — Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as thi sunbeam. — Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. 176 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Truth. — Who ever knew tkuth pat to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? — Ibid. , Areopagitica. — Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires : This fact, in Virtue's name, let Crabbe attest : Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best. Byron, English Barde, I 839. — I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea^ shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smooth pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. — Newton. See Brewster's Memoirs of Newton, vol. ii. chap. 27. — Pilate saith unto him, What is truth ? St. John, chap, xviii. v. 38. — Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. Goldsmith, Deserted ViUage, 1. 179. — Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. Shakespere, Measure for Measure, act v. sc. 1. Tub. — Every tub must etand upon its own bottom. — Ray's Proverbs, Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress. Macklin, Man of the World, act L sc. 2. Tweedledum Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny ; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. Strange all this difference should be 'T\*ixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. J. Bybom, 1762, On the Feuds between Eaxdel and Bononcwi. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 177 Ugliness Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty : now there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness. R. B. Sheridan, Duenna, act ii. sc. 2. Unclasps Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one. Keats, St. Agnes' 1 Eve. Uncle.— Tut, tut! Grace me no grace, nor tjncle me no uncle. Shakespere, King Richard II., act ii sc. 3, Unexpressive.— The fair, the chaste, the unexpressive she. Ibid. , As You Like It, act iii. sc. 2. Union. — A song for our banner ? The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station : " United we stand — divided we fall ! " It made and preserves us a nation ! The union of lakes— the union of lands — The union of States none can sever — The union of hearts— the union of hands — And the Flag of our Union for ever ! G. P. Morris, The Flag of our Union. Uniting By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. Dickinson, Liberty Song (1768). Unkennel. — Unkennel the fox. Shakespere, Merry Wives, act iii. sc. 3. Unlearn'd. — Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn' d reflect on what before they knew. Pope, Essay on Criticism. Unsung. — There was a time, a blessed time, When hearts were fresh and young, When freely gushed all feelings forth Unsyllabled — unsung. — Motherwell, Jeanie Morrison. Unwashed. — Another lean, unwashed artificer Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death. Shakespere, King John, act iv. sc. 2 — Clubs upstairs, To which the UNWASHED artificer repairs. Cowper, TabU Talk, 1. 151. 8* 178 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Unwept. — Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto vi, et. 1 Urchin. — The shivering urchin, bending as he goes With slipshod heels, and dewdrop at his nose. Cowper, Truth, 1. 143. Urns. — The dead, but scept'red sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. — Byron, Manfred, act iii. sc. 4. Use. — Use can almost change the stamp of nature. Shakespere, Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4 — Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech. Ibid., Ilenry VI, part 1, act iii. sc. 1. Utterance. — That large UTTERANCE of the early gods. Keats, Hyperion. Valet. — No one is a hero to his valet. This phrase is commonly attributed to Madame de Sevigne. On the authority of Madame Aisse, it belongs to Madame Cornuel. — Leitres edit. J. Ravened, 1853. Few men are admired by their servants. — Montaigne, Essays, book iii. ch. 11. When Hermodotus in his poems de- scribed Antigonus as the son of Helios (the sun), " My valet-de- chambre," said he, "is not aware of this." — Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, ch. xxiv. Valour. — As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting ; and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it. — Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part 1, sec. 2, mem. 2, subs. 2. — Call old valour from the grave. Bloomfield, Banks of the Wye, book ii. .— My VALOUR is certainly going ! it is sneaking off ! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands. Sheridan, The Rivals, act v. sc. 3. Vanille. — You flavour everything ; you are the vanille of society. Sydney Smith. Vanity. — All is vanity and vexation of spirit. — Eccles. i. 1L POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 179 Vanity. — And not a vanity is given in vain. Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. ii. 1. 290. — The fool of VANITY ; for her alone He lives, loves, writes — and dies but to be known. Canning, New Morality. — - Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher ; vanity of vanities : all is vanity. — Eccles. i. 2, and xii. 8. Vanity Fair. — In Bunyan's spiritual allegory, " The Pilgrim's Progress," this is the name of a fair which was held all the year round in the town of Vanity. u It beareth the name because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity (Ps. lxii. 9), and also because all that is there sold, or that coraeth thither, is vanity." * Variety. — Not chaos -like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. Pope, Windsor Forest, 1. 13. — Variety alone gives joy ; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy. Prior, The Turtle and Sparrow, 1. 234. — Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour. Cowper, The Task, book ii. ; The Timepiece, 1. 606. You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. Moore, Farewell! But whenever you welcome the hour. *The origin and history of this fair are thus described: "Almost five thousand years ago there were pilgrims walking to the Celestial City, and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set Up a fair — a fair wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore, at this fair, are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honours, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as harlots, wives, husbands, children, lives, blood, bodies, souls, direr, g'Jd, pearls, precious stones, and what not. And, moreover, at this fair, there 1b, at nil times, to be seen jugglings, cheats, games, fools, knaves, rogues, and that of every kind. . . . Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town where this lusty fair is kept ; and he that would go to the city, and yet not go through this town, must needs ~go out of the world." Thackeray has made use of the name of Vanity Fair as the title of his satiric* uovbL 180 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Venice. — Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles. Byron, Childe Harold, canto iv. st 1. Venus. — A Venus rising from a sea of jet. Waller, Lines to the Countess of Carlisle. Verbosity. — He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. Shakespere, Love's Labour's Lost, act v. sc. 1. Verge — Give ample room and verge enough. Gray, The Bard, v. 4, 1. 3. Verse. — And ever, against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. — Milton, L 1 Allegro, 1. 135. — Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, Thai) tends to make one worthy man my foe. Pope, To Arbuthnot. — My unpremeditated verse. Milton, Paradise Lost, book ix. 1. 23. — Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; All at her work the village maiden sings, Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. R. Gifpord, 1807, Contemplation. — Who says in VERSE what others say in prose. Pope, Horace, epistle i. book ii. L 202. — Wisdom married to immortal VERSE. Wordsworth, The Excursion, book viL Vibrates. — Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory. Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Shelley. Vicar of Bray. — A name originally given to the Rev. Symon Symonds, who was twice a Papist and twice a Protestant in four successive reigns, between 1533 and 1558. It is now commonly applied to one who deserts his party when it is no longer for his safety or hia interest to remain in it. Vice. — Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round, And gather'd every vice on Christian ground. Pope, The Dunciad, bk. iv. L 811. