A Dictionary of Classified Quotations From Authors of all Nations and Periods, grouped under Subject - Headings, with full Index of Gross - References and Annotated List of Authors By W. GURNET BENHAM New York THOMAS Y. GROWELL COMPANY Publishers Printed in Great Britain PREFACE DICTIONARIES of Quotations are usually bought for one of two pur- poses either to assist in finding the exact locale and wording of some well- or half-remembered line, or to help a writer or speaker to do with effect what Montaigne spoke of when he said " I quote others only the better to express myself." This book of CLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS is intended primarily for the use of those who write, speak, or teach ; and the compiler confidently anticipates that, owing to its arrangement and to the very large number of subjects of which it treats, it will be of value alike to the clergyman, the lecturer, the journalist, and the author ; that it will not only recall to writers and to speakers the most striking phrases of their predecessors on almost any subject, but will also guide them to ideas which otherwise might not suggest themselves ; that it will save the after-dinner speaker time, trouble, and anxiety in the preparation of his speech ; and that it will prove itself a continuous source of interest and of useful information to the general reader. Whilst including the favourite household words, which can never wear out with use, the present volume contains many thousands of quotable passages and sayings not hitherto included in any similar collection. These have been chosen with care, and often as the result of extensive research. Extracts from the Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and other languages are given in English form ; and a large amount of time and trouble has been spent' in locating the quotations with such exactitude as will enable the student to refer to their setting in the work from which they come. " The art of quotation," said Isaac D'Israeli, " requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who see nothing more in a quotation than an extract." All definitions are dangerous, and to define a " quotation " is a thing as elusive and difficult as to ex- plain precisely what constitutes an article of virtu. In the end the humble, unpopular test of " utility " is the best, let the con- noisseurs rail as they will, provided always that we realize that not 2081342 PREFACE the least useful things in this world are those that can give pleasure, enlightenment, and inspiration. This same utility is also the reason for attempting the difficult sometimes impossible task of " classifying " a collection of literary gems and curiosities. Not a few quotations object to be classified ; others demand classification under many different headings. But on the whole the advantages of a system of classification outweigh the dis- advantages. Busy men and women require to be helped in their quest for the word in season, or for the inspiration which may be obtained from the varied ideas of the world's thinkers, of different periods, nationalities, religions, politics, and temperaments. Nearly two thousand separate subject-headings have been in- troduced in this book, some of them necessarily overlapping one another. Readers who do not at once find the lucky words under the particular heading which they have selected, should turn to the Index of Cross-References (p. 565), which will guide them to other passages appropriate for their purpose. But in using this or any similar work of reference D'Israeli's saying, quoted above, should be borne in mind, for it must be remembered that the art of quotation depends very largely on the taste, discernment, and ingenuity of those who practise it. W. GURNEY BENHAM. Whitcfriars Club, London. VI CONTENTS PAGE CLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS x INDEX OF SUBJECT-HEADINGS WITH CROSS-REFERENCES . 565 LIST OF AUTHORS QUOTED . . . A DICTIONARY OF CLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS ABASEMENT At whose sight all the stars hide their diminished heads. MILTON. Paradise Lost : Bk. 4, 34 Ye little stars ! hide your diminished rays ! POPE. Moral Essays, Ep. 3, 282. ABILITY The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. GIBBON. Decline and Fall, ch. 68. ABSENCE Absence makes the heart grow fonder. T. H. BAYLY. Isle of Beauty. To that loved land, where'er he goes, His tenderest thoughts are cast ; And dearer still, through absence, grows The memory of the past. J. D. BURNS. Song. But aye the tear comes in my ee, To think on him that's far awa'. BURNS. Oh, how can I be Blithe ? Absence is to love what wind is to fire ; it puts out the little and kindles the great. BUSSY. Absence ! Is not the heart torn by it. From more than light, or life, or breath ? 'Tis Lethe's gloom, but not its quiet, The pain without the peace of death. CAMPBELL. A bsence. That out of sight is out of mind Is true of most we leave behind. A. H. CLOUGH. Songs of Absence. Absence from whom we love is worse than death, And frustrate hope severer than despair. COWLEY. Despair at his Separation. Love reckons hours for months, and days for years ; And every little absence is an age. DRYDEN. Amphitryon. B The farther off, the more desired thus lovers tie their knot. HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY The Faithful Lover Though lost to sight, to memory dear. GEO. LINLEY. Song (c. 1835), but found as an " axiom " in " Gentleman's Magazine," Jan., 1827. " The absent claim a sigh, the dead a tear," has been added as a second line. Absence not long enough to root out quite All love, increases love at second sight. THOS. MAY. Henry 11. Alas, what winds can happy prove That bear me far from her I love ? PRIOR. Song. A bright adieu For a brief absence proves that love is true ; Ne'er can the way be irksome or forlorn That winds into itself for sweet return. WORDSWORTH. Memorials of a Tour in Scotland. Absent in body, but present in spirit, i Corinthians v, 3. Herte soon forgets what the eye sees not. Cursor Mundi (c. 1250). ABSTINENCE And made almost a sin of abstinence. DRYDEN. A Good Parson, I. n. And must I wholly banish hence These red and golden juices, And pay my vows to Abstinence, That pallidest of Muses ? SIR W. WATSON. To a Maiden whc bade me shun Wine. ABSTRUSENESS This young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Patience Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining. GOLDSMITH. Retaliation. ABSURDITY ACCUSATION When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and when he who speaks does not understand himself, that is meta- physics. VOLTAIRE. Abstrusest matter, reasonings of the mind Turned inward. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. i. ABSURDITY They are of all most subject to it [ab- surdity] that profess philosophy. For it is most true that Cicero saith of them somewhere, that there can be nothing so absurd but may be found in the books of philosophers. HOBBES. Leviathan, Bk. i, ch. 5. ABUNDANCE Not more than others I deserve, Yet God has given me more. I. WATTS. Praise for Mercies. ABUSE Letting the rank tongue blossom into speech. BROWNING. Caliban. Never slang a cabman he can beat you. H. J. BYRON. Mirth. Poets, like disputants, when reasons fail, Have one sure refuge left and that's to rail. DRYDEN. All for Love, Ep. There must be something good in you, I know, Or why does everyone abuse you so ? SIR OWEN SEAMAN. Praise of Fog. The ears can endure an injury better than the eyes. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. If it is abuse, why, one is sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another. SHERIDAN. The Critic, Act i, i. But from sharp words and wits men pluck no fruit ; And gathering thorns they shake the tree at root ; For words divide and rend, But silence is most noble till the end. SWINBURNE. Atalanta. Detraction and spitefulness are eagerly received. TACITUS. Hist. Bk. i. He should have a hail pow [a sound head], That calls his neighbour nikkienow. Scottish prov. (Ray). Keep your kiln-dried taunts for your mouldy-haired maidens. Scottish prov. Sticks and stanes may break my banes, But names will never hurt me. Scottish saying. ABUSES There are four good mothers, of whom are often born four unhappy daughters. Truth begets Hatred ; Happiness, Pride ; Security, Danger : and Familiarity. Con- tempt. STEELE. Guardian, No. o (Mar. 17, I7 1 3) The older the abuse the more sacred it is. VOLTAIRE. Les Guebres. ACCOMPLISHMENT To stretch the octave "twixt the dream and deed, Ah, that's the thrill ! R. LE GALLIENNE. The Decadent to his Soul. ACCOMPLISHMENTS All his perfections were so rare, The wit of man could not declare Which single virtue, or which grace Above the rest had any place. BUTLER. Miscell. Thoughts. A man of letters, manners, morals, parts. COWPER. Tirocinium, 673. He combined the manners of a marquis with the morals of a Methodist. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Ruddigore. A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 4. ACCOUNTANCY What is an inaccurate accountant good for ? " Silly man, that dost not know thy own silly trade ! " was once well said ; but the trade here is not silly. BURKE. Impeachment of Hastings (May 7, 1789). ACCUSATION Heedless of grammar they all cried, " That's him ! " R. H. BARHAM. Jackdaw of Rheims. Demon with the highest respect for you behold your work ! DICKENS. Our Mutual Friend, Bk. 4, ch. 5. The charge is prepared, the lawyers are met ; The judges all ranged a terrible show ! GAY. Beggar's Opera, Act 2, 2. I will make a Star-Chamber matter of it. SHAKESPEARE. Merry Wives, Act i, i Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do ; But -still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true. SHERIDAN (Attributed) ACHIEVEMENT ACTION ACHIEVEMENT I did some excellent things indifferently, Some bad things excellently. Both were praised ; The latter loudest. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 3. I die, but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed. BYRON. The Giaour, I. 1113. 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. I've touched the height of human happiness, And here I fix nil ultra. FLETCHER and MASSINGER. Prophetess, Act 4. Each morning sees some task begun, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. LONGFELLOW. Village Blacksmith. I write nil ultra to my proudest hopes. MASSINGER. New Way to Pay Old Debts, Act 4. She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won ! GEO. MEREDITH. Love in the Valley, st. 2. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair And what may quiet us in a death so noble. MILTON. Samson Agonistes, 1. 1721. Discoveries old of Wisdom's ways, And works still pregnant with the in- ventor's praise. PINDAR. Olympian Odes, 13, 17 (Moore tr.). The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows. MRS. H. ROSCOE (tr. of Michael Angela). Yet through good heart, and our Lady's grace, At length he gained the landing-place. SCOTT. Lay of the Last Minstrel, c. i, st. 29. If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it. SHAKESPEARE. Coriolanus, Act 5, 5. And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, dared, and done. CHRISTOPHER SMART. To David, st.86. The vulgar is content if he has fulfilled his duty. To the hero more is necessary. He must exceed that : he must exceed our hope. VOLTAIRE. Tancrede. He set his face against the blast. His feet against the flinty shard, Till the hard service grew at last Its own exceeding great reward. WHITTIER. Sumner, st. 10. Much done, and much designed, and more desired. WORDSWORTH. Evening Walk. And all may do what has by man been done. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 6. ACQUAINTANCESHIP We met 'twas in a crowd. T. H. BAYLY. Song. To meet, to know, to love and then to part, Is the sad tale of many a human heart. CO LERI D GE . Couplet. Acquaintance I would have, but when't depends Not on the number but the choice of friends. A. COWLEY. Of Myself. VVery glad to see you, indeed, and hope our acquaintance may be a long 'un, as the gen'l'm'n said to the fi" pun" note. DICKENS. Pickwick, ch. 25. Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing ; Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness. So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and silence. LONGFELLOW. Elizabeth, c. 4. ACQUIESCENCE The habit of agreeing seems to be dangerous and slippery. CICERO. Acad., 2, 21. ACQUISITIVENESS Ye come o' the McTabs, but no o' the McGies. Scottish prov. ACTION Let every action be directed to some definite object, and perfect in its way. MARCUS AURELIUS. Meditations, Bk. 4, 2. He that works and does some P( em, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. CARLYLE. Cromwell, Intro. ACTIONS ACTORS The whole praise of virtue lies in action. CICERO. De Officiis, Book i, 6. Not one of those men who in words are valiant, But when it comes to action, skulk away. COLERIDGE. Piccolomini, Act 5, 4 And all agog To dash through thick and thin. COWPER. John Gilpin, st. 10. Oh give my youth, my faith, my sword Choice of the heart's desire ; A short life in the saddle, Lord, Not long life by the fire ! LOUISE I. GUINEY (b. 1861). Knight Errant Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need. LONGFELLOW. Tales of a Wayside Inn, Part i, Prelude. So much one man can do, That does both act and know. MARVELL. Horatian Ode. For bragging time was over and fighting time was come SIR H. NEWBOLT. Hawke. To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life worth an age without a name. Used by SCOTT as heading to ch. 34 of Old Mortality, first published in The Bee (Edinburgh, 1791) as one of a set of verses by MAJOR T. O. MORDAUNT (1730-1809). To harps preferring swords, And everlasting deeds to burning words ! WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pt i, 10. ACTIONS In idle wishes fools supinely stay ; Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. CRABBE. Birth of Flattery Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are. GEO. ELIOT. Middlemarch, Heading to Chapter 70. He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted. EMERSON. Address, July 15, 1838. Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands al 1 light, all influence, all fate ; Nothing to him tails early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill. Our fatal shadows that walk by us stilj- JOHN FLETCHER. On an Honest Man s Fortune. If thou do ill. the joy fades, not the pains ; If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains. HERBERT. Church Porch (ad fin.). Virtue's achievement, Folly's crime, Whate'er of guilt or good the past has known, Not e'en the Sire of all things, mighty Time, Hath power to change, or make the deed undone. PINDAR. Olympian Odes, 2, 29 (Moore tr.). But the gods hear men's hands before their lips. SWINBURNE. Atalanta Althaea. ACTIVITY There are indeed some spirits so ardent that change of employment to them is rest, and their only fatigue a cessation rom activity. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. A generous ardour boils within my breast, Eager of action, enemy to rest. VIRGIL. JEneid, Bk. 9 (Dryden tr.). A ranging foot is aye getting an it were but a thorn. Scottish prov. ACTORS The Poet, to the end of time, Breathes in his works and lives in rhyme ; But when the Actor sinks to rest, And the turf lies upon his breast, A poor traditionary fame Is all that's left to grace his name. W. COMBE. Dr. Syntax, c. 24. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting ; "Twas only that, when he was off, he was acting. GOLDSMITH. Retaliation. What are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. JOHNSON. Alluding to Garrick's Death. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live. JOHNSON. Prologue, 1747. Let them be well used, for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2 2. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT ADVENTURE I have thought some of nature's journey- men had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abomin- ably. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 2. Tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ; who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, 2. The best in this kind are but shadows. SHAKESPEARE. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, i. French comedians, expert troubadours in the high science, the greatest of all the arts, the great art of pleasure. VOLTAIRE. Princesse de Navarre. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT There is something picturesque in an Act of Parliament. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Slavery, ch. i. ADAM AND EVE Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons ; the fairest of her daughters Eve. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 4, 323. ADAPTABILITY Read in the temper that he wrote, And may his gentle spirit guide thee ! ROGERS. Voyage of Columbus. Every time Serves for the matter that is then born in it. SHAKESPEARE Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, 2. Be soople, Davie, in things immaterial. R. L. STEVENSON. Kidnapped. I am made all things to all men. i Corinthians ix. 22 (I am become all things to all men. R. V.). ADMIRATION A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. BOILEAU. Art Poitique. It seems to me that men do not love what they are compelled to admire. DUCLOS. On the Manners of the Age. There is a species of benevolence which ought to have an appropriate name, .... a love of excellence, a benevolence ex- cited by all superiority in good, as envy is the hatred excited by that superiority, .... an admiration which no disparity of situation, no spirit of party, none of the hateful and disuniting feelings can ex- tinguish. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy, No. 22. We indeed hear it not seldom said that ignorance is the mother of admiration. No falser word was ever spoken, and hardly a more mischievous one. ARCHBP. TRENCH. Study of Words. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired And not blush so to be admired. WALLER. Go, Lovely Rose. ADMISSION The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act i, 3 Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke : but farewell, com- pliment. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act a, a. I own the soft impeachment fMrs. Malaprop]. SHERIDAN. Rivals, Act 5, 3. ADMONITION Admonish your friends in private ; praise them in public. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. ADORNMENT But who is this ? What thing of sea or land? Female of sex it seems, That so bedecked, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing. MILTON. Samson Agonistes, I. 710. ADSUM As the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, " Ad- sum ! " and fell back. It was the word we used at school, when names were called ; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of The Master. THACKERAY. Newcomes, Bk. 2, c. 42. ADVANTAGE It's them as takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world. GEO. ELIOT. Adam Bede, ch. 32. Advantage is a better soldier than rashness. SHAKESPEARE. Henry V, Act 3, 6. Coigne of vantage. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act x, 6. ADVENTURE Mortals, who sought and found, by dan- gerous roads, A path to perpetuity of fame. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 3, st. 105. ADVERSITY ADVERTISEMENT The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this, " Adventures are to the Adventurous." Written in the Album of Minerva, by Ixion in Heaven. DISRAELI. Ixion, Ft. 2, 2. Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly brccich, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act I, 3. She gave me for my pains a world of sighs ; She swore, In faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twns pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful ; She wished she had not heard it. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act. i, 3. ADVERSITY Ah, life of man ! When most it prospcreth, It is but limned in outline ; and when brought To low estate, then doth the sponge, full soaked, Wipe out the picture with its frequent touch ; And this I count more piteous e'en than that. /ESCHYLUS. Agamemnon, 1327 (Plumplre />.). Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament. Adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction. BACON. Essays, 5, Adversity. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed and crushed ; for prosperity does best dis- cover vice, but adversity doth best dis- cover virtue. BACON. Ib. No greater grief than to remember days Of joy, when misery is at hand. H. F. CARV. Tr. Dante, c. 5, 1. 118. sodeyn wo ! that ever art successour To worldly blisse ! CHAUCER. Man of Law's Tale, I. 4841. For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kimle of infortune is this, A man to have been in prosperitce And it remcmbren, whan it passed is. CHAUCER. Troilus and Cressid, 13k. 3 v. 1625^ Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, 1 have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more. DRYDEN. Don Sebastian, Act i, i! For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. DRYDEN. Hind and Panther, Pt. 3, 47. Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. EMERSON. Conduct of Life, Considerations by the way. The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man strug- gling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it. GOLDSMITH. Vicar of Wakefield, c. 30. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. BEN JONSON. Of Bacon. In the adversity of our best friends we ever find something not displeasing to us. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 99. Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. SHAKESPEARE. .4s You Like It, Act 2, i. A man I am crossed with adversity. SHAKESPEARE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 4, i. I have been near, I have been far, my back's been at the wall, Yet aye and ever shone the star to guide me through it all ; The love of God, the help of man, they both shall make me bold, Against the gates of darkness as beside the Gates of Gold. R. L. STEVENSON. In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. Ecclesiastes vii, 14. The wind in one's face makes one wise. Prov. (Geo. Herbert) ADVERTISEMENT If you wish in this world to advance, Your merits you're bound to enhance ; You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Ruddigore. Great is advertisement ! 'tis almost fate ; But, little mushroom men, of puff-ball fame, Ah, do you dream to be mistaken great And to be really great are just the same ? R. LE GALLIENNE. Tennyson. Great is advertisement with little men. SIR OWEN SEAMAN. Ode to Spring. ADVICE AFFABILITY Yes, sir, puffing is of various sorts ; the principal are the puff direct, the puff preliminary, the puff collateral, the puff collusive, and the puff oblique, or puff by implication. SHERIDAN. Critic, Act i, 2. ADVICE A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. ADDISON. Spectator, 518. Woman's advice is either too dear or too cheap. ALBERTANO OF BRESCIA. Liber Consolatiotiis. The worst men give oft the best advice. P. J. BAILEY. Festus. In ploughman phrase, " God send you speed," Still daily to grow wiser ; And may ye better reck the rede Than ever did th' adviser. BURNS. Epistle to a Young Friend. Ah, gentle dames ! it gars me greet To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthened, sage advices The husband frae the wife despises ! BURNS. Tarn o' Shanter. Good but rarely came from good advice. BYRON. Don Juan, 14, 66. Advice is seldom welcome ; and those who want it the most, always like it the least. LORD CHESTERFIELD. Letter to his Son, Jan. 29, 1748. We ask advice, but we mean approba- tion. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. They first condemn that first advised the ill. DRYDEN. Absalom, Pt. 2. 183. It is easier to give advice than to bear sufferings manfully. EURIPIDES. A Icestis. We ask advice, but we are not particular about its being good. Quite the reverse. Good advice is often annoying ; bad advice never is. E. GONDINET. Gavaut, Minard, el Cie. Extremely foolish criticism is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the labouring vessel from the land. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. 2, ch. 2. One gives nothing so liberally as advice. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim no. I know your worship's wise, and needs no counsel ; Yet, if in my desire to do you service, I humbly offer my advice (but still Under correction), I hope I shall not Incur your high displeasure. MASSINGER. New Way to Pay Old Debts, Act 2. Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing oneself, under pretence of hindering another from doing one. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. A man is badly in need of advice when he has many advisers. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. An angry man regards even advice as a crime. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. Ann will do just exactly what she likes. And what's more, she'll force us to advise her to do it ; and she'll put the blame on us if it turns out badly. G. B. SHAW. Man and Superman. Advice gratis seldom great is. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." He had only one vanity ; he thought he could give advice better than any other person. MARK TWAIN. Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg. It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. OSCAR WILDE. Soul of Man undet Socialism. Women's counsels are often fatal. Icelandic prov. (Quoted by Chaucer, Nun Priest's Tale, 436). Advice most needed is least heeded. Prov. Who works in the public square will have many advisers. Spanish prov. ADVOCACY A certain lawyer, on being asked why he defended so many bad causes, replied that he did so because he had lost so many good ones. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. Doubt not, my lad, I'll play the orator, As if the golden fee, for which I plead, Were for myself. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act 3, 5. AFFABILITY He is a Gentleman, because his nature Is kinde and affable to everie Creature. BARNFIELD. Shepherd's Content (1594). The fient a pride, nae pride had he, Nor sauce, nor state, that I could see. BURNS. On meeting with Lord Daer. AFFECTATION AFFECTION, PARTIALITY OF Bear in mind then that by pleasing men it becomes possible to accomplish some- thing ; but austerity might as well dwell in a desert. PLATO. Epistle 4 (To Dion of Syracuse). AFFECTATION I would give the universe for a disposi- tion less hard to please. Yet after all, what is pleasure ? When one has seen one thing, one has seen everything. O, 'tis heavy work ! [Mr. Meadows, " Man of the Ton."] MME. D'ARBLAY (Miss BURNEY). Cecilia, Bk. 2, c. 6. Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism are all very good words for the lips ; especially prunes and prism. DICKENS. Little Dorr it, Pt. 2, ch. 5. They are the affectation of affectation. FIELDING. Joseph Andrews, Bk. 3, c. 3. A most intense young man, A soul-ful eyed young man, An ultra -poetical, super-aesthetical Out-of-the-way young man. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Patience. Die of a rose in aromatic pain. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. i, 200. Why, is it not a lamentable thing, grandsire, that we should be thus afflicted with these strange flies, these fashion- mongers, these pardon-mes ? SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, 4. AFFECTION The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined. MRS. BARBAULD. Delia. None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possessed A thought, and claims the homage of a tear. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. i, st. 24. It behoves Those who are wise to love their children first, Their aged parents next, and native land, Whose growing fortunes they are bound to improve, And not dismember it. EURIPIDES. Suppliants, 508 (Woodhull tr.). Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. GRAY. Bard c. i. Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree ; Love is a present for a mighty king. HERBERT. Church Porch. Was there a nearer one Still, and a dearer one, Yet, than all other ? HOOD. Bridge of Sighs. Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted ; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment. LONGFELLOW. Evangeline, Pt. 2. Something the heart must have to cherish. LONGFELLOW. Wilhelm Meister. Come, live in my heart and pay no rent ! S. LOVER. Song " Vourneen." If you have any care for me, take care of yourself. OVID. Heroides, 13. I do receive your offered love, like love, And will not wrong it. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 5, 2. Love comforteth, like sunshine after rain. SHAKESPEARE. Venus and Adonis, st. 134. The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. THACKERAY. Vanity Fair, ch. 4. AFFECTIONS Of all the tyrants that the world affords Our own affections are the fiercest lords. WM. ALEXANDER (EARL OF STIRLING). Julius C&sar. A woman's whole existence is a history of the affections. WASHINGTON IRVING. The Broken Heart. Glorious is the blending Of right affections, climbing or descending Along a scale of light and life, with rarcs Alternate, carrying holy thoughts and prayers. WORDSWORTH. Humanity 1.28. AFFECTION, PARTIALITY OF The apples she had gathered smelt most sweet, The cake she kneaded was the savoury meat: But fruits their odour lost, and meats their taste, If gentle Abra had not decked the feast ; Dishonoured did the sparkling goblet stand, Unless received from gentle Abra's hand. PRIOR. Solomon, Bk. 2, 49^. AFFECTION, UNREQUITED AFTERNOON AFFECTION, UNREQUITED If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection i?. DICKENS. Dombey, c. 48. AFFINITIES There is a story told [said Diotima to Socrates] that they who are in love are in search of their other halt. PLATO. The Banquet, 31. The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean. The winds of heaven mix for ever, With a sweet emotion ; Nothing in the world is single ; All things, by a law divine, In one another's being mingle Why not I with thine ? SHELLEY. Love's Philosophy. Two shall be born the whole wide world apart, And speak in different tongues, and have no thought Each of the other's being, and no heed. And all unconsciously, shape every act And bend each wandering step to this one end, That one day, out of darkness, they shall meet And read life's meaning in each other's eyes. SUSAN MARK SPALDING. Fate. AFFLICTION For the tear is an intellectual thing, And a sigh is the sword of an Angel King ; And the bitter groan of a martyr's woe Is an arrow from God Almighty's bow. WM. BLAKE. The Grey Monk. For the poet saith that we oughte paciently to take the tribulacions that come to us, when we think and consider that we have deserved to have them. CHAUCER. Tale of Melibeus, sec. 46. (The name of " the poet " is not known.) Pain after pain, and woe succeeding woe Is my heart destined for another blow 1 COLERIDGE. On his Sister's Death. But misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case. COWPER. The Castaway. If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, (Making us pry into ourselves so near), Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were. SIR JOHN DAVIES. Nosce Teipsum, sec. i, st. 38. O suffering, sad humanity ! O ye afflicted ones who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Lone ing, and yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried ! LONGFELLOW. Goblet of Life. Alas ! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain ; The heart can ne'er a transport know, That never feels a pain. GEO. LORD LYTTELTON. Song. We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow. J. POMFRET. To his Friend, 45. Heaven is not always angry when He strikes, But most chastises those whom most He likes. J. POMFRET. Ib., 89. Our griefs how swift ! our remedies how slow ! PRIOR. Solomon, Bk. 2, 352. 'Tis a cruelty To load a falling man. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 5, 2. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. 2 Corinthians iv, 17. AFFRONTS Young men soon give and soon forget affronts ; Old age is slow in both. ADDISON. Goto, Act 2. A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can. COWPER. Conversation. To one well-born the affront is worse and more, When he's abused and baffled by a boor. DRYDEN. Satire on the Dutch, I. 27. If slighted, slight the slight and love the slighter. Given by C. H. SPURGEON as " conduct worthy of a noble mind." AFRICA Africa ever brings evil. ARISTOTLE. Always something new out of Africa. PLINY. Nat. Hist. 8, 6. AFTERNOON In the posteriors of this day : which the rude multitude call the afternoon. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, Act 5. i. AFTER-THOUGHTS AGES, THE SEVEN AFTER-THOUGHTS Second thoughts are admissible in painting and poetry only as dressers of the first conception. No great idea was ever formed in fragments. HENRY FUSELI. Aphorisms of Art. His sayings are generally like women's letters ; all the pith is in the postscript. [In reference to Chas. Lamb.] HAZLITT. Boswell Redivivus. AFTER-WISDOM Of all the horrid, hideous sounds of woe, Sadder than owl-songs on the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, " I told you so." BYRON. Don Juan, c. 14, st. 50. AGE Age will not be defied. BACON. Of Regiment of Health. Alonzo of Arragon was wont to say in commendation of age, " That age appeared to be best in four tilings : old WCKX! best to burn ; old wine to drink ; old friends to trust ; and old authors to read." BACON. Apophthegms 134. I've seen sae mony changefu* years, On earth I am a stranger grown ; I wander in the ways of men, Alike unknowing and unknown. BURNS. Lament for Earl ofGlencairn. Year's steal Fire from the mind, as vigour from the lirnb ; And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. BYRON. Childe Harold, c 3, st. 8. And wrinkles, the d d democrats, won't flatter. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 10, st. 24. 'Tis well to give honour and glory to Age, With its lessons of wisdom and truth ; Yet who would not back to the fanciful page, And the fairy tale read but in youth ? ELIZA COOK. Stanzas. Age is like love, it cannot be hid. DEKKER. Old Fortunalus. For never any man was yet so old But hoped his life one winter more might hold. SIR J. DENHAM, Old Age, PL i, /. 135. Our nature here is not unlike our wine ; Some sorts, when old, continue brisk and fine. SIR J. DENHAM. Ib., /'/. 3, /. 245. She may very well pass for forty-three In the dusk with a light behind her. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Trial by Jury. Women and music should never be dated. GOLDSMITH. She Stoops to Conquer, Act 3. I'm wearin' awa' To the land o' the leal. BARONESS NAIRN. Land o' the Leal. My age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 2, 3 The lean and slippered pantaloon. With spectacles on nose and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 2, 7. Men are as old as they feel, women are as old as they seem. Italian prov. AGES, THE SEVEN 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, with 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 lined, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts. Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well saved, 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. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 2, 7. AGREEABLENESS AGRICULTURE AGREEABLENESS " My idea of an agreeable person," said Hugo Bohun, "is a person who agrees with me." DISRAELI. Lothair, c. 41. Whate'er you think, good words, I think, were best. SHAKESPEARE. K. John, Act 4, 2. I laugh not at another's loss, I grudge not at another's gain. Byrd's Collection (c. 1585). AGREEMENT By agreement small things grow ; by discord great things go to pieces. SALLUST. Jtigurtha. Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful. SHERIDAN. Critic, Act 2, 2. Ah ! don't say that you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. OSCAR WILDE. Intentions. It's my earnest desire to see a' the haill warld shakin' hauns. J. WILSON Nodes (Eltrick Shepherd). Transcendent over time, unbound by place, Concord and Charity in circles move. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pt. 3, 14. Gentlemen, I say ditto to Mr. Burke. Speech by Mr. Cruder on returning thanks for election as Burke's colleague, Can two walk together, except they be agreed ? Amos iii, 3. Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him. St. Matthew v, 25. AGRICULTURE In agriculture if you do one thing late, you are late in all things. CATO. Of all things from which gain is obtained, nothing is better than agriculture, nothing more productive, more delightful, more worthy of a man or of a freeman. CICERO. De Ofliciis. Cows are my passion. DICKENS. Dombcy, c. 21. Men do not like hard work, but every man has an exceptional respect for tillage, and a feeling that this is the original calling of his race. EMERSON. Farming. Agriculture is the foundation of manu- factures, since the productions of nature are the materials of art. GIBBON. Decline and Fall. All taxes must, at last, fall upon agriculture. GIBBON. Ib. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. O happy life ! if that their good The husbandmen but understood. HERRICK (From Virgil). Earth is so kindly there (Australia) that tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. D. JERROLD. Letter. In every way agriculture is the first calling of mankind ; it is the most honest, the most useful, and consequently the noblest which he can exercise. ROUSSEAU. Entile. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and gravemakcrs ; they hold up Adam's profession. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 5, i. He gave it for his opinion, " that who- ever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of land where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. SWIFT. Brobdingnag. The sire of gods and men, with hard decrees, Forbids our plenty to be bought with ease, And wills that mortal men, inured to toil, Should exercise with pains the grudging soil. VIRGIL. Georgics, Bk, i (Dryden lr.). O husbandmen, happy beyond measure if they only knew their own good fortune ! VIRGIL. Ib., 2. No laws, divine or human, can restrain From necessary works the labouring swain ; E'en holy-days and feasts permission yield To float the meadows or to fence the field. VIRGIL. Ib., Bk. i (Dryden tr.). O happy, if he knew his happy state, The swain, who, free from business and debate, Receives his easy food from Nature's hand, And just returns of cultivated land ! VIRGIL. Ib., Bk. 2 (Dryden tr.). Their soil was barren and their hearts were hard. VIRGIL. JEneid, Bk. 7 (Dryden tr.). II AILMENTS ALLEGORICAL ART The art %vhich feeds the world is a thank- less calling. VOLTAIRE. Le Temps Present. I believe that a sensible peasant knows more about agriculture than authors who from the seclusion of their libraries issue instructions as to how the earth is to be ploughed. VOLTAIRE. Letter. Give fools their gold, and knaves their power ; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall ; Who sows a field or trains a flower Or plants a tree is more than all. WHITTIER. Lints (Amesbury). He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers. ZOROASTER (as quoted by Gibbon). Whose talk is of bullocks. Ecclesiasticus xxxviii, 25. Hope sustains the husbandman. Latin prov. The first men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier. Old Saying. Cop and horn go together [Referring to prices of corn and cattle]. Prov. (Ray). Where there is muck there is luck. Quoted by Dr. Sheridan as a Scottish saying. Letter, 1735. He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive. Old Saying (Ray). To break a pasture will make a man, To make a pasture will break a man. Suffolk Saying. Nae hurry wi* your corns, Nae hurry wi' your harrows ; Snaw lies ahint the dike, Mair may come and fill the furrows. Scottish prov. As ane flits, anither sits, and that keeps mailins [farms] dear. Scottish prov. AILMENTS Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow. C. CHURCHILL. Night, v. 69. We are so fond of each other, because our ailments are the same. SWIFT. To Stella, Feb. i, 1711. AIM The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life ; Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate I BROWNING. Bishop Blougram. Who aimeth at the sky, Shoots higher much than he that means a tree. HERBERT. Church Porch. Who shoots at the midday sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush. SIR P. SIDNEY, Arcadia, Bk. 2. A noble aim, Faithfully kept, is as a noble deed. WORDSWORTH. Poems to Natvjnal Independence, Pt. 2, No. 19. All in a row, Bend the bow, Shoot at the pigeon and kill the crow. Old Nursery Rhyme. ALARMS What man dare, I dare : Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger ; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerve Shall never tremble. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 3, 4. Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! i SHAKESPEARE. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, i. ALCOHOL O madness, to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health ; When God, with these forbidden, made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong beyond compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook. MILTON. -Samson A gonistes. ALE Your best barley wine, the good liquor that our honest forefathers did use to drink of. IZAAK WALTON. Complete Angler, c. 5. Bring us in no beef for there is many bones, But bring us in good ale, for that goth down at once. Song (i4th or i$th Century). ALIBI Oh, Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi ? DICKENS. Pickwick, c. 34. ALLEGORICAL ART I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know than all the allegorical paint- ings they can show me in the world. JOHNSON. Remark as recorded by Sit John Hawkins. 12 ALLIANCE AMBITION ALLIANCE A sudden thought strikes me ; let us swear an eternal friendship. J. H. FRERE. Rovers, Act i, i. United thoughts and counsels, equal hope, And hazard in the glorious enterprise. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, I. 88. ALLITERATION Who often, but without success, have prayed, For apt alliteration's artful aid. C. CHURCHILL. Prophecy of Famine, v. 86. Begot by butchers and by beggars bred, How high his Honour holds his haughty head. Anon. Anthologia Oxoniensis (1846). On Cardinal Wolsey. ALLUREMENT The look of love alarms, Because 'tis filled with fire ; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire ; Soft deceit and idleness, These are beauty's sweetest dress. WM. BLAKE. Couplets and Fragments. How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws ! C. L. DODGSON. Alice in Wonderland, c. 2. ALMANAC The cheap convenience of an almanac, which enters into the comforts of every fireside in the country, could not be en- joyed but for the labours and studies of the profoundest philosophers. EDW. EVERETT. Lecture on the Workins Man's Party (c. 1835). ALOOFNESS His was the lofty port, the distant mien, That seems to shun the sight and awes if seen. BYRON. Corsair, c. i, 16. I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ; Nature I loved ; and next to Nature, Art. I warmed both hands before the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. W. S. LANDOR. Last Fruit. And stood aloof from other minds In impotence of fancied power. TENNYSON. A Character. ALTERNATIVES It's very hard to lose your cash, But harder to be shot. O. W. HOLMES. Music Grinders. A door must be either open or shut. French prov. ALTRUISM The eternal, not ourselves, which makes for righteousness. M. ARNOLD. Literature and Dogma, c* 8. Each man should bear his own discom- forts rather than abridge the comforts of another man. CICERO (adapted). See De Antic., 16, 57. He never errs who sacrifices self, (ist) LORD LYTTON. New Timon, Part 4, 3 This is the highest learning, The hardest and the best : From self to keep still turning, And honour all the rest. G. MACDONALD. After Thomas a Kempis. Through self-forgetfulness divine. GEO. MEREDITH. Lark Ascending- AMATEURS Every artist was first an amateur. EMERSON. Progress of Culture. AMBASSADORS An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. SIR H. WOTTON. In an Album. AMBIGUITY Obscurity illustrated by a further obscurity. BURKE. Impeachment of Hastings (May 5, 1789). Thus Oracles of old were still received, The more ambiguous, still the more believed. GEO. FARQUHAR. Letter from Gray's Inn. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. St. James iii, 10. Thou shalt go thou shalt return never in battle shalt thou perish. Utterance of the Oracle capable of favourable or unfavourable construction, according to punctuation. There's mair knavery amang kirkmen than honesty amang courtiers. Scottish saying. AMBITION To bliss unknown my lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires. DR. J. ARBUTHNOT. Gnothi Seauton, I. 53. He would have been greater to posterity if he had been willing to be smaller. AUBROTUS MIR/EUS (said of Erasmus). AMBITION AMBITION The strongest poison ever known Came from Ca>sar's laurel crown. WM. BLAKE. Proverb. The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition. BURKE. Present State of Nation. This Siren song of ambition. BURKE. Speech (1780). Ambition can creep as well as soar. BURKE. Letters on a Regicide Peace. Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones ? Whose table earth whose dice were human bones ? BYRON. Age of Bronze, 3. Affection chained her to that heart ; Ambition tore the links apart. BYRON. Bride of Abydos, c. i, 6. Ambition is the only power that combats love. C. GIBBER. Casar in Egypt, Act i. For what are riches, empire, power, But larger means to gratify the will ? CONGREVE. Mourning Bride, Act 2, 3. What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? COWLEY. The Moth. Glory and empire are to female blood More tempting dangerous rivals than a god. J. CROWNE. Destruction of Jerusalem, Pt. i, Act 3, 2. Be not with honour's gilded baits beguiled, Nor think ambition wise because 'tis brave. SIR W. D'AVENANT. Gondibert, Bk. i, 5, 75. Remember Milo's end, Wedged in the timber which he strove to rend. WENTWORTH DILLON (4x11 EARL OF KOSCOMMON). On Translated Verse. Desire of greatness is a godlike sin. DRYDEN. Absalom and Achitopliel, Pt. i, I. 372. Either I am The foremost horse in the team, or I am none. FLETCHER (and SHAKESPEARE ?). Two Noble Kinsmen, Act i. Not to swim I' the lead o' th' current were almost to sink. FLETCHER (and SHAKESPEARE ?). Ib. Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked. W. S. LANDCR. Imaginary Conversations. The greatest ambition has not the least appearance of being ambition, when it is found in a position where it is absolutely impossible to realise its aspirations. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxim 91. (Declared by George Eliot to be one of fits most acute sayings.) But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to ? MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 9, 1. 168. His trust was with th' Eternal to be deemed Equal in strength ; and rather than be less, Cared not to be at all. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 2, 44. Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 4, 808. Those who write against glory desire to have the glory of having written well ; and those who read wish for the glory of having read ; and I myself, in writing this, have perhaps that yearning, and so also perhaps have those who read me. PASCAL. Pensees. You thought to grasp the world; but you shall keep Its curses only crowned upon your brow. EDEN PHILLPOTTS. Unto this Last. If Wealth and Worth and Happiness and Fame Be thine, among the Gods seek not to inscribe thy name. PINDAR. Olympic Odes, 5, 55 (Moore tr.), Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, anpels would be gods. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. i, 125. Who pants for glory finds but short repose. A breath revives him or a breath o'erthrows. POPE. Ep. of Horace, Ep. i, 300. The glorious fault of angels and of gods. POPE. Elegy, I. 14. I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, 2. The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 2, 2. Fare thce well, great heart ! Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound : But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enougn. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV. , Pt, i, Act 5. AMENABILITY AMERICA I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting : I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 3, 2. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away am- bition : By that sin fell the angels. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ccesar, Act 2,1. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act i, 7. Yet peace begins just where ambition ends. YOUNG. NiglU Thoughts, 5. Ambition ! powerful source of good and ill ! YOUNG. Ib., 6. The trap to the highborn is ambition. Ancient British or Welsh prov. (Ray). No priestling, small as he may be, But wishes some day Pope to be. Prov. (cited b\> Heine, in his " Confessions "). He that hews over high, The chips will fall into his eye. Prov. (Scottish?). AMENABILITY I am of a constitution so general, that it consorts and sympathiseth with all things. I have no antipathy or, rather, Idiosyncrasy. SIR THOS. BROWNE. Re'.igio Medici, Pt. z, sec. i. He needs not fear to be chidden. That sits where he is bidden. Tr. of French prov (Colgrave). AMERICA Yet still from either beach The voice of blood shall reach, More audible than speech, " We are one ! " W. ALLSTON. America to Great Britain. Westward the course of empire takes its way. BISHOP BERKELEY. Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America. I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. GEO. CANNING. King's Message, 1826. Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies. DR. T. DWIGHT. Columbia. In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not ; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is some- times ashamed of. EMERSON. Conduct of Life, Considerations by the Way . One of our statesmen said, " The curse of this country is eloquent men." EMERSON. Eloquence. Thou, O my country, hast thy foolish ways, Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise. O. W. HOLMES. After-dinner Poem. Boston State-house is the hub of the Solar System. O. W HOLMES. Autocrat of Breakfast Table. Hail, Columbia ! happy land ! Hail, ye heroes ! heavenborn land ! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause; DR. J. HOPKINSON. Hail, Columbia. Oh ! but for such, Columbia's days were done ; RanK without ripeness, quickened without sun, Crude at the surface, rotten at the core, Her fruits would fall before her spring was o'er. T. MOORE. To the Hon. W. R. Spencer. The indignant land, Where Washington hath left His awful memory, A light for after times. SOUTHEV. Ode, 1814. God sifted a whole Nation that He might send choice grain over into this wilderness. WM. STOUGHTON. Sermon : New England's True Interests. 5 AMERICANS ANGER The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. OSCAR WILDE. Woman of no Importance, Act i. AMERICANS Our American people cannot be taxed with slowness in performance, or in praising their performance. EMERSON. Success. And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. ROBT. TREAT PAINE. Adams and Liberty. He [Jonathan] was rather an odd- looking chap, in truth, and had many queer ways ; but everybody that had seen John Bull saw a great likeness between them, and swore he was John's own boy, and a true chip of the old block. J. K. PAULDING. History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan (1816). Be proud of those strong sons of thine Who wrenched their rights from thee ! TENNYSON. England and America in 1782. AMIABILITY God has given us tongues that we may say something pleasant to our fellow-men. HEINE. Confessions. That you may be loved, be lovable. OVID. Ars Amat. And if thou wouldst be happy, learn to please. PRIOR. Solomon, 2, 266. AMOROUSNESS The landlady and Tarn grew gracious, Wi' favours secret, sweet, and precious. BURNS. Tarn o' Shanter. Still amorous, and fond, and billing. Like Philip and Mary on a shilling. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. 3, c. i Of temper amorous as the first of May. TENNYSON. Princess, c. i, 2 AMUSEMENT Amusement is the happiness of those that cannot think. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. Who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks. French prov. ANACHRONISMS He [Apollo after hearing the accusation against Virgil of making .(Eneas and Dido cotemporary] decreed for the future no 16 poet should presume to make a lady die lor love two hundred years before her birth. DRYDEN. Dedic. of jEneid. ANALYSIS Analysis kills love, as well as other things. DR. J. BROWN. Horce Subsecivce, Oh, I'm Wat. ANARCHY I am of his mind that said, " Better it is to live where nothing is lawful than where all things are lawful." BACON. Church Controversies O what a parish, what a terrible parish; O what a parish is Little Dunkel ! They hae hangit the minister, drowned the precentor, Dung down the steeple and drucken the bell. ANON. ANECDOTAGE When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. DISRAELI. Lothair, c. 29. But oh ! the biggest muff afloat Is he who takes to anecdote. H. S. LEIGH. Men I Dislike The world is in its anecdotage. ROGERS (Attributed). ANGELS 'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels Reveal themselves to you. BROWNING. Paracelsus, Pt. 5. This world had angels all too few, And heaven is overflowing. COLERIDGE. To a Young Lady. ANGER On my heart's prow a blast blows mightily Keen wrath and loathing fierce. AESCHYLUS. ChoephorcB, 387 (Plump- tre tr.) . The angry man always thinks that he can do more than he can. ALBERTANO OF BRESCIA. Liber Consolationis When most angry and vexed remember that life lasts but a moment and that we shall be soon all in our graves. MARCUS AURELIUS. Bk. n, 18. Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. BACON. Certain Apophthegms (At- tributed to Queen Elizabeth). ANGER ANGLERS AND ANGLING Few men ran afford to be angry. A. BIRRELL. Edmund Burke. I was angry with my friend : I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe : I told it not, my wrath did grow. WM. BLAKE. A Poison Tree. To be in a passion you good may do, But no good if a passion is in you. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs. The thing I pity most In men is action prompted by surprise Of anger. BROWNING. A Forgiveness. Where sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. BURNS. Tarn o' Shunter. Is nat this [anger] a cursed vice ? Yis, certes. Alias ! it binimeth [taketh away] from man his wit and his resoun and al his debonaire [gentle] lyf espirituel, that should kepe his soule. CHAUCER. Parson's Tale, sec. 34. He who quells an angry thought is greater than a King. ELIZA COOK. Anger. Of all bad things by which mankind are cursed, Their own bad tempers surely are the worst. R.CUMBERLAND. Menander. Call for the grandest of all human sentiments, what is that ? It is that a man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. DE QUINCEY. Opium Eater. Beware the fury of a patient man. DRYDEN. Absalom and Achitophel. Like women's anger, impotent and loud. DRYDEN. To Sir G. Kneller. Jupiter is always in the wrong, you know, when he has recourse to his thunder. Miss EDGEWORTH. Griselda, c. 15. Well, no offence : Thar ain't no sense In gittin riled. BRET HARTE. Jim. Anger is short madness. HORACE. Ep., Bk. i. As bodies through a mist, so actions through anger, seem greater than they are. PLUTARCH. Morals, Bk. i. To be angry is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. He who conquers his wrath overcomes his greatest enemy. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. The law sees the angry man ; the angry man does not see the law. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. When an angry man comes to himself, then he is angry with himself. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. Delay is the best remedy for anger. SENECA. DC Ira. Carries anger as the flint bears fire ; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again. SHAKESPEARE Julius Ccesar, Act 4, 3. Think when you are enraged with anyone, what would probably become your sentiments should he die during the dispute. SHENSTONE. Men and Manners. 'Tis the noblest mood That takes least hold on anger. SWINBURNE. Bothwett, Act 2, 4. Can heavenly minds such high resentment show, Or exercise their spite in human woe ? VIRGIL. Mneid, Bk. i (Dry den). Is there such rage in heavenly minds ? VIRGIL. Ib. But, children, you should never let Your angry passions rise ; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes. I. WATTS. Against Quarrelling. I canna be angry for lauchin. J. WILSON. Noctes, 35 (Ettrick Shepherd). Be not as a lion in thy house, nor frantick among thy servants. Ecclesiasticus iv, 30. Envy and wrath shorten the life. Ib. xxx, 24. ANGLERS AND ANGLING And angling too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says : The quaint old cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 13, st. 106. He minded not his friends' advice But followed his own wishes ; But one most cruel trick of his Was that of catching fishes. JANE TAYLOR. Little Fisherman 7 ANGUISH, MENTAL ANTICIPATION Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so. I. WALTON. Complete Angler, eft. i. I am, sir, a brother of the angle. I. WALTON. Ib. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have 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." I. WALTON. Ib., c. 5. This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. I. WALTON. Complete Angler, The Angler's Wish, ch. 8. ANGUISH, MENTAL While the vexed mind, her own tormentor plies A scorpion scourge, unmarked by human eyes. JUVENAL. 13, 195 (Gifford lr.), Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart? SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 5, 3. Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou ow'dst yesterday. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 3, 3. ANIMALS Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. GEO. ELIOT. Scenes of Clerical Life. Mr. Gilfil's Love Story. ANIMALS, FUTURE EXISTENCE OF Though I am far from denying that to this day the counsels of Divine Goodness regarding dumb creatures are, for us, involved in deep obscurity, yet we see nevertheless that Scripture foretells for them a " glorious liberty " ; and we are assured that the compassion of Heaven, to which we owe so much, will not be wanting to them. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry, No. 19 (E. K. Francis tr.). There is another world For all that live and move , , . a better one 1 18 Where the proud bipeds, who would fain confine Infinite goodness to the little bounds Of their own charity, may envy thee. SOUTHEY. On the Death of a Spaniel. ANNIHILATION Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise ! One thing at least is certain This life flies; One thing is certain, and the rest is Lies ; The flower that once has blown for ever dies. FITZGERALD. Omar. ANNOTATION Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. JOHNSON. Pref. to Shakespeare. Note this before my notes. There is not a note of mine that's worth the noting. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 2, 3. ANONYMITY While he [Junius] walks like Jack the Giant- Killer in a coat of darkness, he may do much mischief with little strength. JOHNSON. Falkland's Islands. ANSWER Ambiguous, and with double sense delud- ing, Which they who asked have seldom understood. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. i, 435. Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 2, 3. ANTICIPATION Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth dose behind him tread. COLERIDGE. Ancient Mariner, Pt. 6. Why should we Anticipate our sorrows ? 'Tis like those That die for fear of death. SIR J. DENHAM. The Sophy. Nothing is so good as it seems before- hand. GEO. ELIOT. Silas Marncr, c. 18. Truth is for other worlds, and hope for this ; The cheating future lends the present's bliss. O. W. HOLMES. Old flayer. ANTI-CLIMAX APPARITIONS ANTI-CLIMAX The mountains laboured with prodigious throes, And lo ! a mouse ridiculous arose. P. FRANCIS. Horace, Art of Poetry. ANTIQUITIES Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. BACON. Advancement of Learning, Bk. 2. Who studies ancient laws and rites, Tongues, arts and arms, and history, Must drudge, like Selden, days and nights, And in the endless labour die. BENTLEY. Who Strives to Mount Parnassus' Hill. Veneration of antiquity is congenial to the human mind. BURKE. Tracts on Popery Laws, c. 3, PL 2. Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares grey Marathon. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 2, st. 88. To look back to antiquity is one thing ; to go back to it is another. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. Nothing can be preserved that is not good. EMERSON. Books. I love everything that's old : old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. GOLDSMITH. She Stoops lo Conquer, Act I. The ridiculous part of John's [John Bull's] character is his love of an absurdity, an injustice it may be an acute incon- venience from its very antiquity. D. JERROLD. Heads of the People. Woodman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. G. P. MORRIS. Woodman, Spare that Tree. Whatever authority antiquity may possess, truth always has the advantage, however newly discovered, because she is always more ancient than all the opinions man has held on the matter. PASCAL. Pennies. By many a temple half as old as Time. ROGERS. Italy, A Farewell (1839). Your modern antiques and your anti- quated moderns. SCOTT. Tales of Crusaders. Old thanks, old thoughts, old aspirations, Outlive men's lives and lives of nations. SWINBURNE. Age and Song. Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest ? WEBSTER. West-Ward Hoe. While poring antiquarians search the ground, Upturned with curious pains, the Bard, a Seer, Takes fire. The men that have been reappear. WORDSWORTH. Miscellaneous Sonnets, Pt. 3, 20. As statues moulder into worth. Ascribed to Paul Whitehead. Everything ancient is to be respected. Greek prov. ANXIETY And slowly dropping on the heart in sleep Comes woe-recording care, And makes the unwilling yield to wiser thoughts. /ESCHYLUS. Agamemnon (Plumptre tr.). Suspense, the only insupportable mis- fortune of life. LORD BOLINGBROKE. Letter, 1725. One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. MOORE. Lalla Rookh. I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well. SHAKESPEARE. Henry I V., Act 5, i . APATHY But not to understand a treasure's worth Till time has stolen away the slighted good, Is cause of half the poverty we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is. COWPER. Winter Walk at Noon, 50. A people sunk in apathy and fear. WORDSWORTH. Poems to National Inde- pendence, Pt. 2, No. 25 (1805). APOLOGY No 'polligy ain't gwine ter make hair come back where the biling water hit. J. C. HARRIS. Uncle Remus. APPARITIONS Ghost, kelpie, wraith, And all the trumpery of vulgar faith. CAMPBELL. Pilgrim of Glencoe. Whence and what art thou, execrable shape ? MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 2, 1. 81. Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act I, 4. APPEAL APPLAUSE APPEAL Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen ! MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 330. Strike, but hear. THEMISTOCLES (according to Plutarch). I would appeal to Philip, but to Philip sober. VAL. MAXIMUS. Bk. 6. I appeal unto Ca?sar. Acts xxv, n. APPEARANCE A thing may look specious in theory and yet be ruinous in practice. A thing may look evil in theory and yet be in practice excellent. BURKE. Impeachment of Hastings, Feb., 1788. The world that never sets esteem On what things are, but what they seem. BUTLER. Elephant in the Moon. The world is an old woman, and mis- takes any gilt farthing for a gold coin. CARLYLE. Sartor, Bk. 2, ch. 4. And be ye wys, as ye ben fair to see, Wei in the ring then is the ruby set. CHAUCER. Troilus, Bk. 2. Keep up appearances ; there lies the test ; The world will give thee credit for the rest. Outward be fair, however foul within ; Sin, if thou wilt, but then in secret sin. C. CHURCHILL. Night, 311. Things are seldom what they seem ; Skim milk masquerades as cream. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Pinafore. Men are valued not for what they are, but for what they seem to be. (rst) LORD LYTTON. Money, Act i. Be not afraid of every stranger ; Start not aside at every danger ; Things that seem are not the same ; Blow a blast at every flame. G. PEELE. Old Wives' Tale. Whether the fellow do this out of kind- ness or knavery, I cannot tell ; but it is pretty to observe. PEPYS. Diary, Oct. 7, 1665. We'll have a swashing and a martial outside. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act i, 3. Seems, madam ? Nay, it is, I know not seems. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 2. The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. t Act 2, 2. 20 Assume a virtue, if you have it not. SHAKESPEARE. ~Ib., Act 3, 4. The world is still deceived with* orna- ment. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 3, 2. Was ever book, containing such vile matter, So fairly bound ? O that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous palace ! SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, 2. Ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. St. Matthew xxiii, 27. Judge not according to the appearance. St. John vii, 24. APPETITE Cursed with an appetite keen I am, And I'll subdue it And I'll subdue it And I'll subdue it with cold roast lamb. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Princess Ida. He is a very valiant trencher-man. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act i, i. APPLAUSE Envy itself is dumb, in wonder lost, And factions strive which shall applaud him most. ADDISON. The Campaign. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. MACAULAY. Horatius. Fate cannot rob you of deserved applause, Whether you win or lose in such a cause. MASSINGER. Bashful Lover, Act i, 2. I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement ; Nor do I think the man of safe discretion' That does affect it. SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure, Act i, i. I would applaud thee to the very echo That should applaud again. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 5, 3 . He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude, and enjoy himself independent of its favour. STEELE. Spectator, vol. 3, 172. APPREHENSION ARCHITECTURE APPREHENSION Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have sur- vived, But what torments of pain you endured From evils that never arrived ! EMERSON. From the French. We will not woo foul weather all too soon, Or nurse November in the lap of June. HOOD. Plea of the Midsummer Fairies. What you fear happens sooner than what you hope. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. Present fears Are less than horrible misgivings. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act i, 3. All things are less dreadful than they seem. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pt. i, 7. I would it were not as I think, I would I thought it were not. SIR T. WYATT. He lamenteth. APPROBATION Reproof on her lips but a smile in her eye. S. LOVER. Rory O'More. Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed. T. MORTON. Cure for Heartache. APRIL Oh, to be in England now that April's there ! BROWNING. Home Thoughts from Abroad. Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way. COLERIDGE. Christabel, Pt. i. When well apparelled April on the heel Of limping winter treads. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act i, 2. The uncertain glory of an April day. SHAKESPEARE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act i, i. April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter ; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears ! SIR W. WATSON. April. When the cuckoo comes to the bare thorn, Sell your cow and buy your corn ; But when she comes to the full bit, Sell your corn and buy your sheep. "North England saying (Halliwell). When April blows his horn, It's good both for hay and corn. Old Saying (Ray). ARBITRATORS Men who are engaged in settling difficult questions should be devoid of hatred, of friendship, of anger, and of soft hearted- ness. SALLUST. Catilina, 51, i (From Casar's Oration). ARCHBISHOPS I have no illusion left but the Archbishop of Canterbury. SYDNEY SMITH. Saying. ARCHITECTURE How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity ! CONGREVE. Mourning Bride, Act 2, i. The Gothic cathedrals were built when the builder and the priest and the people were overpowered by their faith. Love and fear laid every stone. EMERSON. A rt. A thing of ugliness is potent for evil. It deforms the taste of the thoughtless ; it frets the man who knows how bad it is ; it is a disgrace to the people who raised it an example and an occasion for more monstrosities. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. i, ch. 10. A style of Architecture [Gothic Deco- rated] which, to me at least, is, in com- parison with all others, the most beautiful of all, and by far the most in harmony with the mysteries of religion. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry, No. 3 (E. K.Francis tr.). With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. MILTON. // Penseroso, 159. Good architecture is essentially religious the production of a faithful and virtuous, not of an infidel and corrupted people. But . . . good architecture is not eccle- siastical. ... It has always been the work of the commonalty, not of the clergy. RUSKIN. Lecture No. 2, Crown of Wild Olive. Among the first habits that a young architect should learn, is that of thinking in shadow. RUSKIN. Seven Lamps, c. 3, 13. No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. RUSKIN. Stones of Venice, c. 6, 73. ARCHIVES ARITHMETIC Architecture is frozen music. SCHELLING. Philosophic der Kunsl. Built ere the art was known By pointed aisles, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alleyed walk To emulate in stone. SCOTT. Marmion, 2, 10. In Saxon strength that abbey frowned, With massive arches broad and round. SCOTT. Ib. Built To music ; therefore never built at all, And therefore built for ever. TENNYSON. Garcth and Lynelle. They dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could build. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, PI, 3, 45 (Of Westminster Abbey). ARCHIVES Of all countries England is, without contradiction, the one which has the most ancient archives, and the most consecutive. VOLTAIRE. Pyrrhonism of History. ARGUMENT For still the longer we contend, We are but further off the end. BUTLER. Hudibras, PI. 3, c. i. Though syllogisms hang not on my tongue, I am not surely always in the wrong ; 'Tis hard if all is false that I advance ; A fool must now and then be right by chance. COWPER. Conversation, I. 93. Rather a tough customer in argeyment, Joe, if anybody was to try and tackle him. DICKENS. Barnaby Rudge, ch. i. It is in the nature of foolish reason to seem good to the foolish reasoner. GEO. ELIOT. Theophrastus Such, Looking Inward. It's only d d fools who argue. Never contradict, never explain, never apologize. These are the secrets of a happy life. LORD FISHER. Letter to Times, Sept. 5, 1919] He argued high, he argued low, He also argued round about him. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Sir Macklin. In arguing too the parson owned his skill, For ev'n when vanquished, he could argue still. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, there I protest you are too hard for me. GOLDSMITH. Vicar of Wakefield. Be calm in arguing ; for fierceness makes Error a fault and truth discourtesie. HERBERT. Church Porch. His [Berkeley's] arguments admit of no answer and produce no conviction. HUME. Of Bishop Berkeley. In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. MILTON. Samson Agonisles, 903. You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. LORD MORLEY. On Compromise. In overmuch disputation the truth is lost. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. You shall never take her without her answer, unless you take her without her tongue. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 4, i. The Retort courteous . . . the Quip modest . . . the Reproof valiant . . . the Countercheck quarrelsome . . . the Lie cir- cumstantial . . . the Lie direct. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 4. Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge. STERNE. Tristram Shandy, Vol. 4. The sombre Englishman, even in his love affairs, always wants to reason. The Frenchman is more reasonable than that. VOLTAIRE. Les Originaux. I hate a' argling and hargarbargling o' argument ower ane's toddy. J. WILSON. Noctes, 13. Bluster, splutter, question, cavil ! But be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. WYCHERLEY. Plain Dealer. ARITHMETIC What is the meaning of these damned little dots? LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. Remark attributed to him on being presented with some official returns worked out in decimal points. " Well done, my boy ! " the joyful father cries ; " Addition and subtraction make us wise." P. FRANCIS. Horace, Art of Poetry. That arithmetic is the basest of all the mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine. SCHOPENHAUER. Psychological Observa- tions 22 ARMOUR ART Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. ... In that first sum you had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle ? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors ? SYDNEY SMITH. Letter, July 22, 1835. ARMOUR They carved at the meal With gloves of steel ; And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. SCOTT. Lay of the Last Minstrel. ARRIVAL We're here because we're here, Because we're here, because we're here ; Oh, here we are, oh, here we are, Oh, here we are again. Popular Soldier Song (c. 1916). ART Art still has truth, take refuge there. M. ARNOLD. Memorial Verses. The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquering. CHAUCER. Assembly of Foules, v. i. Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. CONGREVE. Amoret. The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is Art. EMERSON. Art. The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible. EMERSON. Love. When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff. He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff. GOLDSMITH. Retaliation. Rules and models destroy genius and art. HAZLITT. Essay on Taste. Deeds are the offspring of words, but Goethe's pretty words are childless. That is the curse of all which has originated in mere art. HEINE. The Romantic Sclwol. Art is the application of knowledge to a practical end. If the knowledge be merely accumulated experience, the art is empirical. SIR J. HERSCHEL. Influence of Science. Life is short and the art is long. HIPPOCRATES. Aphorisms (In refer- ence to the art of healing). But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old : " It's clever, but is it Art ? " KIPLING. Conundrum of the Workshop. And what is art ; whereto we press, Through pain and prose and rhyme, When Nature in her nakedness Defeats us every time ? KIPLING. Edge of the Evening. 'Tis the fault of all art to seem antiquated and faded in the eyes of the succeeding generation. A. LANG. Letters to Dead Authors Jane Austen. Nietzsche says : " Art is with us that we shall not perish of too much truth " ; but there is no fear of any such surfeit. Truth is a rare bird still so rare that few recognise it even if the artist show it to them. EDEN PHILLPOTTS. A Shadow Passes. They [the sportsmen] doubted and mis- trusted artists, dividing them roughly into two classes. Some they held harm- less lunatics ; some, who employed art in propaganda, they regarded as dangerous lunatics. But they agreed that all must be lunatic. EDEN PHILLPOTTS. Ib. The learned understand the theory of art, the unlearned its pleasure. QUINTII.IAN. Art should set itself a goal which is unceasingly retiring. A. DE RIVAROL. Art, properly so called, is no recreation. It cannot be learned at spare moments, nor pursued when we have nothing better to do. RUSKIN. Modern Painters, Vol. 2, sec. i, ch. i, 2. Every art is an imitation of nature. SENECA. Ep. 65. He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 2, 3. Roebuck believes in the fine arts with all the earnestness of a man who does not understand them. G. B. SHAW. Man and Superman. There is no Art delivered to mankind that hath not the works of Nature for his principal object. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. Apologie for Poelrie. And, that which all faire workes doth most aggrace, The art, which all that wrought, appeared in no place. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, bk. 2, c. 12, st. 58. The assertion that art may be good art and at the same time incomprehensible to a great number of people, is extremely unjust ; and its consequences are ruinous to art itself. TOLSTOY. ARTFULNESS ARTS, THE To keep in sight Perfection, and adore The vision, is the artist's best delight. SIR W. WATSON. Epigram. There never was an artistic period. There never was an art-loving nation. J. McN. WHISTLER. Ten o'clock. The secret of life is in art. OSCAR WILDE. English Renaissance. A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. OSCAR WILDE. Soul of Man under Socialism. Art should never try to be popular. OSCAR WILDE. Ib. Where art is too conspicuous, truth seems to be wanting. Latin prov. ARTFULNESS The dodgerest of all the dodgers. DICKENS. Mutual Friend, Bk. 2, c. 13. ARTIFICES " Chops and Tomata Sauce. Yours, Pickwick." Chops ! Gracious heavens ! and Tomata Sauce ! Gentlemen, is the happiness of a sensitive and confiding female to be trifled away by such shallow artifices as these ? DICKENS. Pickwick, ch. 34. ARTISTRY That's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over Lest you should think he never could re- capture The first fine careless rapture. BROWNING. Home Thoughts from Abroad. ARTISTS The poison of the honey-bee Is the artist's jealousy. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs. The number of pure artists is small. Few souls are so finely tempered as to preserve the delicacy of meditative feeling, untainted by the allurements of accidental suggestion. DR. J. BROWN. Horee Subseciva (A. H. Hallam). The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired ... by all men, . . . must disindividualize himself, and be a man of no party, and no manner, and no age, but one through whom the soul of all men circulates, as the common air through his lungs. EMERSON. Art. Every artist has got to be a man, woman, and child rolled into one. EDEN PHILLPOTTS. The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. G. B. SHAW. Man and Superman. A great painter is not 'satisfied with being sought after and admired because his hands can do more than ordinary hands, . . . but he wants to be fed as if his stomach needed more food than ordinary stomachs. ... A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's susten- ance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman. G. B. SHAW. Unsocial Socialist, ch. 5 (Sidney Trefusis). The rascal of a painter, poet, novelist, or other voluptuary in labour, is not content with his advantage in popular esteem over the ploughman ; he also wants an advantage in money. G. B. SHAW. Ib. I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play. THACKERAY. Philip, Bk. i, 17. The Grecian artist gleaned from many faces, And in a perfect whole the parts com- bined. H. T. TUCKERMAN. Mary. Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another. OSCAR WILDE. Lecture on the English Renaissance. High is our calling, Friend ! Creative Art Demands the service of a mind and heart, And oh, when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Still to be strenuous for the great reward And in the soul admit of no decay, Great is the glory, for the strife is hard ! WORDSWORTH. From Sonnets, Pt. 2, No. 3 (To B. R. Haydon). ARTS, THE All liberal and humane studies are linked together by a certain bond of union. CICERO. De Oratore 3 6. All the arts have a sort of common bond, and are connected by a sort of relationship. CICERO. Pro Archia. Honour nourishes the arts, and all are kindled to study by love of glory. CICERO. fuse. Quasi. Our arts are happy hits. We are like the musician on the lake, whose melody is sweeter than he knows. EMERSON. Art. ASCETICISM ASPIRATION The Arts are sisters ; Languages are close kindred ; Sciences are fellow-work- men. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk.2,ch. i. All the arts are brothers. Each of them lights up another, and thence results a universal light. VOLTAIRE. Note on Ode upon the death of the Princess de Bareith. This island [Britain], which has pro- duced the greatest philosophers in the world, is not so fertile as regards the fine arts. Unless the English apply themselves to follow the precepts of Pope and Addison, they will not approach other nations in matters of taste and literature. VOLTAIRE. Pref. Letter to Merope. Those who love the arts are all fellow- citizens. VOLTAIRE. Zaire, Dedication to Mr. Falkener . ASCETICISM In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. i, st. 20. We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell. KEBLE. Morning. If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th* All-giver would be unthanked, would be unpraised. MILTON. Comus, I. 720. Great things are granted unto those That love not far off things brought close, Things of great seeming brought to nought, And miracles for them are wrought. WM. MORRIS. Earthly Paradise, Story of Acontius and Cydippe, 997. ASIA MINOR There is no trust to be placed in the populations of Asia Minor. Founded on passages in Cicero's " Oratio pro Flacco," in which deceit is ascribed to the Greek race. ASPIRATION We ought to live with the gods. This a man does whose soul is always content with the appointments of Providence. M. AURELIUS. Meditations, Bk. 5, 27. By aspiring to a similitude of God in goodness or love, neither man nor angel ever transgressed or shall transgress. BACON. Advancement of Learning, Bk. 2. Great things are done when men and mountains meet ; These are not done by jostling in the street. WM. BLAKE. Couplets and Fragments. O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire. ROBERT BRIDGES. Song. Carpet-dusting, though a pretty trade, Is not the imperative labour, atter all. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. i. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for ? BROWNING. Andrea del Sarto. For thence, a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail : What I aspired to be And was not, comforts me. BROWNING. Rabbi Ben Ezra, 7. "Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do. BROWNING. Saul, st. 18. The love of higher things and better days ; The unbounded hope, and heavenly ignorance Of what is called the world, and the world's ways. BYRON. Don Juan, 16, 108. Hitch your waggon to a star. EMERSON. Society and Solitude. The restless throbbings and burnings That hope unsatisfied brings ; The weary longings and yearnings For the mystical better things. A. L. GORDON. Wormwood and Nightshade. Our heart is in heaven, our home is not here. BISHOP HEBER. Hymn. She [Io] teaches us [in " Prometheus "] that in some way or other a sort of Nemesis hangs over men who are overbold in aspiration : whether, like Prometheus, they devise methods and expedients for alleviation of common ills ; or, as Io, indulge in building castles in the air, which is the way with most of us in the ignorance of our early years. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry, No. 23 (. K. Francis tr.). The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner, with the strange device, Excelsior ! LONGFELLOW. Excelsior ASSASSINATION ASSOCIATION Long H thr way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. z. 432. Higher, higher will we climb Up the mount of glory, That our names may live through time In our country's story. MOORE. Aspirations of Youth. Paternal Jove ! the wish that fires his breast His lip reveals not : but all things in thee End and begin : by dangers none repressed, His toil-trained heart but asks what all the brave would be. PINDAR. Nemesis, 10, 55 (Moore tr.). If the company will be persuaded by me, remembering the soul to be immortal, able to bear all evil and all good, we shall always persevere in the road which leads upwards, that so we may be friends both to ourselves and to the gods, even whilst we remain on this earth, and afterwards when we receive the rewards of justice, like victors assembled together. PLATO. Republic, Bk. 10, 16. Agatha . . . often endured the mortifi- cation of the successful clown, who believes, whilst the public roars with laughter at him, that he was born a tragedian. G. B. SHAW. Unsocial Socialist, ch. 4. The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. SHELLEY. To . For to the highest she did still aspyre. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, c. 3, n. I held 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, c. i. The thirst to know and understand, A large and liberal discontent : These are the goods in life's rich hand, The things that are more excellent. SIR W. WATSON. Things that are more Excellent. We live by admiration, hope, and love, And even as these are well and wisely fixed In dignity of being, we ascend. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 4. We know the arduous strife, the eternal laws, To which the triumph of all good is given, High sacrifice, and labour without pause, Even to the death : else wherefore should the eye Of man converse with immortality ? WORDSWORTH. Poems to National Independence, Pt. 2, 14. Too low they build who build beneath the stars. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 8. ASSASSINATION But now some demon, or evil spirit surely, with iniquity and impiety, and, more important still, with the audacity of ignorance, in which all evils are rooted, and whence they all spring up and after- wards produce most bitter fruit, has again subverted and destroyed everything. PLATO. Epistle 7 (Of the Assassination of Dion). If I could find example Of thousands that had struck anointed kings, And flourished after, I'd not do 't ; but since Nor brass, nor stone, nor parchment bears not one, Let villainy forswear 't. SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act i, 2. ASSEVERATION How haughtily he cocks his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows ; And with his finger and his thumb Explaining, strikes opposers dumb. SWIFT. Country Life. By G , gentlemen, I tell you nothing but the truth ; and the d 1 broil them eternally that will not believe me. SWIFT. Tale of a Tub. ASSIDUITY Ease from this noble miser of his time No moments steals ; pain narrows not his cares. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pt. i, 26 (Alfred). ASSOCIATION I love it I love it, and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ? ELIZA COOK. The Old Arm-chair. Men who are rascals severally are highly worthy people in the mass. MONTESQUIEU. Things worthless singly are useful collectively. OVID. Rem. Am., 420. Oh ! while along the stream of time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph and partake the gale ? POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. 4, 383. 26 ASTRONOMY AUDACITY One bunch of grapes ripens another. SUIDAS (Greek). ASTRONOMY For ever singing, as they shine, " The Hand that made us is divine." ADDISON. Spectator, Ode, 466. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, Act i, i. Give me the ways of wandering stars to know, The depths of heaven above, and earth below ; Teach me the various labours of the rnoon, And whence proceed the eclipses of the sun. VIRGIL. Georgics, Bk. 2 (Dry den tr.). ATHEISM God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. BACON. Essays, Of Atheism. Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man. BACON. Ib. An atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended. BURNS. Epistle to a Young Friend. Forth from his dark and lonely hiding- place (Portentous sight !} the owlet Atheism, Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, Drops his blue fringed lids, and holds them close. And hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, Cries out, " Where is it ? " COLERIDGE. Fears in Solitude. Virtue in distress and vice in triumph, Make atheists of mankind. DRYDEN. Cleomenes, Act 4. ATHENS Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. 4, 240. ATHLETICISM His limbs were cast in manly mould, For hardy sports or contest bold. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, i, 21. ATOMS An accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms. LORD PALMERSTON (1857). ATTACK No skill in swordsmanship, however just, Can be secure against a madman's thrust. COWPER. Charity. Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead. SHAKESPEARE. Henry V . ATTAINMENT What at a distance charmed our eyes, Upon attainment droops and dies. J. CUNNINGHAM. Hymen. ATTENTION That ancient and patient request, Verbera, sed audi [Strike, but hear]. BACON. Advancement oj Learning, Bk. 2. These things to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act i, 3. All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. R. L. STEVENSON. Lay Morals. And listens like a three years' child. WORDSWORTH. Lines added to the A ncient Mariner. ATTRACTIVENESS Saith he, " Yet are you too unkind, If in your heart you cannot find To love us now and then." DRAY TON. Pastorals, Eclogue, 4. Here's metal more attractive. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 2. A sweet attractive kind of grace : A full assurance piven by looks Continual comfort of a face, The lineaments of Gospel books. SIR P. SIDNEY. Friend's Passion. AUDACITY You have deeply ventured ; But all must do so who would greatly win. BYRON. Marino Faliero, i, 2. What we need for victory is audacity, audacity, and for ever audacity. DANTON. September, 1792. " To dare " is the secret of success in literature, as it is in revolutions and in love. HEINE. Religion and Philosophy. Be stirring as the time ; be fire with fire ; Threaten the threatener, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. SHAKESPEARE. King John, Act 5. 27 AUGURIES AUTHORS O, what men dare do ! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do ! SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 4, i. AUGURIES Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings ? KEATS. To Haydon. According to fates and destinies, and such odd sayings, the sisters three, and other branches of learning. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 2, 2 . Against ill chances men are ever merry ; But heaviness foreruns the good event. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. 2, Act 4. AUSTRALIA Britannia, when thy heart's a-cold, When o'er thy grave has grown the moss, Still " Rule Australia " shall be trolled In Islands of the Southern Cross. A. LANG. Ballade of the Southern Cross. AUTHORITY Authority is a disease and cure, Which men can neither want nor well endure. S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. I would rather err with Plato than per- ceive the truth with these others. CICERO. Tusc. Quttst. Time has made this question without question. SIR E. COKE. Institutes, No. 3, 302. I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute. COWPER. Alex. Selkirk. Young folks are smart, but all ain't good thet's new ; I guess the gran'thers they knowed sun- thin', tu. J. R. LOWELL. Biglow Papers, 2nd Ser., 2. And Art made tongue-tied by authority. SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet 66. AUTHORS Indeed I should doubt if my drama throughout Exhibit an instance of woman in love. ARISTOPHANES. Frogs, 1335 (Freretr.). Time, which is the author of authors. BACON. Advancement of Learning, Bk. i. No man was ever written out of reputa- tion but by himself. R. BENTLEY. Monk's Life ofBentley, p. go. The author of " Amelia," . . . whose works it has long been the fashion to abuse in public and to read in secret. BORROW. Bible in Spain. Then read my fancies ; they will stick like burrs. BUNYAN. Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. i. One hates an author that's all author fellows In foolscap uniform turned up with ink. BYRON. Beppo, st. 75. The Ariosto of the North (Sir Walter Scott). BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 4, st. 40. What is writ is writ, Would it were worthier ! but I am not now What I have been. BYRON. Ib., st. 185. Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, And broke the die in moulding Sheridan. BYRON. Death of Sheridan. That unspeakable shoeblack - seraph Army of Authors. CARLYLE. Boswell. Little do such men know the toil, the pains, The daily, nightly racking of the brains, To range the thoughts, the matter to digest, To cull fit phrases, and reject the rest. C. CHURCHILL. Gotham, Bk. 2, n. There are three difficulties in authorship to write anything worth the publishing to find honest men to publish it and to get sensible men to read it. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. Preface. Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes, those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. Let authors write for glory and reward ; Truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. BISHOP CORBET. On Lord W. Howard. Whose prose was eloquence, by wisdom taught, The graceful vehicle of virtuous thought ; Whose verse may claim, grave masculine and strong, Superior praise to the mere poet's song. COWPER. On Dr. S. Johnson. None but an author knows an author's cares, Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears. COWPER. Progress oj Error, I. 515. 28 AUTHORS AUTHORS Till authors hear at length one general cry, Tickle and entertain us, or we die ! COWPER. Retirement, I. 707. Who often reads will sometimes wish to write. CRABBE. Edward Shore. But years had done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long. DANIEL. Philotas, Dedication, I. 106. The character of a good writer, wherever he is to be found, is this, namely, that he writes so as to please and serve at the same time. DEFOE. Universal Spectator, 1728. To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own. SIR J. DENHAM. On A. Cowley's Death. I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. DISRAELI. Speech, Nov. 19, 1870. When a poet is thoroughly provoked, he will do himself justice, however dear it cost him ; animamque in vulnere ponit [and he puts his whole soul into the wound]. DRYDEN. Dedication of JEneas. The pleasing punishment of publication. GEO. ELIOT. Theophrastus Such, Looking Inward. Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. EMERSON. On Goethe. Authors and readers are separated by a great gulf of which happily neither is conscious. GOETHE. Autob., Bk. 13. Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. The pen of a man of genius is always greater than himself ; it extends far beyond his temporary purpose. HEINE. Don Quixote. A writer of course cannot get beyond his own ideal, but at least he should see that he works up to it : and if it is a poor one, he had better write histories of the utmost concentration of dulness, than amuse us with unjust and untrue imagin- ings. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. i, ch. 6. With the greatest possible solicitude avoid authorship. Too early or immoder- ately employed it makes the head waste and the heart empty. HERDER. Tr. by S. T. Coleridge. If it be well considered, the praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the com- petition and mutual envy of the living. HOBBES. Leviathan Conclusion. All writers love the groves and flee from cities. HORACE. Ep. 2, 2. Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest. JOHNSON. Remark recorded by Mrs. Piozzi. The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. JOHNSON. Dictionary (Pref.). For we that live to please must please to live. JOHNSON. Prologue. A man will turn over half a library to make one book. JOHNSON. Remark. No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. JOHNSON. Remark. There marks what ill the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. JOHNSON. Vanity of Human Wishes Many are possessed by the incurable itch of writing. JUVENAL. Sat. j. In a word too much applause is given to wit and smartness, too little to reality and truth. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry, No. I (E. K. Francis tr.). An author, like a host, shows his ability most surely if his readers are dismissed with an appetite whetted but not satisfied. KEBLE. Ib., No. 5. There are two literary maladies writer's cramp and swelled head. The worst of writer's cramp is that it is never cured ; the worst of swelled head is that it never kills. COULSON KERNAHAN. Lecture. It is not a question of my being an author but it seems to me that a man of the world may have thoughts and record them in a little notebook. LABICHE. Perrvchon in " Le Voyage de M. Perrichon." Slave-merchants, scalpers, cannibals agree : In Letter-land no brotherhood must be. If there were living upon earth but twain, One would be Abel and the other Cain. W. S. LANDOR. Miscell., 278. For as from sweetest flowers the labouring bee Extracts the precious juice, Great Soul, from thee We all our Golden Sentences derive Golden, and fit eternally to live. LUCRETIUS. De Rerum Natura, 3, n (Creech, tr.). AUTHORS AUTHORS Write, something great. MAKIIAL. Epig., Bk. i, 108. Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. MILTON. Paradise Lost, 13k. i, 16. He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true Poem. MILTON. Apology against a pamphlet called Smectymnuus (1642). He [Rudyard Kipling] possesses the inkpot which turns the vilest tin idiom into gold. GEO. MOORE. Avowals (1919). Whate'er my fate is, 'tis my fate to write. J. OLDHAM. To a Friend. Good sense must be the certain standard still To all that will pretend to writing well. J. OLDHAM. Ode on St. Cecilia's Day. Let others write for glory or reward ; Truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. SIR T. OVERBURY. On Lord Effingham. To 'great poets there is no need of a gentle reader : they hold him captive, however unwilling and unmanageable. OVID. Ep. ex Pont.] 3, 4, 9. Be sure, whatever you propose to write, Let the chief motive be your own delight. C. PITT. Tr. of V Ida's Art of Poetry, Bk. i. " 'S death, I'll print it, And shame the fools." POPE. Pro/, to Satires, t. 61. Who shames a scribbler ? break one cob- web through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew ; Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again. POPE. Ib., I. 89. The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. POPE. Satires, Bk. 2, Ep. i, 108. Authors in France seldom speak ill of each other but when they have a personal pique ; authors in England seldom speak well of each other but when they have a personal friendship. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. In an age Of savage warfare and blind bigotry, He cultured all that could refine, exalt, Leading to better things. ROGERS. Italy, Arqud (Of Petrarch). It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to get a living. ROUSSEAU. Confessions, 2, 9. There are two kinds of authors those who write for the subject's sake, and thobc who write for the sake of writing. SCHOPENHAUER. On Authorship. I have perhaps been the most volumin- ous author of the day ; and it is a comfort to me to think I have tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principle, and that I have written nothing which on my death-bed I should wish blotted. SCOTT. Remark to Lockhart, May 10, 1832 (He died Sept. 21, 1832). I envy the old hermit of Prague, who never saw paper or ink. SCOTT. Diary, Feb., 1826. Devise, wit ! write, pen ! for I am for whole volumes in folio. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, Act i, 2. The poetry of despair will not outlive despair itself. Your nineteenth century novelists are only the tail of Shakespeare. Don't tie yourself to it ; it is fast wriggling into oblivion. G. B. SHAW. Unsocial Socialist, Appendix. Learn to write well, or not to write at all. J. SHEFFIELD. On Satire. You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading. SHERIDAN. Clio's Protest. I that ... am admitted into the company of the Paper-blurrers do find the very true cause of our wanting estimation is want of desert. SIR P. SIDNEY. Apologie for Poelrie. I know of no reason why he [Dugald Stewart] is not ranked among the first writers of the English language, except that he is still alive ; and my most earnest and hearty wish is that that cause of his depreciation may operate for many years. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy, No. 3. Ask my pen ; it governs me I govern not it. STERNE. Tristram Shandy, Vol. 6, ch. 6. Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline ; Be mindful, when invention fails, To scratch your head and bite your nails. SWIFT. On Poetry. He [Lord Macaulay] reads twenty books to write a sentence ; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description. THACKERAY. Nil nisi Bonum (Cornhill Feb., 1860). AUTOCRACY AVARICE Tutored by thee, hence poetry exalts Her voice to ages, and informs the page With music, image, sentiment, and thought, Never to die. THOMSON. Summer (Used for his epitaph in Westminster Abbey). If writing was drink I should be a drunkard ; I simply could not refrain from it. It has filled my life with happi- ness. KATHARINE TYNAN. Years of the Shadow (1919). Bitten by the dog Metromania (mania for versification), I was taken with the disease and became an author also. VOLTAIRE. Le Pauvre Diable. Their faults [those of the Greek drama- tists] are due to the age in which they lived ; their beauties belong to themselves alone. VOLTAIRE. Prefatory Letter to (Edipus. This great man (Corneille) is always superior to others, but he is not always equal to himself. VOLTAIRE. Ib. An author may be good in spite of some faults, but not in spite of many faults. VOLTAIRE. Letters on the English. Nature's refuse and the dregs of men, Compose the black militia of the pen. YOUNG. Epistle to Pope. He was the interpreter of nature., dipping his pen into his mind. Old Greek Saying. It was well known that the Dean [Swift] could write finely upon a broom- stick. Remark attributed to Stella (Mrs. Johnson) in reference to Dean Swift's poems to Vanessa (Miss Vanhomrigh). AUTOCRACY Law and arbitrary power are in eternal enmity. BURKE. Speech, 1788. AUTOMOBILES It didn't want no stable, it didn't ask no groom, It didn't need no nothin' but a bit o" standin" room. Just fill it up with paraffin an' it would go all day ; Which the same should be agin the law, if I could "ave my way. SIR A. C. DOYLE. The Groom's Story. AUTUMN Now autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. W. ALLINGHAM. Autumnal Sonnet. The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sere. W. CULLEN BRYANT. Death of the Flower: Of seasons of the year the autumn is most melancholy. w , BURTON. Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. i, sec. i Touched with the dewy sadness of the time, To think how the sweet months had spent their prime. HOOD. Plea of the Midsummer Fairies. Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the Book of Nature Getteth short of leaves. HOOD . Seasons. Autumnal frosts enchant the pool, And make the cart ruts beautiful. R. L. STEVENSON. House Beautiful What pensive beauty autumn shows, Before she hears the sound Of winter rushing in, to close The emblematic round ! WORDSWORTH. Thoughts on the Seasons. AVARICE In all the world there is no vice Less prone to excess than avarice. S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. BYRON. Don Juan, c. i, st. 216. He lives poor, to die rich, and is the mere jailor of his house, and the turnkey of his wealth. C. C. COLTON. Lacon, No. 24. It is evident insanity to live in penury in order that you may die rich. JUVENAL. Sat. 14. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal [reproach] of avarice. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. The miser is as much in want of what he has, as what he has not. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. Many things are wanting to poverty, all things to avarice. PUBLIUUS SYRUS. The name of the servant of Mammon is Miser, that is, miserable. C. H. SPURGEON. Salt-cellars. It is sad to grow old ; one has less time left for growing rich. VOLTAIRE. Gripon in " La Femme qui a Raison" AVERSION BANQUETS AVERSION I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why, I cannot tell ; But this I know, and know full well, I do not love thee, Dr. Fell. TOM BROWN. After Martial. My aversion, my aversion, my aversion of all aversions ! WYCHERLEY. Plain Dealer, Act 2, I. What things we see when we don't have a gun ! American Colloquialism, published in this form in " Troy Times," Dec. 26, 1883. AVIATION He shall have chariots easier than air, That I will have invented. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. A King and no King (1610 ?), Act 5. God never meant that man should scale the heavens By strides of human wisdom. COWPER. Garden, 221. Possibly this was only a figure of speech, like that of Bishop Wilkins [1614-1672], who prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots. Miss EDGEWORTH. Essay on Irish Bulls, ch. 2. Volatile spirits, light mercurial humours, Oh give us soon your sky adventures truly With full particulars, correcting duly All flying rumours. HOOD. To Messrs. Green, Holland, and Monck Mason on their late Balloon Expedition (Comic Annual, 1837). Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call Earth. MILTON. Comus, 5. O, for a horse with wings ! SHAKESPEARE. Cymbeline, Act 3, 2. Guarded with ships, and all the sea our own, From heaven this mischief on our heads is thrown. WALLER. To Lord Falkland. AWKWARDNESS God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. EMERSON. Society and Solitude. He stood a spell on one foot fust, Then stood a spell on t'other, An' on which one he felt the wust He couldn't ha' told ye nuther. J. R. LOWELL. Biglow Papers, series 2. The Courtin'. There is always war between Ungraceful- ness and Love. PLATO. Banquet, 21. It is very pleasantly said of the awk- wardness of Englishwomen that they seem to have two left arms. A. DE RIVAROL. Traits et Bans Mots. B BABIES Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. DICKENS. Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 26. " Where did you come from, baby dear ? " " Out of the everywhere into the here." GEO. MACDONALD. Baby. BACHELORS One was never married, and that's his hell ; another is, and that's his plague. BURTON. Anat. of Melan., Pt. i. At three score winters' end I died, A cheerless being, lone and sad ; The nuptial knot I never tied, And wish my father never had. COWPER. Tr. of Greek Epitaph on an old Bachelor. Lord of yourself, uncumbered with a wife. DRYDEN. To John Dryden. The only comfort of my life Is that I never yet had wife. HERRICK. Hesperides, No. 1053. A bachelor is a man who shirks responsi- bilities and duties. G. B. SHAW. Unsocial Socialist, ch. 18. BACK NUMBERS And then like almanacs, whose dates are gone, They are thrown by and no more looked upon. DEKKER. Honest Whore, Pt. 2, Act 4, i. BANISHMENT Eating the bitter bread of banishment. SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., Act 3, i. BANQUETS " Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast. JAMES BRAMSTON. Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done, And body gets its sop, and holds its noise, And leaves the soul free a little. BROWNING. Bishop Blougram. BARGAINS BEAUTY Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours. DRYDEN. Cleomenes, Act 4, i. London's the dining-room of civilisation. MIDDLETON. City Pageant (1617). You'll have no scandal while you dine, But honest talk and wholesome wine. TENNYSON. To the Rev. F. D. Maurice. BARGAINS Here's the rule for bargains : " Do other men, for they would do you." DICKENS. Martin Chuzzlewit. The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another ... is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. ADAM SMITH. Wealth of Nations, Bk. i, 2. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer : but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. Proverbs xx, 14. There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers. Prov. BARONETS All baronets are bad. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Ruddigore. BARRISTERS My learned profession I'll never disgrace By taking a fee with a grin on my face, When I haven't been there to attend to the case. SIR W. S. GILBERT. lolanthe. And many a burglar I've restored To his friends and his relations. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Trial by Jury, He (a barrister) hires out his anger and his words. SENECA. Hercules Furens, 173. O perilous mouths, That bear in them one and the selfsame tongue, Either of condemnation or approof, Bidding the law make courtesy to their will! SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure, Act 2, 4. BATHOS So in this way of writing without thinking Thou hast a strange alacrity in sinking. T. SACKVILLE (LORD DORSET). Satire. I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. SHAKESPEARE. Merry Wives, Act 3, 5. From Flecknoe down to Howard's time, How few have reached the low sublime ! SWIFT. On Poetry. BATTLES There's some say that we wan, some say that they wan, Some say that naiie wan at a', man, But one thing I'm sure, that at Sheriff - Muir, A battle there was which I saw, man. And we ran and they ran, and they ran and we ran, And we ran, and they ran awa', man. MURDOCH MCLENNAN. Sheriff-Muir (referring to an indecisive battle in the valley of Sheriff-Muir, Nov., 1715). When the hurly-burly's done, When the battle's lost and won. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act i, i. A captain forth to battle went, With soldiers neat and trim. ANN and JANE TAYLOR. Hymns for Infant Minds, No. 91. The glory and grief of battle won or lost Solders a race together yea, though they fail, The names of those who fought and fell are like A banked-up fire that flashes out again From century to century. TENNYSON. The Cup f God of battles, was ever a battle like this in the world before ? TENNYSON. The Revenge. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. DUKE OF WELLINGTON. Despatch, 1815. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ; and he smelleth the battle afar off. Job xxxix, 25. BEACH On Margate beach, where the sick one roams, And the sentimental reads ; Where the maiden flirts, and the widow comes, Like the ocean to cast her weeds. HOOD. Mermaid of Margate. Come Unto these yellow sands, And then take hands : Curtsied when you have, and kissed, The wild waves whist. [" whist " = silenced.] SHAKESPEARE. Tempest, Act i, a. BEATING A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, The more you beat them the better they'll be. Old Saying found in Danish and other languages. BEAUTY The best part of beauty is that which a picture cannot express. BACON.- Collection of Sentences. BEAUTY Sure there is music even in Beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instru- ment. For there is a music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion. SIR T. BROWNE. Religio Medici, Pt. 2, 9. A worthless woman ! mere cold clay, As all false things are, but so fair She takes the breath of men away, Who gaze upon her unaware. E. B. BROWNING. Bianca. If you get simple beauty, and nought else, You get about the best thing God invents. BROWNING. Fra Lippo Lippi. Too bright, too beautiful to last. VV. CULLEN BRYANT. The Rivulet. All that is beautiful shall abide, All that is base shall die. R. BUCHANAN. Balder, Pt. 7, 5. A pretty woman is a welcome guest. BYRON. Beppo, 23. The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face. BYRON. Bride of Abydos, c. i, 6. Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray ? BYRON. Ib. His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess The might the majesty of Loveliness. BYRON. Ib. Whose large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands Might shake the saintship of an anchorite. BYRON. Childt Harold, c. i, st. n. The fatal gift of beauty. BYRON. Ib., c. 4, st. 42. The women pardoned all except her face. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 5, st. 113. He could not slay a thing so fair. BYRON. Parisina, st. 7. Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh, what were man ? a world without a sun. CAMPBELL. Pleasures of Hope, Pt. z. There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies grow. T. CAMPION. Cherry Ripe. The beautiful is vanished and returns not. CotERiDGE. Death of Wnllenstein, 5, i. No beauty's like the beauty of the mind. JOSHUA COOKE.-A Good Wife. BEAUTY Beauty, like sorrow, dwelleth every- where. T. DEKKER. Old Fortunatus, Act 3, i. Trust not too much to that enchanting face ; Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass. DRYDEN. Virgil, Pastoral 2. Beauty, truth, and goodness are not obsolete : they spring eternal in the breast of man. EMERSON. Art. One more text from the mythologists . . . " Beauty fides upon a lion ! " Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy. EMERSON. Conduct of Life. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. EMERSON. The Rhodora. Beauties they are, but beauties out of place. P. FRANCIS. Horace, Art of Poetry. Nature, that wisely nothing made in vain, Did make you lovely to be loved again. R. HEATH. Jo Clarastella. Beauty and beauteous words should go together. GEO. HERBERT. Forerunners. O lovelier daughter of a lovely mother ! HORACE. Odes, Bk. i. Beauty enough to make a world to dote. JAMES I (of Scotland). King's Quair. Rare is the agreement between beauty and modesty. JUVENAL. Sat., 10. 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, Bk. i. " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. KEATS. Grecian Urn. Oh ! could you view the melody Of every grace, And music of her face, You'd drop a tear, Seeing more harmony In her bright eye, Than now you hear. R. LOVELACE. Orpheus to Beasts. Beauty and sadness always go together, G. MACDONALD. Within and Without. Pt. 4, sec. 3. 34 BEAUTY BEAUTY All the eminent and canonised beauties, By truth recorded, or by poets feigned. MASSINGER. Bashful Lover, Act 4, i. At the^best, my lord, she is a handsome picture, And, that said, all is spoken. MASSINGER. Gt. Duke, Act 3, i. Beauty is the elimination of super- fluities. MICHAEL ANGELO. Where perhaps some beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes. MILTON. L' Allegro, I. 79. Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. 2, 220. As rich and purposeless as is the rose, Thy simple doom is to be beautiful. STEPHEN PHILLIPS. Marpessa, I. 51. The beautiful consists in utility and fitness for the production of some good purpose. PLATO. Hippias Major, 37. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. POPE. Rape of the Lock, c. 2, 17. And beauty draws us with a single hair. POPE. Ib.. c. 2, 28. Take away from our hearts the love of the beautiful and you take away the charm of life. ROUSSEAU. Emile. I have always believed that good is only the beautiful put into action, that one is intimately linked with the other, and that they both have one common source in well-ordered nature. ROUSSEAU. Julie. Is she not more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy when they love ? N. ROWE. Fair Penitent, Act 3, i. It is evident that the sensation of beauty is not sensual on the one hand, nor is it intellectual on the other ; but is dependent on a pure, right, and open state of the heart. RUSKIN. Modern Painters, vol. 2, sec. i, ch. 2, 8. Neither is there any better test of beauty than its surviving or annihilating the love of change, a test which the best judges of art have need frequently to use. RUSKIN. Ib., vol. 2, sec. 2, ch. 2, 7. It [Repose] is the most unfailing test of beauty, whether of matter or of motion. Nothing can be ignoble that possesses it ; nothing right that has it not. RUSKIN. Ib., vol. 2, sec. 2, ch. 3, 5. Many very sublime pictures derive their sublimity from the want of it [symmetry], but they lose proportionally in the diviner quality of beauty. RUSKIN. Ib., vol. 2, sec. 2, ch. 4, 4. Beautiful things are useful to men be- cause they are beautiful, and for the sake of their beauty only ; and not to sell, or pawn or in any other way turn into money. RUSKIN. Pref. to Revised edition of " Modern Painters," vol. 2 (1882). Described by him as "the beginning of all my political economy." And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form or lovelier face ! SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, c. i, st. 18. If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 2, 7. Well, I am not fair, and therefore I pray the gods make me honest. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, 2. Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator. SHAKESPEARE. Lucrece, st. 5. Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good. SHAKESPEARE. Passionate Pilgrim, st. n. There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple ; If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. SHAKESPEARE. Tempest, Act i, 2 For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. SHAKESPEARE. Venus and Adonis, 170. And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness. SHELLEY. Sensitive Plant, Pt. i, st. 5. The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin deep saying. HERBERT SPENCER. Personal Beauty. The hearts of men, which fondly here admyre Fair seeming shewes, . . . may lift them- selves up hyer, And learn to love, with zealous humble dewty, Th' Eternall Fountaine of that heavenly Beauty. SPENSER. Hymn of Heavenly Beauty. A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she. TENNYSON. Princess, Prol., 153. 35 BED BEGINNINGS Beauty, madam, pleases only the eyes ; sweetness charms the mind. VOLTAIRE. Nanine. How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! E. WALLER. Go, Lovely Rose. O be less beautiful, or be less brief ! SIR WM. WATSON. Autumn. Beauty is the only thing that time cannot 'harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. OSCAR WILDE. Lecture on the English Renaissance. If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be? G. WITHER. Shepherd's Resolution. She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. WORDSWORTH. Poems of the Imagination, No. ii. And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. WORDSWORTH. Three Years. Beautiful as sweet ! And young as beautiful ! and soft as young ! And gay as soft ! and innocent as gay ! YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 3. Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume. French prov. Every woman would rather be beautiful than good. German prov. Everything beautiful is lovable. Latin prov. The fairer the hostess the fouler the reckoning. Prov. (Ray). A handsome hostess makes a dear reckoning. Saying quoted by Bishop Corbet (c. 1632) and derived from the French. BED Bed is a bundle of paradoxes : we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret ; and we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. Oh, bed ! oh, bed ! delicious bed ! That heaven upon earth to the weary head ! HOOD. Miss Kilmansegg. Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. JOHNSON Remark as recorded by Sir John Hawkins. In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, And born in bed, in bed we die ; The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to human woe. JOHNSON. tr. of Benserade. 'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed. SWIFT. Letter, 1710. BEER Yes, my soul sentimentally craves British beer. CAMPBELL. From Algiers. For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act 4, 2. They who drink beer will think beer. AUr. to Warburton. (Parodied : " They who drink water will think water.") BEES Nature's confectioner, the bee. J. CLEVELAND. Swarm o* bees i' May 'S woth a load o' hay ; Swarm o' bees i' June 'S woth a silver spune ; Swarm o* bees i' July 'S not woth a fly. Derbyshire Saying, as recorded in " Notes and Queries," May 27, 1911. BEGGARS He was the beste beggere in his hous. CHAUCER. Cant. Tales, Prol. Of avaryce and of swich cursednesse Is al my preching, for to make them free To give their pence, and namely unto me. CHAUCER. Pardoner's Tale, V . 12335. A beggar's life is for a king. F. DAVISON. Song. Patience, the beggar's virtue. MASSINGER. New Way to Pay Old Debts. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door. T. Moss. Beggar's Petition. You taught me first to beg, and now, methinks, You teach me how a beggar should be answered. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 4, i. It is one beggar's woe, To see another by the door go. Prov. (Ray). BEGINNINGS " The contrast of beginning and end," said the general [Kinsalej, " is almost always melancholy." MME. D'ARBLAY'. Camilla, Bk. 3, c. 12. BEGINNINGS BELLS My way is to begin with the beginning. BYRON. Don Juan. Canto i, st. 7. Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end. BYRON. Ib., c. 4, st. i . The beginnings of all things are small. CICERO. De Finibus. Every evil thing -is easily stifled at its birth ; allowed to become old it generally becomes too powerful. CICERO. Philippics, Bk. 5, n. The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower. COWPER. Hymn. Run a moist pen slick through every- thing and start afresh. DICKENS. M. Chuzzlewit, c. 17. Every beginning is cheerful. GOETHE. Withstand the beginnings ; when the evils have become rooted the remedies are too late. OVID. Rent. Am. Things are always at their best in their beginning. PASCAL. Lettres provinciales. Whilst we deliberate about beginning, it becomes too late to begin. QUINTILIAN . That is the true beginning of our end. SHAKESPEARE. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, i . Every man must submit to be slow before he is quick ; and insignificant before he is important. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy, No. 19. Each goodly thing is hardest to begin. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, c. 5, st. 6. Few men, drinking at a rivulet, stop to consider its source. M. F. TUPPER. Of Gifts. Others shall sing the song, Others shall right the wrong, Finish what I begin, And all I fail of win. J. G. WHITTIER. Triumph. The beginning is half of the whole. Greek saying (ascribed to Pythagoras). The difficult thing is to get your foot in the stirrup. Old saying. The deil's aye gude to beginners. Scottish prov. Begin on porridge that you may end with chicken. Scottish saying. The first dish pleaseth all. Prov. (Geo. Herbert). BELIEF To its own impulse every creature stirs r Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers. M. ARNOLD. Religious Isolation. We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples. EMERSON. Conduct of Life, Worship. Ah me ! we believe in evil, Where once we believed in good ; The world, the flesh, and the devil Are easily understood. A. L. GORDON. Wormwood and Nightshade. All I can say is you are not " experte credo," or expert at believing. HOOD. The Rope Dancer, 1834. A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often. G. B. SHAW. Devil's Disciple. He in his heart Felt that misgiving which precedes belief In what was disbelieved. SOUTHEY. Joan of Arc, Bk. i No soul can believe but by the permis- sion of God . . . but signs are of no avail, neither preachers, unto people who will not believe. Koran, ch. 10. BELLS The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day. H. F. CARY. Dante's Purgatory ,c. 8, 6. The sound of the church-going bell. COWPER. Alex. Selkirk. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear, In cadence sweet ! COWPER. Winter Morning Walk. Sundays observe ; think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angels' music. HERBERT. Church Porch. Bells are Music's laughter. HOOD. Miss Kilmansegg. Dear bells ! how sweet the sound of village bells, When on the undulating air they swim ! Now loud as welcome ! faint now, as farewells. HOOD. Ode to R. Wilson. They went and told the sexton, And the sexton tolled the bell. HOOD. Sally Brown. Those evening bells ! those evening bells ! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home and that sweet tune When last I heard their soothing chime. MOORE. Evening Bells. 37 BENEFITS BEREAVEMENT Silence that dreadful bell ! SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 2, 3. Ring out wild bells to the wild skys TENNYSON. In Memoriam, c. 106. Differing in size, In note and weight, Yet, small or great, We harmonise. Inscription on bell, Colchester Town Hall. BENEFITS A benefit loses its grace in being too much published. CORNEILLE. Theodore. On adamant our wrongs we all engrave, But write our benefits upon the wave. DR.W. KING. Art of Love. To do well to a bad man is as great a danger as to do ill to a good one. PLAUTUS. Panulus, Act 3, 3. Much of what is great, and to all men beneficial, . has been wrought by those who neither intended nor knew the good they did. RUSKIN. Modern Painters, vol. 2, sec. 3, ch. 4, 8. He has received a favour who has granted one to a worthy person. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. Benefits are pleasing up to that point when they seem to be capable of requital ; when they far exceed that possibility hatred is returned instead of gratitude. TACITUS. Annals, Bk. 4, 18. BENEVOLENCE A heart to pity and a hand to bless. C. CHURCHILL. Prophecy of Famine, I. 178. Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. He chid their wanderings but relieved their pain. GOLDSMITH. Ib. Large was his bounty and his soul sincere. GRAY. Elegy. Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. JOHNSON. On R. Levett. To relieve the oppressed is the most glorious act a man is capable of. It is in some measure doing the business of God and Providence. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. When that the poor have cried, Cajsar hath wept : Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ceesar, Act 3, 2. Miracles are good, but to comfort one's brother, to extricate a friend from the depths of misery, to pardon one's enemies their virtues that is the greater miracle which no longer takes place. VOLTAIRE. Discours 7. BEQUESTS He that defers his charity until he is dead, is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's than of his own. BACON. Collection of Sentences. This seems to me to be ambition, not charity. (Of charitable bequests.) ERASMUS. Conviviutn Religiosum. Die and endow a college, or a cat. POPE. Ep., 3. The man who has not made his will at forty is worse than a fool almost a knave. J. WILSON. Nodes. BEREAVEMENT Dreams dawn and fly, friends smile and die Like spring flowers ; Our vaunted life is one long funeral. M. ARNOLD. A Question. Something is broken which we cannot mend. God has done more than take away a friend In taking you ; for all that we have left Is bruised and irremediably bereft. . . Here is no waste, No burning might-have-been, No bitter after-taste, None to censure, none to screen, Nothing awry, nor anything misspent ; Only content, content beyond content, Which hath not any room for betterment. M. BARING. On the death of Lord Lucas, R.F.C. Fled, like the sun eclipsed at noon appears, And left us darkling in a world of tears. BURNS. yd Epistle to R. Graham. Hark ! to the hurried question of Despair, " Where is my child ? " an echo answers " Where ? " BYRON. Bride of Abydos, c. 2, st. 27. Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head ? BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 4, st. 168. Thee to deplore were grief misspent indeed ; It were to weep that goodness has its meed. That there is bliss prepared in yonder sky, And glory for the virtuous when they die. COWPER. In Memory of J. Thornton. BEREAVEMENT BEREAVEMENT Oh, that those lips had language. Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. COWPER. On his mother's picture. The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. FITZGERALD. Rubaiyat, st. 8. (Not in ist Ed.) Our light is flown, Our beautiful, that seemed too much our own Ever to die ! MRS. HEMANS. The Two Voices. 'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store. KEBLE. Burial. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin, And softly, from that hushed and dark- ened room, Two angels issued where but one went in. LONGFELLOW. Death of Maria Lovell. Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day ; 'Twas an angel visited the green earth, And took the flowers away. LONGFELLOW. The Reaper. The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead. LONGFELLOW. Resignation. There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. LONGFELLOW. Ib. In this dim world of clouding cares, We rarely know, till 'wildered eyes See white wings lessening up the skies, The angels with us unawares. G. MASSEY. Babe Christabel. Although my life is left so dim, The morning crowns the mountain rim ; Joy is not gone from summer skies, Nor innocence from children's eyes, And all these things are part of him. ALICE MEYNELL. Parted. Angels, as 'tis but seldom they appear, So neither do they make long stay; They do but visit, and away. JOHN NORRIS. To the Memory of my dear Niece. Weep not for friends departed, But shed the bitter tear For those who, broken-hearted, Are doomed to linger here. THOS. OLIFHANT. Imitated from the German of Franz Schubert. Those whom he loved so long, and sees no more ; Loved and still loves not dead, but gone before. ROGERS. Human Life. Weep not, O friend, we should not weep ; Our friend of friends lies full of rest ; No sorrow rankles in her breast, Fallen fast asleep. She sleeps below, She wakes and laughs above ; To-day, as she walked, let us walk in love ; To-morrow, follow so. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. My Friend. Grief fills the room up of my vacant child. Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. SHAKESPEARE. King John, Act 3, 4. What, all my pretty chickens and their dam, At one fell swoop ? SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 4, 3. But I must also feel it as a man : I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. 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 overpayment of delight. SOUTHEY., Curse of Kehama, PI. 10, n. Birds sing on a bare bough ; O believer, canst not thou ? C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." The thorns he spares when the rose is taken ; The rocks are left when he wastes the plain ; The wind that wanders, the weeds wind- shaken, These remain. SWINBURNE. Forsaken Garden. Farewell : how should not such as thou fare well, Though we fare ill that love thce, and that live, And know, whate'er the days wherein we dwell May give us, thee again they will not give. SWINBURNE. In Memory of J. W. Inchbold. As often as a man loses his own relatives so often he dies. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. 39 BETRAYAL BIBLE I am in sonic little disorder by reason of the death of a little child of mine, a boy that lately made us very glad : but now he rejoices in his little robe, while we think, and sigh, and long to be as safe as he is. JEREMY TAYLOR. Letter to John Evelyn. As those we love decay, we die in part, String after string is severed from the heart. THOMSON. Death of Mr. Aikman. How fast has brother followed brother From sunshine to the sunless land ! WORDSWORTH. On the death of James Hogg. But she is in her grave, and oh, The difference to me ! WORDSWORTH. She dwelt among the untrodden ways. BETRAYAL Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat. BROWNING. The Lost Leader. We never are but by ourselves betrayed. CONGREVE. Old Bachelor, Act 3, i. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? GOLDSMITH. On Woman. When a man talks of love, with caution hear him ; But if he swears, he'll certainly deceive thee. T. OTWAY. Orphan. Call you that backing of your friends ? A plague upon such backing ! Give me them that will face me. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Act 2, 4. He who betrays his friend shall never be Under one roof, or in one ship, with me. SWIFT. Horace, Odes, 3, 2. Authority forgets a dying king. TENNYSON. Passing of Arthur, I. 289. BIBLE If most of Genesis be hopeless fiction, Yet hath that fiction more poetic worth, (This one may say, defying contradiction), Than any scientific " truth " on earth. G. BARLOW. Poetry and Science, 31. Holy Bible, book divine, Precious treasure, thou art mine. JOHN BARTON, SEN. (b. 1773). The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. BURNS. Cotter's Saturday Night. Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms. BYRON. English Bards. His studie was but litel on the Bible. CHAUCER. Cant. Tales, Prol. The sacred book no longer suffers wrong, Bound in the fetters of an unknown tongue, But speaks with plainness art could never mend, That simplest minds can soonest com- prehend. COWPER. Hope, 450. And of all arts sagacious dupes invent, To cheat themselves and gain the world's assent, The worst is Scripture warped from its intent. COWPER. Progress of Error. Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. COWPER. Truth, 328. What none can prove a forgery may be true ; What none but bad men wish exploded, must. COWPER. Winter Morning Walk, 617. You rule the Scripture, not the Scripture you. DRYDEN. Hind and the Panther, Pt. 2,187 He that has lost his God can find Him again in this book, and towards the man who has never known Him it wafts the breath of the divine word. HEINE. Religion and Philosophy, Pref. (1852). Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. HERBERT. Church Porch. The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the Holy Scriptures. HERBERT. Priest to the Temple, c. 4 It is not the bare words but the scope of the writer that giveth the true light by which any writing is to be interpreted ; and they that insist upon single texts, without considering the main design, can derive nothing from them clearly ; but rather by casting atoms of Scripture, as dust before men's eyes, make every- thing more obscure than it is. HOBBES. Leviathan, ch. 43 On Bible stilts I don't affect to stalk, Nor lard with Scripture my familiar talk. HOOD. Ode to R. Wilson. If I am not mistaken, nearly half the sacred volume was written in metre. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry, No. 40 (E. K. Francis tr.). 40 BIGOTRY BIRDS There is a book, who runs may read, Which heavenly truth imparts, And all the lore its scholars need, Pure eyes and Christian hearts. KEBLE. Septuagesima. A man of confined education, but of good parts, by constant reading of the Bible will naturally form a more winning and commanding rhetoric than those that are learned. HENRY MORE (1614-1687). The Scripture, in time of disputes, is like an open town in time of war, which serves indifferently the occasions of both parties. Each makes use of it for the present turn and then resigns it to the next comer to do the same. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects This bears the seed of immortality, For every soul that reads it feels the search Of answering thought, and thousands there may be Saying at once, "How straight that looks at me ! " EDNA D. PROCTOR. The Living Book. Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries. And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt or read to scorn. SCOTT. Monastery, ch. 12. Scrutamini Scripturas. These two words have undone the world. SELDEN. Bible. The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act i, 3. And he who guides the plough, or wields the crook, With understanding spirit now may look Upon her records, listen to her song, And sift her laws. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pt. 2, 29. Mighty in the Scriptures. Acts xviii, 24. BIGOTRY Bigotry murders Religion, to frighten fools with her ghost. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. When too much zeal doth fire devotion, Love is not love, but superstition. BISHOP CORBET. To Lord Mordant. Fanatic fools, that in those twilight times, With wild religion cloaked the worst of crimes. J. LANGHORNE. Country Justice. But oh, what mighty magic can assuage A woman's envy and a bigot's rage ? LORD LANSDOWNE. Progress of Beauty, I. 101. The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. POPE. Satires, Ep. 6, 27. Singly he faced the bigot brood, The meanly wise, the feebly good ; He pelted them with pearl, with mud ; He fought them well, But ah, the stupid million stood, And he, he fell! SIR W. WATSON. Tomb of Burns. BILLIARDS A man who wants to play billiards must have no other ambition. Billiards is all. E. V. LUCAS. Character and Comedy. Half the time often lost in learning to play the beautiful but pernicious game of billiards would be sufficient to give a youth mastery of that art [of drawing]. JOHN WILSON. Noctes, 12. To play billiards well is the sign of a mis-spent youth. Saying quoted by Herbert Spencer BIOGRAPHERS Would that every Johnson in the world had his veridical Boswell, or leash of Boswells! CARLYLE. Voltaire. A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. CARLYLE. Richter. The talents of a biographer are often fatal to his reader. Miss EDGEWORTH. Castle Rackrent, Pref. There is properly no history, only bio- graphy. EMERSON. History. After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, Than such an honest chronicler as Griffith. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 4, 2. Reader, pass on, nor idly waste your time, In bad biography or bitter rhyme, For what I am this cumbrous clay insures, And what I was is no affair of yours. Epitaph, said to be in Peterborough Churchyard. BIRDS I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ADDISON. Spectator, 477. BIRDS BIRTHDAYS Proof they give, too, primal powers, Of a prescience more than ours, Teach us, while they come and go, When to sail and when to sow. M. ARNOLD. Poor Matthias. He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs. And many a silly thing That hops and cheeps, And perks his tiny tail, And sideways peeps, And flitters little wing, Seems in his consequential way To tell of Spring. R. LE GALLIENNE. Ode to Spring. " None but the lark so shrill and clear .' Now at Heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings." JOHN LYLY. Alexander and Cam- paspe, Act i. A bird knows nothing of gladness, Is only a song-machine. G. MACDONALD. Book of Dreams, Pt. 2, 2. Quaintest, richest carol of all the singing throats. [The blackbird.] GEO. MEREDITH. Love in the Valley, st. 17. Gone to the world where birds are blest ! Where never cat glides o'er the green. ROGERS. Epitaph on a Robin. At earliest dawn his thrilling pipe was heard ; And when the light of evening died away, That blithe and indefatigable bird Still his redundant song of joy and love preferred. [The thrush.] SOUTHEY. Tale of Paraguay, Dedication. The sober-suited songstress. [The night- ingale.] THOMSON. Sitmtner, 746. The bird whom man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast, Our little English robin. WORDSWORTH. The Redbreast. If the cock moult before the hen, We shall have weather thick and thin ; But if the hen moult before the cock, We shall have weather hard as a block. North England saying. Robins and wrens Are God Almighty's friends ; Martins and swallows Are God Almighty's scholars. From A. S. Cooke's "Off the Beaten Track in Sussex " (1912). The robin redbreast and the wren Are God Almighty's cock and hen. Old English saying. Seagull, seagull, sit on the sand ; It's never good weather when you're on the land. Old Scottish rhyme. On the first of March, the crows begin to search ; By the first of April, they are sitting still ; By the first of May, they're a' flown away ; Croupin' greedy back again in October's wind and rain. Old Scottish rhyme (Cheviot's Collection). One magpie's joy ; Two's grief ; Three's a marriage ; Four's death. Old Scottish saying (Cheviot's Collection). BIRTH For the child's gone that never came. W. COMBE. Syntax in Search of Consolation. The pleasing punishment that women bear. SHAKESPEARE. Comedy of Errors, Act i, i. What ailed thee then to be born ? SWINBURNE. Atalanta. 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 forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home. WORDSWORTH. Intimations of Im- mortality, c. 5. BIRTH, NOBLE Do, as your great progenitors have done, And, by their virtues, prove yourself their son. DRYDEN. Wife of Bath, I. 398. In some, greatness of birth is apt to produce meanness of mind. GREGORY. Dial. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. 4, 315. Nothing like blood, sir, in hosses dawgs, and men. [James Crawley.] THACKERAY. Vanity Fair, c. 35. The first king was a fortunate soldier. He who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. VOLTAIRE. Mtrope. BIRTHDAYS Born of a Monday, fair in face ; Born of a Tuesday, full of God's grace Born of a Wednesday, merry and glad BIRTHPLACE BLASPHEMY Born of a Thursday, sour and sad ; Born of a Friday, godly given ; Born of a Saturday, work for your living ; Born of a Sunday, ne'er shall we want, So there ends the week and there's an end on "t. BRAND'S Popular Antiquities. Monday's child is fair in face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works for its living ; And a child that's born on Christinas day, Is fair and wise, and good and gay. Old Rhyme (Halliwell). BIRTHPLACE And for their birthplace moan, as moans the ocean-shell. MRS. HEMANS. Forest Sanctuary, st. 4. Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, Who living had no roof to shroud his head. THOS. HEYWOOD. Hierarchic. Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place. JOHNSON. Letter, 1770. There may be fairer spots of earth, But all their glories are not worth The virtue of the native sod. J. R. LOWELL. An Invitation. The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. " Euripides or some other," according to Plutarch. It matters less to a man where he is born than how he can live. Turkish prov. BIRTH-RATE Every minute dies a man And one and one-sixteenth is born. Parody (by BABBAGE, the mathematician) of Tennyson's "Every moment dies a man." BIRTHRIGHT His birthright sold, some pottage so to gain. EARL OF STIRLING. Doomsday, 6th Hour, 39. BISHOPS In the days of gold, The days of old, Crozier of wood, And bishop of gold ! Now we have changed That law so good To crozier of gold And bishop of wood. LONGFELLOW. Golden Legend, 4 (Friar Paul's song). Come then, my brethren, and be glad, And eke rejoice with me ; Lawn sleeves and rochets shall go down, And hey ! then up go we ! F. QUARLES. Shepherd's Oracles. Now hear an allusion : A mitre, you know, Is divided above but united below. If this you consider, our emblem is right ; The bishops divide, but the clergy unite. SWIFT. On the Irish Bishops, 1731. A bishop then must be blameless. I Timothy iii, 2. WeePs him and wae's him, that has a bishop in his kin. Scottish prov. BITTERNESS Much I muse, How bitter can spring up where sweet is sown. DANTE. Paradise, c. 8 (Gary's tr.). His acrid words Turn the sweet milk of kindness into curds. O. W. HOLMES. The Moral Bully. And taunts he casten forth most bitterly. THOMSON. Castle of Indolence, c. 2, st. 80. But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things. WORDSWORTH. Elegiac Stanzas, 1824. The iron entered into his soul. Church Psalter, cv, 18. BLACKBALLING A custom was of old and still remains, Which life or death by suffrages ordains : White stones and black within an urn are cast ; The first absolve, but fate is in the last. DRYDEN. Tr. Ovid Metam., Bk. 15. BLARNEY STONE The stone this is, Whoever kisses, He never misses To grow eloquent. 'Tis he may clamber To my lady's chamber, Or be a member Of Parliament. ANON. Quoted in Lockhart's Life of Scott, ch. 63 BLASPHEMY That they may be considered wise they rail at heaven. PH.EDRUS. Fables, Bk. 4. To blaspheme the gods is a hateful form of cleverness. PINDAR. Pythian Odes, c. 9, 40. 43 BLESSING BLESSING A double blessing is a double grace. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 3. BLINDNESS Blinder Than a trebly-bandaged mole. C. S. CALVERLEY. On hearing the Organ. Dear to the Muse was he, Who yet appointed him both good and ill ; Took from him sight, but gave him strains divine. HOMER. Odyssey, Bk. 8, 62 (Cowper tr.). 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. From Friedrich von Logan. Seasons return, but not to me returns Day or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 3, 41. From the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 3, 46. To live a life half dead, a living death. MILTON. Samson Agonistes, 100. He that is strucken blind, cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act i, i. A picture gallery is a dull place for a blind man. G. B. SHAW. Man and Superman. Being too blind to have desire to see. TENNYSON. Holy Grail, I. 868. BLOCKADE The British blockade won the war ; but the wonder is that the British block- head did not lose it. G. B. SHAW. O'Flaherty, V.C., Pref. (1919)- Our stern foe Had made a league with Famine. SOUTHEY. Joan of Arc, Bk. 2. BLOODTHIRST1NESS I love a dire revenge : Give me the man that will all others kill, And last himself. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. Little French Lawyer, Act 4, i. BLUSHES His word was still Fie, fob and fum, I smell the blood of a British man. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act 3, 4. Brutes never meet in bloody fray, Nor cut each other's throats for pay. SWIFT. Logicians Refuted. And he that was of mildest mood Did slaye the other there. Children in the Wood (Old Ballad). BLOWS Another's sword has laid him low, Another's and another's, And every hand that dealt the blow Ah me ! it was a brother's. CAMPBELL. O'Connor's Child, 10. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act i, i. BLUNDERS Your blunderer is as sturdy as a rock. COWPER. Progress of Error, 538. It was worse than a crime ; it was a blunder. FOUCHE (1763-1820). It is not allowable to make a mistake twice in war. PLUTARCH (A maxim attributed to Lama- chus, Athenian general). You have made this hash ; it is for you to swallow it all. TERENCE. Phormio. Against a foe I can myself defend, But Heaven protect me from a blunder- ing friend. D. W. THOMPSON. Sales Attici. It is disgraceful to stumble twice against the same stone. Greek prov. BLUNTNESS He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for's power to thunder. SHAKESPEARE. Coriolanus, Act 3, i. This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Cezsar, Act i, 2. He cannot flatter, he An honest mind and plain he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain. These kind of knaves I know. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act 2, 2. BLUSHES The question [with Mr. Podsnap] about everything was, would it bring a blush into the cheek of the young person ? DICKENS. Our Mutual Friend. 44 BLUSTER BONDAGE With a smile that glowed Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 8, 618. The man that blushes is not quite a brute. YOUNG. Night Thoughts. BLUSTER A noisy man is always in the right. COWPER. Conversation. A foutra for the world and worldlings base ! I speak of Africa and golden joys. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Act 5, 3. From my heart-string I love the lovely bully. SHAKESPEARE. Henry V ., Act 4, i. He speaks plain cannon fire and smoke and bounce. SHAKESPEARE. King John, Act 2, 2. BOASTING Man often indulges too much in vain- glory about his contempt of vainglory. ST. AUGUSTINE. Quoth she, I told thee what would come Of all thy vapouring, base scum. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. i, c. 3. For bragging-time was over, and fight- ing time was come. SIR H. NEWBOLT. Hawke. Ah, this thou should'st have done, And not have spoke on't ! SHAKESPEARE. Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, 7. Let not him that girdeth on his armour boast himself as he that putteth it off. i Kings xx, ii (Revised Version}. Brag's a good dog, but he hath lost his tail. Prov. Brag's a good dog, but Holdfast is a better. Prov BOATING Drifting down on the dear old river, O, the music that interweaves ! The ripples run and the sedges shiver : O, the song of the lazy leaves ! J. ASHBY-STERRY. Drifting Down. And all the way to guide their chime With falling oars they kept the time. A. MARVELL. Bermudas. BOGIES I'm ole man Spewter-Splutter wid long claws, en scales on my back ! I'm snaggle-toofed en double-j'inted ! Gimme room ! J. C. HARRIS. Nights with Uncle Remus, ch. 22. Why does the nurse tell the child of Rawhead and Bloody-bones ? To keep it in awe. SELDEN. Priests of Rome. BOLDNESS In civil business, what first ? Boldness. What second and third ? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness. BACON. Of Boldness, 12. What action is to the orator, that boldness is to the public man first, second, and third. BACON. Instauratio, Pt. i. Bk. 6, 33. Boldness be my friend ! SHAKESPEARE. Cymbeline, Act i, 7. Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful. SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure, Act 3, i. But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, Leaving no track behind. SHAKESPEARE. Timon, Act i, i. Be bolde, Be bolde, and everywhere, Be bolde. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, c. 11, st. 54. Be not too bolde. SPENSER. Ib BOMBAST With ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. DRYDEN. Alexander's Feast, st. 2. Bombast and words a foot-and-a-half long. HORACE. De Arte Poetica. Be exceeding proud. Stand upon your gentility, and scorn every man. Speak nothing humbly. BEN JONSON. Every Man in his Humour, Acts. And thou Dalhousic, the great God of War, I ieutenant-Colonel to the Earl of Mar. POPE. Art of Sinking, ch. 9. I will do it in King Cambyses' vein. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 2, 4. This is Ercles' vein. SHAKESPEARE. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i, 2. BONDAGE So free we seem, so fettered fast we are BROWNING. Andrea del Sirto 45 BOOK INSCRIPTIONS BOOKS A fool I do him firmely hold That loves his fetters, though they were of gold. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. 3, c. g. BOOK INSCRIPTIONS This book is one thing, And hemp is another ; Steal not the one For fear of the other ; For if you steal this book, It is very true A harder thing hereafter Will ensue to you. MS. (c. 1693)- This book, a child of Adam's race, Among my human friends I place, Whereof this label on his face The token and the pledge is. Then, gentle reader, of your grace, Preserve my friend from usage base, Have pity on his helpless case, And reverence his edges. ANON. Small is the wren ; Black is the rook ; Blacker the sinner Who steals this book. Traditional Rhyme. Steal not this book for fear of shame, For in it is the owner's name, And when you die the Lord will say, Where is that book you stole away ? Old Schoolbook Inscription. BOOK LEARNING And let a scholar all Earth's volumes carry, He will be but a walking dictionary. CHAPMAN. Tears of Peace. He that takes up conclusions on the trust of authors, and doth not fetch them from the first items in every reckoning, which are the significations of names settled by definitions, loses his labour and does not know anything, but only believeth. HOBBES. Leviathan, ch. 5. Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. 4, 327. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. POPE. Criticism, I. 612. His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. W. SHENSTONE. A Character. Nature's fair table-book, our tender souls, We scrawl all o'er with old and empty rules, Stale memorandums of the schools ; For learning's mighty treasures look Into that deep grave, a book. SWIKT. To Sir W. Temple. BOOKS A man of one book (i.e. a. learned man). THOS. AQUINAS. Libraries . . . are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. BACON. Advancement of Learning, Bk. 2. Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch. BACON. Of Counsel, 20. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. BACON. Of Studies, 50. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philo- sophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. BACON. Ib. Books are the shrine where the saint is, or is believed to be. BACON. To Sir T. Bodley. A borrowed book is but a cheap pleasure, an unappreciated and unsatisfactory tool. To know the true value of books . . . you must first feel the sweet delight of buying them. J. M. BALDWIN. Read bookes, hate Ignorance, the foe to Art, The dam of Error, Envy of the hart. R. BARNFIELD. Affectionate Shepheard (1594). A home without books is like a house without windows; no man has the right to bring up children without books to surround them. H. W. BEECHER. Books are men of higher stature. E. B. BROWNING. Lady Geraldine's Courtship. Some said, John, print it ; others said, Not so ; Some said, It might do good ; others said No. BUNYAN. Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. z. You only, O books, are liberal and inde- pendent. You give to all who ask, and enfranchise all who serve you assiduously. RICHARD DE BURY, BISHOP OF DURHAM (1281-1345) . Ph Hob iblon. Affects all books of past and modern ages, But reads no further than their title pages. S. BUTLER. Human Learning. 'Tis pleasant sure to see one's name in print ; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. BYRON. English Bards, I. 51. A big book is a big evil. CALLIMACHUS (Greek). BOOKS BOOKS For him was lever have at his beddes heed. Twenty bokes, clad in black or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophye, Than robes riche, or fithele or gay sautrye. CHAUCER. Cant. Tales, Prol. In books a prodigal, they say, A living cyclopedia. COTTON MATHER. On Anne Bradstrect. Come, my best friends, my books, and lead me on ! COWLEY. The Motto. 'Twere well with most if books that could engage Their childhood, pleased them at a riper age. COWPER. Tirocinium, 147. Books cannot always please, however good ; Minds are not ever craving for their food. CRABBE. The Borough, Letter 24. These are the tombs of such as cannot die. CRABBE. Library. Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. SIR J. DENHAM. Prudence, I. 83. Choose an author as you choose a friend. W. DILLON (E. of Roscommon). On Translated Verse, 96. An author may influence the fortunes of the world to as great an extent as a statesman or a warrior. A book may be as great a thing as a battle. DISRAELI. The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are : i. Never read any book that is not a year old. 2. Never read any but famed books. 3. Never read any but what you like. "EMERSON. Books. There must be a man behind the book. EMERSON. Goethe. 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book. EMERSON. Success. The princeps copy, bound in blue and gold. J. FERRIAR. Bibliomania. That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers. FLETCHER and MASSINGER. Elder Brother, Act i, 2. He breaks his fast With Aristotle, dines with Tully, takes His watering with the Muses, sups with Livy. FLETCHER and MASSINGER. Ib, Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. T. FULLER. Of Books. Books teach us very little of the world GOLDSMITH. Letter, 1739. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. GOLDSMITH. Vicar of Wakefield, Preface. The scholar only knows how dear these silent yet eloquent companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. WASHINGTON IRVING. Was there ever yet anything written long that was wished longer by its readers ? except Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress. JOHNSON. Remark as recorded by Mrs. Piozzl. Books without the knowledge of life are useless, for what should books teach but the art of living ? JOHNSON. Remark as recorded by Mrs. Piozzi. As in feeling a pulse it is not always easy for a doctor to detect whether the beating comes from himself or from his patient, so the case is exactly the same in the close union and mingling of the minds of author and reader. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry, No. 31 (E. K. Francis tr.). Books which are no books . . . things in books' clothing. LAMB. On Books. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. LAMB. Ib. I mean your borrowers of books those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. LAMB. Two Races. One gift the Fairies gave me . . . The love of Books, the Golden Key That opens the Enchanted Door. ANDREW LANG. Ballads of the Bookworm . What are my books ? My friends, my loves, My church, my tavern, and my only wealth. R. LE GALLIENNE. My Books. A reading-machine, always wound up and going, He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. J. R. LOWELL. Fable for Critics. When the dim presence of the awful night Clasps in its jewelled arms the slumber- ing earth, Alone I sit beside the lowly light, 47 BOOKS BOOKS That like a dream-fire flickers on my hearth, With some joy-teeming volume in my hand A peopled planet, opulent and grand. JAMES MACFARLAN. The Book World (1859). A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a Life beyond Life. Mi LTON. A reopagitica . 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, kills the image of God, as it were, in the die. MILTON. Ib. Every abridgment of a book is a stupid abridgment. MONTAIGNE. Bk. 3. The best books are those which every reader feels that he could have written ; the natural, which alone is good, is entirely familiar and common. PASCAL. Pensees. I have for my friends books, friends extremely agreeable, of all ages, of every land ; of easy access, for they are always at my service ; I admit them to my com- pany, and dismiss them from it, whenever I please. They are never troublesome, but immediately answer every question I ask them. PETRARCH. A book is a friend that never betrays US. GUILBERT DE PlXER^COURT. He [Pliny the Elder] read no books without making extracts ; and he used to say there was no book so bad but that profit might be derived from some part of it. PLINY THE YOUNGER. Ep. Timotheus said that they who dine with Plato never complain the next morning. PLUTARCH. Morals, Bk. i. While I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. E. A. POE. Raven, st. i. For some in ancient books delight ; Others prefer what moderns write ; Now 1 should be extremely loth Not to be thought expert in both. PRIOR. Alma, c. i, 519. Holds secret converse with the Mighty Dead. ROGERS. Human Life. The Frenchman reads much, but he only reads new books, or rather he runs through them, less for the sake of reading them than to say that he has read them. ROUSSEAU. Julie. 48 How learned many a man would be if he knew all that is in his own books ! SCHOPENHAUER. On Authorship. It would be a good thing to buy books if we could also buy the time to read them. SCHOPENHAUER. On Reading. Waverley drove through the sea of books, like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder. SCOTT. Waverley, ch. 36. A crowd of books distracts the mind. SENECA. Ep. 2. Leisure without books is death, and the burial of a man alive. SENECA. Ep. 82. As painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth ; while truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look : Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, Act i, i. My library Was dukedom large enough. SHAKESPEARE. Tempest, Act i, 2. I always know when Lady Slattern has been before me. She has a most observ- ing thumb. SHERIDAN. Rivals, Act i, 2. As I never return books, I make a rule never to borrow them. SYDNEY SMITH. Letter, Sept. 17, 1844. No furniture so charming as books. SYDNEY SMITH. Sayings, Vol. i. My days among the dead are passed ; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old ; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. SOUTHEY. Occas. Pieces, 18. If there should be another flood, For refuge hither fly ; Though all the world should be submerged, This book will still be dry. Saying quoted or invented by C. H. SPURGEON. Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. SIR W. TEMPLE. Ancient and Modern Learning. But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot. TENNYSON. Merlin and Vivien, 667. BOOKS BOREDOM There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the Mighty Dead. THOMSON. Seasons, Winter, 431. Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God hath prepared for His creatures. A. TROLLOPE. This little book fed me in a very hungry place. MARK TWAIN. Tramp Abroad. Is a book bad ? Nothing can plead for it. Is it good ? All the kings cannot crush it. They suppress it at Rome, and in London they admire it ; the Pope proscribes it, and all Europe wants to read it. VOLTAIRE. To the King of Denmark. The multitude of useless books is so immense that the life of a man would not suffice to make a catalogue of them. VOLTAIRE. Letter to M. Marin, July 5, 1769. Books should be treated like men- Choose the most reasonable, examine them, arid never give up your judgment except to evidence. VOLTAIRE. L'Homme aux Quarante Ecus. Books govern the world, or at any rate all nations which possess the faculty of writing. VOLTAIRE. On the Old Testament. Titles of books are like those of men, in the eyes of a philosopher. He judges nothing by titles. VOLTAIRE. On the Witt of Cardinal Alberoni. It is necessary to be on one's guard against books, even more than judges are against advocates. VOLTAIRE. Printed Falsehoods. To lend a byuck is to lose it an' borrpwin's but a hypocritical excuse for stealin' and should be punished wi" death. JOHN WILSON. Nodes 30 (The Ettrick Shepherd) . Go forth, my little book ! pursue thy way ! Go forth, and please the gentle and the good. WORDSWORTH. Desultory Stanzas. More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pt. 2, 39. If in this book Fancy and Truth agree ; If simple Nature, trained by careful Art, Through it have won a passage to thy heart, Grant me thy love I claim no other fee. WORDSWORTH. Miscell. Sonnets, Pt- 3, 39- Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know. Are a substantial world, both pure and good. WORDSWORTH. Personal Talk, 3. Of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Ecclesiastes xii, 12. Behold, my desire is ... that mine adversary had written a book. Job xxxi, 35. The dead are the best advisers. Latin saying. Woe be to him that reads but one book ! Prov. (Geo. Herbert) from the Latin. Books and friends should be few and good. Spanish prov. ! for a booke and a shadie nooke, Eyther indore or out ; With the grene leaves whispering over- heade, Or the street cryes all about. Quoted by Lord Avebury as " An Old Song," but probably modern and said to be written by John Wilson, London bookseller (d. 1889), as a " motto " for his second-hand catalogue, c. 1888. BOREDOM By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me ? COLERIDGE. Ancient Mariner. We almost always get bored with those whom we bore. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 634. People always get tired of one another. 1 grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person. G. B. SHAW. Unsocial Socialist, ch. 4. In order not to displease too much, one must submit to be frequently bored. VOLTAIRE. Le Depositaire. The secret of boring is the practice of saying everything. VOLTAIRE. Discourse on Man. Repose is a good thing, but boredom is its brother. VOLTAIRE 49 BORROWERS AND LENDERS BRIBERY BORROWERS AND LENDERS The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. LAMB. Two Races. Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 3. Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrer the money to do it with. ARTEMUS WARD (C. F. BROWNE). Natural History. The borrower is servant to the lender. Proverbs xxii, 7. BOUNDARIES Mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. COWPER. Time Piece, I. 17. BOYHOOD Not when the sense is dim, But now from the heart of joy, I would remember Him : Take the thanks of a boy. H. C. BEECHING. Prayers. The schoolboy spot We ne'er forget, though there we are forgot. BYRON. Don Juan, i, 130. Few boys are born with talents that excel, But all are capable of living well. COWPER. Tirocinium, 509. I only know two sorts of boys : mealy boys and beef-faced boys. DICKENS. Oliver Twist, c. 14. The microcosm of a public school. DISRAELI. Vivian Grey, c. 2. Far happier is thy head that wears That hat without a crown. HOOD. Clapham Academy. O dearest, dearest boy ! my heart For better lore would seldom yearn, Could I but teach the hundredth part Of what from thee I learn. WORDSWORTH. Anecdote for Fathers. An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. Latin Mediaeval prov., described by Erasmus as " invented by Satan." Forty years on, growing older and older Shorter in wind as in memory long, Feeble of foot and rheumatic of shoulder What will it help you that once you were young ? Harrow School Song, " Forty Years On " BRAGGADOCIO 'Tis easier far to flourish than to fight. DRY DEN. Hind and the Panther. Gross feeders, lion-talkers, lamb-like fighters. DRYDEN. Spanish Friar, Act4,2. BRAINS I abhor brains As I do tools : they're things mechanical. J. S. KNOWLES. Hunchback, Act 3, i. I mix them with my brains, sir. JOHN OPIE. Reply to question " With what do you mix your colours ? " BREAD Man doth not live by bread only. Deuteronomy viii, 3. BREAKFAST ' And then to breakfast, with what appe- tite you have. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 3, 2. I think breakfasts so pleasant because no one is conceited before one o'clock. SYDNEY SMITH. Saying. When a man 'as breakfast every day, he don't know what it is. R. L. STEVENSON (and L. OSBORNE). Ebb-Tide, ch. 2. BREEDING Good breeding is the blossom of good sense. YOUNG. Love of Fame. Meat feeds, claith deeds (clothes), but breeding maks the man. Scottish prov. BREVITY Would'st thou foil the censurer's sneer Thy copious theme in narrowest pale Confine ; nor pall the impatient ear That throbs for fresh delights, and loathes the lengthening tale. PINDAR. Pythian Odes, 9, 133 (Moore tr.). The Lacedemonian wisdom consisted of brief and memorable sayings [uttered by the seven Wise Men] .' . . This was the manner of philosophy among the ancients a certain laconic brevity of speech. PLATO. Protagoras, 82. Brevity is the soul of wit. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, 2. Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. H. D. THOREAU. Letter to a Friend. BRIBERY Moved by the rhetoric of a silver fee. GAY. Trivia, Bk. 3, 318. BRIDES AND BRIDEGROOMS BRITAIN Turn from the glittering bribe thy scornful eye, Nor sell for gold what gold could never buy. JOHNSON. London. Omnes diligunt munera. They all love bribes. Bribery is a princely kind of thieving. . . . Nowadays they call them gentle rewards. Let them leave their colouring, and call them by their Christian name bribes. BISHOP LATIMER. Sermon. Let speculative men reason or rather refine as they please, it will ever be true among us, that as long as men engage in the public service upon private ends . . . it will be safer to trust our property and constitution in the hands of such who have paid for their election, than of those who have obtained them by servile flatteries of the people. SWIFT. Contests and Dissensions, ch. 4. It is an old maxim that every man has his price. The Bee (i 733-4) A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver. Plutarch says thai this was said of Demosthenes, when he pretended in- ability to plead owing to having lost his Yet one of them, more hard of heart, Did vowe to do his charge, Because the wretch, that hired him, Had paid him very large. The Children in the Wood. Black-letter ballad, st. 12. BRIDES AND BRIDEGROOMS That Adam, called " the happiest of men." BYRON.- Don Juan, 14, 55. The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she. COLERIDGE. Ancient Mariner, Pt. i. Holy and pure are the drops that fall When the young bride goes from her father's hall ; She goes unto love yet untried and new ; She parts from love which hath still been true. MRS. HEMANS. Bride of the Greek Isle. Blest is the Bride on whom the sun doth shine. HERRICK. 284, Nuptial Song. Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the faces of a new-married couple in that of the lady particularly. LAMB. A Bachelor's Complaint. And doubtful joys the father move, And tears are on the mother's face, As, parting with a long embrace, She enters other realms of love. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, c. 40. BRIDESMAIDS Bridesmaids may soon be made brides. One wedding brings on another. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." A happy bridesmaid makes a happy bride. TENNYSON. The Bridesmaid. BRILLIANCY How inferior for seeing with is your brightest train of fireworks to the humblest farthing candle. CARLYLE. Diderot. BRITAIN This most happy and glorious event, that this Island of Britain, divided from all the world, should be united in itself. BACON. Advancement of Learning, Bk. 2. There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these self-same British Islands. G. BORROW. Lavengro. Be Britain still to Britain true, Among oursels united ; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted! BURNS. Dumfries Volunteers. Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep, Her march is on the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. CAMPBELL. Ye Mariners. Oh it's a snug little island, A right little, tight little island ! Search the globe round, none can be found So happy as this little island. THOS. DIBDIN. Snug Little Island. What should they know of England Who only England know ? KIPLING. English Flag. Rejoice, O Albion ! severed from the world, By Nature's wise indulgence. JOHN PHILIPS. Cider, Bk. 2. Britain is A world by itself; and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses. SHAKESPEARE. Cymbeline, Act 3, i. You shall find us in our salt-water girdle. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. Prithee, think There's livers out of Britain. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, 4. BRITISH FLAG BROTHERHOOD Hath Britain all the sun that shines ? SHAKESPEARE. Cymbdinc, Act 3, 4. Hail, happy Britain ! highly favoured isle, And Heaven's peculiar care ! W. SOMERVILLE. The Chase, Bk. i. Thank Him who isled us here, and roughly set His Britain in blown seas and storming showers. TENNYSON. On Wellington, st. 7. God bless the narrow sea which keeps her off, And keeps our Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled. TENNYSON. Princess, Conclusion No little German state are we, But the one voice of Europe ; we must speak. TENNYSON. Third of February. Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea. TENNYSON. To the Queen. This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung the strain ; " Rule, Britannia ! rule the waves ! Britons never will be slaves." THOMSON. Mask of Alfred (authorship disputed). Whether this portion of the world were rent By the rude ocean from the continent, Or thus created, it was sure designed To be the sacred refuge of mankind. WALLER. To my Lord Protector, st. 7. Rome, though her eagle through the world had flown, Could never make this island all her own. WALLER. Ib., si. 17. BRITISH FLAG Whose flag has braved a thousand years' The battle and the breeze ! CAMPBELL. Ye Mariners. The meteor flag of England shall yet terrific burn. CAMPBELL. Jb. 4. With Freedom's lion-banner Britannia rules the waves. CAMPBELL. To the Germans. Take 'old o' the Wings o' the Mornin', An' flop round the earth till you're dead ; But you won't get away from the tune that they play To the bloomin" old rag overhead. KIPLING. Widow at Windsor. BRITONS As long as faith and freedom last, And earth goes round the sun, This stands The British line held fast, And so the fight was won. H. BEGBIE. The Living Line (April 2, 1918). The fickleness which is attributed to us as we are islanders. MILTON. Ready and Easy Way (1660). Britons, strike home ! Revenge your country's wrongs ! GEO. POWELL. Bonduca (1696 version). BROADMINDEDNESS Just as he [Homer] could speak of the rich and royal without envy, so he could deal with the poorest of the poor without a touch of slight or contempt. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry, No. 14 (E. K Francis tr.). BROTHERHOOD For 'a that, and a' that, It's comin' yet for a* that, That man to man, the warld o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that. BURNS. Is there, for Honest Poverty ? Father and mother Ask reverence ; a brother, only love. T. CAMPION. Fortune and Glory. The political brotherhood which philo- sophy teaches us is more beneficial to us than the merely spiritual brotherhood, for which we are indebted to Christianity. HEINE. The Romantic School. No distance breaks the tie of blood ; Brothers are brothers evermore. KEBLE. Christian Year, 2nd Sunday after Trinity. A brother is a friend given by nature. J. B. LEGOUVE. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. SHAKESPEARE. Henry V., Act 4, 3. And when, with grief, you see your brother stray, Or in a night of error lose his way, Direct his wandering and restore the day. To guide his steps afford your kindest aid, And gently pity whom ye can't persuade ; Lpave to avenging Heaven his stubborn will, For, O remember, he's your brother still. SWIFT. Swan Tripe Club. Let brotherly love continue. 2 Timothy xiii, i . BRUTALITY BUSINESS BRUTALITY They are neither man nor woman They are neither brute nor human, They are Ghouls ! E. A. POE. The Bells. The time and my intents are savage-wild ; More fierce, and more inexorable far, Than empty tigers, or the roaring sea. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, 5. Like brute beasts that have no under- standing. Common Prayer. Marriage Service. BUILDING A noble craft, that of a mason ! A good building will last longer than most books longer than one book in a million. CARLYLE. Remark referring to Auldgarth Bridge. Build houses of five hundred by a hun- dred feet, forgetting that of six by two. FIELDING. Tom Jones, Bk. 2, c. 8. No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence. HEBER. Palestine. Anon put of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 710. I seldom see a noble building, or any other piece of magnificence and pomp, but I think how little is all this to satisfy the ambition or to fill the idea of an im- mortal soul. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. The man who builds, and wants where- with to pay, Provides a home from which to run away. YOUNG. Love of Fame. Building is a sweet impoverishing. Prov. (Geo. Herbert). The grandsire buys, the father bigs (builds), the son sells, and the grandson thigs (begs). Scottish saying. BULLIES He was a coward to the strong ; He was a tyrant to the weak. SHELLEY. Rosalind. BURDENS Respect the burden. NAPOLEON. For every man shall bear his owa burden. Galatians vi, 5. | BURGLARS A terrier tyke and a rusty key Were Johnnie Armstrong's Jeddart fee. Scottish saying, founded on a statement that Johnnie Armstrong, a convicted moss trooper, was offered his life if he would disclose the best safeguards against marauders. He replied, " A terrier and rusty locks." BURIAL So peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and fame. POPE. Elegy, 69. We carved not a line and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. C. WOLFE. Burial of Sir John Moore. Denied the charity of dust, to spread O'er dust. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 3. BUSINESS The playthings of our elders are called business. ST. AUGUSTINE. Con/., Bk. i. No-wher so bisy a man as he ther nas, And yet he semed bisier than he was. CHAUCER. Cant. Tales, Prol. Hackneyed in business, wearied at that oar, Which thousands, once fast chained to, quit no more. Co WP E R . Retirement . You Irish gentlemen [said the attorney] are rather in too great a hurry in doing business. Business, sir, is a thing that must be done slowly to be done well. Miss EDGEWORTH. Essay on Irish Bulls, ch. 3. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. HENRY FORD (American millionaire), Jan. 1919. Curse on that man that business first designed, And by 't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind. J. OLD HAM. Absence. Being asked whether he was at leisure, Dionysius the elder said, " No, nor do I ever expect to be." PLUTARCH. Morals, Bk. i. A man of wit is not incapable of business, but above it. A sprightly, generous horse is able to carry a pack saddle as well as an ass, but he is too good to be put to the drudgery. POPE. "Thoughts on Various Subjects. 53 BUSY-BODIES CALUMNY BUSY-BODIES But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns. M. ARNOLD. Second Best. Zeus hates busy-bodies and those who do too much. EURIPIDES. As quoted by Emerson in essay on " Success.'' There is nothing in the world more un- seemly than an aged busy-body. MARTIAL. 4, 79. " O Hercules," said Phocion, when busy-bodies tried to interfere with his military dispositions and alter his plans, " how many generals we have, and how few soldiers ! " JPLUTARCH. Life of Phocion. BUTTER Butter is mad twice a year [in the ex- tremes of tempera turel. Prov. Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, lead at night. Prov. (Ray). Butter to butter's nae kitchen. Scottish prov., meaning " like to like is no relish." BUTTONS My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham . . . but I had a soul above buttons. G. COLMAN. Sylvester Daggerwood. CABALS O my soul, come not thou into their secret ; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united. Genesis xlix, 6. CALAMITY Calamity Is man's true touchstone. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Triumph of Honour, Sc. i. Never did any public misery Rise of itself ; God's plagues still grounded are On common stains of our humanity. F. GREVILLE. Treatie of Warres. Romeo, come forth ; come forth, thou fearful man ; Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. SHAKESPEARE. Borneo and Juliet, Act 3, 3. CALCULATION For he by geometric scale Could take the size, of pots of ale, And wisely tell what hour o' the clay The clock does strike by algebra. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. i, c. i. CALLOUSNESS So perish all whose breast ne'er learned to glow For other's good or melt at other's woe. POPE. Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, 45. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things ! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey ? SHAKESPEARE. Julius Caesar, Act i, i. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, 2. Hearts which lapse of years, And that half-wisdom half-experience gives, Make slow to feel. WORDSWORTH. The Old Cumberland Beggar. CALM The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below. CAMPBELL. Gertrude of Wyoming, Pt-3, 5- Calmness is great advantage ; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire. HERBERT. Church Porch. Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. WORDSWORTH. Intimations of Immortality. No motion but the moving tide, a breeze, Or merely silent nature's breathing life. WORDSWORTH. Elegiac Stanzas, 1805. With heart as calm as lakes that sleep In frosty moonlight glistening ; Or mountain rivers, where they creep Along a channel smooth and deep, To their own far-off murmurs listening. WORD swo RTH . Memory. CALUMNY It is a royal experience to be ill-spoken of for good deeds. ANTISTHENES. As quoted by Marcus Aurelius, 7, 3:'). Calumniate, calumniate ! Something will always stick. BEAUMARCHAIS. Barbier de Seville. 54 CALUMNY CANDOUR Innocence is a defence For nothing else but patience. 'Twill not bear out the blows of fate Nor fence against the tricks of state ; Nor from the oppression of the laws Protect the plain'st and justest cause ; Nor keep unspotted a good name Against the obloquies of fame. S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. As long as there are readers to be de- lighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate. COLERIDGE. Biographia Liter aria, ch. 3. Calumny always makes the calumniator worse, but the calumniated never. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. The man that dares to traduce, because he can With safety to himself, is not a man. COWPER. Expostulation, I. 432. Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life. COWPER. Hope, I. 578. He turneth praising into blame. And worship into worldes shame. GOWER. Confessio Amanlis, Bk. 2. Slander, that worst of poisons, ever finds An easy entrance to ignoble minds. LORD J. HERVEY. Juvenal. With favour graced, the evil-doer stands, Nor curbs with shame nor equity his hands ; With crooked slanders wounds the virtuous man, And stamps with perjury what hate began. HESIOD. Works and Days (Elton tr.). Calumnies are answered best with silence. BEN JONSON. Volpone, Act 2, 2. For good deeds, evil report that is the King's portion. MARCUS AURELIUS. 7, 36. A mind conscious of rectitude laughs at the lies of rumour. OVID. Fast. Those who convey and those who listen to calumnies, should, if I had my way, all hang, the former by their tongues, the latter by their ears. PLAUTUS. Pseudolus. At every word a reputation dies. POPE. Rape of the Lock, c. 3, 16. It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanders ; as we usually find it to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. The malice of one man quickly becomes the ill word of all. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon ; Virtue itself "scapes not calumnious strokes. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 3. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, i. Back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure, Act 3, 2. Through slander, meanest spawn of hell, And women's slander is the worst. TENNYSON. Letters, 5. I am small and scandalous And love to hear bad tales. TENNYSON. Queen Mary, Act 5, 2. Evil-speaking is the immortal daughter of Self-love and Idleness. VOLTAIRE. To the Marquise de Chaielet. If there were- no hearers, there would be no back-biters. Prov. (Geo. Herbert) Half the world delights in slander and the other half in believing it. French prov. CAMBRIDGESHIRE For England's the one land I know Where men with Splendid Hearts may'go ; And Cambridgeshire, of all England, The shire for Men who Understand. RUPERT BROOKE. Grantchester . CANDIDATES Candidates are creatures not very sus- ceptible of affronts, and would rather, I suppose, climb in at a window than be absolutely excluded. COWPER. Letter, c. 1775. Mr. Grenville [the parliamentary candi- date] squeezed me by the hand again, kissed the ladies, and withdrew. He kissed likewise the maid in the kitchen, and seemed upon the whole a most loving, kissing, kind-hearted gentleman. Ib. Sertin citizens of Baldinsville axed me to run fur the Legislator. Sez I, " My frends, dostest think I'd stoop to that there ? " ARTEMUS WARD. Interview with President Lincoln. CANDOUR The artlessness of unadorned truth, however sure in theory of extorting ad- miration, rarely in practice fails inflicting pain or mortification. MME. D'ARBLAY. Camilla, Bk. 7, c. 8. CANNON CARELESSNESS Give me the avowed, 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. CANNING. New Mortality. I hate him that my vices telleth me. CHAUCER. Wife of Bath's Prologue. CANNON The last argument of Kings. Inscription (Latin) on a French cannon, temp. Louis XIV. CANT Till Cant cease nothing else can begin. CARLYLE. French Revolution, Bk. 3, ch. 7. It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts. CARLYLE. Letter, 1835. The English and the Americans cant beyond all other nations. EMERSON. English Traits, 13, Religion. My dear friend, clear your mind of cant. JOHNSON. Remark to Bosw ell, 1783. CAPITAL Their money is their plough. CHAUCER. Shipman's Tale, v. 13218. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Hasn't a doubt zample far better hang wrong fler than no fler. (The " debilitated cousin.") DICKENS. Bleak House, ch. 53. All greatness, all power, all authority depends on the executioner. . . . Take away this incomprehensible agent from the world, and in the same moment order gives place to chaos, thrones crash, and society disappears. JOSEPH DE MAISTRE (1753-1821). Soirees de St. Pitersbourg. Hanging is the worst use a man can be put to. SIR H. WOTTON. A Parallel. CAPTIVITY A Robin Redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs. Although his cage of gold be never so gay Yet had this bkd, by twenty thousandfold Lever in a forest, that is rude and cold, Go eten wormes, and swich wrecchednesse! CHAUCER. Manciple's Tale, v. 17112 Who can divine what impulses from God Reach the caged lark within a town abode, From his poor inch or two of daisied sod ? O yield him back his privilege ! No sea Swells like the bosom of a man set free ; A wilderness is rich with liberty. WORDSWORTH. Liberty. CARDS With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades the emblem of untimely graves. COWPER. Winter Evening, 217. A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. LAMB. Mrs. Battle on Whist. They do not play at cards, but only play at playing at them. LAMB. Ib. See how the world its veterans rewards ! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards. POPE. Moral Essays, Ep. z, 243. You do not play at whist, sir ? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for your- self ! TALLEYRAND. Cards are the devil's prayer book. German prov. (A Dutch saying describes cards as " the Bible of 52 leaves.") CARE They say it was care killed the cat, That starved her and caused her to die ; But I'll be much wiser than that, For the devil a care will care I. Miss EDGEWORTH. Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock, Act 3, 2 (Old Rhyme?). Care that is entered once into the breast. Will have the whole possession, ere it rest. BEN JONSON. Tale of a Tub, Act i, 7. Care Sat on his faded cheek ; but under brows Of dauntless courage. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 601. Care killed the cat, but sobered the kit. Prov. (Spurgeon's version in " Salt- Cellars.") CARELESSNESS We do not what we ought, What we ought not, we do, And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through. M. ARNOLD. Empedocles. I hae naething to lend I'll borrow from naebody. If naebody care for me, I'll care for naebody. BURNS. / hae a wife. CASTLES IN THE AIR CAUTION Life is all a variorum, We regard not how it goes ! Let them cant about decorum Who have characters to lose. BURNS. Jolly Beggars Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day. GRAY. Eton College. Time to me this truth has taught, ('Tis a treasure worth revealing) More offend by want of thought Than by any want of feeling. CHARLES SWAIN. CASTLES IN THE AIR For a" sae sage he looks, what can the laddie ken ? He's thinking upon naething, like mony mighty men ; A wee thing maks us think, a sma' thing maks us stare ; There are mair folks than him biggin' castles in the air. JAS. BALLANTINE. Castles in the Air. Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up. (ist) LORD LYTTON. Lady of Lyons, Act i, 3. CASUALNESS He was fresh, and full of faith that " something would turn up." DISRAELI. Tancred, Bk. 3, c. 6. I suppose, to use our national motto, " something will turn up " [Motto of Vraibleusia] . DISRAELI. Popanilla, c. 7. CASUISTRY But all was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matured counsels. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 2, 112. Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy ; Yet with a pleasing sorcery could charm Pain for a while, or anguish, and excite Fallacious hope, or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel. MILTON. lb., Bk. 2, 565. To prove by reason, in reason's despite, That right is wrong, and wrong is right, And white is black, and black is white. SOUTHEV. All for Love, Pi. 9. CATCHWORDS Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch- words. R. L. STEVENSON. Virginibus. CATS A harmless necessary cat. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice Act 4, L CAUSE This is not the cause of faction, or of party, or of any individual, but the com mon interest of every man in Britain. J UNI us. Letter i. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! - It is the cause. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 5, L CAUSE AND EFFECT Happy the man, who, studying Nature's laws, Through known effects can trace the secret cause. VIRGIL. Georgics, Bk. 2 (Dryden tr.). Let Pheelosophers ken causes Poets effecks. JOHN WILSON. Noctes, 16 (Ettrick Shepherd). As if a wheel had been within a wheel. Ezekiel x, 10 (R.V.). Behold, how great a matter a littb fire kindleth ! St. James iii, 5. CAUTION Sir Roger told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgment rashly, that much might be said on both sides. ADDISON. Spectator (112). Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. BURKE. Speech, 1792. But cautious Queensberry left the war. The unmannered dust might soil his star Besides, he hated bleeding. BURNS. Second Epistle to Robert Graham. There for bihoveth him a ful long spoon, That shall etc with a feend. CHAUCER. Squire's Tale. He would not with a peremptory tone Assert the nose upon his face his own. COWPER. Conversation, I. 121. One who by delay restored our affairs to us ; for he did not esteem public rumour above public safety. ENNIUS (of Quintus Maximus, as cited by Cicero, De Senectute, 4, 10). He who by discretion His conduct regulates, desists in time ; And caution I esteem the truest valour. EURIPIDES. Suppliants, 516 (Woodhull tr.). 57 CAVILLERS CHALLENGE Brer Fox, he lay low. J. C. HARRIS. Old Planter Legend. Hear all men speak ; but credit few or none. HERRICK. Hesperides, No. 177. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 3. Wisely and slow ; they stumble that run fast. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, 3. Somewhat is sure designed by fraud or force ; Trust not their presents nor admit the horse. VIRGIL. Mneid, Bk. 2 (Dryden). Sleep over it or you may weep over it. Old saying. Little boats must keep the shore ; Larger ships may venture more. Prov. (Ray). CAVILLERS So those who play a game of state, And only cavil in debate, Although there's nothing lost or won, The public business is undone. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. 3, c. z. Wilt thou show the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant ? I pray thee, under- stand a plain man in his plain meaning. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 3, 5- A fault-mender is better than a fault- finder. Prov. They who only seek for faults find nothing else. Prov. Stones are thrown only at fruitful trees. French prov. Any silly little soul Easily can pick a hole. Old saying. CELIBACY Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. JOHNSON. Rasselas. CELTS It is not the question of race ; it is the land itself that makes the Celt. G. MOORE. Bending of the Bough, Act 3. CENSORIOUSNESS I am not of those miserable males Who sniff at vice, and daring not to snap, Do therefore hope for heaven. GKO. MEREDITH. Modern Love. Jupiter gives us two wallets. Hanging behind each man's back is oue full of his own faults ; in front is a heavy one full of other people's. PH^EDRUS. Fab., Bk. 4 (see Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, 3). Attacking, when he took the whim, Court, city, camp all one to him. SWIFT. On the Death of Dr. Swift. Our two eyes do not improve our lot. One serves us to see the good things and the other the evil things of life. Many folk have the habit of closing the former. Happy are the one-eyed who have lost their evil eye. Mesrour was an example. He was one-eyed from birth. He did not possess the eye which sees the bad side of things. VOLTAIRE. The One-eyed Porter. CENSURE He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself. SIR T. BROWNE. Christian Morals. No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. SIR T. BROWNE. Religio Medici, Pt. 2, 4. O mortal men ! be wary how ye judge ! H. F. CARY. Dante's " Paradise," c. 20, 125. Thou best humoured man with the worst humoured muse. GOLDSMITH. Retaliation. No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode. GRAY. Elegy. CEREMONY Ceremony keeps up all things. SELDEN. Table Talk. CHALLENGE He swore by a' was swearing worth, To speet him like a pliver, Unless he wad, from that time forth, Relinquish her for ever. BURNS. Jolly Beggars. " Who dares this pair of boots displace Must meet Bombastes face to face." Thus do I challenge all the human race. W. B. RHODES. Bombastes. I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape, And bid me hold my peace. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 2. " Dar'st thou, Cassius, now, Leap in with me into this angry flood, 58 CHAMPAGNE CHANGE And swim to yonder point ? " Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Casar, Act i, 2. CHAMPAGNE Produced, rightly deeming he would not object to it, An orbicular bulb with a very long neck to it. R. H. BARHAM. Mr. Peters's Story. The foaming grape of Eastern France. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, Conclusion, 20. CHAMPIONS Greatly unfortunate, he fights the cause Of honour, virtue, liberty, and Rome. ADDISON. Cato, Act i. For thou wert still the poor man's stay, The poor man's heart, the poor man's hand : And all the oppressed who wanted strength Had thine at their command. WORDSWORTH. Memorials of Tour in Scotland, No. 11 (Rob Roy's Grave). CHANCE Yet they, believe me, who await No gifts from chance, have conquered fate. M. ARNOLD Resignation, I. 247. For " up an" down an' round," said 'e, " goes all appointed things, An' losses on the roundabouts means profits on the swings ! " P. R. CHALMERS. Roundabouts and Swings. Chance fights on the side of the prudent. EURIPIDES. Pirithous. The happes over mannes head Ben honge [are hanging] with a tender thread. GOWER. Confessio A mantis, Bk. 6. I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where. LONGFELLOW. The Arrow and the Song Always have an eye to the mayne, whatsoever thou art chaunced at the buy. LYLY. Euphues. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, i. If Hercules and Lichas play at dice, Which is the better man ? The greater throw May turn by fortune from the weaker hand ! SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 2, i. A chance may win that by mischance was lost. R. SOUTHWELL. Times go by Turns. It chaunst (eternall God that chaunce did guide). SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. i, 2. There is no such thing as chance. We have invented this word to express the known effect of every unknown cause. VOLTAIRE. The Ignorant Philosopher, 13. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understand- ing, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes ix, n. Our cause God's is, But the odds is Ten tunes ten to one. Royalist lines in MS. (c. 1649) found in Archdeacon Plume's Library, Maldon, Essex. CHANGE I loved thee once, I'll love no more ; Thine be the grief as is the blame : Thou art not what thou wast before What reason I should be the same ? SIR R. AYTON. / do Confess. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived. BACON. Essays, Innovation. In government change is suspected, though to the better. BACON. Valerius Terminus. This world has been harsh and strange ; Something is wrong r there needeth a change. BROWNING. Holy Cross Day. Rejoice that man is hurled From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled. BROWNING. James Lee's Wife, 6, 14. A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. BYRON. The Dream, st. 5. Change is not made without inconveni- ence, even from worse to better. Quoted by Johnson, as from Hooker, in Preface to " English Dictionary." It is best not to swap horses while crossing a river. ABR. LINCOLN. Speech, 1864 (given as the remark of " an old Dutch farmer"). Change the strongest son of Life. GEO. MEREDITH. Woods of Westermain. 59 CHANGE OF OPINION CHARACTER To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new. MILTON. Lycidas, I. 103. All things change ; nothing perishes. OVID. Metam. 1 1 will be found that they are the weakest- minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love variety and change. RUSKIN. Modern Painters, vol. z, sec. 2, ch. 2, 7. Old times were changed, old manners gone. SCOTT. Lay of the Last Minstrel, Introduction. Bless thee, Bottom ! bless thee ! thou art translated. SHAKESPEARE. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3, i. Nought may endure but Mutability. SHELLEY. Mutability. Political changes should never be made save after overcoming great resistance. HERBERT SPENCER. Ethics, sec. 468. Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right ; As all things else in time are changed quight. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. 5, Introd. The old order changeth, yielding place to new. TENNYSON. Coming of Arthur, I. 284. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! TENNYSON. In Memoriam, 123. The old order changeth, giving place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. TENNYSON. Morte d' Arthur. Nothing was born, Nothing will die, All things will change. TENNYSON. Nothing will die. The sundry and manifold changes of the world. Common Prayer. Collect. Weathercocks turn more easily when placed very high. French prov. CHANGE OF OPINION "Yes!" I answered you last night; " No ! " this morning, sir, I say : Colours seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day. E. B. BROWNING. The Lady's Yes. He was a man who had seen many changes, And always changed, as true as any needle BYRON. Don Juan, 3, 80. 60 Who can believe what varies every day. Nor ever was, nor will be at a stay ? DRYDEN. Hind and Panther, PL 2, 36. It is natural for a wise man to change his opinion ; a fool keeps on changing like the moon. Latin prov. CHAOS Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word ; Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all. POPE. Dunciad, 4, 649. CHARACTER There was never a bad man that had ability for good service. BURKE. Impeachment of Hastings (Feb. 17, 1788). That there is falsehood in his looks, I must and will deny ; They say their master is a knave, And sure they do not lie. BURNS. The Parson's Looks Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. CERVANTES. Don Quixote. Colonel Chartres . . . was once heard to say that although he would not give one farthing for virtue, he would give ten thousand pounds for a character ; be- cause he should get a hundred thousand pounds by it. LORD CHESTERFIELD. Advice to his Son. Good and bad men are each less so than they seem. COLERIDGE. Table Talk. Character is simply a habit long con- tinued. PLUTARCH. Not swaying to this faction or to that. Not making his high place the lawless perch For winged ambitions, nor a vantage ground For pleasure ; but through all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life. TENNYSON. Idylls, Dedication. The only way to make men speak good of us is to do it. VOLTAIRE. History of Charles XII., Prel. Discourse. Wha ever saw either a book or a man wortli praisin, that wasna as weel worth abusin ? JOHN WILSON. Nodes, 21 (Ettrick Shepherd) . CHARACTERISTICS CHARM CHARACTERISTICS Fair and sluttish, black and proud ; Long and lazy, little and loud ; Fat and merry, lean and sad ; Pale and pettish, red and bad. Old saying. CHARITY In charity there is no excess. BACO N . Goodness . He that defers his charity until he is dead, is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's than of his own. BACON. Collection of Sentences. And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away thine ear. BEATTIE. The Minstrel, Bk. i, 29. 'Twas a thief said the last kind word to Christ : Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft. BROWNING. Ring and the Book, 6, 869. Want passed for merit at her open door. DRYDEN. Eleonora. In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is Charity. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. 3, 307. Thou art gone : And he that would assail thee in thy grave, Oh, let him pause ! For who among us all, Tried as thou wert, even from thine earliest years, When wandering, yet unspoilt, a highland boy Tried as thou wert, and with thy soul of flarne ; Pleasure, while yet the down was on thy cheek, Uplifting, pressing, and to lips like thine, Her charmed cut) ah, who among us all Could say he had not erred as much, and more? ROGERS. Italy (On Byron). Harsh towards herself, towards others full of ruth. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. Portrait. Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins. HORACE SMITH. Moral Alchemy. You find plenty of people willing enough to do the good Samaritan, without the oil and the twopence. SYDNEY SMITH. Saying. It is better to feed five drones than starve one bee. C. H. SPURGEON. "Salt-Cellars." To learn how to love better, hate your- self. VOLTAIRE. File de Belltbat. Charity creates a multitude of sins. OSCAR WILDE. Soul of Man under Socialism. He only judges right, who weighs.compares, And, in the sternest sentence which his voice Pronounces, ne'er abandons charity. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pt. 2, i. Whate'er we look on, at our side Be Charity, to bid us think, And feel, if we would knew. WORDSWORTH. In one of the Catholic Cantons. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. i Corinthians viii, i. Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. i St. Peter iv, 8. CHARM Here lies David Garrick, describe him who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. GOLDSMITH. Retaliation Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace. BEN JONSON. Epicane, Act i. When she had passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. LONGFELLOW. Evangeline, Pt. i, c. i. The angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 8, i. Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye ; In every gesture, dignity and love. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 8, 488. Those graceful acts. Those thousand decencies, that daily flow From all her words and actions. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 8, 600. Thy sweet obligingness could supple hate, And out of it, its contrary create. J. OLDHAM. On C. Morwent, st. 17. Her pleasure in her power to charm. C. PATMORE. Angel in the House, c. 12. You have sae saf t a voice and slid a tongue, You are the darling of baith auld and young. ALLAN RAMSAY. Eclogue. Angels listen when she speaks ; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder. EARL OF ROCHESTER. Song. 61 CHASE, THE Blessed with that charm, the certainty to please. ROGERS. Human Life. Her voice, whate'er she said, enchanted ; Like music to the heart it went. And her dark eyes how eloquent ! Ask what they would, 'twas granted. ROGERS. -Jacqueline, PL i. See, what a grace was seated on his brow ; Hyperion's curls ; the front of Jove him- self ; An eye like Mars, to threaten and com- mand. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 4. She told him stories to delight his ear ; She showed him favours to allure his eye. SHAKESPEARE. Passionate Pilgrim, st. i. Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear, Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green, Or, like a nymph, with long dishevelled hair, Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen. SHAKESPEARE. Venus and Adonis, si. 25. Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you. SHERIDAN. Duenna, Act i, 5. Pray present my benediction to your charming wife, who I am sure would bring any plant in the garden into full flower by looking at it and smiling upon it. SYDNEY SMITH. Letter to Lord Mahon, July 4, 1843. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light. But oh ! she dances such a way No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight ! SIR J. SUCKLING. Ballad on a Wedding, st. 8. She was born to make hash of men's buzzums. ARTEMUS WARD. Piccolomini. All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. OSCAR WILDE. Soul of Man under Socialism. Whose life was like the violet sweet, Or climbing jasmine pure. WORDSWORTH. Elegiac Stanzas (1824). She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight WORDSWORTH. She was a Phantom'. CHASE, THE Back limped, with slow and crippled pace The sulky leaders of the chase. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, 10. (-.2 CHASTITY Abstain wholly, or wed. HERBERT. Church Porch. 'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity : She that has that, is clad in complete steel. MILTON. Comus, 420. So dear to Heaven is saintly Chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her. MILTON. Ib., 453. Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide : In part she is to blame that has been tried ; He comes too near that comes to be denied. LADY M. W. MONTAGU. Lady's Resolve (quoted from Sir T, Overbury). In part to blame is she Which hath without consent been only tried ; He comes too near that comes to be denied. SIR T. OVERBURY. A Wife, st. 36. Chaste as the icicle, That's curded by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple. SHAKESPEARE. Coriolanus, Act 5, 3. CHAUCER Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On fame's eternall bead-roll worthie to be fyled. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. 4, 2, 32. CHEATING Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. 2, c. 3. He is not cheated who knows that he is being cheated. COKE. Thus do I ever make my fool my purse SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act i, 3.' CHEERFULNESS Know then whate'er of cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body too. J. ARMSTRONG. Art of Preserving Health. One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing. SIR E. ARNOLD. Adzutna, Act 2, 5. With a wink of his eye his friend made reply, In his jocular manner, sly, caustic, and dry, ' Still the same boy, Bassanio never say ' die ' ! " R. H. BARHAM Merchant of Venice. A happy-tempered bringer of the best Out of the worst. BROWNING. Soul's Tragedy, Act i. CHEERFULNESS CHEERFULNESS Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. M. BRUCE. To the Cuckoo. And warl'ly cares and warl'ly men May a" gae tapsalteerie, O ! BURNS. Green grow the Rashes. He had no wish but to be glad, Nor want but when he thirsted. BURNS. Jolly Beggars. He hated naught but to be sad. BURNS. Ib. When the days are sad and lonely, And life hardly seems worth while, Keep on pegging think there's only Just one other stile. G. BUSHNELL. Emptyings of my Ash Tray (1918). I am of Ben's mind, madam ; resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking. MRS. CENTLIVRE. The Artifice. That man, I trow, is doubly curst, Who of the best doth make the worst ; And he, I'm sure, is doubly blest, Who of the worst can make the best. W. COMBE. Dr. Syntax, c. 26. In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast sub- stantial smile. DICKENS. Christmas Carol. Some credit in being jolly (Mark Tapley). DICKENS. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. 5. Be merry, man. and tak not sair in mind The wavering of this wretchit warld of sorrow : To God be humble, and to thy friend be kind, And with thy neighbours gladly lend and borrow ; His chance to-nicht, it may be thine to- morrow. W. DUNBAR. A T o Treasure without Gladness. Every journey has an end ; When at the worst, affairs will mend ; Dark the dawn when day is nigh ; Hustle your horse and don't say die ! SIR W. S. GILBERT. lolanthe. Little by little the time goes by Short if you sing through it, long if you sigh. LEON HERBERT. Hymns for Heart and Voice (Sunday School Association). Let the world slide, let the world go ! A fig for care and a fig for woe ! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low. JOHN HEYWOOD. Be Merry, Friends. There was an old man who said, How Shall I flee from this horrible Cow ? I will sit on this stile And continue to smile, Which may soften the heart of that Cow. EDWARD LEAR. Book of Nonsense. Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span. Laugh, and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. JOHN MASEFIELD. Laugh and be Merry. So buxom, blithe and debonair. MILTON. L'Allegro, I. 24. Some folks seem glad even to draw their breath. W. MORRIS. Bellcrophon at Argos, 472. Be merry ! Think upon the lives of men, And with what troubles three score years and ten Are crowded oft, yea, even unto him Who sits at home, nor fears for life and limb. W. MORRIS. Jason, Bk. 10, 101. Weep not, nor pity thine own life too much. W.MORRIS. Ib., Bk. 13, 315. Jog on, jog on, the footpath way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act 4, 2. As long liveth the merry man, they say, As doth the sorry man and longer by a day. N. UDALL. Ralph Roister Doister, Act i, i. Everything succeeds with people of sweet and cheerful disposition. VOLTAIRE. Le Depositaire. Woe to the philosophers who cannot laugh away their learned wrinkles ! I look on solemnity as a disease. It appears to me that morality, study and gaiety are three sisters who should never be separated. They are your servants ; I take them as my mistresses. VOLTAIRE. To Frederick the Great. Some day soon something nice is going to happen ; Be a good little girl and take this hint : Swallow with a smile your cod-liver ile And the first thing you know you will have a peppermint. JEAN WEBSTER. Dear Enemy. Laugh, and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone ; For sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. ELLA W. WILCOX. Way of the World (The firsf two lines are also claimed by Col. J. A. Joyce). CHEESE Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin, so merry, draws one out. J. WOLCOT. Ode 15. A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident to-morrows. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 7. And cheerful songs, and suns that shine On busy days, with thankful nights, be mine ! WORDSWORTH. To Enterprise. Go not half way to meet a coming sorrow, But thankful be for blessings of to-day, And pray that thou mayst blessed be to-morrow ; So shalt thou go with joy upon thy way. ANON. (Enquired for without result in " Notes and Queries," 1901). Whichever way the wind doth blow, Some heart is glad to have it so ; Then blow it east or blow it west, The wind that blows, that wind is best. Old saying. The saddest dog sometimes wags its tail. Prov. Fortune will be fortune still, Let the weather blow as it will ; For the laddie has his lease and the lassie has her ring, And there's mony a merry heart beneath a mourning string. Scottish saying. CHEESE Cheese it is a peevish elf. It digests all things but itself. Prov. (from Medieval Latin). CHESS Life's too short for chess. H. J. BYRON. Our Boys, Act i. He [Ned Connolly] hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing some- thing very clever, when they are only wasting their time. G. B. SHAW. Irrational Knot, ch. 14. CHILBLAINS Another weepeth over chilblains fell, Always upon the heel, yet never to be well. HOOD. Irish Schoolmaster. CHILDHOOD A child may say Amen To a bishop's prayer, and feel the way it goes. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 2. Ah, could I be once more a careless child! COLERIDGE. To the River Otter. CHILDISHNESS The growth of flesh is but a blister ; Childhood is health. HERBERT. Holy Baptism. I remember, 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. / Remember. The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. 