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 131 Vice. — Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety. Fletcher, Love's Cure, act iii. sc. 1. — Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. Ed. Burke. — Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, theu embrace. Pope, Essay on Man, epist. ii. 1. 21 7, — - Who called thee vicious was a lying elf ; Thou art not vicious, for thou'rt Vice itself. Martial, Ad ZoUum. — Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime 's by action dignified. Shakespere, Borneo and Juliet, act ii sc. 3. Vices. — The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. — Ibid., King Lear, act v. sc. 3. Victim Led like a victim to my death I'll go, And dying, bless the hand that gave the blow. Attributed to Dryden. Victory. — And either victory, or else a grave. Shakespere, Henry VI. , pt. iii. sc. 2. — " But what good came of it at last ? " Quoth little Peterkin. "Why that I cannot tell," said he ; "But 'twas a famous victory." — Southey, Blenheim. — Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course, And we are graced with wreaths of victory. Shakespere, King Henry VI, pt. iii. act v. sc. 3, Villain. — My tables, my tables, — meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a VILLAIN; At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark. Ibid., Hamlet, act i. sc. 5 — Villain and he be many miles asunder. Ibid., Borneo and Juliet, act iii. sc 8 — Why, he's a villain, Able to corrupt a thousand by example. Massinger, The Old Law. 1S2 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Villanie. — For villanie maketh villanie, And by his dedes a chorle is seine. Chaucer, Romaunt of the Ross, 1. 2130. Villany. — And thus I clothe my naked VILLANY With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the Devil. Shakespere, King Richard III., act i. sc. 3 — The abstract of all villany. — Cotton, A Rogue. — Nothing is sacred now but villany. Pope, Epis. to Sat., L 170. Violet. — A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. — Wordsworth, She dwelt among, de. Violets. — Weep no more, lady, weep no more : Thy sorrow is in vain : For violets plucked, the sweetest showers Will ne' er make grow again. Percy, The Friar of Orders Gray. Virginity, — Some say no evil thing that walks by night In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true vlrginity. Milton, Comus, I. 432. Virtue — A virtue that was never seen in you. Shakespere, King Henry IV. , pt. i. act iii. sc. 1. — Assume a virtue, if you have it not. Ibid., Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4. — If he does really think that there is no distinction between VIRTUE and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our house, let us count our spoons. — Boswell's Life of Johnson, an. 1763. n— Know then this truth (enough for man to know), "Virtue alone is happiness below." Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 309. .-- Oh, Virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade. Euripides, Quoted by Brutus when dying at PhUippi. — Or if virtue feeble weie, Heaven itself would stoop to hex. — Milton, Gcmus. POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 183 Virtue — Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on Alps ; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself : Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids ; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. Young, Night, vi. 1. 309. — The first virtue, sone, if thou wilt lere, Is to restreine, and kepen wel thy tonge. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Manciple's Tale, 1. 226, — VlKTTJE alone is true nobility. Stepney's Eighth Satire of Juvenal. — Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Shakespere, Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1, — Virtue is her own reward. Dryden, Tyrannic Love, act iii. sc. 1. — Virtue is its own reward. — Prior, Ira. of Horace, bk. iii. ode ii. Gray, Epistle to Methuen. Home, Douglas, act iii. sc. 1. — Virtue is to herself the best reward. Henry More, Cupid's Conflict. — Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Bacon, Of Adversity. — Virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know. Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 397, — Virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. Dryden, Horace, 1. 87. — What cannot beauty, joined with virtue, gain ? Ibid., Cock and Fox, 1. 82. Virtues — Besides, this Duncan, Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shakespere, Macbeth, act i. bc, 7, — Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. — Prior, An English Padlock. In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, Save thine " incomparable oil," Macassar! Byron, Don Juan, canto i. st. 17 1«4 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Virtues.— Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. 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. Spirits are not finely touch' d, But to fine issues ; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence. But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor — Both thanks and use. Shakespere, Measure for Measure, act L so. 1. Virtuous. — The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame. — L.ANSDOWNE. Visage. — On his bold visage middle age Had slightly pressed its signet sage, Yet had not quenched the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth : Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare. Scott, Lady of the Lake, canto i. st. 21. Vision. — I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds. — Milton, Oomus. — 'Twas but a VISION, and visions are but vain. Dryden, Cock and Fox, 1. 243 Visions. — I have seen visions. Fletcher, Pule a Wife and Have a Wife, act iv. sc 3 — Visions of glory, spare my aching sight. Gray, The Pard, pt. iii. st. 1. Vital Spark Vital spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, O quit this mortal frame ! Pope, The Lying Christian to his SouU Vocation.— 'Tis my vocation, Hal : 'tis no sin for a man to labour ia his vocation. — Shakespere, King Henry IV., pt. i. act L sc. 2. Voice. — Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low : an excellent thing in woman. Ibid., King Lear, act v. wx t POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 185 Voice. — The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God. Pope, To Augustus, bk. ii. ep. i. L 89. — And after the fire a still small voice. — 1 Kings xix. 12. -- 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. w. Wager. — For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinions by a wager. — Byron, Beppo, st. 27 Wagers Quoth she, I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers. Butler, Hudibras, part ii. canto i. 1. 297. Wake. — Wake the full lyre and swell the full tide of song. Heber, Palestine. Walnuts. — Across the walnuts and the wine. Tennyson, The Miller's Daughter. Vanderers. — But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchored ne'er shall be. Byron, Childe Harold, canto iii. st. 70. Want -Every WANT that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest. Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 213. — God forbid that such a scoundrel as WANT should dare to ap proach me. — Swift, To Bolingbroke. — Perpetual emptiness ! unceasing change ! Kb single volume paramount, no code, Kb master spirit, no determined road ; Bat equally a want of books and men. Wordsworth, Sonnet, ariii. 186 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. War. — Cease to consult, the time for action calls ; Wae, horrid war, approaches to your walls, Pope, Iliad, book ii. 1. 967, — My sentence is for open WAR. Milton, Paradise Lost, book ii. L 51. — Ez fer WAR, I call it murder, — There you have it, plain and flat ; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testament for that.— Lo well, Bighw Papers. -* My voice is still for WAR. Gods ! can a Roman senate long- debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ? Addison, Cato, act ii. sc. 1. — 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, satire vii. line 55. — To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means at preserving peace. — Washington, Speech to both Houses of Con- gress, January 8, 1790. — War even to the knife. [This was the reply of Palafox, the governor of Saragoza, when sum* moned to surrender by the French, who besieged that city in 1808.] — War, he sung, is toil and trouble, Honour but an empty bubble. Dryden, Alexander's Feast, v. 5. — War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands. Beilby Porte us, Death, 1. 178. — War's a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Cowper, The Task, book v. Winter Morning Walk, L 18. — War, war, is still the cry, — " war even to the knife ! " Byron, Childe Harold, canto i. st. 86, — War, war, my noble father I Thus I fliug it ; And fair-eyed peace, farewell. Bsaumont and Fletcher, The Humorous Lieutenant, act i, bo. L — When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. N. Lee, 1699 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. 187 Water — As "water spilt upon the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. — 2 Samuel xiv. 14. — Here lies one whose name was writ in WATER. Keats, Dictated for his own Epitaph — Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. Shakespere, Henry VI., part ii. act iii s& 1. — The conscious water saw its God and blushed. R. Crashaw. Translation of Epigram vn John II, — 'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain 1 d by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when Nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. Sir T. A. Talfourd, Ion. — Unstable as water thou shalt not excel. — Genesis xlix. 4. — Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, part ii. Waters She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Byron, The Corsair, canto i. st. 3. Wave. — When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you ever might do Nothing but that. — Shakespere, Winter's Tale, act iv. sc. 3 Ways of God Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men ; Unless there be who think not God at all. Milton, Samson Aaonistes, 1. 293. — What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways op God to men. Ibid. , Paradise Lost, book i. 1. 2& We. — We know what we are, but know not what we may be. Shakespere, Hamlet, act iv. so. 5, Weakest.— The weakest goes to the wall. Ibid. , Borneo and Juliet, act i. so. i 188 POPULAR QUOTATIONS. Wealth.— The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert ; The happy man's without a shirt. Let the world slide, let the world go : A fig for care, and a fig for woe I If I — To gain his private, 40 Endurance, foresight, strength, 196 Endure, Men must, 35 — the like himself, 134 — the toothache, That coidd, 174 — We first, 181 Enemies, Naked to mine, 86 Enemy in their mouths, 46 — to life, Care's an, 22 Energy divine, 43 Engineer hoist with his own petard 46 Engines, You mortal, 53 England never did, This, 46 — Roast beef of Old, 13 — The Church of, 26 — This realm, this, 46 — to itself . . . but true, 46 — was a wolfish den, 196 — what she will be, 46 — with all thy faults, 46 — Ye mariners of, 111 — Young, 211, 212 English dead, With our, 19 — The King's, 46 — undefiled, Well of, 24 Engrave, Our ways we all, 210 Enjoy such liberty, 60 — They most, 206 Enjoys the air it breathes, 58 Enough is as good, 26 — 'Tis, 79 Ensign, The imperial, 46 Ensnare, Imperial race, 12 Enterprises, Mighty, 213 — of great pith and moment, 173 Enthroned in the hearts of kings, 114 Entrances, Their exits and their, 164 Envenoms him that bears it, 205 Envy, a kind of praise, 46 — eldest-born of hell, 47 — of less happier lands, 46 — will merit .... pursue, 46 — writhes at another's joy, 46 Ephesian dome, Who fired the, 52 Epicurus' sty, In, 75 Epitaph, Believe a woman or an, 41 — Let no man write my, 47 — The stone-cut, 34 Epitaphs, Let's talk of, 67 Epitome, All mankind's, 106 Equal, Death makes, 188 Equity is a roguish thing, 47 Equivocation of the fiend, 47 — will undo us, 47 Ere sin could blight, 36 Erects a house of prayer, 37 Erin, A poor exile of, 49 — Arm of, 45 ANALYTICAL INDEX- R 237 Err, Art may, 125 —is human, To, 4? Error, Easier to meet with, 47 Errors, like straws, 47 Escape calumny, Shalt not, 23 Espied a feather of his own, 44 Estate, Fallen from his, 51 Eternal City, 48 — sunshine settles, 27 Eternity in bondage, A whole, 92 — Mourns that, 120 — older than damnation, 15 — thou pleasing, dreadful thought, 81 — Through nature to, 88 — to man, Intimates, 81 — Wanderers o'er, 185 — whose end, 41 Ethereal mildness ! come, 164 — sky, The blue, 57 Ethiop's ear, In an, 12 Europe round, Saunter'd, 180 — The emerald of, 45 Eve, The fairest of her daughters, 2 Evening bells, Those, 14 — came, 48 — on, Now came still, 48 — sees its close, 169 — The dews of the, 38 — Welcome peaceful, 189 Eventide, Past falls the, 1 Events are God's, 43 — Coming, 48 Everlasting fame, Damned to, 70 Everyone is as God made him, 48 Everything, A tale in, 169 — by starts, 106 — Good in, 3 — is naught, 171 Ever, A good jest for, 7 Evil, We fear nae, 11 — All partial, 125 — be thou my good, 49 — Prom seeming, 48 — hour, In an, 32 — In things, 49 — is wrought, 48 — lif e, Sign of, 34 — Lost half its, 181 — manners, Man's, 110 — news rides fast, 126 — Of moral, 49 — that men do, 48 — The root of all, 118 Evils, Of two, 48 — Past, present, and future, 136 Exact man, An, 145 Example is more forcible, 49 Example, Profit by their, 20 — The influence of, 26 — To corrupt by, 181 — you with thievery, 171 Examples, Philosophy teaching by, 74 Excel, Arts in which the wise, 209 — Thou shalt not, 187 Excellence it cannot reach, 46 Excellent fancy, Of most, 211 — thing in woman, An, 184 — to have a giant's strength, 167 — wretch, 99 Excels a dunce . . . kept at home, 43 Excess, Ridiculous, 49 Excessive bright, Dark with, 33 Exchange of words, An, 203 Exclude the light, That, 191 Excommunicate, Corporations, 29 Excuse for the glass, An, 105 Excuses, To consider, 209 Excusing of a fault, 55 Execrable shape, 157 Execute, Hard to, 73 Exempt from woes, While, 196 Exercise depend, Por cure on, 73 Exile of Erin, A poor, 49 Existence to nothing, Lending, 138 Exits and their entrances, Their, 164 Expectation fails, Oft, 49 — makes a blessing dear, 49 — rise, Bids, 77 — The eyes of, 142 Expects his ev'ning prey, 119 Experience, Pull of sad^ 87 — keeps a dear school, 49 — made me sage, 49 — ... teaches like no other, 49 — to make me sad, 49 Experienced world, 204 Explain it, By trying to, 144 — the asking eye, 4 Extenuate, Nothing, 165 External ordinances, By, 26 Extorted praise, Censure is, 22 Extremes in nature, 49 Eye, An unforgiving, 50 — An un presumptuous, 55 — Defiance in their, 141 — Explain the asking, 4 — Harvest of a quiet, 50 — In every old man's, 22 — In her husband's, 79 — Its soft black, 25 — Lacklustre, 205 — like Mars, An, 67 — Lord of the eagle, 83 238 ANALYTICAL INDEX— F. Eye Nature's walks, 125 — of grace, The, 9 — of Heaven, The beauteous, 49 — of the day, 32 — severe, With, 164 — The jaundiced, 49 — The poet's, 80 — • To the jaundiced, 211 — "Who seeks with equal, 64 — will mark, An, 75 — Wi'.h a threatening, 60 Eyebrow, His mistress', 164 Eyes, A lover's, 103 — are heavy and dim, 204 — are homes, Her, 50 — did once inhabit, Holes where, 42 ~- Drink to me only with thine, 42 — Gather to the, 170 — In woman's, 198 — My ravished, 26 — Not a friend to close his, 51 — O'erwhelm them to men's, 35 — of expectation, The, 142 — Of neighbouring, 31 — Pearls that were his, 55 — that drop, 50 — were closed 34 — Windows of mine, 191 Eyesight lost, 15 Fabric of this vision, The baseless, 148 — The mystic, 10 Face, Commandments in your, 12 — Except her, 200 — Familiar with her, 181 — Garden in her, 24 — In your, 28 — is like the milky way, Her, 50 — like a benediction, A, 50 — Mind's construction in the, 50 — of joy, Wo wear a, 63 — Sages have seen in thy, 161 — Transmitter of a foolish, 145 Faces are legible, 50 — Sea of upturned, 50 Facing dreadful odds, 36 Facts are chiels, 50 — • are stubborn things, 50 — To his imagination for his, 50 Faculties, His cogitative, 27 — How infinite in, 110 Fade, All that's bright must 12 — away, The first to, 25 — Or iorrow, 86 Fading are the joys we dote on, 6 — away, Fair things aie, 20 Faery of the mine, 182 Fail, If we should, 50 — No such word as, 50 — They never, 38 Failing but their own, To every, \\i Failings, E'en his, 50 Fails, Oft expectation, 49 Fain would I climb, 27 Faint, All words are, 203 — heart, 50 — in the day of adversity, 3 — kind of policy, 40 Fair as a star, 182 — Brave deserves the, 18 — Fleeting as 'tis, 77 — good night, A, 42 — lady, Ne'er won, 50 — laughs the morn, 119 — ones, Full and, 24 — Science frowned not, 212 — spirit, One, 37 — the chaste, The, 177 — things are fading, 20 — Vanity, 179 Fairy fiction drest, By, 175 — takes, No, 26 Faith and Hope, In, 51 — Animated only by, 26 — For modes of, 94 — in honest doubt, More, 51 — In plain and simple, 102 — perhaps, His, 51 — Perplexed in, 51 — than Norman blood, Simple, 66 — The amaranthine flower of, 51 — Welcome pure-eyed, 51 — which Milton held, 60 — Woman's plighted, 199 Faith's defender, The, 86 Faithful, Among the faithlese, a — are the wounds, 61 — found among the faithless, 5L — friend, A, 61 — only he, 51 Fall, Before a, 141 — By dividing we, 177 — Free to, 60 — Have their time to, 35 — I fear to, 27 — no lower, Can, 42 — of a sparrow, The, 143 — Return to his former, 207 Fallen, Angels have, 141 — Arise, or be for ever, 9 — fallen, 51 — great, Though, 68 ANALYTICAL INDEX— F. Fallen, How an the mighty, 115 Falleth, Whore the tree, 175 Falling, Like dew, 202 -- man, Press not a, 109 ■ — with a falling state, 106 Falls like Lucifer, He, 139 — with the leaf, 13 False again, Prove, 40 — and fleeting, 77 — and hollow, All was, 51 — Any other thing that's, 4? — as dicers' oaths, 51 — creation, A, 32 — fugitive, 143 — to any man, 17 — Words are grown so, 203 Falsehood, A goodly outside, 51 — framed, A heart for, 51 Falter, Cowards, 30 Fame, A fool to, 129 — A shade that follows, 63 — Above all Roman, 52 — An honest, 52 — Better than, 52 — Blush to find it, 65 — Cover his high, 52 — Damned to, 52 — elates thee, While the, 64 — Fond of, 52 — Gives immortal, 186 — Heir of, 157 — 1 slight, Nor, 52 — is no plant, 52 — is the spur, 51 — Not to, 26 — Of honest, 52 — Outlives in, 52 — Road that leads to, 184 — The end of, 52 — The martyrdom of, 52 — To fortune and to, 212 — What rage for, 52 Fame's proud temple, 52 Familiar, Be thou, Gl — friend, Mine own, 61 — in his mouth, 203 — in their mouths, 124 — with her face, 181 — word, That once, 123 Familiarly of roaring lions, 52 Families of yesterday, Great, 52 Famous, Found myself, 53 — victory, A, 181 Fan me while I sleep, To, 159 Fancy, Bright-eyed, 53 — free, 112 — Of most excellent, 211 — Sweet and bitter, 53 F.tncy, The end of sweet and bittei v 53 Fancy's child, 158 — meteor ray, 95 Fantastic summer's heat, 66 — toe, On the light, 164 Fantasy, Nothing but vain, 4? Far as the solar walk, 53 — away. And, 74 — between, Few and, 6 — country, Good news from a, 128 — that little candle, How, 36 Fardels bear. Who would, 173 Fare thee well, 53 Farewell, a long farewell, 53 — a word that must be, 53 — Bade the world, 77 — Fair-eyed peace, 186 — farewell, 53 — For in that word, 53 — goes out sighing, 188 — happy fields, 53 — hope, So, 49 — if ever fondest prayer, 53 — Sweets to the sweet, 168 — The bitter word, 54 — the tranquil mind, 53 Farewells, The air is full of, 44 Fashion, The glass of, 130 Fast and furious, Fun grew, 117 — by their native shore, 18 — Who can write so, 209 Fasten him as a nail, 54 Fat all creatures, We, 207 — as Bacchus, Not so, 195 — Men that are, 113 — oxen, Who drives, 54 — things, A feast of, 56 Fata Morgana, 54 Fatal dart. On the, 44 — vision, 32 Fate and mine*, Thy, 54 — Big with the, 33 — Fast in, 54 — Favourites of, 54 — itself could awe, That, 54 — Reasoned high of, 39 — Struggling in the storms of, 108 — Take a bond of, 9 — That eagle's, 44 — The book of, 54 — Why know their, 193 Fates, Masters of their, 28 Father dies, When his, 55 — for his hoarding, Whose, 80 — It is a wise, 55 — lies, Fathoms five thy, 55 — loved me. Her, 55 240 ANALYTICAL INDEX— V. Father, made them all, My, 55 — My noble, 186 — of all, 55 — of the man, 24 — spirit, Thy, 163 — Thy wish was, 193 — The ashes of his, 35 Father's field, Leaves his, 18 Fathoms five, Full, 55 Fault, A political, 30 — at first, One, 55 — Condemn the, 55 — Excusing of a, 55 — Hint a, 139 — which needs it most, A, 55 Faultless piece to see, A, 56 Faults, Be to her, 183 — Moulded out of, 56 — With all her, 46 Favourite has no friend, A, 56 — Heaven gives its, 34 — of fate, Seems, 54 Favours secret, sweet, and precious, 67 — Sense of future, 67 Fear betrays a guiit, All, 69 — doth still exceed, 70 — Early and provident, 56 — Farewell, 49 — God, 56 — guides more, 56 — is affront, 200 — no fall, Needs, 47 — not, 56 — not till Birnam Wood, 42 — of hell, The, 78 — the mother of safety, 56 — to f all, L, 27 Feared, but alone as freemen, 116 Fearful thing, It is a, 35 Fearfully and wonderfully made, 104 Fearing to attempt* 41 Fears, Present, 56 — Saucy doubts and, 41 Feast, Enough is good as a, 46 — Makes a merry, 78 — Mirth becomes a, 117 — Nourisher in life's, 160 — of fat things, A, 56 Feasting, Valour in, 178 Feasts, Fools make, 52 Feather in your cap, 56 — of his own, Espied a, 44 — Viewed his own, 44 — is wafted downward, 33 — whence the pen, The, 135 Feathers, A two-legged animal with- out, 108 Feature, Scented the grim, 144 Features, 56 February hath twenty-eight, 21 Fed of the dainties, 17 — On honey-dew hath, 76 Fee, Death's retaining, 7 — the doctor, Than, 72 Feeble were, If virtue, 182 Feed on her damask cheek, 101 Feeling hell, 73 — High mountains are a, 120 — of vengeance, Nor one, 45 — Sensible to, 32 Feelings forth, Freely gushed all 177 Feels its life in every limb, 24 Feet beneath her petticoat, Her, 56 — Her pretty, 56 — met the dirt, Their, 141 Felicity, Our own, 41 Fell asleep, He, 35 — Doctor, 40 — like stars, They, 63 — of hair, My, 78 — the hardest-timbered oak, 167 Fellow, Dies an honest, 13 — feeling makes one wondrous kind 86 — in a market-town, 145 — of infinite jest, A, 211 — The, 208 Felt, Darkness which may be, 33 Female, A, 196 Fever, After life's fitful, 93 Few and far between, 6 Fib, Destrov his, 38 Fibs, I'll tell you no, 144 Fico for the phrase, A, 166 Fiction, By fairy, 175 — Stranger than, 175 Fie, foh, fum, 56 Field, Accidents by flood and, 55 — Leaves his father's, 18 — Six Richmonds in the, 94 Fields, Babbled of green, 56 — Farewell, happy, 53 Fiend, Equivocation of the, 47 — Was but a, 208 Fiends, These juggling, 41 Fierce, No beast so, 136 Fiery floods, To bathe in, 38 Fife, The ear-piercing, 53 Fig for care, A, 1*8 Fight again, May, 57 — Fight the good, 50 — May again, 57 Fighting, Valour in, 178 Fights and runs away, That, 57 Filches froia me, He" that, 133 ANALYTICAL INDEX— F. 241 Filial confidence inspired, With, 55 Find a tale in everything, 169 Finds a pang, 35 — mark the archer little meant, 15? Fine by degrees, 57 — frenzy, In a, 80 Finely touched, Spirits are not, 184 — wrought, Too, 18 Finger touched him, God's, 35 Finished every feast of love, 54 Fir-trees dark and high, The, 147 Fire, A little, 57 — After the, 185 — Fringed with, 11 — from the mind, Steal, 211 — Hurries hack to, 70 — in his hand, Holds a, 66 — is not quenched, The, 207 — Now stir the, 208 Fireside, howsoe'er defended, 35 Firm concord holds, 113 Firmament, Earth's, 58 — The spacious, 57 First in war, 57 — magnitude, Thou Mar of the, 91 — passion, In her, 100 — sight, That loved not at, 102 Fish-like smell, 160 — nor flesh, Neither, 57 — with a worm, 207 Fishes gnawed upon, Men tnat, 42 «— live in the sea, How the, 57 Fist instead of a stick, With- 143 Fit audience find, 9 — for treason, Is, 122 Fitful fever, Life's, 93 Fits, Sad by, 57 Fittest place, The, 38 Five reasons why men drink, 42 Fixed fate, Reasoned high of, 39 Flag has braved, Whose, 111 — of our union, The, 177 Flame, Spark of heavenly, 184 — that lit the battle's wreck, 18 Flames no light, From those, 33 Flanders, Swore terribly in, 168 Flashes of merriment, Your, 211 Flat and unprofitable, 58 — blasphemy, 15 Flatter, Wrinkles won't, 208 Flattered its rank breath, 205 Flatterers besieged, By, 57 — meet, When, 57 Flattering painter, A, 132 — unction, Lay not that, 11". Flattery, Gross, 198 «— Imitation sincerest, 11 •— is the bellows, 57 11 Flattery lost on poet's ear, 138 Flattery's the food of fools, 58 Flavour everything, You, 178 — That gives it all its, 179 Flea, Naturalists observe a, 58 Fleas have little fleas, Great, 58 Fled and cried out death, 35 Flee, The wicked, 190 Fleet was moored, The, 42 Fleeting, False and, 77 — show, All a, 206 Flesh and blood can't bear it, 66 — how art thou fishified, 58 — is heir to, Shocks that, 173 — Neither fish nor, 57 — TeU, 213 — would melt, Too solid, 58 Flies o'er the unbending corn, 209 ■ — with swallow's wings, 77 — you, It still, 200 Flight, An Asmodeus', 8 — Eagle in his, 33 — of blessings, The, 15 Flint bears lire, As the, 6 — Snore upon the, 188 Flirtation, Most significant word, 58 Flock, however watched, 35 Flog them upon all occasions, 213 Flood, Accidents by, 55 — From the dark swelling, 45 — Land of the, 21 — of time, The, 172 — Taken at the, 172 Floods drown it, Neither can the, 100 — To bathe in fiery, 38 Floor of heaven, Look how the, 73 Floure of floures, 32 Floures in the mede, 32 — Love I most these, 32 — White and red, 32 Flourishes, 6t' wit, Outward, 19 Flout 'em, Scorn and, 200 Flower, A maiden in her, 105 — Crimson-tipped, 32 — enjoys, Every, 58 — Every opening, 13 — is born to blush unseen, 62 — is dry, The, 170 — Loved a tree or, 25 — of faith, The amaranthine, 51 — Shone forth in, 32 — that blows, The, 171 — You seize the, 137 Flowers and fruits of love, 34 — Only treads on, 172 — so blue and golden, 58 — to wither, 35 Flowing cups, In their, 203 242 ANALYTICAL INDEX— F. Flowing sea, A, 157 Flown with insolence and wine, 128 Flows, In smoother numbers, 209 Fly away and be at rest, 192 — may light, Those that, 57 — Metaphysic wit can, 189 — not yet, 137 — that sips treacle, The, 168 — to others that we know not of, 173 Flying Dutchman, 58 Foe, Ever sworn the, 60 — One worthy man my, 180 — Overcome but half his, 59 — Taken by the insolent, 55 — The manly, 61 — Who never made a, 59 Foemeu worthy of their steel, 59 Foes, Immortal, 204 — Routed all his, 12 Fold, Bids the shepherd, 165 — their tents, 22 Folded arms, Lord of, 31 Follies, Such a book of, 198 — that themselves commit, The, 99 Follow a shadow, 200 — So fast they, 196 — Thy steps L 82 Folly as it flies, Shoot, 125 — glide, Mirth can into, 117 — into sin, 117 — loves the martyrdom of fame, 52 — is all they've taught, 197 — Stoops to, 199 — Superfluous, 192 — to be wise, 'Tis, 193 Food, Craving for their, 16 ■ — for seven long years, 115 — Human nature's daily, 30 — of fools, The, 58 — of love, The, 121 — Of love the, 160 ■ — Pined and wanted, 75 Fool, A knavish, 196 ~- at forty, A, 59 — Honesty's a, 76 — I am a, 194 — me to the top of my bent, 59 — More knave than, 156 — of vanity, The, 179 — Resolved to live a, 115 — So little as a, 59 — Suspects himself a, 59 — to lame, A, 129 — to make me merry, A, 49 — wh® raised it, The pious, 52 — who thinks, He is a, 200 — will be meddling, Every, 59 Fool's paradise, This, 59 Fooled with hope, 94 Foolish face, Trar. emitter of a, 145 — notion, 155 Fools admire. 59 — In spite of, 61 — Men may live, 113 — of nature, We. 119 — Old men, 211 ' — Our yesterdays have lightedj 1 1* — rush in, 59 — Shame the, 141 — The food of, 58 — The money of, 202 — The paradise of, 59 — To frighten, 14 — To suckle, 59 — use wagers, 185 — who roam, They are, 71 — would wish to die, 34 Foot and hand go cold, 10 — Cloaked from head to, 36 — of a conqueror, The proud, 46 — upon a woman, Sets, 62 — on my native heath, 59 Footprints in the sands of time, 97 Footsteps in the sea, 201 Forbade to wade through slaughter: 114 Force of nature, The, 116 — or skill, By, 200 — Who overcomes by, 59 Forefathers of the hamlet, The rude, Foreign hands, By, 34 Foreknowledge, Reasoned high of, 39 Forest, Like the leaves of the, 91 — Pacing through the, 53 Forfeit once, All the souls were, 11& Forgave, A coward never, 59 — the offence, She, 130 Forget my sovereign, When I, 162 — the human race, §7 — the precious treasure, 15 Forgetful to entertain, Be not, 78 Forgetting, Our birth is a, 14 Forgive divine, To, 47 Forgiveness to the injured, 59 Forlorn hope, 59 Form a state, To, 165 — Lift its awful, 27 — The mould of, 130 Formal cut, Beard of, 164 Formed bv the converse, 67 Forms of hairs, The, 149 — of things unknowc, The, 108 Forsaken, When he is, 110 Fortress built by nature, 46 Fortune and to fame, To, 213 ANALYTICAL INDEX- -J 1 . 243 Fortune, Arrows of outrageous, 173 — do her worst, Let, 82 — If thou'll but gie, 60 — keeps an upward course, 181 — Leads on to, 172 — means, When, 60 — Tho gift of, 209 — The method of making a, 139 Fortune's hand, Goods by, 190 Fortunes, Battles, sieges, 55 Forty, A fool at, 59 — Knows it at, 59 — minutes, Girdle ... in, 63 — parson power, A, 133 — pounds a year, With, 106 Fought aU his battles, 12 — so followed, So, 201 Foul deeds will rise, 36 Found, make a note of, When, 31 — myself famous, 53 — the warmest welcome, 82 Fountain troubled, A, 196 Fountains, From little, 167 FowL Lord of the, 118 Fox, Unkennel the, 177 Fragments, Gather up the, 60 Frailties, Or draw his, 115 Frailty, Thy name, 197 Frame, Quit this mortal, 184 France, Better in, 60 — The King of, 87 Frantic, The lover, all as, 80 Frauds. Pious, 136 Fray, Eager for the, 54 Free, Greece might still be, 68 — His people are, 172 — or die, 60 — The ever, 155 — the human will, Let, 54 — The imprisoned wranglers, 208 — the oppressed, To, 34 — to fall, 60 — Who would be, 60 — Whom the truth makes, 61 — will, Reasoned high of, 39 — Valiant man and, 14 Freedom in my love, 60 — only deals, 60 — shrieked, 77 — to worship God, 60 — yet thy banner, 60 Freedom's battle, 60 — hallowed shade, In, 60 Freeman, He is the, 61 — He was the, 61 Fi seman's will, Executes a, 1 1 Freemen, Corrupted, 61 Freeze thy young blood, 163 Frenchman, I praise the, 161 — The brilliant, 14 Fretted vault, 4 — with golden fire, 110 Friend, A faithful, 61 — A favourite has no, 56 — As you choose a, 9 — Can find a, 61 — Good wine a, 42 — Guide, philosopher, and, 69 — He gained a, 17 — He makes no, 59 — in my retreat, A, 161 — Is such a, 61 — Knolling a departed, 126 — loveth, A, 61 — Name the, 61 — Own familiar, 61 — Ralph, 29 — The candid, 61 — The countenance of his, 83 — The wounds of a, 61 — to close his eyes, Not a, 51 — To lodge a, 159 — Touchstone to try a, 142 Friendless, No man so, 61 Friendly care, With, 86 — stroke, The, 38 Friends, Adversity of our best, S — Blows make of ... 204 — Cast off his, 61 — Find few real, 200 — Hath he not always, 67 — in youth, 61 — Of humblest, 32 — Old, 62 — On my list of, 62 — Romans, countrymen, 48 — Separateth very, 111 — thou hast, The, 61 — Three firm, 67 — Troops of, 155 — Wretched have no, 208 Friendship, A generous, 62 — is constant, 99 — Mysterious cement, 62 — What is, 62 Friendships, Closed all earthly, 54 Frighten fools, To, 14 Frightful mien, Monster of bo, 181 Frisk away, We, 94 Frisked beneath the burden of three score, 4 Frolics, A youth of, 212 From yon blue heaven, 37 Front of battle, 33 — of Jove himself, 67 — Smoothed his wrinkled, 39 244 ANALYTICAL INDEX- G. Frost, A killing, 53 Frown'd not, Fair Science, 21 3 Fruit of sense, Much, 203 — of that forbidden tree, The, 109 Fruits do grow, Pleasant, 24 — of love, 34 Fudge, Mr., 62 Fuel to the flame, Adding, 202 Fugitive, False, 143 Full and fair ones, 24 — fathom five, 55 — man, A, 145 — many a gem, 62 — of farewells, The air is, 44 — of the breath of the Lord, 79 — of wise saws, 164 — responding line, The, 43 Fun grew fast and furious, 117 Funeral marches, Hearts . . . beating, 8 — note, Not a, 42 Furies, Harpy-footed, 70 Furnace, Sighing like, 164 — The hottest, 21 Fury, Comes the blind, 51 — Nor hell a, 197 Future, Prophets of the, 134 — Beauty for the, 82 — The past, the, 134 — Trust no, 62 — times, Speak aloud for, 17 Gain his private ends, To, 40 — of a few, The, 133 Gained a friend, He, 17 Galled jade, 62 Gambol from Which madness would, 111 Gambols, Your, 211 Game, War's a, 186 Gang a kennin' wrang, 23 Garden in her face, 24 — made, The first, 64 — was a wild, The, 198 Garden's end, A river at my, 159 Gan el four stories high, Into a, 45 Garteis, gold, amuse, 24 Garth and his dispensary, 9 Gashed with honourable scars, 63 Gate of Eden, At the, 135 Gates of hell, As the, 171 — of mercy, The, 114 Gath, Tell it not in, 62 Gather no moss, Can, 166 — to the eyes, 170 Gather up the fragments, 80 Gathered every vice, 180 — up, That cannot be, 187 Gathering her brows, 32 — pebbles, Children, 25 — storm, Like, 32 Gathers round him, He, 65 Gay, From grave to, 67 — Lothario The, 98 Gaze an eagle blind, 103 Gazed, Stfl they, 201 Gazelle, Nursed a dear, 25 Gazette, Pall Mall, 133 Gazing thereupon, Long, 201 Gem, Full many a, 62 — of criticism, Brightest, 22 — Thou bonnie, 32 Gems, Reflecting, 42 — she wore, The, 149 General calamity, Times of, 21 — Caviare to the, 137 — Wade, 149 Generous race, A, 145 Gentilj He is, 63 Gentility, A cottage of, 140 Gentilman Jhesus, That, 63 — Offspring of the, 63 — The greatest, 63 Gentle and low, 184 — dames, 29 — reader, Oh, 169 — Spring, Come, 164 — thing, It is a, 160 Gentleman, Grand old name of, 03 — Prince of darkness is a, 141 — The first true, 63 Gentlemen, God Almighty's, 63 — Three, at once, 22 — Two single, 63 Gently scan your brother man, 23 — To hear, 23 Geography, In despite of, 23 George the Third, 20 Gestic lore, Skilled in, 4 Get money, 118 — place and wealth, 118 — behind me, 153 Getteth short of leaves, 16 Getting and spending, 206 Ghost, Ay, thou poor, 112 — Like an ill-used, 6 • — Meeting a, 28 — Needs no, 63 — of religion, The, 14 — Stubborn unlaid, 182 — Vex not his, 63 Ghost's word, The, 202 Giant Dies, As when a, 35 ANALYTICAL INDEX— Q. 245 Giant dwarf, Dan Cupid, 31 Giant's shoulders, A dwarf on a, 44 — shoulders, To mount npon the, 43 — strength, Excellent to have a, 167 Giants, There were, 63 Gibber, Squeak and, 150 Gibbets keep in awe, 186 — keep the lifted hand, 121 Gibes, Where be your, 211 Giddy wheel. While she turns the, 180 Gift horse, Never look a, 78 — of fortune, The, 209 — of heaven, The peculiar, 190 Giftie gie us, The, 155 Gifts, Dispensations and, 136 Gig, He alwavs kept a, 147 Gild refined g'old, To, 49 Giles, Edinburgh's Saint, 37 Ginger shall be hot, 21 Gipsy children of song, 10 Girdle round about the earth, 63 Girls, Between two, 90 — Golden lads and, 89 Girt with golden wings, 51 Give an inch, 81 — me back my heart, 105 — me my hollow tree, 92 — sorrow words, 68 — the lie, Must, 213 — thee sixpence, I, 159 Gives and takes, That, 205 — to airy nothing, 103 Giving it a hope, 208 Glad no more, Often, 63 — new year,- Of all the. 144 Gladness, Grief and, 23 Glance from heaven to earth, 80 Glare, Ever caught by, 105 Glass, An excuse for the, 105 — of fashion, The, 130 Glasses itself in tempests, 130 Glassy essence, His, 107 Gleamed upon my sight, She, 136 Gleaming in purple and gold, 9 Glee, Forward and frolic, 184 Glides the Derby Dilly, 37 i — the smooth current, 41 Glimpses of the moon, 119 Glisteneth. Gold that, 65 Glisters. All that, 65 --Gold that, 65 Glitters, All that. 65 Globe, In this distracted, 112 — itself, The great, 148 Glorious art, War's, 186 — in a pipe, 173 — surrender, Made, 39 ~tfcreo,44 Glorious training for a glorioui strife, 52 Glory is priceless, 63 — Left Mm alone with his. 42 — like his, No, 29 — O what a, 205 — of a creditor, The, 184 — Passed away a, 63 — The paths of, 64 — The steps of, 64 — to God, 63 — Vain pomp and, 139 — Visions of, 184 — waits thee, Where, 64 — Who rush to, 64 Glory's cup. Low in, 63 — thrill is o'er, 72 Gloss of art, The, 23 Glow, More brightly, 15 Gnawed upon, Men that fishes, 43 Go and do thou likewise, 95 — at once, 64 — boldly forth, 135 — no more a roving, 8 — on, Turn and yet, 176 — poor devil, 37 — See ere you, 97 — we know not where, 38 — where glory waits thee, 64 Goal of all, The final, 66 Goblin damned, 157 — No, 182 God, A church to, 26 — A temple built to, 38 — All is of, 64 — all mercy, A, 114 — Almighty's gentlemen, 63 — An effect whose cause is, 125 — An Atheist half believes a, 9 — Are but the varied, 211 — at all, Think not, 187 — Blends itself with, 207 — bless the king, 86 — bless the Pretender, 86 — bless us all, 86 — bless you, 167 — blessed the green island, 45 — Cast care on, 22 — disposes, 109 — End of all things, 93 — erects a house of prayer, 37 — Fear, 56 — Freedom to tvorship, 60 — Grace of, 67 — hath a temple, Where, 38 — hath anointed thee, 34 — hath made them so, 41 — helps them, 74 246 ANALYTICAL 1NDEX-G. God himself scarce seemed thereto be, 97 — How like a, 110 — in clouds. Sees, 77 — in ebony, Image of, 126 ■ — in the highest, Glory to, o'd — it is a fearful thing, 35 — made him, 108 — made the country, 64 — moves, 201 — never had a church, 37 <— never made his work, 72 — Obedience to, 146 — of all, As, 64 — Holy man of, 1 05 — save our gracious King, 86 — send thee good alL 10 — sendeth and giveth, 111 — sends meat, 112 — Servant of, 156 — takes a text, 134 ■ — tempers the wind, 89 — The curse of, 80 — the first garden made, 64 — The likest, 193 — The miUs of, 116 — The noblest work of, 107 — the soul, 124 — The voice of, 185 — The water saw its, 187 — The ways of, 187 i — Through darkness up to, 165 — to scan, Presume not, 108 — Up to nature's, 125 God's, All the ends . . . thy, 4 — finger touched them, 35 — most dreaded instrument, 105 — sons are things, 204 ■ — Events are, 43 Goddess, Like a thrifty, 184 — of reason, 146 Godlike reason, Capability and, 39 Godliness, Cleanliness next to, 26 Gods are just, The, 181 ■ — In the names of all the, 21 — Kings it makes, 77 — love, Whom the, 211 — The temples of his, 36 — Literature of the early, 178 Goes all the day, 115 — to th« waL, The weakest, 187 Gog and Magog, 64 Going guest, Speed the, 189 — hence, Endure their, 35 — My valour is ceitainly, 178 — to leap, 33 Gold, All is not, 65 — amuse his riper stage, 24 Gold, Gleaming in purple and, 9 — Gold ! gold, 65 — in phisike, 65 — Saint-seducing, 65 — Shineth as the, 65 — Silence is, 163 — The narrowing lust of, 14 — Wedges of, 42 Golden lads and girls, 89 Golden seem, That doth, 65 Gone before, Not dead, but, 65 — before, Not lost, but, 65 — before to that unknown, 65 Good, Fruits of love are, 34 — He is, 8 — by stealth, Do, 65 — Apprehension of the, 66 — Are better made, 66 — as a feast, Enough is as, 46 — as the bank, 202 — came of it, What, 181 — cheer, Make, 25 — deed, Shines a, 36 — digestion wait, 28 — Evil be thou my, 49 — fight, Fight the, 56 — grows, Indestructibly the, 66 — Hold thou the, 65 — in every case, 'Tis, 167 — in everything, 3 — intentions, Paved with, 73 — is oft interred, The, 48 — It might do 142 — Luxury of doing, 65 — meanings and wishes, 73 — meeting, Broke the, 39 — morning, Bid me, 93 — name, in man or woman, 123 — news from a far country, 126 — news baits, 126 — night, 133 — night, A fair, 42 — night, My native land, 124 — night, Say not, 93 — Noble to be, 66 — Nothing either, 66 — Of moral evil, and of, 49 — old rule, 66 — Only noble to be, 128 — Parent of, 133 — Samaritan, 66 — Seek to be, 197 — Some special, 66 * — somehow, 66 — Still educing, 48 — That which is, 143 — The more communicated, 65 — The worst speak something, i! ANALYTICAL INDEX— tf. 247 Good, Their luxury -was doing, 103 — things should be praised, 139 — time coming, A, 172 — to bad, From, 207 — To be noble we'll be, 128 — to me is lost, 49 — turns are shuffled off, 171 — Universal, 125 — we oft might win, 41 — wine, 42 — wise needs no bush, 192 — words, 202 Goodness, Greatness and, 67 — is, How awful, 66 — never fearful, 183 — Some soul of, 49 Good-will toward men, 63 Gore, Shedding tears of, 52 Gorgeous palaces, The, 148 Gorgon s, 66 Gory locks, Thy, 97 Govern the word, Syllables, 168 Gospel light, 95 Govern wrong, To, 149 Government, All, 66 — For forms of, 94 Gowd, A man's the, 145 Grace affordeth health, While, 1 — For love of, 111 — me no grace, 177 — defend us, Ministers of, 6 — of God, 67 — Snatch a, 67 — What a, 67 Graced with wreaths, 181 Gracious, Hallowed and so, 26 — Tarn grew, 67 Grampian Hills, On the, 128 Grand old name of gentleman, The, 63 Grandeur hear with a smile, 7 Grandsire phrase, With a, 143 — The gay, 4 Grant an honest fame, 52 — them but dwarfs, 44 Grapple them to thy soul, 61 Grasp it like a man of mettle, 126 — the ocean with my span, 117 — the skirts of chance, 23 Grateful mind, A, 67 Gratiano speaks, 129 Gratitude and fear, 56 — of men, The, 67 — of place expectants, 67 Grave, Beating marches? to the, 8 — Cradle stands in the, 34 — Digs the, 30 — dread thing, The, 67 — Duncan is in bis, 93 Grave, Earliest at his, 197 — for one alive, A, 142 — Ghost come from the, 63 — Glory or the, 64 — Gone to the, 67 — Lead but to the, 64 — Or else a, 181 — Shall lead thee to thy, 3 — That folds thy, 67 — to gay, From, 67 — Track ... to the, 64 — Upon his mother's, 135 — Valour from the, 178 Graves, Dishonourable, 28 — Let's talk of, 67 — of your sires, The green, 167 — stood tenantless, 150 Gray, In the level, 211 — Red spirits and, 164 Great, Aim not to be, 197 — cause, Die in a, 38 — Commoner, 68 — Make others, 82 — men, Lives of, 97 — ones eat up the little, 57 — Some are born, 67 — the important day, 33 — Unknown, 68 Greatest men, Of its, 113 — scandal waits, 165 Greatness and goodness, 67 — Farewell to all my, 53 — Some achieve, 67 Greece, Isles of, 68 — might still be, 68 — no more, Living, 68 — sad rehc, 68 — The eye of, 9 Greek, Above all, 52 Greek and Latin bold, In, 190 — Calends, 68 — He could speak, 68 Greeks joined Greeks, When, 186 Green cheese, Moon is made of, 1 18 — graves of your sires, The, 167 — island, God blessed the, 45 — Jack in the, 83-84 — old age, 4 — thought, To a, 171 — with jealousy, 198 Green-eyed monster, The, 84 Green-robed senators, Those, 129 Greet, It gars me, 29 Grey hairs, Wrinkled skin and, 23 Grief and gladness, 23 — best is pleased, 69 — boundeth, 69 — Can master a, 69 248 ANALYTICAL INDEX— H. Grief fills the room up, 69 — Much of, 69 — Patch, 69 — Perked up in a glist'ring, 103 — Silent manliness of, 69 — Smiling at, 101 — still treads, Thus, 111 — - Suit a calmer, 22 — - that does not speak, 161 — The canker and the, 34 — to cover, Her, 199 Griefs that harass the distressed, 84 Grieve his heart, 156 Grieves, If aught inanimate e'er, 69 Grieving, if aught inanimate, 69 Grim feature, Scented the, 244 Grim-visaged war, 39 Grin, so merry, 22 — The devil did, 140 Grind, Nothing else to, 73 — slowly, The mills of God, 116 Grinding, Tarry the, 134 Grizzled, Hair just, 4 Groans, Sovereign of sighs and, 31 — Worth a hundred, 90 Grog, Old, 131 Grooves of change, The ringing, 205 Grossly close it in, Doth, 73 Grossness, Losing all its, 181 Ground, Call it holy, 60 — Classic, 26 — Must themselves be, 73 — Sit upon the, 34 Grow again, Ne'er make, 188 — Do wither as they, 195 — Where they do, 24 Growing, While man is, 14 Growth, A plant of slow, 28 Grundy, Mrs., 69 Grant and sweat, To, 173 Guard dies, The, 69 — our native seas, That, 111 Guardian angels sung, 19 Gudgeons, To swallow, 24 Guerdon, But the fair, 51 Guest, Speed the going, 189 — Speed the parting, 69 — The body's, 162 • -The going, 69 Guide, philosopher, and friend, 69 — Providence their, 206 Guides the planets, 170 Guilt alone, 69 — being great, The, 70 — Betrays a, 69 — Can wash her, 199 — is villainy, 69 — Who fear not, 52 Guilt written in their bosom, 70 Guiltier than him they try, 85 Guilty mind, Haunts the, 70 Guinea's stair p, But the, 145 Gulf profound, A, 70 Gum, Their med'cinable, 165 Gushed all feeling forth, 177 Gusset and band. Seam and, 204 Gusty thieves, The, 16 H, 70 Habit and imitation, 70 — Doth breed a, 70 — if not resisted, 70 — is ten times nature, 70 Habitation, A local, 80 Habits, 111, 70 — Small, 70 Hackney 'd jokes from Miller, 30 Had we never loved sae kindly, 103 Hag, Blue meagre, 182 Had fellow, 70 — holy light, 95 — horrors, hail, 53 — Sabbath, 152 — to the chief, 70 — to thee, 71 — wedded love, 99 Hails you Tom or Jack, 61 Hair just grizzled, 4 — My fell of, 78 — 'Tis not her, 199 — With a single, 12 Hairbreadth 'scapes, Of, 55 Hairs, Wrinkled skin and grey, 33 Hal, 'Tis my vocation, 184 Halcyon days, 71 Half our knowledge, 87 — the creeds, In, 41 Halfpenny farthing, 147 Half-shut eyes, With his, 27 Hall, Douglas in his, 12 — 'Tis merry in, 115 Hallowed and so gracious, 26 Hamlet, Bude forefathers i»f the, 31 Hammers fell, No, 10 Hampden, Some village, 71 Hand, A vanished, 71 — go cold, 10 — Handle toward my, 33 — I see a, 185 — in hand, They, 206 — open as the day, 23 — that gave the blow, The, 181 — The kindlier, 14 ANALYTICAL INDEX— K 249 Hand to execute, A, 73 — Who lays his, 198 — will be against every man, 71 Handel's but a ninny, 176 Handle toward mj- hand, 32 Hands, A watch that wants both, 80 — By foreign, 34 — For idle, 80 — Washing his, 71 — Wrought with human, 30 Handsaw, Hawk from a, 72 Handsome does, That, 71 — is, 71 Hanging was the worst use, 71 Hangman's whip, A, 73 Hangs a tale. Thereby, 169 Happiest time, The, i.44 Happiness, If solid, 71 — 0,71 — that makes . . . afraid, 71 — There is. 197 — too swiftly flies, 193 — Virtue alone is, 182 Happy chance, Skirts of, 23 — could I be, How, 71 — Make two lovers, 103 — man, The, 188 — the man, 158 — years, Ah, 18 Harbinger, Merry spring-time's, 141 Hard and cold, 65 — by, A chapel, 38 — crab-tree, 172 — it is to climb, 52 — reading. Curst, 209 — valour, 39 Hark ! the lark, 90 Harmoniously confused, 179 Harmony, From heavenly, 72 — is in immortal souls, 73 — not understood, 125 — of shape expressed, 57 Harness on our back, With, 191 Harp of thousand strings, A, 72 — that once through Tara's halls, 72 — To one clear, 113 Harpy that devours everything, A, 9C Harrow up thy soul, Would, 163 Harry, Lord, 93 — Old, 131 — Thy wish, 193 Harshness gives offence, No, 209 Hart ungalled play, The, 207" Harvest of a quiet eye, The, 50 — time of love, The, 100 Haste, I said in my, 113 — Married in, 69 — thee, nymph, 84 11* Hasty marriage, 111 Hatched, Ere they're, 24 Hated, To be, 181 — yet caress' d, 30 Hater, A good, 72 Habes that excellence it cannot reach 46 Hatred, A stalled ox and, 74 — turned, Like love to, 197 Haughty spirit, An, 141 Haunts the guilty mind, 70 Haven of us all. Quiet, 35 Havens, Ports and happy, 137 Havock ! Cry, 72 Hawk, I know a, 72 Hawks, Between two, 96 Hazard of the die, I will stand the, 94 He must go, 37 — must have a long spoon, 37 — that dies, SS — that is down, 42 — who cures a disease, 39 Head full of quarrels, 144 — Here rests his, 212 — Imperfections on my, 31 — Lodgings in a, 72 — Lumber in his, 16 — Off with his, 72 — One small, 7 — Shakes his empty, 193 — Sunshine settles on its, 27 — Take lodgings in a. 72 — That one small, 201 — that wears a crown, The, 31 — to contrive, A, 73 — to foot, Cloaked from, 36 Heads, Hide their diminished, 165 — replete with thoughts, 88 — sometimes have so little, 72 — Very empty, 45 Headstrong as an allegory, 4 Health and virtue, 64 — deny, That will this, 72 — on both, 38 — Sleep full of, 160 — Spirit of, 157 — to Boz, A, 18 — Unbought, 72 — While grace affordeth, 117 Health's decay, 194 Heap to themselves teachers, 44 Heaps of pearls, 42 Hear, Gently to, 23 — it not, Duncan, 87 — Strike, but, 167 — Voice you cannot, 185 Heard, One eare it, 44 Heart, A light, 95 250 ANALYTICAL INDEX— H. Heart, A nieny, 72 — A strong, 40 — After his own, 106 — By want of, 48 — can ache no more, 45 — Congenial to my, 23 — did break, Some, 9S — Every pang that rends the, 77 — Faint, 50 — for falsehood framed. A, 51 — Give me back my, 105 — Grieve his, 156 — grow fonder, Absence makes the, 1 — is lying still, That mighty, 22 — Lord of the lion, 82 — of a man, If the, 197 — Rise in the, 170 — Save a, 33 — sick, Haketh the, 77 — Sleeps on his own, 50 — That grieved in his, 44 — that's broken, A, 157 — The eager, 14 — The human, 73 — The o'er-fraught, 68 — to conceive, 73 — to resolve, A, 73 — untainted, A, 144 — Whispers the e'er-fraught, 161 '— With a fervent, 205 — within, A warm, 107 — Woman is at, 197 Heartache, In all cases of, 3 — We end the, 173 Heart-stain, Ne'er carried a, 194 Hearts, Admission to onr, 198 — endure, Of all that human, 41 ■— lie withered, True, 73 r— of his countrymen, First in the, 5 — Though stout and brave our, 8 — that love, 40 — that once beat high, 72 — that the world . . . had tried, 40 — unto wisdom, Apply our, 192 — we leave, 58 — were fresh and vonng, 177 — unkind, Of, 67 Heart-throbs, Count time by, 97 Hearth, The cricket on the, 30 Heat-oppressed brain, 32 Heath, My foot is on my native, 59 — Land of brown, 21 Heaven, All to, 78 --an unpresumptuous eye, Lift to, 55 — Beholding, 73 — cannot heal, Sorrow that, 44 — Care in, 22 Heaven, Conveyed to, 36 — did a recompense, 17 — Fear of, 69 — from all creatures, 54 — gives its favourites, 34 — go, Never to, 203 — has no rage, 99 — hath my empty words, 203 — In hope to merit, 73 — in sunshine, 86 — itself would stoop, 182 — lies about us, 14 — Light from, 95 — Love is, 100 — of hell, A, 116_ — on earth, A., 65 — Serve in, 146 — That are not, 73 — The beauteous eye of, 49 — The greatest attribute of, 114 — The peculiar gift of, 190 — The top of, 165 — to earth, Glance from, 80 — To merit, 73 — was all tranquillity, 40 — We fly to, SO — were not heaven, 49 — Which we ascribe to, 147 — Whispered in, 70 — Whose silent finger points to, 163 — directed spire, The, 163 Heavenly blessings without number. 13 — flame, Spark of, 184 — harmony, From, 72 — paradise, A, 24 — ray, Beauty's, 13 Heaven's command, At, 19 — close vault, 73 — first law, Order is, 132 — gate, The lark at, 90 — sake, For, 34 Heavens, And srangled, 57 — should fall. If ever the, 149 Heavily in clouds, 33 Heavy load on thee, Laid many a, 44 Hecuba to him, What's, 73 Hedge a king, Divinity doth, 87 Heedless bishops, Bench of, 14 Heel of pleasure, Upon the, 111 — Upon another's, 1 96 Heels of pleasure, 69 — Tread each other's, 196 — With slipshod, 177 Heir of fame, 157 Height of this great argument, 187 Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt 103 ANALYTICAL INDEX— H. 251 Helen's beauty, Sees, 80 Hell, 74 — a fury, Nor, 197 — All places shall be, 73 — Better to reign in, 146 — breathes out contagion, 128 — broke loose, All, 73 — By making earth a, 73 — Envy, eldest born of, 47 — Feeling, 73 — is full of good meanings, 73 — is paved, 73 — Muttered in, 70 — of Heaven, A, 116 — of witchcraft, What a, 170 — One heel nail'd in, 5 — Riches grow in, 149 — The fear o\ 73 — The injured lover's, 84 — trembled, 35 — Went to, 80 ~ Which way I fly is, 74 — Who never mentions, 74 Helm, Pleasure at the, 119 Help, Between a hindrance and a, 74 — of the helpless, 1 — themselves, That, 74 Helps them, God, 74 Hence, all you vain delights, 112 — horrible shadows, 156 Henpecked you all, 88 Heraldry, The boast of, 64 Herbs, A dinner of, 74 Hercules himself, Let, 41 Here lies our sovereign lord, 86 — rests his head, 212 Here's a villain, 209 — to the maiden, 105 Hereafter, That points out an, 81 Hereditary bondsmen, 60 Hermit, Man, the, 110 — of the dale, Gentle, 176 Hermitage, For a, 60 Hero, Millions a, 47 — must drink brandy, 18 — perish, A, 64 Herocl, Out-herods, 74 Heroes, Troops of, 74 Heroic deeds, The perfume of, 52 Herring, Nor good red, 57 Herself, In. love with, 198 Hesperus . . . rode brightest, 48 Hesitate dislike, 139 Hew down and fell, 167 Hicjacet, 85 Hidden from the eye, Half, 182' Hide her shame, To, 199 — the fault I see, To, 114 Hide their diminished heads, 164 Hideous name, At this, 35 Hides the book of fate, Heaven, 5£ High, And reasoned, 39 — as metaphysic wit, As, lB9 — converse, Hold, 84 — mountains are a feeling, 120 — on a throne, 153 Higher things, May rise to, 113 Highest stvle of man, 25 Highly, What thou wouldst, 74 Hill, Mahomet may go to the, 105 — retired, Sat on a, 39 — So down thy, 37 — The wind-beaten, 49 Hills, Over the, 74 — whose heads touch heaven, 55 Hindmost, Devil take the, 37 Hindrance and a help, A, 74 Hint a fault, 208 Hip, On the, 33 Historian, Poet, Naturalist, 2 History, . . . the register, 74 — is philosophy, 74 — In my travel's, 55 — of books, Secret, 17 — Strange eventful, 165 — This strange eventful, 129 Hoarding, For his, 80 Hoarse rough verse, The, 209 Hobgoblin, 74 Hob-nob, 74 Hobson's choice, 74 Hocus-Pocus, 75 Hog, The fattest, 75 Hoist with his own petard, 46 Hold fast that which, is good, 142 — high converse, 34 — Makes nice of no vile, 160 — thou the good, 65 Hole, Always trusts to one poor, 12< — Csesar . . . might stop a, 21 — in a' your coats, A, 129 Holes where eyes did once inhabit, 42 Holiday, Roman, 11 Holidays, Playing, 75 — Unless on, 194 Holiest thing alive, The, 119 Holily, That wouldst thou, 74 Hollow, All was false and, 51 — tree, My, 92 Hollowness, Not with the empty 69 Holy ground, Call it, 60 — shifts, 136 — writ, As proofs of, 84 — writ, Stol'n out of, 183 Home, A devil at, L52 252 ANALYTICAL liiDEX—H. Home, A dunce . . . kept at, 43 — A day's march nearer, 15 — Ever is at, 134 — his footsteps, As, 124 — is still home, 75 — Never is at, 194 — No place like, 75 — Our, 71 — That spot thy, 89 — Their eternal, 75 — "We draw near, 75 — keeping youth, 213 Homeless near a thousand homes, 75 Homely, Be it ever so, 75 — wits, Ever, SJ13 Homer being dead, Warred for, 75 — dead, Contend for, 75 — once, Read, 75 Homer's rule, Sage, 69 Homes of silent prayer, 50 Honest knaves, Such, 189 — man, An, 107 — men get their own, 150 — Though it be, 126 — To be, 76 Honestly, Lived and ended, 115 Honesty is the best policy, 75 — Never make us lose our, 82 — Rich as, 76 — Wins not more than, 101 Honesty's a fool, 76 Honey all the day, Gather, 13 Honey-dew, 76 Honour and shame, 76 — but an empty bubble, 186 — Chastity of, 76 — far more precious, 76 — from me, Take, 76 — grip, Ye feel your, 73 — If I lose mine, 76 — more, Loved I not, 99 — Not without, 142 — pricks me on, 76 — riches, marriage-blessing, 76 — the king, 56 — Twins of, 39 Honourable scars, Gashed with, 63 Honoured by strangers, 34 — in the breach, More, 31 Honoured me, That living, 188 Honouring thee, Not so much, 208 Honours, Bears his blushing, 53 — Shine in more substantial, 128 Hoods make not monies, 118 Hookahs, Divine in, 173 Hookey Walker, 76 Hoops of steel, With, 61 Hope again, Never to, 139 Hope, Break it to ou:, 41 — But only, 77 — By faith and, 25 — deferred, 77 — Earthly, 77 — Fooled with, 94 — for a season, 77 — Forlorn, 59 — Giving it a, 208 — In faith and, 51 — is but the dream, 77 — is fled, When, 181 — is swift, True, 76 — Leave the light of, 6 — Like the glimmering, 17 — Love can, 101 — never comes, 77 — relies, On, 77 — Rosy with, 198 — springs eternal, 77 — The tender leaves of, 53 — thou nurse, 77 — Thus heavenly, 77 — to merit heaven, In, 73 — to the end, 77 — While there is life there's 77 — White-handed, 51 — withering fled, 77 Hopeless anguish poured hi* groan, 117 Hopes decay, My fondest, 25 Horatio, I knew him, 211 — In heaven and earth, 136 Horatius Flaccus, Witty as, 195 Horde, Society is now one polished 17 Horrible imaginings, Less than, 56 — shadows, Hence, 156 Horrid war, 186 Horror of falling into naught, 81 Horrors, Hail, 53 — Supped full of, 78 Horse, A full hot, 6 — A gift, 78 — a horse ! A, 78 — In a flying, 161 — Stalking, 165 Horses, Between two, 90 Hose, His youthful, 165 Hospitable thoughts intent, 78 Hospitality grows best, 78 Hot and rebellious liquors, 96 — i' the mouth, 21 — While the iron is, 167 Hottest furnace, The, 21 Hound, Whelp and, 40 Hour approaches, The, 172 — From childhood's, 25 ANALYTICAL INDEX— I. 253 Hour, Improve each shining, 13 i— In a sunny, 40 — In an evil, 33 — It is the, 78 — Now's the, 33 — The inevitable, 64 — Their natural, 33 — they worship, This, 207 — to hour, From, 169 — Wee short, 78 — when lovers' vows, The, 78 Hour-glass, Into an, 311 Hours, Lovers', 103 — of ease, In our, 197 — to law, Seven, 78 — Unheeded flow the, 172 — What peaceful, 78 — of bliss, Winged, 6 House, A man's, 78 — A moat defensive to a, 46 — Builds the, 30 — Lowered upon our, 39 — of care, A, 142 — of anyone, The, 78 — of prayer, A, 37 — to lodge a friend, A, 159 Household name, The, 123 — words, 303 Houses seem asleep, 22 Housewife that's thrifty, The, 105 How absolute the knave is, 47 — are the mighty fallen, 115 — can man die better, 36 — far that little candle, 36 — much a dunce, 43 — oft the sight, 36 — small . . . that part, 41 Hoyle, According to, 27 Huddle up their work, 145 Hue, In its azure, 40 — To add another, 49 Hues like hers, 125 — of bliss, 15 Hugged the offender, She, 130 Huggins and Muggins, 78, 79 Hum of human cities, The, 120 Human breast, Springs eternal in the, 77 — creeds, That tangle, 30 — hands, Wrought with, 30 — nature's daily food, 30 — offspring, True source of, 99 — - race, Forget the, 37 — reason, 145 — soul take wing, 35 — To err is, 47 — To step aside is, 23 Humanity, Imitated, 81 Humanity, Sad m.isic of, 79 — Suffering, sad, 118 Humankind, May better, 34 — The lords of, 141 Humble, Be it ever so, 75 — birth, His, 212 — Wisdom is, 88 Humbleness, Whispering, 16 Humblest friends, Of, 32 Humility is a virtue, 79 Humility, Stillness and, 19 — The pride that apes, 140 Humphrey, Duke, 43 Hundred isles, Throned on her, 180 Hundredth Psalm, 79 Hungry edge of appetite, The, 66 — judges, The, 85 Hunt in fields for wealth, 72 Huntsman his pack, As a, 61 Hurly-burly's done, When the, 112 Hurt cannot be much, The, 79 — thee, Why should I, 37_ Hurtles in the darkened air, 83 Husband and a wife, Parting of a, 133 — cools, Till a, 79 — frae the wife, The, 29 — Woman oweth to her, 43 Husband's eye, In her, 79 Husbandry, The edge of, 17 Hushed in grim repose, 140 Hut, Live in a, 100 — That dear, 71 Hydras, Gorgons and, 66 Hyperion's curls, 67 Hypocrisy is a sort of homage, 79 — is the necessary burden, 79 Hyrcian tiger, The, 33 I am his Highness's dog, 41 — come to bury Cassar, 48 — do not love thee, 40 — drink no more than a sponge, — had a dream, 42 — maun crush thee, 32 I'll not look for wine, 42 Ice, As chaste as, 22 — Thick-ribbed, 38 — To smooth the, 49 — To starve in, 70 Idea, Young, 212 Idiot, A tale told by an, 174 Idle as a painted ship, 80 — brain, Children