4, 220. A sudden wakin', a sudden weepin' ; A li'l suckin', a li'l sleepin' ; A cheel's full joys an' a cheel's short sorrows, Wi' a power o' faith in gert to-morrows. EDEN PHILLPOTTS. Man's Days. I remember, I remember, How my childhood fleeted by, The mirth of its December, And the warmth of its July. W. M. PRAED. / Remember. Respect childhood and do not be too hasty in judging it, whether in good or in evil. ROUSSEAU. Emile. The round little flower of a face that exults in the sunshine of shadowless days. SWINBURNE. After a Reading, st. 3. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. I. WATTS. Against Idleness. Heaven lies about us in our infancy ! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy. WORDSWORTH. Intimations of Immortality, c. 5. The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days and years to be Bound each to each by natural piety. WORDSWORTH. My heart leaps up. Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now. WORDSWORTH. To a Butterfly. A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? WORDSWORTH. We are Seven. CHILDISHNESS Genius has somewhat of the infantine, But of the childish not a touch or taint. BROWNING. Prince Hohenstiel. 64 CHILDREN CHILDREN CHILDREN Children sweeten labours ; but they make misfortunes more bitter. BACON. 7, Of Parents and Children. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune. BACON. 8, Of Marriage. Children mothered by the street, Blossoms of humanity, Poor soiled blossoms in the dust, In your features may be traced Childhood's beauty half effaced. M ATHI LD E B LI ND. Street-children' s Dance. Do you hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years ? E. B. BROWNING. Cry of the Children. But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free. E. B BROWNING. Ib. The many-tattered, Little, old-faced, peaking, sister-turned- mother. BROWNING. Christmas Eve, c. 2. A mother who boasts two boys was ever accounted rich. BROWNING. Ivan Ivanovitch, 154. Go practise if you please With men and women ; leave a child alone, For Christ's particular love's sake. BROWNING. Ring and the Book, 3, 88. No sound of tiny footfalls filled the house with happy cheer. R. BUCHANAN. Scaith o' Bartle, Th' expectant wee things, toddlin' stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin' noise and glee. BURNS. Cotter's Saturday Night. The lisping infant prattling on his knee, Does a' his weary carking cares beguile, And makes him quite forget his labour and his toil. BURNS. Ib. To whom nor relative nor blood remains, No ! not a kindred drop that runs in human veins. CAMPBELL. Gertrude, 17. So for the mother's sake the child was dear, And dearer was the mother for the child. COLERIDGE. Sonnet. And when, with envy Time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys ; You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. J. G. COOPER. To his Wife: Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes ; He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases. C. L. DODGSON. Alice in Wonderland, ch. 6. How many troubles are with children born ! Yet he that wants them counts himself forlorn. WM. DRUMMOND. Translation. I was the first To call thee father ; me thou first didst call Thy child ; I was the first that on thy knees Fondly caressed thee. EURIPIDES. Iphigenia in Aul., 1230 (R. Potter tr.). Where yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another ? GAY. Fables, Pt. i, 3. A little sorrowful deserted thing, Begot of love, and yet no love begetting. HOOD. Midsummer Fairies. Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are the living poems. And all the rest are dead. LONGFELLOW. Children. This child is not mine as the first one was, I cannot sing it to rest. J. R. LOWELL. Changeling. Of all people children are the most imaginative. MACAULAY. Milton. A little child with laughing look A lovely white, unwritten book. J. MASEFIELD. Everlasting Mercy, 427. And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street ; And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come. JOHN MASEFIELD. Ib. Children blessings seem, but torments are ; When young our folly, and when old our fear. OTWAY. Don Carlos. Children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe. SCOTT. Ladyj>f the Lake, c. 2, 14. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child ! SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act I, 4. CHILDREN CHIVALRY Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 3, i. A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, Oi bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so. SHENSTONE. Schoolmistress. I am glad it is a girl ; all little boys ought to be put to death. SYDNEY SMITH. Letter to Countess Grey, Feb. 4. 1835 (on the birth of his granddaughter). O may our house be still a garrison Of smiling children, and for evermore The tune of little feet be heard along the floor. R. L. STEVENSON. Before this little gift was come. The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure Or else his dear papa is poor. R. L. STEVENSON. System. Man, a dunce uncouth, Errs in age and youth, Babies know the truth. SWINBURNE. Cradle Songs, 4. The world has no such flower in any land, And no such pearl in any gulf the sea, As any babe on any mother's knee. SWINBURNE. Pelagius, 2. The painless and stainless love of little children. SWINBURNE. Social Verse. Where children are not, heaven is not. SWINBURNE. Song of Welcome, 1. 37. The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom. TENNYSON. Princess, c. 4, 455. Good chicks from a good hen And good sons from good men. D. W. THOMPSON. From Euripides. It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. St. Luke xvii, 2. Oh, think what joy my heart shall know, How bright the expiring lamp shall glow When quivering o'er the tomb, If, in the evening of my days, live to hear thy well-earned praise, And see thy honours bloom. ANON. (? Thomas Hood). Better bairns greet than bearded men. Scottish prov. A beltless bairn cannot lie. Ib. When bairns are young they gar their parents' heads ache ; when they are auld they make their hearts ache. Scottish prov. The best that can happen a poor man is that ae bairn dee, and the rest follow. Scottish prov. Twa to fight and one to redd (settle the dispute). Scottish prov. (The ideal number for a family.) Speak when ye're spoken to, do what ye're bidden ; Come when ye're ca'd, an' ye'll no be chidden. Scottish rhyme. Waly, waly ! bairns are bonny ! Ane's enough, and twa's ower mony. Scottish rhyme. As the auld cock crows the young cock learns ; Aye tak' care what ye do afore the bairns. Scottish saying. He is happy who has children ; he is not unhappy who has none. French prov. Circles, though small, are yet complete. On a monument to two children, North- leigh, Oxfordshire (c. 1800). Children pick up words as pigeons peas, And utter them again as God shall please. Old Saying (Ray). CHINA Now ain't they utterly too-too, Them flymy little bits of Blue ? W. E. HENLEY. Villanelle (Culture in the Slums, 2). CHINAMAN A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. MARK TWAIN. Innocents at Home, ch. 9. CHIVALRY I will not steal a victory. ALEXANDER THE GREAT (Plutarch). Honour has come back, as a king to earth, And paid his subjects with a royal wage , And Nobleness walks in our ways again ; And we have come into our heritage. RUPERT BROOKE. The Dead (1914). The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. BURKE. Reflections on French Revolution. CHOICE CHRIST Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 13, n. Misfortune ever claimed the pity of the brave. C. DIBDIN. Veterans. For he wants worth who dares not praise a foe. DRYDEN. Conquest of Granada, Pt. 2, Act 2. To set the Cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honour, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes, SIR H. J. NEWBOLT. Island Race. Clifton Chapel. Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend, And each brave foe was in his soul a friend. POPE. Iliad, Bk. 7, 364. I love to hear of worthy foes. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, 4, 8. Yet, rest thee God ! for well I know I ne'er shall find a nobler foe. SCOTT. Lay of the Last Minstrel, c. 5, 29. And I will say, as still I've said, Though by ambition far misled, Thou art a noble knight. SCOTT. Lord of the Isles, c. 3, 5. Thus, then, my noble foe I greet : Health and high fortune till we meet, And then what pleases Heaven. SCOTT. Ib., c. 3, st. 6. O goodly usage of those antique times, In which the sword was servaunt unto right. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. 3, I, 13. 'Tis true old times are dead, When every morning brought a noble chance, And every chance brought out a noble knight. TENNYSON. Passing of Arthur, I. 397. CHOICE She's left the guid fellow and ta'en the churl. BURNS. Meg o' the Mill. The miller he hecht her a heart leal and loving ; The laird did address her wi* matter mair moving, A fine-pacing horse, wi' a clear-chained bridle, A whip by her side, and a bonny side- saddle. BURNS. Ib. Oh, how hard it is to find The one just suited to our mind ! CAMPBELL. Song, " Oh, how Hard ! " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ! GAY. Beggar's Opera, Act 2, 2. Maidens, why should you worry in choosing whom you should marry ? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else. JOHN HAY. Distichs, 10. The difficulty in life is the choice. GEO. MOORE. Bending of the Bough, Act 4. The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter; We therefore deemed Jit meeter To carry off the latter. T. L. PEACOCK. Elphin, ch. 2. It is like washing bushels of sand for a grain of gold. SCOTT. Diary, 1826. Under which king, Bezonian ? speak or die ! SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. 2, Act 5, 3. There's small choice in rotten apples. SHAKESPEARE. Taming of the Shrew, Act i, i. For not that, which men covet most, is best ; Nor that thing worst, which men doe most refuse. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. 6, c. g. Choose your love and then love your choice. Prov. There are more maids than Maukin and more men than Michael. Prov. (Ray). God made me choose, and I like my choice. Ring posy (c. 1650). Speak weel o' the Hielands, but dwell in the Laigh (low). Scottish saying. CHRIST The Vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine is the Friend of all Mankind, Mine speaks in Parables to the blind. WM. BLAKE. The Everlasting Gospel. Hold fast His hand, Though the nails pierce thee too. HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON-KING. The Disciples. Son of Man ! if Thou and not another I here have known, If I may see Thee then, our First-born Brother, Upon Thy throne, How stern soe'er, how terrible in brightness That dawn shall break, 1 shall be satisfied with Thy dear likeness, When I awake. DR. T. HODGKIN. Christianity. 6 7 CHRISTIANITY CHRISTMAS I believe that all who are acquainted with the range of sacred art will admit not only that no representation of Christ ever has been even partially successful, but that the greatest painters fall therein below their accustomed level. KUSKIN. Modern Painters, vol. 2, pt. 3, ch. 5, 7. Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean. SWINBURNE. To Proserpine. CHRISTIANITY I dare without usurpation assume the honourable style of a Christian. SIR T. BROWNE. Religio Medici, Pt. i, i. Dear Christian people, one and all, When will you cease your sinning ? CARLYLE (Ir. of Goethe). Philosophy makes us wiser, but Christi- anity makes us better men. FIELDING. Tom Jones, Bk. 8, c. 13. The New Testament was less a Christiad than a Pauliad to his intelligence. T. HARDY. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 4, i. Christianity is an idea, and as such is immortal, like every idea. HEINE. Religion and Philosophy. It is well known how much this story about Christ has profited us and ours. Attributed to LEO X. He that shall collect all the moral rules of the philosophers, and compare them with those contained in the New Testa- ment, will find them to come short of the morality delivered by our Saviour and taught by His apostles. LOCKE. Reasonableness of Christianity. It [the teaching of Christ] is all pure ; all sincere ; nothing too much, nothing wanting ; but such a complete rule of life as the wisest men must acknowledge tends entirely to the good of mankind, and that all would be happy if all would practise it. LOCKE. lb. O father Abraham ! what these Christians are ! Whose own hard dealings teach them to suspect The thoughts of others ! SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act i, 3. Christianity, in its abstract purity, became the exoteric expression of the esoteric doctrines of the poetry and wisdom of antiquity. SHELLEY. Defence of Poetry (1821) As to the Christian creed, if true Or false, I never questioned it ; I took it as the vulgar do. SHELLEY. Rosalind and Helen. Christ bless thee, brother, for that Christian speech. SOUTHEY. Roderick, sec. 5. See how these Christians love one another ! TERTULLIAN. Apol. adv. Gent. Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan spoiled. I. ZANGWILL. Children of the Ghetto, Bk. 2, ch. 6. CHRISTMAS I have often thought, said Sir Roger, it happens very well th Christmas should fall out in the middle of the winter. ADDISON. Spectator, 269. Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born. J. BYROM. Hymn. Though some are dead and some are fled To lands of summer over sea, The holly berry keeps his red, The merry children keep their glee. A. LANG. Ballade of Yule. Glorious time of great Too- much ! Too much heat and too much noise, Too much babblement of boys. Too much eating, too much drinking, Too much everything but thinking. LEIGH HUNT. Christmas. Right thy most unthrifty glee, And pious thy mince-piety. LEIGH HUNT. Ib. New every year, New born and newly dear, He comes with tidings and a song, The ages long, the ages long. ALICE MEYNELL. Unto us a Son is given. Sudden as sweet Come the expected feet. All joy is young, and new all art, And He, too, Whom we have by heart. ALICE MEYNELL. Ib. Heap on more wood ! the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. SCOTT. Marmion, c. 6, Introduction. England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. SCOTT. Ib. 68 CHRISTMAS CHURCHES So hallowed and so gracious is the time. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, i. Long-winded schismatics shall rule the roast, And father Christmas mourn his revels lost. SWIFT. Swan Tripe Club. As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still : Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will ! THACKERAY. End of the Play. At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. T. TUSSER. Good Husbandry. Life still hath one romance that naught can vary Not Time himself, who coffins Life's romances For still will Christmas gild the year's mischances, If Christmas comes, as here, to make him merry. T. WATTS-DUNTON. Christmas Tree. So now is come our joy fullest feast ; Let every man be jolly ; Each room with ivy leaves be dressed, And every post with holly. G. WITHER. Christmas. With an old fashion, when Christmas is come, To call in his neighbors with bagpipe and drum, ' And good cheer enough to furnish every old room, And old liquor able to make a cat speak, and a wise man dumb. ANON. Old Song, " Of an Old Courtier and a New." With a new fashion, when Christmas is come on, With a journey up to London we must be gone, And leave nobody at home but our new porter John, Who relieves the poor with a thump on the back with a stone. ANON. Ibid. Yule's come and Yule's gane, And we hae feasted weel ; Sae Jock maun to his flail again, And Jenny to her wheel. Fifeshire rhyme (Cheviot's Collection) . Men who fished in Yule week Fortune never mair did seek. Fishermen's saying (Scottish). For Christmas comes but wanst a year, And when it comes it brings good cheer, And when it goes it laves us here, And what shall we do for the rest of the year Irish version of Old Carol. CHRONIC " Don't repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. " Do not weep for me. It is chronic." DICKENS. Martin Chuztlewit, ch. 9. CHRONICLERS In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown, No bard had they to make all time their own. P. FRANCIS. Tr. of Horace, Odes, Bk. 4, 9. CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD One place there is beneath the burhl sod Where all mankind are equalised by death . Another place there is the Fane of God, Where all are equal who draw living breath. HOOD. Ode to Rae Wilson. CHURCH AND STATE Necessity, thou tyrant conscience of the great, Say why the Church is still led blindfold by the State ; Why should the first be ruined and laid waste, To mend dilapidations in the last ? SWIFT. Ode to Saner oft. CHURCH OF ENGLAND " The Church of England," I said, seeing that Mr. Inglesant paused, " is no doubt a compromise." J. H. SHORTHOUSE. John Inglesant. Place before your eyes two precepts, and two only. One is " Preach the Gospel," and the other is " Put down en- thusiasm." [Attributed to Archdeacon Manners Sutton] . . . The Church of England in a nutshell ! MRS. HUMPHRY WARD. Robert Elsmere, Bk. 2, 16. CHURCH MUSIC Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. POPE. Essay on Criticism, 342. CHURCHES (Buildings) An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 3. I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. R. L. STEVENSON. Inland Voyage. Such to this British Isle her Christian fanes, Each linked to each for kindred services ; Her spires, her steeple-towers with glitter- ing vanes CHURCHES Far-kenued, her chapels lurking among trees, Where a few villagers, on bended knees. Find solace which a busy world disdains. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pt. 3, 17- CHURCHES, THE Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind. BURKE. Reflections on the Revolutions. To be of no church is dangerous. JOHNSON. Life of Milton. So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 4, 192. Her force and fire all spent and gone, Like the dead moon, she still shines on. SIR WM. WATSON. The Church To-day. CIPHERS Then sat summe, as siphre .doth in awgrym (arithmetic), That noteth (marks) a place and nothing availeth. LANGLAND (?). Richard the Redelcss, 4, 53. CIRCLES And as when A stone is flung into some sleeping tarn, The circle widens till it lip the marge, Spread the slow smile through all her company. TENNYSON. Pelleas and Ettarre, 88. CIRCUMLOCUTION 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, Pt. i, ch. 10. CIRCUMSPECTION High-reaching Buckingham grows cir- cumspect. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act 4, 2. CIRCUMSTANCES Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. BYRON. Don Juan. c. 5, 17. Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man. DISRAELI. Vivian Grey, Bk. 6, ch. 7. I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circum- stances. HORACE. Ep. t Bk. i, i, 191. CITIES Circumstances never made the man do right who didn't do right in spite of them C. KERNAHAN. Book of Strange Sins. CITIES A rose-red city half as old as Time. DEAN BURGON. Petra. In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country ; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. In cities vice is hidden with most ease, Or seen with least reproach. COWPER. Task, 689. Cities give us collision. 'Tis said London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. EMERSON. Conduct of Life, Culture. The ecclesiastics have their cathedral churches, which, in what town soever they be erected, by virtue of holy water and certain charms called exorcisms, have the power to make those towns cities, that is to say, seats of empire. HOBBES. Leviathan, ch. 47. Surely in toil or fray, Under an alien sky, Comfort it is to say, Of no mean city am I. RUDYARD KIPLING. Seven Seas. Paris, half Angel, half Grisette, I would that I were with thee yet ; But London waits me, like a wife, London, the love of my whole life. R. LE GALLIENNE. Paris Day by Day. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. MILTON. L' Allegro, I. 117. As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 9, 445. A house is much more to my taste than a tree ; And for groves ! O, a good grove of chimneys for me ! CAPT. CHAS. MORRIS. The Contrast. give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! CAPT. C. MORRIS. Ib. 1 [Socrates] am a lover of learning. Now the fields and trees will not teach me anything, but men in the city do. PLATO. Phadrus, 10 (Gary tr.). An age builds up cities ; an hour de- stroys them. SENECA. Nat. Quast. CITIZENSHIP CLEANLINESS Augustus Caesar found a city of brick ; he left it a city of marble. SUETONIUS. CCKS. Aug. I never learned to tune a harp or play a lute ; but I know how to raise a small city to glory and greatness. THEMISTOCLES (as ascribed by Plutarch). I am more convinced every day that there is not only no knowledge of the world out of a great city, but no decency, no practicable society I had almost said not a virtue. HORACE WALPOLE. Letter. A city that is at unity in itself. Church Psalter cxxii, 3. Without these [the handicrafts] cannot a city be inhabited. Ecclesiasticus xxxviii, 32. A great city is a great solitude. Ancient Greek prov. CITIZENSHIP Man is by nature a civic animal. ARISTOTLE. Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. EMERSON. Hymn at Completion of Concord Monument. If we would persuade them that never at all should one citizen hate another, and that it is not holy, such teaching as this is desirable for early childhood. PLATO. Republic, Bk. 2, 17. We are all soldiers of the state. We are all in the pay of society ; we become deserters if we leave it. VOLTAIRE. L'Homme aux Quarante Ecus. CIVILISATION The three great elements of modern civilisation, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion. CARLYLE. State of German Literature. The resources of civilisation are not yet exhausted. GLADSTONE. Leeds, Oct. 7, 1881. It is so sweet to find one's self free from the stale civilisation of Europe. A. W. KINGLAKE. Eoihen. I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilised. J. S. MILL. Liberty, ch. 4. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. MARK TWAIN. Facts concerning the Recent Resignation. The civilized savage is the worst of all savages. C. J. WEBER. CLAMOUR Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their im- portunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray dp not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that, of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. BURKE. Reflections on the Revolution. CLASSES Of all the lunacies earth can boast, The one that must please the devils the most Is pride reduced to the whimsical terms Of causing the slugs to despise the worms. R. BROUGH. Tent-Maker's Story. Thus, it has been said, does society divide itself into four classes noblemen, gentlemen, gigmen, and men. CARLYLE. On Johnson. For ever must the rich man hate the poor. W. MORRIS. Earthly Paradise, Bellerophon at Argos, I. 515. Ring out the feud of rich and poor. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, c. 106. The rich is born to spend much ; the poor is made to amass much. VOLTAIRE. Defense du Mondain. The worst enemy of his country and of his kind is he who seeks to set one order against the other by false aspersions on their prevalent character. JOHN WILSON. Nodes, 29. CLASSICAL LEARNING Small skill in Latin, and still less in Greek, Is more than adequate to all I seek. COWPER. Tirocinium, 385. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. JOHNSON. Remark, 1781. And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek. BEN JONSON. On Shakespeare. To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. E. A. POE. To Helen. CLEANLINESS I'm sorry for you, You very imperfect ablutioner ! SIR W. S. GILBERT. Mikado. CLEARNESS CLERGY AND CLERICS Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. JOHN WESLEY. Sermon 93 (given as a quotation). CLEARNESS Meaning, however, is no great matter. C. S. CALVERLEY. Lovers. 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. Parish Register, Pi. i. When Phoebus touched the Poet's trem- bling ear With one supreme commandment, " Be thou clear." AUSTIN DOBSON. Dialogue to the Memory of Alex. Pope. And if the mind with clear conceptions glow, The willing words hi just expressions flow. P. FRANCIS. Horace, Art of Poetry. Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. SIR A. HOPE HAWKINS. Dolly Dialogues. Socrates : Do we understand, or how ? Protarchus : I endeavour to understand, Socrates ; but do you endeavour likewise to speak still more clearly. PLATO. Philebus, 117. To be intelligible is to be found out. OSCAR WILDE. Lady Windermere's Fan. CLERGY AND CLERICS Wyd was his parisshe, and houses fer a-sonder. CHAUCER. Cant. Tales, Prol., v. 493. But Cristes lore and his apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folwed it him- selve. CHAUCER. Ib., Prol., v. 529. I conceive that priests are extremely like other men, and neither the better nor the worse for wearing a gown or a surplice. LORD CHESTERFIELD. Advice to his Son. There is not in the universe a more ridiculous nor a more contemptible animal than a proud clergyman. FIELDING. Amelia, Bk. 9, ch. 10. A Protestant country clergyman is perhaps the most beautiful subject for a modern idyl. Like Melchisedek he ap- pears as priest and king in one person. GOETHE. Autob., Bk. 10. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed nor wished to change his place ; Unskilful he to fa\vn or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. GOLDSMITH. Ib. Still, for all you've so gentle a soul, Gad ! you've your flock in the grandest control, Checkin* the crazy ones, Coaxin' onaisy ones, Liftin' the lazy ones on wid the shtick.' A. P. GRAVES. Father O'Flynn. And sometimes comes she with a tithe- pig's tail, Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, 4. What bishops like best in their clergy is a dropping-down-deadness of manner. SYDNEY SMITH. First Letter to Archdeacon Singleton. From long residence upon your living [you] are become a kind of holy vegetable. SYDNEY SMITH. Peter Plymley's Letters, No. i. As the French say, there are three sexes men, women, and clergymen. SYDNEY SMITH. Sayings. You have met, I hear, with an agreeable clergyman. The existence of such a being has been hitherto denied by the naturalists ; measure him, and put down on paper what he eats. SYDNEY SMITH. Letter to R. Sharpe, 1835. I have seen nobody since I saw you, but persons in orders. My only varieties are vicars, rectors, curates, and every now and then (by way of turbot) an archdeacon. SYDNEY SMITH. Letter to Miss Berry, Jan. 28, i-"|3. A genius in the reverend gown Must ever keep its owner down ; 'Tis an unnatural conjunction, And spoils the credit of the function. SWIFT. To Dr. Delany, 1729. I never saw, heard, nor read that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular but some degree of persecution. SWIFT. Thoughts on Religion. CLERKS The snowy-banded dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. TENNYSON. Maud, Pt. i, 8. To convert a cleric (docteur) is an im- possible task. VOLTAIRE. Discours 6. The English clergy have a pious ambition for being masters. What village vicar would not wish to be pope ? VOLTAIRE. Letters on the English. CLERKS A votary of the desk. LAMB. Oxford in Vacation. CLEVERNESS Ye're a vera clever chiel, man, but ye wad be nane the waur of a hanging. LORD BRAXFIELD (ROBERT MAC- QUEEN). Remark to "an eloquent culprit at the bar." An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God. J. R. LOWELL. Biglow Papers, ist Series, i. But John P. Robinson, he Ses they didn't know everythin' down in Judee. J. R. LOWELL. Ib., ist Series, 3. If all the good people were clever, And all clever people were good, The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow 'tis seldom or never The two hit it off as they should ; The good are so harsh to the clever, The clever so rude to the good ! ELIZ. WORDSWORTH. St. Christopher and Other Poems. CLIFFS Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, Qreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head ; The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice. . . . The murmuring surge, That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act 4, 6. CLIMATE The cold in clime are cold in blood ; Their love can scarce deserve the name. BYRON. The Giaour, I. 1098. The English winter ending in July, To recommence in August. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 13, 42. CLOUDS Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part deformed With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France, With all her vines. COWPER. Time Piece, 209. Wherever snow falls there is usually civil freedom. EMERSON. Civilization. Heat, ma'am ! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. SYDNEY SMITH. Saying. A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared even for play. THOMSON. Castle of Indolence, c. i, st. 2. England is windy ; when it is not windy it is pestilent. Mediaeval saying. CLOTHING His very serviceable suit of black Was courtly once, and conscientious still. BROWNING. How it strikes a Contemporary . She just wore Enough for modesty no more. R. BUCHANAN. White Rose and Red. A silk suit which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it. PEPYS. Diary, 1660. When you would select a wife, Do not call on Sunday ; If you'd know her as she is, Better seek on Monday. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonder- ful. TENNYSON. Coming of Arthur. CLOUDS The clouds in thousand liveries dight. MILTON. L' Allegro, I. 62. I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nurseling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores, I change but I cannot die. SHELLEY. The Cloud, 6. When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed with frequent showers. Old Saying, If woolly fleeces strew the heavenly way, Be sure no rain disturbs the summer's day. Old Saying. 73 CLUBS Hen scarts and filly tails Make lofty ships %vear low sails. Scottish prov. (of light clouds resem- bling hen's claw-marks and tails of young mares). CLUBS Oh, to the club, the scene of savage joys, The school of coarse good-fellowship and noise. COWPER. Conversation, I. 421. Boswell (said he) is a very clubbable man. JOHNSON. Remark, 1783- A very unclubbable man. JOHNSON. Of Sir J. Hawkins. Indian clubs are good for the liver ; London clubs are not. SIR A. VV. PINERO. The Magistrate, Act i (Mrs. Pocket). COALITIONS England does not love coalitions. DISRAELI. Speech, 1852. COARSENESS Whose laughs are hearty, though his jests are coarse, And loves you best of all things but his horse. POPE. To Mrs. Blount. COCKNEYS I'm one of those whose infant ears have heard the chimes of Bow. THOS. HOOD. The Desert-Born, 1837. Oh, mine in snows and summer-heats, These good old Tory brick-built streets ! My eye is pleased with all it meets In Bloomsbury. WILFRED WRITTEN. Bloomsbury. COCKSURENESS I wish I were as cock-sure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. LORD MELBOURNE. Remark concern- ing Lord Macaulay. The cock is at his best on his own dunghill. SENECA. De Morle Claudii. There is no doubt in this book. Koran, ch. 2. COERCION Themistocles told the Adrians that he brought two gods with him, Persuasion and Force. They replied : " We also, have two gods on our side, Poverty and Despair." HERODOTUS. The more the fire is covered up the more it burns. OVID. Metam., Bk. 4. The current that with gentle murmur glides, COLLEGES Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage. SHAKESPEARE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 2, 7. COFFEE Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half- shut eyes. POPE. Rape of the Lock, c. 3, 117. COGITATION His cogitative faculties immersed In cogibundity of cogitation. H. CAREY. Chrononhotonthologos, i, i. COINCIDENCE The long arm of coincidence. C. H. CHAMBERS. Capt. Swift. COLD WEATHER It is a nipping and an eager air. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 4. A* the months with an R hi them [Months for household fires in Scotland]. Scottish saying. COLLEAGUES It did so happen, that persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed. BURKE. Speech on American Taxation. COLLECTIONS If a good story will not answer [to disorganize an unfriendly audience], still milder remedies sometimes serve to dis- perse a mob. Try sending round the contribution-box. EMERSON. Resources. It cannot be, it is it is A hat is going round. >. W. HOLMES. Music Grinders. COLLECTORS A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act 4, 2. This snug little chamber is crammed in all nooks With worthless old knick-knacks and silly old books, And foolish old odds and foolish old ends, Cracked bargains from brokers, cheap keepsakes from friends. THACKERAY. Cane-bottomed Chair. COLLEGES I do not recognize as a public institution those laughable establishments called colleges. ROUSSEAU. Emile. 74 COLONIES COMBAT If rudeness be the effect of knowledge, My son shall never see a college. SWIFT. Apology to Lady Carteret. COLONIES We view the establishment of the English colonies on principles of liberty as that which is to render this kingdom venerable to future ages. BURKE. Address to Colonies (1777). Through a wise and salutary neglect [of the British colonies] a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection. BURKE. Speech on Conciliation. The English sway of their colonies has no root of kindness. They govern by their arts and ability ; they are more just than kind. EMERSON. English Traits, 9, Cockayne (1833). The reluctant obedience of distant pro- vinces generally costs more than it is worth. MACAULAY. Mahon's War of the Succession. Remote compatriots, wheresoe'er ye dwell. By your prompt voices, ringing clear and true, We know that with our England all is well : Young is she yet, her world-task but begun ; By you we know her safe, and know by you Her veins are million but her heart is one. SIR WM. WATSON. Ver Tenebrosum. Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground, The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round. BYRON WEBBER. Hands across the Sea. In deep and awful channel runs This sympathy of Sire and Sons ; Untried our brothers have been loved With heart by simple nature moved ; And now their faithfulness is proved. WORDSWORTH. White Doe of Rylstone, c. 2. COLOURS The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. RUSKIN. Stones of Venice, 2, ch. 5, sec. 30. Blue is true, Yellow is jealous, Green's forsaken, Red's brazen, White is love, And black is death. Colour Superstitions (E. of England). COMBAT Dim is the rumour of a common fight, Where host meets host, and many names are sunk ; But of a single combat fame speaks clear. M. ARNOLD. Sohrab and Rustum. Give us this day good hearts, good enemies, Good blows o' both sides. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Bonduca, Act 3, i. He hath sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat, He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat, Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on ! JULIA WARD HOWE. Battle Hymn of the Republic (U.S.A.). One of us two, Herminius, Shall never more go home ; I will lay on for Tusculum, And lay thou on for Rome ! MACAULAY. Lake Regillus, si. 27. So frowned the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 2, 719. Full many a bloody day In toilsome fight he spent ; And many a wakeful night In battle's management. J. PHILIPS. Tr. of Plutarch. Now truce, farewell, and ruth, begone ! SCOTT. Lady of the Lake. What god can tell, what numbers can display The various labours of that fatal day, What chiefs and champions fell on either side, In combat slain, or by what deaths they died? VIRGIL. JEneid, Bk. 2 (Dryden tr.). Whosoever fighteth for the religion of God, whether he be slain or be victorious, we will surely give him a great reward. Koran, ch. 4. There's some say that we wan, Some say that they wan, Some say that nane wan at a', man ; But one thing I'm sure, That at the Shirra Muir A battle there was, which I saw, man. And we ran and they ran, And they ran and we ran, And we ran, and they ran awa', man. Old Scottish Song, referring to the battle of Sheriff-Muir (November 13, 1715). 75 COMBAT1VENESS COMMERCE COMBATIVENESS I was ever a fighter, so one fight more, The best and the last ! BROWNING. Prospice. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. BURKE. Thoughts on French Revolution. A controversy that affords Actions for arguments, not words. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. i, c. i. Away he scours and lays about him, Resolved no fray should be without him. GAY. Fables, 34. I welcome the fight as if it were a holiday. [Falk.] IBSEN. Love's Comedy, Act 2 (1862). So, ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wu/zy, at your 'ome in the Soudan ; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man. RUDYARD KIPLING. Fuzzy-Wuzzy. COMBINATION When bad men combine, the good must associate. BURKE. Cause of Present Discontents. COMEDY The literature of joy is infinitely more difficult, more rare, and more triumphant than the black and white literature of pain. G. K. CHESTERTON. The Defendant : Defence of Farce. COMFORT It's grand, and you canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable. SIR J. M. BARRIE. Little Minister ch. 10. Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it. GEO. ELIOT. Adam Bede, ch. 49. A house full of books, and a garden of flowers. A. LANG. Ballade of True Wisdom. COMFORTERS By his sovereign might That works no ill, was she from evil freed ; And by his breath divine She findeth rest, and weeps in floods of tears Her sorrowing shame away. AESCHYLUS. Suppliants, 571 (Plump- tre tr.). (Of the cure of lo by Jove.) Most of our misfortunes are more sup- portable than the comments of our friends upon them. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. He receives comfort like cold porridge. SHAKESPEARE. Tempest, Act 2, i. Miserable comforters are ye all. Job xvi, 2. COMMANDS All her commands were gracious, sweet requests. How could it be then, but that her requests Must need have sounded to me as com- mands ? COLERIDGE. Zapolya, Pt. 2, Act i. Yet seemed that tone and gesture bland Less used to sue than to command. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, c. i, st. 21. COMMENTATORS Distinctions, that had been at first designed To regulate the errors of the mind, By being too nicely overstrained and vexed Have made the comment harder than the text. S. BUTLER. Upon the Abuse of Human Learning. Commentaries are commonly more subject to cavil than the text, and there- fore need other commentaries ; and so there will be no end of such interpreta- tion. HOBBES. Leviathan, ch. 2, 6. I heard a whisper from a ghost who shall be nameless, " that these comment- ators always kept in the most distant quarters from their principals in the lower world, through a consciousness of shame and guilt, because they had so horribly misrepresented the meaning of these authors to posterity." SWIFT. Laputa. As learned commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew. SWIFT. On Poetry. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candles to the Sun. YOUNG. Love of Fame, Sat. 7. COMMERCE For Commerce, though the child of Agri- culture, Fosters his parent, who else must sweat and toil And gain but scanty fare. WM. BLAKE. Edward III. In little trades more cheats and lying Are used in selling than in buying ; But in the great, unjuster dealing Is used in buying than in selling. S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. COMMITTEES COMMON SENSE Business men boast of their skill and cunning, But in philosophy they are like little children. Bragging to each other of successful depredations, They neglect to consider the ultimate fate of the body. CH'EN TZU-AGIG (Chinese poet, Jth century) (Arthur Waley's translation). Down the river did glide, with wind and tide, A pig with vast celerity ; And the Devil looked wise as he saw how the while It cut its own throat. " There," quoth he, with a smile, " Goes England's commercial prosperity." COLERIDGE. Devil's Thoughts, st. 8. Art thrives most Where commerce has enriched the busy coast. COWPER. Charity, 114. East and west, and north and south, Under the crescent or under the cross, One song you hear in every mouth Profit and loss, profit and loss. J. DAVIDSON. Scaramouch in Naxos, sec.$. A true-bred merchant is the best gentleman in the nation. DEFOE. Robinson Crusoe. The Further Adventures. No nation was ever ruined by trade. B. FRANKLIN. Commerce ! beneath whose poison-breath- ing shade No solitary virtue dares to spring ; But poverty and wealth, with equal hand, Scatter their withering curses. SHELLEY .Queen Mab, c. 5. If a man knew what would be dear, He would be merchant but for a year. Old Saying. COMMITTEES Committee is a noun of multitude, signifying many ; but not signifying much. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." The committee sat and sat and sat, till every sensible plan was crushed as flat as a pancake. C. H. SPURGEON. Ib. Noah buDt the ark, for he was one man ; but all the men in the world, formed into a committee, could not finish a tower. C. H. SPURGEON. Ib. COMMONPLACE It is right and meet that there should be an abundant utterance of common- places. Part of an agreeable talker's charm is that he lets them fall continually with no more than their due emphasis. GEO. ELIOT. Theophrastus Such. A Too Deferential Man. A common-place book contains many Notions in Garrison, whence the owner may draw out an army into the field on competent warning. T. FULLER. Holy State and Profane State. (Of Tombs.) An everyday young man ; A commonplace type With a stick and a pipe, And a half-bred black-and-tan. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Patience. It is difficult to speak commonplaces effectively. HORACE. DeArte Poetica, 218. He has more than anyone the wit which everyone possesses. MONTESQUIEU. He learns how stocks will fall or rise ; Holds poverty the greatest vice ; Thinks wit the bane of conversation ; And says that learning spoils a nation. PRIOR. Chameleon. To suckle fools and chronicle small beer. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 2> i. It's deadly commonplace, but after all the commonplaces are the great poetic truths. R. L. STEVENSON. Weir of Hermiston. It is always the unreadable that occurs. OSCAR WILDE. Intentions. The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. WORDSWORTH. Peter Bell, Prologue. COMMON SENSE Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man. M. ARNOLD. Empedocles. He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. i, c. i. Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. EMERSON. Art. The cure for false theology is mother-wit. Forget your books and traditions and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. EMERSON. Conduct of Life, Worship. On fire that glows With heat intense I turn the hose Of common sense, And out it goes At small expense. SIR W. S. GILBERT. lolanthe. 77 COMMON THINGS COMPARISONS Sword of Common Sense 1 Our surest gift. GEO. MEREDITH. Ode. Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And, though no science, fairly worth the seven. POPE. Ep. 4. Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit to one man of sense, and he that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for want of readier change. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. Common sense is a bad judge when it deals with great matters. RENAN, Common sense is a kind of sixth sense, .ess because it is common to all men than because it results from the well-ordered use of the other senses. ROUSSEAU. Entile. No Englishman has any common sense, or ever had or ever will have. G. B. SHAW. John Bull's Other Island. Steer your ship by the stars, but don't forget the sands. C. H. SPURGEON. John Ploughman. Foremost captu n of his tune, Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. TENNYSON. On the Duke of Wellington. Common sense is not so common. VOLTAIRE. Plain sense but rarely leads us far astray. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 6. COMMON THINGS A thing is not vulgar because it is merely common. HAZLITT. On Vulgarity. COMMUNICATIVENESS In trying to achieve success No envy racks our heart ; And all the knowledge we possess We mutually impart. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Princess Ida. COMMUNISM The right of all to all things, and con- sequently the war of all against all. HOBBES. COMPANIONSHIP AND COMPANY Above all things endeavour to keep company with people above you. LORD CHESTERFIELD. Advice to his Son. 7 8 Society we must have ; but let it be society, and not exchanging news or eating from the same dish. EMERSON. Society and Solitude. When he is here, I sigh with pleasure When he is gone, I sigh with grief. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Sorcerer. If you would be loved as a companion, avoid unnecessary criticism upon those with whom you live. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. i, ch. 7. Crowd not your table : let your number be Not more than seven, and never less than three. DR. W. KING. Art of Cookery. It costs far more trouble to be admitted or continued in ill company than in good. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pi. i, Act 2,4. Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, 3. Therefore 'tis meet. That noble minds keep ever with their likes ; For who so firm that cannot be seduced ? SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ccesar, Act i, 2. Best company consists of five persons. STEELE. Tatltr. I love good creditable acquaintance ; I love to be the worst of the company. SWIFT. Letter, 1711. He showed me his bill of fare to tempt me to dine with him " Foh ! " said I, " I value not your bill of fare ; give me your bill of company." SWIFT. Ib. One sickly sheep infects the flock, And poisons all the rest. I. WATTS. A gainst Evil Company. Evil company doth corrupt good manners. i Corinthians xv, 33 (R.V.) COMPARISONS Her goodness doth disdain comparison, And, but herself, admits no parallel. MASSINGER. Duke of Milan, Act 4, 3. To compare Great things with small. MILTON. Paradise Lost Bk. 2, 921. COMPASSION COMPETITION Our discontent is from comparison. J. NORRIS. Consolation. Comparing what thou art With what thou mightst have been. SCOTT. Waterloo, i8 < Hyperion to a satyr. SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, Act i, 2. Comparisons are odorous. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 3, 5. Let us like merchants show our foulest wares, And think, perchance, they'll sell ; if not, The lustre of the better shall exceed By showing the worse first. SHAKESPEARE. Troilus, Act i, 3. Rome only might to Rome compared be. SPENSER. Ruines of Rome. None but himself can be his parallel. L. THEOBALD. Double Falsehood. COMPASSION Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashioned so slenderly, Young and so fair ! HOOD. Bridge of Sighs. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. POPE. Universal Prayer. First Murderer : Relent ! 'tis cowardly, and womanish. Clarence : Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act i COMPATIBILITY " My idea of an agreeable person," said Hugo Bohun, " is a person who agrees with me." DISRAELI. Lothair, ch. 41. COMPENSATION Thy fame, thy worth, thy filial love at last, Shall soothe his aching heart for all the past. CAMPBELL. Pleasures of Hope, Pt. i . One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain. CAMPBELL. Ritter Bann. Men may scoff and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain. W. E. HENLEY. Ballade of Truisms. There is some soul of goodness in things evil Would men observingly distil it out. SHAKESPEARE. Henry V. t Act 4, i. Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on. SHELLEY. Euganean Hills. This was an hour That sweetened life, repaid and recom- pensed All losses ; and although it could not heal All griefs, yet laid them for awhile to rest. SOUTHEY. Roderick, sec. 18. A little evil is often necessary for ob- taining a great good. VOLTAIRE. Baron d'Otrante. COMPETENCE Meanwhile, allowing things below your merit Yet, doctor, you've a philosophic spirit ; Your wants are few, and, like your income, small, And you've enough to gratify them all. P. DELANY. To Lord Carteret, 1729. How much richer are you than millions of people who are in want of nothing ! FIELDING. Amelia, Bk. 3, c. n. O grant me, heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great ; More than enough for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends. D. MALLET. Tr. of Horace. I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year. POPE. Imit. of Horace, Bk. 2, Sat. 6, I. i. Him for a happy man I own Whose fortune is not overgrown, And happy he who wisely knows To use the gifts that heaven bestows. SWIFT. Horace, Odes, 4, 9. An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. THOMSON. -Seasons* What limits shall we fix to the vague and shifting notion of a competency ? The truth is that everything is a competency which a man is inclined to live on, and therefore it varies as his desires are more or less reasonable. J. TRUSLER. System of Etiquette (1804). A competence is vital to content ; Much wealth is corpulence, if not disease. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 6. A competence is all we can enjoy. YOUNG. lb., 6. COMPETITION So nice a difference in your singing lies, That both have won, or both deserved, the prize. DRYDEN. Virgil, Pastoral, 3. 79 COMPLACENCY COMPROMISE Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship, nor nobly which is done in pride. RUSKIN. Ethics of the Dust. COMPLACENCY Had that calm look which seemed to all assent, And that complacent speech which noth- ing meant. CRABBE. Parish Register, Pt. i. One truth is clear, whatever is is right. POPE. Essay on Man. To observations, which ourselves we make, We grow more partial, for the observer's sake. POPE. Moral Essays, Ep. i. Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes! Isaiah v, 21. COMPLAINT Do not suppose that you are hurt and your complaint will cease. Cease com- plaint and you are no longer hurt. MARCUS AURELIUS. Meditations, Bk. 4, 7. Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce ? EMERSON. Works and Days. There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. The worst wheel always creaks most. French prov. COMPLETENESS AND COMPLETION But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run. MILTON. Comus, I. 1012. Toy, joy for ever ! my task is done The Gates are past and Heaven is won. MOORE. Lalla Rookh. The last act crowns the play. QUARLES. Emblems. The wheel has come full circle. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act 5, 3. COMPLEXION There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow. R. ALISON. Recreation in Music. Her face ! oh, call it fair, not pale. COLERIDGE. Christabel, Pt. 2. Her brow was fair, but very pale, and looked Like stainless marble ; a touch methought would soil Its whiteness. PARRY CORNWALL. Magdalen. What though the sun, with ardent frown, Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown ? SCOTT. Lady of the Lake. Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 2, i. With a red man rede thy rede ; With a brown man break thy bread ; At a pale man draw thy knife ; From a black man keep thy wife. Old Rhyme, Wright's " Passions of the Mind" 1604. COMPLEXITY OF CHARACTER With knowledge so vast, and with judg- ment so strong, No man with the half of 'em e'er went far wrong ; With passions so potent, and fancies so bright, No man with the half of 'em e'er went quite right. BURNS. Sketch : inscribed to C. J. Fox. In him, inexplicably mixed, appeared Much to be loved, much hated, sought, and feared. BYRON. Lara, c. i, 17. COMPLIANCE A short and certain way to obtain the character of a reasonable and wise man is, whenever anyone tells you his opinion, to comply with it. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. COMPLIMENT You're exceedingly polite, And I think it only right To return the compliment. SIR W. S. GILBERT. H.M.S. Pinafore. To compliments inflated I've a withering reply, And vanity I always do my best to mortify. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Princess Ida. This barren verbiage, current among men, Light com, the tinsel clink of compliment. TENNYSON. Princess, c. 2, 40. When quality meets, compliments pass. Prov. COMPRESSION Even copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot. POPE. Satires and Epistles Imitated, znd Bk. Ep. of Horace, 267. COMPROMISE All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue COMPULSION COMRADES and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. BURKE. Speech on Conciliation. The half is better than the whole. HESIOD. Works and Days. They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin. J. R. LOWELL. Present Crisis. That bastard verdict, " Not proven." I hate that Caledonian medium quid. One who is not proved guilty is innocent in the eyes of the law. SCOTT. Diary. Feb. 20, 1827. All great alterations in human affairs are produced by compromise. SYDNEY SMITH. Catholic Question. Is not compromise of old a god among you ? SWINBURNE. Word from the Psalmist. COMPULSION Nothing is pleasant Joined with a must. R. BRIDGES. Nero, Pt. i, Act 5, i. He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still. BUTLER. Hudibras, c. 3. All that makes existence valuable to anyone depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. J. S. MILL. Liberty, Introduction. On what compulsion must I ? tell me that. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 4, i. If you cannot make a man think as you do, make him do as you think. American Saying. One thing thinketh the bear, but all another thinketh his leader. Saying (Chaucer, Troilus, Bk. 4). COMRADES For danger levels man and brute, And all are fellows in their need. BYRON. Mazeppa, st. 3. Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. I'll do my best to save the ship. I'll pump and heave and haul and do anything I can, though he that pulls with me were my enemy. The reason is plain. We are all in the ship and must sink or swim together. DEFOE. The Review, 1708. But 'tis always the way on 't ; one scarce finds a brother. Fond as pitch, honest, hearty, and true to tne core, 81 But by battle or storm or some damned thing or other He's popped off the hooks and we ne'er se him more. C. DIBDIN. Grieving's a Folly. Matilda : A sudden thought strikes me. Let us swear an eternal friendship ! Cecilia : Let us agree to live together ! J. H. FRERE. The Rovers, Act i, i. Every man, To aid his clan, Should plot and plan As well as he can. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Mikado. As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman ; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows. Useless each without the other ! LONGFELLOW. Hiawatha, Pt. 10. Be no one's boon companion. You will have less pleasure and less pain. MARTIAL. Bk. 12. For we were nursed upon the self-same hill. MILTON. Lycidas, 23. Draw near together ; none be last OP first ; We are no longer names, but one desire ; With the same burning of the soul we thirst, And the same wine to-night shall quench our fire. SIR H. NEWBOLT. Sacramenlum Supremum (1905). There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should walk together every day. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. A pleasant possession is useless without a comrade. SENECA, Ep. 6. One writ with me in sour misfortune's book. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, 5, 3. Where are the boys of the old Brigade, Who fought with us side by side ? F. E. WEATHERLEY. Old Brigade. Horses he loved and laughter and the sun, A song, wide spaces and the open air. The trust of all dumb living things he won, And never knew the luck too good to share. Now, though he will not ride with us again, His merry spirit seems our comrade yet, Freed from the power of weariness and pain, Forbidding us to mourn or to forget. ANON. Quoted 1916, CONCEALMENT CONCISENESS Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried : the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me. Ruth i, 1 6 and 17. Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. 2 Samuel i, 23. CONCEALMENT I canna tell, I mauna tell, I darena for your anger ; But secret love will break my heart, If I conceal it langer. BURNS. Craigie-burn Wood. It is in truth a most contagious game : HIDING THE SKELETON, shall be its name. GEO. MEREDITH. Modern Love, st. 17. Duke : And what's her history ? Viola : A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 2, 4. However deep you might embower the nest, Some boy would spy it. TENNYSON. Princess, Prol., 148. To hide disease is fatal. Latin prov. CONCEIT The arch-flatterer, which is a man's self. BACON. Essays, Of Ceremonies. It was prettily devised of jEsop : The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot- wheel, and said, " What a dust do I raise ! " BACON. Of Vain-Glory. He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. GEO. ELIOT. A dam Bede, ch. 33. Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. J. K. JEROME. Idle Thoughts. The surest way to be taken in is to think yourself cleverer than others. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. There never was so wise a man before ; He seemed the incarnate " Well, I told you so! " LONGFELLOW. Poet's Tale, st. 9. Of all speculations the market holds forth, The best that I know for a lover of pelf, to buy up, at the price he is worth, And then sell him at that which he sets on himself. MOORE. A Speculation. Almost everybody is capable of thinking he has done more than another deserves, while the other thinks he has received less than he deserves. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 4. As who should say, I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark ! SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act i, i. CONCENTRATION Who keeps one end in view makes all things serve. BROWNING. In a Balcony. Concentration is the secret of success in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all the management of human affairs. EMERSON. Power. Once science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. POPE. Essay on Criticism, 60. Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of every- thing. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy, No. 9. CONCESSIONS The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. BURKE. Speech on Conciliation. CONCILIATION With reconciling words and courteous mien Turning into sweet milk the sophist's spleen. KEATS. Lamia, Pt. 2. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 3, 2. Give him all kindness : I had rather have Such men my friends, than enemies. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ceesar, Act 5, 4. To Cerberus they give a sop, His triple barking mouth to stop. SWIFT. On Poetry. CONCISENESS In few but sweetest numbers, Muse, rehearse : My few shall far exceed more numerous verse. LUCRETIUS. De Rerum Natura, 4, 181 (Creech tr.). He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. MACAULAY. Bacon. CONCORD CONFIDENCE He speaks reserv'dly, but he speaks with force, Nor can one word be changed but for a worse. POPE. Odyssey, Bk. 8, 191. Sum up thy speech, many things in few words. Ecclesiasticus 32, 8 (R.V.). CONCORD Of divers voices is sweet music made : So in our life the different degrees Render sweet harmony among these wheels. H. F. GARY. Dante's Paradise, c. 6, 127. CONDEMNATION We ought not to be so rash and rigorous in our censures as some are : charity will judge and hope the best. God be merciful unto us all ! BURTON. Anatomy of Melancholy, PL i. The world is full of pots calling the kettles black. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 586. He hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 10, 506. More matter with less art. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, 2. CONDOLENCE Funeral grief loathes words. T. DEKKER. Honest Whore, Pt. i, Act i, i. CONDUCT When we are asked further, What is conduct ? let us answer, Three-fourths of life. M. ARNOLD. Literature and Dogma, ch. i. Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. M. ARNOLD. Ib. Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare ; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care ; Our egress from the world Will be nobody knows where : But if we do well here We shall do well there. LONGFELLOW. Tales of a Wayside Inn, Pt. 2. Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none. SHAKESPEARE. All's Well, Act i, i. The system in everything ought to be, do as you please so long as you please to do what is right. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy, No. 19. From another's evil qualities a wise man corrects his own. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. Be sparing of four things, lingua, loculis, oculis, et poculis your tongue, your purse, your eyes, and your cups. J. TRUSLER. System of Etiquette. Fear thy God, speak ill of none, Stick to the truth and don't be done. Old Maxim. CONFEDERATES " Arcades ambo," id est blackguards both. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 4, st. 93. CONFESSION All shame is cowardice. The bravest spirit is the best qualified for a penitent. He then that will be honest must dare to confess that he has been a knave. DEFOE. Serious Reflections. A fault confessed Is a new virtue added to a man. J. S. KNOWLES. Love-Chase, Act i, 2. He's half absolved who has confessed. PRIOR. Alma, 2, 22. It is a greater thing to know how to acknowledge a fault than to know how not to commit one. CARDINAL DE RETZ. Memoir.t, vol. 2, 13. And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act i, 2. CONFIDENCE I felt so young, so strong, so sure of God. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 2. Self-trust is the first secret of success. EMERSON. Success. Confidence placed in another often compels confidence in return. LIVY. 22, 22. And, confident we have the better cause, Why should we fear the trial ? MASSINGER. Bashful Lover, Act i. Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause. POPE. Prol. to Satires, 209. My dreams presage some joyful news at hand ; My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, i. CONFIDENCE, MISPLACED CONNOISSEURS Ferd : Here's my hand, Miranda : And mine, with my heart in't. SHAKESPEARE. Tempest, Act 2, i. In a just cause it is right to be confident. SOPHOCLES. Youth is confident, manhood wary, and old age confident again. M. F. TUPPER. Proverbial Philosophy. Of Experience. For they can conquer who believe they can. VIRGIL. JEneid, Bk. 5 (Dry den tr.). If he has been capable of believing me unworthy of his trust, then it is he who is for ever unworthy of me. VOLTAIRE. Tancrede (Armenatde) , A man of hope and forward-looking mind. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 7. The past unsighed for, and the future sure. WORDSWORTH. Laodamia. CONFIDENCE, MISPLACED Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce it. 2 Kings xviii, 21. CONFISCATION A fine method ! This is neither begging, borrowing, nor robbery ; Yet it hath a fine twang of all of them. MASSINGER. Guardian, Act 5, 4. CONFLICT The meeting of these champions proud Seemed like the bursting thunder-cloud. SCOTT. Lay of the Last Minstrel, c. 3, st. 5. CONFLICT OF PASSIONS Who can be wise, amazed, temperate, and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment ? No man. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 2, 3. CONFORMABILITY AND CON- FORMITY They make it a principle of their Irreligion outwardly to conform to any religion. BURKE. Speech on Bill for Relief of Dissenters (1773). My son ! the road the human being travels, That, on which BLESSING comes and goes, doth follow The river's course, the valley's playful windings, Curves round the cornfield and the hill of vines, Honouring the holy bounds of property ; And thus secure, though late, leads to its end. COLERIDGE. Piccolomini, Act i, 4. It is often the shorter way and the more useful to conform to other people, rather than to make other people conform to us. LA BRUY&RE. De la Socieli, 48. The world's wicked. We are men, not saints, sweet lady ; you must practise The manners of the time if you intend To have favour from it. MASSINGER. Unnatural Combat, Act i, i. It is the rule of rules and the general law of laws that everyone should observe that of the place where he is. MONTAIGNE. Bk. i, zz. CONFUSION Feels himself spent and fumbles for his brains. COWPER. Table Talk, 536. Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him high arbiter Chance governs all. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. z, 907. Confusion worse confounded. MILTON. lb., Bk. z, 996. They whose affairs are in a dangerous or confused state, proceed to make them more confused, so that nothing can be settled. PLAUTUS. Mostellaria, Act 5, i. CONGE D'ELIRE A congt d'tlire is just such a recom- mendation as if I should throw you out of a three-pair-of-stairs window and recom- mend you to fall to the ground. JOHNSON. Remark as recorded by Sir John Hawkins. CONJECTURE Say first, of God above, of man below. What can we reason, but from what we know ? POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. i, 8. CONNOISSEURS If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio. CARLYLE. Frederick the Great, Bk. 4, 3. For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes. MARK TWAIN. Tramp Abroad, c. 20. CONQUEST CONSCIENCE CONQUEST Then fly betimes, for only they Conquer Love, that run away. T. CAREW. Conquest by Flight. The vanquished have no friends. SOUTHEY. Vision of Maid of Orleans The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way ; But to return and view the cheerful skies In this the task and mighty labour lies. To few great Jupiter imparts this grace, And those of shining worth and heavenly race. VIRGIL. jEneid, Bk. 6 (Dryden tr.). Great let me call him, for he conquered me. YOUNG. The Revenge, Act i, i. CONSCIENCE Ah, what an embarrassment is a con- science, and how happy one might be if one were without it ! E. AUGIER. Homme de Bien. Good conscience you owe to yourself ; good fame to your neighbour. ST. AUGUSTINE. The great beacon-light God sets in all, The conscience of each bosom. BROWNING. Strafford, Act 4, 2. Conscience wakened in a fever, Just a day too late, as ever. R. BUCHANAN. White and Red. Nor ear can hear, nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell. BYRON. Giaour, 753. Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God. BYRON. The Island, c. i, 6. Hence, babbling dreams ! you threaten here in vain. Conscience, avaunt ! Richard's himself again ! C. CIBBER. Richard III. (adaptation), Act 5, 3. Conscience, good my lord, Is but the pulse of reason. COLERIDGE. Zapolya, PI. i, i. In early clays the Conscience has in most A quickness which in later life is lost. COWPER. Tirocinium, 109. Men vehemently in love with their own new opinions, though never so absurd, and obstinately bent to maintain them, give those opinions also that reverenced name of conscience . . . and so pretend to know they are true, when they know at most but that they think so. HOBBES. Leviathan, c. 7. A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. HOBBES. Ib., c. 29. To all mortals conscience is a God. MENANDER (Greek). Now Conscience wakes Despair That slumbered ; wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 4, 23. All fame is foreign, but of true desert ; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One self-approving hour whole years out- weighs Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas ; And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels, Than Cassar with a senate at his heels. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. 4, 253. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue. POPE. Universal Prayer. On he moves, Careless of blame, while his own heart approves. ROGERS. Human Life. Conscience ! Conscience ! divine in- stinct, immortal and heavenly voice ; the sure guide of an ignorant and limited but intelligent and free existence ; in- fallible judge of good and evil, who render man like to God ! It is you who make the excellence of his nature and the moral goodness of his actions ; without you I feel nothing in me which raises me above the brutes, nothing but the sad privilege of leading myself astray, from errors to errors, by the help of an understanding without rule, and a reason without principle. ROUSSEAU. Emile. There is a degree of debasement which takes the life out of the soul. The internal voice can no longer make itself heard to him whose only thought is to nourish himself. ROUSSEAU. Ib. A man has less conscience when in love than in any other condition. SCHOPENHAUER. Metaphysics of Love. A sinful heart makes feeble hand. SCOTT. Marmion, c. 3, st. 31. A conscience that ne'er did him any harm. SCOTT. Waverley (referring to an easy-going conscience). Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, i. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS CONSOLATION A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 3, 2. Some certain dregs of conscience are yet within me. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act i, 4. Love is too young to know what conscience is ; Yet, who knows not conscience is born of love. SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet 151. And conscience, that undying serpent, calls Her venomous brood to their nocturnal task. SHELLEY. Queen Mob, c. 3. Nay truly, learned men have learnedly thought that . . . the inward light each mind hath in itself, is as good as a Philo- sopher's book. SIR P. SIDNEY. Apologie for Poetrie. What better bed than conscience good, to pass the night with sleep ? What better work than daily care fro' sin thyself to keep ? What better thought than think on God, and daily him to serve ? What better gift than to the poor that ready be to sterve ? T. TUSSER. Posits for the Bed Chamber. Conscience, a terrifying little sprite, That bat-like winks by day and wakes by night. J. WOLCOT. Lousiad, c. 3. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS Not always right in all men's eyes, But faithful to the light within. O. W. HOLMES. Birthday Tribute. CONSENT Now what could artless Jeanie do ; She had nae will to say him na : At length she blushed a sweet consent, And love was aye between them twa. BURNS. There was a lass. A little while she strove, and much re- pented, And whispering " I will ne'er consent," consented. BYRON. Don Juan, c. i, st. 117. He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave By laboursome petition ; and, at last Upon his will I sealed my hard consent' SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 2. I must marry the girl first and ask his consent afterwards. SHERIDAN. St. Patrick's Day. 86 CONSERVATISM It seems to me a barren thing this Conservatism an unhappy cross-breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing. DISRAELI. Coningsby, Bk. 3, c. 5 (Eustace Lyle). The staid, conservative, Came-over-with-the-Conqueror type of mind. SIR WM. WATSON. Study in Contrasts, i, 42. Toryism is an innate principle o' human nature Whiggism but an evil habit. JOHN WILSON. Nodes Ambrosiana. CONSIDERATION Let us cease shrieking and bgin con- sidering ! CARLYLE. French Revolution, Pt. 3, Bk. i, ch. 6. CONSISTENCY But Consistency still wuz a part of his plan, He's been true to one party an" thet is himself. J. R. LOWELL. Biglow Papers, No. 3. CONSOLATION There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night : And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light. W. C. BRYANT. Blessed are they that Mourn. Words that will solace him while life endures. CAMPBELL. Theodric. Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry ; Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. BRET HARTE. Lost Galleon. Watching, not as a fellow sufferer, but as it were from afar, with dispassionate vision, he [Simonides] tried to lighten men's cares by such pathetic melodies as taught men by then- very sweetness, that the gift of tears is (as has been said) [by Juvenal 15, 131] the best gift of God to suffering man. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry, No. 16 (E. K. Francis tr.). The philosophic brain soothes not the stricken heart. SIR L. MORRIS. Rhyme, the Consoler. There is no consolation, except in truth alone. PASCAL. On Death. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet CONSPIRACIES CONTEMPLATIVE FACULTIES their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal. PENN. Fruits of Solitude. Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 3, 2. Over the bridge of sighs we pass to the palace of peace. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends ; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us. SWIFT. On the Death of Dr. Swift. What shall be said ? for words are thorns to grief. SWINBURNE. Atalanla. They are worse treated than we are ; but that is the consolation of the damned. VOLTAIRE. Letter to D'Alembert, July 8, 1771. For sunlight gleams upon this shadowed earth ; Sunlight and shadow waver to and fro, And sadness echoes in the voice of mirth, And music murmurs through the wail of woe. AUGUSTA WEBSTER. A Woman Sold, 3, To and Fro. There is a comfort in the strength of love : 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain or break the heart. WORDSWORTH. Michael. Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. WORDSWORTH. On a picture of Peele Castle (1805). CONSPIRACIES When two or three were gathered to declaim Against the monarch of Jerusalem, Shimei was always in the midst of them. DRYDEN. Absalom, 601. O the curst fate of all conspiracies ! They move on many springs ; if one but fail The restive machine stops. DRYDEN. Don Sebastian, Act 4. CONSTANCY Except that household virtue, most un- common, Of Constancy to a bad, ugly woman. BYRON. Vision of Judgment, st. 12. Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same where'er it goes. MOORE. Irish Melodies. When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true. SIR C. SEDLEY. Constancy. To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her. TENNYSON. Guinevere, 471. Woman is like a weathercock which, when it is new, glistens in the sun and turns at every wind, but becomes fixed at last when time has rusted it. VOLTAIRE. Le Diposifaire. There is no other, and I am he, That loves no other, and thou art she. Ring Posy. Kepe Fayth till deth. Old Ring Posy. It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new. Published in " Songs of England and Scotland," London, 1835. CONSTITUENTS The king, and his faithful subjects, the Lords and Commons of this realm the triple cord, which no man can break. BURKE. Letter to a Noble Lord (1796). The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. GIBBON. Decline and Fall, ch. 3. Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. T. HARDY. Hand of Ethelberla, ch. g. Constitoounts air hendy to help a man in, But afterwards don't weigh the heft of a pin. J. R. LOWELL. Biglow Papers, No. 5. There is a higher law than the Constitu- tion. W. H. SEWARD. Speech, 1850. CONSUMMATION 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, i. CONTEMPLATIVE FACULTIES Perfect happiness is some sort of energy of Contemplation, for all the life of the gods is therein glad, and that of men glad in the degree in which some likeness to the gods in this energy belongs to them. For none other of living creatures (but men only) can be happy, since in no way they have any part in Contemplation. ARISTOTLE. Ethics, Bk. 10 (As translated by Ruskin). CONTEMPORARIES CONTENT CONTEMPORARIES Every age Appears to souls who live in it (ask Carlyle) Most unheroic. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 5. I do distrust the poet who discerns No character or glory in his times. E. 13. BROWNING. Ib. Contemporaries appreciate the ma rather than the merit ; but posterity wi regard the merit rather than the man. C. C. COLTON. Lacon Speaking generally no man appear great to his cotemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servant they know too much of him. C. C. COLTON. Ib The way of this world is to praise dea< saints and persecute living ones. DR. N. HOWE. Sermon CONTEMPT Who despises all displeases all. ALBERTANO OF BRESCIA. Lib. Cons. The Sacristan, he says no word that indicates a doubt, But he puts his thumb unto his nose, and spreads his fingers out. R. H. BARHAM. Nell Cook. I will not descend to a world I despise. BYRON. Hours of Idleness, To Rev. J. T. Becher. I pity his ignorance and despise him [Fanny Squeers}. DICKENS. Nickleby, ch. 15. Let Sporus tremble! A. What, that thing of silk ? Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? POPE. Prol. to Satires. I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. SHAKESPEARE. Julius C&sar, Act 4, 3. Scorned ! to be scorned by one that I scorn, Is that a matter to make me fret ? TENNYSON. Maud, Pt. i, 13, j. Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare. TENNYSON. Ib., Pt. i, 13, 2. No one can boast of having never been despised. VAUVENARGUES. Maxim 888. Disdainfully she looked ; then turning round, She fixed her eyes unmoved upon the ground, And what he says and swears regards no more Than the deaf rocks, when the loud billows roar. VIRGIL. JEneid, Bk. 6 (Dryden tr.). CONTENT Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury. ADDISON. Cato, Act i. But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast. I. BICKERSTAFFE. Love in a Village, Act 3, z. The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The idle man never can bring to the mart, Nor the cunning hoard up in his treasury. WM. BLAKE. Two Kinds of Riches. Enough if we may wait in calm content The hour that bears us to the silent sod ; Blameless improve the time that heaven has lent, And leave the issue to Thy will, O God ! W. L. BOWLES. Sundial in a Churchyard. Then let us cheerfu' acquiesce Nor make our scanty pleasures less, By pining at our state. BURNS Epistle to Davie. Hope not sunshine every hour, Fear not clouds will always lower. Happiness is but a name. Make content and ease thy aim. BURNS. Lines on Friars- Car se Hermitage. Life is with such all beer and skittles ; They are not difficult to please About their victuals. C. S. CALVERLEY. Contentment. The all-in-all of life Content. CAMPBELL. To a Lady. God hath made none (that all might be) contented. CHAPMAN. Tears of Peace. 'Tis want of courage not to be content. C. CHURCHILL. The Farnvell, 70. Let not what I cannot have My peace of mind destroy. COLLEY CIBBER. The Blind Boy. Men live best on little. Nature gives all men happiness if they only knew how to use it. CLAUDIAN. In Rufinum. A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer day. R. CRASHAW. Praise of Lessius. CONTENT CONTENTIOUSNESS Grief never mended no broken bones and, as good people's very scarce, what J says is, make the most on 'em. DICKENS. Sketches by Boz. Gin-Shops On earth's wide thoroughfares below Two only men contented go ; Who knows what's right and what's forbid, And he from whom is knowledge hid. EMERSON. Trans, from " Omar Chiam " (Essay on Persian Poetry). Him whom a little will not content, nothing will content. EPICURUS (as quoted by /Elian). Happy the man, and he alone, Who, master of himself, can say " To-day at least hath been my own, For I have clearly lived to-day." P. FRANCIS. Horace, Odss, Bk. 3, 29. Let us draw upon content for the deficiencies of fortune. GOLDSMITH. Vicar of Wakefield, c. 3. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content ; The quiet mind is richer than a crown. R. GREENE. Farewell to Folly. A mind content both crown and king- dom is. R. GREENE. Ib. Few things are necessary to make a wise man happy, but nothing can render a fool contented. That is why nearly all men are miserable. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 617. But live content, which is the calmest life. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 6, 461. Taught to live The easiest way, nor with perplexing thoughts To interrupt the sweet of life. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 8, 182. Then, when the world is born again And the sweet year before thee lies, Shall thy heart think of corning pain, Or vex itself with memories ? W. MORRIS. Jason, Bk. 14, 213. It's good for a man to be contented, but no good for the place he lives in. Con- tented people never stir up things, or throw light into dark corners, or let air into stuffy places. EDEN PHILLPOTTS. For myself I think that the surest sign of true contentment of mind is the retired and domestic life. ROUSSEAU. Julie. Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 3, 3. 89 Let me arise and open the gate, To breathe the wild warm air of the heath, And to let in Love, and to let out Hate, And anger at living, and scorn of Fate ; To let in Life, and let out Death. MRS. M. M. SINGLETON (VIOLET FANE). Time. I hold that to need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach divinity. SOCRATES (as quoted by Xenophon). The noblest mind the best contentment has. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. i, c. i, 35. But fittest is that all contented rest With what they hold : each hath his for- tune in his brest. SPENSER. Ib., Bk. 6, c. 9, st. 29. What better fare than well content ? T. TUSSER. Posies for thine own Bedchamber. As long liveth the merry man, they say, As doth the sorry man and longer by a day. N. UDALL. Ralph Roister Doister, Act i, i. When all is done and said, In the end thus you shall find, He most of all doth bathe in bliss That hath a quiet mind. THOS. LORD VAUX. A Contented Mind. I'll not willingly offend, Nor be easily offended ; What's amiss I'll strive to mend, And endure what can't be mended. I. WATTS. Good Resolution. I know indeed that wealth is good, But lowly roof and simple food, With love that hath no doubt, Are more than gold without WHITTIER. Maids of Attitash, st. i. Content is the true philosopher's stone. Prov. CONTENTION Rest springs from strife, and dissonant chords beget Divinest harmonies. SIR L. MORRIS. Love's Suicide. Contention with an equal is doubtful ; with a superior, madness ; with an inferior, a degradation. SENECA. De Ira, 2, 31. CONTENTIOUSNESS Some there are debate that seek, Making trouble their content, Happy if they wrong the meek, Vex them that to peace are bent ; Such undo the common tie Of mankind, society. T. CAMPION. Wise Men. CONTEST CONTROVERSY In every heart Are sown the sparks that kindle fiery war. COWPER. Winter Morning Walk, 205. CONTEST He that is valiant and dares fight, Though drubbed, can lose no honour by't BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. i, c. 3. In a wrong fight fell a good knight : So a good night to Sir Bevil ! Who gained his laurel in an ill quarrel, And whose cause went to the devil. L. HOUSMAN. On Lansdown Hill. As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. SCOTT. Martnion, c. 6, 25. CONTINUANCE For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. TENNYSON. Brook. CONTRADICTION But when the Crier cried, " O Yes ! " the people cried " O No ! " R. H. BARHAM. Misadventures at Margate. Asseveration blustering in your face Makes contradiction such a hopeless case. COWPER. Conversation, I. 59. It is the instinct of understanding to contradict reason. JACOBI (as quoted by Carlyle). Be dumb, Thou spirit of contradiction ! MASSINGER. Picture, Act i, 2. The evangelists may contradict each other, provided only that the gospel does not contradict itself. Quoted as a" wholesome word " by GOETHE. CONTRAST Did He who made the lamb make thee ? WM. BLAKE. The Tiger. Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 4. Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed. And batten on this moor ? SHAKESPEARE. Ib. O, the more angel she, And you the blacker devil ! SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 5, 2. CONTRITION Mercy, for praise ; to be forgiven, for fame ; He asked and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same. COLERIDGE. Epitaph on himself. Ah ! happy they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win ! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin ? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in ? OSCAR WILDE. Ballad of Reading Gaol. CONTROVERSIALISTS Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. ADDISON. Spectator, vol. 7, 476. Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad. POPE. Epigram. CONTROVERSY Some thrilling view of the surplice question. BROWNING. Christmas Eve, c. 14. Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out. BURKE. Speech (1792). He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay by ratiocination. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. i, c. i. To hear Such wrangling is a joy for vulgar minds. H. F. GARY. Dante's "Hell," c. 30, 145. Pelting each other for the public good. COWPER. Charity, 623. Religion should extinguish strife, And make a calm of human life ; But friends that chance to differ On points which God has left at large, How fiercely will they meet and charge ! No combatants are stiffer. COWPER. Friendship, st. 23. Great contest follows, and much learned dust. COWPER. Garden, 161. But most she fears the controversial pen, The holy strife of disputatious men. CRABBE. Library. The ecclesiastical writers, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moder- ation. GIBBON. Decline and Fall, ch. 26. I never think I have hit hard, unless it rebounds. JOHNSON. Remark, 1775. 90 CONVENTION CONVERSATION So high at last the contest rose, From words they almost came to blows. J. MERRICK. Chameleon. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. PENN. Some Fruits of Solitude, Generally true disputants are like true sportsmen their whole delight is in the pursuit ; and a disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. There is consolation in the fact that in controversies and in taking mineral waters, it is the after effects that are the real effects. SCHOPENHAUER. Dialogue on Religion (Philalethes) . He would not waken old debate, For he was void of rancorous hate. SCOTT. Lay of the Last Minstrel, 5, 28. 'Faith, there has been much to do on both sides ; and the nation holds it no sin, to tarre them to controversy. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, 2. And do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. SHAKESPEARE. Taming of the Shrew, Act i, 2. In this quarrel whole rivulets of ink have been exhausted, and the virulence of both parties enormously augmented. SWIFT. Battle of the Books. Anathemas are hurled From both sides ; veteran thunders (the brute test Of truth) are met by fulminations new. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pi. 2, 36. The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches. SIR H. WOTTON. Panegyric to Charles I. God save the king, and bless the land In plenty, joy, and peace, And grant henceforth that foul debate 'Twixt noblemen may cease ! Old Ballad. Chevy Chase. CONVENTION Society . . . being in its nature a convention, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together. EMERSON. Manners. We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very bad company and was never invited to dinner. EMERSON. Society and Solitude. No man fin Paris] dares to be himself. " We must do as others do," that is the first maxim of the country's wisdom " So and so is done ; so and so is not done " behold this is the supreme law. ROUSSEAU. Julie. Somehow the grace, the bloom of things has flown, And of all men we are most wretched, who Must live each other's lives and not our own. OSCAR WILDE. Humanitad. CONVERSATION Were we as eloquent as angels, yet we should please some men, some women, and some children, much more by listening than by talking. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. Conversation in its better part, May be esteemed a gift, and not an art. COWPER. Conversation, 3. Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse. COWPER. Ib., 7. The insignificant click-clack of modish conversation [Mr. Gosport]. MME. D'ARBLAY. Cecilia, Bk. i, 3. " There are amusing people who do not interest." said the Monsignore, " and interesting people who do not amuse." DISRAELI. Lothair, ch. 41. Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. EMERSON. Conduct of Life, Considerations by the Way. With thee conversing I forget the way. GAY. Trivia, Bk. 2, 480. Like precious stones his sensible remarks Derive their value from their scarcity. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Princess Ida. He [Coleridge] talked on for ever ; and you wished him to talk on for ever. W. HAZLITT. Living Poets. Confidence does more to make conversa- tion than wit. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. With thee conversing, I forget all time. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 4. 639. Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation. MONTAIGNE, Bk. i, 25. CONVERSION CONVIVIALITY If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how and when and where. Version of old rhyme as given by W. E. NORRIS in " Thirlby Hall." Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. 4, 379- Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. POPE. Odyssey, Bk. 15, 433- That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; It slipped from politics to puns: It passed from Mahomet to Moses. W. M. PRAED. Vicar, st. 5. To hear him speak, and sweetly smile You were in Paradise the while. SIR P. SIDNEY. Friend's Passion. Macaulay is like a book in breeches. He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful. SYDNEY SMITH. Saying. Don't talk all the talk, nor eat all the meat. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." Would you both please and be instructed too, Watch well the rage of shining to subdue ; Hear every man upon his favourite theme, And ever be more knowing than you seem. B. STILLINGFLEET. Conversation. I am not one who oft or much delight To season my fireside with personal talk. WORDSWORTH. Personal Talk. CONVERSION A convert's but a fly, that turns about After his head's cut off, to find it out. S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. To become properly acquainted with a truth we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. NOVALIS (tr. by Carlyle). CONVICTION But dash my buttons, though you put it strong, It's my opinion you're more right than wrong. R. BUCHANAN. Last of the Hangmen. CONVIVIALITY If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink ; Good wine, a friend, or being dry, Or lest we should be by and by, Or any other reason why. H. ALDRICH (from the Latin). Nose, nose, jolly red nose. And who gave thee that jolly red nose ? Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves, And they gave me this jolly red nose. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Knight of the Burning Pestle, Act i, 3 (also in RAVENCROFT'S Deuterotnela, 1609). Their hearts and sentiments were free, their appetites were hearty. R. BUCHANAN. City of the Saints. I wasna* fou, but just had plenty. BURNS. Death and Dr. Hornbook. We are na fou, we're nae that fou, But just a drappie in our ee. BURNS. Song. Tarn lo'ed him like a vera brither They had been fou for weeks thegither. BURNS. Tarn o' Shantcr. Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! BURNS. Ib. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn ! What dangers thou canst mak us scorn ! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil ; Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil. BURNS. Ib. A man may drink and no be drunk ; A man may fight and no be slain ; A man may kiss a bonny lass And aye be welcome back again. BURNS. There was a Lass. Should every creature drink but I ? Why, man of morals, tell me why. Co WLEY. Drink ing. To drink healths is to drink sickness. T. DEKKER. Honest Whore. Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle ? He was all for love and a little for the bottle. C. DIB DIN. Capt. Wattle. " It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. " It was the salmon." DICKENS. Pickwick Papers, ch. 8. A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing and unthinking time. DRYDEN. Secular Masque, I. 40. Let other hours be set apart for business ! To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk. FIELDING. Tom Thumb, Act i, 2. The warm champagny, old-particular, brandy-punchy feeling. O. W. HOLMES. Nux Postcaenalica. CONVULSION CORRESPONDENCE The rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure Of drinking at somebody else's expense. H. S. LEIGH. To an Intoxicated Fly. When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. R. LOVELACE. To Althea. Fill the bumper fair ! Every drop we sprinkle O'er the brow of Care Smooths away a wrinkle. MOORE. Irish Melodies. It being reported to Pyrrhus (B.C. 318 c.- B.C. 272), that certain young men had should have said a good deal more, if we had had more wine." Whereupon he laughed and dismissed them. PLUTARCH. Life of Pyrrhus. As Doctor Martin Luther sang : " Who loves not wine, woman, and song, He is a fool his whole life long." THACKERAY. A Credo. (The saying is wrongly attributed to Luther.) I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. I. WALTON. Complete Angler, ch. 5. They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them. ARTEMUS WARD. Moses the Sassy. CONVULSION Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crash of worlds. ADDISON. Cato, Act 5, i. COOKERY Until the nature of man is completely altered, cooking is the most important thing for a woman. ARNOLD BENNETT. The Title (1918), Act i. Home-made dishes that drive one from home. HOOD. Miss Kilmansegg. The greatest animal in creation, the animal who cooks. DOUGLAS JERROLD. Attributed. Of herbs, and other country messes Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses. MILTON. L' Allegro, 85. Ilka man as he like, I'm for the cook. Scottish prov. CO-OPERATION Nature works on a method of all for each and each for all. EMERSON. Farming. But when was honey ever made With one bee in the hive ? HOOD. Last Man. The Ox said to his fellow-servant the Camel, when he refused help in carrying his burden, " It will not be long before you carry my burden and me too." Which came to pass when the ox died. PLUTARCH. Morals, Bk. i. Hold the fort ! I am coming ! Signal to General Corse (Oct. 5, 1864) by William F. Sherman. CORDIALITY The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech. EMERSON. Conduct nf Life, Considerations by the Way. CORNWALL I love thee, Cornwall, and will ever, And hope to see thee once again ! For why ? thine equal knew I never For honest minds and active men. T. FREEMAN. Encomion Corn w&t# (1614). And have they fixed the where and when, And shall Trelawny die ? Then twenty thousand Cornish men Shall know the reason why. Song. Trelawny (1688). In Cornwall are the best gentlemen. Cornish prov., as quoted by BORROW (Lavengro). CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Too much Cain is apt to kill Abel. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." Never known, during eight years at school, to be subject to that punishment which it is generally thought none but a cherub can escape. THACKERAY. Vanity Fair, Bk. i, ch. 9. CORPORATIONS They [corporations] cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor ex-com- municate, for they have no souls. COKE. Case of Sutton's Hospital. Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be damned. LORD THURLOW (according to Poynder's "Literary Extracts"). CORPSE A demd damp, moist, unpleasant body. DICKENS. Nickleby, ch. 34. CORRESPONDENCE Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheap- 93 CORRUPTION COUNCILS ness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind ; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten, to guard a letter, as it flies over sea, over land, as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civiliza- tion. EMERSON. Civilization. CORRUPTION When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. ADDISON. Cato, Act 4, 4. For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule. M. ARNOLD. Merope. Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. BURKE. Letter. Corrupt influence, which is in itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder ; which loads us, more than millions of debt ; which takes away vigour from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution. BURKE. Speech on Economical Reform (Feb., 1780). Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. GARRICK. Gamesters, Prologue. Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. GIBBON. Decline and Fall, ch. 21. Robbery and depeculation of the public treasure or revenues is a greater crime than the robbing or defrauding of a private man ; because to rob the public is to rob many at once. HOBBES. Leviathan, ch. 27. Justice is such a fine thing that one cannot buy it too dearly. LE SAGE. Crispin. In vain doth valour bleed, While avarice and rapine share the land; MILTON. To Fairfax. Some flowerets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the Serpent is over them all. MOORE. Lalla Rookh, Paradise and the Peri. You yourself Are much condemned to have an itching palm. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Casar, Act 4, 3. Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is often led by the nose with gold. SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act 4, 3. And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet 35. All men have their price. Attributed, to SIR R. WALPOLE, but current before his time. He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled. Ecdesiasticus xiii, i. There was never any thing by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure estab- lished, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted. Common Prayer, Preface. COSMOPOLITANISM Socrates, when asked of what country he called himself, said, " Of the world " ; for ho considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world. CICERO. Tusc. Quasi., Bk. 5, 37. He made all countries where he came his own. DRYDEN. Astrcea Redux, 76. Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. EMERSON. Wooa-Notes, PI. i, 3. The whole world is my native land. SENECA. Ep. 28. All places that the eye of heaven visits. Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., Act i, 3. Whoever seeks for truth should be of no country. VOLTAIRE. Reply to an Academician. COTTAGES Well would it be if every landowner carried in his mind a resolve in conson- ance with an Act passed, I believe, in Elizabeth's reign, which forbade cottages to be erected unless a certain quantity of land were laid to each cottage, and denominated all cottages failing in this respect, " silly cottages." SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. 2, cA. 4. COUNCILS This council I establish pure from bribe, Reverend, and keen to act ; for those that sleep An ever watchful sentry of the land. AESCHYLUS. Eumenides, 232 (Plumptre tr.). But yet beware of councils when too full ; Number makes longtdisputes. .. SIR J. DENHAM. Of Prudence, 59. 04 COUNSEL COURAGE COUNSEL Ask counsel of both times : of the ancient time what is best ; and of the latter time what is fittest. BACON. Of Great Place. They are too old to learn, and I too young To give them counsel. MASSINGER. Fatal Dowry, Act i, i. In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. Proverbs xi, 14 ; xxiv.. 6. " Twa heads are better than ane," as the wife said when she and her dog gaed to the market. Scottish prov. COUNTERPLOT For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard ; and it shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines. And blow them to the moon. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 4. COUNTRY, THE 'Tis sweet to him, who all the week Through city crowds must push his way, To stroll alone through fields and woods, And hallow thus the Sabbath-day. COLERIDGE. Home-Sick. God made the country and man made the town. COWPER. The Sofa (borrowed from Varro). For him light laboui spread her whole- some store, Just gave what life required, and gave no more. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. All country people hate each other. HAZLITT. Wordsworth's " Excursion." There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they wul not let you have it. HAZLITT. Ib. The gift of country life, near hills and woods, Where happy waters sing in solitudes. JOHN MASEFIELD. Biography. It is good to be out on the road, and going one knows not where, Going through meadow and village, one knows not whither or why. JOHN MASEFIELD. Tewkesbury Road. Meadows trim with daisies pied. MILTON. L'Allegro, 75. Abroad in the meadows to see the young lambs Run sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white. I. WATTS. Innocent Play. COURAGE That is well said, John, an honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear. ADDISON. The Drummer Boy. The man so bravely played the man, He made the fiend to fly. J. BUN VAN. Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. 2. And let us mind, " Faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair ; " Wha does the utmost that he can, Will whiles do mair. BURNS. Epistle to Dr. Blacklock. I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 4, st. 1401 Blessed are the valiant that have lived in the Lord. CARLYLE. Cromwell, vol. 5, Pt. 10. True valour lies half way between cowardice and rashness. CERVANTES. Don Quixote. None but the brave deserves the fair. DRYDEN. Alexander's Feast, st. i. Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. DRYDEN. A mphilryon. Courage consists in equality to the problem before us. EMERSON. Courage. Counsel that I once heard given to a young person, " Always do what you are afraid to do." EMERSON. Heroism. Conquest pursues, where courage leads the way. SIR S. GARTH. Dispensary, c. \ t 198. Unto it boldly let us stand ; God will give right the upper hand. H. GIFFORD. For Soldiers. Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbour, Seeking help from none ; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own. A. L. GORDON. Wearie Wayfarer, Pt. 8. Though all we knew depart, The old commandments stand ; " In courage keep your heart, In strength lift up your hand." RUDYARD KIPLING. For all we have and are (Sept., 1914). 95 COURTESY COURTING Instead of rage Deliberate valour breathed, firm and unmoved With dread of death, to flight or fou retreat. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 553 I do not call a wild beast or anything else brave, which, through ignorance, has no fear of things of dread ; " fearless " is not the same thing as " brave." PLATO. Laches, 28. You will find many men who are most unjust, most unholy, most intemperate, and most ignorant, yet eminently courage- ous. PLATO. Protagoras, 96. The first in danger as the first in fame. POPE. Iliad, Bk. 6, 637 I dare do all that may become a man ; Who dares do more is none. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act i, 7. Courage respects courage. R. L. STEVENSON. Travels with a Donkey. A brave man, were he seven times king, Is but a brave man's peer. SWINBURNE. Marino Faliero, Act 2, 2. Valour grows by daring, fear by holding back. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. The courage that lifted their hearts shall leaven All who in England's name go forth From east and west, from south and north, Under the great Godspeed of Heaven. SIR WM. WATSON. Charge of the gth Lancers, Sept. 5, 1914. Only be thou strong and very courage- ous. Joshua i, 7. Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. i Samuel iv, 9. COURTESY If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. BACON. Of Goodness. Of Courtesy it is much less Than Courage of Heart or Holiness, Yet in my Walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in Courtesy. HILAIRE BELLOC. Courtesy. Life is not so short but that there is always room for courtesy. EMERSON. Social Aims. His ready speech flowed fair and free In phrase of gentlest courtesy ; Yet seemed that tone and gesture bland Less used to sue than to command. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, c. j, st. 21. 1 am the very pink of courtesy. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, 4. The greater man, the greater courtesy. TENNYSON. Last Tournament, 630. For courtesy wins woman all as well As valour. " TENNYSON. Ib. It's aye good to be ceevil, As the auld wife said when she becked (curtseyed) to the deevil. Scottish prov. Put your hand quickly to your hat and slowly to your purse. Danish prov. Hech how [an expression of grief, a sigh] is heavysome, An auld wife is dowiesome fdismal], And courtesy is cumbersome To them that canna show it. Scottish saying. COURTING Thrice nappy's the wooing that's not long a doing, So much time is saved in the billing and cooing. R. H. BARHAM. Sir Rupert. Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely, most politely. Flatter and impress the lady Most politely, most politely. Humbly beg and humbly sue, She may deign to look on you. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Princess Ida. Whaur hae ye been a' day, My boy Tammy ? I've been by burn and flowery brae, Meadow green and mountain grey, Courting of this young thing Just come frae her mammy. HECTOR MACNEILL. Song. I will now court her in the conqueror's style ; " Come, see, and overcome." MASSINGER. Maid of Honour, Act 2, i. 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. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 2, i. Was ever woman in this humour wooed ? Was ever woman in this humour won ? SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act i, 2. A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear, Such as would please. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 1,5, COVETOUSNESS CRAFTINESS That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. SHAKESPEARE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 3, i. Since first I saw your face, I resolved To honour and renown you ; If now I be disdained, I wish My heart had never known you. Old Song (c. 1600). COVETOUSNESS As thorough an Englishman as ever coveted his neighbour's goods. C. KINGSLEY. Water Babies. Get place and wealth, if possible with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place. POPE. Satires, Ep. i, 108. When Naboth's vineyard looked so fine, The King cried out, " Would this were mine ! " And yet no reason could prevail To bring the owner to a sale. SWIFT. Garden Plot, 1709. Old age brings this vice, that we are all more eager than we should be about acquiring property. TERENCE. Adelphi. COWARDICE There needs no other charm nor conjurer To raise infernal spirits up, but fear. S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. That all men would be cowards, if they dare, Some men have had the courage to declare. CRABBE. Tales of the Hall, i, i. For anything I know, I am an arrant coward. FLETCHER AND MASSINC.ER. Little French Lawyer, Act 2. Whilst you are fighting (said Panurge) I will pray God for your victory, after the example of the chivalrous Captain Moses, leader of the people of Israel. RABELAIS. Pantagruel, Bk. 4, c. 37. For all men would be cowards if they durst. EARL OF ROCHESTER. Satire. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Act 2, 4. Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Casar, Act 2, 2 H 97 When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 4 2. The devil damn thee black, thou cream- faced loon ! Where gott'st thou that goose look ? SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 3. An I thought he had been valiant, and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 3, 4. I know them to be as true-bred cowards as ever turned back. SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV., Pt. i, Act i, 2. As an old soldier I admit the cowardice : it's as universal as sea - sickness, and matters just as little. G. B. SHAW. Man and Superman. My valour is certainly going ! It is sneaking off ! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my hands. SHERIDAN. Rivals, Act 5, 3. There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart. SWINBURNE. Bothwell, Act 2, 13. The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion. Proverbs, xxviii, i. Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. Prov. COYNESS Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 4, 307. Flee, and she follows ; follow, and she'll flee; Than she there's none more coy ; there's none more fond than she. QUARLES. Emblems, Bk. i, 4. Yet she was coy, and would not believe That he did love her so ; No, nor at any time would she Any countenance to him show. Bailiffs Daughter of Islington (Ancient Ballad). CRAFTINESS He's tough, ma'am, tough is J. B. Tough and de-vilish sly. DICKENS. Dombey, c. 7. That's the common fate of your Machi- avellians ; they draw their designs so subtle that their very fineness breaks them. DRYDEN. Sir Martin Mar-All. The devil knew not what he did when he made man politic ; he crossed himself by 't. SHAKESPEARE. Timon, Act 3, 3. CRANKS CRANKS A crank is a little thing that makes revolutions. Anonymous saying. CREATIVE FACULTY Only God and the Poet deserve the name of Creator. TASSO. Of that which is more than Creature, no Creature ever conceived. RUSKIN. Modern Painters, vol. 2, PI. 2, sec. 3, ad fin. Genius invents, wit merely discovers. WEBER. CREDULITY A credulous man is a deceiver. BACON. Adv. of Learning, Pt. i Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled. BURKE. Letter to Sheriffs of Bristol. As a rule men freely believe what they wish. CESAR. De Bella Gallico. Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom ; youth is the season of credulity. LORD CHATHAM. Speech, 1766. The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe them- selves. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. We have believed in too many things, we men of little faith. JULES ROMAINE. Wearied from doubt to doubt to flee, We welcome fond credulity, Guide confident, though blind. SCOTT. Marmion, c. 3, st. 30. There is nothing that cannot be imagined by people of no imagination. EDITH SICHEL. That only disadvantage of honest hearts, credulity. SIR P. SIDNEY. Arcadia Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers. R. L. STEVENSON. Master of Ballantrae. Like simple, noble natures, credulous Of what they long for, good in friend or foe. TENNYSON. Geraint and Enid, 877. CREEDS Unduped of fancy, henceforth man Must labour ! must resign His all too human creeds, and scan Simply the way divine ! M. ARNOLD. Obermann Once More. CREEDS Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly willed. M. ARNOLD. Scholar Gipsy. Creeds are as thistle-down wind-tossed and blown, But deeds abide throughout eternity. G. BARLOW. Dawn to Sunset, Bk. 2. Uncursed by doubt our earliest creed we take; We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. O. W. HOLMES. Rhymed Lesson. All creeds I view with toleration thorough. And have a horror of regarding heaven As anybody's rotten borough. HOOD. Ode to Rae Wilson. 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. We have a Calvinisttc creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy. W. PITT. Speech, 1790. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, He can't be wrong whose life is in the right. POPE. Essay on Man. Ye are but purblind leaders, who preach that our utmost need Can be met by a faith in a Semite book and the Athanasian Creed ! Who damn with a text in this world and the next, if we stray from the Church's path, And believe that creeds shall be more than deeds, when God gathers His aftermath. LT.-COLONEL DUDLEY SAMPSON. Songs of Love and Life. From the dust of creeds out-worn. SHELLEY. Prometheus, Act i. All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and tempera- ment. J. H. SHORTHOUSE. Johnlnglesant. It was his [Tom Bowling's] opinion that no honest man would swerve from the principles in which he was bred, whether Turkish, Protestant, or Roman. SMOLLETT. Roderick Random, ch. 42. Give each his creed, let each proclaim His catalogue of curses ; I trust in Thee and not in them, In Thee and in Thy mercies. W. M. THACKERAY. Jolly Jack. Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system. MRS. HUMPHRY WARD. Robert Elsmere, Bk. 4, ch. 28, CRICKET CRITICISM When whelmed are altar, priest, and creed, When all the faiths have passed, Perhaps, from darkening incense freed, God may emerge at last. SIR W. WATSON. Revelation. From the death of the old the new proceeds, And the life of truth from the rot of creeds. J. G. WHITTIER. Preacher. CRICKET Casting a ball at three straight sticks and defending the same with a fourth. R. KIPLING. Kitchener's School. CRIME Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme. Can bla/on evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. i, 3. My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. COWPER. Time Piece. His virtues lie so mingled with his crimes As would confound their choice to punish one And not reward the other. DRYDEN. All for Love, Act 3, i. More men are hanged in England in one year than in France in seven, because the English have better hearts ; the Scotchmen likewise never dare rob, but only commit larcenies. SIR J FORTESCUE (Lord Chief Justice, 1442), De laudibus Legum Anglite. It is worse than a crime ; it is a blunder. Atlrib. to FOUCHE. There are crimes which become inno- cent, and even glorious, by their fame, their number, and their excess. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 550. It was the destiny of Medea to be crimi- nal, but her heart was formed to love virtue. QUINAULT. Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 2. Flat burglary as ever was committed. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 4, 2. Had I a hundred mouths, a hundred tongues, And throats of brass inspired with iron lungs, I could not half those horrid crimes repeat Nor half the punishments those crimes have met. VIRGIL. Mneid, Bk. 6 (Dryden tr.}. Divided by interests, united in crime. VOLTAIRE. Arttmire (also in M trope). CRIMINALITY He hath no drowning mark upon him ; his complexion is perfect gallows. SHAKESPEARE. Tempest, Act i. i. CRISIS This hour's the very crisis of your fate, Your good or ill, your infamy or fame, And the whole colour of your life depends On this important now. DRYDEN. Spanish Friar. Ye see our danger on the utmost edge Of hazard, which admits no long debate. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. i, 94. This push Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 5, 3. This is the night That either makes me, or fordoes me quite. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 5, i. The fack can't be no longer disgised that a Krysis is onto us. ARTEMUS WARD. The Crisis. CRITICISM You have no leisure to read books ? What then ? You have leisure to check your own insolence. MARCUS AURELIUS. Bk. 8, 8. Good critics who have stamped out poet's hope; Now may the good God pardon all good men ! E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 4 When the prophet beats the ass, The angel intercedes. E. B. BROWNING- 76., Bk. 8. The mair they talk I'm kenned the better, E'en let them clash ! BURNS. Welcome to his Illegitimite Child. While brave and noble writers vainly strive To such a height of glory to arrive ; But still with all they do unsatisfied, Ne'er please themselves, though all the world beside. BUTLER. On Rhyme (tr. from Boileau). 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an article. BYRON. Don Juan, c. n, st. 60. 99 CRITICISM CRITICISM There is only one writer who can really injure any author, and that writer is himself. SIR HALL CAINE. My Story. How blind is Pride ! What eagles we are still In matters that belong to other men ! What beetles in our own ! CHAPMAN. All Fools, Act 4, i. Criticism is easy and art is difficult. DESTOUCHES. You know who the critics are ? The men who have failed in literature and art. DISRAELI. Lothair, ch, 35. It is much easier to be critical than correct. DISRAELI. Speech, 1860. Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls must dive below. DRYDEN. Prologue. Blame is safer than praise. EMERSON. Compensation. One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame. GOETHE. Autob., Bk. 13. The absence of humility in critics is something wonderful. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. 2, ch. 2. 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. POPE. Essay on Criticism, i. Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. POPE. Ib., 6. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. POPE. Ib., 15. Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. POPE. Ib., 179. In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend ; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due. POPE. Ib., 253. Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can ; But vindicate the ways of God to man. POPE. Essay on Man. The eye of a critic is often, like a micro- scope, made so very fine and nice that it discovers the atoms, grains, and minutest particles, without ever comprehending the whole, comparing the parts, or seeing all at once the harmony. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the winds, To blow on whom I please. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 2, 7. A friendly eye would never see such faults. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ccesar, Act 4,3. Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets, awe a man from the career of his humour ? SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 2, 3. Do not put me to 't, For I am nothing if not critical. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 2, i. Embrace your reproaches : they are often glories in disguise. G. B. SHAW. Annajanska (1918), Pref. No one minds what Jeffrey says. It is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the equator. SYDNEY SMITH. Saying. Thou speakest always ill of me ; I speak always well of thee : But spite of all our noise and pother, The world believes nor one nor t'other. STEELE. Guardian, No. 16 (March 30, 1713) (Tr. of French epigram). Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrisy may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting. STERNE. Tristram Shandy. When things are as pretty as that, criticism is out of season. R. L. STEVENSON. Some portraits by Raeburn. Yet malice never was his aim ; He lashed the vice, but spared the name. No individual could resent, Where thousands equally were meant. SWIFT. On the death of Dr. Swift. The aim of criticism is to distinguish what is essential in the work of a writer. A. SYMONS. Intro, to Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. What we ask of him [the critic] is that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. A. SYMONS. Ib. I paints and paints, Hears no complaints, And sells before I'm dry, Till savage Ruskin Sticks his tusk in, And nobody will buy. TOM TAYLOR (?). Punch, c. 1850 (Said to be in allusion to Ruskin' s family crest a boar's head). 100 CRITICS CROWNS To tame criticism it is said that one must die. But this is fallacious. Its insatiable tooth gnaws our memory even in the tomb. VOLTAIRE. Les Trois Empereurs. But our invectives must despair success, For, next to praise, she values nothing less. YOUNG. Love of Fame. Faithful are the wounds of a friend. Proverbs xxvii, 6. CRITICS Critics, appalled I venture on the name, Those cut-throat bandits on the paths of fame. BURNS. yrcL Epistle to R. Graham. Teasing with blame, excruciating with praise. BYRON. Beppo, st. 74. A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure critics all are ready made. BYRON. English Bards, 63. Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false., before You trust in critics, who themselves are sore. BYRON. Ib., 78. Dull, superstitious readers they deceive, Who pin their easy faith on critic's sleeve, And knowing nothing, everything believe. CHURCHILL. Apology. No private grudge they need, no personal spite : The viva sectio is its own delight ! All enmity, all envy they disclaim, Disinterested thieves of our good name : Cool, sober, murderers of their neighbour's fame. COLERIDGE. Biog. Liter aria, c. 21. Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part ; Nature in him was almost lost in Art. COLLINS. To Sir T. Hanmer. Impartially speaking, the French are much better as critics than the English, as they are worse poets. DRYDEN. Dedication of JEneid. Every critic in the town Runs the minor poet down ; Every critic don't you know it ? Is himself a minor poet. R. F. MURRAY. Poems (1893). It is interesting to note how most art-lovers and critics are town-bred and town-minded. EDEN PHIT.LI>OTTS. A Shadow Passes. Get your enemies to read your works in order to mend them ; for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. Little wits triumph over the errors of great geniuses, just as owls rejoice in an eclipse of the sun. A. DE RIVAROL. Never is anything more unjust than an ignorant man, who thinks nothing done properly unless he himself has done it. TERENCE. Adelphi, i, 2. If four play whist And I look on, They make blunders And I make none. D. W. THOMPSON. Sales Attici. There is more profit in a dozen verses by Homer or Virgil than in all the criticisms which have been written on those two great men. VOLTAIRE. Letters on the English. The world takes a poet as it finds him, and seats him above or below the salt. The world is as obstinate as a million mules, and will not turn its head on one side or another for all the shouting of the critical population that ever was shouted. JOHN WILSON. Noctes. From such sad readers Heaven the muse protect ! Proud to find fault and raptured with defect. J. WOLCOT. Ep. to Sylvanus Urban. CROSS He that had no cross deserves no crown. QUARLES. Esther. And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The dear remembrance of his dying lord. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. x, 2. The cross if rightly borne shall be No burden, but support to thee. J. G. WHITTIER. The Cross (tr. of Thomas Kempis). CROWNS Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns. CARLYLE. Past and Present, Bk. 3, c. 8. O polished perturbation ! golden care ! SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. z, Act 4, 4. How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium, And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. 3, Act i, 2. CRUELTY CUNNING CRUELTY Of all beasts the man-beast is the worst ; To others and himself the cruellest foe. R. BAXTER. Hypocrisy. A horse misused upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs. I said, " You must have been most miser- able To be so cruel." E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 3. Whose most tender mercy is neglect. CRAB BE. Village, Bk. i. Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. GAY. Fables, Pt. i, No. i. Man kills to obtain his food, kills to clothe himself, kills to adorn himself, kills to defend himself, kills to attack, kills to instruct himself, kills to amuse himself, kills for the sake of killing. JOSEPH DE MAISTRE (1753-1821). Soirtes de Saint Pttersbourg. Cruel as death and hungry as the grave. THOMSON. Seasons, Winter, 393. CUCKOO blithe new comer ! I have heard, 1 hear thee and rejoice. O Cuckoo ! Shall I call thee bird. Or but a wandering voice ? WORDSWORTH. To the Cuckoo. The cuckoo's a bonny bird ; he sings as he flies ; He brings us good things, he tells us nae lies; He drinks the cold water to keep his voice clear, And he'll come again in the spring o* the year. Old Scottish rhyme CULTURE Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail. M. ARNOLD. Literature and Dogma, Pref. The more of kindly strength is in the soil, So much doth evil seed and lack of culture Mar it the more, and make it run to wild- ness. DANTE. " Purgatory " (Gary's tr), c. 30, 119. The great law of culture is : Let each become all that he was created capable of being. CARLYLE. Richter. Child of Nature, learn to unlearn. DISRAELI. Contarini Fleming, c. i. If there be one whose wisdom crowned The unerring paths of Truth has found, 'Tis his, with heart uplift to Heaven, To improve the gift its grace has given. PINDAR. Pythian Odes, 3, 182 (Moore tr.). The play, I remember, pleased not the million. 'Twas caviare to the general. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, 2. The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. SWIFT. Battle of the Books. A Society that sets up to be polite, and ignores Arts and Letters, I hold to be a Snobbish Society. THACKERAY. Book of Snobs. CUNNING The brave, impetuous heart yields every- where To the subtle, contriving head. M. ARNOLD. Empedocles. Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. BACON. Of Cunning. How like a hateful ape, Detected, grinning, 'midst his pilfered hoard, A cunning man appears, whose secret frauds Are opened to the day ! JOANNA BAILLIE. Basil, Act 5, 3. The weak in courage is strong in cunning. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs of Hell And still the less they understand, The more they admire his sleight of hand. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. 2. Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick (Though he gave his name to our old Nick). BUTLER. Ib., Pt. 3, c. i. A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook. CRABBE. Parish Register. Bless yo' soul, honey, Brer Rabbit mought er bin kinder fibble [feeble] in de legs, but he wa'n't no ways cripple und' de hat. J. C. HARRIS. Nights with Uncle Remus, ch. 35. Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The Heathen Chinee is peculiar. BRET HARTE. Plain Language. It is to have made great progress in cunning when you have made people think that you are only moderately cunning. LA BRUYKRE. De la Com, 85. 102 CURATES CUSTOM Cunning is only a poor kind of skill. L.\ ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 608. The foxes find themselves at the furrier's at last. French prov. Air day or late day, the fox's hide finds aye the flaying knife. Scottish prov. (Scott's "Rob Roy ). CURATES A curate there is something which ex- cites compassion in the very name of a Curate ! SYDNEY SMITH. Persecuting Bishops. The curate ; he was fatter than his cure. TENNYSON. Edwin Morris. CURIOSITY Much curiousness is a perpetual wooing, Nothing with labour, folly long a-doing. HERBERT. Church Porch. Curiosity is only vanity. Most often we only wish to know in order to talk about it. PASCAL. Pensies. Born in an age more curious than devout. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 9. Be not curious in unnecessary matters. Ecclesiasticus iii, 23. Lift me up and I'll tell you more. Lay me down as I was before. Scottish rhyme. The first line is inscribed on the upper part of a big stone ; the second on its underside. CURSES Those which have not sufficiently learned out of Solomon that " the cause- less curse shall not come." BACON. Adv. of Learning. Never was heard such a terrible curse ; But what gave rise to no little surprise, Nobody seemed one penny the worse ! R. H. BARHAM. Jackdaw of Rheims. The bad man's charity (cursing). BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Spanish Curate. There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails. BROWNING. Soliloquy. Curse and be cursed ! It is the fruit of cursing. JOHN FLETCHER. Valentinian. Curses, not loud but deep. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 5, 3. I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times. Numbers xxiv, 10. Curses are like processions ; they return whence they started. Italian prov. CUSTOM What custom hath endeared We part with sadly, though we prize it not. JOANNA BAILLIE. Basil, Act i. Custom reconciles us to everything. BURKE. Vindication of Natural Society. As custom arbitrates, whose shifting sway Our life and manners must alike obey. BYRON. Hints from Horace. Custom's idiot sway. COWPER. Retirement, 49. Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone To reverence what is ancient, and can plead A course of long observance for its use. COWPER. Winter Morning Walk. Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. S. DANIEL. Defence of Rhyme. Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. SIR W. D'AVENANT. Circe, Act 2. Custom then is the great guide of human life. HUME. Human Understanding. Custom ... is not only, as the proverb says, a second nature, but is continually mistaken for the first. J. S. MILL. Liberty, Introd. The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human ad- vancement. J. S. MILL. Ib., ch. 3. Custom is not a small thing. PLATO (cited by Montaigne, Essays, Bk. i, 23). Custom, the world's great idol, we adore. J. POMFRET. Reason, 99. Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. ROUSSEAU. Emile. But, to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than in th' observance. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 4. 103 CYCLES DANCING That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 4. All his successors, gone before him, have clone't ; and all his ancestors that come after him, may. SHAKESPEARE. Merry Wives, Acti, i. How use doth breed a habit in a man ! SHAKESPEARE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 5,4. CYCLES In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. TACITUS. Annals, Bk. 2. CYCLISTS I [Lady Brandon] think the most ridiculous sight in the world is a man on a bicycle, working away with his feet as hard as he possibly can, and believing that his horse is carrying him, instead of, as any one can see, he carrying his horse. G. B. SHAW. Unsocial Socialist, c. n. CYNICISM I do distrust the poet who discerns No character or glory in his times. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 5. And I must say I ne'er could see the very Great happiness of the " Nil admirari." BYRON. Don Juan, 5, 100. Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand : 'Twill soon be dark. EMERSON. To J. W. I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fas- cinating leer. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Princess Ida. I was born sneering, but I struggle hard to overcome this defect. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Mikado. Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. GEO. MEREDITH. Egoist, c. 7. Nothing's new and nothing's true and nothing matters. Attributed to SYDNEY (LADY) MORGAN, novelist.* The reason we controvert maxims which discover the human heart is that we are afraid of being discovered our- selves. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 603. * "Ah," said my languid gentleman at Ox- ford, " there's nothing new or true and no matter." EMERSON, Representative Men. Mon- taigne (1849). I love to cope him in these sullen fits, For then he's full of matter. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 2, i. Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself, and scorned his spirit, That could be moved to smile at anything. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ccesar, Act i, 2. What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, Marian, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one ? G. B. SHAW. Irrational Knot, c. 3. I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil ; unless, perhaps, the two were the same thing. R. L. STEVENSON. W. Whitman. Cecil Graham : What is a cynic ? Lord Darlington : A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. OSCAR WILDE. Lady Windermere's Fan. D DAISIES Myriads of daisies have shone 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 and love. WORDSWORTH. Poems during a Summer Tour, 1833, No. 37. Thou art indeed by many a claim The poet's darling. WORDSWORTH. To the Daisy. DALLIANCE To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair. MILTON. Lycidas, 68. The primrose path of dalliance. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 3. DANCING On with the dance ; let joy be unconfined ; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 3, st. 22. Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms Are now extended up from legs to arms. BYRON. The Waltz 104 DANGER DARKNESS How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance ! COLERIDGE. Table Talk. Dancing, the child of Music and of Love. SIR JOHN DAVIES. Orchestra. The poetry of the foot. DRYDEN. Rival Ladies. The greater the fool the better the dancer. THEODORE HOOK. Maxim. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe. MILTON. L' Allegro, 31. When you do dance, I wish you A wave i' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that. SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act 4, 3. DANGER There may be danger in the deed, But there is honour too. W. E. AYTOUN. Island of the Scots. If the danger seems slight, then it is not slight. BACON. Instauratio, Pt. i, Bk. 6, 43. Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night. WM. BLAKE. The Tiger. Dangers by being despised grow great. BURKE. Speech, 1792. Or whispering, with white lips " The foe! They come ! They come ! " BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 3, st. 25. For danger levels man and brute, And all are fellows in their need. BYRON. Mazeppa, 3. Danger, the spur of all great minds. CHAPMAN. Bussy d'Ambois. The absent danger greater still appears ; Less fears he who is near the thing he fears. S. DANIEL. Cleopatra, Act 4, i. This danger that all of us foresee so clearly will not happen. Nothing does that we foresee. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Slavery, c. 5. In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 276. But boundless risk must pay for boundless gain. W. MORRIS. Earthly Paradise, Wanderers, 1581. Should you find yourself strike upon the rock of danger, cast obstinacy overboard and call wisdom to the helm. FRANCIS OSBORNE. Advice to a Son (1656). Danger is never overcome without danger. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. Thy mirth refrain, Thy hand is on a lion's mane. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, 2, 12. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 4. Sir, though I am not splenetive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, i. Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 2, 3. By a divine instinct men's minds mistrust Ensuing danger. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act 2, 3. Danger deviseth shifts ; wit waits on fear. SHAKESPEARE. Venus and Adonis. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them, Volleyed and thundered. TENNYSON. Charge of Light Brigade. Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell. TENNYSON. Ib. Now when our land to ruin's brink is verging, In God's name, let us speak while there is time ! Now, when the padlocks for our lips are forging, Silence is crime. J. G. WHITTIER. Lines on the adoption of Pinckney's Resolutions. He that has a head of wax must not walk in the sun. Prov. (Geo. Herbert). DARING And dares t thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall ? SCOTT. Marmion, c. 6, st. 14. DARKNESS Yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 62. I0 5 DATES O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, * Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day ! MILTON. Samson Agonistes, 80. And all around was darkness like a wall. W. MORRIS. Jason, Bk. 7, 157. Darkness there, and nothing more. E. A. POE. Raven, st. 4. There's husbandry in heaven ; Their candles are all out. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 2, i. With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. SHELLEY. Islam, c. 5, 23. DATES " W'en you come to ax me 'bout de year en day er de mont'," said the old man [Uncle Remus] ..." den I'm done, kase the almanick w'at dey got in dem times won't pass muster deze days." J. C. HARRIS. Nights with Uncle Remus, c. 13. DAUGHTERS Marry thy daughters in time lest they marry themselves. WM. CECIL (LORD BURGHLEY). Precepts to his Son. It was a lording's daughter, the fairest one of three. Attrib. to SHAKESPEARE. Passionate Pilgrim, No. 14. I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 2, 4. Mother, a maiden is a tender thing, And best by her that bore her understood. TENNYSON. Marriage of Geraint, 509. DAYS The great, th' important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. ADDISON. Cato, Act i. The days are ever divine as to the first Aryans. . . . They come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away. EMERSON. Works and Days. "Irrecoverably" in all printed editions. " Irrevocably " may possibly have been the word actually dictated by MUton. 106 DEAD, THE Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday. EMERSON. Works and Days. There's a feast undated yet : Both our true lives hold it fast The first day we ever met, What a great day came and passed ! Unknown then, but known at last. ALICE MEYNELL. An Unmarked Festival. Every day is the pupil of the day before. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. The spirit walks of every day deceased, And smiles an angel, or a fury frowns. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, z. What then is man ? The smallest part of nothing. Day buries day, month month, and year the year. YOUNG. Revenge, Act 4, i. Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all ; Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday, no luck at all. " Days Lucky or Unlucky " (for Marriage), Brand's Antiquities. DEAD, THE And through thee I believe In the noble and great who are gone ; Pure souls honoured and blest. M. ARNOLD. Rugby Chapel. They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old ; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them. LAURENCE BINYON. For the Fallen, Sept., 1915. But never be a tear-drop shed For them, the pure enfranchised dead. MARY E. BROOKS. Weep not for the Dead. All that tread The globe, are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom. W. C. BRYANT. Thanatopsis, 48. The shroud is forgiveness' token, And death makes saints of all. W. CARLETON. Festival of Memory, 3, 15. Is he then dead ? What, dead at last ? quite, quite, for ever dead ! CONGREVE. Mourning Bride, Act 5, 3. DEAD, THE I should ill requite thee to constrain Thy unbound spirit into bonds again. COWPER. On Receipt of his Mother's Picture, 86. Hail and farewell ; the laurels with the dust Are levelled, but thou hast thy surer crown, Peace, and immortal calm, the victory won. Somewhere serene thy watchful power inspires ; Thou art a living purpose, being dead, A fruit of nobleness in lesser lives, A guardian and a guide ; Hail and fare- well ! J. G. FAIRFAX. On Sir Stanley Maude, 1917. For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest. E. FITZGERALD. Rubdiydt, st. 22. Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, Which to discover we must travel too. E. FITZGERALD. Ib., st. 64. Their tears, their little triumphs o'er, Their human passions now no more. GRAY. Ode for Music, 48. Yet saw he something in the lives Of those who ceased to live That rounded them with majesty, Which living failed to give. T. HARDY. Casterbridge Captains. Go, stranger ! track the deep, Free, free the white sail spread ! Wave may not foam nor wild wind sweep Where rest not England's dead. MRS. HEMANS. England's Dead. Gone before To that unknown and silent shore. LAMB. Hester. 1 think of the friends who are dead, who were dear long ago in the past, Beautiful friends who are dead, though I know that death cannot last ; Friends with the beautiful eyes that the dust has denied, Beautiful souls who were gentle when I was a child. JOHN MASEFIELD. Twilight. There is something something Something which gives me Loathing, terror, DEAD, THE To leave the dead So alone, so wretched. JOHN MASEFIELD. From the Spanish of Don Gustavo A. Becquer. They whose course on earth is o'er Think they on their brethren more ? J. M. NEALE. All Souls. When the dust of the workshop is still, The dust of the workman at rest, May some generous heart find a will To seek and to treasure his best. EDEN PHILLPOTTS. That law of Solon's is justly to be com- mended, which forbids man to speak ill of the dead. PLUTARCH. Solon. There is no music more for him, His lights are out, his feast is done : His bowl that sparkled at the brim Is drained, is broken, cannot hold. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. Peal of Bells. Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. RUSKIN. Political Economy of Art, Lecture 2. Imperial Caesar, dead, and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 5, i. He has outsoared the shadow of our night, Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not, and torture not again ; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain. SHELLEY. Adonais, st. 40. Not a kindlier life or sweeter Time, that lights and quenches men, Now may quench or light again. SWINBURNE. Epicede. For if, beyond the shadow and the sleep A place there be for souls without a stain, Where peace is perfect, and delight more deep Than seas or skies that change and shine again, There none of ah* unsullied souls that live May hold a surer station : none may lend More light to hope's or memory's lamp, nor give More joy than thine to those who called thee friend. SWINBURNE. In Memory of J. W Inchbold. 107 DEAD, ATTACKS ON THE DEATH Time takes them home that we loved, fair names and famous, To the soft long sleep, to the broad sweet bosom of death ; But the flower of their souls he shall not take away to shame us, Nor the lips lack song for ever that now lack breath. SWINBURNE. In Memory of Barry Cornwall, st. 6. But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! TENNYSON. Break, Break. We have lost him ; he is gone : We know him now : all narrow jealousies Are silent ; and we see him as he moved. TENNYSON. Idylls, Dedication. But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, c. 118. 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. On Wellington. Ne'er to these chambers, where the mighty rest, Since their foundation, came a nobler guest, Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss con- veyed A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade. T. TICKEI.L. On Addison. They are all gone into the world of light, And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth cheer. H. VAUGHAN. Departed Friends. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him But little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. WOLFE. Burial of Sir J. Moore. They whom death has hidden from our sight Are worthiest of the mind's regard. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 5. How fast has brother followed brother From sunshine to the sunless land ! WORDSWORTH. On the death of James Hogg. Dead men open the eyes of the living. Spanish prov. DEAD, ATTACKS ON THE Vile is the vengeance on the ashes cold; And envy base to barke at sleeping fame. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. 2, c. 8. DEAD, THE DISTINGUISHED All these were honoured in their genera- tions, and were the glory of their times. Ecclesiasticus xliv, 7. DEAD, TRIBUTES TO THE Be kind to my remains : and O defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! DRYDEN. To Congreve, 73. Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ; None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. F. HALLECK. On the death of J. R. Drake. Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. MILTON, Lycidas, i. DEADNESS And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! CAMPBELL. The Last Man. DEANS A canon ! That's a place too mean : No, doctor, you shall be a dean ; Two dozen canons round your stall, And you the tyrant of them all. SWIFT. Horace, Bk. i, Ep. 7. DEATH Stern law of every mortal lot ! Which man, proud man, finds hard to bear, And builds himself I know not what Of second life, I know not where. M. ARNOLD. Geist's Grave. And truly he who here Hath run his bright career, And served men nobly and acceptance found, And borne to light and right his witness high, What could he better wish than then to die, And wait the issue, sleeping underground ? M. ARNOLD. Westminster Abbey. I have often thought upon death and I find it the least of all evils. BACON. Essay on Death, Sec. i. Above all, believe fit, the sweetest canticle is " Nunc Dimittis," when a man hath attained worthy ends and ex- pectations. BACON. Ib. 1 08 DEATH DEATH It is as natural to die as to be born. BACON. Essay on Death, Sec. i. Death . . . openeth the gate to good fame and extinguisheth envy. BACON. Ib. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark. BACON. Ib. Endless parting With all we can call ours, with all our sweetness, With youth, strength, pleasure, people, time, nay reason ! For in the silent grave, no conversation, No joyful tread of friends, no voice of lovers, No careful father's counsels, nothing's heard, For nothing is, but all oblivion. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Thierry and Theodoret, Act 4, i. Why be heavy of heart, my brother ; Why be weary or weep ? For death ends all things, one with another, And death is a dreamless sleep. E. F. M. BENEKE. Cross beneath the Ring. The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. JOHN BRIGHT. Speech, Feb., 1855. We shall start up, at last awake From Life, that insane dream we take For waking now, because it seems. BROWNING. Easter Day Eve, c. 17. Strict and close are the ties that bind In death the children of human kind, Yea, stricter and closer than those of life. W. C. BRYANT. Two Graves, a. The finest sight beneath the sky Is to see how bravely a MAN can die. R. BUCHANAN. O'Murtagh. He hath got beyond the gunshot of his enemies. BUNYAN. Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. i. O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best. BURNS. Man was made to mourn. The silence of that dreamless sleep I envy now too much to weep. BYRON. And thou art Dead. Thus lived thus died she ; never more on her Shall sorrow light, or shame. BYRON. Don Juan, 4, 71. He died as erring man should die, Without display, without parade ; Meekly had he bowed and prayed, As not disdaining priestly aid, Nor desperate of all hope on high. BYRON. Parisina, st. 17. Oh, God ! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood. BYRON. Prisoner of Chilian. O Death ! if there be quiet in thy arms, And I must cease gently, O, gently come To me ! and let my soul learn no alarms, But strike me, ere a shriek can echo, dumb, Senseless, and breathless. CAMPBELL. Lines in Sickness. Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore ; Never tired pilgrim's limbs affected slumber more. CAMPION. Never Weather-beaten Sail. Time for him had merged itself into eternity ; he was, as we say, no more. CARLYLE. Characteristics. The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once. CARLYLE. Letter, 1831. There is a remedy for everything excepting death. CERVANTES (Prov.). Then is it best, as for a worthy fame, To dyen when a man is best of name. CHAUCER. Knight's Tale, v. 3057. I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. CICERO. De Senertute. We ought to assemble and lament at the house where one has been born, having regard to the varied woes of human life ; but when one has by death finished his weary labours, him should all his friends follow to the grave with honour and rejoic- ing. CICERO (tr. of Euripides). Tusc. Quasi., Bk. i, 48. O what a wonder seems the fear of death, Seeing how gladly we all sink to sleep ! COLERIDGE. Monody on the Death of Chatterton. The debt which cancels all others. C. C COLTON. Vol. 2, No. 49. Two hands upon the breast, And labour's done ; Two pale feet crossed in rest, The race is won. D. M. CRAIK. On the Russian prov. " Two hands upon the breast and labour is past." 109 DEATH DEATH And, when life's sweet fable ends, Soul and body part like friends : No quarrels, murmurs, no delay ; A kiss, a sigh, and so away. R. CRASHAW. Praise of Lessius. So gentle was her death, so blest, Under the covering cross, That even those who loved her best Could scarcely mourn their loss. SIR F. H. DOYLE. Lady Agnes, st. 62. Welcome, Death ' Thou best of thieves ! who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and unperceived by us Even steal us from ourselves ! DRYDEN. All for Love, Act 5, i. He was exhaled ; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. DRYDEN. Elegy. So soon was she exhaled, and vanished hence As a sweet odour of a vast expense, She vanished, we can scarcely say she died. DRYDEN. Eleonora. A little trust that when we die We reap our sowing, and so Good-bye. G. Du MAURIER. Trilby. Now the labourer's task is o'er ; Now the battle day is past ; Now upon the farther shore Stands the voyager at last. E. ELLERTON. Hymn. That silent organ loudest chants The master's requiem. EMERSON. Dirge. 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. Dispensary, 3, 225. Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower ; Each season has its own disease, Its peril every hour. BISHOP HEBER. At a Funeral. Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encom- pass the tomb. BISHOP HEBER. Ib. 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, O Death ! MRS. HEMANS. Hour of Death. Our light is flown, Our beautiful, that seemed too much our own, Ever to die. MRS. HEMANS. Two Voices. We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. HOOD. Death-Bed. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied, We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. HOOD. Ib. Past all dishonour, Death has left on her Only the beautiful. HOOD. Bridge of Sighs. 'Tis horrible to die And come down with our little all of dust, That Dun of all the duns to satisfy. HOOD. Bianca's Dream. No one can obtain from the pope a dispensation for never dying. THOS. KEMPIS. We hurry to the river we must cross, And swifter downward every footstep wends ; Happy who reach it ere they count the loss Of half their faculties and half their friends. W. S. LANDOR. Ode to Southey (1833). And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it for ever. LONGFELLOW. Evangeline, Pi. 2, c. 5. There is a reaper, whose name is Death. LONGFELLOW. The Reaper. There is no death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call Death. LONGFELLOW. Resignation. The gods conceal from those who are to live how happy a thing it is to die, so that they may continue to live. LUCANUS. Pharsalia, 4, 519. And Life is all the sweeter that he lived, And all he loved more sacred for his sake ; And Death is all the brighter that he died, And Heaven is all the happier that he's there. G. MASSEY. On Earl Brownlow, DEATH DEATH There are so many ways to let out life. MASSINGER. Duke of Milan, Act i, 3. Death hath a thousand doors to let out life; I shall find one. MASSINGER. Very Woman, Act 5, 4. Fortune and Hope farewell ! I've found the port : You've done with me ; go now with others sport. J. H. MERIVALE. Tr. of Greek. Conies the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. MILTON. Lycidas, I. 64. Death, who sets all free, Hath paid his ransom now, and full dis- charge. MILTON. Samson Agonistes, I. 1,572. Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed From all her caves, and back resounded Death. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 2, 788. Death Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be filled. MILTON. -Ib., Bk. 2, 845. And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delayed to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good and final hope. MILTON. Ib., Bk. n, 491. A deathlike sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 12, 434. When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripened thy just soul to dwell with God, Meekly thou didst resign this earthly load Of death, called life ; which us from death doth sever. MILTON. Sonnet. Boys, are ye calling a toast to-night ? (Hear what the sea-wind saith) Fill for a bumper strong and bright, And here's to Admiral Death ! He's sailed in a hundred builds o' boat, He's fought in a thousand kinds o' coat, He's the senior flag of all that float, And his name's Admiral Death ! SIR H. NEWBOLT. Admiral Death. Life's race well run, Life's work well done, Life's victory won, Now cometh rest. E. H. PARKER. Pres, Garfield. No one knows but that death is the greatest of all goods to man ; but men fear it, as if they well knew that it is the greatest of evils. PLATO. Apol. of Socrates, 17 (Gary tr.). " In reality then," he [Socrates] con- tinued, " those who pursue philosophy rightly, study to die ; and to them of all men death is least formidable." PLATO. Phccdo, 33 (Gary tr.). Death sets us free even from the greatest evils. PLUTARCH. Cows, to Apollonius. No man is certain whether death be not the greatest good that can befal a man. PLUTARCH. Ib. Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? POPE. Dying Christian. A heap of dust alone remains of thee ; "Tis all thou art and all the proud shall be. POPE. Elegy. The hour concealed, and so remote the fear, Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. POPE. Essay on Man, 3, 76. Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks. QUARLES. Divine Poems. O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! Whom none could advise, thou hast per- suaded ; what none hath dared thou hast done . . . Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man ; and covered it all over with these two narrow words : Hie jacet. SIR W. RALEGH. Hist, of World. He is now at rest ; And praise and blame fall on his ear alike. ROGERS. On Byron. Sleep that no pain shall wake, Night that no morn can break, Till joy shall overtake Her perfect peace. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. Dream Land. O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition, lowly laid ! SCOTT. Lay of the Last Minstrel, c. 2, 10. And come he slow or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last. SCOTT. Marmion, c. 2, 30. Death had he seen by sudden blow, By wasting plague, by tortures slow, By mine or breach, by steel or ball, Knew all his shapes and scorned them all. SCOTT. Rokeby. c. i, 8. Ill DEATH DEATH The pomp of death alarms us more than death itself. SENECA (according to Francis Bacon. The actual passage in Seneca is, " It is folly to die of the fear of death," Ep.6g). Thou hast finished joy and moan. SHAKESPEARE. Cymbeline, Act 4, 2. He had rather Groan so in perpetuity, than be cured By the sure physician, death. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 4. Thou know'st 'tis common, all that live must die, Passing through nature to eternity. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 2. To sleep ! perchance to dream ; ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, i. This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 2. He's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. 'A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child. SHAKESPEARE. Henry V., Act 2, 3. He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to Heaven, and slept in peace. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 4, 2. O mighty Caesar ! dost thou lie so low ? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure ? SHAKESPEARE. Julius Cczsar, Act 3, i. He is gone indeed. The wonder is he hath endured so long : He but usurped his life. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act 5, 3. Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it ; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act i, 4. The fatal bellman, which gives the stern'st good-night. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 2, 2. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, 2. Treason hath done his worst ; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. SHAKESPEARE, 76., Act 3, 2. Blow wind ! come wrack ! At least we'll die with harness on our back. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 5, 5. If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in mine arms. SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure, Act 3, i. 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. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. 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 In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ! SHAKESPEARE. Ib. Ay, past all surgery. SHAKESPEARE. -Othello, Act 2, 3. Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain, Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long. SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., Act 4, i. This [Death] is what I am hastening toward at the express speed of sixty minutes an hour. G. B. SHAW. Unsocial Socialist, ch. 5 (Sidney Trefusis). Death is the veil which those who live call life : They sleep, and it is lifted. SHELLEY. Prometheus, Act 3, 3. How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother Sleep ! SHELLEY. Queen Mab, c. i. He was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip for ever. . STERNE. Tristram Shandy, vol. i,ch. 12. Death is the port where all may refuge. find, The end of labour, entry into rest. EARL OF STIRLING. Darius. His time was come ; he ran his race We hope he's in a better place. SWIFT. On the death of Dr. Swift. DEATH DEATH, PREMATURE Peace, rest, and sleep are all we know of death, And all we dream of comfort. SWINBURNE. In Memory of J. W. Inchbold. At the doors of life, by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death. SWINBURNE. Triumph of Time. The Shadow, cloaked from head to foot, Who keeps the keys of all the creeds. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, c. 23. Half-dead to know that I shall die. TENNYSON. Ib., c. 35. And so through those dark gates across the wild That no man knows. TENNYSON. Princess, c. 7, 341. Let us have a quiet hour, Let us hob-and-nob with Death. TENNYSON Vision of Sin, Pt. 4, 3. May be our life is death, and death is life; One thing I know, Life wakes to grief and pain, And Death, the healer, lulls to sleep again. D. W. THOMPSON. Tr. of Euripides. A quiet passage to a welcome grave. I. WALTON. Complete Angler. Who die of having lived too much In their large hours. SIR W. WATSON. Tomb of Burns. Death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits. WEBSTER. Duchess of Malfy. And now he rests ; his greatness and his sweetness No more shall seem at strife ; And death has moulded into calm com- pleteness The statue of his life. J. G. WHITTIER. Joseph Siurge. A Power is passing from the earth To breathless Nature's dark abyss ; But when the great and good depart, What is it more than this That man, who is from God sent forth, Doth yet again to God return ? Such ebb and flow must ever be ; Then wherefore should we mourn ? WORDSWORTH. Lines at Grasmere (written when C. J. Fox was dying) (1806). Death is the crown of life. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 3. I I Death, of all pain the period, not of joy. YOUNG. Ib. Were death denied, e'en fools would wish to die. YOUNG. Ib., 4. Man makes a death which Nature never made ; Then on the point of his own fancy falls ; And feels a thousand deaths, in fearing one. YOUNG. Ib. Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. YOUNG. Ib., 5. Nothing is dead but that which wished to die ; Nothing is dead but wretchedness and pain. YOUNG. Ib., 6. And, round us, Death's inexorable hand Draws the dark curtain close ; undrawn no more. YOUNG. Ib., 7. Life is the desert, life the solitude ; Death joins us to the great majority. YOUNG. The Revenge, Act 4, i. Judge none blessed before his death. Ecclesiasticus xi, 28. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his ! Numbers xxiii, 10. Come, gentle death, the ebb of care, The ebb of care, the flood of life. Totters Miscellany (1557). DEATH, PREMATURE Brief, brave, and glorious was his young career. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 3, st. 57. Heaven gives its favourites early death. BYRON. Ib., c 4, st. 102. " Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore. BYRON. Don Juan, 4, 12. Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well To pass away ere life hath lost its bright ness ? LADY FLORA E. HASTINGS. Swan Song. How happier far than life, the end Of souls that infant-like beneath their burden bend. KEBLE. Holy Innocents. He whom the gods love dies young. MENANDER. Dis Exapaton. He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. PLAUTUS. Bacchides, Act 4, 7. A dirge for her, the doubly-dead, In that she died so young. E. A. POE. Lenore DEATH, SUDDEN DECADENCE His bright and brief career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains. SCOTT. Lord of the Isles, 4, n. Sweet rose, fair flower, untimely plucked, soon faded ; Plucked in the bud, and faded in the spring. Attnb. to SHAKESPEARE. Passionate Pilgrim, No. 8. As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act i, i. Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 4, 5. She died in beauty like a rose, blown from its parent stem. C. D. SILLERY. Song. The good die first . . . And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. i. Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morn- ing dew She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to Heaven. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 5. Therefore a heaven's gift she was, Because the best are soonest hence bereft. Tottel's Miscellany (i557). On the death of Lord Pembroke. DEATH, SUDDEN Oh, sunderings short of body and breath ! Oh, " battle and murder and sudden death ! " Against which the Liturgy preaches ; By the will of a just yet a merciful Power, Less bitter perchance, in the mystic hour, When the wings of the shadowy angel lower, Than man in his blindness teaches. A. L. GORDON. Wearie Wayfarer, 5. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. JOHNSON. Death of R. Levelt. Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled ; No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 5. DEATH, UNITED IN Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. 2 Samuel i, 23 DEATH-BED A death-bed's a detector of the heart. Here tired dissimulation drops her mask. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 2. DEBATERS Frank, haughty, rash the Rupert of debate. (ist) LORD LYTTON. New Timon, Pt. i (Lord Stanley was previously described by B. Disraeli as " the Rupert of debate "). DEBT He (Vaugeron) argues that the floating debt must be light because it floats. D. DAIGNE. Les Repus. A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking match. DICKENS. Little Dorrit, c. 23. Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime. DISRAELI. Henrietta Temple, Bk. 2, c. i. The second vice is lying ; the first is running into debt. B. FRANKLIN. Poor Richard. Debts and lies are generally mixed together. RABELAIS. Pantagruel, Bk. 3. I pay debts of honour not honourable debts. F. REYNOLDS. The Will, Act 3, 2. He that dies pays all debts SHAKESPEARE. Tempest, Act 2, 2. When once a people have tasted the luxury of not paying their debts, it is impossible to bring them back to the black broth of honesty. SYDNEY SMITH. Letter to Mrs. Grote, Aug. 31, 1843. He [Sir Pitt Crawley] had an almost invincible repugnance to paying anybody, and could only be brought by force to discharge his debts. THACKERAY. Vanity Fair, Bk. i, c. 9. DECADENCE Shrine of the mighty ! can it be That this is all remains of thee ? BYRON. The Giaour, I. 103. His heart was formed for softness warped to wrong ; Betrayed too early, and beguiled too long. BYRON. Corsair 3, 23. "4 DECAY DECEPTION I am ashes where once I was fire. BYRON. To Lady Blessington. Fears of the brave and follies of the wise ! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. JOHNSON. Vanity of Human Wishes. But O how fallen ! how changed From him, who, in the happy realms of light, Clothed in transcendent brightness, didst outshine Myriads, though bright ! MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 84. And bitter memory cursed with idle rage The greed that coveted gold above renown, The feeble hearts that feared their heritage, The hands that cast the sea-king's sceptre down, And left to alien brows their famed an- cestral crown. SIR H. J. NEWBOLT. VCE victis. Thus all below, whether by Nature's curse, Or Fate's decree, degenerate still to worse. VIRGIL. Georgics, Bk. i (Dryden tr.) . Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant waters. WORDSWORTH. London. Shame followed shame, and woe supplanted woe Is this the only change that time can show? WORDSWORTH. Ode. Perpetual emptiness ! unceasing change ! No single volume paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road : But equally a want of books and men. WORDSWORTH. Poems to National Independence, Pt. i ; 15. I find nothing great : Nothing is left which I can venerate ; So that a doubt almost within me springs Of Providence, such emptiness at length Seems at the heart of all things. WORDSWORTH. Ib., Pt. i, 22. The great events with which old story rings Seem vain and hollow. WORDSWORTH. Ib. DECAY I would not mind being dead, but I would not die out. EPICHARMUS (quoted by Cicero). There will be a day when even sacred Troy shall be no more. HOMER. Iliad. While man is growing, life is in decrease ; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but pur death begun. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 5. DECEIT Fraud that in every conscience leaves a sting. DANTE. Hell, c. n (Gary tr.). Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. HOMER. Iliad, Bk. 9, 412 (Pope tr.). 'Tis in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. LOCKE. Human Understanding, Bk. 3. I open an old book, and there I find, That " Women still may love whom they deceive." Such love I prize not. GEO. MEREDITH. Modern Love, st. 14. Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive ! SCOTT. Marmion, c. 6, st. 17. She has deceived her father, and may thee. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act i, 3. If a man deceive me once, shame on him ; if twice, shame on me. Prov. Since you wish to deceive me, deceive me better than you are doing it. French Opera, " Phtnix de la Potsie chantante." Speak unto us smooth things ; prophesy deceits Isaiah xxx, 10. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Jeremiah xvii, 9. DECENCY Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. GEO. LORD LYTTELTON. Prologue. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. EARL OF ROSCOMMON. On Translated Verse. DECEPTION If such as came for wool, sir, went home shorn, Where is the wrong I did them ? BROWNING. Mr. Sludge. Between craft and credulity the voice of reason is stifled. BURKE. Letter to Sheriffs of Bristol. DECISION DEFIANCE What a world of gammon and spinnage it is, though, ain't it ? DICKENS. David Copperfield, ch. 22. Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them. GAY. Beggar's Opera, Act 2, 2. Lest men suspect pur tale untrue, Keep probability in view. GAY. Fables, Pt. i, 14. DECISION When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice and prudence folly. JOHNSON. Irene. I tell thee, God is in that man's right hand, Whose heart knows when to strike, and when to stay. SWINBURNE. Bothwell. Let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay. St. James v, 12. DECORUM Nor will virtue herself look beautiful, unless she be bedecked with the outward ornaments of decency and decorum. FIELDING. Tom Jones, Bk. 3, c. 7. DEEDS We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. P. J. BAILEY. Festus. All dies, as we often say ; except the spirit of man, of what man does. CARLYLE. French Revolution, Pt. 2, Bk. i, ch. 5. The only things in life in which we can be said to have any property, are our actions. C. C. COLTON. Lacon, No. 52. Without doubt it is a delightful har- mony when doing and saying go together. MONTAIGNE. Essays, 2, 31. Think nothing done while aught remains to do. ROGERS. Human Life. Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves. Prov. (Ray). Deeds are males and words are females. Prov. (Ray). DEFEAT He smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. BRET HARTE. Stanislaus. I would rather suffer defeat than have cause to be ashamed of victory. QUINTUS CURTIUS. The conquering cause was pleasing to the gods, but the conquered to Cato. Luc A N us . Pharsalia . They'll wondering ask how hands so vile Could conquer hearts so brave. MOORE. Weep On. In the lost battle, . Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle, With groans of the dying. SCOTT. Marmion, 3, n Great is the facile conqueror ; Yet happy he, who, wounded sore, Breathless, unhorsed, all covered o'er With blood and sweat, Sinks foiled, but fighting evermore, Is greater yet. SIR W. WATSON. Laleham Churchyard, 14. DEFENCE Self-defence is nature's oldest law. DRYDEN. Absalom and Achitophel. Self-preservation is the first of laws. DRYDEN. The Spanish Friar, Act 4, 2 (1681). The first and fundamental law of Nature ... is " to seek peace, and follow it." The second, the sum of the right of Nature : which is, " by all means we can to defend ourselves." HOBBES. Leviathan, ch. 14. Self-preservation, nature's first great law, All the creation, except man, doth awe. MARVELL. Hodge's Vision. What boots it at one gate to make defence. And at another to let in the foe ? MILTON. Samson Agonistes, 5, 60. This animal is very vicious. When you attack it, it defends itself. French (Anon). DEFERENCE Deference to others obtains friends ; truth brings hatred. TERENCE. Andria. DEFIANCE With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe. CAMPBELL. Lochiel's Warning. Juletta. Why, slaves, 'tis in our power to hang ye. Master. Very likely : "Tis in our powers then to be hanged and scorn ye. FLETCHER. Sea Voyage, Act 4. 1 16 DEFINITIONS DELIBERATENESS Though changed in outward lustre, that fixed mind And high disdain from sense of injured merit. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 97. He manned himself with dauntless air, Returned the Chief his haughty stare. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, c. 5, st. 10. Come one, come all ! This rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I ! SCOTT. Ib. Hang out our banners on the outward walls ; The ciy is still, " They come." SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 5, 5. Lay on, Macduff ! And damned be he that first cries, " Hold, enough ! " SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 7. Nor fate I fear, but all the gods defy. Forbear thy threats ; my business is to die ; But first receive this parting legacy. VIRGIL. &neid, Bk. 10 (Dryden tr.). DEFINITIONS I have no great opinion of a definition, the celebrated remedy for the cure of this disorder [uncertainty and confusion]. BURKE. On the Sublime and Beautiful, Pt. x, Introduction. I hate definitions. DISRAELI. Vivian Grey, Bk. 2, ch. 6. Every definition is dangerous. Latin DEGENERACY A nati9n swollen with ignorance and pride, Who lick yet loathe the hand that waves the sword. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. i, st. 16. The age of our fathers, who were worse than our grandfathers, produced us still more vicious, and we are about to raise a still more iniquitous progeny. HORACE. Odes, Bk. 3, 6, 46. Degenerate Douglas ! Oh, the unworthy lord ! WORDSWORTH. Composed at Castle. DEGRADATION A man that could look no way but downwards, with a muck-rake in his hand. BUN VAN. Pilgrim's Progress. Let Gryll be Gryll and have his hoggish minde. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. 3, c. i. DEJECTION One discovers a consolation in unhappi- ness by a certain pleasure one finds in appearing unhappy. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 515. Alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure and that soul of whim ! POPE. Ep. 3. But as it sometimes chanceth, from the might Of joy in minds that can no further go, As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low. WORDSWORTH. Resolution and Independence. DELAY Justice deferred enhances the price at which you must purchase safety and peace. LORD BROUGHAM. Speech on Par' liamentary Reform, Oct. 7, 1831. All delays are dangerous in war. DRYDEN. Tyrannic Love, Act i, i. Delay of justice is injustice. W. S. LANDOR. Du Paly. Woman indeed was born of delay itself. PLAUTUS. Miles. With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay. POPE. Odyssey, Bk. i, 23. Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart, And often took leave, but was loth to depart. PRIOR. Thief and Cordelier. When fair occasion calls, 'tis fatal to delay. N. ROWE. Pharsalia, Bk. i, 513. Do you not come your tardy son to chide ? SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 4. And Mecca saddens at the long delay. THOMSON. Summer, 979. Delay is cowardice and doubt despair. W. WHITEHEAD. Atys and Adrastus. When my house burns, it is not good playing at chess. Prov. (Geo. Herbert). DELIBERATENESS The woman that deliberates is lost. ADDISON. Cato. Take time enough ; all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places. JOHN BYROM. Advice to Preach Slow. Take a little time count five-and- twenty, Tattycoram. DICKENS. Dorrit, c. 14 DELIVERANCE DEMOCRACY Wise emblem of our politic world, Sage snail, within thine own self curled, Instruct me softly to make haste, Whilst these my feet go slowly fast. R. LOVELACE. The Snail. The road to resolution lies by doubt ; The next way home's the farthest way about. QUARLES. Emblems. Truth thrives with examination and delay ; things which are false thrive on haste and uncertainty. TACITUS. Annals, 2. DELIVERANCE When the tale of bricks is doubled, then comes Moses. Medieval proverb (Latin). DELUSION The people wish to be deceived ; let them be deceived. Attrib. to CARDINAL CARAFA (d. 1591). A delusion that distance creates, and that contiguity destroys. C. C. COLTON. Lacon, Reflections, 190. A delusion, a mockery, and a snare. THOS. LORD DENMAN. O'Connell v. The Queen. I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us more happy. GOLDSMITH. Vicar of Wakefield, c. 3. We must have done with delusive hopes. If we sow a crop of lies we shall reap a harvest of tares. IBSEN. Love's Comedy, Act 3 (1862). Where is the philosopher who, for his own glory, will not willingly deceive the human race ? ROUSSEAU. Emile. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 4. He that is robbed not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 3, 3. Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment, hence ! H. AND J. SMITH. Rejected Addresses. This is the sublime and refined point of felicity, called the possession of being well deceived ; the serene peaceful state of being a fool among knaves. SWIFT. Tale of a Tub. DEMAGOGUES Flattery corrupts both the receiver and giver ; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. BURKE. Reflections on the Revolution. To the people they're oilers ez slick ez molasses, An' butter their bread on both sides with The Masses. J. R. LOWELL. Biglow Papers, No. 5. In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues. MACAULAY. Hist, of England. Faith, there have been many great men that have flattered the people, who ne'er loved them. SHAKESPEARE. Coriolanus, Act 2, 2. Spite of this modern fret for Liberty, Better the rule of One, whom all obey, Than to let clamorous demagogues betray Our freedom with the kiss of anarchy. OSCAR WILDE. Libertatis Sacra Fames. DEMOCRACY I think I hear a little bird, that sings The people by-and-by will be the stronger. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 8, st. 50. Popular governments have hitherto uniformly glided into democracies, and democracies as uniformly perish of their own excess. J. A. FROUDE. Short Studies, Party Politics. Corruption, the most infallible sign of constitutional liberty. GIBBON. Decline and Fall, ch. 21. Of course everything has its wrong side ; and from this number of people let in comes declamation and clap-trap and mob- service, which is much the same thing as courtiership was in other times. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. i, ch. 6. The common crowd is wiser because it is just as wise as it need be. LACTANTIUS. Div. InsUlut. Government of the people, by the people, for the people. A. LINCOLN. Speech, 1863. Democracy gives every man The right to be his own oppressor. J. R. LOWELL. Biglow Papers, Series z, 7. The many-headed monster, multitude. MASSINGER. Emperor of East, Act a, i. 118 DEMONS DEPRAVITY The only remedy against democrats is soldiers. W. VON MERCKELS. Poem (1848). Let the People think they govern and they will be governed. PENN. Some Fruits of Solitude. That worst of tyrants, an usurping crowd. POPE. Iliad, Bk. 2, 242. The populace is a sovereign which only asks something to eat ; His Majesty is tranquil while digesting. DE RIVAROL. Traits et Bons Mots. Supremacy of the people tends to liberty. TACITUS. Annals, Bk. 6. Democracy means simply the bludgeon- ing of the people, by the people, for the people. OSCAR WILDE. Soul of Man under Socialism. The voice of the people is the voice of a God. Quoted by Alcuin, c. A.D. 800, as a saying. DEMONS Cob was the strongest, Mob was the wrongest ; Chittabob's tail was the finest and longest. R. H. BARHAM. Truants. DEMONSTRATION Almost everyone knows this, but it has not occurred to everyone's mind. . ERASMUS. Epicureus. DENSENESS Fortunately we have strong heads, we Highcastles. Nothing has ever penetrated to our brains. G. B. SHAW. Augustus does his Bit (1917). DEPARTURE Good-bye, proud world ! I'm going home ; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine. EMERSON. Good-bye, Proud World. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? GRAY. Elegy. Why dost thou not then, like a thankful guest, Rise cheerfully from Life's abundant feast, And with a quiet mind go take thy rest ? LUCRETIUS. De Rerum Natura, 3> 953 (Creech tr.). But, O the heavy change, now [thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return ! MILTON. Lycidas, 37. Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ! thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of Gods ! MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. n, 269; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way. MILTON. lb., Bk. 12, 647 In vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over : Alas ! what winds can happy prove That bear me far from what I love ? PRIOR. Song. Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 3, 4. The hopeless word of never to return. SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., Act i, 3. I hear a voice you cannot hear Which says I must not stay ; I see a hand you cannot see Which beckons me away. T. TICKELL. Lucy and Colin. A power is passing from the earth. WORDSWORTH. Lines on the expected Dissolution of Mr. Fox. DEPORTMENT No dancing bear was so genteel Or half so digagt. COWPER. Of Himself. DEPRAVITY He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue and a thousand crimes. BYRON. Corsair, c. 3, st. 24. Thy mind, reverting still to things of earth, Strikes darkness from true light. H. F. GARY. Dante's " Purgatory," c. 15, 62. A Being, erect upon two legs, and bearing all the outward semblance of a man, and not of a monster. DICKENS. Pickwick, c. 34. No one ever became thoroughly bad all at once. JUVENAL. Sat. 8. My imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 2. Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act i, I. 119 DEPRESSION DESPAIR DEPRESSION You never yet saw Such an awfully marked elongation of jaw. R. H. BARHAM. Merchant of Venice. I would that I were low laid in my grave ; I am not worth this coil that's made for me. SHAKESPEARE. King John, Act 2, i. DEPTH A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 2, 592. DEPUTATIONS A deputation is a noun of magnitude which signifies many but not much. W. E. GLADSTONE. (Attrib. See " Committees.") DESCRIPTION I won't describe ; description is my forte, But every fool describes in these bright days. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 5, st. 52. I feel, but want the power to paint. JUVENAL. Sat 7, 56 (Gifford tr.). DESERT The less they deserve, the more merit in your bounty. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, 2. Use every man after his desert, and who should "scape whipping ? SHAKESPEARE. Ib, For others say thou dost deserve, and I Believe it better than reportingly. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 3, i. DESERTION Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty fed. DRYDEN. Alexander's Feast, st. 4. He felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates. MACAULAY. History of England, ch. i. That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain, And follows but for form, Will pack when it begins to rain, And leave thee in the storm. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act 2, 4. The very rats Instinctively had quit it. SHAKESPEARE. Tempest, Act i, 2. DESIRE Sighed and looked, and sighed again. DRYDEN. Alexander's Feast, st. 5. The sea hath bounds, but deep desire hath none. SHAKESPEARE. Venus and Adonis, st. 65. The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight. SWINBURNE. Dolores. Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about. C. TOURNEUR. Revenger's Tragedy, Act 5. DESPAIR Howeyer sad man's lot, Despair should enter not Into the heart of man. God, by one single stroke, Can heal the heart He broke, So carrying out His plan. G. BARLOW. Pageant of Life, Bk. 5. Let me not know that all is lost, Though lost it be leave me not tied To this despair, this corpse-like bride. BROWNING. Easter Day, c. 31. Our last and best defence, despair. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. 3, c. 2. Despair, by which the gallantest feats, Have been achieved in greatest straits. BUTLER. Ib. Hope withering fled and Mercy sighed farewell. BYRON. Corsair, c. i, st. 9 All hope abandon ye who enter here. H. F. GARY. Tr. Dante Certes above all sinnes then is this sinne [" Wanhope " or Despair] most displesant to Crist and most adversarie. CHAUCER. Parson's Tale, sec. 56 What do the damned endure, but to despair ? CONGREVE. Mourning Bride, Act 3, i. Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was. SIR J. DENHAM. On Virgil's JEneis. Night was our friend, our leader was Despair. DRYDEN. Mneid, Bk. 2, 487. Despair in vain sits brooding over the putrid eggs of hope. J. H. FRERE. Rovers, Act i. Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled Anywhero, anywhere Out of the world ! HOOD. Bridge of Sighs. 120 DESPAIR DESPERATION There is no vulture like despair. LORD LANSDOWNE. Peleus. Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 126. What re-inforcement we may gain from hope ; If not, what resolution from despair. MILTON. Ib., Bk. i, 190. The strongest and the fiercest Spirit That fought in Heaven, now fiercer by despair. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 2, 44. Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is Hell ; myself am Hell ; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I 'suffer seems a Heaven. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 4, 73. So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse ; all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good ! MILTON. Ib., Bk. 4, 108. The thunders roar, the lightnings glare ; Vain is it now to strive or dare ; A cry goes up of great despair, Miserere, Domine ! ADELAIDE A. PROCTER. The Storm. Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want can quench the eye's bright grace ; Nor does old age a wrinkle trace More deeply than despair. SCOTT. Marmion, c. i, st. 28. O now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 3, 3. Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone. SHELLEY. Revolt of Islam, Dedication. " And must I die ? " she said, " And unrevenged ? 'Tis doubly to be dead ! Yet even this death with pleasure I receive : On any terms 'tis better than to live. VIRGIL. Mneid, Bk. 4 (Dryden tr.). Nor flight was left, nor hopes to force his way. Emboldened by despair, he stood at bay. VIRGIL. Ib., Bk. 9 (Dryden tr.). Despair has often gained battles. VOLTAIRE. Henriade. DESPATCH There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch. ADDISON. The Drummer, Act 5, i. There is no secrecy comparable to celerity. BACON. Of Delays. Despatch is the soul of business and nothing contributes more to despatch than method. LORD CHESTERFIELD. Advice to his Son. " Dash and through with it ! " That's the better watchword. COLERIDGE. Piccolomini, Act i, 2. Tout de suite and the touter the sweeter. STEPHEN GRAHAM. A Private in the Guards (1919) (an example of soldiers 1 slang). If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act i, 7. Cecil's despatch of business was extra- ordinary, his maxim being, " The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time." S. SMILES. Self-Help. Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing. Prov. (quoted in Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy," 1621). " Now " is the watchword of the wise. Saying (Spurgeon's "Salt-Cellars"). DESPERATION Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. COWPER. The Needless Alarm. Though rashness can hope for but one result, We are heedless when fate draws nigh us, And the maxim holds good, " Quern perdere vult Deus, dementat prius." A. L. GORDON. Wearie Wayfarer, 2. I am driven Into a desperate strait, and cannot steer A middle course. MASSINGER. Great Duke of Florence, Act 3, i. And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. SHAKESPEARE. King John, Act 3, 4. I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed, that I am reckless what I do to spite the world. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 3, i. 121 DESPONDENCY DESTINY Slave ! I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act 5,4. Tempt not a desperate man. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, 3. The determined foe Fought for revenge, not hoping victory. SOUTHEY. Joan of Arc, Bk. z. DESPONDENCY chide not my heart for its sighing ; I cannot be always gay : There's a blight in the rosebud lying, A cloud in the sunniest day. MRS. AYLMER. Song. It is the Slough of Despond still, and so will be when they have done what they can. BUN VAN. Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. i. No night is so utterly cheerless That we may not look for the dawn. PHOZBE CAREY. Light in Darkness. " I feel it more than other people," said Mrs. Gummidge. DICKENS. Copper field, c. 3. The day is cold and dark and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary. LONGFELLOW. Rainy Day. 1 have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act 5, 3. 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 ! WORDSWORTH. The World is too much with us. DESPOTISM Step by step and word by word : who is ruled may read, Suffer not the old Kings for we know the breed. KIPLING. The Old Issue. DESTINY Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray. AESCHYLUS. Choephorce, 462 (Plumptretr.). A man can have but one life, and one death, One heaven, one hell. BROWNING. In a Balcony. How little do we know that which we are ! How less what we may be ! The eternal surge Of time and tide rolls on and bears afar Our bubbles. BYRON. Don Juan, 15, 99. " If thou," he answered, " follow but thy star, Thou canst not miss at last a glorious haven." H. F. GARY. Dante's "Hell," c. 15, 55. Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she, That shall command my heart and me ; Where'er she lie, Locked up from mortal eye, In shady leaves of destiny. R. CRASHAW. To his Supposed Mistress. O Sairey, Sairey, little do we know what lays before us [Mrs. Harris]. DICKENS. M . Chuzzlewit, c. 40. The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. E. FITZGERALD. Rubdiydt, st. 71. Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race. GRAY. The Bard, c. i. What different lots our stars accord ! This babe to be hailed and wooed as a Lord! And that to be shunned like a leper ! One, to the world's wine, honey, and corn, Another, like Colchester native, born To its vinegar only, and pepper. HOOD. Miss Kilmansegg. Oh no ! 'tis only Destiny or Fate Fashions our wills to either love or hate. R. LOVELACE. On a Lost Heart. Be not amazed at life ; 'tis still The mode of God with His elect, Their hopes exactly to fulfil In times and ways they least expect. C. PATMORE. 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, Ep. i, 87. What shall be the maiden's fate ? Who shall be the maiden's mate ? SCOTT. Lay of the Last Minstrel, i, 16. If we could push ajar the gates of life, And stand within, and all God's work- ings see, We could interpret all this doubt and strife, And for each mystery could find a key. But not to-day. Then be content, poor heart ! God's plans, like lilies pure and white, unfold ; 122 DESTITUTION DEVIL We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. MAY RILEY SMITH. Sometime. Come wealth or want, or good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. THACKERAY. End of the Play. Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident ; It is the very place God meant for thee. ARCHBISHOP TRENCH. Sonnet. The gods sell things at a fair price. Prov. (from the Greek). DESTITUTION My lodging is on the cold ground, And very hard is my fare. SIR W. D'AvENANT. Rivals. Alas, for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun ! Oh, it was pitiful ! Near a whole city full, Home had she none. HOOD. Bridge of Sighs. And hopeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. WORDSWORTH. Guilt and Sorrow. DESTRUCTION A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ; An hour may lay it in the dust. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 2, st. 84. One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild will a whole age employ. CONGREVE. Double Dealer, Act i. As dreadful as the Manichean god,* Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. COWPER. Winter Morning Walk, 499. Havoc, and spoil, and ruin are my gain. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 2, 1,009. The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking. Nursery proverb. DETACHMENT I stood Among them, but not of them. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 3, st. 113. * The god of Evil. He heard it, but he heeded not his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 4, st. 140. We Are that which we would contemplate from far. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 5. DETERMINATION To-morrow let us do or die ! CAMPBELL. Gertrude, Pt. 3, st. 37. His way once chose, he forward thrust outright, Nor stepped aside for dangers or delight. COWLEY. Davideis, Bk. 4, 361. If you'd pooh-pooh this monarch's plan, Pooh-pooh it ; But when he says he'll hang a man, He'll do it. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Princess Ida. Think not Our counsel's based upon so weak a base, As to be overturned, or shaken with Tempestuous winds of words. MASSINGER. Maid of Honour, Act I. 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 ; And what is else not to be overcome ? MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 105. DETRACTION Black detraction Will find faults where they are not. MASSINGER. Guardian, Act i. Let there be gall enough in thy ink ; though thou write with a goose pen, no matter. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 2, 3. DEVASTATION Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease ; He makes a solitude, and calls it peace ! BYRON. Bride of Abydos, c. i, st. 20. The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold. BYRON. Destruction of Sennacherib. They make a desert and call it peace. TACITUS. Agricola. DEVIL And backward and forward he switched his long tail, As a gentleman switches his cane. COLERIDGE. Devil's Thoughts, st. i 123 DEVONSHIRE DIFFIDENCE His jacket was red and his breeches were blue, And there was a hole where the tail came through. COLERIDGE. Devil's Thoughts, st. 3. The prince of darkness is a gentleman. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act 3, 4- Gie the deil his due, and ye'll gang to him. Scottish prov. The deil's nae waur than he's ca'd. Scottish prov. DEVONSHIRE For me, there's nought I would not leave For the good Devon land. SIR H. J. NEWBOLT. Laudabunt alii. DEVOTION 'Tis sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world besides. BURNS. Jessy. Madam, I do, as is my duty, Honour the shadow of your shoe-tie. BUTLER. Hudibras, PL 3, c. i. Devotion, mother of obedience. S. DANIEL. Civil War, Bk. 6, st. 33. She kissed his brow, he kissed her feet He kissed the ground her feet did kiss. J. DAVIDSON. New Ballad ofTannhduser. I do honour the very flea of his dog. BEN JONSON. Every Man in his Humour, Act 4. No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ! As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose. MOORE. Believe me, if all. Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. i, 83. And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay. And follow thee, my lord, throughout the world. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo andjulict, Act 2, 2. I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough, None has ever yet adored or worshipped half enough, None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future is. WALT WHITMAN. DIALECT Dialect-words those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. THOS. HARDY. Mayor of Casterbridge. DIARIES If you make too much of diaries you blur every beautiful sight by thinking what you should write about it. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. 2, c. 3. DIET If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale ; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till it's wasted or stale. H. S. LEIGH. Wishing. Whatsoever was the father of the disease, an ill-diet was the mother. Prov. (Geo. Herbert). DIFFERENCE Some say that Signer Bononchini, Compared to Handel's a mere ninny ; Others aver, to him that Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. Strange that such high disputes should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The Contest (London Journal, June, 1725). DIFFICULTY There's difficulty, there's danger, there's the dear spirit of contradiction in it. I. BICKERSTAFFE. Hypocrite. Difficulty is a severe instructor. BURKE. Reflections on French Revolution Quoth he, In all my past adventures I ne'er was set so on the tenters. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. 2, c. 3. So he with difficulty and labour hard Moved on, with difficulty and labour he. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 2, 1,021. Sith never ought was excellent assayde, Which was not hard t'atchieve and bring to end. SPENSER. Amoretti, 51 For a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence. Isaiah viii, 14. DIFFIDENCE Ever with the best desert goes diffi- dence. BROWNING. Blot in the 'Scutcheon. Now Giant Despair had a wife and her name was Diffidence. BUNYAN. Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. i. 124 DIGESTION DINNER Whatever I try, sir, I fail in and why, sir ? I'm modesty personified. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Ruddigore. Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes over-running with laughter, Said, in a tremulous voice, " Why don't you speak for yourself, John ? " LONGFELLOW. Miles Standish, Pt. 3 (ad fin.). He either fears his fate too much Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all. MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. My dear and only Love. His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please. SCOTT. Lay of the Last Minstrel, Intro The cat is fain the fish to eat, But hath no will to wet her feet. Old Saying. More I could tell, but more I dare not say ; The text is old, the orator too green. SHAKESPEARE. Venus and Adonis, st. 135. DIGESTION I am in the great catalogue of the satis- fied, under the section of the people who can digest. E. GOUDINET. The Club. DIGNITY A life both dull and dignified. SCOTT. Marmion, c. 6, st. i. Who, taking counsel of unbending truth, By one example hath set forth to all How they with dignity may stand ; or fall, If fall they must. WORDSWORTH. King of Sweden. DIGRESSIONS Full thoughts cause long parentheses. Letter from Buckingham to James I. (c. 1622) (apparently a proverbial saying). I am of Beroaldus's opinion, " Such digressions do mightily delight and refresh a weary reader." BURTON. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. i, sec. 2, mem. 3, i. I think there is a fatality in it : I seldom go to the place I set out for. STERNE. Sent. Journey, The address, Versailles. Digressions, incontestably, are the sun- shine, they are'.the life, the soul of reading. STERNE. Tristram Shandy, vol. i, ch. 22. One of the principal features of my Entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it. ARTEMUS WARD DILETTANTI Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. M. AKENSIDE. Virtuoso. We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money. (Mr. Skimpole.) DICKENS. Bleak House, c. 43. Did nothing in particular, And did it very well. SIR W. S. GILBERT. lolanthe. DILIGENCE That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in ; and the best of me is diligence. SHAKESPEARE. King Lear, Act i, 4. Seest thou a man diligent in his busi- ness ? he shall stand before kings. Proverbs, xxii, 29. DINNER That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul the dinner-bell. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 5, 49. Let's warm our brains with half-a-dozen healths, And then hang cold discourse, for we'll speak fireworks. FLETCHER AND MASSINGER. Elder Brother, Act i. If an earthquake were to engulf England to-morrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event. D. JERROLD. A man seldom thinks with more earnest- ness of anything than he does of his dinner. JOHNSON. Remark as recorded by Mrs. Piozzi. Even the great Napoleon could not dine twice. ALPHONSE KARR. Chemin le plus court. Thou wouldst do well To wait at my trencher, and tell me lies at dinner-time ; And as I like your discoursing, I'll have you. MARLOWE. Edward II., Act i. A dinner lubricates business. LORD STOWELL. Saying. Where I dines I sleeps. R. S. SURTEES. Handley Cross 125 DIRECTION DISAPPOINTMENT We were to do more business after dinner ; but after dinner is after dinner an old saying and a true, Much drinking, little thinking. SWIFT. Letter, 1712. Across the walnuts and the wine. TENNYSON. Miller's Daughter, st. 4- Dinner was made for eatin', not for talkin'. THACKERAY. Fashionable Fax. Sir, respect your dinner ! Idolise it ; enjoy it properly. You will be by many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life, the happier if you do. THACKERAY. Memorials of Gormandising. After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. OSCAR WILDE. Woman of No Importance. It's a mighty deaf nigger that doesn't hear the dinner-horn. Negro prov. DIRECTION Not there, not there, my child. HEMANS. The Better Land. Who point, like finger-posts, the way They never go. MOORE. Song. DIRECTNESS Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i,Act 2, 4. In russet yeas and honest kersey noes. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, Act 5, 2. DIRT The sailors have an uncouth proverb that every man must eat a peck of dirt in his life. SIR W. SCOTT. Letter, Oct. 31, 1830. DISAFFECTION The right hon. gentleman . . . has retired into what may be called his political cave of Adullam, and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that wa discontented. JOHN BRIGHT. Speech, 1866. To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extrava- gant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of man- kind. BURKE. Thoughts on Present Discontents. Man has been set against man, Washed against Unwashed. CARLYLE. French Revolution. In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. GIBBON. Decline and Fall, ch. 48. Thou art the Mars of malcontents. SHAKESPEARE. Merry Wives, Act i, 3. Fortune can give no greater advantage than disaffection amongst the enemy. TACITUS. Germania, 33. The glance That only seems half-loyal to command, A manner somewhat fallen from reverence. TENNYSON. Last Tournament. She that gangs to the well wi' an ill will, Either the pig [jug] breaks or the water will spill. Scottish prov. DISAGREEMENT Thy heaven-doors are my hell-gates. WM. "BLAKE. The Everlasting Gospel. In every age and clime, we see Two of a trade can ne'er agree. GAY. Fables. Who shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists, like you and me ? POPE. Moral Essays, Ep. 3. DISAPPEARANCE Though like a demon of the night He passed, and vanished from my sight. BYRON. Giaour, I. 202. Slowly she faded. Day by day Her step grew weaker in our hall, And fainter, at each even-fall, Her sad voice died away. J. G. WHITTIER. Mogg Megone. DISAPPOINTMENT The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes or it prospers ; and anon, Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two is gone. E. FITZGERALD. Omar, st. 16. As for disappointing them, I should not so much mind ; but I can't abide to disappoint myself. GOLDSMITH. She Stoops to Conquer, Act i. Oh ! '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. MOORE. Lalla Rookh. Against experience willing to believe, Desirous to rejoice, condemned to grieve. PRIOR. Solomon, Bk. 3, 223. 126 DISASTER DISCONTENT The hour when you too learn that all is vain, And that Hope sows what Love shall never reap. D. G. ROSSETTI. Sonnet. And some sad thoughts lie heavy in the breast Such as by hope deceived are left behind ; But like a shadow these will pass away From the pure sunshine of the peaceful mind. SOUTHEY. Oliver Newman, 4. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : " It might have been." WHITTIER. Maud Muller. I never had a piece of toast, Particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side. Anon, parody. DISASTER He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn. COLERIDGE. Ancient Mariner. Me, howling blasts drive devious, tempest- tossed, Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost. COWPER. His Mother's Picture. Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works gave signs of woe. MILTON. Paradise Lost, g, 782. The medicine for disaster is equanimity. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. To be abused in disaster is worse than the disaster. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. Night was our friend ; our leader was despair. VIRGIL. JEneid, Bk. 2 (Dryden). DISCIPLINE But discipline, that rock that bears the world, Breaking disorder back like unknit waves. J. DAVIDSON. Bruce, Act 4, 2. It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. [Mr. Bagnet.] DICKENS. Bleak House, c. 27. We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may ; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey. G, MACDONALD. Willie's Question, Pt. 4. In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act i, i. Their's not to make reply Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die. TENNYSON. Charge of the Light Brigade. DISCLAIMER There was no such stuff in my thoughts. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, 2. DISCONTENT Complaint of present days Is not the certain path to future praise. BYRON. Don Juan, c. i, Dedic., 8. O we are querulous creatures ! Little less Than all things can suffice to make us happy : And little more than nothing is enough To make us wretched. COLERIDGE. Zapolya, Pt. 2, Act i, i. Thus always teasing others, always teased, His only pleasure is to be displeased. COWPER. Conversation, I. 345. "I'm a lone lorn creetur " were Mrs. Gummidge's words, " and everythink goes contrairy with me." DICKENS. David Copperfield, ch. 3. Some folks rail against other folks be- cause other folks have what some folks would be glad of. FIELDING. Joseph Andrews, Bk. 4,ch.6. When thou hast thanked thy God for every blessing sent, What time will then remain for murmurs or lament ? W. FRENCH. Oh, don't the days seem lank and long, When all goes right, and nothing goes wrong ? And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at ? SIR W. S. GILBERT. Princess Ida. Men are suspicious ; prone to discontent : Subjects still loathe the present Govern- ment. HERRICK. Present Government Grievous. Borrow trouble for yourself if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. KIPLING. Rewards and Fairies. A man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than a man who pleases no one. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 640. Like a melancholy malcontent. SHAKESPEARE. Venus and Adonis, st. 53. 127 DISCORD DISCOURSE Regent of love rhymes, lord of folded arms, Th' anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, Act 3, i. I feel at my heart that it is not right " Nothing is right and nothing is just ; We sow in ashes and reap the dust." MRS. M. M. SINGLETON (VIOLET FANE). Time. When nothing is enjoyed, can there be greater waste ? THOMSON. Castle of Indolence, c. i, st. 49. The splendid discontent of God With Chaos, made the world. ELLA W. WILCOX. Discontent. Discontent is the first step in the pro- gress of a man or a nation. OSCAR WILDE. Woman of No Importance. And he that knoweth what is what Saith he is wretched that weens him so. SIR T. WYATT. Despair Counselleth. Pills are to be swallowed, not chewed. French prov. DISCORD What dire effects from civil discord flow ! ADDISON. Cato, Act 5, 4. Now cometh the sinne of them that sowen and maken discord amonges folk, which is a sinne that Crist hateth outrely [utterly], and no wonder is. For he deyde [died] to make concord. CHAUCER. Parson's Tale, sec. 45. Therfore a philosophre seyde, when men axed him how that men should plese the peple. And he answerde, " Do many good workes and speak few Tangles [idle talk]." CHAUCER. Ib., sec. 47. If that worm Discord gnaw the root Of England's old and stately tree, Graces and gifts, like blighted fruit From wasting boughs, will fall and lie On the rank earth, foredoomed to die. SIR F. H. C. DOYLE. Robin Hood's Bay, c. i. Our offspring, like the seed of dragons' teeth, Shall issue armed, and fight themselves to death. DRYDEN. Don Sebastian, Act 2, i. You think they are crusaders sent From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of Sentiment, And dock the tail of Rhyme, To crack the voice of Melody, And break the legs of Time. O. W. HOLMES, Music Grinders. And filled the air with barbarous dis- sonance. MILTON. Comus, 550. O shame to men ! devil with devil damned Firm concord holds ; men only disagree Of creatures rational. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 2, 496. And Discord, with a thousand various mouths. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 2, 967. Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, i. By this time the Demon of Discord, with her sooty wings, had breathed her influence upon our counsels. SMOLLETT. Roderick Random, c. 33. Dischord ofte in musick makes the sweeter lay. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. 3, c. 2, st. 15. This Fury, fit for her intent, she chose ; One who delights in wars and human woes. VIRGIL. JEneid, Bk. 7 (Dryden tr.) Now shake, from out thy fruitful breast, the seeds Of envy, discord, and of cruel deeds ; Confound the peace established, and pre- pare Their souls to hatred and their hands to war. VIRGIL. Ib. Dissenting clamours in the town arise ; Each will be heard and all at once advise. One part for peace and one for war con- tends ; Some would exclude their foes, and some admit their friends. The helpless king is hurried in the throng, And (whate'er tide prevails) is borne along. VIRGIL. Ib., Bk. 12 (Dryden tr.). DISCOURAGEMENT Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Checked by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropped into the grave, unpitied and unknown ? BEATTIE. The Minstrel, Bk. i, i. DISCOURSE Perhaps it may turn out a song, Perhaps turn out a sermon. BURNS. Epistle to a Young Friend. Nor wanted sweet discourse, the banquet of the mind. DRYDEN. Flower and the Leaf , I. 432. DISCOURTESY DISHONESTY DISCOURTESY 111 manners were best courtesy to him. DANTE. Inferno (tr. H. F. Gary), c. 33, 148 (To the Friar Alberigo). DISCOVERERS They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea. BACON. Adv. of Learning, Bk. z. I journeyed far, I journeyed fast ; I glad I found de place at last. J. C. HARRIS. Uncle Remus, 35. Then felt I like some watcher of the skies, When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez, when, with eagle eyes, He stared at the Pacific and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien. KEATS. Chapman's Homer. Whether my discoveries will be read by posterity, or by my contemporaries, is a matter that concerns them more than me. I may well be contented to wait one century for a reader, when God himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an observer. JOHN KEPLER (d. 1631). I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell, than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. SIR I. NEWTON. Memoirs. 'Twas his to make, but not share, the morrow. T. WATTS-DUNTON. Columbus. God hath made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions. Ecclesiastes vii, 29. DISCRETION Distrust yourself, and sleep before you fight. 'Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave. ARMSTRONG. Art of Preserving Health, Bk. 4. The man that cries "Consider," is our foe. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Scornful Lady, Act 2. You put too much wind to your sail ; discretion And hardy valour are the twins of honour. FLETCHER. Bonduca, Act i, i. Be wary, then ; best safety lies in fear. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 3. DISCRIMINATION Though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 2. DISCURSIVENESS " The time has come," the Walrus said, " To talk of many things j Of ships and Shoes and sealing-wax, Of cabbages and kings." "L. CARROLL" (REV. C. L. DODGSON). Alice through the Looking-glass. From whatever place I write you will expect that part of my " Travels " will consist of excursions in my own mind. COLERIDGE. Satyrane's Letters, No. 2. DISDAIN When love does meet with injury and pain, Disdain's the only medicine for disdain. BUTLER. Cat and Puss. I have learned thy arts, and now Can disdain as much as thou. T. CAREW. Disdain returned. What, my dear lady Disdain ! SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act i, i. DISEASES Dangers stand thick through all the ground, To push us to the tomb ; And fierce diseases wait around To hurry mortals home. I. WATTS. Hymn, Thee we adore. If the head is sick all the limbs are affected. Latin prov. DISGRACE Alas, to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ! SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 4, 2. I cannot tell, good sir, for which of his virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court. SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act 4, 2. DISGUST O vile, Intolerable, not to be endured ! SHAKESPEARE. Taming of the Shrew, Act 5, 2. DISHONESTY But for your petty, picking, downright thievery We scorn it as we do board wages. BYRON. Werner, Act 2, i. 129 DISHONOUR DISINTERESTEDNESS What ain't missed ain't mourned. SIR A. \V. PINEKO. The Magistrate (Wyke, the Butler). It is a pretty thing to endure so much misfortune to be a brigand ; it would not cost more to be an honest man, and there are moments when I am tempted to become one, even if only as a speculation. E. SCRIBE. Cascaro in " Les Freres invincibles." What, man ! more water glideth by the mill Than wots the miller of ; and easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know. SHAKESPEARE. Titus Andronicus, Act 2. A little stealing is a dangerous part, But stealing largely is a noble art ; 'Tis mean to rob a hen-roost or a hen, But stealing thousands makes us gentle- men. C. H. SPURGEON. "Salt-Cellars" (a quotation ?) . Why should I deprive my neighbour Of his goods against his will ? Hands were made for honest labour, Not to plunder or to steal I. WATTS. The Thief. Stolen waters are sweet. Proverbs ix, 17. DISHONOUR An idiot race, to honour lost ; Who know them best despise them most. BURNS. Lines on viewing Stirling Palace. Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. TENNYSON. Merlin and Vivien. The shame is in the crime not in the punishment. VOLTAIRE. Artemire, Act 3. I have known all misfortunes ; valour can surmount them, but what generous heart can endure dishonour ? VOLTAIRE. Zulime. When faith is lost, when honour dies, The man is dead. WHITTIER. Ichabod ! DISILLUSIONMENT The glory dropped from their youth and love, And both perceived they had dreamed a dream. BROWNING. Statue and the Bust. The only difference is this, The gilt is off the chain ; And what was once a golden bliss Is now an iron pain. E. R. BULWER-LYTTON (EARL OF ,LYTTON). Mar ah. 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 ! BYROX. On his $6th Birthday. Long toils, long perils, in their cause I bore, But now the unfruitful glories charm no more. . . . Of all my dangers, all my glories, pains, A life of labours, lo, what fruit remains ? HOMER. Iliad, Bk. 17, 670 (Pope tr.) (said by Achilles). There is between that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars and women have. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 3, 2. The world is not sweet in the end ; For the old faiths loosen and fall, the new years ruin and rend. SWINBURNE. To Proserpine. There was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more. WORDSWORTH. Intimations of Immortality, c. z. The sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth. WORDSWORTH. Ib., c. 2. Whither is fled the visionary gleam ? Where is it now, the glory and the dream ? WORDSWORTH. Ib., c. 4. At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the fight of common day. WORDSWORTH. Ib., c. 5 A power is gone which nothing can restore ; A deep distress hath humanised my soul. Not for a moment could I now behold A smiling sea, and be what I have been ; The feeling of my loss will ne'er be old ; This which I know I speak with mind serene. WORDSWORTH. On a picture o Peele Castle (1805). DISINTERESTEDNESS The only reward of virtue is virtue ; the only way to have a friend is to be one. EMERSON. Friendship. 130 DISLIKE DISPROPORTION Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Casar, Act 3, 2. DISLIKE I dote on his very absence. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act i, 2. I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your good books. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act i, i. DISMISSAL Out of my sight, and trouble me no more ! MARLOWE. Edward, II., Act 2. I do desire we may be better strangers. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 3, 2. And so without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit that we shake hands and part. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 5. Cassio, I love thee, But never more be officer of mine. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 2, 3. DISORGANISATION This party of two reminds me of the Scotch terrier, which was so covered with hair that you could not tell which was the head, and which was the tail of it. JOHN BRIGHT. Speech, 1866. DISPARAGEMENT The words she spoke of Mrs. Harris, lambs could not forgive nor worms forget. [Mrs. Gamp.] DICKENS. M. Chuzzlewit, c. 49. The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this and every country but his own. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Mikado. For whoso will another blame, He seketh ofte his own6 shame. GOWER. Confessio Amantis, Bk. 2. I never told a lie yet ; and I hold it In some degree blasphemous to dispraise What's worthy admiration : yet, for once, I will dispraise a little. MASSINGER. Gt. Duke of Florence, Act 3. Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. 3, 56. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. POPE. Prol. to Satires. Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike. POPE. Ib. Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep if Atticus were he ? POPE. Ib. With silent smiles of slow disparagement. TENNYSON. Guinevere, 14. I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog. MARK TWAIN. Jumping Frog. There is a luxury in self-dispraise. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 4. DISPLAY The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power. GRAY. Elegy. She that a clinquant outside doth adore, Dotes on a gilded statue and no more. R. LOVELACE. Song, " Strive not." And tape-tied curtains never meant to draw. POPE. Ep. 3. The wealthiest man amongst us is the best : No grandeur now in Nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry, and these we adore ; Plain living and high thinking are no more. WORDSWORTH. Poems to National Indep., Pi. i, 13. DISPOSITION There was a little girl, and she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead ; When she was good, she was very very good, But when she was bad she was horrid. LONGFELLOW (According to his biographer, Blanche Roosevelt, 1882). Lofty and sour to them that loved him not; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 4, 2. It is the mynd that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. 6 c. 9, st. 30 DISPROPORTION As if an eagle flew aloft, and then Stooped from its highest pitch to pounce a wren. COWPER. Table Talk, 551. O monstrous ! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack ! SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 2, 4. DISPUTES DISSIMULATION DISPUTES He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. BUTLER. Hudibras, PI. i, c. i. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay by ratiocination. BUTLER. Ib Quoth he, That man is sure to lose That fouls his hands with dirty foes ; For where no honour's to be gained 'Tis thrown away in being maintained. BUTLER. Ib., Pi. 2, c. 2. This is no time nor fitting place to mai The mirthful meeting with a wordy war. BYRON. Lara, c. i, 23 An Irishman fights before he reasons a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. To hear Such wrangling is a joy for vulgar minds. DANTE. Inferno, c. 30 (Gary's tr.). He who discusses is in the right, he who disputes is in the wrong. DE RULHIERES. Disputes. And of their vain contest appeared no end. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. g, I. 1189. Like doctors thus, when much dispute has past, We find our tenets just the same as last. POPE. Moral Essays, 3, 15. What Tully says of war may be applied to disputing : it should always be so managed as to remember that the only end of it is peace. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, c. 5, st. 10. But in the way of bargain, mark you me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 3, i. And 'tis not hard, I think, For men so old as we to keep the peace. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act i, 2. The itch of disputation will break out Into a scab of error. R. WATKYNS. Flamma sine Fume*. Very foolish children of God, have brotherly love to each other, and do not devour one another any more for vain :himeras. VOLTAIRE. To the Author of The Three Impostors. Yes and No are the cause of all disputes. Prov. DISQUIET Alas ! my everlasting peace Is broken into pieces. HOOD. Sea Spell. DISSENSION What foreign arms could never quell By civil rage and rancour fell. SMOLLETT. Tears of Scotland. 'Tis thine to ruin realms, o'erturn a state, Betwixt the dearest friends to raise debate, And kindle kindred blood to mutual hate. VIRGIL. JEneid, Bk. 7 (Dryden tr.). Let now your immature dissension cease ; Sit quiet, and compose your souls in peace. VIRGIL. Ib., Bk. 10 (Dryden tr.). DISSIMULATION Clothe thy feigned zeal in rage, in fire, in fury. ADDISON. Cato, Act i, 3. The continual habit of dissimulation is but a weak and sluggish cunning, and not greatly politic. BACON. Adv. of Learning, Bk. 2. Dissimulation invites dissimulation. BACON. Instauratio, Pt. i, Bk. 6. The carl spak oo [one] thing but he thoghte another. CHAUCER. Wife of Bath's Tale. Hang art, madam, and trust to nature for dissimulation ! CONGREVE. Old Bachelor, Act 3. " Frank and explicit " that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others. [The Gentleman in Downing Street.] DISRAELI, Sybil, Bk. 6, c. i. " I weep for you," the Walrus said, " I deeply sympathize ; " With sobs and tears he sorted out Those of the largest size, Holding his pocket-handkerchief Before his streaming eyes. C. L. DODGSON. Through the Looking-glass. . . . Love no man. Trust no man. Speak ill of no man to his face ; nor well of any man behind his back. . . . Spread yourself on his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private. BEN JONSON. Every Man in His Humour, Act 3, 4. 132 DISSIPATION DISTINCTION All seemed well pleased ; all seemed, but were not all. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 5, 617. But good God ! What an age is this and what a world is this, that a man cannot live without playing the knave and dissimulation ! PEPYS. Diary, 1661. Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But Chloe is my real flame. PRIOR. Ode. Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act i, 5. She that could think, and ne'er disclose her mind ; See suitors following, and not look behind. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 2, i. This art (dissimulation) is the virtue of the coward. VOLTAIRE. Don Pedre. The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart ; his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. Psalms Iv, 21. Nothing is more like an honest man than a rascal. French prov. Who does not know how to dissemble does not know how to reign. Maxim ascribed to Louis XI. A Iso to the Emperor Frederick (Sigismund). (Quoted by R. Burton as " He who does not know how to dissemble does not know how to live.") DISSIPATION The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. The wildest colts make the best horses. PLUTARCH. Themislocles. DISTANCE 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. CAMPBELL. Pleasures of Hope, Pt. i. To the vulgar eye few things are wonder- ful that are not distant. CARLYLE. Burns. Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it. J. HOWELL. Familiar Letters, Bk. i. Far awa' fowls hae fair feathers. Scottish prov. (Fergusson collection, c. 1580). DISTINCTION Robust, but not Herculean to the sight. No giant frame sets forth his common height ; Ye', in the whole, who paused to look again Saw more than marks the crowd of vulgar men. BYRON. Corsair, c. i, 9. That constellation set, the world in vain Must hope to look upon their like again. COWPER. Table Talk, 659. You could not stand five minutes with that man (Edmund Burke) beneath a shed, while it rained, but you must be convinced that you had been standing with the greatest man you had ever yet seen. JOHNSON. Remark as recorded by Mrs. Piozzi. He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene. MARVELL. Horatian Ode. First of the first he shone 'Mongst all the Hellenian host in Pythos groves ; \ Isthmian and Nemean crowns his prowess won ; Fortune still follows as he moves. PINDAR. Nem., 10, 46 (Moore tr.). A bright particular star. SHAKESPEARE. All's Well, Act i, i. There be many Cassars Ere such another Julius. SHAKESPEARE. Cymbeline, Act 3, i. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 2. The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observed of all observers. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, I. A hooded eagle among blinking owls [Coleridge]. SHELLEY. To Maria Gisborne. In fields of air he writes his name, And treads the chambers of the sky ; He reads the stars, and grasps the flame That quivers round the throne on high. C. SPRAGUE. Art. For thou, if ever godlike foot there trod These fields of ours, went surely like a god. SWINBURNE. In the Bay. He is master and lord of his brothers Who is worthier and wiser than they. SWINBURNE. Word for the Country, 18. Scarce of earth, nor all divine. TE N N Y so N . A deline. 133 DISTRESS Men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine, Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. i. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart. WORDSWORTH. Poems to National Indcp., Pt. i, 14 (Of Milton) (Also in " London "). A noticeable man with large grey eyes. WORDSWORTH. Written in Thomson's " Castle of Indolence." He was a burning and a shining light. St. John v, 35. Of whom the world was not worthy. Hebrews xi, 38. DISTRESS Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. BURKE. Vindication of Natural Society. Affliction's sons are brothers in distress, A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss ! BURNS. A Winter Night. Nor be, what man should ever be, The friend of Beauty in distress. BYRON. To Florence. DISTRUST Here must thou all distrust behind thee leave. DANTE. Inferno (tr. H. F. Cary), c. 3, 14. It is a rule in friendship, when Distrust enters in at the foregate, Love goes out at the postern. J. HOWELL. Familiar Letters, Bk. i. Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. ELLA W. WILCOX. Distrust. Do weel and doubt nae man ; do ill and doubt a' men. Scottish prov. DIVINE PRESENCE It rests upon the verdict of all true- hearted and good men that there is not a nook or corner of the world, in which something cannot be found which will touch or comfort men's minds with a sense of the divine presence. J. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry, No. 38 (E. K. Francis tr.). DIVINITY IN MAN There is a God within us and inter- course with heaven. OVID. Art of Love, 3, 549. DIVISION This arithmetic is perfect in its kind, and is beyond question equal portions ! VOLTAIRE. Le Depositaire. DOGS DOCTRINE Accuse a man of being a Socinian and it is all over with him, for the country gentlemen all think it has something to do with poaching. SYDNEY SMITH. Saying. As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accurst An emblem yields to friends and enemies, How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pt. 2, 17 (From Fuller). Carried away with every blast of vain doctrine. Common Prayer, Collect. DOGGEDNESS It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it. ANTHONY TROLLOPE. Last Chronicles of Barset, Vol. i, p. 201. DOGMA It is certain because it is impossible. TERTULLIAN. De Came Curisti. The interpretation of two or three words have flooded the earth with blood. Dogma is often devilish, as you know ; Morality is divine ! VOLTAIRE. Remonstrances. Reason arrives late ; she finds the place occupied by folly. She does not chase away the ancient mistress of the house, but lives with her on good terms. . . . That is how the most absurd dogmas contrive to exist among the most instructed peoples. VOLTAIRE. Chinese Letters. DOGMATISM You are the men and wisdom shall die with you, And none of the old Seven Churches vie with you. BROWNING. Christmas Eve, c. 2. Dogmatism is Puppyism come to its full growth. D. JERROLD. Man Made of Money. Rome has spoken ; the case is ended. Founded on St. Augustine, Sermon, 131. DOGS 'Tis sweet to hear the honest watch-dog's bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome, as we draw near home. BYRON. Don Juan, c. i, st. 123. '34 DOLES DOUBT But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend ! BYRON. Inscription on a Newfoundland 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. Mad Dog. Two dogs of black St. Hubert's breed, Unmatched for courage, breath, and speed. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, c. i, st. 7. The little dogs and all, Tray, .Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me. . . . Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or lym, Or bobtail tyke, or trundle-tail. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act 3, 6. The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. French saying, Attrib. to Mme. Roland. DOLES The man who first ruined the Roman people was he who first gave them treats and gratuities. Quoted by Plutarch (Life of Coriolanus) as" a shrewd remark, whoever said it." DOMESTICITY From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. H. BELLOC. In her very style of looking There was cognisance of cooking! From her very dress were peeping Indications of housekeeping. R. BUCHANAK. White Rose and Red Pt- 3, 3*. In all the necessaries of life there is not a greater plague than servants. C. GIBBER. She would and she would not, Act i. Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that has survived the Fall ! COWPER. Garden, 41. Parlour twilight ; such a gloom Suits well the thoughtful or unthinking mind. COWPER. Winter Evening, 278. Domesticity is the tap-root which enables the [British] nation to branch wide and high. The motive and end of their trade and empire is to guard the indepen- dence and privacy of their homes. EMERSON. English Traits, 6, Manners. Sweet is the smile of home ; the mutual look When hearts are of each other sure. J. KEBLE. ist. Sun. in Lent. Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. MILTON. II Penseroso, 79. Some dish more sharply spiced than this Milk-soup men call domestic bliss. COVENTRY PATMORE. Olympus. To love the peaceable and domestic life it is necessary to have known it ; one must have felt its sweetnesses in child- hood. ROUSSEAU. Emile- When the black-lettered list to the Gods was presented (The list of what Fate for each mortal intends), At the long string of ills a kind goddess relented And slipped in three blessings wife, children, and friends. HON. W. R. SPENCER. Wife, Children, Friends. DOOM Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming. Isaiah xiv, 9. DOOMSDAY That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away. SCOTT. Lay of the Last Minstrel, c. 6, st. 31. Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold. B. TAYLOR. Bedouin Song. DOTAGE Thus in glory was he seen, While his years as yet were green ; But now that his dotage is on him, God help him ! for no eye Of all those who pass him by Throws a look of compassion upon him. ARISTOPHANES. The Knights, 529 (Mitchell's tr.). Second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 2, 7. DOUBT To doubt is to decide. H. ADDINGTON (LORD SIDMOUTH). (c. 1802). 135 DOUBT If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. BACON. Adv. of Learning. Who never doubted, never half believed ; Where doubt, there truth is 'tis her shadow. P. J- BAILEY. Festus. If the sun and moon should doubt, They'd immediately go out. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs. God help all poor souls lost in the dark ! BROWNING. Heretic's Tragedy, st. 10. Who knows most, doubts not. BROWNING. Two Poets, 158. A castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. BUNYAN. Pilgrim's Progress, Pi. i. I've stood upon Achilles' tomb And heard Troy doubted ; time will doubt of Rome. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 4, st. 101. Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts that roll Cimmerian darkness on the parting soul ! CAMPBELL. Pleasure* of Hope, 2. By doubting we come at the truth. CICERO. The more generous construction is to be preferred in words which are general or doubtful. COKE. My mind is in a state of philosophic doubt. COLERIDGE. Table Talk. Dubius is such a scrupulous good man. COWPER. Conversation, I. 119. Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair. SIR J. DENHAM. The Sophy. Unbelief is a belief, a very exacting religion. ALPHONSE KARR. The man that feareth, Lord, to doubt, In that fear doubteth Thee. GEO. MACDONALD. Disciple. To doubt is safer than to be secure. MASSINGER. A Very Woman, Act i, i. Though thus, my friend, so long employed, And so much midnight oil destroyed, I must confess, my searches past, I only learned to doubt at last. T. MOORE. Morality. We doubt our doubts, We hug our faiths, and fancy we are free. SIR L. MORRIS. Given, Act 6, i. DRAMA I [Meno] heard of you, Socrates, before I met you, that you are always doubting yourself, and causing others to doubt. PLATO. Meno, 13. Doubt on matters important for us to know is a state too violent for the human mind. It cannot resist long ; in spite of itself it decides for itself in some way or other and loves rather to deceive i'tself than not to believe. ROUSSEAU. Emile. Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure, Act i, 5 To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 3, 3. Modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise. SHAKESPEARE. Troilus, Act 2, 2. Nor can belief touch, kindle, smite, reprieve His heart who had not heart to disbelieve. SWINBURNE. In the Bay, st. 31. You tell me Doubt is devil-born. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, 96. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. TENNYSON. Ib. The slow-consenting Academic doubt. J. THOMSON. Liberty, Pt. 2, 240. In philosophy you must doubt things which you understand too easily, as much as things which you do not understand at all. VOLTAIRE. Letters on the English, 15. I have lived in doubt ; I die in anxiety -, I know not whither I go. Attrib. to a Pope of Rome. DOWRY Oh, gie me the lass that has acres o' charms, Oh, pie me the lass wi' the well-stockit farms. BURNS. Hey for a Lass wi' a Tocher. DRAMA Plays 'make mankind no better, and no worse. BYRON. English Bards. If you would have your play deserve success, Give it five acts complete, nor more nor less. P. FRANCIS. Horace, Art of Poetry. DRAMA There are three sorts of spectators who compose " the public " so-called : firstly women, secondly thinkers, thirdly what is described as the crowd. The crowd demands almost exclusively action ; the women desire above all other things passion ; the thinkers specially look for " character." VICTOR HUGO. Pref. to Ruy Bias (1838). All spectators desire pleasure the crowd the pleasure of the eyes ; the women the pleasure of the heart ; the thinkers the pleasure of the intellect. VICTOR HUGO. Ib. Melodrama for the crowd ; tragedy for women ; comedy, which depicts humanity, for thinkers. VICTOR HUGO. Ib. The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. JOHNSON. London. The actors are, it seems, the usual three, Husband, and wife, and lover. GEO. MEREDITH. Modern Love, st. 35. Have you not perceived the tendency of your soul during a comedy, how a mixture of pain and pleasure is found therein. PLATO. Philebus, 106. There still remains, to mortify a wit, The many-headed monster of the pit. POPE. Satires. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, 2. The purpose of playing ... to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, 2. The awful legitimacy of the highbrow theatre. G. B. SHAW. Annajanska (1918), Pref. If the best actors are only Horatios, the authors will have to leave Hamlet out, and be content with Horatios for heroes. G. B. SHAW. Great Catherine, Pref. In London we have no theatres for the welfare of the people : they are all for the sole purpose of producing the utmost obtainable rent for the proprietor. G. B. SHAW. Heartbreak House, Pref., Commerce in the Theatre. Through all the drama whether damned or not Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot. SHERIDAN. Rivals. Epilogue, 5. DREAMS Lo, where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. SPRAGUE. Curiosity, 127. The drama which has no religious element as its foundation is not merely not an important and not a good thing, but the most trivial and despicable of things. TOLSTOY. Shakespeare and the Drama. What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things ? GEO. VlLLIERS (DUKE OF BUCKING- HAM) . Rehearsal. Raillery apart, I am persuaded that religion has more effect on people in the theatre, when set forth in splendid verse, than in the church, where it is never dis- played without kitchen-Latin. VOLTAIRE. Letter to Comte D'Argental, Jan. 4, 1756. DREAMS I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls. A. BUNN. Bohemian Girl. I had a dream which was not all a dream. BYRON. Darkness. A straw for alle swevenes [dreams'] significaunce ! God helpe me so, I counte hem not a bene ; Ther woot no man aright what dremes mene. CHAUCER. Troilus, Bk. 5, 362. Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions. HOOD. Haunted House. After midnight visions are true. HORACE. Sat., Bk. i, 10. Drames always go by conthrairies, my dear. S. LOVER. Rory O'More. Dreams that bring us little comfort, heavenly promises that lapse Into some remote It-may-be, into some forlorn Perhaps. S. R. LYSAGHT. A Ritual, Confession of Unfaith, st. 32. But O, as to embrace me she inclined I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night. MILTON. On his deceased wife. Those dreams are true which we chance to have in the morning. OVID. Epist. 19. Dreams grow holy put in action ; work grows fair through starry dreaming ; But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain. A. A. PROCTER. Philip and Mildred. 137 DRESS DRINKING This morn, as sleeping in my bed I lay, I dreamt (and morning dreams come true, they say). W. B. RHODES. Bombastes Furioso. Oh I have passed a miserable night, So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days ; So full of dismal terror was the time ! SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act i, 4. I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act i, 4. All this is but a dream, Too flattering-sweet to be substantial. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 2, 2. Did I hear it half in a doze Long since, I know not where ? Did I dream it an hour ago, When asleep in this armchair ? TENNYSON. Maud, Pt. i, 7. All the wild trash of sleep, without the rest. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 8. DRESS Love's special lesson is to please the eye. CHAPMAN. Hero and Leander (con- tinuation of Marlowe's poem), st. 5. Th* adorning thee with so much art Is but a barbarous skill ; 'Tis like the poisoning of a dart Too apt before to kill. COWLEY. The Waiting-maid. We know, Mr. Weller, we, who are men of the world, that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later. DICKENS. Pickwick Papers, c. 37. Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. HAZLITT. On the Clerical Character. A sweet disorder in the dress. HERRICK. Delight in Disorder. As if to show that love had made him smart All over, and not merely round his heart. HOOD. Bianca's Dream. For gowns, and gloves, and caps, and tippets, Are beauty's sauces, spice, and sippets. HOOD. Recipe. The world must be getting old, I think ; it dresses so very soberly now. J. K. JEROME. Idle Thoughts (On Dress). Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed, Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. BEN JONSON. Epiccene. To show the form it seemed to hide. SCOTT. Lord of the Isles, c. i, st. 5. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy ; rich, not gaudy ; For the apparel oft proclaims the man. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 3. As martyrs burn for Christ, so ladies freeze for fashion. C. H. SPURGEON. "Salt-Cellars." 'Tis a credit to any good girl to be neat, But quite a disgrace to be fine. ANN AND JANE TAYLOR. Folly of Finery. I love that beauty should go beautifully. TENNYSON. Geraint and Enid, I. 682. O fair undress, best dress ! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, And heightens ease with grace. THOMSON. Castle of Indolence, i, 26. Dress being a compliment we owe to society, you should not show a remissness therein, unless you would be thought a sloven. REV. J. TRUSLER. System of Etiquette (1804). Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still. I. WATTS. Against Pride. Women were made to give our eyes delight ; A female sloven is an odious sight. YOUNG. Love of Fame. It's the life o' an auld hat to be weel cockit. Scottish prov. DRINKING Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good. E. AUGIER. La Cigue. There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms, As rum and true religion. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 2, 34. Man being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication. BYRON. Ib., c. 2, 179. For dronkenesse is verray sepulture Of mannes wit and his discrecioun. CHAUCER. Pardoner's Tale. 138 DRINKING DROWNING As for a Drunkard, who is voluntarius deemnn, he hath (as hath been said) no privilege thereby, but what hurt or ill so ever he doeth, his drunkenness doth aggravate it. SIR E. COKE. Institutes. To drink is a Christian diversion, Unknown to the Turk or the Persian. CONGREVE. Way of the World, Act 4, 2. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and gapes for drink again ; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. COWLEY. Drinking. Therefore I do require it, which I makes confession, to be brought reg'lar and drawed mild [Mrs. Gamp]. DICKENS. M. Chuzzlewit, c. 25. " Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. ..." You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o" life." DICKENS. Pickwick, c. 23. From wine what sudden friendship springs ! GAY. Fables, 50. Man wants but little drink below, But wants that little strong. O. VV. HOLMES. Song of Other Days. Hundreds of men were turned into beasts, Like the guests at Circe's horrible feasts, By the magic of ale and cider. HOOD. Miss Kilmansegg. Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe. JOHN LYLY. Euphues. Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French, And some '11 swallow tay and stuff fit only for a wench. J. MASEFIELD. Capt. Slratton's Fancy. Oh some that's good and godly ones they holds that it's a sin To troll the jolly bowl around, and let the dollars spin ; But I'm for toleration and for drinking at an inn, Says the old bold mate of Harry Morgan. JOHN MASEFIELD. Ib. Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I. W. OLDYS. Song. Potations pottle deep. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 2, 3. O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. O that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains ! SHAKESPEARE. Ib. Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. " A little drop " may end in a great fall. C. H. SPURGEON. John Ploughman. I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good : But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. WM. STEVENSON (?). Gammer Gurton (c. 1550). The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink ; I heard a voice ; it said, " Drink, pretty creature, drink." WORDSWORTH. Pet Lamb. We're gaily yet, we're gaily yet, And we're not very fow, but we're gaily yet ; Then set ye awhile, and tipple a bit, For we's not very fow, but we're gaily yet. " Colonel Butty," in " The Provoked Wife," Covent Garden version, c. 1800. (The song is not in Vanbrugh's original version.) There are five reasons for drinking : the visit of a friend, present thirst, future thirst, the goodness of the wine, or any other reason. Attrib. to Pere Sirmond (i6th cent.). Drink or begone. Ancient Greek maxim of Topers. If you get the best of whiskey it will get the best of you. American saying. He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy. Prov. (Geo. Herbert), from the French. Whiskey is a bad thing especially bad whiskey. Highland saying (quoted by C. H. Spurgeon). Nae luck till the second tumbler, and nae peace after the fourth. Scottish prov Fair fa' gude drink, For it gars folk speak as they think. Scottish saying. Wine wears no breeches. Spanish prov. equiv. to the English, " What soberness conceals drunkenness reveals." DROWNING A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 2, st. 53. '39 DRUDGERY DULLNESS And Christians love in the turf to lie, Not in watery graves to be ; Nay, the very fishes will sooner die On the land than in the sea. HOOD. Mermaid of Margate. O Lord ! methought what pain it was to drown. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act i, 4. It's best to let saut water tak its ain gate ; luck never came o' crossin' it. Shetland prov., in excuse for not attempting to rescue a drowning person. Luck never came of a half drowned man or a half hanged one either. Scottish prov. (a superstitious excuse for not rescuing a drowning man or a hanging man). DRUDGERY A captive fettered to the oar of gain. W. FALCONER. Shipwreck. Curse on the man who business first de- signed, And by 't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind. OLDHAM. Complaining of Absence. DRUGS The insane root That takes the reason prisoner. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act i, 3. DRYNESS Dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 2, 7. DUALISM God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her. BROWNING. One Word More. Like two single gentlemen rolled into one. G. COLMAN, JR. Lodgings for Single Gentlemen. United, yet divided, twain at once ; So sit two Kings of Brentford on one throne. COWPER. The Sofa. The chest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. Where the Rug's twofold use we might display, By night a blanket and a plaid by day. E. B. GREENE. Juvenal Imitated. There's a double beauty whenever a Swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon. HOOD. Miss Kilmansegg. In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother, That folks got taking me for him, And each for one another. H. S. LEIGH. Twins. Man is not truly one, but truly two. R. L. STEVENSON. Jekyll and Hyde. As if within his frame Two several souls alternately had lodged, Two sets of manners could the youth put on. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 6. "Are they no a bonny pair? " as the deil said to his hoofs. Scottish prov. DUBLIN It's as true as the deil's in Dublin city. Scottish prov. DUELS So up into the harmless air Their bullets they did send ; And may all other duels have That upshot in the end. HOOD. The Duel, 1831. The Christless code That must have Life for a blow. TENNYSON. Maud, Pt. 2, i, i. DUES Crito, we owe a cock to ^Esculapius. Pay it, therefore, and do not neglect it. SOCRATES. His last words, according to Plato (Phado, c. 155) (Gary tr.). DULLNESS O Dullness ! portion of the truly blest ! Calm shattered haven of eternal rest ! BURNS. ^rd Ep to Mr. Graham. The petrifactions of a plodding brain. BYRON. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 416. I find that we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. CONGREVE. Old Bachelor. And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. POPE. Dunciad, Bk. 2, 34. Dullness is sacred in a sound divine. POPE. Ib., Bk. 2, 352. For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read ; For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it. POPE. Ib., Bk. 4, 248. 140 DUNCES DUTY You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come ; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. POPE. Epigram. A dull and muddy-mettled rascal. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, 2. Cudgel thy brains no more about it ; for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, i. It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull, there is a design in it. STEELE. Taller, No. 38. Accept a miracle instead of wit, See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ. YOUNG. Written with Lord Chesterfield's diamond pencil. DUNCES Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. i, i. DUPES You fancy he is your dupe, but if he is only pretending to be, which is the greater dupe ? LA BRUYERE. De la Socitlc. What web too weak to catch a modern brain ? COWPER. Expostulation, 629. Men seem to be born to make dupes, one of another. VAUVENARGUES. Maxim 522. DUPLICITY Beware alway of doubleness. LYDGATE. Balade. " It's gude to be merry and wise," as the miller said when he moutered (took toll) twice. Scottish prov. DUTCH In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. GEO. CANNING. Despatch, 1826. DUTY Like as a Star That maketh not haste, That taketh not rest, Be each one fulfilling His God-given Hest. CARLYLE (tr. of Goethe). Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty ! The second duty will already become clearer. CARLYLE. Sartor. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON. Voluntaries. For duty, duty must be done ; The rule applies to everyone ; And painful though that duty be, To shirk the task were fiddle-de-dee. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Ruddigore. I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty ; I woke, and found that life was Duty. ELLEN HOOPER. The Dial. If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. KEBLE. Morning Hymn. The trivial round, the common task Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer God. KEBLE. Ib. Then draw we nearer, day by day, Each to his brethren, all to God ; Let the world take us as she may, We must not change our road. KEBLE. znd Sun. after Trin. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles. C. KINGSLEY. Invitation. The only way to regenerate the world is to do the duty which lies nearest us, and not hunt after grand, far-fetched ones for ourselves. C. KINGSLEY. Letters and Memories. Straight is the line of duty ; Curved is the line of beauty ; Follow the straight line, thou shalt see The curved line ever follow thee. WM. MACCALL (c. 1830). But attrib. by Douglas Jerrold to " N.W." with the first two lines transposed and the others given : " Walk by the last, and thou wilt see The other ever follow thee." But here I am not left to choose, My duty is my lot ; And weighty things will glory lose, If small ones are forgot. G. MACDONALD. You would not think any duty small If you yourself were great. G MACDONALD. Willie's Question. This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, And if we did our duty, it might be as full of love. G. MASSEY. This World. 141 DUTY EAGERNESS As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. MILTON. On being arrived to the age of twenty-three. To know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom ; what is more is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 8, 192. Knowledge is a steep which few may climb, While Duty is a path which all may tread. SIR L. MORRIS. Epic of Hades. In matters of duty first thoughts are commonly best. They have more in them of the voice of God. CARDINAL NEWMAN. See " N. and Q," May 21, 1898. This then, my friend, said I [Socrates], somehow seems to be justice, to attend to one's own business, . . . when child and woman, bond and free, artificer, magistrate, and subject, everyone in short, attends to his own business and does not meddle. PLATO. Republic, Bk. 4, n (Davis tr.). God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it. RUSKIN. Lectures on Architecture. For never anything can be amiss When simpleness and duty tender it. SHAKESPEARE. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, i. In the modesty of fearful duty I read as much as from the rattling tongue Of saucy and audacious eloquence. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. I do perceive here a divided duty. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act i, 3. Thy path is plain and straight, that light is given ; Onward in faith, and leave the rest to Heaven. SOUTHEY. Retrospect. " England expects every man to do his duty." England will not get all it expects. Every man will do his duty if he likes. C. H. SPURGEOX. "Salt-Cellars." Duty, that strong spur of earnest souls. BISHOP C. W. STUBBS. Conscience. Una and her Paupers. There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving. J. G. WHITTIER. Drovers. A light of duty shines on every day For all ; and yet how few are warmed or cheered ! WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 5. The primal duties shine aloft like stars. WORDSWORTH. Ib., Bk. 9. Stern Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! WORDSWORTH. Ode to Duty. Be thankful, even though tired and faint, For the rich bounties of constraint ; Whence oft invigorating transports flow, That choice lacked courage to bestow. WORDSWORTH. Pass of Kirkstone. To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me. Church Catechism. O mortal race, Our lesson learn ; Each has his turn And time and place. Inscription on Tenor Bell, Colchester Town Hall. England expects every officer and man to do his duty. Actual words of Nelson's signal, Oct. 26, 1805. DYING, THE Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. M. ARNOLD. Sohrab. But she was journeying to the land of souls. CAMPBELL. Gertrude. The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made. F. QUARLES. Emblems, Bk. 2, 13. Oh, but they say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony. SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., Act 2, i. Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom Of good old Abraham ! SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 4, i. And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea ! TENNYSON. Crossing the Bar. The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, c. 57. EAGERNESS My soul's in arms and eager for the fray. COLLEY GIBBER. Richard III. (adaptation), Act 5, 3. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. SHAKESPEARE. Henry V., Act 3, i. 142 EARLS EATING EARLS Earls that dated from early years. HOOD. Miss Kilmansegg. EARLY RISING Plough deep, while sluggards sleep, And you shall have corn to sell or keep. B. FRANKLIN. Poor Richard. Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air and carols as he goes. GOLDSMITH. Traveller. Oh ! timely happy, timely wise, Hearts that with rising morn arise ! KEBLE. Morning. He that would thrive Must rise by five ; He that hath thriven May lie till seven. Prov. quoted in this form by Sir W. Scott, 1807. They that rise wi' the sun hae their work weel begun. Scottish prov. Wash thy face in morning dew, Thus thou wilt thy health renew. Old saying. EARLY TO BED Would you have a settled head, You must early go to bed ; I tell you, and I tell 't again, You must be in bed at ten. N. CULPEPPER. As quoted by Swift in Letter, Jan. 19, 1710. EARTH Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; . . . The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came. WORDSWORTH. Intimations of Immortality. Back to earth, the dear green earth. WORDSWORTH. Peter Bell, Prologue. Lean not on Earth ; 'twill pierce thee to the heart ; A broken reed at best ; but oft a spear ; On its sharp point peace bleeds and hope expires. YOUNG. Night ThougJits, 3. EARTHQUAKES The exquisitely polite expression of a correspondent of the English Royal Society, who talks of " the earthquake that had the honour to be noticed by the Royal Society." Miss EDGEWORTH. Essay on Irish Bulls, ch. 2. EASE An easy-minded soul, and always was. ARISTOPHANES. Frogs, 82 (Frere tr.). (Of Sophocles.) Studious of laborious ease. COWPER. The Garden. Like a coy maiden, Ease, when courted most, Farthest retires. COWPER. The Sofa. For not to live at ease is not to live. DRYDEN. Persius. Studious of ease, and fond of humble things. A, PHILIPS. From Holland. 'Tis as easy as lying. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 2. To the latter end of a fray, and the begin- ning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 4. EAST, THE Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat. KIPLING. Ballad of East and West. Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Command- ments, an* a man can raise a thirst. KIPLING. Mandalay. The departure of the wise men from the East seems to have been on a more ex- tensive scale than is generally supposed, for no one of that description seems to have been left behind. SYDNEY SMITH. Letter to Sir. W. Horton, Jan. 15, 1835. EASTER When Yule comes, dule comes Cauld feet and legs ; When Pasch comes, grace comes Butter, milk and eggs. Scottish rhyme EATING Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. BRILLAT-SAVARIN . You ought to eat to live, and not live to eat. CICERO. Ad Herrenium Man is what he eats. L. FEUERBACH. I maun confess that I like the Englishers, if they wadna be sae pernicketty about what they eat. JOHN WILSON. Noctes (Ettrick Shepherd). 143 ECCENTRICITY ECCLESIASTICS The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising, There are forty feeding like one. WORDSWORTH. In March. You chips. may know a carpenter by his Suffolk prov. (Of great eaters}. ECCENTRICITY Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad. BEATTIE. The Minstrel, Bk. i, 16. In truth he was a strange and wayward wight. BEATTIE. Ib., i, 22. " Eccentricities of genius, Sam," said Mr. Pickwick. DICKENS. Pickwick, c. 30. Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad. DRYDEN. Absalom, 413. Our attitude's queer and quaint ; You're wrong if you think it ain't. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Mikado. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. J. S. MILL. Liberty, c. 3. Having neither the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 2. ECCLESIASTICISM And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. DEFOE. True-Born Englishman. I like a church ; I like a cowl ; I like a prophet of the soul ; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles : Yet not for all his faith can see, Would I that cowled churchman be. EMERSON. The Problem. Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves, whose gospel is their maw. MILTON. To Cromwell. But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have killed their Christ. TENNYSON. Maud, Pt. 2, 5, 2. ECCLESIASTICS The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs of Hell. Mothers, wives, and maids, These be the tools wherewith priests manage men. BROWNING. Ring and the Book, 4, 503. Cleric before and Lay behind ; A lawless linsey-woolsey brother, Half of one order, half another. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. i, c. 3. That pride to pampered priesthood dear. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 2, 44. Ful swetely herde he confession, And plesant was his absolution. CHAUCER. Canterbury Tales, Prol. 221. Oh laugh or mourn with me the rueful jest, A cassocked huntsman, and a fiddling priest ! COWPER. Progress of Error, no. " A clergyman, lad," he used to say to me, " should feel in himself a bit of every class." GEO. ELIOT. Theophrastus Such, Looking Backward. The black earthly spirit of the priest wounded my life. GEO. Fox. His Mission. I may attribute all changes of religion in the world to one and the same cause, and that is, unpleasing priests ; and those not only among the Catholics but even in that Church that hath presumed most of reformation. HOBBES. Leviathan, i, c. 12. New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ large. MILTON. New Forcers of Conscience. Such as for their bellies' sake Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold. Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast. MILTON. Lycidas, 114. Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! MILTON. Ib., 119. The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread. MILTON. Ib., 125. But first among the priests dissension springs Men who attend the altar and should most Endeavour peace. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 12, 353. 144 ECONOMY EDUCATION Clericalism ! That is our enemy ! ALPHONSE PEYRAT. Speech, 1859. A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault. POPE. Iliad, Bk. 5, 16. So the priests hated him, and he Repaid their hate with cheerful glee. SHELLEY. Rosalind . A little, round, fat, oily man of God. THOMSON. Castle of Indolence. Woe to the Crown that doth the Cowl obey ! WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pt. i, 29. If I were a Cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Coat and bands and hymn-book too. Attrib. to Bishop Wilberforce (1805-1873). ECONOMY Frugality is the science of avoiding unnecessary expenditure, or the art of managing our property with moderation. SENECA. De Beneficiis, Bk. 2, 34. ECSTASY His voice grew faint and fixed was his eye, As if gazing on visions of ecstasy : The hue of his cheeks and lips decayed ; Around his mouth a sweet smile played. EDMESTON. Which is the happiest death to die ? The young men well nigh wept, and e'en the wise Thought they had reached the gate of Paradise. WM. MORRIS. Jason, Bk. 13, 51. EDIFICATION Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not. COWPER. Time Piece. EDITORS The dull duty of an editor. POPE. Pref. to Shakespeare. Ah me ! we wound where we never in- tended to strike ; we create anger where we never meant harm ; and these thoughts are the thorns in our Cushion. THACKERAY. Thorn in the Cushion. EDUCATION Lord, they'd have taught me Latin in pure waste ! BROWNING. Fra Lippo. There's a new tribunal now, Higher than God's the educated man's. BROWNING. Ring and the Book, 10, 1976 The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the ab- struse, The arts, at least all such as could be said To be the most remote from common use, In all these she was much and deeply read. BYRON. Don Juan, i, 40. A Burns is infinitely better educated than a Byron. CARLYLE. Note Book. What greater or better gift to the state than to train up youth ? CICERO. De Divinatione. Better build schoolrooms for " the boy," Than cells and gibbets for " the man." ELIZA COOK. Ragged Schools. A teacher should be sparing of his smile. COWPER. Charity. With culture spoil what else would flourish wild, And rock the cradle till they bruise the child. GEO. Cox. Black Gowns and Red Coats. Women, in my observation, have little or no difference in them, but as they are or are not distinguished by education. DEFOE. -Of Academies. A smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing. DICKENS. Sketches by Boz. The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. DIOGENES (According to Stobcsus). By education most have been misled ; So they believe because they so were bred. The priest continues what the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man. DRYDEN. Hind and the Panther, Pt. 3, 389. When want of learning kept the laymen low, And none but priests were authorised to know; When what small knowledge was, in them did dwell ; And he a god, who could but read and spell. DRYDEN. Religio Laici. That's a bad sort of eddication as makes folks unreasonable. GEO. ELIOT. Amos Barton. It is this wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating, and wrestling, that is the boast of English education, and of high importance to the matter in hand. EMERSON. Eloquence (Letters and Social Aims). EDUCATION EFFORT Regular education is unfavourable to vigour or originality of understanding. LORD JEFFREY. Edin. Review, 1806. Well may the bairn blesse that hym to book sette. LANGLAND. Piers Plowman. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another. J. S. MILL. Liberty, ch. 5. What then is education ? . . . Surely gymnastics for the body and music [i.e., 1 iterature and the arts] for the mind. PLATO. Republic, Bk. 2, 16. The richest soil, if uncultivated, pro- duces the rankest weeds. PLUTARCH. Coriolanus. Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. POPE. Ep. i. What is the most useful rule of all education ? Not to gain time, but to lose it. ROUSSEAU. Emile. The education of children is a business where one must know how to lose time in order to gainjt. ROUSSEAU. Ib. The great secret of education is to secure that bodily and mental exercises shall always serve to relax one another. ROUSSEAU Ib. The book which, to my thinking, is the happiest treatise on natural education is " Robinson Crusoe." ROUSSEAU. Ib. Children should be kept from all kinds of instruction that may make errors possible, until their sixteenth year that is to say from philosophy, religion, and general views of all sorts. SCHOPENHAUER. On Education. Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. z, Act 4, 7. To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune ; but to write and read comes by nature. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 3, 3. Education has for its object the forma- tion of character. H. SPENCER. Social Statics, PI. 2, ch. 17, sec. 4. An educated villain has all the more tools at command with which to do evil. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." The clothing of our minds certainly ought to be regarded before that of our bodies. SIR R. STEELE. Spectator, 75. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot ; To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind ! THOMSON. Seasons, Spring. The vices of the mind may be corrected, but when the heart is bad, nothing can change it. VOLTAIRE. Chariot. Educate men without religion and you make them but clever devils. DUKE OF WELLINGTON. Saying (attributed). Satan keeps school for neglected children. Quoted as a saying in C. H. Spurgeon's " Salt-Cellars." Education is a possession which cannot be taken away from men. Greek saying. High learnt niggers ain't much use at rolling logs. Negro prov. EFFEMINACY None but those whose courage is un- questionable, can afford to be effeminate, (ist) LORD LYTTON. Pelham, ch. 44. To waste undangered, on his mother's arm Youth without glory. PINDAR. Pythian Odes, 4, 327 (Moore tr.) Elegance is not a manly ornament. SENECA. Ep. 115. EFFICIENCY And skill's a joy to any man. J. MASEFIELD. Everlasting Mercy, 600. There are only two qualities in this world : efficiency and inefficiency ; and only two sorts of people : the efficient and the. inefficient. G. B. SHAW. John Bull's Other Island, Act 4. EFFORT For not on downy plumes, nor under shade Of canopy reposing, fame is won. DANTE. Inferno (tr. H. F. Gary), c. 24, 46. The sum of wisdom is that the time is never lost that is devoted to work. EMERSON. Success. Think not of rest ; though dreams be sweet, Start up, and ply your heavenward feet. KEBLE. Christian Year, Second Sunday in Advent. 1 46 EGOTISM ELOQUENCE Draw nigh, my friends and let your thoughts be high ; Great hearts are glad when it is time to give; Life is not life to him that dares not die, And death not death to him that dares to live. SIR H. NEWBOLT. After a bad crop you should sow. SENECA. If you can't be a lighthouse you can be a night-light. C. H. SPURGEON. John Ploughman. There is nothing which has not been bitter before being ripe. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. We must so strive that each man may regard himself as the chief cause of the victory. XENOPHON. Wherever nature does least, man does most. American saying. It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it open. Chinese prov. Put a stout heart to a stey brae [a steep hill]. Scottish prov. You cannot do anything by doing nothing. Prov. What you will have, quoth God, pay for it and take it. Quoted as a prov. by Emerson. EGOTISM It is absurd for a man either to commend or to disparage himself. CATO (According to Plutarch) . The surest way to be cheated is to think oneself cleverer than other people. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 127. You never say a word of yourself, dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism. SYDNEY SMITH. Letter to Countess Grey, Nov. 29, 1840. Yet ego: ism is good talk. Even dull biographies are pleasant to read ; and if to read, why not to hear ? THACKERAY. Adventures of Philip. A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual All-in-all. WORDSWORTH. A Poet's Epitaph. ELECTIONS, PARLIAMENTARY The 'sacrifice septennial, when the sons Of England meet, with watchful care to choose Their delegates, wise, independent men, Unbribing and unbribed. SOUTHEY. Maid of Orleans, Bk. 2. ELECTRICITY Knowledge hath clipped the lightning's wings, and mewed it up for a purpose. M. F. TUPPER. Of Hidden Uses. ELEVATION (OF CHARACTER) 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. There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of the everlasting chime : Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat. KEBLE. Christian Year. ELIZABETHAN AGE The spacious times of great Elizabeth. TENNYSON. Dream of Fair Women . ELOCUTION He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. CHURCHILL. Rosciad, V. 322. He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech ; Make mad the guilty, and appal the free ; Confound the ignorant ; and amaze, in- deed, The very faculties of eyes and ears. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, 2. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pro- nounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, 2. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently. SHAKESPEARE. Ib, ELOQUENCE Such is sweet eloquence, that does dispe Envy and Hate, that thirst for human gore ; And cause in sweet society to dwell Vile savage minds that lurk in lonely cell. WM. BLAKE. Imitation of Spenser. See how your words come from you in a crowd ! BROWNING. Soul's Tragedy, Act i. Eloquence may exist without a propor- tionable degree of wisdom. BURKE. Reflections on the Revolution. '47 ELOQUENCE ELOQUENCE None knew, nor how, nor why, but he en- twined Himself perforce around the hearer's mind. BYRON. Lara, c. i, st. 19. And of thy tonge the infinit gracious- nesse. CHAUCER. Hypsipyle. I myself have heard a common black- smith eloquent, when welding of iron has been the theme. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. In addressing the multitude we must re- member to follow the advice that Cromwell gave his soldiers, " Fire low." This is the great art of the Methodists. If our elo- quence is directed above the heads of our hearers we shall do no execution. C. C. COLTON. 76. Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. SIR J. DENHAM. Cooper's Hill. Such was his force of eloquence, to make The hearers more concerned than he that spake ; Each seemed to act the part he came to see, And none was more a looker-on than he. SIR J. DENHAM. Lord Stafford's Trial. I grew intoxicated with my own elo- quence. DISRAELI. Contarini Fleming, c. 7. The subtlest tempter has the smoothest style ; Sirens sing sweetest when they would betray. DRAYTON. England's Heroical Epistles. Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. EMERSON. Eloquence (Letters and Social Aims). One of our statesmen said, " The curse of this country [America] is eloquent men." EMERSON. Eloquence. On his lips persuasion hung, And powerful reason ruled his tongue : Thus he alone could boast the art To charm at once and sting the heart. EUPOLIS. In praise of Pericles (quoted by Cicero). The applause of listening senates to command. GRAY. Elegy. Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. GRAY. Progress of Poesy, 3, no. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. . . . The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end. BEN JONSON. On Bacon What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well. Should, in his actions, be so ill. MASSINGER. Parliament of Love, Act 3, 3. For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 2, 556. The remark is just but then you have not been under the wand of the magician. WM. PITT. On Fox's Eloquence. Luxuriancy and pomp of style cheat the ear, and disguise the weakness and invalidity of an argument. PLUTARCH. Of Hearing. He ceased ; but left so charming on their ear His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear. POPE. Odyssey, Bk. n, 414. It is the heart which makes men eloquent. QUINTILIAN, 10, 7. It is the province of a good man firstly to think well, so that he may live rightly for himself ; and next to speak well, so that he may live for his country. J. C. SCALIGER. De Plantis, Bk. i. When things have taken thorough possession of the mind, words are plentiful. SENECA. Controvers., 3, Prem. But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, And leave them honeyless. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ccssar, Act 5, i. To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill. SHAKESPEARE. Lover's Complaint, si. 18. Runs not this speech like iron through your blood ? SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 5, i. All that is spoke is marred. SHAKESPEARE. Qthello, Act 5, 2. Was never eye did see that face, Was never ear did hear that tongue, Was never mind did mind his grace That ever thought the travail long. SIR P. SIDNEY. Friend's Passion. Balaam's ass spoke well once, but it never tried it again. Altogether it differed greatly from its brethren. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars.', 148 ELYSIUM EMPLOYERS Eloquence is the mistress of all the arts. TACITUS. De Orator ibus. A full-celled honeycomb of eloquence, Stored from all flowers. Poet-like he spoke. TENNYSON. Edwin Morris. Choice word, and measured phrase, above the reach Of ordinary men. A stately speech. WORDSWORTH. Resolution and Inde- pendence. ELYSIUM And oh ! if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this. T. MOORE. Lalla Rookh, Fire Wor- shippers, Prol. 2. EMBRACE Imparadised in one another's arms MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 4, 50(1 EMINENCE He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 580 . Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 2, 5. The choice and master spirits of this age. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ccesar, Act 3, i. I have somewhere heard it is a maxim that those to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first. SWIFT. Tale of a Tub, Booksellers' Dedication. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. SWIFT. Thoughts on Various Subjects EMOTION And when the little heart is big, a little " sets it off." R. H. BARHAM. Misadventures al Margate. Nature has cast me in so soft a mould, That but to hear a story feigned for pleasure, Of some sad lover's death, moistens my eyes, And robs me of my manhood. DRYDEN. All for Love, Act 4, i. Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. At last Words interwove with sighs found out their way. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 613. And let me wring your heart : for so I shall, If it be made of penetrable stuff. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 4. I had to swallow suddenly, or my heart would have got out. MARK TWAIN. Innocents at Home, ch. 33. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty. WORDSWORTH. On Westminster Bridge. EMPIRE Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! BYRON. Corsair, c. i, st. i. Learn to think imperially. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN. Speech, 1904. AU empire is no more than power in trust. DRYDEN. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. i, 411. An empire is an immense egotism. EMERSON. The Young American (1844). Learn to think continentally. ALEX. HAMILTON. To them no bounds of Empire I assign, Nor term of years to their immortal line. VIRGIL. JEneid, Bk. i (Dryderi). O weakness of the Great ! O folly of the Wise! Where now the haughty Empire that was spread With such fond hope ? Her very speech is dead. WORDSWORTH. Pillar of Trajan (of the Roman Empire). The sun never sets on the Spanish dominions. Spanish saying quoted by Capt. John Smith (1579-1631) and others. EMPLOYERS AND SERVANTS If they have a bad master, they keep quarrelling with him ; if they have a good master, they keep quarrelling with one another. GOLDSMITH. Good-Natured Man, Act i. 149 EMPLOYMENT ENDEAVOUR Nothing is so certain as that the vices of leisure are dispersed by occupation. SENECA. Epist., 56. The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 5, i. EMPTINESS A beggarly account of empty boxes. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, i. EMPTY-MINDEDNESS Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive. WORDSWORTH. Yes, thou art fair. EMULATION Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. 2, igi. Emulation is the whetstone of wits. Latin prov. ENCHANTMENT 'Tis wandering on enchanted ground With dizzy brow and tottering feet. KEBLE. 4th Sun. in Advent. Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare. GEO. MEREDITH. The Woods of Wester main, i. EN COURAGEMENT Not only hear, but patronise, befriend them, And where ye justly can commend, com- mend them ; And aiblins when they winna stand the test, Wink hard and say the folks hae done their best ! BURNS. Prologue. Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. COWPER. Hymn. In this country [England] it is considered a good thing to' kill an admiral now and then, to encourage the others. VOLTAIRE. Candide (referring to the execution of Admiral Byng). Fight on, my men, Sir Andrew said, A little I'm hurt, but yet not slain ; I'll but lie down and bleed awhile, And then I'll rise and fight again. Sir Andrew Barton (i6th Century). ENCROACHMENTS The law doth punish man or woman, That steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. Anon. ENDEAVOUR For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance And the good that I can do. G. LINN.IEUS BANKS. What 7 live for. I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land. WM. BLAKE. Milton. Our best is bad, nor bears Thy test ; Still, it should be our very best. BROWNING. Christmas Eve. Life is probation, and the earth no goal, But starting-point of man. BROWNING. Ring and the Book, 10, 1436. When human power and failure are equalised for ever, And the great Light that haloes all is the passionate bright endeavour. R. BUCHANAN. David in Heaven. Wha does the utmost that he can, Will whiles do mair. BURNS. Epistle to Dr. Blacklock. Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win ! FRANCES A. BUTLER. The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquering. CHAUCER. Parliament of Fowls, v. i. My creed is, he is safe that does his best, And death's a doom sufficient for the rest. COWPER. Hope, 397. He shoots higher, that threatens the moon, than he that aims at a tree. GEO. HERBERT. Priest to the Temple. And sure th' Eternal Master found The single talent well employed. JOHNSON. On R. Levett. Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever ; Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long ; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song. C. KINGSLEY. Farewell. 150 ENDEAVOUR ENDINGS Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt ; Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. R. LOVELACE. Seek and Find. In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As fail. EDWARD ist LORD LYTTON. Richelieu. Hard things are compassed oft by easy means. MASSINGER. New Way to Pay Old Debts, Act 5, i. There are giants to slay and they call for their Jack. GEO. MEREDITH. Empty Purse, The virtue lies In the struggle, not the prize. R. M. MILNES (LORD HOUGHTON). World to the Soul. To do your best is to be one man picked out of a thousand. EDEN PHILLPOTTS. Let fowk bide weel and strive to do their best ; Nae mair's required let Heaven make out the rest. A. RAMSAY. Gentle Shepherd, Act i, 2. We always succeed when we only wish to do well. ROUSSEAU. Entile. We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking- place, And we'll not fail. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act i, 7. This thing is God ; To be man with thy might, To go straight in the strength of thy spirit and live out thy life in the light. SWINBURNE. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, c. 73. Who is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought ; Whose high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright ; Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn. WORDSWORTH. Character of the Happy Warrior. Yet a rich guerdon waits on minds that dare, If aught be in them of immortal seed. WORDSWORTH. Sonnets, PL 2, No. 4. On him and on his high endeavour The light of praise shall shine for ever. WORDSWORTH. White Doe of Rylstone, c. 5. Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly ; angels could no more. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 2. Do the likeliest and God will do the best. Prov. (Scottish). ENDINGS There is an endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done. CARLYLE. Francia (1843). Som tyme an ende ther is of every dede. CHAUCER. Knight's Tale. Off with his head ! so much for Bucking- ham. C. GIBBER. Richard III. (Adapted), Act 4, 3. The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower. COWPER. Olney Hymns, Bk. 3, 15. " That's ray ther a sudden pull up, ain't it, Sammy ? " enquired Mr. Weller. DICKENS. Pickwick Papers, ch. 33. For though the day be never so longe, At last the belles ringeth to evensonge. STEPHEN HAWES. Pastime cf Pleasure. The first act's doubtful, but we say It is the last commends the play. R. HERRICK. Hesperides, 225. But Scripture saith, an ending of all fine things must be. C. KINGSLEY. Last Buccaneer, st. 6. The end of a good thing is an evil ; the end of an evil thing is a good thing LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 598. Time is pur tedious song should here have ending. MILTON. Christmas Hymn. May the gods grant that this may be the highest point of your glory ! OVID. Heroides. It is much easier to begin than to finish. PLAUTUS. Paenulus. The last of all the Romans, fare thee well. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ccesar, Act 5, 3. He makes a swan-like end, Fading in music. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 3, 2. ENDURANCE ENDURANCE Jack shall have Jill, Nought shall go ill, The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well. SHAKESPEARE. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3, 2. O most lame and impotent conclusion ! SHAKESPEARE. -Othello, Act 2, i. The end crowns all. SHAKESPEARE. Troilus, Act 4, 5. Journeys end in lovers' meeting. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 2, 3. Then lullaby, the learned man hath got the lady gay ; For now my song is ended. Attrib. to SHAKESPEARE. Passionate Pilgrim, st. 14. And, oh, how short are human schemes ! Here ended all our golden dreams. SWIFT. On the death of Dr. Swift. There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to be done. SWIFT. Tale of a Tub. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be, That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. SWINBURNE. Garden of Proserpine. The end is come of pleasant places, The end of tender words and faces, The end of all, the poppied sleep. SWINBURNE. Ilicet. Yet a few chapters more, and then the last : after which, behold Finis itself comes to an end, and the Infinite begun. THACKERAY. De Finibus. At sunset the shadows are twice as long. VIRGIL. Eclogue, 3. Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remem- ber the end, and thou shalt never do amiss. Ecclesiasticus vii, 36. We bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. Church Psalter xc, 9. Be the day weary, be the day long, At length it ringeth to evensong. Old Saying. It's ill halting when the race is doun the brae. Scottish prov. ENDURANCE Whatever happens, either you have strength to bear it or you have not. If you have, exert your strength and do not murmur. If otherwise do not complain. The weight will crush you and then destroy itself. MARCUS AURELIUS. Bk. 10, 3. To bear is to conquer our fate. CAMPBELL. -On visiting Argyleshire. Wait, nor against the half-learned lesson fret, Nor chide at old belief as if it erred, Because thou canst not reconcile as yet The Worker and the Word. JEAN INGELOW. Honours, z, st. 56. But bear to-day whate'er To-day may bring ; 'Tis the one way to make To-morrow sing. R. LE GALLIENNE. In her Diary. Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. LONGFELLOW. Evangeline, Pt. 2, c. i, 60. Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. LONGFELLOW. Light of Stars. Who best Can suffer, best can do. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. 3, 194. So sung he joyously, nor knew that they Must wander yet for many an evil day Or ever the dread gods should let them come Back to the white walls of their long-left home. W. MORRIS. Jason, Bk. g, 330. One should try not to be distressed about anything, and to take all that happens as for the best. I believe this to be a duty, and that not to fulfil it. is a sin. PASCAL. Pensees. He smarteth most who hides his smart, And sues for no compassion. SIR W. RALEGH. Silent Lover. Makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others, that we know not of. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, i. For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. SHAKESPEARE. Mcrcliant of Venice, Act i, 3. He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe. SHAKESPEARE. Timon, Act 3, 5. To love, and bear ; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contem- plates ; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent ; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free ; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Vic- tory. SHELLEY. Prometheus, Act 4. 152 ENEMIES ENGLAND By suffering well, our fortune we subdue ; Fly when she frowns, and when she calls, pursue. VIRGIL. Mneid, Bk. 5 (Dry den tr.). Strange ! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long. I. WATTS. Hymns. Jouk (stoop) and let the jaw (wave) go by. Scottish prou. He's worth nae weel that can bide nae wae, As auld Eppie Orkney used to say. Scottish saying. ENEMIES The smyler with the knyf under the cloke. CHAUCER. Knight's Tale, 1141. The lovinge of oure enemy hath con- founded the venim of the devel. For right as the devel is discomfited by humilitee, right so is he wounded to the deeth by love of oure enemy. CHAUCER. Parson's Tale sec. 31. It is impossible for any man not to have some enemies. LORD CHESTERFIELD. Advice to his Son. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare ; And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. EMERSON. Translations. You may padlock the gate of a town, But never the mouth of a foe. EMERSON. Tr. from Persian (Essay on Persian Poetry). When fails our dearest friend, There may be refuge with our direst toe. J. S. KNOWLES. The Wife, Act 5. Reflect that a friend may be made out of an enemy. SENECA. The gifts of enemies are not gifts, and have no value. SOPHOCLES. Ajax. Never yet Was noble man but made ignoble talk. He makes no friend who never made a foe. TENNYSON. Lancelot. All cause of hate was ended in their death ; Nor could he war with bodies void of breath. VIRGIL. Mneid, Bk. n (Dryden tr.). His great heart rejoiced in having found, on the field of honour, enemies worthy of his valour. VOLTAIRE. Henrmde. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. OSCAR WILDE. Dorian Gray. Abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices. Common Prayer (In Time of War). There is no worse pestilence than a familiar foe. Prov. (Chaucer's Merchant's Tale, 549). ENERGY Genius is mainly an affair of energy. M. ARNOLD. Languor is not in your heart, Weakness is not in your word, Weariness not on your brow. M. ARNOLD. Rugby Chapel. Energy is eternal delight. WM. BLAKE. Voice of the Devil. Time could not chill him, fortune sway, Nor toil with all its burdens tire. O. VV. HOLMES. F. W. C. Larikie, Larikie lee ! Wha'll gang up to the_ heaven wi' me ? No the lout that lies in his bed, No the doolfu' that dreeps (droops) his head. " The Lark's Song," Scottish rhyme. ENGLAND The weary Titan [England]. M. ARNOLD. Heine's Grave. England, England, England, Girdled by ocean and skies, And the power of a world and the heart of a race, And a hope that never dies. WILFRID CAMPBELL. Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still. CHURCHILL. The Farewell, 27. England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow. CHURCHILL. The Ghost, Bk. i, 112. Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire, Cast her ashes into the sea, She shall escape, she shall aspire, She shall arise in a sacred scorn, Lighting the lives that are yet unborn, Spirit supernal, splendour eternal, England ! HELEN GRAY CONE (New York). Chant of Love for England (c. 1915). England be tearless ; Rise, and with front serene Answer, thou Spartan queen, " Still God is good to me : My sons are fearless." SIR A. QUILLER COUCH. Victoria. '53 ENGLAND ENGLAND England, with all thy faults, I love thee still, My country ! COWPER. Time Piece. England is unrivalled for two things sporting and politics. DISRAELI. Coningsby, Bk. 2, i. The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world, DISRAELI. House of Commons, March 15, 1838. If England's head and heart were one, Where is that good beneath the sun Her noble hands should leave undone ? S. DOBELL. Shower in War-Time. A sea-shell should be the crest of Eng- land, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish of the men. EMERSON. English Traits. 6, Manners. Let who will fail, England will not. These people have sat here a thousand years, and here will continue to sit. They will not break up or arrive at any desperate revolution, like their neighbours ; for they have as much energy, as much continence of character, as they ever had. EMERSON. Ib. There [in America] and not here [in England] is the seat and centre of the British race. . . . England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be con- tented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children. EMERSON. Ib., 16, Stonehenge. England is the best of actual nations. EMERSON. Ib., 18, Result (1833). England ! full of sin, but most of sloth, Spit out thy phlegm, and fill thy breast with glory. GEO. HERBERT. Church Porch. Attend, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise ; 1 tell of the thrice famous deeds she wrought in ancient days. MACAULAY. Armada. Let the storm burst ! It will find the Old Land Ready ripe for a rough, red fray. She will fight as she fought when she took her stand For the Right in the olden day. G. MASSEY. Babe Christabel, Old England, 4. Now victory to our England ! And where'er she lifts her hand In freedom's fight, to rescue Right, God bless the dear old Land. G. MASSEY. England goes to Battle. Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. MILTON. Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. Land of the lordliest deeds and songs Since Greece was great and wise. C. L. MOORE. To England. The English people fancy that they are free. They greatly deceive themselves. It is only during the election of Members of Parliament that they are so. ROUSSEAU. Central Social. Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them ! Nought shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. SHAKESPEARE. King John, Act 5, 7. This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. This royal throne of kings, this sceptred 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 in 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. SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., Act 2, i England, bound in with the triumphant sea ! SHAKESPEARE. Ib. Hector : And this ship we are all in ? This soul's prison we call England ? Capt. Shotpver : The captain is in his bunk, drinking bottled ditchwater ; and the crew is gambling in the forecastle. She will strike and sink and split. Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favour of England, because you were born in it ? G. B. SHAW. Heartbreak House, Act 3. There are only two classes in good society in England : the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes. G. B. SHAW. Ib. All our past proclaims our future : Shake- speare's voice and Nelson's hand, Milton's faith and Wordsworth's trust in this our chosen and chainless land, Bear us witness : come the world against her, England yet shall stand. SWINBURNE. England, 2, st. 5. 154 ENGLAND ENGLISHMEN No man ever spake as he that bade our England be but true, Keep but faith with England fast and firm, and none should bid her rue ; None may speak as he : but all may know the sign that Shakespeare knew. SWINBURNE. England, 2, st. 7. Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be not blind as she, But the sun is in heaven that beholds her immortal, and girdled with life by the sea. SWINBURNE. /&., 3, st. 7. Bind fast her homeborn foes with links of shame More strong than iron and more keen than flame : Seal up their lips for shame's sake. SWINBURNE. New Year's Day. O, how good should we be found Who live on England's happy ground ! JANE TAYLOR. The English Girl. Statesmen, guard us, guard the eye, the soul Of Europe, keep our noble England whole. TENNYSON. On Wellington. We are not cotton-spinners all, But some love England and her honour yet. TENNYSON. Third of February. It has cost much to establish liberty in England. It has needed seas of blood to drown the idol of despotic power, but the English do not think that they have bought their laws too dearly. Other nations have not had less troubles, have not shed less blood, but in their case the blood they have sacrificed has only cemented their servitude. VOLTAIRE. Letters on the English. Britons and Romans, Saxons and then Danes, So many conquerors have taken it, 1 somdel marvel any land is left. Yet oak-trees grow, and daisies star the grass, And blissful birds sing blithely as of yore ; Sheep bleateth, and the mild-eyed cattle chaw Their peaceful cud. Men waggon up the hay And ear the soil and breed the olden way, As if the conquerors had never passed. JAMES F. WAIGHT. Harold. Time, and the ocean, and some fostering star, In high cabal have made us what we are ! SIR W.WATSON. Ode, Coronation of Edward VII. There's never a wave of ocean The wind can set in motion That shall not own our England own our England queen. T. WATTS-DUNTON. Christmas at the Mermaid, i. Freedom's impregnable redoubt, The wide earth's store-house, fenced about With breakers roaring to the gales That stretch a thousand thousand sails. WORDSWORTH. To Enterprise. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible knights of old. WORDSWORTH. Poems to Nat. Indep., Pt. i, 16. England is a prison for men, a paradise for women, a purgatory for servants, a hell for horses. Proverb (Italian ?) quoted in Fuller's " Holy State " (1642). ENGLISH LANGUAGE Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother- tongue. COWPER. Time Piece, 235. I like the Anglo-Saxon speech, With its direct revealings ; It takes a hold, and seems to reach Way down into your feelings. EUGENE FIELD. Good-Bye I God Bless You/ I like our language, as our men and coast ; Who cannot dress it well, want wit, not words. GEO. HERBERT. The Sun. ENGLISHMEN In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam ! I love the English. BERANGER. Les Boxeurs (1814). There is a peculiarity in the counten- ance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman. BORROW. Bible in Spain. Cool and quite English, imperturbable. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 13, st. 14. I hope we English will long maintain our " grand talent pour le silence." CARLYLE. Heroes, 6. Of all the nations in the world, at present, the English are the stupidest in speech, the wisest in action. CARLYLE. Past and Present. The English are a dumb people. CARLYLE. Sartor . Liberty is the idol of the English, under whose banner all the nation lists. MRS. CENTLIVRE. The Wonder, Act i, i. ENGLISHMEN ENGLISHMEN An Englishman, Being nattered, is a lamb ; threatened, a lion. CHAPMAN. Alphonsus, Act i. A glorious charter, deny it who can, Is breathed in the words, " I'm an Englishman." ELIZA COOK. The Englishman. That vain, ill-natured thing, an English- man. DEFOE. True-born Englishman, Pt. i, 133. No panegyric needs their praise record ; An Englishman ne'er wants his own good word. DEFOE. Ib., Pt. 2, 152. For Englishmen are ne'er contented long. DEFOE. Ib., Pt. 2, 244. But English gratitude is always such, To hate the hand which doth oblige too much. DEFOE. Ib., Pt. 2, 409. .Of all the nations in the world there is none that I know of so entirely governed by their humour as the English. DEFOE (c. 1690). I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. EMERSON. English Traits. The English composite character be- trays a mixed origin. Everything Eng- lish is a fusion of distant and antagon- istic elements. . . . Nothing can be praised in it without damning exceptions ; and nothing denounced without salvoes of cordial praise. EMERSON. Ib., 4, Race. The one thing the English value is pluck. EMERSON. Ib., 6, Manners. England produces under favourable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. EMERSON. Ib. In short, I am afraid that English nature is so rank and aggressive as to be a little incompatible with every other. The world is not wide enough for two. EMERSON. Ib., 9, Cockayne. The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England]. EMERSON. Ib. Add to this . . . the peculiarity which is alleged of the Englishman, that his virtues do not come out until he quarrels. EMERSON. Walter Savage Landor (Oct., 1841). For he might have been a Roosian, A French, or Turk, or Proosian, Or perhaps I-ta-li-an ! i 6 But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations, He remains an Englishman. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Pinafore. Then who is he who would deface The scutcheon of his country's fame ? One wretch alone on earth you'll meet Though all the universe you scan, So steeped in treason and deceit The anti-English Englishman. C. L. GRAVES. Anti-English Englishman. The English in a foreign land are the gods of boredom . . . and leave every- where a grey dark cloud of mournfulness behind them. Their curiosity without interest, their dressed-up awkwardness, their insolent timidity, their angular egotism, and their empty joy at all melancholy objects, aid in this impression. HEINE. Florentine Nights. Heavy eaters, hard thinkers, often given up to a peculiar melancholy of our own, with a climate that for months to- gether would frown away mirth if it could many of us with very gloomy thoughts about our hereafter if ever there were a people who should avoid increasing their dulness by all work and no play, we are that people. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. i, ch. 4. They [Englishmen] are resolute, en- during, grave, modest, humorous. I lay great stress upon the last of these quali- fications. Nothing corrects theories better than this sense of humour, which we have in a greater degree than is to be met with, I believe, in any other people. SIR A. HELPS. Ib., Bk. 2, ch. 5. John [Bull] likes a bit of petty larceny as well as anybody in the world. He likes it, however, with this difference the iniquity must be made legal. D. JERROLD. Heads of the People. Of all the sarse that I can call to mind, England doos make the most onpleasant kind : It's you're the sinner pliers, she's the saint ; Wut's good's all English, all thet isn't ain't. J. R. LOWELL. Biglow Papers, 2nd Series, 2. No people have true common sense but those who are born in England. MONTESQUIEU. As cited by Emerson, English Traits, 5. The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined. A. MURPHY. Upholsterer. ENGLISHMEN ENJOYMENT But Lord ! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange ! PEPYS. Diary, Nov. 28 1662. It may be said of the English that neither in war are they brave nor in peace are they faithful. As the Spaniard says, " England is a good land with bad people." STEPHEN PERLIN (French writer). Description of England and Scotland (Paris, 1558). These villains [the English] hate all sorts of foreigners. Though they have a good land and a good soil, they are all constantly wicked and moved by every gust of wind. STEPHEN PERLIN. 76. We Englishmen, trim, correct, All minted in the self-same mould, Warm hearted but of semblance cold, All-courteous out of self-respect. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. Enrica. Their hearts were made of English oak, their swords of Sheffield steel. SCOTT. Bold Dragoon. John Bull was in his very worst of moods, Raving of sterile farms and unsold goods. SCOTT. Search after Happiness. It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing to make it too common. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. 2, Act i, 2. We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know ; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know. G. B. SHAW. Irrational Knot, Pref. (1905). No Englishman has any common sense, or ever had, or ever will. G. B. SHAW. John Bull's Other Island, Act i. There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it ; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on princi- ple. He fights you on patriotic principles ; he robs you on business principles ; he enslaves you on imperial principles. G. B. SHAW. Man of Destiny. The English take their pleasures sadly. Due DE SULLY. Memoirs. (Wrongly attrib. to Froissart.) For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light. . . . This light they derive from the liberty of speaking and writing, and thereby of thinking. SWEDENBORG. As cited by Emer- son, English Traits, No. 3. I thank the goodness and the grace, Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. ANN AND JANE TAYLOR. Child's Hymn of Praise. The last great Englishman is low. TENNYSON. On the Duke of Wellington. No little lily-handed Baronet he, A great broad-shouldered, genial English- man. TENNYSON. Princess, Conclusion. How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy ! THACKERAY. Pendennis, Bk. 2, ch. 31 The English people are people who defend themselves. VOLTAIRE. La Pucelle. When a Frenchman and an Englishman think the same, you may be pretty sure that they are right. VOLTAIRE. Letters on the English. We are old in war, and if in guile we are young, Young also is the spirit that evermore Burns in our bosom even as heretofore. SIR W. WATSON. To the Troubler of the World, Aug. 5, 1914. After a', I maun confess that I like the Englishers, if they wadna be sae per- nicketty about what they eat. JOHN WILSON. Nodes. Minds like ours, my dear James, must always be above national prejudices, and in all companies it gives me pleasure to declare that, as a people, the English are very little indeed inferior to the Scotch. JOHN WILSON. Nodes. A right Englishman knows not when a thing is well. Prov. (Ray's collection). ENGRAVERS Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to out-do the life. BEN JONSON. Shakespeare's Portrait. Or where the pictures for the page atone, And Quarles is saved by beauties not his own. POPE. Dunciad, Bk. i, 139. ENJOYMENT An hour is long if lost in care ; They only live who life enjoy. JOHN DALTON, D.D. Adaptation of Milton's " Comus " (1738). Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying, If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying ! DRYDEN. Alexander's Feast, st. 5. 157 ENLIGHTENMENT ENTHUSIASM A day in such serene enjoyment spent Is worth an age of splendid discontent. JAS. MONTGOMERY. Greenland, 2. Contented if he might enjoy The things that others understand. WORDSWORTH. A Poet's Epitaph, st. 14. Let us start a new religion with one com- mandment, " Enjoy thyself." I. ZANGWILL. Children of the Ghetto, Bk. z, ch. 6. ENLIGHTENMENT Enable with perpetual light The dulness of our blinded sight. JOHN COSIN (BISHOP OF DURHAM). Tr . of " Veni, Creator." Ought one to rest idle amongst the shadows [of doubt] ? Or ought one to light a beacon at which calumny and envy may re-light their torches ? For myself, I believe that truth should no more hide before these monsters than that one should abstain from food for fear of being poisoned. VOLTAIRE. The Ignorant Philosopher. The shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Proverbs iv, 18. ENMITY What mark is so fair as the breast of a foe? BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 2, st. 72. Enmities always keep pace and are interwoven with friendships. PLUTARCH. On Friendships. ENTERPRISE Are there not, dear Michal, Two points in the adventure of the diver, One, when, a beggar, he prepares to plunge ; One, when, a prince, he rises with the pearl ? Festus, I plunge. BROWNING. Paracelsus, Pt. 2. Some enterprise That hath a stomach in 't. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, i. The blood more stirs To rouse a lion, than to start a hare. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act i, 2. But thou, O Goddess ! in thy favourite Isle, Quicken the slothful and exalt the vile ! Thy impulse is the life of Fame ; Glad Hope would almost cease to be If torn from thy society. WORDSWORTH. To Enterprise. ENTERTAINMENT A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings. DICKENS. Pickwick, c. 37. For one of the pleasures of having a rout Is the pleasure of having it over. HOOD. Miss Kilmansegg. Our true intent is all for your delight. SHAKESPEARE. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, i. ENTHUSIASM It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. A. J. BALFOUR. Letter to Mrs. Drew. A cause is like champagne and hiph heels one must be prepared to suffer for it. ARNOLD BENNETT. The Title. The sallow, virgin-minded, studious Martyr to mild enthusiasm. BROWNING. Christmas Eve, c. n. I do not blame such women, though for love They pick much oakum ; earth's fanatics make Too frequently heaven's saints. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 2. Never have a mission, my dear child. [Mr. Jellyby.] DICKENS. Bleak House, c. 50. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. EMERSON. Circles. Every man even the most cynical has one enthusiasm. He is in earnest about some one thing. The all-round trifler does not exist. JOHN OLIVER HOBBES. The Ambassador, Act 2. I am not going to let you talk like this. You are doing me an ill turn ; you are robbing me of my enthusiasm. [Stens- gaard.] IBSEN. League of Youth, Act i (1869). Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories with- out it. LORD LYTTON. Last Days of Pompeii, Bk. i, c. 8. The prudent man may direct a state ; but it is the enthusiast who regenerates it, or ruins. LORD LYTTON. Rienzi, Bk. i, c. 8. National enthusiasm is the great nursery of genius. H. T. TUCKERMAN. Defence of Enthusiasm. 5 ENTREATY ENVY Those things which the English public never forgives youth, power, and enthu- siasm. OSCAR WILDE. English Renaissance. ENTREATY He did entreat me past all saying nay. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 3, 2. ENUNCIATION Speak clearly, if you speak at all ; Carve every word before you let it fall. O. W. HOLMES. Rhymed Lesson. ENVY Envy is hatred of other people's happi- ness. ST. AUGUSTINE. On Psalm, 104, 25. Envy has no holidays. BACON. Instauratio, Pt. i, Bk. 6 (Prov. ?). [His creed resulted] less from love to the many than from hatred of the few. J. BENTHAM. Of James Mill. For wel unnethe [scarcely] is there any sinne that it hath not some delight in itself save only Envye, that ever hath in itself anguish and sorrow. CHAUCER. Parson's Tale, sec. 30. He sickened at all triumphs but his own. CHURCHILL. Rosciad, v. 64. For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us. C. C. COLTON. Ib. There is this frequent vice in great and free states, that envy is companion of glory. CORNELIUS NEPOS. Chabrias. He most is hated when he most is praised. DRYDEN. Rival Ladies. Envy is a kind of praise. GAY. Fables, 44. Lo ! ill-rejoicing Envy, winged with lies, Scattering calumnious rumours as she flies. HESIOD. Works and Days (Elton tr.). The Sicilian tyrants have not invented a worse torment than envy. HORACE. Ep., Bk. i. This is the discharge of the black cuttlefish ; this is very envy. HORACE. Sat., Bk. i. Envy the living, not the dead, doth bite ; For after death all men 1 receive their right. R. LOVELACE. On Sanazar. That most anti-social and odious of all passions, envy. J. S. MILL. Liberty, ch. 4. Can't I another's face commend, And to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lowers, As if her merit lessened yours ? EDWARD MOORE. Fables. The crop is more abundant in other people's fields ; our neighbour's herd has more milk than our own. OVID. Ars Amat., Bk. i. He, the Artificer of this universe, was good ; and in the good envy is never engendered concerning anything whatever. PLATO. Timtzus, 10. I would rather that my enemies envy me than that I should envy my enemies ; for it is misery to be envious because it is well with another and ill with yourself. PLAUTUS. Truculenius, Act 4, 2. Spleen to mankind his envious heart possessed, And much he hated all, but most the best. POPE. Iliad, Bk. 2, 267. Whoso reaps above the rest, With heaps of hate shall surely be op- pressed. SIR W. RALEGH. Commendation of the Steele Glas. Such men as he be never at heart's ease, Whiles they behold a greater than them- selves. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Cn Sir J. Vanbrugh, architect (by Dr. Evans). 161 EPITAPHS And if there be no meeting past the grave, If all is darkness, silence, yet 'tis rest. Be not afraid, ye waiting hearts that weep, For still He giveth His beloved sleep, And if an endless sleep He wills, 'tis best. Huxley's epitaph (1895), said to be by Mrs. Huxley. Only the first three lines are over his grave. Here lies Tom Hyde ; It's a pity that he died ; We had rather It had been his father ; If it had been his sister, We had not missed her ; If the whole generation, It had been better for the nation. Quoted in letter July 9, 1667, as an epitaph composed on the death of a son of Lord Chancellor Hyde. Here lies Fred, Who was alive and is dead. Had it been his father I had much rather ; Had it been his brother, Still better than the other ; Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her; Had it been the whole generation, All the better for the nation ; But since 'tis only Fred, That was alive and is dead, Why, there's no more to be said. Jacobite Epitaph on Frederick, Prince of Wales (died 1751). Here lies one whose name was writ in water. K eats' s Epitaph, 1820. When life is past and death is come, Then well are they who well have done. Epitaph in Kilpeck Church. Beneath this stone old Abra'm lies ; Nobody laughs and nobody cries ; Where he's gone or how he fares, Nobody knows and no one cares. On A braham Newland, Chief Cashier of Bank of England (d. 1 807) . In heart a Lydia, and in tongue a Hanna, In zeale a Ruth, in wedlock a Susanna, Prudently simple, providently wary, To the world a Martha, and to Heaven a Mary. On Dame Dorothy Selby (1641). Good frend, for Jesus sake forbear To digg the Dust encloased here. Bleste be the Man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. Shakespeare's Epitaph, Stratford-on-Avon. Here am I laid, my life of misery done ; Ask not my name ; I curse you every one. Epitaph of Timon of Athens, as recorded by Plutarch (Life of Antony). EQUITY Here lies a poor woman who always was tired She lived in a house where help was not hired. Her last words on earth were : " Dear friends, I am going Where washing ain't done, nor sweeping, nor sewing ; But everything there is exact to my wishes, For where they don't eat there's no washing of dishes ; I'll be where loud anthems will always be ringing, But having no voice, I'll be clear of the singing. Don't mourn for me now, don't mourn for me never, I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever." Tired Woman's Epitaph, c. 1850? Anon. His throat they cut from ear to ear, His brains they battered in : His name was Mr. William Weare, He lived in Lyon's Inn. Lines (by " Hoppy V/ebb " ?) on the murder of William Weare, 1823. Here rests a man who never rested here. Latin Epitaph on a bishop in Ravenna Cathedral. Between the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found. Quoted in Camden's " Remaines," 1636. EPITHETS Adjectives are the greatest enemies of substantives, though they agree in number, gender and case. VOLTAIRE. EPITOMES Epitomes have been called the moths of just history ; they eat out the poetry of it. SHELLEY. Defence of Poetry (1821). EQUALITY The time will come when men Will be as free and equal as the waves, That seem to jostle, but that never jar. ALFRED AUSTIN. Tower of Babel, Act 2. Cousin Hastings, we cannot all be top branches of the tree, though we all spring from the same root. FULLER. Worthies, Art of Shire Reeves (Remark of the Earl of Huntingdon). And one man is as good as another and a great dale betther, as the Irish philosopher said. THACKERAY. Roundabout Papers, On Ribbons. EQUITY There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law 162 EQUIVOCATION ERROR of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity the law of nature and of nations. BURKE. Impeachment of Hastings. A good judge judges according to what is right and good, and prefers equity to strict law. COKE. EQUIVOCATION The great sophism of all sophisms being equivocation or ambiguity of words or phrase. BACON. Adv. of Learning, Bk. 2. God bless the king, I mean the faith's defender ; God bless no harm in blessing the pretender ; Who that pretender is and who is king God bless us all, that's quite another thing. JOHN BYROM (1691-1753). He sowed doubtful speeches, and reaped plain, unequivocal hatred. LAMB. Last Essays. To doubt the equivocation of the fiend, That lies like truth. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 5, 5. And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 7. I moralise two meanings in one word. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act 3, i. The cruellest lies are often told in silence. R. L. STEVENSON. Virginibus, Pt. 4. ERROR The best may err. ADDISON. Cato, Act 5, 4. To err is human, to persist in error is devilish. ST. AUGUSTINE. Sermon 164. A double error sometimes sets us right. P. J. BAILEY. Festus. Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. BOLINGBROKE. Reflections upon Exile. They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. BURKE. Speech on Economical Reform (Feb. 1780). The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn, and wise to know. And keenly felt the friendlv slow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stained his name ! BURNS. A Bard's Epitaph. O think not of his errors now ; remember His greatness, his munificence, think on all The lovely features of his character, On all the noble exploits of his life, And let them, like an angel's arm, unseen, Arrest the lifted sword. COLERIDGE. Wallenstein. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. C. C. COLTON. Reflections, No. 5. Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. COWPER. The Doves. Faults in the life breed errors in the brain. COWPER. Progress of Error, 563. The individual is always mistaken. EMERSON. Experience. No vehement error can exist in this world with impunity. J. A. FROUDE. Spinoza. Brother, brother, we are both in the wrong. GAY. Beggar's Opera, Act 2, 2. The mixture of those things by speech, which by nature are divided, is the mother of all error. HOOKER. Error cannot be defended but by error. Untruth cannot be shielded but by untruth. BISHOP JEWELL. Defence of the Apology for the Church of England. There is no anguish like an error of which we feel ashamed, (ist) LORD LYTTON. Ernest Maltravers, Bk. 2, c. 3. Delusion may triumph, but the triumphs of delusion are but for a day. MACAULAY. Speech, 1839 Alas ! how easily things go wrong ! A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long ; And then comes a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again. G. MACDONALD. Phantasies. The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing, when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. J. S. MILL. Liberty, c. 2. Error by his own arms is best evinced. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. 4, 235. For his was the error of head, not of heart. MOORE. The Slave. 163 ESQUIRE I see and I approve the better course ; I follow the worse. OVID. Metam, 7, 20. O hateful error, melancholy's child ! Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men, The things that are not ? SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ccesar, Act 5, 3. A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right. R. L. STEVENSON. Crabbed Age. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. SWIFT. Thoughts on Various Subjects (also altrib. to Pope). Someone had blundered. TENNYSON. Charge of Light Brigade. O purblind race of miserable men ! How many among us at this very hour Do forge a lifelong trouble for ourselves By taking true for false, or false for true ! TENNYSON. Geraint and Enid, i. O my princess ! true she errs, But in her own grand way. TENNYSON. Princess, c. 3, 91. Error is a hardy plant ; it flourisheth in every soil. M. F. TUPPER. Proverbial Philosophy. For they are blest that have not much to rue That have not oft misheard the prompter's cue, Stammered and stumbled, and the wrong parts played, And life a Tragedy of Errors made. SIR W. WATSON. To a Friend. When the learned man errs, he errs in a learned way. Arabic prov. It is the nature of men to err, of fools to persist in error. Latin prov. ESQUIRE Now 'Squire 's a title of much reputation Belongs to people of no occupation. J. WOLCOT. Rights of Kings, To the Public. ESSEX England has greater counties Their peace to hers is small ; Low hills, rich fields, calm rivers,- In Essex seek them all A. S. CRIPPS. E-sex. ETHICS ESTIMATES There is usually less money, less wisdom and less good faith than men do account upon. Bacon's tr. of Italian prov. Maidens' tochers and ministers' stipends are aye less than ca'd. Scottish prov. ESTRANGEMENT I knew you once : but in Paradise, If we meet, I will pass nor turn my face. BROWNING. The Worst of it. Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain. DRAYTON. Ideas, Sonnet 61. There must be now no passages of love Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore. TENNYSON. Merlin and Vivien. ETERNITY Eternity, thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! ADDISON. Cato, Act 5, I. Who can speak of Eternity without a solecism ? SIR T. BROWNE. Religio Medici, Pt. i, n. He said, " What's time ? Leave Now for dogs and apes ! " Man has Forever." BROWNING. Grammarian's Funeral, 83. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last. COWLEY. Davideis, Bk. i, 361. Eternity for bubbles proves at last A senseless bargain. COWPER. Garden, 175. And what a trifle is a moment's breath, Laid in the scale with everlasting death ! SIR J. DENHAM. Prudence, 139. Eternity be thou my refuge. Epitaph on the tomb of Etienne Pivert de Sennacour. ETHICS Begin where we will, we are pretty sure in a short space to be mumbling our ten commandments. EMERSON. Prudence. Such a body of ethics, proved to be the law of nature, from principles of reason, and reaching all the duties of life, I think nobody will say the world had before our Saviour's time. LOCKE. Reasonableness of Christianity 164 ETIQUETTE I believe that other ethics than any which can be evolved from exclusively Christian sources, must exist, side by side with Christian ethics, to produce the moral regeneration of mankind. J. S. MILL. Liberty, ch. 2. ETIQUETTE But they couldn't chat together they had not been introduced. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Etiquette. Where etiquette prevents me from doing things disagreeable to myself, I am a per- fect martinet. SYDNEY SMITH. Letter to Lady Holland, Nov. 6, 1842. EUPHEMISM It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. WINSTON CHURCHILL. Speech in House of Commons, Feb. 22, 1906. He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense. . . . He had merely considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view, DICKENS. Pickwick Papers, ch. i. EVENING At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove. BEATTIE. The Hermit. When the gloaming is, I never made the ghost of an endeavour To discover but whatever were the hour it would be sweet. C. S. CALVERLEY. In the Gloaming. The dews of the evening most carefully shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. To a Lady in Autumn. 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. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds. GRAY. -1b. The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night. LONGFELLOW. Day is <:one. EVIDENCE Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 4, 598. How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, And sunbeams melt along the silent sea, For then sweet dreams of other days arise, And memory breathes her vesper sigh to me. MOORE. Irish Melodies. The hills grow dark, On purple peaks a deeper shade descend- ing. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, Conclusion. As pensive evening deepens into night. WORDSWORTH. To . EVENTS There are moments in life worth pur- chasing with worlds. FIELDING. Amelia, Bk. 3, c. 2. Oh ! what a crowded world one moment may contain ! MRS. HEMANS. The Last Constantine, 59. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have con- trolled me. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Speech, 1864. These most brisk and giddy-paced times. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 2, 4. It is not an event ; it is a piece of news. TALLEYRAND (on the death of Napoleon}. All the great events of this globe are like the globe itself, of which one half is in the full daylight and the other half is plunged in obscurity. VOLTAIRE. Pyrrhonism of History. EVIDENCE " You must not tell us what the soldier, or any other man said, sir," interposed the judge ; " it's not evidence." DICKENS. Pickwick Papers, ch. 34. The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye. HERODOTUS. One eye-witness is better than ten hear- say witnesses. PLAUTUS. Truculentus, Act 2. Give me six lines written by the hand of a most honourable man, and I will find in them something to cause him to be hanged. RICHELIEU. Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. H. D. THOREAU. Unpublished MSS. 165 EVIL EXAMINATIONS The eyes believe themselves, the ears believe other people. Prov. (from the Greek). One man's word is no man's word ; Justice needs that both be heard. Translation of Inscription in Frankfort Council Chamber. EVIL Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil. CARLYLE. Chartism, ch. 10. The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good. COLERIDGE. Piccolomini. To do evil to men differs in no respect from committing injustice. PLATO. Crito, 10 (Gary tr.). Man, do not waste further time in searching for the author of evil ; that author is yourself. ROUSSEAU. Entile. He was always for ill, and never for good. SCOTT. Lay of the Last Minstrel, c. 3, 12. A thing Too bad for bad report. SHAKESPEARE. Cymbeline, Act i, i. Evil perpetually tends to disappear. HERBERT SPENCER. Social Statics, Pt. i, ch. 2. The origin of evil has always been an abyss which no one can fathom. VOLTAIRE. Dictionnaire Pkilosophique (Bien). Good and evil shall not be held equal. Koran, ch. 41. EVIL DEEDS Some act That has no relish of salvation in it. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 3. EVILS Of two evils the lesser is always to be chosen. THOMAS A KEMPIS. be Imit., 3. 12, 2. Of two evils choose neither. C. H. SPURGEON. John Ploughman. On the right hand Scylla, on the left implacable Charybdis. VIRGIL. jEneid, 3, 420. The twelve evils of the age : (i) A wise man without works ; (2) an old man with- out religion ; (3) a young man without obedience ; (4) a rich man without charity ; (5) a woman without modesty ; (6) a lord without valour ; (7) a quarrelsome Christian ; (8) a proud pauper ; (9) an unjust king}; (10) a negligent bishop ; (n) a lower class without discipline ; (12) a people without law. Homily, c. 1200 (E. E. T. S. No. 34, P- 107). EVOLUTION There was an Ape in the days that were earlier ; Centuries passed and his liair became curlier ; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist, Then he was Man, and a Positivist. MORTIMER COLLINS. Evolution is not a force but a process, not a cause but a law. LORD MORLEY. Compromise. Yet I doubt not through the ages one in- creasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. TENNYSON. Locksley Hall. EXACTION The pound of flesh, which I demand of him, Is dearly bought, 'tis mine, and I will have it. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venire, Act 4, i. EXAGGERATION The speaking in perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but in love. BACON. Essays, Love. A good speaker must be somewhat of a poet and therefore cannot adhere mathe- matically to the truth. BISMARCK. What you exaggerate you weaken. LA HARPE. O brother, speak with possibilities, And do not break into these deep extremes. SHAKESPEARE. Titus Andronicus, 3, i. I am convinced that I cannot exaggerate enough even to lay the foundation of a true expression. H. D. THOREAU. Walden, Conclusion. His statements was interesting but tough. MARK TWAIN. Huckleberry Finn. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. MARK TWAIN. Ib. EXAMINATIONS Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared ; for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. 166 EXAMPLE EXCLUSIVENESS EXAMPLE Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. BURKE. Letters on a Regicide Peace. This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte. CHAUCER. Cant. Tales, Prol. Example does the whole. Whoever is foremost Still leads the herd. COLERIDGE. Wallenstein. Himself a wanderer from the narrow way, His silly sheep, what wonder if they stray ? COWPER. Progress of Error, 118. Example is the greatest of all the seducers. COLLIN D'HARLEVILLE. Les Maurs du Jour. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints in the sands of time. LONGFELLOW. Psalm of Life. There taught us how to live, and (oh, too high The price for knowledge !) taught us how to die. TICKELL. Epitaph on Addison. Example is a lesson that all men can read. GILBERT WEST. Education. O could we copy their mild virtues ! Then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their very names shine still and bright ; Apart like glow-worms on a summer's night. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pt. 3, 5. Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee, air, earth, and skies ; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee. Thou hast great allies ; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. WORDSWORTH. Poems to National Indep., Pt. i, No. 8 (To Toussaint VOuverture). He mourns the dead who lives as they desire. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, z. If the abbot sings well, the novice soon gets in harmony with him. French prov. A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning. Prov. quoted by Geo. Herlert. EXCELLENCE Give me leave to make the excuse of Boccace, who when he was upbraided that some of his novels had not the spirit of the rest, returned this answer, that Charle- magne, who made the paladins, was never able to raise an army of them. DRYDEN. Dedic. of &neid. All these I better in one general best. SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet 91. EXCESS The best things carried to excess are wrong. CHURCHILL. Rosciad, 1039. The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. Solid men of Boston, banish long potations; Solid men of Boston, make no long orations. C. MORRIS. Founded on older lines. Something too much of this. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 2. Ah ! No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 2,3. These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 2. 6. All owres [overs] are repute to be vyce, Owre hich.owre low, owre rasch, owre nyce, Owre het, or zit owre cauld. Anon. Cherry and the Sloe. He is like the devil's valet, he does more than he is told. French prov. All excess turns into vice. Latin prov. EXCISE Excise : A commodities. hateful tax levied upon JOHNSON. Dictionary. EXCITABILITY Heart of gunpowder, shun the candle of temptation. Given as a prov. by C. H. Spurgeon. EXCITEMENT There was silence deep as death ; And the boldest held his breath For a tune. CAMPBELL. Battle of the Baltic, 2. EXCLUSIVENESS Their law of keeping out strangers is a law of pusillanimity and fear. BACON. New Atlantis. 167 EXCUSES EXISTENCE The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me. T. H. BAYLY. Song. Farewell, farewell the heart that lives alone, Housed in a dream, at distance from the Kind! Such happiness, wherever it be known, Is to be pitied ; for 'tis surely blind. WORDSWORTH. Elegiac Stanzas, 1805. EXCUSES " Oh, surely ! surely ! " said Mr. Spen- low. ..." I should be happy myself to propose two months, . . . but I have a partner, Mr. Jorkins." DICKENS. Copperfield, c. 23. When you believe that you excuse your- self, you are accusing yourself. ST. JEROME. Ep. 4, c. 3, Ad virginem in exilium missam. Hence with denial vain and coy excuse ! MILTON. Lycidas, 18. In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 9, 853. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie ; for an excuse is a lie guarded. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. SHAKESPEARE. King John, Act 4, 2. A god's command he pleads, And makes heaven accessory to his deeds. VIRGIL jEneid, Bk. \ (Dryden Ir). An excuse uncalled for becomes an ob- vious accusation. Law Maxim. Compare St. Jerome (supia) and the French " Qui s'excuse s'accuse." EXECUTORS Women be forgetful, children be unkind, Executors be covetous, and take what they find; If anybody ask where the dead's goods became, They answer, So God me help and holy dome, he died a poor man. Quoted as " the old proverb " in S/owe's " Survey of London," 1603. EXERCISE Better to hunt in fields for health un bought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend ; God never made His work for man to mend. DRYDEN. To J. Driden. Diana is represented as the foe of love, and the allegory is very correct ; the languors of love are only born of a sweet idleness. ROUSSEAU. Emile. EXHAUSTION These are among the effects of un- remitted labour, when men exhaust their attention, burn out then: candles, and are left in the dark. BURKE. Letter to a member of National Assembly (1791). The combat ceased for want of com- batants. CORNEILLE. Cid, Act 4, 3. Yet all the little that I got I spent, And still returned as empty as I went. DRYDEN. Virgil, Pastoral i. EXILE The deep unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel. W. E. AYTOUN. Island of the Scots. fruo patriots we ; for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good. G. BARRINGTON. Prologue. 'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. G. FARQUHAR. Beaux' Stratagem, Act 3, 2. Oh thou, whom chance leads to this name- less stone, From that proud country which was once my own, By those white cliffs I never more must see, By that dear language which I spake like thee, Forget all feuds and shed one English tear O'er English dust ; a broken heart lies here. MACAULAY. On a Jacobite. By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs com- posed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourned ! POPE. Elegy, 51. For exile hath more terror in his look, Much more than death. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, 3. Weep ye not for the dead, neither be- moan him : but weep sore for him that gocth away : for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. Jeremiah xxii, 10. EXISTENCE I came like Water, and like Wind 1 j o. FITZGERALD. Rubiiyat, st> 2 '. 168 EXPECTANCY EXPERIENCE For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk 2, 146. 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die. J. MONTGOMERY. Issues of Life. How good it is to live, even at the worst ! STEPHEN PHILLIPS. Christ in Hades. To be or not to be, that is the question. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, i. We look before and after ; And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught. SHELLEY. To a Skylark. I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me. MRS. H. B. STOWE. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Topsy). EXPECTANCY AND EXPECTATION " In case anything turned up," which was his [Mr. Micawber's] favourite ex- pression. DICKENS. David Copperfield. Nothing is so good as it seems before- hand. GEO. ELIOT. Silas Marner, ch. 18. " Blessed is the man who expects nothing for he shall never be disap- pointed," was the ninth beatitude which a man of wit . . . added to the eighth. POPE. Letter to W. Fortescue, Sept., 1725. For now sits Expectation in the air. SHAKESPEARE. Henry V ., Act 2, chorus. He hath indeed better bettered expecta- tion than you must expect me to tell you how. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act i, i. 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear ; Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were. SIR J. SUCKLING. Against Fruition, st. 4. Unhappy is he who trusts only to time for his happiness. VOLTAIRE. Ar f emire. " 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear ; Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were." If 'twere not heaven, if we knew what it were, 'Twould not be heaven to those who now are there. WALLER. Answer to Sir J. Suckling. It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. ARCHBP. WHATELY. Apophthegms. " We'll wait a bit and see," as the puppy said when he was a week old. Prov . EXPEDIENCY If they, directed by Paul's holy pen, Become discreetly all things to all men, That all men may become all things to them, Envy may hate, but Justice can't con- demn. CHURCHILL. Prophecy of Famine, 211. I [Thrasymachus] maintain that Justice is merely that which is expedient for the strongest. PLATO. Republic, Bk. i, 12. Wrest once the law to your authority ; To do a great right, do a little wrong. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 4, i. As some affirm that we say, Let us do evil, that good may come. Romans iii, 8. EXPENDITURE I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men. PEPYS. Diary, 1662. Public money is like holy water every- one helps himself. Italian prov. EXPERIENCE By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. R. ASCHAM. Scholemaster. Difficulty is a severe instructor. BURKE. Reflections on the Revolution. Experience, slow preceptress, teaching oft The way to glory by miscarriage foul. COWPER. Garden, 566. None know but they who feel the smart. SIR J. DENHAM. Friendship. Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can- not learn men from books. DISRAELI. Vivian Grey,Bk. 5, ch. i. The years teach much which the days never know. EMERSON. Experience. The Indian Red Jacket, when the young braves were boasting their deeds, said : But the sixties have all the twenties and forties in them. EMERSON. Old Age. The knowledge which is most delightful to others is not that which a man takes out of his mind, as he would money out of EXPERIMENT EXTENUATION his pocket (both having the impress of another head), but what he gives you stamped with his own nature his own knowledge. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Slavery, ch. i. Trustfulness is silver ; experience of the world is golden. [Hejro's " proverb of his own invention."] IBSEN. League of Youth, Act i (1860). We spend our lives in learning pilotage, And grow good steersmen when the vessel's crank. GEO. MEREDITH. Wisdom of Eld. It is well to be taught, even by an enemy. OVID. Metam., Bk. 4. Them as won't be ruled by the rudder, must be ruled by the rock. EDEN PHILLPOTTS. Experience, that excellent master, has taught me many things. PLINY THE YOUNGER. (Adapted). He best can paint 'em who shall feel 'em most. POPE. Eloisa, 366. Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to Death, and make him under- stand, After a search so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong. EARL OF ROCHESTER. Satire. There are not words enough in all Shake- speare to express the merest fraction of a man's experience in an hour. R. L. STEVENSON. W. Whitman. The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me. TENNYSON. Last Tournament. Experience is a name everyone gives to their mistakes. OSCAR WILDE. Lady Windermere's Fan. Unless a serpent eats a serpent it will not become a dragon. Latin (Medi&val) prov. [The meaning appears to be that unless a wise (or cun- ning) man avails himself of the wisdom (or cunning) of another, he will not be predominant.] He wrongfully accuses Neptune who makes shipwreck a second time. Latin Prov. quoted by Gellius, Macrobius, Fublilius Syrus, etc. EXPERIMENT In politics experiments mean revolutions. DISRAELI. Popanilla, c. 4. EXPLANATION I wish he would explain his explanation. BYRON. Don Juan, c. i, Dedication, 2. Glosyng [i.e., glossing, explaining] is a glorious thing, certeyn, For lettre sleeth [slayeth], so as we clerkes seyn. CHAUCER. Summoner's Tale, 85. The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. DICKENS. Dombey, Bk. i, 23. We only call it pretty Fanny's way. T. PARNELL. Elegy. Your defence, Socrates [said Protagoras], is more erroneous than the passage [in Simonides] which you defend. PLATO. Protagoras, 76 (Gary ir.). If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon com- pulsion, I. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 2, 4. Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two. SHERIDAN. Critic, Act i, 2. EXPLORATION Take up the White Man's burden Send forth the best ye breed Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need ; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. KIPLING. White Man's Burden. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield. POPE. Essay on Man. EXPLOSIVES He [Captain Shotover] is trying to dis- cover a psychic ray that will explode all the explosives at the will of a Mahatma. G. B. SHAW. Heartbreak House, Act i. EXPRESSION The silent rhetoric of a look. S. DANIEL. Queen's Arcadia. And leered like a love-sick pigeon. SOUTHEY. Devil's Walk. Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. MARK TWAIN. Mysterious Visit. EXTENUATION We must make allowances for a mind which has received a grievous wound. OVID. Ep. ex. Pont. 170 EXTINCTION EYES EXTINCTION Fate cropped him short for be it under- stood, He would have lived much longer, if he could. W. B. RHODES. Bombastes. EXTORTION God be wi' the gude laird o' Balmaghie, for he ne'er took mair frae a poor man than he had. Scottish saying. EXTRAVAGANCE What you do not want is dear at a farthing. CATO (Quoted by Seneca). Extravagance and good luck, by long custom, go hand in hand. MADAME D'ARBLAY. Camilla, Dk. 10, c. 13. I never could teach the fools of this age that the indigent world could be clothed out of the trimmings of the vain. GOLDSMITH. She Stoops to Conquer, Act i. Whose welth was want, whose plenty made him poor. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. i, 4, 29. Far-fetched and dear bought is good for ladies. STUBBES. Anatomy of Abuses, 1583 (Prov.). As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted them ! Quality always distinguishes itself, and therefore as the mechanic people buy things because they have occasion for 'em, you see women of rank always buy things because they have not occasion for 'em. SIR J. VANBRUGH. Confederacy, Act 2, i. EXTREMES Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs of Hell. So men, who one extravagance would shun, Into the contrary'extreme have run. BUTLER. Satire on Age of Charles II. For blindness is the first-born of excess. BYRON. Heaven and Earth, i, i. Avoid extremes. CLEOBULUS OF LINDOS. (c. B.C. 550). I have seen eross intolerance shown in support of toleration ; sectarian antipathy most obtrusively displayed in the pro- motion of an undistinguishing comprehen- sion of sects ; and acts of cruelty, I had almost said of treachery, committed in furtherance of an object vitally important to the cause of humanity ; and all this by men too of naturally kind dispositions and exemplary conduct. COLERIDGE. Biographia Literaria, ch. 10. An Englishman sees easily the absurdity which lurks in any extreme proposition. SIR A. HELPS. Friends on Council, Bk. 2, ch. 5. And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 2, 598. Who love too much, hate in the like extreme. POPE. Odyssey, Bk. 15, 79. Too far East is West. Your nice man is nasty, your severely righteous man is unfair, your ultra-democrat is a tyrant, and your liberal thinker is a bigot. C. H. SPURGEON. "Salt-Cellars." The falsehood of extremes. TENNYSON. Of Old sat Freedom. 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., st. 17. EXULTATION Unholy is the voice Of loud thanksgiving over slaughtered men. COWPER. Odyssey, 22, 412. Soothed 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. DRYDEN. Alexander's Feast, st. 4. True courage scorns To vent her prowess in a storm of words ; And, to the valiant, actions speak alone. SMOLLETT. Regicide, Act i, 7. Why these insulting words, this waste of breath, To souls undaunted and secure of death ? "Tis no dishonour for the brave to die, Nor came I here with hope of victory. VIRGIL. JEneid, Bk. 10 (Dryden tr.). EYES Those eyes of deep, soft, lucent hue Eyes too expressive to be blue, Too lovely to be grey. M. ARNOLD. Faded Leaves (On the Rhine), 4. Those eyes, affectionate and glad, That seemed to love whate'er they looked upon. CAMPBELL; Gertrude, Pt. 2, 4. 1 7 J EYES FABLES Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes, Dumb eloquence, whose power doth move the blood. S. DANIEL. Rosamond, st. 19. He [Mr. Squeers] had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two. DICKENS. Nickleby, c. 4. His smiling eyes with simple truth were stored. PHINEAS FLETCHER (?). Britain's Ida, c. i. His eyes had a godlike stedfastness, for it is, generally speaking, the distinctive mark of a god that his look is unmoved. . . . Napoleon's eyes possessed this pecu- liarity, and hence I am convinced that he also was a god. HEINE. The Romantic School. The lovers, interchanging words and sighs, Lost in the heaven of one another's eyes. LEIGH HUNT. Rimini. Eyes of most unholy blue. MOORE. Irish Melodies, By That Lake. Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes. POPE. Iliad, Bk. 14, 252. The dew that on the violet lies Mocks the dark lustre of thine eyes. SCOTT. Lord of the Isles, i, 3. Those doves' eyes, Which can make gods forsworn. SHAKESPEARE. Coriolanus, Act 5, 3. From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They are the ground, the books, the academes, From whence doth spring the true Prome- thean fire. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, Act 4, 3- For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? SHAKESPEARE. Ib. The heavenly rhetoric of thine eye. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. In silent wonder of still-gazing eyes. SHAKESPEARE. Lucrece, 12. Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 3. 4. Those eyes which burn through smiles that fade in tears, Like stars half quenched in mists of sil ver dew. SHELLEY. Prometheus, Act 2 i. His soul seemed hovering in his eyes. SHELLEY. Ro - Philosophy, 22. Call no man happy before his death. ^ SOLON (according to Aristotle). Happiness is added Life and the giver of Life. HERBERT SPENCER. Representative Government. There is no duty we so much underrate, as the duty of being happy. R. L. STEVENSON. Idlers. What thing so good which not some harm may bring ? Even to be happy is a dangerous thing. EARL OF STIRLING. Darius, Chorus i. Never yet Had heaven appeared so blue, nor earth so green. TENNYSON. Holy Grail, 364. Every mortal has for his share his own happiness near at hand to him. VOLTAIRE. Sur V Usage de la Vie. The little-known art of being happy. VOLTAIRE. Ib. Macare (Happiness), it is thou whom I desire ; we love thee and we lose thee ; I believe that I have found you in my home, but I beware of saying so. When we boast of having thee we are deprived of thee by envy. To keep thee one must know how to hide thee and to hide one's life. VOLTAIRE. Theleme et Macare. Happiness is no laughing matter. ARCHBISHOP WHATELY. Apophthegms. Compassed round by pleasure, sighed For independent happiness. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 3. The happy only are the truly great. YOUNG. Love of Fame, Sat. 6. How sad a sight is human happiness To those whose thought can pierce be- yond an hour. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, i. Beware what earth calls happiness; beware All joys but joys that never can expire. YOUNG. Ib. HARD-HEARTEDNESS A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, Uncapable of pity, void and empty From any dram of mercy. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 4, i. Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart. SHELLEY. Cenci, Act 5, 2. And though she saw all heaven in flower above, She would not love. SWINBURNE. Leave-Taking. HARDNESS Plenty and peace breeds cowards ; hard- ness ever Of hardiness is mother. SHAKESPEARE. Cymbeline, Act 3. 6. The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war, My thrice-driven bed of down. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act i, 3. 225 HARMONY HATE, HATRED HARMONY There's no music when a woman is in the concert. DEKKER. Honest Whore, Pt. z, Act 4, 3. From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. DRYDEN. St. Cecilia's Day, 1687. Heard melodies are sweet, but tho'e unheard are sweeter. KEATS. A Grecian Urn. By harmony our souls are swayed ; By harmony the world was made. LORD LANSDOWNE. British Enchanters, Act i. Lifted on the breeze Of harmony, beyond all earthly care. WORDSWORTH. The fairest, brightest hues. HARSHNESS Now there will be an outbreak of new laws : . . . This deed will prompt forthwith All mortal men to callous recklessness. . . For since no wrath on evil deeds will creep Henceforth from those who watch With wild, fierce souls the evil deeds of men, I will let loose all crime.* ^ESCHYLUS. Eumenides, 727 (Plumptre tr.). HARVEST How good the God of Harvest is to you, Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields. THOMSON. Autumn, 170. If weather be fair and tidy thy grain, Make speedy carriage, for fear of rain : For tempest and showers deceiveth a many, And lingering lubbers lose many a penny. T. TUSSER. August's Husbandry. Mist in May and heat in June Make the harvest richt sune. Scottish prov. Good harvests make men prodigal ; bad ones, provident. Prov. (Ray's Collection). HASTE A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry, because he knows that whatever he does in a hurry he must necessarily do very ill. LORD CHESTERFIELD. Advice to his Son. * This is a faithfully-drawn picture of that over- rigid severity with which men of sterner nature generally meet the advocates of mercy and indulgence. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry. No. 22 (E. K. Francis tr.). Hurry is the mark of a weak mind ; dispatch, of a strong one. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. I find this proverb true, That haste makes waste. G. GASCOIGNE. Memories, 3, 7. Heyo dar ! don't kick 'fo' you er spurred, honey ! J. C. HARRIS. Nights with Uncle Remus, ch. 22. Bloody with spurring, fiery-red with haste. SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., Act 2, 3. Haste administers all things badly. STATIUS. Thebaidos Libri. But who in heat of blood was ever wise ? YOUNG. Love of Fame, Sat. 3. Man is created of haste. Koran, ch. 21. A hasty man drinks his tea with a fork. Chinese prov. Hurry is of the devil, but slow advancing comes from God. Eastern prov. Dress slowly when you are in a hurry. French prov. HATE, HATRED Dante, who loved well because he hated, Hated wickedness that hinders loving. BROWNING. One Word More. And when his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled and Mercy sighed farewell. BYRON. Corsair, c. i, 9. These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 4, 93. Now rose the unleavened hatred of his heart. BYRON. Lara, c. 2, 4. The ruling principle of Hate, Which for its pleasure doth create The things it may annihilate. BYRON. Prometheus. I do not hate him near as much as I fear I ought to do. CARLYLE. In reference to Bishop of Oxford. Love, as though some day you would have to hate ; hate, as though some day you would have to love. CHILO (c. 550 B.C.). Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. CONGREVE. Mourning Bride, Act 3, 2. We can hardly hate anyone that we know. HAZLITT. Distant Objects. 226 HATE, HATRED HEALTH A good hater. JOHNSON. Mrs. Piozzi's " Johns oniana." Dear Bathurst was a man to my very heart's content. He hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a whig. He was a very good hater. JOHNSON. Of Richard Bathurst (d. 1762) We never will forgo our hate ; We have all but a single hate ; We love as one, we hate as one, We have one foe and one alone, England ! ERNST LISSAUER. " Song of Hate " (1914) as tr. by Barbara Henderson. There's nothing in this world so sweet as love, And next to love the sweetest thing is hate. LONGFELLOW. Spanish Student, Act 2, 5. Folks never understand the folks they hate. J. R. LOWELL. Biglow Papers, 2nd Series, 2. A true man hates no one. NAPOLEON. As if thou hadst unlearned the power to hate. J. OLDHAM. On C. Morwent. There is no good result when hatred is returned for hatred. SCHILLER. Honey from silkworms who can gather, Or silk from the yellow bee ? The grass may grow in winter weather As soon as hate in me. SHELLEY. To a Critic. I would find grievous ways to have thee slain, Intense device and superflux of pain. SWINBURNE. A nactoria. Who cannot hate, can love not. SWINBURNE. In the Bay. It is not so easy as people suppose to hate continuously. TALLEYRAND. Memoir read before the French Institute. There is no enmity can mate With what was love and now is hate. D. W. THOMPSON. From Euripides. To instruct the human race need one discard humanity ? Is the torch of Hatred indispensable to show us the Truth ? VOLTAIRE. Fanaticism. Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness ; Could we but see one another, 'twere well! Knowledge is sympathy, charity, kindness ; Ignorance only is maker of hell. SIR W. WATSON. England to Ireland. We hold our hate too choice a thing For light and careless lavishing. SIR W. WATSON. Hate. And man is hate, but God is love. WHITTIER. Chapel of the Hermits. O, woman wronged can cherish hate More dark and deep than manhood may. WHITTIER. Mogg Megone. HATS In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam ! I love the English. BERANGER. If he be not in love with some woman, there is no believing old signs : a' brushes his hat o' mornings ; what should that bode ? SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 3, 2. HEALTH To gather riches, do not hazard health, For truth to say, health is the wealth of wealth. SIR RICHARD BAKER. The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick : this is the Physician's Aphorism. CARLYLE. Characteristics. Good or bad health makes our philo- sophy. CHAULIEU. What a searching preacher of self- command is the varying phenomenon of Health ! EMERSON. Discipline. I honour health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. EMERSON. Inspiration. Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. EMERSON. Nature. Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health. GRAY. Ode. We er sorter po'ly [sort of poorly], Sis Tempy, I'm 'blige ter you. You know w'at de jay-bird say ter der squinch-owl, " I'm sickly but sassy." J. C. HARRIS. Nights with Uncle Remus, ch. 50. A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to pray for. JUVENAL. Sat. 4. Life is not to be alive, but to be well. MARTIAL. Bk. 6. Perfect health and spirits ... is an enjoyment [which] probably constitutes, in a great measure, the happiness of infants and brutes, especially of the lower and sedentary orders of animals, as of oysters, periwinkles, and the like, for which I have sometimes been at a loss to find out amuse- men{, PALEY. Moral and Political Philosophy. Bk. i, ch. 6. 227 HEARTLESSNESS Grant me but health, thou great Be- stower of it, and give me but this fair goddess as my companion, and shower down thy mitres, if it seem good unto thy Divine Providence, upon those heads which are aching for them STERNE . Sent imental Jo urney . Look to your health ; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience ; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of ; a blessing that money cannot buy. I. WALTON. Complete Angler, ch. 21. The health (or safety) of the people is the highest law. Derived (by tradition) from the 12 Law Tables at Rome. HEARTLESSNESS He hath the sore which no man heleth, The which is cleped lacke of herte. GOWER. Con/. Amantis. One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave. WORDSWORTH. A Poet's Epitaph. HEARTS With women the heart argues, not the mind. M. ARNOLD. Merope. All people have their blind side their superstitions ; and I have heard her de- clare, under the rose, that hearts was her favourite suit. LAMB. Mrs. Battle on Whist. HEAVEN I hear thee speak of the better land, Thou callest its children a happy band ; Mother, oh ! where is that radiant shore : Shall we not seek it and weep no more ? MRS. HEMANS. The Better Land. God, to remove His ways from human sense, Placed heaven from earth so far, that earthly sight If it presume, might err in things too high, And no advantage gain. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 8, 119. That Prophet ill sustains his holy call, Who finds not heavens to suit the tastes of all. MOORE. Lalla Rookh. A Persian's heaven is easily made, 'Tis but black eyes and lemonade. MOORE. Twopenny Postbag, 6. For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is that they sing and that they love. WALLER. While I listen to thy Voice. HELP HEIRESSES All heiresses are beautiful. DRYDEN. King Arthur. HELL The fear o" hell's a hangman's whip To baud the wretch in order. BURNS. To a young friend. Grisly drede that evere shal laste. CHAUCER. Parson's Tale, sec. 10 (Part of a description of Hell). So that their joyis shal be without measure ; They shal rejoyce to see the great dolour Of dampnit folk in hell, and thare torment. SIR D. LYNDESAY. Monarche. The most frightful idea that has ever corroded human nature, the idea of eternal punishment. LORD MORLEY. Vauvenargttes. I see a brimstone sea of boiling fire, And fiends, with knotted whips of flaming wire, Torturing poor souls, that gnash their teeth in vain, And gnaw their flame-tormented tongues for pain. F. QUARLES. Emblems, Bk. 3, 14. To preach loud, long, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that Damns us, and we run after him to save us. J. SELDEN. Damnation. But always recollect, my dear, That wicked people go to hell. ANN AND JANE TAYLOR. About Dying. How I shall admire, laugh, rejoice, ex- ult, to see so many great Kings consigned with Jove himself and his followers, to groan in the lowest depths of darkness. TERTULLIAN. De Spectaculis. The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell. SIR S. TUKE. Adv. of Five Hours, Act 5. The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way. VIRGIL. JEneid, Bk. 6 (Dryden tr.). There is a dreadful hell, And everlasting pains ; Where sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains. I. WATTS. Heaven and Hell. HELP May Might and Right, And sovran Zeus as third, my helpers be ! AESCHYLUS. Choephorce, 244 (Plumptre tr.). 228 HEREDITY HEROES Sweet the help Of one we have helped. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 7. In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven. SCOTT. Lord of the Isles, c. i, 20. Tis not enough to help the feeble up, But to support him after. SHAKESPEARE. Timon, Act i, i. Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 4. HEREDITY Rarely into the branches of the tree Doth human worth mount up. DANTE. Purgatorio (Gary's tr.), c. 7, 122. Ah me ! how seldom see we sons succeed Their fathers' praise ! BISHOP Jos. HALL. Satire 3 (znd series). Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace. POPE. Odyssey, Bk. 2, 315. He's all the mother's, from the top to toe. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act 3, i. Those transparent swindles transmis- sible nobility and kingship. MARK TWAIN. Yankee at Court, c. 28. Be mindful of the race from whence you came, And emulate in arms your fathers' fame. Fortune befriends the bold. VIRGIL. Mneid, Bk. 10 (Dryden tr.). The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge. Jeremiah xxxi, 29 (R.V.) and Ezekiel x, 10 (A.V.). HERESY I smelle a loller in the wind, quod he. CHAUCER. Shopman's Tale. They that approve a private opinion call it opinion ; but they that mislike it, heresy : and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. HOBBES. Leviathan, ch. n. A man may be a heretic in the truth : and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so deter- mines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. MILTON. A reopagitica. Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart. WHITTIER. Mary Garvin. HEROES How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ? By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung. W. COLLINS. Ode. All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 5. In short, he was a perfect cavaliero, And to his very valet seemed a hero. BYRON. Beppo, 33. Heroes have trod this spot 'tis on their dust ye tread. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 4, 144. Lights of the world and demi-gods of Fame. CAMPBELL. Pleasures of Hope, 2. Thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunky world, make, each of us, one non- flunky, one hero, if we like ; that will be two heroes to begin with. CARLYLE. Past and Present, Bk. i, ch. 6. That subject for an angel's song, The hero, and the saint. COWPER. On " Sir C. Grandison." Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. DISRAELI. Coningsby, Bk. 3, c. i (Sidonia). Every hero becomes a bore at last. EMERSON. Great Men. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle of the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. F. HALLECK. Marco Bozzaris. Heroic virtues are the bons mots of life. They do not appear often, and when they do appear are too much prized, I think ; like the aloe- tree which shoots and flowers once in a hundred years. JOHNSON. Remark recorded by Mrs. Piozzi. Brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. MILTON. Of Education. Samson hath quit himself Like Samson, and heroically hath finished A life heroic. MILTON. Samson Agonistes, 1709. Like the day-star in the wave, Sinks a hero in bis grave, 'Midst the dew-fall of a nation's tears. MOORE. Before the Battle. 229 HESITATION HISTORY Still, though death's wave without distinc- tion roll O'er all alike, the nameless and the great, For warriors yet, that reach the eternal goal, Approved of heaven, conspicuous honours wait. PINDAR. Pythian Odes, 3, 137 (Moore tr.). Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. H. SPENCER. Social Statics, Pt. 3. Strange fate of heroes, who like comets blaze, And with a sudden light the world amaze ; But when, with fading beams, they quit the skies, No more to shine the wonder of our eyes, Their glories spent and all their fiery store, We scorn the omens which we feared before. SWIFT. Swan Tripe Club. One brave deed makes no hero. WHITTIER. Hero. HESITATION For if it be but half-denied, 'Tis half as good as justified. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. 2, c. 2. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack ; But those behind cried " Forward," And those before cried " Back." MACAULAY. Horatius. And yet another yet. SHAKESPEARE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 2, i. When you are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it. ZOROASTER (Maxim). HINTS Therefore use thy discretion ; I had as lief thou didst break his neck as his finger. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act i, i. Upon this hint I spake. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act i, 3. HISTORY Histories make men wise. BACON. Of Studies. But e'en when at college, I fairly acknow- ledge I Never was very precise at chronology. R. H. BARHAM. Aunt Fanny. I have read somewhere or other in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think that History is Philosophy teaching by examples. BOLINGBROKE. Letter.* * Found in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who, however, was quoting from Thucydides. History is the essence of innumerable biographies. BOLINGBROKE. On History. The love of history seems inseparable from human nature because it seems inseparable from self-love. BOLINGBROKE. Ib. These gentle historians, on the contrary, dip their pens in nothing but the milk of human kindness. BURKE. Letter to a Noble Lord (1796). People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ances- tors. BURKE. Reflections on the Revolution. History after all is the true poetry. CARLYLE. Boswell's Johnson. History, a distillation of Rumour. CARLYLE. French Revolution. All History ... is an inarticulate Bible. CARLYLE. Latter-Day Pamphlets. The first law of history is that it shall not dare to state anything which is false, and consequently that it shall not shrink from stating anything that is true. CICERO. De Oratore, Bk. 2, 15. Some write a narrative of wars, and feats Of heroes little known, and call the rant. A history. COWPER. Garden, 139. The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty. EMERSON. Works and Days. History, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. GIBBON. Decline and Fall, ch. 3 (1776). On whatever side we regard the history of Europe, we shall perceive it to be a tissue of crimes, follies, and misfortunes. GOLDSMITH. Citizen of the World, 42 (1762). History is the chart and compass for national endeavour. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. i,ch.n. Happy are the people whose annals are tedious. MONTESQUIEU. The worst historians for a young man to read are those who pronounce judgment. Facts ! Facts ! Let him judge for himself ! ROUSSEAU. Emile. Alas ! Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history. G. B. SHAW. Heartbreak House, Pref., The Next Phase. 230 HOLIDAYS HOME Poetrie ever setteth forth virtue in her best colours. . . . But the Historian, being captived to the truth of a foolish world, is many times a terror from well doing and an encouragement to unbridled wickedness. SIR P. SIDNEY. Apologie for Poelrie. The history of the great events of the world is little more than the history of crimes. VOLTAIRE. Essay on Manners, c. 23 (c. 1750). In effect history is only a picture of crimes and misfortunes. VOLTAIRE. L'Inginu (1767). How history makes one shudder and laugh by turns ! HORACE WALPOLE. Letter, 1786. Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false. SIR R. WALPOLE. Saying. Deal not in history, often have I said ; 'Twill prove a most unprofitable trade. J. WOLCOT. Ep. to Sylvanus Urban. HOLIDAYS I care not a fig for the cares of business ; Politics fill me with doubt and dizziness. R. BUCHANAN. Fine Weather. What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare ? W. H. DAVIES. Leisure. Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down ? LAMB. Work. HOLLAND A country that draws fifty feet of water ; In which men live as in the hold of nature ; A land that rides at anchor and is moored ; In which they do not live, but go aboard. S. BUTLER. Description of Holland. Embosomed in the deep where Holland lies, Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land. GOLDSMITH. Traveller. Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but the off-scouring of the British sand. MARVELL. Character of Holland. HOME His wee bit ingle, blinking bonnily. BURNS. Cotter's Saturday Night. To make a happy fire-side clime For weans and wife ; That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life. BURNS. Epistle to Dr. Blacklock. My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls. CARLVLE. My own Four Walls. The house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress. SIR E. COKE. Semayne's Case, 5 Rep. 91. None love their country but who love their home. COLERIDGE. Zapolya, Pt. a. But wheresoe'er I'm doomed to roam, I still shall say that home is home. W. COMBE. Dr. Syntax, c. 26. The world has nothing to bestow ; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut our home. N. COTTON. Fireside. Forced from home and all its pleasures. COWPER. Negro's Complaint. The language of a ruder age has given to common law the maxim that every man's house is his castle. The progress of truth will make every house a shrine. EMERSON. Domestic Life. Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart, untravelled, fondly turns to thee. GOLDSMITH. Traveller. The stately homes of England ! How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land. MRS. HEMANS. Homes of England. Awful Divinity ! be not incensed. I know that my Penelope in form And stature altogether yields to thee, For she is mortal, and immortal thou, From age exempt. Yet not the less I wish My home, and languish daily to return. HOMER. Odyssey, Bk. 5, 215 (Cowper tr.). The fairyest of fairy land. The land of home. JEAN INGELOW. Letter L. Absent, st. 34. It is this sweet home-feeling, this settled repose of affection in the domestic scene, that is, after all, the parent of the steadiest virtues and purest enjoyments. WASHINGTON IRVING. Sketch Book (c. 1820). A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet. R. M. MILNES. Men of Old. But O, my babies on the floor ; My wife's blithe welcome at the door ; My bread well earned with sweat of brows ; My garden flowerful, green of boughs ; 231 HOME HONESTY Friends, books ; I would not change ye for Ten thousand pounds. COSMO MONKHOUSE. Rondel, " Ten Thousand Pounds." There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. JAS. MONTGOMERY. Home. I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled Above the green elms, that a cottage was near. And I said, " If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here." MOORE. Ballad Stanzas. Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam ? MOORE. Dream of Home. Round the hearth-stone of home, in the land of our birth, The holiest spot on the face of the earth. GEO. P. MORRIS. Land Ho ! Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it never so humble, there's no place like home. J. H. PAYNE. Clari. Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. SHAKESPEARE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act i, i. A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. SYDNEY SMITH. Letter to Lord Murray, Sept. 29, 1843. " There's no place like home." It's a great pity when either husband or wife is forced to answer, " I'm glad there isn't." C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." That unconquerable love of home, That burns even in the hearts of evil men. F. TENNYSON. Andros. Seek home for rest, For home is best. T. TUSSER. Instructions to Housewifery. Though home be but homely, yet house- wife is taught That home hath no fellow to such as have aught. T. TUSSER. Ib. God looks down well pleased to mark In earth's dusk gloom each rosy spark, Lights of home and lights of love, And the child, the heart thereof. K. TYNAN. Night Thought. O ! what's a table richly spread Without a woman at its head ? THOS. WARTON. Progress of Discontent. Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home. I. WATTS. Love. And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove's, The one only dwelling on earth that she loves. WORDSWORTH. Reverie of Poor Susan. Type of the wise who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of heaven and home ! WORDSWORTH. To a Skylark. HOMER The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle. BYRON. Bride of Abydos, c. 2, 2. That blind bard, who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssee Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. COLERIDGE. Fancy in Nubibus. Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. J. SHEFFIELD. On Poetry, 322. HONESTY In a word, to appear an honest man it is necessary to be one. BOILEAU. 'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his way, and he is only honest who is not discovered. MRS. CENTLIVRE. Artifice, Act 5. The modest front of this small floor, Believe me, reader, can say more Than many a braver marble can, " Here lies a truly honest man ! " R. CRASHAW. On Mr. Ashton. Honesty is really only the art of appear- ing honest. GUARINI. Of the honesty or virtue of women. He that loseth his honestie hath noth- ing else to lose. J. LYLY. Euphues. Ay, sir, to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, 2. Hamlet : What news ? Rosencrantz : None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest. Hamlet : Then is dooms- day near. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. 232 HONEYMOON HONOUR I am as honest as any man living, that is an old man, and no honester than I. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 3, 5. Whip me such honest knaves. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act i, i. Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. SHAKESPEARE. Timon, Act 3, i. Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act 4, 3. Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man. ARCHBISHOP WHATELY. Apophthegms. Th' Almighty, from his throne, on Earth surveys Nought greater than an honest, humble heart. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 8. Pope boldly states (some think his maxim odd), " An honest man's the noblest work of God." If this assertion is from error clear, One of the noblest works of God lies here. Epitaph, Said to be in Wingfield Churchyard, Suffolk. HONEYMOON The moon the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shady now bright and sunny But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, Is the moon so called of honey ! HOOD. Miss Kilmansegg. Eat up the moon and keep the honey. Some eat all the honey and have nothing left but the moon. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars. " HONOUR When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. ADDISON. Cato, Act 4, 4. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound. BURKE. Reflections on French Revolution. Honour is like a widow, won With brisk attempt and putting on. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. i, c. i. Quoth Ralpho, Honour's but a word To swear by only in a Lord. BUTLER. Ib., Pt. z, c.t. What is fitting is honourable ; what is honourable is fitting. CICERO. De Officiis. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay. W. COLLINS. Ode. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble. DRYDEN. Alexander's Feast. Costar : Pray now, what may be that same bed of honour ? Kite : Oh, a mighty large bed ; bigger by half than the great bed at Ware ten thousand people may lie in it together, and never feel one another. FARQUHAR. Recruiting Officer, Act i. What can't be done with honour can't be done at all. HENRY Fox (LORD HOLLAND). Letter to the Duke of Richmond, 1756. When honour's lost, 'tis a relief to die ; Death's but a sure retreat from infamy. SIR S. GARTH. Dispensary, 5, 321. Life is ended when our honour ends. GOLDSMITH. Prologue. Purity is the feminine, Truth the mas- culine, of Honour. J. C. HARE. Guesses at Truth, vol. i. Yet this inconstancy is such As you shall too adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. R. LOVELACE. To Lucasta. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side. J. R. LOWELL. Present Crisis. I account more strength in a true heart than in a walled citie. J. LYLY. Endymion. Let others write for glory or reward ; Truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. SIR THOS. OVERBURY. Elegy on Lord Effingham. For honour is the guerdon of the brave. PINDAR. Isthmian Odes, 6, 31 (Moore tr.). Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 4, 4. I am more an antique Roman than a Dane. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 2. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale- faced moon ; 233 HONOUR HONOURS (REWARDS) Or dive into the bottom of the deep Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowndd honour by the locks. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 1,2. Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off, when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then ? No. What is honour ? A word. . . . Who hath it ? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible, then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it therefore, I'll none of it : honour is a mere scutcheon : and so ends my catechism. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Pt. i, Act 5, i. But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. SHAKESPEARE. Henry V., Act 4, 3. For Brutus is an honourable man ; So are they all, all honourable men. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Cccsar, Act 3, 2. Mine honour is my life ; both grow in one ; Take honour from me, and my life is done. SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., Act i, i. Life every man holds dear ; but the brave man H olds honour far more precious-dear than life. SHAKESPEARE. Troilus, Act 5, 3. Honour should be concerned in honour's cause. T. SOUTHERN. Oroonoko, Act 3. Dearer is love than life, and fame than gold; But dearer than them both your faith once plighted hold. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. 5, n, 63. Lo, one who loved true honour more than fame, A real goodness, not a studied name. EARL OF STIRLING. Doomsday, 8th hour, 109. As natural life the body warms, And, scholars teach, the soul informs, So honour animates the whole, And is the spirit of the soul. Those numerous virtues which the tribe Of tedious moralists describe, And by such various titles call, True honour comprehends them all. SWIFT. To Stella, 1720. A true man, pure as faith's own vow, Whose honour knows not rust. SWINBURNE. Balen, 3, 18. But this thing is God, To be man with thy might, To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, And live out thy life as the light. SWINBURNE. Hertha, 15. Man's word is God in man : Let chance what will, I trust thee to the death. TENNYSON. Coming of Arthur, 132. Upon this fatal quest Of honour, where no honour can be gained. TENNYSON. Geraint and Enid, 704. I would strangle you with my own hands rather than allow an affront to your honour, for mark you, I love you enough for that. VOLTAIRE. L'Exchange (Baron de la Canardiire). Honour's a mistress all mankind pursue ; Yet most mistake the false one for the true ; Lured by the trappings, dazzled by the paint, We worship oft the idol for the saint. P. WHITEHEAD. Honour. Honour that knows the path, and will not swerve. WORDSWORTH. Poems to National Independence, Pt. 2, No. 28. HONOURS (REWARDS) Examine the honours list and you will know exactly how the government feels in its inside. A. BENNETT. The Title (1918), Act i. I had rather it should be asked why I had not a statue, than why I had one. CATO (according to Plutarch). Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers ; To some she gives honour without deserv- ing ; To other some, deserving without honour. CHAPMAN. All Fools, Act 5. Be not with honour's gilded baits beguiled, Nor think ambition wise because 'tis brave ; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound her cradle is her grave. SIR W. DAVENANT. Gondibert, Bk. i, c. 5, st. 75. Honours and great employments are great burthens. MASSINGER. Bondman, Act i, 3. Honours never fail to purchase silence. MASSINGER. Duke of Milan, Act 2, i. This man ought to have a statue of gold. PLAUTUS. Bacchides. 234 HOPE HOPE Theopompus said : " Moderate honours time augments, but defaces the immoder- ate." PLUTARCH. Laconic Apophthegms. 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. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 3, 2. And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 4, 2. I would rather win honour than honours. I would rather have genius than wealth, I would rather make my name than inherit it. THACKERAY. The Virginians. HOPE With the faint glimmering of a doubtful hope. ADDISON. Cato, Act 3, 2. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. BACON. Apophthegms, 95. Were it not then for Hope the hart were slaine. R. BARNFIELD. Complaint of Poetrie (1598). Hope never leaves a wretched man that seeks her. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. The Captain, Act 2, i. Hope, thou nurse of young desire ! I. BICKERSTAFFE. Love in a Village, Act i,i. What is man's hope, good friend ? Is't not a beggar in the land of doubt ? R. BRIDGES. Return of Ulysses, Act 4. One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. BROWNING. Asolando. Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, And other ammunitions of despair. S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life ! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray. BYRON. Bride of Abydos, c. 2, st. 20. But hope, the charmer lingered still behind. CAMPBELL. Pleasures of Hope, Pt. i. Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave oh ! leave the light of Hope behind! CAMPBELL. Ib., Pi. 2. Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins smile, And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile. CAMPBELL. Ib., Conclusion. It has been well said : " Man is based on Hope, he has properly no other pos- session but Hope ; this habitation of his is named the Place of Hope." CARLYLE. French Revolution, Pt. i, Bk. 2, ch. 3. And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair. W. COLLINS. The Passions. I have been disappointed of my only hope ; and he that loses hope may part with anything. CONGREVE. Love for Love, Act 5, 2. If things then from their end we happy call, 'Tis Hope is the most hopeless thing of all. COWLEY. Against Hope. Hope ! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure ! COWLEY. For Hope. Though hope be dying, yet it is not dead. DRYDEN. Rival Ladies, Act 4, i. Hope is a poor salad To dine and sup with. FLETCHER AND MASSINGER. Custom of the Country. All men are guests where Hope doth hold the feast. G. GASCOIGNE. Fruits of War. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way, And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. GOLDSMITH. Song. Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possessed. GRAY. Eton College. Hope is not yet taxed. SIR ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS. Dolly Dialogues, 18. Reflected on the lake, I love To see the stars of evening glow ; So tranquil in the heavens above, So restless in the wave below. Thus heavenly hope is all serene, But earthly hope, how bright soe'er, Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene, As false and fleeting as 'tis fair. BISHOP HEBER. On Heavenly and Earthly Hope. 235 HOPE HOPE Hope, that with honey blends the cup of pain. SIR W. JONES. Sereswaty. Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear and no fear without hope. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 594. None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair. GEO. LORD LYTTELTON. Epigram. O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings ! MILTON. Comus, 213. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? MILTON. Ib., 221. Chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 557. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. MILTON. Ib., Bk. g, 633. The Gods are kind, and hope to men they give That they their little span on earth may live, Nor yet faint utterly. W. MORRIS. Bellerophon, 1617. Hope it is which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, even though on all sides he can see no land. OVID. Ep. ex Pont., Bk. i, 6. Hope springs eternal in the human breast ; Man never is, but always to be blest. POPE. Essay on Man, 95. For hope is but the dream of those that wake. PRIOR. Solomon, Bk. 3, 102. Hope told a flattering tale, Much longer than my arm. W. B. RHODES. Bombastcs. It may be said of man in general that befooled by hope he dances into the arms of death. SCHOPENHAUER. Emptiness of Existence. And thus Hope me deceived, as she deceiveth all. SCOTT. Harold, 3, i. The miserable have No other medicine but only hope. SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure, Act 3, i. The worst is not, So long as we can say, " This is the worst." SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act 4, i. Cozening hope ; he is a flatterer, A parasite, a keeper-back of death. SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., Act 2, 2. True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings ; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act 5, 2. The essential truth of life remains, Its goodness and its beauty too, Pure love's unutterable gains, And hope which thrills us through and through ; God has not fled ; Souls are not dead. J. L. SPALDING. Believe and Take Heart. Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be not blind as she. SWINBURNE. England. Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, c. 54. So lives inveterate Hope, on her own hardihood. SIR W. WATSON. Hope of the World. Hope, the paramount duty that Heaven lays For its own honour, on man's suffering heart. WORDSWORTH. Poems to National Independence, Pt. 2, 33. Hope rules a land for ever green : All powers that serve the bright-eyed Queen Are confident and gay ; Clouds at her bidding disappear ; Points she to aught ? The bliss draws near, And Fancy smooths the way. WORDSWORTH. The Wishing-Gatc. Hope tells a flattering tale, Delusive, vain, and hollow ; Ah, let not Hope prevail, Lest disappointment follow ! Miss WROTHER. Universal Songster. Restless hope, for ever on the wing. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 7. Hope, of all passions, most befriends us here. YOUNG. Ib. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Proverbs xiii, 12. Who against hope believed in hope. Romans iv, 18. Be sober, and hope to the end. i St. Peter i, 13 236 HOPELESSNESS HORSES Yf hope were not, herte shulde breke. Gesta Romanorum (i^th cent. MS.). Hope told a flattering tale That joy would soon return. ANON. Song (c. 1800). In the wedding cake hope is the sweetest of the plums. Quoted as a proverb by C. H. Spurgeon. HOPELESSNESS A low, hopeless spirit puts out the eyes ; scepticism is slow suicide. E MERSO N . Resources . For where no hope is left, is left no fear. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. 3, 206. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell : hope never comes, That comes to all. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 62. Alas ! I speak of heaven who am in hell. I speak of change of days, who know full well How hopeless now is change from misery. WM. MORRIS. Earthly Paradise, Lovers of Gudrun, 45. I cultivate hope and I see it wither daily. Alas, what does it serve to water the leaves when the tree is cut off at its foot ? ROUSSEAU. Julie. HORRORS Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry ? WM. BLAKE. The Tiger Wi' mair o* horrible and awfu', Which even to name wad be unlawfu'. BURNS. Tarn o' Shanter. Farewell happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells ! Hail, horrors, hail! MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 249. 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, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 5. O horrible ! O horrible ! most horrible ! If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. I have supped full with horrors. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 5, 5. On horror's head horrors accumulate. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 3, 3. HORSES A true Philip a lover of horses [i.e. Phil-hippos]. DR. J. BROWN. Horcs Subsecivce, A gchinoia. So that his horse, or charger, hunter, hack, Knew that he had a rider on his back. BYRON. Don Juan, 14, 32. Whose only fit companion is his horse. COWPER. Conversation, 412. His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. COWPER. John Gilpin. A canter is the cure for every evil. DISRAELI. Young Duke, Bk. 2, c. 5. He made him turn and stop and bound, To gallop and to trot the round, He scarce could stand on any ground, He was so full of mettle. DRAYTON. Nymphidia. She was iron-sinewed and satin-skinned, Ribbed like a drum and limbed like a deer, Fierce as the fire and fleet as the wind, There was nothing she couldn't climb or clear. A. L. GORDON. Britomarte. If man, of all the Creator planned, His noblest work is reckoned, Of the works of His hand, by sea or land, The horse may at least rank second. A. L. GORDON. Hippodromania. Where folks that ride a bit of blood May break a bit of bone. HOOD. Epping Hunt. He [the horsedealer] dealeth not in detraction, and would not disparage the character even of a brute. Like unto Love, he is blind to all blemishes. HOOD. A Horsedealer, 1832. There's nothing like a rattling ride For curing melancholy. W. M. PRAED. Troubadour. He grew into his seat ; And to such wondrous doing brought his horse, As he had been incorpsed and demi-natured With the brave beast. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 4, 7. 237 HOSPITALITY HOUSES I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly armed, Rise from the ground like feathered Mer- cury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropped down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horseman- ship. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 4, i. A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act 5, 4. Look what a horse should have, he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. SHAKESPEARE. Venus and Adonis, 50. Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people ; and what do you find ? That the stables are the real centre of the household. G. B. SHAW. Heartbreak House, Act 3. Philip of Macedon reckoned a horse- race, won at Olympus, among his three fearful felicities. SIR P. SIDNEY. Apology for Poetry. Horse-racing is supposed to improve the breed of horses, but it sadly deterior- ates the breed of men. C. H. SPURGEON. "Salt-Cellars." A horse thou knowest, a man thou dost not know. TENNYSON. Gareth and Lynette, 454. A horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man. Psalter (Book of Common Prayer) 14, 6. HOSPITALITY The courteous host, and all-approving guest. BYRON. Lara, c. i, 29- To do the honours of a table gracefully is one of the outlines of a well-bred man. LORD CHESTERFIELD. Letter to his Son. On hospitable thoughts intent. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 5, 332. 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 ; But do not dull thy palm with entertain- ment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 3. Profusion is the charm of hospitality. Have plenty, if it be only beer. THACKERAY. Barmecide Banquets. Given to hospitality. Romans xii, 13. Thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews xiii, 2. A drap and a bite's but a sma' requite. Scottish prov. HOSPITALS I think it frets the saints in heaven to see How many desolate creatures on the earth Have learnt the simple dues of fellowship And social comfort, in a hospital. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 3. The atmosphere Suggests the trail of a ghostly druggist. Dressings and lint on the long, lean table Whom are they for ? W. E. HENLEY. In Hospital, 3. Behold me waiting waiting for the knife. A little while, and at a leap I storm The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life. W. E. HENLEY. Ib., 4. HOUSEKEEPING Dreading that climax of all human ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 3, 35. My sister manages the house for me and does not leave me much to do as regards the management of myself. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. 2, ch. 3 Some respite to husbands the weather may send, But housewives' affairs have never an end. T. TUSSER. Book of Housewifery. Man's work lasts till set of sun ; Woman's work is never done. Proverbial saying. HOUSES Houses are built to live in and not to look on. BACON. Of Building. A man's house is his castle. COKE. On Littleton. Every English family, though it consist of only two persons, must still have a house to itself for its own castle. HEINE. London. I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine. MASSINGER. Roman Actor, Act i, 2. Thanks, sir, cried I, 'tis very fine, But where d'ye sleep or where d'ye dine ? I find by all you have been telling That 'tis a house but not a dwelling. SWIFT. Verses on Blenheim. HUMAN NATURE HUMANENESS HUMAN NATURE Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood, Which runneth of one hue ; nor caste in tears, Which trickle salt with all. SIR E. ARNOLD. Light of Asia, Bk. 6. We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. BACON. Advancement of Learning, Bk. 2. Would you have your songs endure ? Build on the human heart. BROWNING. Sordello, Bk. 2. We have hearts within Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 3. But don't you go and make mistakes, like many durned fools I've known, For dirt is dirt, and snakes is snakes, but an Injin's flesh and bone. R. BUCHANAN. Phil Blood's Leap. A fool and knave are plants of every soil. BURNS. Prologue. Our actions often contradict each other so amazingly that it seems impossible that they can have come from the same shop. CHARRON. De la Sagesse, Bk. i, 38. What we' all love is good touched up with evil Religion's self must have a spice of devil. A. H. CLOUGH. Dipsychus. All argument will vanish before one touch of nature. G. COLMAN, JR. Poor Gentleman, Act 5, i. Would you know the qualities in which a man is wanting ? Examine those of which he boasts. DE SEGUR. Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. GRAY. Elegy. A thorough conviction of the difference of men is the great thing to be assured of in social knowledge. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. i, ch. 7. We praise him not for gifts divine, His muse was born of woman, His manhood breathes in every line, Was ever heart more human ? O. W. HOLMES. Burns Centennial. Truth is for ever truth, and love is love. LEIGH HUNT. Hero and Leander, c. i, 13- I have only two comforts to live upon. The one is in the Perfections of Christ ; the other is in the Imperfections of all Christians. INCREASE MATHER. Saying (attrib.). Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. J. S. MILL. Liberty, ch. 3. Our soul is full of a thousand internal contrarieties. PLATO. Republic, Bk. 10, 5. Chaos of thought and passion, all confused ; Still by himself abused, or disabused ; Created half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled : The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. 2, 13. Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in the extreme, but all in the degree. POPE. Ib., Ep. 2, 231. How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature ! SHAKESPEARE. Cymbeline, Act 3, 3. Virtue ! a fig ! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act i, 3. You cannot slander human nature ; it is worse than words can paint it. C. H. SPURGEON. "Salt-Cellars." I thought I could not breathe in that fine air, That pure severity of perfect light I wanted warmth and colour, which I found In Lancelot. TENNYSON. Guinevere, 626. E'en here the tear of pity springs, And hearts are touched by human things. VIRGIL. JEneid, i, 462 (Conington tr.). Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings, but himself, That hideous sight, a naked human heart. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 3. HUMANENESS Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity. BLACKSTONE. Commentaries, i, 5. I'm truly sorry man's dominion Has broken nature's social union, And justifies the ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor earth-born companion And fellow-mortal ! BURNS. To a Mouse. 239 HUMBLE ORIGIN HUMILITY Humanely glorious ! Men will weep for him When many a guilty martial fame is dim. CAMPBELL. In " La Ptrouse's Voyages " He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God, who loveth us, He made and loveth all. COLERIDGE. Ancient Mariner, Pt. 7. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. COWPER. Winter Morning Walk. Take not away the life you cannot give, For all things have an equal right to live. DRYDEN. Tr. Ovid, Metam., Bk. 15. The behaviour of men to the lower animals, and their behaviour to each other, bear a constant relationship. HERBERT SPENCER. Social Statics, c. 30. The Animosities are mortal, but the Humanities live for ever. JOHN WILSON. Nodes. Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. WORDSWORTH. Hart-leap Well, Pt. 2. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. Exodus xxiii, 19. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Deuteronomy xxv, 4. HUMBLE ORIGIN Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth, A youth to Fortune and to Fame un- known, Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. GRAY. Elegy. I made all my generals out of mud. NAPOLEON. As some divinely-gifted man Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, c. 64. HUMILITY Soaring you'll sink and sinking you will rise ; Let humble thoughts thy wary footsteps guide ! Regain by meekness what you lost by pride. ARBUTHNOT. Gnothi Seauton. Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility. MARCUS AURELIUS. Bk. 12, 27. Life is a long lesson in humility. SIR J. M. BARRIE. Little Minister, c. 3. He that is down need fear no fall, He that is low, no pride. BUNYAN. Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. 2. Humility is the foundation of all virtues. CONFUCIUS. A man should be a guest in his own; house, and a guest in his own thought. EMERSON. Sovereignty of Ethics. In the Christian graces humility stands highest of all, in the form of the Madonna ; and in life this is the secret of the wise. EMERSON. Works and Days. Humility is the true cure for many a needless heartache. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. i, ch. 9. A great many people want to be devout, but no one wants to be humble. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 613. Humility is the altar from which God would receive sacrifices. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 616. Be lowly wise ; Think only what concerns thee and thy being ; Dream not of other worlds. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 8, 173. Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. MOORE. Loves of the Angels. Third A ngel's Story. Thy sum of duty let two words contain ; (O may they graven in thy heart remain ! ) Be humble, and be just. PRIOR. Solomon, Bk. 3, 873 (The angel's final advice to Solomon). I sing a Man, amid his sufferings here, Who watched and served with humbleness and fear ; Gentle to others, to himself severe. ROGERS. Voyage of Columbus, c. 6. Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to hear. SELDEN. Table Talk. I thank my God for my humility. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act z, i. 240 HUMOUR HUNTING Humility is to have a just idea of yourself. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt- Cellars." True humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all. TENNYSON. Holy Grail, 445. The lowly heart doth win the love of all. G. TURBERVILLE. To PlCfO. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits. Romans xii, 16 (R.V.). Better eat humble-pie than no pie at all. Prov. The vale best discovereth the hills. Prov. (quoted by Bacon). The meekness of Moses is better than the strength of Samson. Prov. HUMOUR I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. BEAUMARCHAIS. Barbier de Seville. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. BYRON. Don Juan, c, 44. A joke's a very serious thing. C. CHURCHILL. The Ghost. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost his fellow-men can do little for him. EMERSON. Resources. Nothing corrects theories better than this sense of humour, which we [English- men] have in a greater degree than is to be met with, I believe, in any other people. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. 2, ch. 5. All things are big with jest : nothing that's plain But may be witty, if thou hast the vein. HERBERT. Church Porch. And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can. O. W. HOLMES. Height of the Ridiculous. Is he gone to a land of no laughter, This man who made mirth for us all? JAS. RHOADES. On the death of Artemus Ward. Alas, poor Yorick ! I knew him, Horatio a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 5, i. Argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 2, 2. A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal ; His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, Act i, i. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 2. Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time ; Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh, like parrots, at a bagpiper ; And other of such vinegar aspect, That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act i, i. This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 3, i. It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. SYDNEY SMITH. Saying. Humour is odd, grotesque, and wild, Only by affectation spoiled ; 'Tis never by invention got, Men have it when they know it not. SWIFT. To Mr. Delany, 1718. I tried him with mild jokes ; then with severe ones. MARK TWAIN. A Deception. HUNGER No one is so laughable as when he is hungry. PLAUTUS. Stichus, Act 2. Hunger is insolent and will be fed. POPE. Odyssey, Bk. 7, 380. It's ill speaking between a fou (full) man and a fasting Scottish prov. HUNTING If once we efface the joys of the chase From the land and outroot the Stud, Goodbye to the Anglo-Saxon race ! Farewell to the Norman blood. A. L. GORDON. Wearie Wayfarer, 7. The field kept getting more select, Each thicket served to thin it ! HOOD. Epping Hunt. It is very strange and very melancholy that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. JOHNSON. Remark as recorded by Mrs, Piozzi. HUSBANDS HYPOCRISY Half the hurry and hubbub and horn- blowing in the world is provided by things invisible till caught and worthless after- wards. But ... a brush is often won by manlier work than a peerage. EDEN PHILLPOTTS. A Shadow Passes. A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. POPE. Windsor Forest, 62. Huntsman, rest ! thy chase is done. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, c. i, 32. The chase I follow far, Tis mimicry of noble war. SCOTT. /&., c. 2, 26. Hunting he loved, but love he laughed to scorn. SHAKESPEARE. Venus and Adonis, i. It isn't mere convention. Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people, and the people who don't are the wrong ones. G. B. SHAW. Heartbreak House, Act 3 (Lady Utterford). Invites thee to the Chase, the sport of kings ; Image of war without its guilt. W. SOMERVILLE. The Chase, Bk. i. Hunting has now an idea of quality joined to it, and is become the most im- portant business in the life of a gentleman. Anciently it was quite otherwise. M. Fleury has severely remarked that this extravagant passion for hunting is a strong proof of our Gothic extraction, and shows an affinity of humour with the savage Americans. WM. WALSH. Pref. to the Pastorals (by Dry den) (1697). HUSBANDS You're not married ; if you were, you would know that being a husband is a whole- time job. ARNOLD BENNETT. The Title. Ah, gentle dames ! it gars me greet To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthened sage advices The husband frae the wife despises. BURNS. Tarn o Shanter. But oh ! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not henpecked you all ? BYRON. Don Juan, c. i, 22. " Father to. me thou art and mother dear, And brother too, kind husband of my heart." KEBLE. Christian Year. Monday before Easter. A man who admires a fine woman has yet no more reason to wish himself her husband than one, who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. No woman should marry a teetotaller or a man who does not smoke. R. L. STEVENSON. Virginibus, Pt. i. I am thine husband not a smaller soul, Nor Lancelot, nor another. TENNYSON. Guinevere, 562. I want to know how it is that women do not find out their husbands to be hum- bugs. Nature has so provided it. THACKERAY. Ravenswin*. The husband who wishes to surprise is often badly surprised himself. VOLTAIRE. La Femme qui a Raison. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Colossians iii, 19. HYPERCRITICISM At every trifle scorn to take offence ; That always shows great pride, or little sense. POPE. Criticism, 386. 'Twere to consider too curiously to consider so. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 5, i. All his faults observed, Set in a notebook, learned and conned by rote, To cast into my teeth. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Casar, Act 4, 3. But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. J. TRUMBULL. McFingal. HYPOCHONDRIA Some men employ their health, an ugly trick, In making known how oft they have been sick. COWPER. Conversation, 311. I eat well, drink well and sleep well ; but that's all, Tom, that's all ! C. MORTON. Roland for an Oliver (Sir Mark Chase). We con ailments, which makes us very fond of each other. SWIFT. Letter, 1711. She is very much interested in her own health. OSCAR WILDE. Woman of no Importance. It's lang ere " like to dee " fills the kirk- yard. Scottish prov. HYPOCRISY Your cold hypocrisy's a state device, A worn-out trick. ADDISON. Calo, Act i, 3, 242 HYPOCRISY HYPOTHESIS Great hypocrites are the real atheists. BACON. Instanratio, Pt. i, Bk. 6. It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. BACON. Of Wisdom for a Man's Self. God knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be, Just for a screen. BURNS. Epistle to J. M'Math. Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. i, c. i. As if hypocrisy and nonsense Had got the advowson of his conscience. BUTLER. Ib. Hypocrisy will serve as well To propagate a church as zeal. S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. There's nothing so absurd, or vain, Or barbarous, or inhumane, But if it lay the least pretence To piety and godliness, Or tender-hearted conscience, And zeal for gospel-truths profess, Does sacred instantly commence. 'S. BUTLER. On a Hypocritical Nonconformist. Oh, for a forty-Parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 10, 34. The prayers of Abel linked to deeds of Cain. BYRON. The Island, c. 2, 4. If the devil ever laughs it must be at hypocrites. They are the greatest dupes he has. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. My friends, I remember a duty un- fulfilled yesterday. It is right that I should be chastened in some penalty. DICKENS. Bleak House, c. 19 (Chadband). Art thou a statesman, And canst not be a hypocrite ? Impos- sible ! Do not distrust thy virtues. DRYDEN. Don Sebastian, Act 2, i. All uneducated people are hypocrites. HAZLITT. Knowledge of Character. I lie, I cheat, do anything for pelf, But who on earth can say I am not pious ? HOOD. Ode to R. Wilson. Vice deceives, under the appearance and shadow of virtue, when sad in its appearance, and austere in countenance and dress. JUVENAL. Sat. 14,109. Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 218. For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God above. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 3, 682. He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the DevU in. R. POLLOK. Course of Time, Bk. 8, 616. O what a crocodilian world is this ! F. QUARLES. Emblems, Bk. i, 4. 'Tis too much proved, that with devo- tion's visage And pious action, we do sugar o'er The devil himself. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, i. Now step J forth to whip hypocrisy. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, Act 4, 3. And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act i, 3. There is as much folly in hypocrisy as in vice. It is just as easy to be an honour- able man as to seem one. MME. DE STAEL. A man is at his worst when he pretends to be good. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. Are we bound, out of respect for society, to speak of humbug only in a circumlo- cutory way to call it something else, as they say some Indian people do their devil? THACKERAY. On Men and Pictures. To speak like Paul and live like Epicurus. VOLTAIRE. Hypocrisy. Indifference and hypocrisy between them keep orthodoxy alive. I. ZANGWILL. Children of the Ghetto, ch. 15. Religion is a stalking-horse to shoot other fowl. Prov. (Geo. Herbert). HYPOTHESIS For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : " It might have been." WHITTIER. Maud Mutter. If all the world were paper And all the sea were inke, If all the trees were bread and cheese, How showld we do for drinke ? Wit's Recreations (1640). Interrogation Cantilena. 243 IDEALISM AND IDEALS IDLENESS May-be's are no aye honey-bees. Scottish prov. I IDEALISM AND IDEALS But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names. COLERIDGE. -Piccolomini, Act 2, 5. Whence comes solace ? Not from seeing What is doing, suffering, being ; Not from noting life's conditions, Not from heeding Time's monitions ; But in cleaving to the Dream And in gazing at the gleam Whereby grey things golden seem. T. HARDY. -On a Fine Morning. She's all my fancy painted her, She's lovely, she's divine. WM. MEE. Song. Wert thpu all that I wish thee, great' glorious, and free First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea. MOORE. Remember thee I Swift-footed to uphold the right And to uproot the wrong. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. Noble Sisters. He is the greatest artist who has em- bodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. RUSKIN. Modern Painters, i, Pt. i, sect. i. The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 4, i. To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act 4, 3. Ah, my God, What might I not have made of thy fair world Had I but loved thy highest creature here ? It was my duty to have loved the highest : It surely was my profit had I known : It would have been my pleasure had I seen. TENNYSON. -Guinevere, 648. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another. TENNYSON. Ib., 654. To nurse a blind ideal like a girl. TENNYSON. Princess, c. 3, 201. 'Tis a thing impossible, to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 4. Of all that is most beauteous imaged there In happier beauty ; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested in purpureal gleams. WORDSWORTH. Laodamia. Ah then, if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream. WORDSWORTH. On a picture of Peele Castle. IDENTITY The real Simon Pure. MRS. CENTLIVRE. Bold Stroke for a Wife. I am the true Amphitryon. DRYDEN. Amphitryon, Act 5. I am he, that unfortunate he. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 3, 2. If it be not Bran (Fingal's dog) it is Bran's brother. Highland prov. IDLENESS He slept beneath the moon, He basked beneath the sun ; He lived a life of going-to-do, And died with nothing done. JAS. ALBERY. Epitaph. An idle life is the life for me Idleness spiced with philosophy. R. BUCHANAN. Fine Weather on the Digentia, 4. There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness. BURTON. A natomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader. Idleness overthrows all. BURTON. Ib., Pt. 3, sec. 2. Then cometh Idleness, that is the gate of all harms. . . . Heaven is given to them that will labour, and not to idle folk. CHAUCER. Parson's Tale, sec. 57 (de Accidia). Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. Letter to his Son. Absence of occupation is not rest ; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. COWPER. Retirement, 623. A life of ease, a difficult pursuit. COWPER. Ib., 634. An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as when it stands. COWPER. Ib., 68 1. 244 IDLENESS Firm friends to peace, to pleasure, and good pay. COWPER. Table Talk, 194. Business was his aversion ; pleasure was his business. .Miss EDGEWORTH. The Contrast, ch. i (of Philip Folingsby). Ye curious carpet knights, that spend the time in sport and play, Abroad, and see new sights, your country's cause calls you away. HUMPHREY GIFFORD. For Soldiers (A Posie of Gilloflowers, 1580). Sloth bringeth in all woe. GOWER. Con/. Am. Slackness breeds worms. HERBERT. Church Porch. Sloth, that shameful siren, is to be shunned. HORACE. Sat., Bk. 2, 3. It is impossible to enjoy idling thor- oughly unless one has plenty of work to do. J. K. JEROME. Idle Thoughts. Let the devil never find thee unem- ployed. ST. JEROME. Every man is, or hopes to be, an Idler. JOHNSON. Idler. Of all our passions the one we are least cognizant of is idleness. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 572. It seems as though it must be the devil who has carefully placed idleness across the approach to several virtues. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 591. A glorious lazy drone, grown fat with feeding On others' toil. MASSINGER. Great Duke, Act i, 2. Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, Counselled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, Not peace. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 2, 226. Remove idleness, and Cupid's artillery is silenced. OVID. Rem. Amoris. Stretched on the rack of a too easy chair. POPE. Dunciad, Bk. 4, 342. No father can transmit to his son the right of being useless to his fellow creatures. Rou ss E AU . Emile. Rich or poor, powerful or weak, every idle citizen is a rogue. ROUSSEAU. Ib. Incapable of doing aught Yet ill at ease with nought to do. SCOTT. Triermain, c. 2, 28. IDLENESS They laboriously do nothing. SENECA. De Brevitate Vita. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act i, 2. That ghostliest of all unrealities, the non-working man. G. B. SHAW. Irrational Knot, ch. 17. For thee, O Idleness ! the woes Of life we patiently endure ; Thou art the source whence Labour flows, We shun thee but to make thee sure. CHRISTOPHER SMART. To Idleness Sluggish idleness, the nourse of sin. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. i, c. 4, 18. The insupportable labour of doing nothing. STEELE. Spectator. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass. THOMSON. Castle of Indolence, c. i, 6. Their only labour was to kill the time ; And labour dire it is, and heavy woe. THOMSON. Ib., c. i, 72. For sluggard's brow the laurel never grows ; Renown is not the child of indolent repose. THOMSON. Ib., c. 2, 50. My profession is the profession of having none. VOLTAIRE. Les Originaux (Le Chevalier du Hasard). But when dread Sloth, the Mother of Doom, steals in, And reigns where Labour's glory was to serve, Then is the day of crumbling not far off. SIR W. WATSON. The Mother of Doom (August 28, 1919). For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. I. WATTS. Against Idleness. 'Tis the voice of the sluggard, I heard him complain " You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again ; " As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed Turns his sides and his shoulders and his heavy head. I. WATTS. Sluggard. For who does nothing with a better grace? YOUNG. Love of Fame, Sat. 4. " What are you doing, Joe ? " said I, " Nothing, sir," was his reply ; " And your job, Tom, I'd like to know ? " " I'm busy, sir I'm helping Joe." ANOV. 245 IF IGNORANCE Blame is the lazy man's wages Danish prov. He lives unworthily through whom no other person lives. Latin prov. As lazy as Ludlam's dog, that leaned his head against the wall to bark. Prov. (Ray). He that does nothing finds helpers. Prov. Idle bodies are generally busybodies. Prov. Idleness is the devil's bolster. Prov. Katie Sweerock, frae where she sat, Cried " Reik (reach) me this and reik me that." Scottish saying. IF Your " if " is the only peace-maker ; much virtue in " if." SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 5, 4. With an " if " you might put Paris in a bottle. French prov. If my aunt had wheels she would be an omnibus. German prov. If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle. Prov. (Ray's collection). IGNORANCE 'Tis ignorance makes the child sublime- G. BARLOW. Poetry and Science, 17- Be ignorance thy choice, where know- ledge leads to woe. BEATTIE. The Minstrel, Bk. 2, 30. Ignorance is not innocence, but sin. BROWNING. Inn Album, c. 5. The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity and pride and arrogance. S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. For men are grown above all knowledge now, And what they're ignorant of disdain to know. S. BUTLER. On the Licentiousness of the Age. Until you understand a writer's ignor- ance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. COLERIDGE. Biog. Literaria, ch. 12 (his" golden rule") Ignorance lies at the bottom of all buman knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. General ignorance in which accom- plishment I excelled. DE QUINCEY. Opium Eater. Some minds seem well glazed by nature against the admission of knowledge. GEO. ELIOT. Theophrastus Such. A Political Molecule. The man in the street does not know a star in the sky. EMERSON. Self -Reliance. Thought would destroy their Paradise. No more : where ignorance is bliss 'Tis folly to be wise. GRAY. Eton College. Like Montanus [in Holberg's comedy ' Erasmus Montanus '] I assert that the earth is flat, my friends. My eyes de- ceived me ; it is flat, flat as a pancake ! Now are you satisfied ? IBSEN. Love's Comedy, Act 3 (1862). He that voluntarily continues ignorance is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces. JOHNSON. Letter to W. Drummond, Aug. 30, 1766. Art hath an enemy called ignorance. BEN JONSON. Every Man Out of his Humour. The only useful conquests, the only conquests which leave no sort of regret behind, are the conquests one makes over ignorance. NAPOLEON I. Fools grant whate'er ambition craves, And men, once ignorant, are slaves. POPE. Choruses to " Brutus," 26. From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise. PRIOR. To C. Montague. For when I dinna clearly see, I always own I dinna ken. And that's the way with wisest men. ALLAN RAMSAY. Eclogue. Let me not burst in ignorance ! SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 4. Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the whig wherewith we fly to heaven. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. 2, Act 4, 7. A very superficial, ignorant unweighing fellow. SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure, Act 3, 2. There is no darkness but ignorance. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Nigkt, Act 4, 2. In knowing nothing is the sweetest life SOPHOCLES. Ajax. Our lives are usually shortened by out ignorance. HERBERT SPENCER. Principles of Biology, Pt. 6, c. 12, 372. 246 ILL-NATURE IMAGINATION For as of old mathematicians Were by the vulgar thought magicians, So academic dull ale-drinkers Pronounce all men of wit free-thinkers. SWIFT. To Dr. Delany, 1729. Where blind and naked ignorance Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, On all things all day long. TENNYSON. Merlin and Vivien, 662. ILL-NATURE Set not thy foot to make the blind to fall, Nor wilfully offend thy weaker brother, Nor wound the dead with thy tongue's bitter gall ; Neither rejoice thou in the fall of other. R. BURTON. From " Pybrac, Quadraint," 37. In working evils for another a man works evils for himself. HESIOD. Works and Days, 265, For pointed satire, I would Buckhurst choose, The best good man with the worst-natured Muse. EARL OF ROCHESTER. Allusion to Horace. ILLITERACY He can't write nor rade writing from his cradle, plase your honour ; but he can make his mark equal to another, sir. Miss EDGEWORTH. Love and Law, Act 3, i (Catty Rooney, of Ulick Rooney). For there be women fair as she Whose verbs and nouns do more agree. BRET HARTE. Mrs. Judge Jenkins. He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink ; his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, 4- 2. ILLNESS The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill. C. CHURCHILL. Night, 69. Is there no hope ? the sick man said ; The silent doctor shook his head. GAY. Fables, Pt. i, 27. Now I am past all comforts here but prayers. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 4, 2. Be lang sick that ye may be sune hale. Scottish prov. ILLUSION What youth deemed crystal, age finds out was dew. BROWNING. Jochanan Hakkadosh. Half our daylight faith's a fable ; Sleep disports with shadows too. CAMPBELL. A Dream. Beauty's witching sway Is now to me a star that's fallen a dream that's passed away. CAMPBELL. Farewell to Love. Why should we strive, with cynic frown, To knock their fairy castles down ? ELIZA COOK. Dear to Memory. The restless throbbings and burnings That hope unsatisfied brings, The weary longings and yearnings, For the mystical better things, Are the sands on which is reflected The pitiless moving lake, Where the wanderer falls dejected By a thirst he can never slake. A. L. GORDON. Wormwood and Nightshade. Dream on ! there's nothing but illusion true. O.W. HOLMES. The Old Player. So does the glory depart, and so danger- ous and disillusioning is it to grow up. E. V. LUCAS. One Day and Another. Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips. MOORE. Lalla Rookh. O futile fires ! the counterpart are ye Of most that we Heap for our prizes, gather for our goal ; While overhead the steadfast stars still burn, And shine their challenge to the human soul. EDEN PHILLPOTTS. Dance of the Months, Jack o' Lantern (July). When all the illusions of his Youth were fled, Indulged perhaps too much, cherished too long. ROGERS. Italy, Arqud. 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 ? SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., Act i, 3. Ah ! whither now are fled Those dreams of greatness ? those un- solid hopes Of happiness ? Those longings after fame ? Those restless cares ? those busy, bustling days ? Those gay-spent, festive nights ? THOMSON. Winter, 1033. IMAGINATION Rub out the colours of imagination. MARCUS AURELIUS. Bk. 7, 29. 247 IMAGINATION IMITATION Supposition is greater than truth. BACON (Given as a quotation in a letter to Lord Essex). To see the world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower. WM. BLAKE. Auguries of Innocence. I know of no other Christianity and of no other gospel than the liberty both of body and mind to exercise the divine arts of imagination. WM. BLAKE. Jerusalem. What is now proved was once only imagined. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs of Hell. Imagination hath a grasp of joy Finer than sense. R. BRIDGES. Return of Ulysses, Act 2. One does see somewhat when one shuts one's eyes. BROWNING. Mr. Sludge. Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 4, 115. Or wallow naked in December's snow, By bare remembrance of the summer's heat. C. GIBBER. Richard III. (Shakespeare adapted) Act i, i. Good sense is the Body of poetic genius, Fancy its drapery, Motion its Life, and Imagination the Soul that is everywhere and in each, and forms all into one grace- ful and intelligent whole. COLERIDGE. Biog. Literaria, ch. 14. Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have sur- vived ; But what torments of pain you endured From evils that never arrived ! EMERSON. From " an old French verse " (Conduct of Life. Considerations by the way). Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. GOLDSMITH. Good-natured Man, Act i. Imagination and memory are but one thing, which for divers considerations hath divers names. HOBBES. Leviathan, Bk. i, ch. 2. Imagination's paper kite, Unless the string is held in tight, Whatever fits and starts it takes, Soon bounces on the ground and breaks. W. S. LANDOR. Miscell., 306. To Barry Cornwall. It is imagination which rules the human race. NAPOLEON. The faculty of degrading God's works which man calls his " imagination." RUSKIN. Modern Painters, Pref. The essence of the Imaginative faculty is utterly mysterious and inexplicable, and to be recognized in its results only. RUSKIN. Ib., Vol. 2 Pt. 3, ch. i, 2. This is the very coinage of your brain : This bodiless creation ecstasy Is very cunning in. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 4. Give me an ounce of civet, good apothe- cary, to sweeten my imagination. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act 4, 6. Poetry, in a general sense, may be denned to be " the expression of the imag- ination." SHELLEY. Defence of Poetry (1821). Reason is to imagination as the instru- ment to the agent, as the body to the spirits, as the shadow to the substance. SHELLEY. Ib. Imagination is the faculty which " images " within the mind the pheno- mena of sensation. WM. TAYLOR. English Synonyms Described (1813). For any man with half an eye What stands before him may espy ; But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. J. TRUMBULL. McFingal. We cannot reproach our author for having invented what he states ; nothing would be more unjust than to attribute imagination to him. VOLTAIRE. On the Memoirs ofDangeau. Then blame not those who, by the mighti- est lever Known to the moral world, Imagination, Upheave, so seems it, from her natural station, All Christendom. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pt. i, 34 (Crusades). Imagination wanders far afield. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 8. A powerful imagination brings about the event. Latin saying quoted by Montaigne. IMITATION No, not a good imitation of Johnson. It has all his pomp, without his force ; it has all the nodosities of the oak without its strength ; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. BURKE. See Prior's " Life of Burke." Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. No man was ever great by imitation. JOHNSON. Rasselas. 248 IMMORTALITY IMMORTALITY We are all quick to imitate what is base and depraved. JUVENAL. Sat. 14. Wherever a poet of the first order has appeared, before long a rank crop of wretched imitators follows. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry, No. 16 (E. K. Francis, tr.). Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed. TENNYSON. The Flower. As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. WORDSWORTH. Intimations of Immortality. IMMORTALITY It must be so, Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? ADDISON. Cato, Act 5. They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old ; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning We will remember them. LAURENCE BIN YON. For the Fallen. The graves of those that cannot die. BYRON. Giaour, 140. If I err in this, that I believe the souls of men to be immortal, I err of my own free will ; nor do I wish this error, in which I find delight, to be wrested from me as long as I live. CICERO. Of old ai>e, 23, 86. To things immortal, Time can do no wrong, And that which never is to die, for ever must be young. COWLEY. To Dr. Scarborough. If death do quench us quite, we have great wrong. SIR J. DAVIES. Nosce Teipsum. If then all souls, both good and bad do teach With general voice, that souls can never die ; 'Tis not man's nattering gloss, but Nature's speech, Which, like God's oracles, can never lie. SIR J. DAVIES. Ib., sec. 30. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he who would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now. EMERSON. Conduct of Life, Worship. Let no one honour me with tears or bury me with lamentation. Why ? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of men. ENNIUS (quoted by Cicero). For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's : One of the few immortal names That were not born to die. FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. Marco Bozzaris. I saw i. dead man's finer part Shining within each faithful heart Of those bereft. Then said I, " This must be His Immortality." T. HARDY. His Immortality. On wing sublime eternal valour soars, And scorning human haunts and earthly shores, To those, whom Godlike deeds forbid to die, Unbars the gate of immortality. HORACE. Odes, Bk. 3, 2 (tr. by Wm. Pitt, jun.). In the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives ! LONGFELLOW. Building of the Ship. Yet some there be that by due steps aspke To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity. MILTON. Comus, 12. We have nothing about us immortal except the good qualities of our hearts and intellects. OVID. Trist., 3, 7. Then, as it seems, we shall obtain that which we desire and which we profess ourselves to be lovers of, wisdom, when we are dead, as reason shows, but not while we are alive. PLATO Phado, 30 (Gary tr.). Ye are but poor philosophers, ye who do say we must Wane with the years in grief and tears and turn again to the dust ; Our Souls are ourselves (though our dust be dust, and our body sinks to the sod) Coeval with all Eternity and part of the Very God. LT.-COL. DUDLEY SAMPSON. Songs of Love and Life. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. SHAKESPEARE. Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, 2. But thy eternal summer shall not fade. SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet 18. You still shall live such virtue hath my pen Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet 81. The shadow stayed not, but the splendour stays, Our brother, till the last of English days. SWINBURNE. In the Bay. 249 IMPENITENCE IMPRESSIONABILITY All outward wisdom yields to that within, Whereof nor creed nor canon holds the key ; We only feel that we have ever been, And evermore shall be. B. TAYLOR. Metempsychosis. I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. Isaiah Ivi, 5. One thing is certain, when this life is o'er, We die to live, and live to die no more. Epitaph at Brighton. IMPENITENCE No power can the impenitent absolve. DANTE. Inferno (Gary's tr.), c. 27, 114. May one be pardoned and retain th' offence ? SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 3. He dies and makes no sign : O God, for- give him ! SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. 2, Act 3, 3. IMPERFECTION What does Man see or feel or apprehend, Here, there, and everywhere, but faults to mend, Omissions to supply, one wide disease Of things that are, which Man at once would ease, Had will but power and knowledge ? BROWNING. Francis Furini. Skill comes so slow, and life so fast doth fly, We learn so little and forget so much. SIR J. DA VIES. NosceTeipsum. The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive. WORDSWORTH. On the Banks of Nith. Let other bards of angels sing, Bright suns without a spot ; But thpu art no such perfect thing ; Rejoice that thou art not ! WORDSWORTH. To Mrs. The flawed pot lasts longest. Prov. IMPETUOUSNESS The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs of Hell. And though he stumbles in a full career, Yet rashness is a better fault than fear. DRYDEN. tyrannic Love, Prol. His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn o"ut themselves ; Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short. SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., 2, i. IMPORTUNITY Oliver Twist has asked for more. DICKENS. Oliver Twist, ch. z. Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee. LONGFELLOW. Kavanagh. Antigonus the Elder, wearied of the importunity of Bias, said to his servants, " Give one talent to Bias, because it must be so." PLUTARCH. Morals, Bk. i. Ask me no more, the moon may draw the sea. TENNYSON. Princess, c. 7, Song. The hprseleach hath two daughters crying, Give, give. Proverbs xxx, 15. IMPOSSIBILITY It is not a lucky word this same impos- sible : no good comes of those that have it so often in their mouth. CARLYLE. Chartism, ch. 10. And what's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass. G. COLMAN. Maid of the Moor. Impossible is a word I never say. COLLIN D'HARLEVILLE. Malice pour Malice (1793). A wise man never Attempts impossibilities. MASSINGER. Renegado, Act i, i. Impossible ! Never say that foolish word to me ! MIRABEAU. (as quoted by Carlyle). You write " It is not possible." That is not French. NAPOLEON. Letter, July 9, 1813. IMPOTENCE Thou canst hurt no man's fame with thy ill word ; Thy pen is full as harmless as thy sword. SIR C. SCROPE. On Lord Rochester. And as, when heavy sleep has closed the sight, The sickly fancy labours in the night ; We seem to run, and destitute of force, Our sinking limbs forsake us in the course : In vain we heave for breath ; in vain we cry ; The nerves unbraced their usual strength deny. VIRGIL. Mneid, Bk. 12 (Dryden tr.). IMPRESSIONABILITY His heart was one of those which most enamour us, Wax to receive, and marble to retain. BYRON. Beppo, 34. 250 IMPRESSIVENESS IMPULSIVENESS And when she ceased, we sighing saw The floor lay paved with broken hearts. R. LOVELACE. Gratiana Dancing. No ; life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns. MOORE. Think Not. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ctzsar, Act 3, 2. I am a part of all that I have met. TENNYSON. Ulysses. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, its fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. WORDSWORTH. Intimations of Immortality, c. n. IMPRESSIVENESS He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. MILTON. Paradise Lost, i, 589. Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty. WORDSWORTH. Miscell. Sonnets, 36. IMPROMPTU Impromptu is truly the touchstone of wit. MOLIERE. Les prtcieuses ridicules, sc. 10. Poured forth his unpremeditated strain. THOMSON. Castle of Indolence, c. i, 68. IMPROVEMENT Nothing is clearer to me than that the present period of your life is as good for philosophy and for improvement as any other. MARCUS AURELIUS. Bk. n, 7. The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people. J. S. MILL. Liberty, ch. 3. IMPROVIDENCE Buy wh.it thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries. B. FRANKLIN. Poor Richard's Almanac. Who cannot live on twenty pounds a year Cannot on forty ; he's a man of pleasure, A kind of thing that's for itself too dear. HERBERT. Church Porch. If people take no care for the future they will soon have to sorrow for the present. Chinese prov. He who reckons without his host, May chance to find his labour lost. Old Saying. IMPUDENCE You have the gift of impudence ; be thank- ful ; Every man has not the like talent. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Wild Goose Chase. For he that has but impudence, To all things has a just pretence. S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. " You don't happen to know why they killed the pig, do you ? " retorts Mr. Bucket. ..." Why, they killed him. . . on account of his having so much cheek." DICKENS. Bleak House, c. 53. Bold knaves thrive, without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impu- dence. DRYDEN. Constantine, Ep. Nae wut without a portion o' imper- tinence. JOHN WILSON. Noctes, 30. When facts were weak, his native cheek Brought him serenely through. " Said of an eminent lawyer " (according to C. H. Spurgeon). IMPULSIVENESS A thing of impulse and a child of song. BYRON. Don Juan, 8, 24. " Halloa ! here's a church. . . Let's go in ! ". . . " Halloa ! " said Wemmick, " here's Miss Skiffins ! Let's have a wedding ! " DICKENS. Great Expectations, ch. 55 A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. DRYDEN. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. i, 156. The pupil of impulse, it forced him along, His conduct still right, with his argument wrong. GOLDSMITH. Retaliation. Hasty impulse (impetus) manages all things badly. STATIUS. Thebais. Ah, well 1 the world is discreet ; There are plenty to pause and wait ; But here was a man who set his feet Sometimes in advance of fate. J. G. WHITTIER. On G. L. Smith. 251 INACTION INCONGRUITY A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven, And such impetuous blood. WORDSWORTH. Ruth. INACTION As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. COLERIDGE. Ancient Mariner, Pt. z. Admirals, extolled for standing still, And doing nothing with a deal of skill. COWPER. Table Talk, 191. A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow ! E. FITZGERALD. Rubaiyat, st. 12. The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly in- activity. SIR J. MACKINTOSH. Vindicice Gallictz. INAPPROPRIATENESS When a dog is drowning everyone offers him drink. Prov. (Geo. Herbert). You mustn't tie up a dog with a string of sausages. Prov. INCLINATION She is far too clever to understand any- thing she does not like. A. BENNETT. The Title (1918), Act i. Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their under- standings. LORD CHESTERFIELD. Advice to his Son. For though with judgment we on things reflect, Our will determines, not our intellect. WALLER. Divine Love, c. i. INCOHERENCE These are but wild and whirling words, my lord. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 5. Put your discourse into some frame, and start not so wildly from my affair. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. t Act 3, 2. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 5, 5. I understand a fury in your words, But not the words. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 4, 2. INCOME TAX Taxing is an easy business. Any pro- jector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old ; but is it alto- gether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them ? BURKE. Robin : On Tuesday I made a false in- come tax return. All : Ha ! ha ! ist Ghost : That's nothing. 2nd Ghost : Nothing at all. yd Ghost : Everybody does that. \th Ghost : It's expected of you. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Ruddigore. These exactions, Whereof my sovereign would have note, they are Most pestilent to the hearing ; and, to bear 'em The back is sacrifice to the load. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., i, 2. INCOMPLETENESS Never the time and the place And the loved one all together ! BROWNING. Never the Time. Inscribe all human effort with one word, Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete ! BROWNING. Ring and the Book, n, 1560. INCONGRUITY Did He smile His work to see ? Did He who made the lamb make thee ? WM. BLAKE. The Tiger. The offspring of ill-mated things is dis- agreement. OVID. Metam., i. Those who make the shoe do not feel it pinch, and those who feel it pinch do not know how shoes are made. SIR F. POLLOCK. Land Laws, ch. i. 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 get there. POPE. Prol. to Satires. If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes, some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong and the persons acting those parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall gener- ally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy, No. 9.. 252 INCONSISTENCY INCONSTANCY In half the affairs of this busy life (As that same day I said to my wife), Our troubles come from trying to put The left-hand shoe on the right-hand foot. Saying quoted or invented by C. H. Spurgeon . How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together ? Ecclesiasticus xiii, 2 You cannot make a sparrow-hawk out of a buzzard. French prov. (Roman de la Rose). He that has teeth has not bread ; he that has bread has not teeth. Italian prov. INCONSISTENCY A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler, O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller. J. R. LOWELL. Biglow Papers, series i, 4. INCONSTANCY Thy favours are but like the wind That kisseth everything it meets. SIR R. AYTON. / do confess. Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd of his love. ANNA L. BARBAULD. Leave me, simple shepherd. Maidens' hearts are always soft : Would that men's were truer ! W. CULLEN BRYANT. Song. Let not woman e'er complain, Fickle man is apt to rove : Look abroad through nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change. BURNS. Let not woman e'er complain. Had sighed to many, though he loved but one. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. i, 5. As Juan mused on mutability, Or on his mistress terms synonymous. BYRON. Don Juan, 15, 20. The sea-green Incorruptible [Robespierre]. CARLYLE. French Revolution. The miracle to-day is that we find A lover true : not that a woman's kind. CONGREVE. Love for Love, Act 5, 2. The world's a scene of changes ; and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy. COWLEY. Inconstancy. Your Cleopatra, Dolabella's Cleopatra, every man's Cleopatra ! DRYDEN. All for Love, Act 4, i. Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. DRYDEN. Palamon, Bk. 2, 148. How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ! But while ye thus tease me together, To neither a word will I say. GAY. Beggar's Opera, Act 2, 2. Pretty Polly, say, When I was away, Did your fancy never stray To some newer lover ? GAY. Ib. Campaspe : Were women never so fair men would be false. Apelles : Were women never so false, men would be fond. LYLY. Alexander and Campaspe, Act 3, 3. They that do change old love for new, Pray gods they change for worse. PEELE. Arraignment of Paris, Act i, 2. Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face : Beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace. POPE. Odyssey, Bk. 8, 359. Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange. EARL OF ROCHESTER. Dialogue. Murderous darts, blindness, and wings are Cupid's attributes. The wings signify inconstancy, which, as a rule, comes with the disillusion following possession. SCHOPENHAUER. Metaphysics of Love. Credit me, friend, it hath been ever thus, Since the ark rested on Mount Ararat : False man hath sworn, and woman hath believed Repented and reproached, and then be- lieved once more. SCOTT. Fortunes of Nigel, ch. to. Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 2, 3. Were man But constant, he were perfect. SHAKESPEARE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 5, 4. There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy. SWIFT. Faculties of the Mind. Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God for power. TENNYSON. Duke of Wellington. With men and women 'tis alike the way, To hate to-morrow what they love to-day. D. W. THOMPSON. Sales Attici. I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Revelation ii, 4. Woman changeable we find, As a feather in the wind. Tr. of Italian prov. 253 INDECISION INDEXES INDECISION Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. J. C. HARE. Guesses at Truth, vol. i. Like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 3. Lord Chatham, with his sword drawn, Is waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at "em, Is waiting for the Earl of Chatham. Epigram (1809), referring to failure of the Earl of Chatham's military operations. INDEPENDENCE I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me. I. BICKERSTAFFE. Love in a Village. For body-killing tyrants cannot kill The public soul the hereditary will, That downward as from sire to son it goes, By shifting bosoms more intensely grows. CAMPBELL. On Poland. Heaven never meant him for that passive thing That can be struck and hammered out to suit Another's taste and fancy. He'll not dance To every tune of every minister. It goes against his naturehe can't do it. COLERIDGE. Piccolomii, Act i, 4. When independence of principle con- sists in having no principle to depend upon. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. Nelson was nothing if he was not in- subordinate. LORD FISHER. Memories. Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation ; Title and profit I resign ; The post of honour shall be mine. GAY. Fables, Pt. z, 2. That independence Britons prize too high, Keeps man from man, and breaks the social tie. GOLDSMITH. Traveller. Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a for- tune. GRAY. His own Character. He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. LONGFELLOW. Village Blacksmith. We've a war, an' a debt, an' a flag ; an' ef this Ain't to be inderpendunt, why, wut on air Ui is ? J. R. LOWELL. Biglow Papers, 2nd ser., 4. Independence, like honour, is a rocky island without a beach. NAPOLEON. I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life ; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ccesar, Act i, 2. 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. SMOLLETT. Independence. There are persons who are so indepen- dent that you cannot depend upon them. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars. " In the end injustice produces inde- pendence. VOLTAIRE. It is easier to control a hundred thousand men in battle than to subjugate the mind of one thoroughly convinced individual. VOLTAIRE. Essay on Manners, Remarks, 16. His march is a go-as-you-please ; He most keeps step with hisself. E. WALLACE. Naval Brigade, st. 2. Happy is he who, caring not for Pope, Consul or King, can sound himself to know The destiny of man, and live in hope. WORDSWORTH. Poems to National Indep. Pt. i, 5. How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will, Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill. SIR H. WOTTON. Character of a Happy Life. This man is freed of servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all. SIR H. WOTTON. Ib. INDESCRIBABLE, THE Not all the lip can speak is worth The silence of the heart. J. Q. ADAMS. Lip and Heart. A sight to dream of, not to tell. COLERIDGE. Christabel, Pt. i. INDEXES The man who publishes a book without an index ought to be damned ten miles beyond hell, where the Devil himself can- not get, for stinging nettles. JOHN BAYNES. So essential did I consider an Index to be in every book, that I proposed to bring a Bill into Parliament to deprive an author, 254 INDIA INDULGENCE who publishes a book without an index, of the privilege of copyright, and moreover to subject him, for his offence, to a pe- cuniary penalty. LORD CAMPBELL. Pref. to Lives of the Chief Justices (1857). One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or title-page, another works away at the book, and a third is a dab at an index. GOLDSMITH. The Bee, i. INDIA Dominions of the Sun. CAMPBELL. Pleasures of Hope, i. India knelt at her feet and felt her sway more fruitful of life than spring. SWINBURNE. England. INDIFFERENCE A mild indifferentism. BROWNING. Christmas Eve. He hated the bad world that loved not him. R. BUCHANAN. Barbara Gray. Full of a sweet indifference. R. BUCHANAN. Charmian. And I must say, I ne'er could see the very Great happiness of the " Nil Admirari." BYRON. Don Juan, c. 5, 100. Here's a sigh for those who love me, And a smile to those who hate ; And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for every fate. BYRON. To T. Moore. Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call ; She comes unlocked for, if she comes at all. POPE. Temple of Fame, I. 513. The worst sin towards our fellow-crea- tures is not to hate them, but to be in- different to them. That's the essence of inhumanity. G. B. SHAW. Devil's Disciple, Act 2. The noblest answer unto such, Is kindly silence when they bawl. TENNYSON. The After Thought. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter. THACKERAY. Sorrows of Werther. ' And Gallio cared for none of those things. Acts xviii, 17. If ye winna come ye'll bide, Quoth Rory to his bride. Scottish saying. INDIGNITIES By indignities men come to dignities. BACON. Essays of Great Place. It can never be They will digest this harsh indignity. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, Act 5, 2. INDISPENSABILITY They love, they hate, but cannot do with- out him. ARISTOPHANES (434 B.C.). As quoted by Plutarch. INDIVIDUALISM The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion the horse how he shall take his prey. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs of Hell. Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. What I am, and what I think, is conveyed to you, in spite of my efforts to hold it back. EMERSON. Conduct of Life, Worship. Literary history and all history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. EMERSON. Progress of Culture. You see the fact is that the strongest man upon earth is he who stands most alone. IBSEN. An Enemy of Society (Dr. Stockmann's " Great Discovery "). O, let me be myself ! But where, oh where Under this heap of precedent, this mound Of customs, modes, and maxims, cum- brance rare, Shall the Myself be found ? JEAN INGELOW. Honours, Pt. 2, 30. There is "a limit to the legitimate inter- ference of collective opinion with indi- vidual independence ; and to find that limit and maintain it against encroach- ment, is as indispensable to a good condi- tion of human affairs as protection against political despotism. J. S. MILL. Liberty, Introd. Whatever crushes individuality is des- potism, by whatever name it may be called. J. S. MILL. Ib. Only in the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act i, 2. God is no respecter of persons. Acts x, 34. What is not good for the hive is not good for the bee. Greek prov. INDULGENCE How sad and bad and mad it was But then, how it was sweet ! BROWNING. Confessions. 255 INDUSTRY INFAMY Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind. PRIOR. English Padlock. The land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, and when we did eat bread to the full. Exodus xvi, 3. INDUSTRY There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labour. ADDISON. Taller, No. 97. Industry is a loadstone to draw all good things. BURTON. Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reader. Since what by Nature was denied By art and industry's supplied. S. BUTLER. Upon Plagiaries (written satirically). He was never less at leisure than when at leisure ; he was never less alone than when alone. CICERO. (Quoted as a saying of Scipio Africanus) . Chase brave employments with a naked sword Throughout the world. Fool not, for all may have If they dare try, a glorious life or grave. HERBERT. Church Porch. Temperance and industry are the two real physicians of mankind. ROUSSEAU. Emile. Abroad in arms, at home in studious kynd, Who seekes with painfull toile, shall Honor soonest fynd. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. 2, c. 3, 40. Go to the ant but don't go to your uncle's. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." Riches consist in the great number of industrious men. VOLTAIRE. Dialogues, No. 4. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower ! I. WATTS. Against Idleness. Ease from this noble miser of his time No moment steals ; pain narrows not his cares. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, pt. i, 23. Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Prov. quoted by Cervantes. INEQUALITY But why should ae man better fare, And a' men brithers ? BURNS. To Dr. Blacklock. It's hardly in a body's power To keep at times frae being sour, To see how things are shared ; How best o' chiels are whiles in want, While coofs on countless thousands rant, And ken na how to wair't. BURNS. Epistle to Davie. Oh, there are moments for us here, when seeing Life's inequalities, and woe, and care, The burdens laid upon our mortal being Seem heavier than the human heart can bear. W. G. CLARK. A Song of May. Order is Heaven's first law, and thus con- fessed, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. 4, 49. He would not 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. R. RUMBOLD. At his execution, 1685. Macaulay's England, ch. 5. Immortal gods ! How one man excels another ! What a difference between a man of sense and a fool ! TERENCE. Eunuchus. How unequal things are, that those who have very little should be always adding something to the possessions of the more wealthy. TERENCE. Phormio, Act i. What are we ? How unequal ! Now we soar And now we sink. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 5. The Ox does the work, but the man eats the grain ; One does the work, and another gets the gain. Chinese saying. INEXPERIENCE My salad days, When I was green in judgment. SHAKESPEARE. Antony and Cleopatra, Act i, 5. You speak like a green girl, Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 3. INFAMY Infamy was never incurred for nothing. BURKE. Impeachment of Hastings. Leaving behind them horrible dispraise. DANTE. Inferno (Gary's tr.), c. 8, 50. Cancelled from Heaven, and sacred memory, Nameless in dark oblivion let them dwell. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 6, 375. INFANCY INGRATITUDE Hate cannot wish thee worse Than guilt and shame have made thee. MOORE. When First I Met. Shame and dishonour sit By his grave ever ; Blessing shall hallow it, Never, O never ! SCOTT. Marmion, 3, n. INFANCY The god in babe's disguise, BROWNING. Jos. Lee's Wife. O, hush thee, my baby, thy sire was a knight, Thy mother a lady, both lovely and bright ; The woods and the glens, from the towers which we see, They all are belonging, dear baby, to thee. SCOTT. Lullaby. INFATUATION She for him had given Her all on earth, and more than all in Heaven. BYRON. Corsair, c. 3, 17. She was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all. BYRON. The Dream, st. 2. Why she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 2. INFIDELITY Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau ; Mock on, mock on ; 'tis all in vain ; You throw the dust against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. WM. BLAKE. Scoffers. If Christians would teach infidels to be just to Christianity, they should them- selves be just to infidelity. J. S. MILL. Liberty, ch. z. INFINITY But how can finite grasp infinity ? DRYDEN. Hind and Panther, Pt. i, 105. The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable, not concealed, but incomprehensible : it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure, unsearchable sea. RUSKIN. Modern Painters, Pt. 3, sec. i, ch. 5, 19. INFLUENCE Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. BURKE. Reflections on French Revolution. Thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man' s search To vaster issues. GEO. ELIOT. O May I Join the Choit Invisible. Like moonlight on the troubled sea, Brightening the storm it cannot calm. MOORE. Loves of the Angels. The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. RUSKIN. Sesame and Lilies, Sec. i. Whose powers shed round him in the com- mon strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace. WORDSWORTH. Happy Warrior. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. Galatians v, 9. INGRATITUDE Men remember When they're forgotten. When remem- bered, they Themselves forget. A. AUSTIN. Fortunatus, Act 2, 8. Much I muse, How bitter can spring up, when sweet is sown. H. F. CARY. Dante's "Paradise," c. 8, 99. The good received, the giver is forgot. CONGREVE. To Ld. Halifax. On adamant our wrongs we all engrave, But write our benefits upon the wave. DR. W. KING. Art of Love. Ah, how have I deserved, inhuman maid, To have my faithful service thus repaid ? GEO. LORD LYTTELTON. Progress of Love. For vicious natures, when they once begin To take distaste, and purpose no requital, The greater debt they owe, the more they hate. T. MAY. Agrippina. Blow, blow, thou winter wind ! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 2, 7. Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child, Than the sea-monster ! SHAKESPEARK. Lear, Act i, 4. 257 INHUMANITY INNOCENCE 1 bate ingratitude more in a man Thau lyiug, vainness, babbling, drunken- ness. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 3, 4. Ingratitude he often found, And pitied those who meant the wound. SWIFT. OH the Death of Dr. Swift. Kindness is very indigestible. It dis- agrees with very proud stomachs. THACKERAY. Philip, Bk. 2, ch. 6. Injuries we write in marble ; kind- nesses in dust. Prov. Do a man a gude turn and he'll ne'er forgie ye. Shetland prov. INHUMANITY Blow, blow, ye winds, with heavier gusts ! And freeze, thou bitter, biting frost ! Descend, ye chilly, smothering snows ! Not all your rage, as now united, shows More hard unkindness, unrelenting, Vengeful malice, unrepenting, Than heaven-illumined man on brother man bestows. BURNS. A Winter Night. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. BURNS. Man was Made to Mourn. Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine. BYRON. Bride ofAbydos, c. i, st. i. Butchered to make a Roman holiday. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 4, 141. So young and so untender. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act i, i. In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the un- kind. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 3, 5. No greater shame to man than inhu- manitie. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. 6, c. i, st. 26. INJURIES For injuries are writ in brass, kind Graccho, And not to be forgotten. MASSINGER. Duke of Milan, Act 5, i. A wound, though cured, yet leaves behind a scar. J. OLDHAM. Lydia's Will. Oblivion is the remedy for injuries. SENECA. (Quoted as front " an old poet.") Kindnesses are easily forgotten, but injuries ! what worthy man does not keep those in mind ? THACKERAY. Lovel the Widower. A wounded spirit who can bear ? Proverbs xviii, 14. INJUSTICE Injustice is no less than high treason against Heaven. MARCUS AURELIUS. Bk. 9, x. Omissions, no less than commissions, are often a part of injustice. MARCUS AURELIUS. Bk. 9, 5. " A book," I observed, " might be written on the Injustice of the Just." SIR A. HOPE HAWKINS. Dolly Dialogues, 15. The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. JUNIUS. Letter 41. Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne. J. R. LOWELL. Present Crisis. It makes me very angry indeed to be in the wrong when I am right. MOLIERE. (George Dandin.) I should wish neither, but had I of necessity to choose, I would rather suffer unjustly than act unjustly. PLATO. Gorgias, 55. (Remark attrib. to Socrates.) The most complete injustice is to seem just, when not so. PLATO. Republic, Bk. 2, 4. Unjust rule never endures perpetually. SENECA. Medea. In all time, in every place, the public is unjust. Horace complained of it in the empire of Augustus. Malice, pride, an unworthy desire to disparage the talents which form our delight, to blight the fine arts which solace life, that is the heart oi man ; it is born for envy. VOLTAIRE. To Mdlle. Clairon. But Truth inspired the bards of old When of an iron age they told, Which to unequal laws gave birth And drove Astraea [Justice] from the earth. WORDSWORTH. The Italian Itinerant, Pt. 2, 2. Jeddart (or Jedburgh) justice ; first hang a man and syne try him. Scottish prov. founded on a wholesale hanging of political prisoners at Jedburgh in 1574. (A similar prov. attaches to Lidford, Devon.) INNOCENCE Modesty does not long survive innocence. BURKE. Impeachment of Hastings (Feb. 17, 1788). Oh, Mirth and Innocence ! Oh, Milk and Water ! Ye happy mixtures of more happy days ! BYRON. Beppo, st. 80. 258 INNOVATIONS INQUISITIVENESS Life is fullest of content, Where delight is innocent. T. CAMPION. Tell tne, gentle hour of night. Folly and Innocence are so alike, The difference, though essential, fails to strike. COWPER. Progress of Error, 203. However few of the other good things of life are thy lot, the best of all things, which is innocence, is always within thy own power. FIELDING. Amelia, Bk. 8, c. 3. I dare (for what is that which innocence dares not ?). FLETCHER AND MASSINGER. Little French Lawyer, Act 3, i. The smile that was childlike and bland. BRET HARTE. Plain Language. He's armed without that's innocent within. POPE. Satires, Bk. i, 94. Not proven ! I hate that Caledonian medium quid. One who is not proved guilty is innocent in the eyes of the law. SCOTT. Diary, Feb. 20, 1827. We that have free souls, it touches us not. Let the galled jade wince ; our withers are unwrung. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 2. When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies, That she might think ine some untutored youth, Unlearndd in the world's false subtleties. SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet 138. The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails. SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act 2, 2. There is no courage but in innocence, No constancy but in an honest cause. T. SOUTHERN. Fate of Capua. INNOVATIONS Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act i, 4. All with one consent praise new-born gauds. SHAKESPEARE. Troilus and Cressida, 3, 3. All great truths begin as blasphemies. G. B. SHAW. Annajanska. They wha put plough into new land must look to have it hank on a stane now and then. Scottish prov. INNS A novel.... should always be kept moving on. Nobody knew this better than Field- ing, whose novels, like most good ones, are full of inns. A. BIRRELL. Office of Literature. He knew the tavernes wel in every toun. CHAUCER. Cant. Tales, Prol. Along the varying road of life, In calm content, in toil or strife, At morn or noon, by night or day, As time conducts him on his way, How oft doth man, by care oppressed, Find in an inn a place of rest. W. COOMDE. Dr. Syntax, c. 9. There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as in a capital tavern. JOHNSON. Remark, 1776. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happi- ness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn. JOHNSON. Remark. Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn ? SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 3, 3. Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still hath found The warmest welcome at an inn. SHENSTONE. At Henley. INNUENDO 'Tis not the wholesome sharp morality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state, But the sinister application Of the malicious, ignorant, and base Interpreter. BEN JONSON. Poetaster, 5, i. Nor do they trust their tongues alone, But speak a language of their own ; Can read a nod, a shrug, a look, Far better than a printed book ; Convey a libel in a frown, And wink a reputation down. SWIFT. Journal of a Modern Lady, 1728. INQUISITIVENESS Seek not the wherefore, race of human kind. H. F. CARY. Dante's "Purgatory," c. 3, 35. Avoid a person who asks questions, for such a man is a talker ; nor will open ears keep faithfully the things entrusted to them. HORACE. Ep., Bk. i, 18. Inquisitive people are all ill-natured. PLAUTUS. Stichus. I hope I don't intrude. POOLE. Paul Pry. You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 259 INSANITY INSPIRATION INSANITY Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins. SCROPE DAVIES. Letter, 1835. All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. JOHNSON. Rasselas, ch. 44. Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. n, 485. INSCRUTABILITY Not a thought to be seen On his steady brow and quiet mouth. BROWNING. Statue and the Bust. His face, The tablet of unutterable thoughts. BYRON. The Dream, 6. High and inscrutable the old man stood, Calm in his voice, and calm within his eye. BYRON. Don Juan, 4, 39. INSECTS Or great ugly things, All legs and wings, With nasty long tails, Armed with nasty long stings. R. H. BARHAM. The Knight and the Lady. Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the last judgment draweth nigh. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs. Of all the plagues that Heaven has sent, A wasp is most impertinent. GAY. Fables. If you wish to live and thrive, Let the spider run alive. Old Saying. INSENSIBILITY A stoic of the woods a man without a tear. CAMPBELL. Gertrude. 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. JOHNSON. Burlesque of Lopez de Vega. INSIGNIFICANCE 'Tis not to die we fear, but to die poorly, To fall forgotten, in a multitude. FLETCHER. Humorous Lieutenant,Act 2,2. Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood. Frov. (Italian ?) INSINCERITY Our hands have met but not our hearts. Hoop, To a False Friend. I, under fair pretence of friendly ends, And well-placed words of glozing courtesy Baited with reasons not implausible, Wind me into the easy-hearted man, And hug him into snares. MILTON. Comus, 160. It is vile to say one thing and to think another. How much more base to write one thing and think another ! SENECA. Ep. 24. The hearts of old gave hands : But our new heraldry is hands not hearts. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 3, 4. INSPIRATION And doubtless this too, comes from grace of Gods, Seated in might upon their awful thrones. AESCHYLUS. Agamemnon, 170 (Plumptre tr.). My soul within me burning with hot thoughts. ^ESCHYLUS. Ib. 1030 (Plumptre tr.). Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. BROWNING. Death in the Desert. There's a melody born of melody, Which melts the world into a sea ; Toil could never compass it ; Art its height could never hit ; It never came out of wit ; But a music music-born Well may Jove and Juno scorn. EMERSON. F. Yet his look with the reach of past ages was wise, And the soul of eternity thought through his eyes. LEIGH HUNT. Feast of Poets. He ne'er is crowned With immortality who fears to follow Where airy voices lead. KEATS. Endymion. Bk. 2. Great thoughts, great feelings came to him, Like instincts, unawares. R. M. MILNES (LORD HOUGHTON). Men of Old. And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. MILTON. // Penseroso, 39. 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 of God to man. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, /. 27. He who receives Light from above, from the fountain of light, No other doctrine needs, though granted true. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. 4, 288, INSTABILITY INTEGRITY There is a God within us, and we glow when he stirs us. OVID. Fast., Bk. 6. From nature all perfections flow ; And though from tasked attention slow Taught excellence will sometimes strain And struggle to renown ; if Heaven Has not the inspiring impulse given, 'Tis silence best rewards the pain. PINDAR. Olympian Odes, g, 151 (Moore tr.). Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than Heaven. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, 2, 22. The feather whence the pen Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. WORDSWORTH. -Eccles. Sonnets, PL 3, 5. We are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. WORDSWORTH. Tinier n Abbey. INSTABILITY Nothing is fixed that mortals see or know, Unless perhaps some stars be so. SWIFT. Ode to Bancroft. INSTINCT Instinct is untaught ability. DR. A. BAIN. Senses and Intellect (1855). Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way. Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. COWPER. The Doves. Armed men have gladly made Him their guide, and him obeyed And to all this fame he rose, Only following his nose. COWPER. On a Pointer Dog. Instinct preceded wisdom Even in the wisest men, and may some- times Be much the better guide. G. LILLO. Fatal Curiosity. Instinct and reason how can we divide ? 'Tis the fool's ignorance and the pedant's pride. PRIOR. Solomon, Bk. i, 235. An instinct call it, a blind sense, A happy, genial influence, Coming one knows not how nor whence, Nor whither going. WORDSWORTH. To the Daisy. A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. WORDSWORTH. Poenis of the Imagination, Pt. 2, 12 Swift Instinct leaps ; slow Reason feebly climbs. YOUNG. \ight Thoughts, 7. For a man's mind is sometime wont to tell him more than seven watchmen, that sit above in an high tower. Ecdesiasticus xxxvii, 14. INSTRUCTION He that shortens the road to knowledge lengthens life. C. C. COLTON. Lacon It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies ; seldom safe to venture to in struct, even our friends. C. C. COLTON.-/&. If wisdom were offered me on condition that I should keep it close and not com- municate it, I would refuse the gift. SENECA. Lord teach my teacher that he may teach me. C. H. SPURGEON. A nod for a wise man and a rod for a fool. Hebrew prov. INSUBORDINATION Jellicoe has all the Nelsonic attributes except one he is totally wanting in the great gift of insubordination. LORD FISHER. Letter to a Privy Councillor, Dec. 27, 1916. INSUFFICIENCY Oh, the little more, and how much it is 1 And the little less, and what worlds away BROWNING. By the Fireside, INSULTS Insects Have made the lion mad ere now ; a shaft I' the heel o'erthrew the bravest of the brave. BYRON. Marino Faliero, Act 5, i. An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. LORD CHESTERFIELD. Letter, 1746. Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. JOHNSON. London. Insults are like bad coins ; we cannot help their being offered to us, but we need not take them. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." INTEGRITY He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 3, 57. Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? three treasures, love and light, 261 INTEGRITY INTELLECT And calm thoughts, regular as infant's breath, And three linn friends, more sure than day and night Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death. COLERIDGE. Job's Litck. His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets, might Be wrong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. COWLEY. On Mr. Crashaw. Nor holds this earth a more deserving knight, For virtue, valour, and for noble blood, Truth, honour, all that is comprised in good. DRYDEN. Palamon, Bk. 3, /. 823. Integrity is praised and starves. JUVENAL. Sat. i. Free from self-seeking, envy, low design, I have not found a whiter soul than thine. LAMB. To M. C. Burney. For he that is trewe of his tonge, and of his two handes, And doth the werkes therewith, and willeth no man ille, He is a god by the gospel. LANGI.AND. Piers Plowman, Passus 2, 82. He that has light, within his own clear breast May sit i' th* centre, and enjoy bright day. MILTON. Comus, 381. Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent Would have been held in high esteem with Paul. MILTON. Sonnet. Teach me through life truth's simple path to find, That my sons blush not for their sire. Some showers of gold from heaven require ; Others for boundless wealth have pined ; Grant me my country's smiles to meet ! PINDAR. Nemean Odes, 8, 60 (Moore tr.). Preserve me, O my integrity, since I have diligently preserved thee. PLAUTUS. Curcitlio, Act 5. An honest man's the noblest work of God. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. 4, 248. Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear ; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend. POPE. Moral Essays, Ep. 5. Just of thy word, in every thought sincere, Who knew no wish but what the world might hear. POPE. On K. Digby. Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation coped withal. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act j, 2. Be just and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 3, 2. He was not born for shame : Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, 2. Villain and he be many miles asunder. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, 5. Though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous. SWINBURNE. Marino Faliero, Act 3, i. Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King Else, wherefore born ? TENNYSON. Gareth. Who reverenced his conscience as his king ; Whose glory was, redressing human wrong ; Who spake no slander, no, nor listened to it. TENNYSON. Idylls, Dedication. Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God for power. TENNYSON. Duke of Wellington, st. 7. To God, thy country and thy friend be true. H. VAUGHAN. Rules and Lessons. Customs, interests, forms of worship, laws, all differ. Let a man be true, that is enough. The rest does not matter. VOLTAIRE. La Loi naiurelle. Suffice it that he never brought His conscience to the public mart ; But lived himself the truth he taught, White-souled, clean-handed, pure of heart. WHITTIER. Sumner. Him only pleasure leads and peace attends, Him, only him, the shield of Jove defends, Whose means are fair and spotless as his ends. WORDSWORTH. Laodamia. INTELLECT Go put off holiness and put on intellect. WM. BLAKE. Jerusalem. The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 2, 6. The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind. MORTIMER COLLINS. Village Comedy, 1,56. 262 INTENTION INTROSPECTION My rnind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That earth affords, or grows by kind. SIR E. DYER. Though never nurtured in the lap Of luxury, yet I admonish you, I am an intellectual chap, And think of things that would as- tonish you. SIR W. S. GILBERT. lolanthe. All the wise therein really extolling themselves agree that Mind is to us a king of heaven and of earth. PLATO. Philebus, 50. The true and the pure pleasures, asso- ciated with health and sobriety and virtue, these partake of. But those which accom- pany folly and depravity it is an absurdity to mix with Intellect. PLATO. Ib., 152. The feast of reason and the flow of soul. POPE. Satires, Bk. 2, Sat. i, 128. The power least prized is that which thinks and feels WORDSWORTH. Humanity, i, 94. Intellect obscures more than it illumines. I. ZANGWILL. Children of the Ghetto, Bk. 2, ch. 15. INTENTION I praise the heart and pity the head of him. BROWNING. Christmas Eve. I do believe you think what now youspeak; But what we do determine oft we break. Purpose is but the slave to memory. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 2. The attempt, and not the deed, Confounds us. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 2, 2. It has been more wittily than charit- ably said that hell is paved with good in- tentions. They have their place in heaven also. SOUTHEY. Colloquies. If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in vain. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 6. But the olde proverbe is exceeding true, That these great wishers, and these com- mon woulders, Are never, for the most part, good house- holders. The Times' Whistle (1614). Heaven favours good intentions. Spanish prov. INTERRUPTION The most intelligent of all the Euro- pean nations has called " Never Inter- rupt " the eleventh commandment. SCHOPENHAUER. On Noise. You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admired disorder. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 3, 4. INTERVENTION Those who in quarreU interpose. Must often wipe a bloody nose. GAY. Fables. Pt. i, 34. Come not between the dragon and his wrath. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act i, i. INTERVIEWERS With much communication will he tempt thee, and smiling upon thee will get out thy secrets. Ecclesiasticus xiii, n. INTOLERANCE Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over- zealous piety. BURKE. Impeachment of Hastings, Feb. 17, 1788. The soberest saints are more stiff-necked Than- th* hottest-headed of the wicked. S. BUTLER. Miscell. Thoughts. Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. BYRON. Don Juan, c. i, 83 ' Bigotry murders Religion, to frighten fools with her ghost. C. C. COLTON. Lacon, No. 101. For both were bigots fateful souls that plague The gentle world. J. DAVIDSON. A Woman and her Son. Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. LORD MORLEY. Voltaire. The Athenians, as it appears to me [Spcrates], do not care very much whether they think a man is clever, so long as he does not communicate his wisdom. When they think a man makes others wise, they are angry, either through envy, as you say, or from some other cause. PLATO. Euthyphron, 3. To say a man is bound to believe is neither truth nor sense. SWIFT. Thoughts on Religion. They [Luther and Calvin] condemned the Pope and yet wished to imitate him. VOLTAIRE. To the Author of the Three Impostors. INTROSPECTION Yet we shall one day gain, life past, Clear prospect o'er our being's whole ; Shall see ourselves, and learn at last Our true affinities of soul. MATTHEW ARNOLD. Farewell. 263 INTUITION IRELAND Look then into thine heart and write. LONGFELLOW. Voices oftheNight, Prelude. True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect and still revere himself In lowliness of heart. WORDSWORTH. Lines, 1795 That inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude. WORDSWORTH. / Wandered Lonely. INTUITION But God has a few of us, whom he whispers in the ear ; The rest may reason and welcome : 'tis we musicians know. BROWNING. Abt Vogler, n. Thought is deeper than all speech ; Feeling deeper than all thought ; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. C. P. CRANCH. Stanzas. That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous ; You must have also the untangled strain That sheds the beauty on the rose. EMERSON. Fate. Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. EMERSON. Heroism. INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS He shall have chariots easier than air, That I will have invented ; . . . And thy- self. That art the messenger, shalt ride before him On a horse cut out of an entire diamond. That shall be made to go with golden wheels, I know not how yet. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. A King and No King (1611), Act 5. For though some meaner artist's skill were shown, In mingling colours, or in placing light, Yet still the fair designment was his own. DRYDEN. Death of Cromwell, st. 24. The inventions of the last fifty years counterpoise those of the fifty centuries before them. EMERSON. Works and Days. Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta- percha, the very material it requires, is found. EMERSON. Ib. Deduct all that men of the humbler classes have done for England in the way of inventions only, and see where she would have been but for them. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Slavery, ch. 3. " I am Ymaginatyf," quath he, " ydel was I nevere." LANGLAND. Piers Plowman, Passus 15. Th' invention all admir'd, and each how he To be th' inventor miss'd ; so easy it seem'd, Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought Impossible. MILTON. Paradise Lost, 6, 498. Invention is the most expensive thing in the world. It takes no end of time and no end of money. G. B. SHAW. Irrational Knot, ch. 3. In the arts of life man invents nothing ; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pes- tilence and famine. G. B. SHAW. Man and Superman. The devil has a very inventive mind. VOLTAIRE. La Pucelle. It is easy to add to inventions. Latin prov. INVISIBILITY I could not see my little friend because he was not there. R. H. BARHAM. Misadventures at Margate. The Spanish fleet thou canst not see because It is not yet in sight. SHEXIDAN. Critic, Act 2, 2. But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. J. TRUMBULL. McFingal. INVITATION " Will you walk into my parlour ? " said a spider to a fly ; " It's the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy." MARY HOWITT. Spider and Fly Come live with me and be my love. MARLOVVK. ]ew of Malta, Song. Whether they give or refuse, it delights women equally to have been asked. OVID. Ars Amat., Bk. i. Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 4. IRELAND There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin. CAMPBELL. Exile of Erin. He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-bragh [" Ireland for Ever "]. CAMPBELL. Ib. 264 IRELAND ISOLATION That domestic Irish Giant, named of Despair. CARLYLE. Latter Day Pamphlets, 3. Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. Miss EDGEWORTH. Essay on Irish Bulls, ch. 5. There is one distinguishing peculiarity of the Irish Bull its horns are tipped with brass [i.e. impudence or self-possession]. Miss EDGEWOKTH. Ib., ch. 7. There is no harm, but sometimes a great deal of good done by laughing, especially in Ireland. Miss EDGEWORTH. Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock, Act i, i. I never met anyone in Ireland who understood the Irish question, except one Englishman who had only been there a week. SIR K. FRASER, M.P., House of Commons, May, 1919. Oh, while a man may dream awake, On gentle Irish ground, 'Tis Paradise without the snake That's easy to be found. F. LANGBRIDGE. Dedicatory Poem, The Irish are a fair people ; they never speak well of one another. JOHNSON. Remark. For 'tis the capital o' the finest nation, Wid charming pisintry upon a fruitful sod, Fightin' like divils for conciliation, An' hatin" each other for the love of God. C. LEVER. Founded on old Irish Ballad. And now the Irish are ashamed To see themselves in one year tamed : So much one man can do, That does both act and know. MARVELL. Ode on Cromwell, 75. An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. G. B. SHAW. John Bull's Other Island, Act i. Erin go bragh ! A far better anthem would be, Erin go bread and cheese. SYDNEY SMITH. On the Irish Roman Catholic Church. Glorious Ireland, sword and song Gird and crown thee : none may wrong, Save thy sons alone. The sea that laughs around us Hath sundered not but bound us ; The sun's first rising found us Throned on its equal throne. SWINBURNE The Union. The lovely and the lonely bride, Whom we have wedded but have never won. W. WATSON. Coronation Ode. 265 The cup of Ireland's miseries has long been overflowing, and even yet it is not full. "An Irish Patriot " (as quoted by C. H. Spurgeon). He that would England win, Must with Ireland first begin. Old Saying (Ray). IRRESOLUTION Thus conscience doth 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. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, i. Now hear what I revolve : A thought unripe, and scarcely yet resolve. VIRGIL. ^Eneid, Bk. 9 (Dryden tr.). IRRESPONSIBILITY The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity. DISRAELI. Speech, 1878. A dark horse in a loose box. LORD MORLEY. Referring to Lord Rosebery. Blame not my lute ! for he must sound Of this or that as liketh me. SIR T. WYATT. The Lover's Lute. IRRESPONSIVENESS Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. Church Psalter, Iviii, 5. We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced. St. Matthew xi, 17. IRRETRIEVABLE, THE Ole Brer Rabbit, he lean fum out de steeple en 'pollygize de bes' he kin, but no 'pollygy aint gwine ter make ha'r come back whar de b'iling water hit. J. C. HARRIS. Nights with Uncle Remus, ch. 45. IRRITATION There is a common saying that when a horse is rubbed on the gall, he will kick. BISHOP LATIMER. Sermon, 1552. A* things anger you, and the cat breaks your heart. Scottish prov. ISOLATION I have made a great discovery. . . The strongest man upon earth is he who stands most alone (Dr. Stockmann). IBSEN. An Enemy of Society. One and none is all one. Spanish prov. (Ray). ITALY ITALY Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, " Italy." BROWNING. De Gustibus. I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet south. BYRON. Beppo, st. 44. A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority. JOHNSON. Remark, 1776. Subtle, discerning, eloquent, the slave Of Love, of Hate, for ever in extremes ; Gentle when unprovoked, easily won, But quick in quarrel through a thousand shades His spirit flits, chameleon-like ; and mocks The eye of the observer. [Sketch of Italian character.] ROGERS. Italy, Venice. They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy ; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. MARK TWAIN. Innocents Abroad, ch. 19. Lump the whole thing ! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo ! MARK TWAIN. Ib., ch. 27. Fair Land ! Thee all men greet with joy ; how few, Whose souls take pride in freedom, virtue, fame, Part from thee without pity dyed in shame ! WORDSWORTH. Tour in Italy, 25. JANUARY If the grass grows in Janiveer, It grows the worse for "t all the year. Prov. (Ray). JEALOUSY There is more iealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. The wise too jealous are, fools too secure. CONGREVE. Way of the World, Act 3, 3. Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind ! DRYDEN. Love Triumphant, A jealous woman believes everything her passion suggests. GAY. Beggar's Opera, Act 2, 2. JESTING What frenzy dictates jealousy believes. GAY. Dione. Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 361. In jealousy there is more self-love thau love. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 361. Nor jealousy Was understood, the injured lover's hell. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 5, 449. For story and experience tell us That man grows old and woman jealoui. PRIOR. Alma, c. z, 65. Rash-embraced despair, And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 3, 2. How many fools serve mad jealousy ! SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 2, i. O beware, my lord, of jealousy ; It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 3, 3 Trifles, light as air. Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. For where Love reigns, disturbing Jealousy Doth call himself Affection's sentinel ; Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny. SHAKESPEARE. Venus and Adonis, st. 109. This carry-tale dissentious Jealousy, That sometimes true news, sometimes false doth bring. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., st. no. Jealousy's a city passion ; 'tis a thing unknown among people of quality. SIR J. VANBRUGH. Confederacy. And even mother earth had loved him more Than me ; his wide sun-flooded meadows bore A golden host that numbered mine thrice o'er. AUGUSTA WEBSTER. The Snow Waste. It is the hydra of calamities, The seven-fold death. YOUNG. The Revenge. Love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave. Song of Solomon ii, 2. JESTING Beware of jokes ! Too much temperance cannot be used inestimable for sauce, but corrupting for food ; we go away hollow and ashamed. EMERSON. Social .-\ iins. 266 JEWELS JOURNALISM Nor dare I rally with such dangerous folk, Lest I be torn in pieces for a joke. P. FRANCIS Horace, Epistles, Bk. i, iy. He makes a foe who makes a jest. GAY. Fables, 46. Full well they laughed, with counter- feited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. The jests of the rich are ever successful. GOLDSMITH. Vicar of Wakefield, ch. 7. May there be no ill-natured interpreter to put false constructions on the honest meaning of my jests. MARTIAL. Epig., Bk. i, Preface. I suppose the chief bar to the action of imagination, and stop to all greatness in this present age of ours, is its mean and shallow love of jest. RUSKIN. Modern Painters, vol. 2, Pi. 3, ch. 3, 10. For the love of laughter, hinder not the humour of his design. SHAKESPEARE. All's Well, Act 3, 6. No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest : no offence i' the world. SHAKESPEARE. Hamle', Act 3, 2. A jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible As a nose on a man's face, or a weather- cock on a steeple ! SHAKESPEARE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 2, i. My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. G. B. SHAW. John Bull's Other Island, Act 2. Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke. MARK TWAIN. Innocents Abroad, ch. 27. Better lose a joke than a friend. French prov. Affront your friend in damn [in joke], and tine [lose] him in earnest. Scottish prov. The wise make jests and fools repeat them. Prov. (Kay). JEWELS Jewels, orators of Love. S. DANIEL. Rosamond, st. 52. Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore. MOORE. Irish Melodies. They marveyle that any men be so folyshe as to have delite and pleasure in the doubteful glisteringe of a lytil try- fellyuge stone, which maye beholde annye of the starres or elles the sonne it selfe. SIR T. MORE. Utopia (Ralph Robinson tr.), Bk. 2. On her white breast a sparkling cross she bore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. POPE. Rape of the Lock, c. 2, 7. Win her with gifts, if she respect not words : Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, More quick than words, do move a woman's mind. SHAKESPEARE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act, 3, i. JEWS One of the most remarkable phenomena in the history of this scattered people, made for ages " a scorn and a hissing," is that . . . they have come out of it (in any estimate which allows for numerical pro- portion) rivalling the nations of all European countries in healthiness and beauty of physique, in practical ability, in scientific and artistic aptitude, and in some forms of ethical value. GEORGE ELIOT. Theophrastus Such. The Modern Hep ! Hep! Hep! A hopeless faith, a homeless race, Yet seeking the most holy place, And owning the true bliss. KEBLE. 5th Sun. in Lent. Hath not a Jew eyes ? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affec- tions, passions ? SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 3, i. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. i Kings iv, 25 (R.V.). JILTED Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all. CAMPBELL. Jilted Nymph. Say what you will, 'tis better to be left, than never to have been loved. CONGREVE. Way of the World, Act 2, i. Alas, she married another. They fre- quently do. I hope she is happy because I am. ARTEMUS WAKD. Lecture. JOHN BULL The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses who pull ; Each tugs it a different way, And the greatest of all is John Bull. BYRON . Epigra m. JOURNALISM Nor ever once ashamed. So we be named Press-men ; Slaves of the Lamp : Servants of Light. SIR E. ARNOLD. Tenth Muse. JOY JUDGMENT Journalists always say what they know is untrue, in the hope that if they go on saying it long enough it will come true. ' A. BENNETT. The Title (1918), Act 2. Great is Journalism. Is not every able Editor a Ruler of the World, being a persuader of it ? CARI.YLE. French Revolution, Pt. 2, Bk. i, 14. The crimes I commit are not all kept out of the newspapers. PETT RIDGE. Mr. Frank Cardwell (who " wrote for the press "). For a slashing article, sir, there's nobody like the Capting. THACKERAY. Pendennis, Bk. i, ch. 32. Ah, ye Knights of the pen ! May honour be your shield, and truth tip your lances ! Be gentle to all gentle people. Be modest to women. Be tender to children. And as for the Ogre Humbug, out sword and have at him ! THACKERAY. Roundabout Papers, Ogres. JOY Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs, Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings. BYRON. Childe Harold, 82. Earth's sweetest joy is but disguised woe. W. DRUMMOND. Song. And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, Bidding adieu. KEATS. Ode to Melancholy. Great joys, like griefs, are silent. S. MARMION. Holland's Leaguer, Act 5, i. But headlong joy is ever on the wing. MILTON. The Passion, 5. In folly's cup still laughs the bubble joy. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. 2, 288. For when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven. SHELLEY. Queen Mab, c. 3. Though grief be a more violent passion than joy as indeed all uneasy sensations seem naturally more pungent than the opposite agreeable ones yet of the two, surprises of joy are still more insupportable than surprises of grief. ADAM SMITH. History of Astronomy. JUDGES A great judge and a little judge, The judges of Assize. HOOD. Tim Turpin. 268 A Daniel come to judgment ! SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 4i i. If thou be a severe, sour-complex ioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge. IZAAK WALTON. Complete Angler, Pref. JUDGMENT Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe ; He still remembered that he once was young. DR. J. ARMSTRONG. Art of Preserving Health, Bk. 4. Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, We know not what's resisted. BURNS. To the Unco Guid. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentlier sister woman ; Though they may go a kennin wrang, To step aside is human. BURNS. 76. Affection bends the judgment to her ply. H. F. GARY. Dante's Paradise, c. 13, 115. Why is it that we so constantly hear men complaining of their memory, but none of their judgment ? C. C. COLTON. Lacon. And judgment at the helm was set, But judgment was a child as yet, And lack-a-day ! was all unfit, To guide the boat aright. G. P. R. JAMES. The Voyage of Life. Still mark if vice or nature prompts the deed ; Still mark the strong temptation, and the need. J. LANGHORNE. Country Justice, Intro., 143. In men whom men deem ill, I find so much of goodness still ; In men whom men pronounce divine, I find so much of fin and blot, I hesitate to draw the line Between the two, where God has not. JOAOUIN MILLER. The greatest and most beautiful example of intellect is when it is effective in the well-ordering of cities and of private dwellings, and which is given the name of judgment and justice. PLATO. Banquet, 33 (Statement of Diotima). To perceive is to feel : to compare is to judge. Judging and feeling are not the same thing. ROUSSEAU. Emile. Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a man for something in them we cannot abide. SELDEN. Judgment. O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason ! SHAKESPEARE, Julius Ccesar, Act 3, 2 JUNE Before you answer ' Yea ' or ' Nay ,' Hear what both sides shall have to say. D. W. THOMPSON. Saks Attici. From all rash censure be the mind kept free ! He only judges right who weighs, com- pares, And in the sternest sentence which his voice Pronounces, ne'er abandons Charity. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pt. 2, i. I speak as to wise men ; judge ye what I say. i Corinthians x, 15. The vials of the wrath of God. Revelation xvi, i. JUNE And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then if ever come perfect days; Then heaven tries earth if it be in time, And over it softly her warm ear lays. J. R. LOWELL. SirLaunfal. The roses make the world so sweet, The bees, the birds have such a tune, There's such a light and such a heat And such a joy in June. G. MACDONALD. To . Oh, to go back to the days of June, Just to be young and alive again, Hearken again to the mad sweet tune Birds were singing with might and main. LOUISE C. MOULTON. Ballade of Winter. JURIES The whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the System and its varied workings, end simply in bringing twelve good men into a box. LORD BROUGHAM. Present State of the Law. Thou that goest upon Middlesex juries, and will make haste to give up thy verdict because thou will not lose thy dinner. MIDDLETON. Trick to Catch the Old One, Act 4, 5- Twelve good honest men shall decide in our cause, And be judges of fact, though not judges of laws. WM. PULTENEY (EARL OF BATH). Song in " The Craftsman." The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May, in a sworn twelve, have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try. SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure, Act 2, i. JUSTICE There are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams. BACON. Adv, of Learning, Bk. 2. 269 JUSTICE This world would be more just if truth and lies, And right and wrong, did bear an equal price ; But since impostures are so highly raised, And faith and justice equally debased, Few men have tempers for such paltry gains To undo themselves with drudgery and pains. S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. When justice on offenders is not done, Law, government, and commerce are o'er- thrown. SIR J. DENHAM. Of Justice, 85. Justice is blind, he knows nobody. DRYDEN. Wild Gallant, Act 5, i. Stainless soldier on the walls, Knowing this, and knows no more, Whoever fights, whoever falls Justice conquers evermore. EMERSON. Voluntaries, No. 4 To honour justice and to love the right, Which friends to friends and state to state unite, Be ours. We honour equal aims and ends. But still the greater with the less contends, And evil times begin. EURIPIDES. Phcen., 5, 545. The rule of right and the eternal fitness of things. FIELDING. Tom Jones, Bk. 4, ch. 4. Justice is only a lively apprehension lest we should be deprived of what belongs to us. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 520. Justice is so fine a thing that one cannot buy it too dear. LK SAGE. Crispin. Where justice reigns, 'tis freedom to obey. JAS. MONTGOMERY. Greenland. Justice is lame, as well as blind amongst us. T. OTWAY. Venice Preserved, Act i, i. Nothing becomes a king so much as the distribution of justice. War is a tyrant, as Timotheus (c. B.C. 500) expresses it, but Pindar (B.C. 518-439) says, Justice is the rightful sovereign of the world. PLUTARCH. Life of Demetrius. Poetic justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. POPE. Dunciad, 52. Strict justice is the sovereign guide That o'er our actions should preside. This queen of virtues is confessed To regulate and bind the rest. Thrice happy if you once can find Jfer equal balance poise your mind : KENT KINGS All different graces soon will enter, Like lines concurrent to their centre. PRIOR. Conversation, 29. The love of men, derived from self-love, is the principle of human justice. ROUSSEAU. Emile. What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. 2, Act 3, 2. Justice is pleasant even when she de- stroys. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy, No. 12. Justice is fled and truth is now no more. VIRGIL. ,neid, Bk. 4 (Dryden tr.). Extreme justice is an extreme injury. VOLTAIRE. (Edipus, Act 3. (A variant of the " trite saying " quoted by Cicero. Sec " Law."). K KENT Kent, sir everybody knows Kent apples, cherries, hops, and women. DICKENS. Pickwick Papers, ch. 2. For a yeoman of Kent, with his yearly rent, There never was a widow could say him nay. SCOTT. Ivanhoe, 40. Kent, in the commentaries of Caesar writ, Is termed the civillest place of all this isle. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. z, Act 4, 7. KINDNESS Thy Godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness. BYRON. Prometheus. Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy, like the heaven above. JULIA A. CARNEY. Little Things. Nothing is so popular as kindness. CICERO. Pro Ligario. And kind as kings upon their coronation day. DRYDEN. Hind and the Panther,Pt. i, 271. A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free As in the whole world thou canst find, That heart I'll give to thee. HERRICK. Hesperides, 268. Give, if thou canst, an alms : if not, afford, Instead of that, a sweet and gentle word. HERRICK, Noble Numbers, No. 71. Men love us, or they need our love. KEBLE. Christian Year, 7th Sunday after Trinity. Kindness, nobler ever than revenge. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 4, 3. Is she kind as she is fair ? SHAKESPEARE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 4, 2. Surely never did there live on earth A man of kindlier nature. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. i. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unreraembered acts Of kindness and of love. WORDSWORTH. Tintern Abbey. KINDRED A little more than kin, and less than kind. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 2. KINGS For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule. M. ARNOLD. Mcrope. Alexander, Julius Caesar, and Pompey, what were they compared with Diogenes, Heraclitus, and Socrates ? MARCUS AURELIUS, 8, 3. Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. BURKE. Appeal from New to Old Whigs. Whilst doubts assailed him, o'er and o'er again, If men were made for kings, or kings for men. CAMPBELL. Pilgrim of Glencoe. Drede God, do law, love truth and wor- th inesse, And wed thy folk agein to stedfastnesse. CHAUCER. To K. Richard II. Power on an ancient consecrated throne, Strong in possession, founded in old custom ; Power by a thousand tough and stringy roots Fixed to the people's pious nursery-faith. COLERIDGE. Piccolomini, Act 4, 4. A sovereign's ear ill brooks a subject's questioning. COLERIDGE. Zapolya, Pt. i, i. We love The king who loves the law. COWPER. Winter Morning Walk, 336. I would not be a king to be beloved Causeless, and daubed with undiscerning praise. COWPER. lb., 364. 270 KINGS KISSES When kings the sword of justice first lay down, They are no kings, though they possess the crown. DEFOE. True-Born Engliskman,Pt. 2, 313. Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings. DEFOE. Ib., PI. 2, 315. A patient man's a pattern for a king. DEKKER. Honest Whore, Pt. 2, Act 5, 2. Thus Kings, by grasping more than they could hold, First made their subjects by oppression bold; And popular sway, by forcing Kings to give More than was fit for subjects to receive, Ran to the same extremes ; and one excess Made both, by striving to be greater, less. SIR J. DENHAU. Cooper's Hill, 343. Kings' titles commonly begin by force, Which time wears off and mellows into right ; And power, which in one age is tyranny, Is ripened in the next to true succession. DRYDEN. -Spanish Friar, Act 4, 2. 'Tis hard for kings to steer an equal course, And they who banish one oft gain a worse. DRYDEN. Tarquin and Tullia. The fortune which made you a king, for- bade you to have a friend. It is a law of nature, which cannot be violated with impunity. JUNIUS. Letter 35. For therein stands the office of a king, His honour, virtue, merit, and chief praise, That for the public all this weight he bears. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. 2, 463. The Right Divine of kings to govern wrong. POPE. Dunciad, Bk. 4, 188. 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. On Charles II. A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. EARL OF ROCHESTER. -On the King. A Kin^ of shreds and patches. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 4. There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 4, 5. Nice customs court'sey to great kings. SHAKESPEARE. Henry V., Act 5, 2. There was a Brutus once, that %vould have brooked The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome, As easily as a king. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Casar, Act i, 2. Ay, every inch a King. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act 4, 6. Not all the water in the rough, rude sea, Can wash the balm from an anointed king. SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., Act 3, 2. Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act 5, 3. What care these roarers for the name of king? SHAKESPEARE. Tempest, Act i, i. Kings are like stars they rise, they set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. SHELLEY. Hellas. Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. JAS. SHIRLEY. Ajax and Ulysses. The power of kings (if rightly understood) Is but a grant from Heaven of doing good. W. SOMERVILLE. Fables, No. 12. Our great King [Cromwell] came from Huntingdon, not Hanover. THACKERAY. Esmond, Bk. 3, ch. 5. (St. John). The universe distrusts the friendship of kings. VOLTAIRE. Don Pedre. Heaven, in its vengeance, often bestows kings. VOLTAIRE. Simiramis. Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped to gird An English Sovereign's brow, and to the throne Whereon he sits ! whose deep foundations lie In veneration and the people's love. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 6, i. The Crown alone can legally create that which does not actually exist. Ancient law maxim (Lot.). KISSES A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 2, 186. My wish is quite as wide, but not so bad, That womankind had but one rosy mouth, To kiss them all at once from North to South. BYRON. Ib., 6, 27. 271 KNIGHTS KNOWLEDGE Being used but sisterly salutes to feel, Insipid things like sandwiches of veal. HOOD. Bianca's Dream. O, a kiss, Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge ! SHAKESPKARE. Coriolanus, Act 5, 3. The woman that cries hush bids kiss : I learnt So much of her that taught me kissing. SWINBURNE. Marino Faliero, Act i. And sweet red splendid kissing mouth. SWINBURNE. Tr. of Villon O Love, O fire ! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. TENNYSON. Fatima. A man had given all other bliss And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in a kiss Upon her perfect lips. TENNYSON. Launcelot and Guinevere. And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips. TENNYSON. Locksley Hall. Dear as remembered kisses, after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are for others. TENNYSON Princess, c. 4, 36. KNIGHTS He was a verray parfit gentil knight. CHAUCER. Canterbury Tales, Prol., 72. For lady's suit, and minstrel's strain, By knight should ne'er be heard in vain. SCOTT. Marmion, i, 13. He then that is not furnished in this sort Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. i, Act 4, i. KNOWLEDGE For knowledge itself is power. BACON. De Hceresibus. A man is but what he knoweth. BACON. In Praise of Knowledge. Is it not knowledge which doth alone clear the mind of all perturbations ? BACON. Ib. The sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge. BACON. Ib. It is no less true in this human kingdom of knowledge, than in God's kingdom of heaven, that no man shall enter unto it, "except he become first as a little child." BACON. Valerius Terminus. How small is our knowledge in com- parison of our ignorance ! BAXTER. Saints' Everlasting Rest. Be ignorance thy choice, when knowledge leads to woe. BEATTIE. Minstrel, Bk. 2, st. 30. Can you think at all and not pronounce heartily that to labour in knowledge is to build up Jerusalem, and to despise know- ledge is to despise Jerusalem and her builders ? WM. BLAKE. Jerusalem. There is no knowledge which is not valuable. BURKE. Speech on American Taxation. Sorrow is knowledge : they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth : The tree of knowledge is not that of life BYRON. Manfred, Act i, i. What a man kens he cans. CARLYLE. French Revolution. Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market. A. H. CLOUGH. Tober-na-Vuolich. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. COWPER. Winter Morning Walk. Knowledge is the antidote to fear. EMERSON. Courage. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. Time and industry produce every day new knowledge. HOBBES. Leviathan, ch. 30. It is the province of knowledge to speak' and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen- O. W. HOLMES. Poet at Breakfast Table. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger ? T. H. HUXLEY. Science and Culture. What sages would have died to learn, Now taught by cottage dames. KE BLE. Catech ism. We are afflicted by what we can prove ; We are distracted by what we know. KIPLING. Rewards and Fairies, Our Fathers of Old. To know is not to know, unless someone else has known that I know. LUCULLUS. Fragments. 272 LABELS LABOUR The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew. MILTON. Paradise Regained (of Socrates), Bk. 4, 29;,. Knowledge, when wisdom is too weak to guide her, Is like a headstrong horse, that throws the rider. QUARLES. Miscellanies. The more men know, the more they deceive themselves. The only way to avoid error is ignorance. ROUSSEAU. Entile. The only thing we do not know is how to be ignorant of that which we cannot know. ROUSSEAU. Ib. Most men want knowledge, not for itself, but for the superiority which know- ledge confers. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy, No. 9. A man who dedicates his life to know- ledge becomes habituated to pleasure which carries with it no reproach. SYDNEY SMITH. Ib., No. 19. One eminent man of our time has said of another that " science was his forte and omniscience his foible." But that instance was not an extreme one . . . The universalist, who handles everything and embraces nothing, has been seen to pass into a pursuer of the mere vanities and frivolities cf intellectual display. SIR H. TAYLOR. Notes from Life. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. TENNYSON. Locksley Hall. Woe to every mind which wishes to be over-wise ! VOLTAIRE. Le Depositaire. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool avoid him ! He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep awake him ! He who knows not and knows that lie knows not wants beating beat him ! But he who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man know him ! Oriental prov. LABELS Don't rely too much on labels, For too often they are fables. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." LABOUR Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs. They who always labour can have no true judgment. BURKE. Letter to Member of National Assembly (1791). Such hath it been shall be beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one. BYRON. Corsair, c. i, 8. Till toil grows cheaper than the trodden weed, And man competes with man, like foe with foe. CAMPBELL. On Re-visiting a Scotch River. Labour makes us insensible to sorrow. CICERO. Tusc. Quasi. I have found out, I repeat, the true secret of happiness, Labour with Inde- pendence. [Mr. Belfield.] MME. D'ARBLAY. Cecilia, Bk. 8, c. 5. Honest labour bears a lovely face. DEKKER. Patient Grissell. Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner And ever was. Pay him. EMERSON. Boston Hymn, Jan. i, 1863. Life gives nothing to mortals except with great labour. HORACE. Sat., Bk. i. Never is work without reward, or reward without work, LIVY. Hist., 5. Toiling rejoicing sorrowing, Onward through life he goes ; LONGFELLOW. Village Blacksmith. Labour is but refreshment from repose. JAS. MONTGOMERY. Greenland. Another lean, unwashed artificer. SHAKESPEARE. King John, Act 4, 2. Many faint with toil, That few may know the cares and woes of sloth. SHELLEY. Queen Mab, c. 3. He toiled, and toiled, of toil no end to know, But endless toil and never-ending woe. SOUTHEY. Maid of Orleans, Bk. 2. I was not born a little slave, To labour in the sun, And wish I were but in my grave And all my labour done. ANN AND JANE TAYLOR. Child's Hymn of Praise. O mortal man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate. THOMSON. Castle of Indolence, c. i, i. " All events are linked together for good in this best of all worlds," said Pangloss. " That is well said," replied Candide, but at the same time we must cultivate our garden." VOLTAIRE. Candide. s 273 LAND AND LANDOWNERS LAUGHTER Labour is often the father of pleasure. VOLTAIRE. Discours, 4. Too long, that some may rest, Tired millions toil unblest. SIR W. WATSON. New National Anthem. Freedom, hand in hand with labour, walketh strong and brave. WHITTIER. Lumbermen. All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with see- ing, nor the ear filled with hearing. Ecclesiastes i, 8. Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal. Colossians iv, i. Eight hours' work, and eight hours' play, Kight hours' sleep, and eight bob a day. Australian (?) saying (igth Century). Many times has even a labouring man spoken to the purpose. Ancient Greek prov. (quoted by Aulus Gellius). Naething is got without pains, but an ill name and long nails. Scottish prov. Labour has a bitter root but a sweet taste. Prov. LAND AND LANDOWNERS No, down with everything and up with rent ! BYRON. Age of Bronze, st. 14. The trade of owning land. CARLYLE. Downing Street. The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. EMERSON. Farming. Praise great estates ; cultivate a small one. VIRGIL. Georgics, 2, 413. It [land] gives one position, and pre- vents one from keeping it up. OSCAR WILDE. Importance of being Earnest, Act i. LANGUAGES And Frensh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe. CHAUCER. Cant. Tales, Prol. The basis of poetry is language, which is material only on one side. It is a demi- god. EMERSON. Art. I like to be beholden [i.e. in translations] to the great metropolitan English speech, which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. EMERSON. Books. Writing is an abuse of language ; read- ing silently to oneself is a pitiful substitute for speech. GOETHE. Autob., Bk. 10. His language is painful and free. BRET HARTE. His Answer. Language is but a poor bull's-eye lantern wherewith to show off the vast cathedral of the world. R. L. STEVENSON. Walt Whitman. Language is the amber on which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. ARCHBP. TRENCH. Music is the universal language. JOHN WILSON. Noctes, 8. Where Nature's end of language is de- clined, And men talk only to conceal the mind. YOUNG. Love of Fame, Sat. 2. You are worth as many men as you know languages. Attrib. to Charles V. LARK, THE But the lark is so brimful of gladness and love, The green fields below him, the blue sky above, That he sings, and he sings ; and for ever sings he " I love my Love, and my Love loves me ! " COLERIDGE. Answer to a Child's Question. Not loftiest bard of mightiest mind Shall ever chant a note so pure, Till he can cast the earth behind, And breathe in heaven secure. SIR W. WATSON. First Skylark of Spring. LATENESS From youth to age, whate'er the game, The unvarying practice is the same, The devil takes the hindmost, O ! A. H. CLOUGH. In the Great Metropolis. Brer Wolf fetcht a grab at 'im, but he wuz des [just] in time fer ter be too late. J. C. HARRIS. Nights with Uncle Remus, ch. 18. Too late, too late ! ye cannot enter now. TENNYSON. Guinevere. It is in vain to look for yesterday's fish in the house of the otter. Hindoo prov. LAUGHTER Nothing is more foolish than foolish laughter. CATULLUS. Carmen, 39. Ill may a sad mind forge a merry face ; Nor hath constrained laughter any grace. CHAPMAN. Hero and Leander (Continuation of Marlowe's Poem), st. 5. In my mind there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred as audible laughter . . . not to mention the disagreeable noise it makes, 274 LAUGHTER LAW and the shocking distortion of the face that it occasions. LORD CHESTERFIELD. Advice to his Son. And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart. HARTLEY COLERIDGE. To Gold Fishes. There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh. CONGREVE. Double Dealer, Act i, 2. And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. I cannot say whether we had more wit amongst us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well. GOLDSMITH. Vicar of Wakefield, ch. 32. Laugh not too much : the witty man laughs least. HERBERT. Church Porch. The giggler is a milkmaid. HERBERT. Ib. You hear that boy laughing ? You think he's all fun ; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done ; The children laugh loud as they troop at his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all ! O. W. HOLMES. The Boys. Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. MILTON. L' Allegro, 31. Smiles from reason flow, To brute denied, and are of love the fooJ. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 9, 239. Theirs was the glee of martial breast, And laughter theirs at little jest. SCOTT. Marmion, c. 3, st. 4. The heaving of my lungs provokes me to ridiculous smiling. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, Act 3, i. O, I am stabbed with laughter. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 2. Laugh with a vast and inextinguishable laughter. SHELLEY. Prometheus, Act 4. Gaiety without eclipse, Wearieth me, May Lilian. TENNYSON. Lilian. A sight to shake The midriff of despair with laughter. TENNYSON. Princess, c. i, 196. Laugh while you can. Everything has its time. VOLTAIRE. Chariot. Laughter does not prove a man at ease. French prov. LAW Law is king of all. DEAN ALFORD. School of the Heart, 6. Law is a bottomless Pit. J. ARBUTHNOT. Title of Pamphlet. One of the Seven was wont to say that laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies were caught and the great brake through. BACON. Apophthegms, 291. It is oppression to torture laws so that they torture men. BACON. Instauratio, Pt. i, Bk. 8, 3. Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle- sized alone are entangled in. BACON. On Politics. What is a law if those who make it Become the forwardest to break it ? J. BEATTIE. Wolf and the Shepherds. All laws creative of liberty are, as far as they go, abrogative of liberty. J. BENTHAM. Theory of Legislation. People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies they will be enemies to laws ; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous, more or less. BURKE. Letter to Fox (Oct., 1777). There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity the law of nature and of nations. BURKE. Impeachment of Hastings (May 28, 1794). Laws, like houses, lean on one another. BURKE. On the Popery Laws, ch. 3, Pt. i. There are two, and only two, founda- tions of law . . . equity and utility. BURKE. Ib. A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends ? BURKE. Vindication of Natural Society. The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory. BURNET. Hist, of his own Times. That which is a law to-day is none to- morrow. BURTON. Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader. So Justice, while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. S. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. i, c. 2. 275 LAW LAW The law can take a purse in open court, Whilst it condemns a less delinquent for 't. S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. Law does not put the least restraint Upon our freedom, but maintain 't. . . . For wholesome laws preserve us free By stinting of our liberty. S. BUTLER. Ib. Where law ends, tyranny begins. LORD CHATHAM. Speech, 1770. Extreme law is extreme injustice. CICERO. De Off. (quoted as a " trite proverb "). But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. CICERO. Tusc. QucBst., i, 13, 30. Laws are so framed that they shall speak in all matters always with one and the same voice. CICERO. The gladsome light of jurisprudence. COKE. On Littleton. Institutes, No. i. The Law which is the perfection of reason. COKE. Ib. How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law. COKE. Ib.. No. i, 80. Custom is the best interpreter of the laws. COKE. The laws sleep sometimes, but never die. COKE. Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder. C. C. COLTOK. Lacon. The mere repetition of the Cantilena of the lawyers cannot make it law. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE DENMAN. O'Connell v. the Queen. " If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, ..." the law is a ass, a idiot." DICKENS. Oliver Twist, ch. 51 . No written laws can be so plain, so pure, But wit may gloss, and malice may obscure. DRYDEN. Hind and the Panther, Pt. 2,318. The law's made to take care of raskills. GEO. ELIOT. Mill on the Floss, Bk. 3, ch. 4. Their law [English law] is a network of fictions ; their property, a scrip or cer- tificate of right to interest on money that no man ever saw. EMERSON. English Traits, 5, Ability. A law or statute is to him [Hafiz] what a fence is to the nimble schoolboy, a temptation for a jump. EMERSON. Essay on Persian Poetry. What natural reason has established among all men we call the law of nations. GALUS. Inst. Jur. Civ. Do lawe away, what is a king ? Where is the right of anything If that there be no lawe in land ? This ought a king well understand. GOWER. Confessio A mantis, Bk. 7. You chuckled over those people who could see beauty only in pictures ; but you cannot imagine the beauty of an in- tricate, mazy law process, embodying the doubts and subtleties of generations of men. I say looked at in that way there is something picturesque in an Act of Parlia- ment. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council. Slavery, ch. i. Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money. HOBBES. Leviathan, ch. 30. Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. HOOKER. Ecclesiastical Polity, i, 16. Let us hear no general abuse [of law]. The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. JOHNSON. Remark as recorded by Mrs. Piozzi. The law is so lordlich and loth to maken ende. LANGLAND. Piers Plowman, Passus 4, 199- The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket ; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. C. MACKLIN, Love a la Mode. Good laws are produced by bad cus- toms. MACROBIUS. Sat. 2. Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees. MILTON. Education. The law of England is, at best, but the reason of parliament. MILTON. Eikonoclastes. Against the law of nature, law of nations. MILTON. Samson Agonistes, 889. It is the rule of rules, the law of laws, that everyone should observe that of the place where he is. MONTAIGNE. Bk. i The atrocity of laws prevents their execution. MONTESQUIEU. There is no worse tyranny than that which is exercised under cover of the .law. MONTESQUIEU, LAW LAW Law should be clear, precise, consistent. To interpret it is to corrupt it. NAPOLEON. Law, being a tyrant over men, compels many things to be done contrary to nature. PLATO. Protagoras, 69 (Remark assigned to Hippias the Wise) (Gary tr.). Laws are subservient to custom. PLAUTUS. Trinummus. The first Almighty Cause Acts not by partial, but by general laws. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. i, 145. " There take," says Justice, " take you each a shell. We thrive at Westminster on fools like you. 'Twas a fat Adieu ! " oyster Live in peace POPE. Tr. from Boileau. The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. POPE. Rape of the Lock, c. 3, 21. The spirit of the laws is like the Nile wide, immense, fruitful in its course ; feeble and obscure in its source. A. DE RIVAROL. The universal spirit of the laws of all countries is to put always the strong against the weak, and him who has against him who has nothing. This disadvantage is inevitable and it is without exception. ROUSSEAU. Entile. " That sounds like nonsense, my dear." " May be so, my dear ; but it may be very good law for all that." SCOTT. Guy Mannering, ch. 9. The law's delay. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, i. Old father antic, the law. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 1,2. But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. i, Act 2, 4. We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey. SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure, Act 2, i. In law what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? SHAKESPEARE. Merchant oj Venice, Act 3, 2. Still keep you o' the windy side of the law. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 3, 4. Who ever knew an honest brute At law his neighbour prosecute. Bring action for assault and battery, Or friend beguile with lies and flattery ? SWIFT. Logicians Refuted. A people can be strong where the laws are strong. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. Mercy loosens the law. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. In the most corrupt state there are the most laws. TACITUS. Annals. Mastering the lawless science of our law, That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances, Through which a few, by wit or fortune led, May beat a pathway out to wealth and fame. TENNYSON. Aylmer's Field. The highest law is often the greatest roguery. TERENCE. Heaut., Act 4. No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. J. TRUMBULL. McFingaL Your laws are your tyrants. VOLTAIRE. Brutus; Would you have good laws ? Burn those that exist and make new ones. VOLTAIRE. Dictionnaire Philosophique (Lois). He (Zadig) believed that the laws were intended to help citizens as much as to intimidate them. VOLTAIRE. Zadig. The stars of heaven are free because In amplitude of liberty Their joy is to obey the laws. SIR W. WATSON. Things that are more excellent, st. 4. Laws were made to be broken. JOHN WILSON. Nodes. When the law shows her teeth, but dares not bite. YOUNG. Love of Fame, Sat. i. According to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. Daniel vi, 8. Let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered. Esther i, 19. The law is good, if a man use it lawfully, i Timothy i, 8. The law is King (Lex Rex). Covenanters' saying. Lawsuits consume time and money and rest and friends. Prov. (Geo. Herbert). Better a lean agreement than a fat judgment. Italian prov. Abundance o' law breaks nae law. Scottish prov. 277 LAWYERS LEADERSHIP There is no law without a loophole. Prov. In law there's many a loss without a gain, but never a gain without a loss. Saying. LAWYERS A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it to himself. LORD BROUGHAM. Saying. But what his common sense cam short, He eked out wi" law, man. BURNS. Extempore: On Two Lawyers, i. 'Tis boldness, boldness, does the deed in the Court. CHAPMAN. Monsieur d' Olive, Act 3 (Alluding to the King's Court). He saw a Lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard by his own stable ; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother Abel. COLERIDGE. Devil's Thoughts. If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. DICKENS. Old Curiosity Shop, ch. 56. Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you a'n't the shuttle- cock and two lawyers the battledores, in wich case it gets too excitin' to be pleasant. [Sam Weller.] DICKENS. Pickwick Papers, c. 20. I know you lawyers can with ease Twist words and meanings as you please ; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client. GAY. Fables, Pt. 2, i. Lawyers are always more ready to get a man into troubles than out of them. GOLDSMITH. Good-natured Man. Yet one fault he had, and that was a thumper He was, could he help it ? a special attorney. GOLDSMITH. Retaliation. Do you know the lawyer's story. . . . " Many times when I have had a good case," he said, " I have failed ; but then I have often succeeded in bad cases. And so justice is done." SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. i, ch. n. I cannot exactly tell you, sir, who he is, and I would be loth to speak ill of any per- son who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. JOHNSON. Remark as recorded by Mrs. Piozzi. The man of law, that never saw The ways to buy and sell, Wenyng to rise by merchandise, I pray God spede him well ! SIR T. MORE. A Merry Jest. All lawyers, be they knaves or fools, Know that a seat is worth the earning Since Parliament's astounding rules Vouch for their honour and their learn- ing. J. E. THOROLD ROGERS. On the Eager- ness of Lawyers to obtain Seats in the House. Where be his quiddits now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures and his tricks ? SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 5, i. The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. 2, Act 4, 2. And do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. SHAKESPEARE. Taming of the Shrew, Act i, 2. No doubt the good people who are called lawyers are as honest as others ; though I once knew a gentleman who used to sigh for a day's shooting in Lincoln's Inn Fields. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." Woe unto you, lawyers ! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge. St. Luke xi, 52. There was a young lady of Cirencester, Who went to consult her solicitor, When he asked for his fee She said " Fiddle-de-dee ! I only looked in as a visitor." Anon. Our Civill Law doth seeme a royall thing' It hath more titles than the Spanish King ' But yet the Common Law quite puts it downe, In getting, like the Pope, so many a Crowne. The Sophister, Act i, sc. 4 (c. 1650) (Authorship uncertain). Every house which a man not a lawyer builds out of Edinburgh enables a man, who is a lawyer, to build one equally com- fortable in Edinburgh. Scottish prov. Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers. Spanish prov. " Virtue in the middle," said the devil, when seated between two lawyers. Said to be " a very old proverb.'' Fools and perverse Fill the lawyer's purse. Prov. LEADERSHIP Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. ADDISON. The Campaign. We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, 278 LEADERSHIP LEARNING Learned his great language, caught his clear accents, Made him our pattern to live and to die. BROWNING. The Lost Leader. Great men are the guide-posts and land- marks in the State. BURKE. Speech on American Taxation. The men of England the men, I mean, of light and leading in England. BURKE. Thoughts on French Revolution. Still sways their souls with that command- ing art That dazzles, leads, yet chills the vulgar heart. BYRON. Corsair, c. i, 8. And when we think we lead we most are led. BYRON. Two Foscari, Act 2, i. Here's to the pilot that weathered trie storm. G. CANNING. The Pilot. Surely of all " rights of man," this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest. CARLYLE. Chartism, 6. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves ran high. DRYDEN. Absalom and Achitopnel, Pt. i, 159- He led his regiment from behind (He found it less exciting). SIR W. S. GILBERT. Gondoliers. When I rush on, sure none will dare to stay ; 'Tis Beauty calls and Glory shows the way. N. LEE. Rival Queens, Act 4, 2. The time is in want of a leader. LUCANUS. A man, a man ! My Kingdom for a man ! MARSTON. Scourge of Villainy. O for a living man to lead ! That will not babble when we bleed ; O for the silent doer of the deed ! STEPHEN PHILLIPS. A Man. The man within the coach that sits, And to another's skill submits, Is safer much, whate'er arrives, And warmer too, than he that drives. PRIOR. Alma, c. 3, 137. Where, where was Roderick then ? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, c. 6, 18. A rarer spirit never, Did steer humanity ; but you, gods, will give us Some faults to make us men. SHAKESPEARE. Antony and Cleopatra, Act 5, i. Go on, I'll follow thee. SHAKESPEARE Hamlet, Act I, 4. An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 3, 5 The fire of God Fills him : I never saw his like : there lives No greater leader. TENNYSON. Lancelot and Elaine, 314. Ten good soldiers, wisely led, Will beat a hundred without a head. D. W. THOMPSON. Para/>/jr. of Euripides. When winds are steady and skies are clear, Every hand the ship would steer ; But soon as ever the wild winds blow, Every hand would go below. D. W. THOMPSON. Ib. Oh, for a single hour of that Dundee, Who on that day the word of onset gave ! WORDSWORTH. Pass of Killiecrankie. An army of stags led by a lion would be more formidable than an army of lions led by a stag. Latin prov. Ah, John, by me thou setst no store, And that I fairly finde ; How ofte send I my men before, And tarrye myself behinde ? Old Ballad. Robin Hood. LEANNESS 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 dan- gerous. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Caesar, Act i, 2. LEARNING All men naturally desire to know. ARISTOTLE. Melaph., i, i. There is no power on earth which setteth up a throne or chair of state in the spirits and souls of men, and in their cogitations, imaginations, opinions, and beliefs, but knowledge and learning. BACON. Adv. of Learning. The learned eye is still the loving one. BROWNING. Red Cotton Night Cap Country, Bk. i. Learning, that cobweb of the brain, Profane, erroneous, and vain. S. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. i, c 3. Man has a natural desire to know, But th* one half is for interest, th' otb er show. S.BUTLER. Human Learning, ! 279 LEARNING LEGISLATION Learn, but learn from the learned. CATO. For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this newe corn fro yere to yere ; And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere. CHAUCER. Parliament of Foules. To them the sounding jargon of the schools Seems what it is a cap and bells for fools. COWPER. Progress of Error, 368. Truths that the learn'd pursue with eager thought Are not important always as dear-bought. COWPER. Tirocinium, 73 Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. COWPER. Winter Walk at Noon, 96. And yet, alas ! when all our lamps are burned, Our bodies wasted, and our spirits spent, When we have all the learned volumes turned, Which yield men's wits both help and ornament, What can we know or what can we dis- cern ? SIR J. DAVIES. Nosce Teipsum. Intro. When land is gone and money's spent, Then learning is most excellent. Though house and land be never got, Learning will give what they cannot. DICKENS. Who, according to C. H. Spurgeon, added the last two lines to the old saying. Hated not learning worse than toad or asp. MILTON. Sonnet. Learning alone, of all things in our possession, is immortal and divine. PLUTARCH. Morals. 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. Po PE. Criticism. Take from the learned the pleasure of making their learning heard, and their learning will be worth nothing to them. ROUSSEAU. Julie. Learning makes most men more stupid and foolish than they are by nature. SCHOPENHAUER. Thinking for Oneself. No man is wiser for his learning. Wit and wisdom are born with a man. SELDEN. Learning. The mind is slow in unlearning what it nas been long in learning. SENECA. Troades. A progeny of learning. SHERIDAN. The Rivals, Act i, 2. (Mrs. Malaprop). Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly, like a flower. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, Conclusion, st. 10. Much learning shows how little mortals know. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 6. For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept ; line upon line, line upon line ; here a little, there a little. Isaiah xxviii, 10 (R.V.). Much learning doth make thee mad. Acts xx vi, 24. Learned fools are the greatest fools. Prov. Learning makes the wise wiser, but the fool more foolish. Prov. LEGENDS So simple were those times, when a grave sage Could with an old wife's tale instruct the age ; ... Make a dull sentence and a moral fable Do more than all our holdings-forth are able. S. BUTLER. On the Licentiousness of the A ge. Most men of unusual power have peculiarities which the vulgar folk cannot understand : whence there rises round them a rank growth of myth. MORTIMER COLLINS. Thoughts in my Garden, 2, 287. These and a thousand more of doubtful fame, To whom old fables give a lasting name. POPE. Temple of Fame, 129. And twenty more such names and men as these, Which never were, nor no man ever saw. SHAKESPEARE. Taming of Shrew, Induction, sc. 2. Fable is the elder sister of history. VOLTAIRE. Dictionnaire philosophique (Zoroastre). There are no ancient histories except fables. VOLTAIRE. Origin of Fables. I grant it's a gey lee-like story [a very lie-like story]. JOHN WILSON. Nodes. LEGISLATION Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. BURKE. Speech (1780) Moderation should be the guiding spirit of the legislator. MONTESQUIEU. Poets are the unacknowledged legis- lators of the world. SHELLEY. Defence of Poetry (1821). 280 LEISURE No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provi- dent, or the drunken sober. S. SMILES. Self-Help, ch. i. As though conduct could be made right or wrong by the votes of some men sitting in a room at Westminster. HERBT. SPENCER. Social Statics. LEISURE What shelter to grow ripe is ours ? What leisure to grow wise ? M. ARNOLD. Obermann. When a man's busy, why, leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure ; 'Faith, and at leisure once is he ? Straightway he wants to be busy. BROWNING. The Glove. How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle. COWPER. Garden, 352. He who does not know how to use leisure makes more business of it than there is business in business itself. ENNIUS. (quoted by Aulus Gellius). " Leisure " is the mother of " philo- sophy," and " Commonwealth " the mother of " peace " and " leisure." HOBBES. Leviathan, ch. 46. Leisure is time for doing something useful. DR. N. HOWE. Proverbs. And add to these retired leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. MILTON. II Penseroso, 49. Leisure without books is death, burial alive. SENECA. Ep., 82. He hath no leisure that useth it not. Prov. (Geo. Herbert). LENIENCY Curse on his virtues ! They've undone his country : Such popular humanity is treason. ADDISON. Goto, Act 4, 4. Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. Close up his eyes, and draw the curtain close, And let us all to meditation. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. 2, Act 3, 3. He harms the good that doth the evil spare. " Times Whistle " (c. 1614), A prov. LESSONS " That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked ; " because they lessen from day to day." C. L. DODGSON. Alice in Wonderland, c. 10. LEVITY Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself. SHAKESPEARE. Henry V ., Act 4, i. Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn ; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 3, 2. LETTERS (ALPHABETICAL) The invention of printing, though in- genious, compared with the invention of letters, is no great matter. HOBBES. Leviathan, ch. 4. LETTERS (CORRESPONDENCE) The earth has nothing like a she epistle. BYRON. Don Juan, 13, 105. Love is the life of friendship : letters aro The life of love. J. HOWELL. Familiar Letters, Bk. i. Love is the marrow of friendship, and letters are the Elixir of love. J. HOWELL. Ib. As keys do open chests, So letters open breasts. J. HOWELL. To the Sagacious Reader. Letter-writing, that most delightful way of wasting time. VISCOUNT MORLEY. Life of Geo. Eliot, p. 96. For God's sake, Madam, let not my correspondence [with you] be like a traffic with the grave, from whence there is no return. POPE. Letter to Lady M. W. Montagu, Oct., 1716 (?). I dread letter writing, and envy the old hermit of Prague, who never saw pen or ink. SCOTT. Diary, 1826. His letters, say they, are weighty and powerful ; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. 2 Corinthians x, 10. LEVELLERS Levelling is comfortable, as we often say, levelling, yet only down to oneself. CARLYLE. French Revolution, Pt. 2, Bk. 5, ch. 4. Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. JOHNSON. Remark. LEVITY Scoffing cometh not of wisdom. SIR P. SIDNEY. Apologie for Poetrie. I think the immortal servants of mankind, Who, from their graves watch by how slow degrees 28i LIBEL LIBERTY The World-Soul greatens with the cen- turies, Mourn most man's barren levity of mind. SIR W. WATSON. Sonnet. LIBEL For oh, it was nuts to the Father of Lies, (As this wily fiend is named in the Bible), To find it was settled by laws so wise That the greater the truth, the worse the libel. MOORE. Case of Libel. He evaded accusation for libel by speak- ing in humorous fables. PH^SDRUS. Bk. 3, Prol. It often happens that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work and there is no further occasion for it. SWIFT. Examiner, No. 15. LIBERAL, THE But the liberal deviseth liberal things ; and in liberal things shall he continue. Isaiah xxxii, 8. (R.V.). LIBERTY A day, an hour of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. ADDISON. Cato, Act 2, z, When liberty is gone, Life grows insipid and has lost its relish. ADDISON. Ib., Act 2, 3. Chains or conquest, liberty or death ADDISON. Ib., Act 2, 4. Liberty of speech inviteth and pro- voketh liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge. BACON. Adv. of Learning. Liberty too must be limited in order to be possessed. BURKE. Letter. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. BURKE. Speech on Conciliation. The only liberty I mean, is a liberty connected with order ; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. BURKE. Speech at his arrival at Bristol. Liberty's in every blow ! Let us do or die I BURNS. Bruce' 's Address. Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ? BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 2, st. 76. For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won. BYRON. The Giaour, 123. Our land, the first garden of Liberty's tree It has been, and yet shall be, the land of the free. CAMPBELL. Song of the Greeks. Liberty will not descend to a people ; a people must raise themselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. Let my name perish so long as France is free ! DANTON. March, 1793. The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven. DRYDEN. Palawan. In a perfect community liberty would be complete. Every one would do as he pleased. Human nature is for the present unequal to the realisation of the ideal. FROUDE. Short Studies, Party Politics. There are two kinds of liberty the liberty of anarchy, which is death, and the true liberty, which alone is worth a wise man's caring for, the liberty which is made possible by obedience to rational authority FROUDE. Ib. The love of liberty is the love of others ; the love of power is the love of ourselves. HAZLITT. Toad-Eaters. I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death ! PHILIP HENRY. Speech, 1775. As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free, While God is marching on ! JULIA WARD HOWE. Battle Hymn. God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. T. JEFFERSON. Rights of British America. There is but one task for all For each one life to give. Who stands if freedom fall ? Who dies if England live ? KIPLING. For all we have. But libbaty's a kind o* thing That don't agree with niggers. J. R. LOWELL. Biglow Papers, Series i, 6. At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies led To slavery. Straight the conquered phan- toms fled. LUCRETIUS. De Rerum Natura, i, 67 (Creech tr.). Pray you use your freedom, And so far, if you please, allow me mine. MASSINGER. Duke of Milan, Act 4, 3. 282 LIBERTY LIFE Liberty, as a principle, has no applica- tion to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal dis- cussion. J. S. MILL. Liberty, Introd. The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited : he must not make him- self a nuisance to other people. J. S. MILL. Ib., ch. 3. None can love freedom heartily but good men ; the rest love not freedom, but licence. MILTON. Tenure of Kings. To have a really free people, the gov- erned must be virtuous and the governors must be gods. NAPOLEON. Yet well brave hearts, I ween, Wounds deep as ours, with Freedom blest, May bear ; and for success to come On hope's assurance rest. PINDAR. Isthmian Odes, 8, 17 (Moore tr.). Liberty is not in any form of govern- ment. It is in the heart of the free man ; he carries it with him everywhere. ROUSSEAU. Emile. The more the State extends itself, the more liberty diminishes. ROUSSEAU. Ib. That treacherous phantom which men call Liberty. RUSKIN. Seven Lamps, c. 7, i. And liberty plucks justice by the nose. SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure, Act i, 4. So loving-jealous of his liberty. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, 2. Englishmen never will be slaves ; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do. G. B. SHAW. Man and Superman. Fair liberty was all his cry ; For her he stood prepared to die ; For her he boldly stood alone ; For her he oft exposed his own. SWIFT. On the Death of Dr. Swift. If man is created free, he ought to govern himself. If man has tyrants, he ought to dethrone them. It is known only too well that these tyrants are the vices. VOLTAIRE. Discours. De I'Envie. Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. GEO. WASHINGTON. Saying. Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable. D. WEBSTER. Speech on Foot's Resolution. VVe must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake ; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. In everything we are sprung Of Earth's first blood, have titles mani- fold. WORDSWORTH. Poems to National Independence. O Liberty ! how many crimes are com- mitted in thy name ! Attr. to Madame Roland, on the Scaffold. If you love liberty don't keep it all for yourself. Given as a prov. by C. H. Spurgeon. Men rattle their chains to show that they are free. Prov. LIBRARY A library is but the soul's burial ground ; It is the land of shadows. H. W. BEECHER. Oxford : Bodleian Library. With awe, around these silent walks I tread ; These are the lasting mansions of the dead: " The dead," methinks a thousand tongues reply, " These are the tombs of such as cannot die." Crowned with eternal fame they sit sub- lime, And laugh at all the little strife of time. CRABBE. The Library. Athens lives here more than in Plu- tarch's lives. VAUGHAN. Sir T. Bodley's Library. LICENCE Poets and painters, as all artists know, May shoot a little with a lengthened bow. BYRON. Hints from Horace, I. 15. In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. JOHNSON. On English Soldiers. Let the wild falcon soar her swing, She'll stoop when she has tired her wing. SCOTT. Marmion, c. i, st. 17. LIFE We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest, and rest can never find; Lo, as the wind is, so is mortal life, A rnoan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife. SIR E. ARNOLD. Light of Asia: Deva's Song. Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave ; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. 283 LIFE LIFE Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles ; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave. M. ARNOLD. A Question. Too fast we live, too much are tried, Too harassed, to attain Wordsworth's sweet calm, or Goethe's wide And luminous view to gain. M. ARNOLD. Obermann, Whose mind hath known all arts of govern- ing, Mused much, loved life a little, loathed it more. M. ARNOLD. To a Gipsy Child. O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames : Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife. M. ARNOLD. Scholar-Gipsy. Live every day as if thy last. MARCUS AURELIUS. 7, 69. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. P. J. BAILEY. Festus. It is misery to be born, pain to live, grief to die. ST. BERNARD. Chap. 3. Everything that lives is holy. WM. BLAKE. Vala. How time runs away ! and we meet with death almost ere we have time to think ourselves alive. One doth but breakfast here, another dines, he that liveth longest doth but sup ; we must all go to bed in another world. DR. JOHN BROWN. Horce Subsecivce. Thus we are men, and we know not how. There is something in us that can be with- out us, and will be after us, though it is strange that it hath no history what it was before us. SIR T. BROWNE. Religio Medici, Pt. i, 36. Life treads on life, and heart on heart, We press too close, in church and mart, To keep a dream or grave apart. E. B. BROWNING. Vision of Poets. A quiet life, which was not life at all. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh. This world's no blot for us, Nor blank : it means intensely, and means good. To find its meaning is my meat and drink. BROWNING. Fro, Lippo Lippi. Life is probation, and the earth no goal, But starting point of man. BROWNING. Ring and the Book, 10, 1436. You never know what life means till you die ; Even throughout life, 'tis death that makes life live ; Give it whatever the significance. BROWNING. Ib., n, 2375. O life ! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I ! BURNS. Despondency. Life is but a day at most, Sprung from night, in darkness lost. BURNS. Lines in Friars-Carse Hermitage. Well well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering wind shifts, shift our sails. BYRON. Don Juan, 2, 4. We live and die, But which is best, vou know no more than I. BYRON. Ib., 7, 4. The life even of the meanest man, it were good to remember, is a Poem. CARLYLE. Cagliostro. " I must live, sir," say many. To which I answer, " No, sir, you need not live.', CARLYLE.* Letter Dec. 20, 1831. This world nis but a thurghfare ful of wo' And we ben pilgrimes, passinge to and fro. CHAUCER. Knightes Tale. No wish profaned my overwhelmed heart. Blest hour ! it was a luxury, to be ! COLERIDGE. On having left a place of Retirement. You promise heavens free from strife, Pure truth, and perfect change of will ; But sweet, sweet is this human life, So sweet I fain would breathe it still. Your chilly stars I can forego ; This warm kind world is all I know. WM. CORY. Mimnermus in Church. Life is an incurable disease. COWLEY. To Dr. Scarborough. " Sairey," says Mrs. Harris, " sech is life. Vich likewise is the hend of all things." DICKENS. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. 29. Youth is a blunder ; Manhood is a strug- gle ; Old age a regret. DISRAELI. Coningsby, Bk. 3, ch. i. * Cf. ROUSSEAU, page 286. 284 LIFE LIFE 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 view let both united be ; I live in pleasure when I live to thee. REV. P. DODDRIDGE. On his family motto, " Dum vivimus vivamus." To view the light of life To mortals is most sweet, but all beneath Is nothing. Of his senses is he reft Who hath a wish to die ; for life, though ill, Excels whate'er there is of good in death. EURIPIDES. Andromeda, 147 (Woodhull tr.). Think, in this battered Caravanserai, Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destined Hour, and went his way. FITZGERALD. Rubdiydt, st. 17. Into this Universe, and Why not knowing, Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing. FITZGERALD. Ib., st. 29. A Moment's Halt a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the waste And Lo ! the phantom caravan has reached The NOTHING it set out from Oh, make haste. FITZGERALD. Ib., st. 48. Glory is bought at the cost of happiness ; pleasure at the cost of health ; favour at the cost of independence. PIERRE GASTON (Due DE LEVIS). Maxims. Life is a jest and all things show it ; I thought so once and now I know it. GAY. My own Epitaph. A little season of love and laughter, Of light and life and pleasure and pain, And a horror of outer darkness after, And dust returneth to dust again. Then the lesser life shall be as the greater, And the lover of life shall join the hater, And the one thing cometh sooner or later, And no one knoweth the loss or gain. A. L. GORDON. The Swimmer. Life's little ironies. ; THOS. HARDY. Title of Book (1894). Life is the greatest good, and death the worst evil. HEINE. Reisebilder, c. 3. Death is still working like a mole, And digs my grave at each remove. HERBERT. Grace. Life is a fatal complaint and an eminently contagious one. O. W. HOLMES. Poet at Breakfast Table. " To him that lives well," answered the hermit, " every form of life is good." JOHNSON. Rassclas. Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Bp. KEN. Evening Hymn. I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ; Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. W. S. LANDOR. Finis. For you the To-come, But for me the Gone-by ; You are panting to live, I am waiting to die. R. LE GALLIENNE. Old Man's Song. Is Love a lie, and fame indeed a breath ; And is there no sure thing in life but death ? R. LE GALLIENNE. On Stevenson. Oh thou child of many prayers, Life hath quicksands, life hath snares. Lo N GFE LLO w. Maidenhood. Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal. LONGFELLOW. Psalm of Life. Our life must once have end ; in vain we fly From following Fate ; e'en now, e'en now, we die. LUCRETIUS. De Rerum Natura, 3, 1093 (Creech tr.). Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou liv'st Live well, how long or short permit to Heaven. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. n, 553. Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more ? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before ? J. MONTGOMERY. Falling Leaf. This life is all chequered with pleasures and woes. MOORE. 7mA Melodies. Still as death approaches nearer, The joys of life are sweeter, dearer. MOORE. Odes of Anacreon. They may rail at this life from the hour I began it, I've found it a li/e full of kindness and blisg 285 LIFE LIFE And until they can show me some happier planet, More social and bright, I'll content me with this. MOORE. They may rail. The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. LORD MORLEY. Address, Nov., 1887. Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant ; Life have we loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent. W. MORRIS. Earthly Paradise, L'Envoi, 13. Make the most of life you may Life is short and wears away. W. OLDYS. Busy, curious, thirsty fly. Alas ! Hope's rays Die in the distance, and Life's sadness stays; Why, but because our task is yet undone. JOHN PAYNE. Ballad, " What do we here ? " In laments and in rejoicings, not merely in dramas but in the whole tragedy and comedy of life, and in ten thousand other matters, pains and pleasures are mingled. PLATO. Philebus, 112. Grantor tells us that very wise men have esteemed life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity. PLUTARCH. Consol. to Apollonius. The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet con- stantly coming on. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. All covet life, yet call it pain, And feel the ill, yet shun the cure. PRIOR. Written in Mezeray's History. Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn ; And he alone is blest who ne'er was born. " My lord, I must live," said an unfor- tunate satirical author to a minister who reproached him with the infamy of his calling. "I do not see the necessity," re- plied the man of office coldly. This reply, excellent for a minister, would have been barbarous and false in every other mouth. It is necessary that every man should live. I ROUSSEAU. Emile.* There is no wealth but Life Life, in- cluding all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. RUSKIN. Unto this Last, ch. 4. * VOLTAIRE (Prelim. Discourse to " Alzirt," c - 1736), says that this reply was by the Comte d'Argenson to the Abbe 1 Guyot Desfontaines, who had excused himself for writing scurrilous at- tacks on the ground that " be must live." Life is a game, at which everybody loses. SARKADI-SCHULLER. Within Four Walls. In the world of human beings and in that of animals [life] is sustained and kept going by two simple impulses hunger and the instinct of sex, helped perhaps a little by boredom. SCHOPENHAUER. Emptiness of Existence. Life is a difficult question. I have de- cided to spend my life in thinking about it. SCHOPENHAUER. Remark to Wieland (1809). Twist ye, twine ye ! even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope and fear, and peace and strife, In the thread of human life. SCOTT. Guy Mannering, ch. 4. Life is long if you know how to use it. SENECA. De Brev. Vita. Life is like a tale ; what makes it of value is not its length but its goodness. SENECA. Ep. 87. To live is to do battle. SENECA. Ep. 96 It matters not how long you have lived but how well. SENECA. (Adapted) Ep. 101 and 77. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. SHAKESPEARE. All's Well, Act 4, 3. I do not set my life at a pin's fee. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 4. 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. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 5, 5. Put out the light, and then put out the light ? If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me ; but once put out thy light, Thou cunningest pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 5, 2. We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep SHAKESPEARE. Tempest, Act 4, i 286 LIFE LIFE We have passed Age's icy caves, And Manhood's dark and tossing waves, And Youth's smooth ocean, smiling to betray : Beyond the glassy gulfs we flee Of shadow-peopled Infancy Through Death and Birth, to a diviner day. SHELLEY. Prometheus, Act 2, 5. Life's cup is nectar at the brink, Midway a palatable drink, And wormwood at the bottom. JAS. SMITH. Chigwell Revisited. What is the life of man ? Is it not to shift from side to side, from sorrow to sorrow ? to button up one cause of vexa- tion and unbutton another. STERNE. Tristram Shandy, Vol. 4, ch. 31. Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. R. L. STEVENSON. Crabbed Age. For life and death are but indifferent things, And of themselves not to be shunned nor sought, But for the good or ill that either brings. EARL OF STIRLING. Darius. His life is a watch or a vision, Between a sleep and a sleep. SWINBURNE. A lalanta. Sleep ; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon ; If sweet, give thanks ; thou hast no more to live ; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive. SWINBURNE. Ave atqtte Vale. A loving little life of sweet small works. SWINBURNE. Bothwell, Act i, i. A little sorrow, a little pleasure Fate metes us out from the dusty measure That holds the date of all of us. SWINBURNE. Ilicet. No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. TENNYSON. Two Voices. Were all things certain, nothing would be sure ; Joy would be joyless, of misfortune free ; Were we all wealthy, then we all were poor; And death not being, life would cease to be. D. W. THOMPSON. From Euripides. Some come, some go ; This life is so. T. TUSSER. August's Abstract. In youth alone unhappy mortals live, But ah ! the mighty bliss is fugitive. VIRGIL. Georgics, Bk. 3 (Dryden tr.}. I see them walking in an air of glory, Whose light doth trample on my days ; My days, which are at best but dull and hoary. Mere glimmering and decays. H. VAUGHAN. Resolutions. Life is but a day. What does it matter whether it finishes towards evening or towards the morning ? VOLTAIRE. To the Prince de Ligne. Desire not to live long, but to live well ; How long we live not years, but actions, tell. R. WATKYNS. Hour Glass. The petty joys Of fleeting life indignantly it spurned, And rested on the bosom of its God. H. K. WHITE. Time. Pleasure that most enchants us Seems the soonest done ; What is life with all it grants us But a hunting run ? G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE. Ranston Bloodhounds. Somehow the grace, the bloom of things has flown, And of all men we are most wretched who Must live each other's lives and not our own, For very pity's sake, and then undo All that we lived for. OSCAR WILDE. Humanitad. One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. OSCAR WILDE. L'Envoi to Rose-Leaf and Apple-Lea]. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! WORDSWORTH. Prelude. We live by admiration, hope, and love ; And even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 4. Life I repeat, is energy of love, Divine or human. WORDSWORTH. Ib. Bk. 5 Each night we die, Each morn are born anew : each day, a life ! YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 2. Death but entombs the body ; life, the soul. YOUNG. Ib., 3. Life is much flattered ; Death is much traduced. YOUNG. Ib., 3. That life is long which answers life's great end. YOUNG. Ib., 5. Our life is but a chain of many deaths. YOUNG. The Revenge, Act 4, i. 2*7 LIGHT Fear less, hope more ; eat less, chew inore ; whine less, breathe more ; talk less, say more ; hate less, love more ; and all good things are yours. Quoted by Lord Fisher in " Records" Nov. 25, 1919. The changes and chances of this mortal life. Common Prayer. Collect. The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. Psalter (Book of Common Prayer), go, 10. This world's a city with many a crooked street, And Death the Market place where all men meet ; If Life were merchandise that men could buy, The rich would live and none but poor would die. Henry Devall's Epitaph (1860), Nutfield Churchyard. Man's life is like unto a summer's day : Some break their fast and so away ; Others stay dinner and depart full fed ; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. Old Epitaph. A prose version is in Dr. Brown's Hora Subsecivce (1858). (Vide p. 284.) The life of love is better than the love of life. Prov. Round and round the unseen hand Turns the fate o' mortal man ; A screech at birth, a grane (groan) at even, The flesh to earth, the soul to Heaven. Scottish rhyme. We scream when we are born, We groan when we are dying ; And all that is between Is laughter and crying. Old Rhyme. LIGHT God's first creature, which was light. BACON. New Atlantis. Casting a dim religious light. MILTON. // Penseroso, 161. Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first- born, Or of th* Eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 3, i. Dark with excessive bright. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 3, 380. Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, Act i, i. LITERATURE LIMITATIONS Whether you nil it from the sea or from a tiny stream, the vessel will not contain a single drop more. E. AUGIER. Joueur de Fl&te. What you see, yet cannot see over, is as good as infinite. CARLYLE. Sartor Resartus, Bk. 2, c. i. Seek not to go beyond your tether But cut your thongs unto your leather. CHAPMAN. Eastward Hoe (1605). Feels himself spent, and fumbles for his brains. COVVPER. Table Talk, 536. Remember, cobbler, to keep to your last. MARTIAL. 3, 16. Each might his several province well com- mand, Would all but stoop to what they under- stand. POPE. Essay on Criticism, 66. Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. SHAKESPEARE. Merch. of Venice, Acts, i. My nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand ; Pity me then, and wish I were renewed. SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet in. Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. Job xxxviii, n. LIONS A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing, for there is not a more fearful wild- fowl than your lion, living. SHAKESPEARE. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3, i. LISTENERS Were we as eloquent as angels yet we should please some men, some women, and some children, much more by listening, than by talking. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. Give us grace to listen well. KEBLE. Palm Sunday. It takes two to speak the truth one to speak, and another to hear. H. D. THOREAU. A Week on the Concord. LITERATURE Literature is always a good card to play for honours. It makes people think that Cabinet Ministers are educated. ARNOLD BENNETT. The Title (1917). Let us be Catholics in this great matter [modern poetry] and burn our candles at many shrines. A. BIRRELL. Obiter Dicta, Browning's Poetry. LITTLENESS LONDON Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury, fiction is a necessity. G. K. CHESTERTON. The Defendant. Defence of Penny Dreadfuls. No prince fares like him ; he breaks his fast with Aristotle, dines with Tully, drinks tea at Helicon, sups with Seneca. COLLEY GIBBER. Love Makes the Man, Act i, i. Learn to write well or not to write at all. DRYDEN. Upon Satire, 281. Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. (ist) LORD LYTTON. Richelieu. Literature the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. LORD MORLEY. Burke. The Sibyl, uttering sentences all full of serious thought and meaning, continues her voice a thousand years, through the favour of the divinity that speaks within her. PLUTARCH. Of the Pythian Oracle. Who lasts a century can have no flaw ; I hold that wit a classic, good in law. POPE. Ep. of Horace, Ep. i, 55. You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. G. B. SHAW. Preface (1905) to " The Irrational Knot." Captains and conquerors leave a little dust, And Kings a dubious legend of their reign ; The swords of Caesars, they are less than rust ; The poet doth remain. SIR W. WATSON. Lachryma Musarum, 114. Communities are lost, and empires die, And things of holy use unhallowed lie ; They perish, but the intellect can raise, From airy words alone, a pile that ne'er decays. WORDSWORTH. Inscription for a seat at Coleorton. Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. WORDSWORTH. Personal Talk. LITTLENESS What dwarfs men are, when I come to think of it ! PLAUTUS. Capteivei, Prol. Fine by degrees and beautifully less. PRIOR. Henry and Emma. Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on Alps ; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 6. T 289 Small people love to talk of great people. Prov. LITURGY It is an armoury of light ; Let constant use but keep it bright, You'll find it yields To holy hands and humble hearts, More swords and shields Than sin hath snares, or hell hath darts. CRASH AW. On a Prayer Book. The monk with unavailing cares, Exhausted all the Church's prayers. SCOTT. Marmion, c. 6, 32. LOCALISM Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. ADDISON. Letter from Italy. The genuine spirit of localism. BORROW. Bible in Spain. My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer ; A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.. BURNS. Song. Be useful where thou livest. HERBERT. Church Porch. God gave all men all earth to love; But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all. RUDYARD KIPLING. Sussex. They take the rustic murmur of their bourg For the great wave that echoes round the world. TENNYSON. Marriage of Geraint, 419. LOGIC Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. T. H. HUXLEY. Science and Culture Those points indeed you quaintly prove, But logic is no friend to love. PRIOR. Turtle and Sparrow, 263. He owns her logic of the heart, And reason of unreason. WHITTIER. Among the Hills. Prove all things ; hold fast that which is good. i Thessalonians v, 21. LONDON Lo, where huge London, huger day by day, O'er six fair counties spreads its hideous sway. A. AUSTIN. Golden Age. LONDON Why should I care for the men of Thames, And the cheating waters of chartered streams ? WM. BLAKE. Thames and Ohio. Thou art in London in that pleasant place Where every kind of mischief's daily brewing. BYRON. Don Juan, 12, 23. That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England. CARLYLE. Sartor. Let but thy wicked men from out thee go, And all the fools that crowd thee so, Even thou who dost thy millions boast, A village less than Islington wilt grow, A solitude almost. COWLEY. Of Solitude. The crowd, the buzz, and murmurings Of this great hive, the city. COWLEY. The Wish. Oh thou, resort and mart of all the earth, Chequered with all complexions of man- kind, And spotted with all crimes ; in which I see Much that I love, and more that I admire, And all that I abhor ; thou freckled fair, That pleases and yet shocks me. COWPER. Garden, 835. The centre of a thousand trades. COWPER. Hope, 248. B Where has commerce such a mart, So rich, so thronged, so drained, and so supplied, As London, opulent, enlarged, and still Increasing London ? COWPER. The Sofa. Mr. Weller's knowledge of London was extensive and peculiar. DICKENS. Pickwick Papers, ch. 20. London is a roost for every bird. DISRAELI. Lothair, ch. n. London a nation, not a city. DISRAELI. Ib., ch. 27. I belong to the " Nation of London." GEORGE ELIOT. Theophrastus Such : Looking Backward. London is the epitome of our times and the Rome of to-day. EMERSON. English Traits, 18, Result (1833). Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed. I GRAY. Bard. I do not think there is anything deserv- ing the name of society to be found out of LONDON London. . . . You can pick your society nowhere but in London. HAZLITT. On Coffee-House Politicians. London is the only place in which the child grows completely up into the man. HAZLITT. Londoners. London ! the needy villain's general home, The common-sewer of Paris and of Rome. JOHNSON. London. Prepare for death if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home. JOHNSON. Ib. When a man is tired of London he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford. JOHNSON. Remark to Boswell. Whoever has once experienced the full flow of London talk, when he retires to country friendships and rural sports, must either be contented to turn baby again and play with the rattle, or he will pine away like a great fish in a little pond, and die for want of his usual food. JOHNSON. Remark as recorded by Mrs. Piozzi. The noble spirit of the metropolis is the lifeblood of the State, collected at the heart. JUNIUS. Letter, 1770. I'm sick for London again ; sick for the sounds of 'er, an' the sights of 'er, and the stinks of 'er ; orange peel and hasphalte an' gas comin' in over Vauxhall Bridge . . . That an" the Stran" lights, where you knows ev'ry one. KIPLING. Stanley Ortheris. I love the halls of old Cockaigne, Where wit and wealth were squandered, The halls that tell of hoop and train, Where grace and rank have wandered. F. LOCKER LAMPSON. -St. James's Street. And London Town, of all towns, I'm glad to leave behind. J. MASEFIELD. London Town. London's the dining-room of Christendom. T. MIDDLETON. City Pageant 1617. There, London's voice : " Get money, money still ! And then let virtue follow if she will." POPE. Ep. of Horace, Ep. i, 79. Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. POPE. Moral Essays, Ep. 3. That great foul city of London rattling, growling, smoking, stinking a ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore a cricket ground 2QO LONELINESS LOSS without the turf, a huge billiard table with- out the cloth, and with pockets as deep as the bottomless pit. RUSKIN. Crown of Wild Olive. In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud. SHELLEY. To Maria Gisborne. Fly, Honesty, fly to some safer retreat. For there's craft in the river and craft in the street- JAMES SMITH. Epigram made at a dinner at his home in Craven Street. A few yards in London dissolve or cement friendship. SYDNEY SMITH. Letter to Countess Grey, Feb. g, 1821. To mery London, my most kyndly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source. SPENSER. Prothalamion. Under the cross of gold That shines over city and river. TENNYSON. On Wellington. It is worth while living in London, surely, to enjoy the country when you get to it. THACKERAY. Letter. Fleet Street ! Fleet Street ! Fleet Street in the evening, Darkness set with golden lamps down Ludgate Hill a-row ; Oh, hark the voice o' the city, that breaks our hearts with pity, That crazes us with shame and wrath, and makes us love her so ! ALICE WERNER. Song of Fleet Street. LONELINESS Alone ! that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard, Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE ! (ist) LORD LYTTON. New Timon, Pt. 2. 7. When musing on companions gone, We doubly feel ourselves alone. SCOTT. Marmion, c. 2, Intro. LONGEVITY His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Dent, xxxiv, 7. Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. Job v, 26. LORD MAYORS By the lord of Ludgate it's a fine life to be a lord mayor ; it's a stirring life, a fine life, a velvet life, a careful life. T. DEKKER Shoeni^er's Holiday, Act 5, 2. LORDS But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the art brightens ! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name flies every fault. And each exalted stanza teems with thought ! POPE. Essay on Criticism, 419. The court affords Much food for satire : it abounds in lords. YOUNG. Love of Fame, i LOSS Every mortal loss is an immortal gain. The ruins of time build mansions in eternity. WM. BLAKE. Letter. Lose who may I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they. BROWNING. One Way of Love, 3. 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 Cat. The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert. J. HEYWOOD. Be Merry. Measure thy life by loss instead of gain ; Not by the wine drunk but by the wine poured forth. H. E. HAMILTON KING. The Disciples. Better is a littel losse than a long sorrow. LANGLAND. Piers Plowman, Passus i, 195- Then many a lad I liked is dead, And many a lass grown old, And as the lesson strikes my head, My weary heart grows cold. CHAS. MORRIS. Toper's Apology. I would rather have lost honourably than gained basely. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. Poor Jack, farewell ! I could have better spared a better man. SHAKESPEARE. Henry JV., Pt. i, Act 5,4. A fellow that hath had losses. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 4, 2. O you gods ! Why do you make us love your goodly gifts, And snatch them straight away ? SHAKESPEARE. Pericles, Act 3, i. Varus, give me back my legions ! SUETONIUS. A ugustus. My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain, When time and God give judgment. SWINBURNE. Marino Falierg. 291 LOVE LOVE The shadow of his loss drew like eclipse, Darkening the world. TENNYSON. Idylls, Dedication. 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, c. 27. The feeling of my loss will ne'er be old ; This, which I know, I speak with mind serene. WORDSWORTH. Elegiac Stanzas, 1805. Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away. WORDSWORTH. On the Venetian Republic. How blessings brighten as they take their flight ! YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 2. Good things are never good till they are lost. Prov. Sometimes the best gain is to lose. Prov. (Geo. Herbert). LOVE Love is not to be reasoned down, or lost In high ambition and a thirst of greatness. ADDISON. Goto, Act i, i. There is no worldly pleasure here below, Which by experience doth not folly prove : But amongst all the follies that I know The sweetest folly in the world is love. SIR R. AYTON. On Love. Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell, Where pleasure, paine, and sad repentance dwell. R. BARNFIELD. Content (1594). Love and sorrow twins were born On a shining showery morn. DR. T. BLACKLOCK. The Graham. He caught me in his silken net And shut me in his golden cage. WM. BLAKE. Song. Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite. WM. BLAKE. The Clod and the Pebble. The moon returns, and the spring, birds warble, trees burst into leaf, But Love once gone goes for ever, and all that endures is the grief. MATHILDE BLIND. Love Trilogy, 3. Much ado there was, God wot ; He would love, and she would not. N. BRETON. Phyllida and Corydon. Two human loves make one divine. E. B. BROWNING. Isabel's Child. Whoso loves Believes the impossible. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 5. Love shut our eyes and all seemed right. BROWNING. Christmas Eve, c. n. What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth Compared with love, found, gained, and kept ? BROWNING. Dis aliter visum. So down the flowery path of love we went. R. BUCHANAN. Sigurd. But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love for ever. BURNS. Farewell to Nancy. Let those love now who never loved before, And those who always loved now love the more. BURTON. (Tr. of Pcrvigilium Vencris.) Love is too great a happiness For wretched mortals to possess. S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. BYRON. Don Juan, c. i, 194. Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing. BYRON. Ib., c. 2, 199. In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all the others all she loves is love. BYRON. Ib., c. 3, 3. And all because a lady fell in love. BYRON. Ib., 4, 12. For soon or late Love is his own avenger. BYRON. Ib., 4, 73. Love will find its way Through paths where wolves would fear to prey. BYRON. Giaour, 1047. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. CARLYLE. On Biography. The god of love, a ! benedicite ! How mighty and how great a lord is he ! CHAUCER. Knight's Tale. Love and I be fer a-sonder. kCHAUCER. Troilus, Bk. 5, 983 (Cressid to Diomed). Such maner folk, I gesse, Defamen love, as no-thing of him knowe, They speken, but they bente never his bowe. CHAUCER. Troilus. What a recreation it is to be in love It sets the heart aching so delicately there's no taking a wink of sleep for the pleasure of the pain. G. COLMAN, JR. Mountaineers, Act i, i. 2 9 3 LOVE LOVE Life without lo%'e is load ; and time stands still : What we refuse to him, to death we give, And then, then only, when we love, we live. CONGREVE. Mourning Bride, Act 2, 3. Love's hut a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined. CONGREVE. Way of the World, Act 3, 3. If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me. CONGREVE. Ib. How wise are they that are but fools in love ! JOSHUA COOKE. How a man may choose, Act i, i. A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss ; But of all pains the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. COWLEY. Gold. Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved. CRABBE. The Struggles of Conscience. To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life. MRS. CRAIGIE (" JOHN OLIVER HOBBES ") School for Saints, ch. 25. Poor love is lost in men's capacious minds, In ours, it fills up all the room it finds. J. CROWNE. Thyestes. Love most concealed doth most itself discover. W. DAVISON. Sonnet, 14. O what a heaven is love ! O what a hell ! T. DEKKER. Honest Whore. The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. DISRAELI. Henrietta Temple, Bk. 2, c. 4. See the couples advance, Oh ! Love's but a dance ! A whisper, a glance, " Shall we twirl down the middle ? " Oh, Love's but a dance, Where time plays the fiddle. AUSTIN DOBSON. Triolet. Oh, Love's but a dance. That reason of all unreasonable actions. DRYDEN. Assignation. But she ne'er loved who durst not venture all. DRYDEN. Aureng-Zebe, Act 5, i. Love's the noblest frailty of the mind. DRYDEN. Indian Emperor, Act 2, 2. To cure the pains of love no plant avails ; And his own physic the physician fails. DRYDEN. Tr. Ovid, Metam., Bk. i. The proverb holds, that to be wise and love Ii hardly granted to the gods above. DKYDEN. Palamon, Bk. 2, 364. And Antony, who lost the world for love. DRYDEN. Ib., Bk. 2, 607. In hell and earth and seas and heaven above, Love conquers all ; and we must yield to Love. DRYDEN. Virgil, Pastoral, 10. All the young ladies said that to be sure a love match was the only thing for hap- piness, where the parties could any way afford it. Miss EDGEWORTH. Castle Rackrent, ch. 2. If with love thy heart has burned, If thy love is unre turned, Hide thy grief within thy breast. EMERSON. To Rhea. The affirmative of affirmatives is love. As much love, so much perception. EMERSON. Success. Cupid is a blind gunner. FARQUHAR. Love and a Bottle, Act i, i. I love you ; I'll cut your throat for your own sake. FLETCHER AND MASSINGER. Little French Lawyer, Act 4, i. Only in love they happy prove. Who love what most deserves their love. PHINEAS FLETCHER. Sicelides, Act 3, 6. Again new tumults fire my breast ; Ah, spare me, Veuus, let thy suppliant rest. P. FRANCIS. Horace, Odes Bk. 4, i. Sorry her lot who loves too well, Heavy the heart that hopes but vainly. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Pinajori Time was when Love and I were well acquainted, Time was when we walked ever hand in hand. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Sorcerer. To love for money all the world is prone ; Some love themselves, and live all lonely ; Give me the love that loves for love alone, I love that love I love it only. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Ib. Or love me less, or love me more ; And play not with my liberty : Either take all, or all restore ; Bind me at least, or set me free ! S. GODOLPHIN. Song. The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. Foolish loves make foolish people. E. GONDINET. The Club. 293 LOVE LOVE Among the holy bookes wise, I nude write in suche wise, Who loveth nought is here as dede. GOWER. Confessio Amantis. For love's law is out of reule. GOWER. Ib. But ah ! in vain from Fate I fly, For first, or last, as all must die, So 'tis as much decreed above, That first, or last, we all must love. G. GRANVILLE (LORD LANSDOWNE). To Myra. Whoe'er thou art, thy lord and master see ; Thou wast my slave, thou art, or thou shalt be. G. GRANVILLE (LORD LANSDOWNE). God of Love (Tr. of Voltaire). Love in extremes can never long endure. HERRICK. Hesperides, 495. Love of itself 's too sweet. The best of all Is when love's honey has a dash of gall. HERRICK. Ib., No. 1085. Pray love me little so you love me long. HERRICK. Love me Little, Love me Long. Truth is for ever truth and love is love. LEIGH HUNT. Hero and Leander. Love is like the measles ; we all have to go through it. J. K. JEROME. Idle Thoughts. Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is Love, forgive us ! cinders, ashes, dust ; Love in a palace is, perhaps, at last More grievous torment than a hermit's fast. KEATS. Lamia, Pt. 2. Love at fifty ! why look you, it is like rheumatism, nothing can cure it. LABICHE. Le Commandant Mathieu in " Le Voyage de M. Perrichon." I loved him too as woman loves Reckless of sorrow, sin, or scorn. L. E. LANDON. Indian Bride. Oh if thou lovest And art a woman, hide thy love from him Whom thou dost worship ; never let him know How dear he is. L. E. LANDON. " I'm half in love," he who with smiles hath said, In love will never be. Whoe'er, " I'm not in love," and shakes his head, In love too sure is he. W. S. LANDOR. Miscell., No. 258. Like these cool lilies may our loves remain, Perfect and pure, and know not any stain. A. LANG. To Heavenly Venus. True love is like the apparition of spirits; everyone speaks of it but few have seen it. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 76. In their first passions women love the lover ; in others they love love. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 471. Like Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought Love gives itself, but is not bought. LONGFELLOW. Endymion. Luife (love) bene the ladder quhilk (which) hes bot steppis twa (has but two steps), Be quhilk we may clim up to lyfe againe Out of this vaill of miserie and wa. SIR D. LYNDSAY. The Three Estates (The two steps being i, Love of God ; 2, Love of one's Neighbours). Tell me my heart, if this be love. GEO. LORD LYTTELTON. Song. Whoever loved that loved not at first sight ? MARLOWE. Hero and Leander, Sestiad, i. Love always makes those eloquent that have it. MARLOWE. Ib., Sestiad, 2. Love not, love not, ye hapless sons of clay. LADY STIRLING MAXWELL. Rosalie. No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream. MOORE. Irish Melodies. Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? POPE. Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, 6. Curse on all laws but those which love has made ! POPE. Eloisa, I. 74. Love, free as air, at sight of human ties Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. POPE. Ib., 75. In her soft breast consenting passions move, And the warm maid confessed a mutual love. POPE. Vertumnus and Pomona, 122. There is no pleasure like the pain Of being loved, and loving. W. M. PRAED. Legend of the Haunted Tree. A dish of married love right soon grows cauld. ALLAN RAMSAY. Gentle Shepherd, Act i. And where are you going with your love- locks flowing ? CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. Amor Mundi. Knowledge is strong, but love is sweet ; Yea all the progress he had made Was but to learn that all is small Save love, for love is all in all. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. Convent Threshold. 294 LOVE LOVE Friendship avaricious. prodigal but love is ROUSSEAU. Julie. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above, For love is heaven, and heaven is love. SCOTT. Lay of the Last Minstrel 3, 2. True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. SCOTT. Ib., 5, 13. For love will still be lord of all. SCOTT. Ib., 6, iz. There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. SHAKESPEARE. Antony and Cleopatra, Act z, i. Down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 3, 5. He that will divide a minute into a thousand parts, and break but a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the affairs of love, it may be said of him, that Cupid hath clapped him on the shoulder, but I'll warrant him heart-whole. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 4, z. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. No sooner met, but they looked ; no sooner looked, but they loved ; no sooner loved, but they sighed ; no sooner sighed, but they asked one another the reason. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 2. From me, whose love was of that dignity, That it went hand in hand even with the vow I made to her in marriage. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 5. This is the very ecstasy of love. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act z, z. This whimpled, whining, purblind, way- ward boy, This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, Act 3, z. Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues, Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. SHAKESPEARE. Merry Wives, Act 2, 2. O powerful love ! that in some respects makes a beast a man ; in some other, a man a beast. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 5. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. SHAKESPEARE. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act z, z. The course of true love never did run smooth. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, i. Cupid is a knavish lad Thus to make poor females mad. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, 2. He brushes his hat o" mornings ; what should that bode ? SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 3, 2. Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee ! And when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 3, 3. This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, 2. Love in Idleness. SHAKESPEARE. Taming of the Shrew, Act z, z. Was not this love indeed ? We men may say more, swear more ; but, indeed, Our shows are more than will ; for still we prove Much in our vows, but little in our love. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 2, 4. Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, i. I have done penance for contemning love. SHAKESPEARE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 2, 4. Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow, As seek to quench the fire of love with words. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 2, 7. I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 4. Love is a spirit, all compact of fire, Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. SHAKESPEARE. Venus and Adonis, 25. 295 LOVE Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last. SHAKESPEARE. Venus and Adonis, 96. Gone already ! Inch-thick, knee-deep, o'er head and ears, a forked one ! SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act i, 2. First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity : no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it G. B. SHAW. Bull's Other Island. Love did nothing but prove the sound- ness of La Rochefoucauld's saying that very few people would fall in love if they had never read about it. G. B. SHAW. Heartbreak House, Pref. All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. SHELLEY. Prometheus, Act 2, 5. They who inspire it are most fortunate, As I am now ; but those who feel it most Are happier still. SHELLEY. Ib. An oyster may be crossed in love. SHERIDAN. Critic, Act 3, i. True be it said, whatever man it sayd, That love with gall and hony doth abound. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, c. 10, i. To love her is a liberal education. SIR R. STEELE. Spectator (of Lady Elizabeth Hastings). " I thought love had been a joyous thing," quoth my uncle Toby. " 'Tis the most serious thing, an' please your Honour (sometimes) that is in the world." STERNE. Tristram Shandy, vol. 7, 20. Love, an' please your Honour, is exactly like war, in this, that a soldier, though he has escaped three weeks complete o' Saturday night, may nevertheless be shot through his heart on Sunday morning. STERNE. Ib., vol. 5, ch. 21. God gives us love. Something to love He lends us. TENNYSON. To J S. For the man's love once gone never re- turns. TENNYSON. Geraint and Enid, 335. I know not if I know what true love is, But if I know, then, if I love not him, I know there is none other I can love. TENNYSON. Lancelot and Elaine, 672. Sweet is true love, though given in vain. TENNYSON. Ib., 949. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might, LOVE Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. TENNYSON. Locksley Hall. Love is love for evermore. TENNYSON. Ib. For in a wink the false love turns to hate. TENNYSON. Merlin and Vivien, 850. God, that I had loved a smaller man ! 1 should have found in him a greater heart. TENNYSON. Ib., 860. And he that shuts out love in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on the threshold lie, Howling in utter darkness. TENNYSON. To (" / send you here a sort of Allegory "). We* love being in love, that's the truth on't. THACKERAY. Esmond, c. 15. Who does not know how to love has but a faithless heart. VOLTAIRE. Fete de BelUbat. Love not each other too much, I beseech you. It is the surest way to love each other always. It is better to be friends all your life than to be lovers for a few days. VOLTAIRE. To Mdlle. de Guise on her im- pending marriage with the Due de Richelieu. Love is the breath and life of a godlike and blessed man. JOHN WESSEL OF GRONINGEN. O, rank is good, and gold is fair, And histh and low mate ill ; But love has never known a law Beyond its own sweet will. WHITTIER. Amy Wentworth. One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. OSCAR WILDE. Woman of no Importance, Act 3. When one is in love one begins to deceive oneself. And one ends by deceiving others. OSCAR WILDE. Ib. Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair ? G. WITHER. Shepherd's Resolution. A Briton, even in love, should be A subject, not a slave ! WORDSWORTH. Ere with cold beads of midnight dew. He spake of love, such love as Spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure ; No fears to beat away no strife to heal The past unsighed for and the future sure. WORDSWORTH. Laodamia. 296 LOVERS LOYALTY 'Tis sense, unbridled will, and not true love That kills the soul. Love betters what is best, Even here below, but more in heaven above. WORDSWORTH. Sonnets, No. 25. What easy, tame, suffering, trampled things does that little god of talking cowards make of us ! WYCHERLEY. Plain Dealer. Ryches be unstable And beauty will dekay But faithful love will ever last Till death dryve it away. Old Rhyme. LOVERS Thrice nappy's the wooing that's not long a doing, So much time is saved in the billing and cooing. R. H. BARHAM. Sir Rupert. Affection chained her to that heart ; Ambition tore the links apart. BYRON. Bride of Abydos, i, 6. The miracle to-day is that we find A lover true, not that a woman's kind. CONGREVE. Love for Love, Act 5, 2. All mankind love a lover. EMERSON. Love. Nor could the Fates this faithful pair divide ; They lived united and united died. F. FAWKES. Hero and Leander, 494. (Tr. of Musceus.) A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. T. HARDY. Hand of Ethelberta, ch. 20. The old, old story, fair and young, And fond, and not too wise. O. W. HOLMES. Agnes. The lovers, interchanging words and sighs, Lost in the heaven of one another's eyes. LEIGH HUNT. Rimini, c. 4. How strange a thing a lover seems To animals that do not love. C. PATMORE. Angel in the House. The lover is a more godlike thing than the beloved, as being inspired by a divinity. PLATO. Banquet, 7. Ye gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy ! POPE AND SWIFT. Art of Sinking, ch. 9. A quotation, the source not being indicate. I. No woman hates a man for being in love with her ; but many a woman hates a man for being a friend to her. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. For love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies they themselves commit. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 2, 6. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well ; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 5, 2. I think there is not half a kiss to choose Who loves another best. SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act 4, 3. Why so pale and wan, fond lover ? Prithee, why so pale ? SIR J. SUCKLING. Aglaura The shackles of an old love straitened him, His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. TENNYSON. Lancelot, 870. Our bond is not the bond of man and wife. TENNYSON. Ib., 1198. Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens. THACKERAY. Pendennis. And sadly reflecting That a lover forsaken A new love may get, But a neck, when once broken, Can never be set. W. WALSH. Despairing Lover. LOYALTY True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shined upon. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. 3, 2. I will never desert Mr. Micawber. [Mrs. Micawber.} DICKENS. D. Copperfield, c. 12. The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. HOBBES. Leviathan, ch. 21. Devotion to princes is a second self-love. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 597. A jewel in a ten times barred up chest Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., Act i, i. Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's soul is his own. SHAKESPEARE. Henry V., 4, i . To reverence the King as if he were Their conscience, and their_conscience as their King. TENNYSON. Guinevere, 464. 297 LUCK LYING LUCK Renown's all hit or miss ; There's fortune even in fame, we must allow. BYRON. Don Juan, 7, 33. Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances . . . Strong men believe in cause and effect. EMERSON. Conduct of Life. Worship, " Luck," continued the gambler [Oak- shpttl reflectively, " is a mighty queer thing. All you know about it for certain is that it's bound to change." BRET HARTE. Outcasts of Poker Flat. Happiness or misery generally go to those who have most of the one or the other. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 360. " Then here goes another," says he, " to make sure, " For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More. S. LOVER. Rory O'More. For there's nae luck about the house ; There's nae luck at aw : There's little pleasure in the house, When our gude man's awa'. W. J. MICKLE. Song. Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 2, 7. I bear a charmdd life. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 5, 7. Fortune, which is imagined to be so sovereign, can do scarcely anything with- out Nature. VAUVENARGUES. Maxim 579. A chip of chance weigheth more than a pound of wit. SIR T. WYATT. Courtier's Life (c. 1530). LUKEWARMNESS In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish ; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand. BURKE. Speech at Bristol (1780). Lukewarmness I account a sin, As great in love as in religion. COWLEY. The Mistress. Love Verses ; The Request. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot ; I would thou wert cold or hot. Revelation iii, 15. LUXURY What will not Luxury taste ? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransacked for the bill of fare ! GAY. Trivia, Bk. 3, I. 199. Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt ; It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. GOLDSMITH. Haunch of Venison. Nature is free to all, and none were foes Till partial luxury began the strife. JAS. HAMMOND. Elegy, No. n. Impatient of a scene whose luxuries stole, Spite of himself, too deep into his soul. MOORE. Lalla Rookh. The superfluous a very necessary thing- VOLTAIRE. Le Mondain. LYING Behold him there ! He stands before your eyes, To bear you down with a superior frown, A fiercer stare, And more incessant, more exhaustless lies. ARISTOPHANES. The Knights (Freretr.). It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt. BACON. Of Truth. It isn' every fool that's fit To make a real good lie, that'll sit On her keel, and answer the helm. T. E. BROWN. The Doctor. And after all, what is a lie ? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. BYRON. Don Juan, c. n, st. 37. Man everywhere is the born enemy of lies. CARLYLE. Heroes, sec. i. The talent of lying in a way that cannot be laid hold of. CARLYLE. Latter Day Pamphlets, 7. Thou liar of the first magnitude ! CONGREVE. Love for Love, Act 4, 2. A liar is always prodigal of oaths. CORNEILLE. Le Menteur. " There's one thing you may be sure of, Pip," said Joe, " namely that lies is lies. However they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, and work round to the same." DICKENS. Gt. Expectations, ch. g. The art of speaking well consists largely in lying skilfully. . ERASMUS. Philetymus. 298 LYING MAGIC " I am Ymaginatyf," quath he, " ydel was I uevere." LANGLAND. Piers Plowman, Passus 15. An innocent truth can never stand in need Of a guilty lie. MASSINGER. Emperor of East, Act 5, 3. I have heard that a warm lie is the best. Whatever the gods put into your rnind is the best thing to say. PLAUTUS. Mostellaria, Act 3. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to main- tain that one. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. A very honest woman, but something given to lie. SHAKESPEARE. Antony and Cleopatra, Act 5, 2. Lord, lord, how the world is given to lying ! SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 5, 4. Let me have no lying ; it becomes none but tradesmen. SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act 4, 3. Lying's a certain mark of cowardice. T. SOUTHERN. Oroonoko, Act 5. A lie travels round the world while Truth is putting on her boots. C. H. SPURGEON. If a man had the art of the second sight for seeing lies, as they have in Scotland for seeing spirits, how admirably he might entertain himself in this town [London], by observing the different shapes, sizes, and colours of those swarms of lies which buzz about the heads of some people. SWIFT. Examiner, No. 15. An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar. MARK TWAIN. Military Campaign. But liars we can never trust, Though they should speak the thing that's true ; And he that does one fault at first, And lies to hide it, makes it two. I. WATTS. Against Lying. There is such a thing as robbing a story of its reality by trying to make it too true. OSCAR WILDE. The Decay of Lying. Truth never was indebted to a lie. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 8. Whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. Revelation xxii, 15. M MADNESS Out of my course I'm borne By the wild spirit of fierce agony, And cannot curb my lips ; And turbid speech at random dashes on Upon the waves of dread calamity. AESCHYLUS. Prometheus, 877 (Plumptre tr.). There is a pleasure sure In being mad, which none but madmen know. DRYDEN. Spanish Friar, Act 2, i. greater madman, pray have mercy on a lesser one ! HORACE. Sat., Bk. 2. It is a common calamity ; at some time or other we have all been mad. JOH. BAPTISTA MANTUANUS. That he is mad 'tis true ; 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis 'tis true. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, 2. Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 2, 2. 1 am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 2, 2. Madness in great ones must not un- watched go. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, i. O, that way madness lies ; let me shun that ! SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act 3, 4. Why, this is very midsummer madness. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 3, 4. I think for my part one half of the Nation is mad and the other not very sound. SMOLLETT. Sir L. Greaves. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. SWIFT. On the death of Dr. Swift. 'Tis a mad world, my masters. Prov. MAGIC Charmes for woundes or raaladye of men or of bestes (beasts), if they taken any effect, it may be peraventure that God suffreth it, for [so that] folk sholden yeve [should give] the more feith and reverence to his name. CHAUCER. Parson's Tale, sec. 38. Wizards that peep, and that mutter. Isaiah viii, 19. MAGISTRATES MALEVOLENCE MAGISTRATES Authority intoxicates And makes mere sots of magistrates ; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain. S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. Be this, ye rural magistrates, your plan, Firm be your justice, but be friends to man. J. LANGHORNE. Country Justice, 133. Fear God. and offend not the Prince and his laws, And keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws. T. TUSSER. Good Husbandry, MAGNANIMITY England and Ireland may flourish to- gether. The world is large enough for us both. Let it be our care not to make our- selves too little for it. BURKE. Letter to Samuel Span. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. BURKE. Speech on Conciliation. His [Abraham Lincoln's] heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. EMERSON. Greatness. The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby. SHAKESPEARE. Titus Andronicus, Act 4, 4. Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love. TENNYSON. The Poet. Praises to the vanquished are an addi- tional laurel to the victors. VOLTAIRE. Prelim. Discourse, Poime de Fontenoi. MAGNIFICENCE For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise. ADDISON. Letter from Italy. Thought in gold and dreamed in silver. STEPHEN PHILLIPS. Herod. MAHOMETANS One of that saintly murderous brood, To carnage and the Koran given. MOORE. Lalla Rookh. MAJORITIES A majority is always the best repartee. DISRAELI. Tancred, Bk. 2, c. 14 . Decision by majorities is as much nu expedient as lighting by gas. W. E. GLADSTONE. Speech, 1858. The majority is never right . . . Who are they that make up the majority in a country ? Is it the wise men or the foolish ? . . . The minority is always right. IBSEN. An Enemy of Society. Safer with multitudes to stray, Than tread alone a fairer way : To mingle with the erring throng, Than boldly speak ten millions wrong. EARL NUGENT. Ep. to a Lady. I believe it to be a great truth that to carry a point in your house [Irish House of Commons], the two following circum- stances are of great advantage : first, to have an ill cause ; and secondly, to be in a minority . . . Whereas on the contrary a majority with a good cause are negligent and supine. SWIFT. Letter to an M.P. in Ireland (1708). Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side ? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town ? MARK TWAIN. Huckleberry Finn, ch. 26. MALEVOLENCE AND MALICE A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. WM. BLAKE. Proverbs. A bitter heart that bides its time and bites. BROWNING. Caliban. Let those who have betrayed him [Lord Chatham] by their adulation, insult him with their malevolence. But what I do not presume to censure, I may have leave to lament. BURKE. Speech on American Taxation. An honest man may like a glass, An honest man may like a lass, But mean revenge, an' malice fause, He'll still disdain. BURNS. Epistle to J. M'Math. Much malice mingled with a little wit. DRVDEN. Hind and the Panther, Pt. 3, i. Malice feeds on the living ; after life is over, it rests. OVID. Amores, Bk. i. Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike. POPE. Prol. to Satires. Let us taste the unique pleasure of un- happy souls let us not be the only ones to be miserable. QUINAULT. Theseus, 3, 7. Malice is the ordinary vice of those who live in the mode of religion, without the spirit of it. STEELE. The Guardian, No. 65 (May 26, 1713). Shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. WORDSWORTH. To Lady Fleming. 300 MANKIND MANKIND All malice is but little to the malice of a woman. Ecdesiasticus xxv, 19 (R.V.). MANKIND Strong is the Soul, and wise, and beautiful ; The seeds of godlike power are in us still : Gods are we, Bards, Saints, Heroes, if we will. M. ARNOLD. In Emerson's Essays. The human comedy. Title given to his works by H. DE BALZAC. Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure . . . They govern us in all we do. J. BENTHAM. Introd. to Principles of Morals. Most men are bad. BIAS OF PRIENE. (c. B.C. 560.) Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. SIR T. BROWNE. Hydriotaphia. Men arc not angels, neither are they brutes , Something we may see, all we cannot see. BROWNING. Bp. Blougram. Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost. BROWNING. Luria. Good Lord, what is man ? for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his hooks and his crooks ; With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all he's a problem must puzzle the devil. BURNS. To C. J. Fox. A man's a man for a' that. BURNS. Is there, for Honest Poverty ? Let us then praise their good, forget their ill ! Men must be men and women women still. CAMPION. Vain Men. For ours is a most fictile world, and man is the most fingent plastic of creatures. CARLYLE. French Revolution, Pt. i, Bk. i. Ye were not formed to live the life of brutes, But virtue to pursue, and knowledge high. H. F. GARY. Dante's "Hell," c. 26, 116. Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. 'Tis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. COWPER. Winter Evening, 88. 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. DRYDEN. All for Love, Act 4, i. How dull, and how insensible a beast Is man, who yet would lord it o'er the rest ! DRYDEN. On Satire, I. i. Men's men : gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness. GEO. ELIOT. Daniel Dcronda, Bk. 4, ch. 31. Men in all ways are better than they seem. EMERSON. New England Reformers. So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. EMERSON. Voluntaries. Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake ; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened Man's forgiveness give and take ! FITZGERALD. Rubdiydt, st. 81. Man is Nature's sole mistake. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Princess Ida. Man will swear and man will storm ; Man is not at all good form ; Man is of no kind of use ; Man's a donkey, man's a goose. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Ib. Man's not worth a moment's pain, Base, ungrateful, fickle, vain. J. GRAINGER. Ode to Solitude. Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile. BISHOP HEBER. Hymn. Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him. HERBERT. Man. Thou'lt find thy Manhood all too fast Soon come, soon gone ! and age at last A sorry breaking-up ! HOOD. Clapham Academy. If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise, it is a man of the world. HENRY ARTHUR JONES. The Liars, Act i. Hard fate of man, on whom the heavens bestow A drop of pleasure for a sea of woe. SIR W. JONES. Laura. We fear all things as mortals, and we desire all things as if we were immortals. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 590. Man, false man, smiling, destructive man. N. LEE. Theodosius, Act 3, 2. 301 MANKIND MANKIND Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. J. R. LOWELL. Capture of Fugitive Slaves. I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and, I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows : some, right scurvy : Most, a dash between the two. GEO. MEREDITH. Juggling Jerry, st. 7. Once in the flight of ages past, There lived a man : and who was he ? Mortal ! howe'er thy lot be cast, That man resembled thee. J. MONTGOMERY. The Common Lot. Why hast thou made me so, My Maker ? I would know Wherefore Thou gav'st me such a mourn- ful dower ; Toil that is oft in vain, Knowledge that deepens pain, And longing to be pure without the power. J. J. MURPHY. Eternity. In short what is man in nature ? Nothing in regard to the infinite, every- thing in regard to nothing, something in between nothing and all. PASCAL. Penstes. Child of a day, what's man ? What is he not ? His life a shadow's dream. PINDAR. Pythian Odes, 8, 131. Let us (since life 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, Ep. i, 3. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul. POPE. Ib., 268. Know then thyself ; presume not God to scan : The proper study of mankind is man. POPE. Ib., Ep. 2, i. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great. POPE. Ib., Ep. 2, 3. The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. POPE. Ib., Ep. 2, 18. Man is man's A. B.C. There is none can Read God aright, unless he first spell man. QUARLES. Hieroglyphics. Once it came into my heart and whelmed me like a flood, That these too are men and women, human flesh and blood ; Men with hearts and men with souls, though trodden down like mud. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. Royal Princess. Men, be human ; that is your first duty. ROUSSEAU, E.mile. Ah, let us for a little while abate The outward roving eye, and seek within Where spirit unto spirit is allied ; There, in our inmost being, we may win The joyful vision of the heavenly wise To see the beauty in each other's eyes. GEO. RUSSELL. Shadows and Lights. The doctor sees mankind in all its weak- nesses ; the lawyer in all its wickedness ; the theologian in all its stupidity. SCHOPENHAUER. Psychological Observations. What a piece of work is man ! How noble in reason ! How infinite in faculty ! In form and moving how express and admirable ! In action, how like an angel ; in apprehension, how like a god ! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals ! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust ? Man delights not me, no nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seeni to say so. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, 2. What should such fellows as I do, crawling between heaven and earth ? We are arrant knaves, all. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, i. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 3, i. God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act i, 2. When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great, And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. R. L. STEVENSON. Looking Forward. I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of odious little vermin that nature ever suf- fered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. SWIFT. Brobdingnag. Vain humankind ! fantastic race ! Thy various follies who can trace ? Self-love, ambition, envy, pride, Their empire in our hearts divide. SWIFT. On the death of Dr. Swift. For good ye are and bad, and like to coins, Some true, some light, but every one of you Stamped with the image of the king. TENNYSON. Holy Grail, 25. Thou madest man, he knows not why ; He thinks he was not made to die. TENNYSON. In Mentor iam, Introd. I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. TENNYSON, L.ocks(ey Hal} 302 MANKIND MANNERISMS But 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, c. 54. For man is man, and master of his fate. TENNYSON. Marriage of Geraint, I. 355. Man is the hunter ; woman is his game. TENNYSON. Princess, c. 5, 147. This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse. TENNYSON. Two Voices. Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born. TENNYSON. Vision of Sin, st. 9 and 15. Fill the can and fill the cup ; All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up And is lightly laid again. TENNYSON. Ib., st. 18 and 27. Oh, vanity of vanities ! How wayward the decrees of Fate are ! How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are ! THACKERAY. Vanitas Vanitatum. The mice inhabiting small holes in some immense building, do not know whether that building is eternal, nor who is the architect, nor why he built it. They try to preserve their lives, to people their holes, and to escape the preying animals which pursue them. We are the mice, and the Divine Architect, as far as I know, has not yet told his secret to any one of us. VOLTAIRE. Letter to Frederick the Great, Aug. 26,1736. He that hi sight diminishes mankind, Does no addition to his stature find ; But he that does a noble nature show, Obliging others, still does higher grow. WALLER. -On the Fear of God, c. 3, 7. We are children of splendour and fame, Of shuddering also, and tears ; Magnificent out of the dust we came, And abject from the spheres. SIR W. WATSON. Ode in May. Good are life and laughter, though we look before and after, And good to love the race of men a little ere we go. ALICE WERNER. Song of Fleet Street. Here are we in a bright and breathing world : Our origin, what matters it ? WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 3. All creatures and all objects in degree Are friends and patrons of humanity. These are to whom the garden, grove, and field Perpetual lessons of forbearance yield. WORDSWORTH. Humanity, I. 103. Much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. WORDSWORTH. In Early Spring. The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power, To chasten and subdue. WORDSWORTH. Lines, nr. Tintern Abbey. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! YOUNG. Night Thoughts, i. O what a miracle to man is man ! YOUNG. Ib., i. So great, so mean is man. YOUNG. Ib., 6. Fond man ! the vision of a moment made ! Dream of a dream, and shadow of a shade. YOUNG. Book of Job, 187. There's nought so queer as folk. North Country prov. Man to man is either a god or a wolf. Quoted as a Latin prov. by Erasmus. MANLINESS Do all things like a man, not sneakingly : Think the King sees thee still, for his King doth. HERBERT. Church Porch. Far may we search before we find A heart so manly and so kind. SCOTT. Marmion, c. 4, Intro. He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle ; and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, " This was a man ! " SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ccesar, Act 5, 5. MANNERISMS And then hi the fulness of joy and hope, Seemed washing his hands with invisible soap, In imperceptible water. HOOD. Miss Kilmansegg. And rubbed his hands, and smiled aloud, And bowed, and bowed, and bowed, and bowed, Like a man who is sawing marble. Hoon. Ib. 3<>3 MANNERS MARRIAGE And with a sweeping of the arm, And a lack-lustre dead-blue eye, Devolved his rounded periods. TENNYSON. A Character. And slight Sir Robert, with his watery smile And educated whisker. TENNYSON. Edwin Morris. MANNERS He was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat ; With such true breeding of a gentleman You never could divine his real thought. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 3, 41. Everyone's manners make his fortune. CORNELIUS NEPOS. Vita Attici. The basis of good manners is self- reliance . . . Those who are not self-pos- sessed obtrude, and pain us. EMERSON. Conduct of Life, Behaviour. Who does not delight in fine manners ? Their charm cannot be predicted or over- stated. EMERSON. Social Aims. Religious, moral, generous, and humane He was, but self-sufficient, rude and vain ; Ill-bred and overbearing in dispute, A scholar and a Christian, yet a 'brute. SOAME JENYNS. On Dr. S. Johnson. True is, that whilome that good poet sayd, The gentle mind by gentle deeds is knowne; For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd As by his manners. SPENSER. Faerie Qtteene, Bk. 6, c. 3, i. Gentle bloud will gentle manners breed. SPENSER. Ib., Bk. 6, c. 3, 2. There is an oblique way of reproof, which takes off from the sharpness of it ; and an address in flattery, which makes it agreeable, though never so gross. STEELE. The Guardian, No. 10 (March 18, 1713). Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agree- able. SWIFT. Thoughts on Various Subjects. How rude are the boys that throw pebbles and mire ! I. WATTS. Innocent Play. The mainners o' a' nations are equally bad. JOHN WILSON. Nodes, 39 (Ettrick Shepherd). Leave off first for manners' sake. Ecclesiasticus xxxi, 17. And this he truly taught, and this we know, A man's own manners gild or soil his name. F. E. W. In memory of Dr. Warre, Jan. 28, 1920. Come when you're called, And do as you're bid ; Shut the door after you ; And you'll never be chid. Old Rhyme. Quoted by Miss Edgeworth in " The Contrast," ch. i. MAN'S AGES At twenty years of age, the will reigns ; at thirty, the wit ; and at forty, the judg- ment. H. GRATTAN. MARCH When that the month in winch the world bigan, That highte [is called] March, when God first maked man. CHAUCER. Nun Priest's Tale, 367. Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? W. MORRIS. Earthly Paradise. March, 1. 1. But when the wreath of March has blossomed, Crocus, anemone, violet. TENNYSON. To the Rev. F. D. Maurice. When March comes in with an adder's head, it goes out with a peacock's tail ; when March comes in with a peacock's tail, it goes out with an adder's head. Scottish saying. MARRIAGE Marriage is a tie which hope makes beau- tiful, which happiness preserves, and which misfortune strengthens. AI.IBERT (1767-1837). He was reputed one of the wise men, [Thales] that made answer to the question when a man should marry ? "A young man not yet ; an elder man not at all." BACON. Of Marriage. They gied him my hand, though my heart was at sea. LADY ANN BARNARD. A uld Robin Gray. We should marry to please ourselves, not other people. I. BICKERSTAFF. Maid of the Mill, Act 3,4. Youth means love ; Vows can't change nature ; priests are only men. BROWNING. Ring and the Bouk t 1056. Oh, gie me the lass that has acres o' charms, Oh, gie me the lass wi' the weel-stockit farms. BURNS. Hey for a Lass wi' a Tocher. MARRIAGE MARRIAGE One was never married, and that's his hell ; another is, and that's his plague. BURTON. Anatomy of Melancholy, PI. i, sec. z, mem. 4, 7. 'Tis pity learned virgins ever wed With persons of no sort of education. BYRON. Don Juan, c. i, 22. Yet 'tis " so nominated in the bond," That both are tied till one shall have ex- pired. BYRON. Ib., c. 3, 7. Why don't they knead two virtuous souls for life Into that moral centaur, man and wife ? BYRON. Ib., 5, 158. Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil. BYRON. Hours of Idleness. Since first he called her his before the holy man. CAMPBELL. Pleasures of Hope, Pt. 2. It [marriage] is an action of life like to a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once. If thy estate be good, match near home and at leisure ; if weak, far off and quickly. WM. CECIL (LORD BURGHLEY). Precepts to his Son. Ther as myn herte is set, ther wol I wyve. CHAUCER. Clerk's Tale. And such a bliss is there betwixt them two, That, save the Joye that lasteth evermo, There is none like. CHAUCER. Tale of the Man of Law, 977. Oh ! how many torments be in the small circle of a wedding ring ! CIBBER. Double Gallant, Act i, 2. Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. Valentine : The two greatest monsters in the world are a man and a woman. Sir Sampson Legend : Why, my opinion is that those two monsters, joined to- gether, make a yet greater, that's a man and his wife. CONGREVE. Love for Love, Act 4, 2. Sharper : Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure ; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. Setter : Some by experience find those words misplaced ; At leisure married, they repent in haste. CONGREVE. Old Bachelor, Act 5, 3. Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. COWPER. Pairing-Time. u 305 Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been To public feasts, where meet a public rout ; Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out. SIR JOHN DAVIES. Contention. Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now ; but vether it is worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o' taste. DICKENS. Pickwick, ch. 27. His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is, that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. FIELDING. Tom Jones, Bk. n, ch. 4. They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang them- selves, in hope that one will come and cut the halter. FULLER. Holy and Profane State of Marriage. You are of the society of the wits and railers ; . . . the surest sign is, you are an enemy to marriage, the common butt of every railer. GARRICK. Country Girl, Act a. I sit all day Giving agreeable girls away, With one for him, and one for he, And one for you, and one for ye, And one for them, and one for thee ; But never, oh, never a one for me ! SIR W. S. GILBERT. lolanthe. Husband twice as old as wife Argues ill for married life. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Princess Ida. Marriage is the great civiliser of the world. ROBT. HALL. Modern Infidelity. Holy and pure are the drops that fall When the young bride goes from her father's hall. MRS. HEMANS. Bride of Greek Isle. He loves his bonds, who, when the first are broke, Submits bis neck unto a second yoke. HERRICK. Hesperides, 42. Yet Wedlock's a very awful thing ! 'Tis something like that feat in the ring, Which requires good nerve to do it When one of a " Grand Equestrian Troop " Makes a jump at a gilded hoop, Not certain at aU Of what may befall After his getting through it ! HOOD. Miss Kilmansegg. MARRIAGE MARRIAGE Nobody can define precisely what love is, or the reason for that delightful per- suasion that bliss is only to be found in double harness. IBSEN. Love's Comedy, Act 3 (1862). At length he stretches out his foolish head to the conjugal halter. JUVENAL. Sat., 6, 43. The lover in the husband may be lost. GEO. LORD LYTTELTON. Advice to a Lady. How much the wife is dearer than the bride ! GEO. LORD LYTTELTON. Irregular Ode. The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of a wife. MASSINGER. New Way to pay Old Debts, Act 4, i. For any man to match above his rank Is but to sell his liberty. MASSINGER. Virgin Martyr, Act i, i. As the birds do, so do we, Bill our mate, and choose our tree. GEO. MEREDITH. Three Singers. Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 4, 750. It happens as one sees in cages. The birds outside despair of ever getting in ; those inside are equally desirous of getting out. MONTAIGNE. Bk. 3. Where I love I must not marry ; Where I marry, cannot love. MOORE. Love and Marriage. People say that May is the month in which to marry bad wives. OVID. Fast. 5. Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor folks de- coyed into our condition. PEPYS. Diary, 1665. There swims no goose so grey but soon or late She finds some honest gander for her mate. POPE. Wife of Bath. A dish o' married love right soon grows cauld, And douzens doun (settles down) to nane, as folks grow auld. A. RAMSAY. Marry too soon, and you'll repent too late. A sentence worth my meditation ; For marriage is a serious thing. T. RANDOLPH. Jealous Lovers, Act 5, i. Wooed, and married, and a', Married, and wooed, and a' ! And was she nae very weel off That was wooed, and married, and a* ? ALEX. Ross. Song. 1 have often thought that if only one could prolong the joy of love in marriage, we should have paradise on earth. That is a thing which has never been seen hitherto. ROUSSEAU. Entile, Bk. 5. In our part of the world, where mono- gamy rules, to marry means to halve one's rights and to double one's duties. SCHOPENHAUER. On Women. Marriage itself is nothing but a civil contract. SELDEN. Marriage. A young man married is a man that's marred. SHAKESPEAPE. All's Well, Act 2, 3 Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 4, i. The funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 2. Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. 3, Act 4, i. 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. SHAKESPEARE. Merry Wives, Act i, i. But earthly happier is the rose distilled. Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in sinele blessed- ness. SHAKESPEARE. Midsummer Niglit's Dream, Act i, i. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 2, 3. For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your household's rancour to pure love. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, 3. Let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 2, 4. Every woman who hasn't any money is a matrimonial adventurer. G. B. SHAW. Heartbreak House, Act 2. MARRIAGE MARTYRDOM It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. G. B. SHAW. Man and Superman. When a man marries or turns Hindoo, His best friends hear no more of him. SHELLEY. To Maria Gisborne. Whichever you do you will repent. SOCRATES. Advice attributed to him when he was asked if it was better to marry or not. If marriages Are made in Heaven, they should be happier. T. SOUTHERN. Isabella. And other hopes and other fears Effaced the thoughts of happier years. SOUTHEY. To Mary. The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the com- pletest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life. STE ELE . Spectator. Even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police. R. L. STEVENSON. Virginibus. Cupid and Hymen thou hast set at odds, And bred such feuds between those kin- dred gods, That Venus cannot reconcile her sons ; When one appears, away the other runs. SWIFT. To Love. Marriage hath in it less of beauty and more of safety than the single life ; it hath more care but less danger ; it is more merry and more sad ; it is fuller of sorrows and fuller of joys. JEREMY TAYLOR. 25 Sermons (No. 17). Him That was a god, and is a lawyer's clerk, The ren troll Cupid of our rainy isles. TENNYSON. Edwin Morris. Either sex alone Is half itself, and in true marriage lies Nor equal nor unequal. TENNYSON. Princess, c. 7, 283. Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. THACKERAY. Pendennis, Bk. i, 28. If truth were truly bolted out, As touching thrift, I stand hi doubt If men were best to wive. T. TUSSER. Wiving and Thriving. Design, or chance, makes others wive ; But Nature did this match contrive. WALLER. Marriage of the Dwarfs. He is dreadfully married. He is the most married man 1 ever saw in my life. AKTEMUS WARD. Moses the Sassy. For every marriage then is best in tune, When that the wife is May, the husband June. R. WATKYNS. To Mrs. E. Williams. 'Tis just like a summer bird-cage in a garden ; the birds that are without des- pair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption, for fear they shall never get out. WEBSTER. White Devil, Act i, 2 (from Montaigne). In married life three is company and two none. OSCAR WILDE. Importance of being Earnest. I wish I could make her agree with me in the church. WYCHERLEY. Plain Dealer, Act i, i. Marriage is honourable in all. 2 Timothy xiii, 4. Needles and pins, needles and pins ! When a man marries his trouble begins. Old Nursery Rhyme. Then the little maid she said, " Your fire may warm the bed, But what shall we do for to eat ? Will the flames you're only rich in make a fire in the kitchen, And the little God of Love turn the spit ? " Version of Nursery Rhyme (printed at Strawberry Hill, i8th cent.). Who marries between the sickle and scythe will never thrive. Prov. (Ray.) Gude Enough has got a wife and Fare Better wants. Scottish prov. Marriage is a creel where ye catch an adder or an eel. Scottish prov. Who marries for love must live in sorrow. Spanish prov. A friend married is a friend lost. Prov. quoted by Ibsen in " Love's Comedy," Act 2 (1862). Advice to persons about to marry. Don't. Punch's Almanac, 1845. (Attrib. to H. May hew.) MARTYRDOM He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool. C. C. COLTON. I.acnn. For all have not the gift of martyrdom. DKYDEN. Hind and Panther, PI. 2, 59. 307 MASTERS MEANING The torments of martyrdoms are prob- ably most keenly felt by the bystanders. EMERSON. Courage. I look on martyrs as mistakes, But still they burned for it at stakes. J. MASEFIELD. Everlasting Mercy, 933. It is the cause, not the death, which makes the martyr. NAPOLEON. Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire. ALEXANDER SMITH. Life Drama, Sc. 2. I love truth very much, but I do not love martyrs at all. VOLTAIRE. Letter to D'Alembert, Feb. 8, 1776. Unbounded is the might Of martyrdom and fortitude and right. WORDSWORTH. Poems to National Independence, Pt. 2, 23. Who perisheth in needless danger is the devil's martyr. Prov. (Ray). MASTERS More have been ruined by their servants than by their masters. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. And, strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not : And suddenly one more impatient cried " Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot ? " FITZGERALD. Rubdiydl, st. 69 (ist Ed.). The master who fears his servant is less than a servant. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. MATHEMATICS Scarcely any person seems to have studied this science ardently without success. CICERO. De Oratore, Bk. i, 3 (Of Mathematics). MATTER When Bishop Berkeley said " there was no matter," And proved it 'twas no matter what he said. BYRON. Don Juan, c. n, i. MAXIMS Don't you go believing in sayings, Pico tee ; they are all made by men, for their own advantage. T. HARDY. Hand of Ethelberta, ch. 20. Many men, prejudiced early in disfavour of mankind by bad maxims, never aim at making friendships. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe them true ; They argue no corrupted mind In him ; the fault is in mankind. SWIFT. On the Death of Dr. Swift. With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart. TENNYSON. Locksley Hall. Faithful is the saying and worthy of all acceptation. i Timothy i, 15 (R.V.). MAY As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May. R. BARNFIELD. Ode. He was as fresh as is the month of May. CHAUCER. Cant. Tales, Prol. May, that moder is of monthes glade. CHAUCER. Troilus and Cressid, Bk. t, 50. But winter lingering chills the lap of May. GOLDSMITH. Traveller. O ! that we two were Maying ! C. KINGSLEY. Saints' Tragedy, Act 2, 9. May is a pious fraud of the Almanac. J. R. LOWELL. Under the Willows. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire. MILTON. On May Morning Rough winds do shake the- darling buds of May ; And summer's lease hath all too short a date. SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet 18. You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear ; To-morrow 'ill 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. May Queen. For Flora in her clene array, New washen with a showir o' May, Lookit full sweet and fair. ANON. The Vision (c. 1715 ? printed 1783). Button to chin Till May be in ; Cast not a clout Till May be out. Old Saying. A hot May makes a full churchyard. Prov. MEANING Where more is meant than meets the ear. MILTON, // Penseroso, 120, 308 MEANNESS MELANCHOLY Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. SHENSTONE. To a Lady. MEANNESS With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out. K. I'OLLOK. Course of Time, ttk. 8. It's just like Duncan McGirdie's mare ! he wanted to use her by degrees to live without food, and she died just when he had put her on a straw a day. SCOTT. Waverley. There are some meannesses which are too mean even for men woman, lovely woman alone, can venture to commit them. THACKERAY. Shabby Genteel Story, ch. 3. " A penny saved is a penny got ; " Finn to this scoundrel maxim keepeth he. THOMSON. Castle of Indolence, c. i, 50. MEAT Oh ! the roast beef of old England ! And oh ! the old English roast beef ! H. FIELDING. Song. The fat was so white and the lean was so ruddy. GOLDSMITH. Haunch of Venison. I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act i, 3. MEDDLING It may be true, it may be true, But has it aught to do with you ? C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." Do not stir up Lake Camarina [the lake which caused pestilence through a futile attempt to drain it], Greek prov. MEDICINE Medicine is a science which hath been more professed than laboured, and more laboured than advanced ; the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. BACON. Adv. of Learning, Bk. 2. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. DRYDEN. To J. Driden. Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, And death in ambush lay in every pill. S. GARTH. Dispensary, 4, 62. Zinzis Khan, when he was most crim- soned witli blood, never slaughtered the human race as they have been slaughtered by rash and erroneous theories of medicine. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy. Introductory (1804). MEDIOCRITY This miserable fate Suffer the wretched souls of those who lived Without or praise or blame. H. F. GARY. Dante's " Hell," c. 3, 60. Who like the hindmost chariot-wheels art curst Still to be near, but ne'er to reach the first. DRYDEN. Persius, Sat. 5, 103. Oh, mediocrity, Thou priceless jewel, only mean men have, But cannot value. FLETCHER (AND MASSINGER ?). Queen of Corinth, Act 3, i. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind. JOHNSON. On R. Levett. Old Andrew Fairservice used to say that " There were many things ower bad for blessing and ower gude for banning, like Rob Roy." SCOTT. Rob Roy, ch. 39 (Conclusion) . Too bad for a blessing, too good for a curse, I wish from my soul they were better or worse. SWIFT. On his Country House. Let us thank Heaven, my dear sir, for according to us the power to taste and appreciate the pleasures of mediocrity. THACKERAY. On the French School of Painting. With several others of ignobler name, Whom time has not delivered o'er to fame. VIRGIL. JEneid, Bk. 5 (Dryden tr.). A fool amongst philosophers, but a philosopher amongst fools. Greek saying referring to Critias, a wealthy friend of Socrates, afterwards his bitter enemy. MEEKNESS Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth. Numbers xii, 3. The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, i St. Peter iii, 4. MELANCHOLY It is a very dreadful melancholy when it is a case of melancholy without any cause. PIERRE BALLANCHE (1786-1847). Ah, what is mirth but turbulence unholy, When with the charm compared of heavenly melancholy ? J. BKATTIE. Minstrel, Bk. i, st. 55. 309 MELANCHOLY MEMORY All my joys to this are folly, Nought so sweet as melancholy. BURTON. Anatomy of Melancholy. Heigho ! now I'll be melancholy, as melancholy as a vvatchlight. CONGREVE. Way of the World. Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this, that drowning would be happiness and peace ? DICKENS. Pickwick, ch. 5. There is a kindly mood of melancholy That wings the soul, and points her to the skies. J. DYER. Ruins of Rome, 346. There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy ! FLETCHER. Nice Valour, Act 3, i. Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow. GOLDSMITH. Traveller. And Melancholy marked him for her own. GRAY. Elegy. Come let us sit and watch the sky, And fancy clouds, where no clouds be. HOOD. To Melancholy. There's not a string attuned to Mirth But has its chord in Melancholy. HOOD. Ib. There are times When simplest things put on a sombre cast. KEATS. Otho, Act 4, i. Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy. MILTON. U Allegro, i. Hail, divinest Melancholy ! MILTON. // Penseroso, 12. I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 2, 5. My cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act i, 2 I am not merry, but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 2, i. We should have shone at a wake, but not at anything more festive. MARK TWAIN. Innocents Abroad, ch. 2. I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing often- times The still, sad music of humanity. WORDSWORTH. Lines, nr. Tintern Abbey (1897). Some folks like to sigh, Some folks do ; Some folks like to die, But that's not me nor you. Song(c. 1865). Let him be wretched who thinks himself Spanish prov. so. MELODRAMA Some jealousy of someone's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted, A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows and then we parted. W. M. PRAED. Belle of the Ball, st. 12. No, no, I'll love no more ; let him who can Fancy the maid who fancies every man ; In some lone place I'll find a gloomy cave, There my own hands shall dig a spacious grave : Then all unseen I'll lay me down and die, Since woman's constancy is all my eye. W. B. RHODES. Bombastes. MEMENTOES So let it rest ! And time will come When here the tender-hearted May heave a gentle sigh for him As one of the departed. WORDSWORTH. Inscriptions, 10 (1830). MEMORY O memory ! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain. GOLDSMITH. Song. Much memory, or memory of many things, is called " experience." HOBBES. Leviathan, ch. 2. Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past ; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last ? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret ? L. E. LANDON. Despondency. The other kind of pleasures, namely those peculiar to the soul, are all produced through memory. PLATO. Philebus, 65. Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy. POLLOK. Course of Time, Bk. i, 464. The memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it. DE QUINCEY. Opium Eater, Pt. i. Of this at least I feel assured, that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting. Traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible. DE QUINCEY. Ib., Pt. 3. Sweet Memory, wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail. ROGERS. Pleasures of Memory, Pi. 2 ' MERCHANDISE METAPHOR Better by far you should forget and smile, Than that you should remember and be sad. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. Remember. Memory, the warder of the brain. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act i, 7. Memories, images, and precious thoughts, That shall not die and cannot be des- troyed. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 7. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. WORDSWORTH. Fountain. The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. WORDSWORTH. Solitary Reaper. MERCHANDISE Good honest merchandise easily finds a customer. PLAUTUS. Pcenulus, Act i. Whose merchants are princes. Isaiah xxiii, 3. MERCY For soothly, our swete Lord lesu Crist hath spared us so debonairly [merci- fully] in our folies, that if he ne hadde pitee of mannes soule, a sory song we mighten alle singe. CHAUCER. Parson's Tale, sec. 15. We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. GEO. ELIOT. Adam Bedc, ch. 42. Yet shall I temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfied, and thee appease. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 10, 77. He that's merciful Unto the bad, is cruel to the good. T. RANDOLPH. Muses' Looking Glass. 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. SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure, Act 2, 2. The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed, It blesseth him that gives and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The crowned monarch better than his crown. , SHAKESPEARE. Mercht.of Venice, Act 4, i. It is an attribute to God Himself ; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. SHAKESPEARE. Ib, We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. SHAKESPEARE. Titus A ndronicus, Act i, 2 . Brother, you have a vice of mercy in you, Which better fits a lion than a man. SHAKESPEARE. Troilus, Act 5, 3. Yet think, oh, think ! if mercy may be shown Thou hadst a father once and hast a son. VIRGIL. Mneid, Bk. 12 (Dryden tr.) (Turnus to JEneas). For the man of low estate may be par- doned in mercy, but mighty men shall be searched out mightily. Wisdom of Solomon vi, 6. (/?. V.). MERIT I rejoice that we can of our own free will love him, whom it was our duty to love, whatever sort of man he might have been. CICERO. It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. COLERIDGE. Complaint. It stung me to the quick that birth and title Should have more weight than merit has in th* army. COLERIDGE. Piccolomini. What is merit ? The opinion one man entertains of another. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON. Speech (quoted by Carlyle in " Shooting Niagara "). Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part ; there all the honour lies. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. 4, 193 . MESSENGERS Gently hast thou told Thy message, which might else in telling wound. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. xx, 298. God best knoweth whom he will appoint for his messenger. Koran, ch. 6. METAPHOR I hate to hunt down a tired metaphor. BVRON. Don Juan, 13, 36. 3" METAPHYSICS MIDDLE AGE It [imagery] is a wonderful aid to the memory, which carries away the image and never loses it. EMERSON. Eloquence. A symbol always stimulates the in- tellect ; therefore is poetry ever the best reading. EMERSON. Poetry and Imagination. In all the mazes of metaphorical con- fusion. JUNIUS. Letter, 1769. METAPHYSICS Undoubtedly the study of the more abstruse regions of philosophy, which we now call Metaphysics, and wherein Lucre- tius took special delight, always seems to have included an element not very much removed from a sort of insanity. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry, No. 34 (E. K. Francis tr.). And reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge abso- lute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 2, 558. For wit's false mirror held up nature's light ; Showed erring pride, whatever is, is right ; That reason, passion, answer one great aim ; That true self-love and social are the same ; That virtue only makes our bliss below ; Arid all our knowledge is, ourselves to know. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. 4, 393. Abstracted metaphysical notions, beat out upon the anvil of the schools, can never support natural religion, or make any part of it. BISHOP THOS. SHERLOCK. Immortality of the Soul. There is a word of dire sound and hor- rible import which I would fain have kept concealed if I possibly could. The word to which I allude is that very tremendous one of Metaphysics. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy, Introductory (1804). In Scotland every man is a metaphy- sician. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy, No. 3. He that has never doubted the existence of matter may be assured that he has no aptitude for metaphysical enquiries. TURGOT. As cited by Emerson, Idealism. When the man to whom you speak does cot understand, and when the man who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics. VOI.TAIRF.. 312 All metaphysic contains, as it seems to me, two things : the first, all that men of good sense know ; the second, that which they will never know. VOLTAIRE. Letter to Frederick, 1737. METHOD Of method this may be said, if we make it our slave, it is well ; but it is bad if we are slaves to method. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. Let all things be done decently, and in order. i Corinthians xiv, 40. METRES And the rolling anapa3stic Curled like a vapour over shrines. E. B. BROWNING. Wine of Cyprus. Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. COLERIDGE. Homeric Hexameter (from Schiller). In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column ; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. COLERIDGE. Metrical Feet. Iambics march from short to long ; With a leap and a bound the swift ana- paests throng. COLERIDGE. Ib. Trochee trips from long to short. COLERIDGE. Ib. And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. POPE. Criticism, 347. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, Which, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. POPE. Ib., 356. MIDDLE AGE She was not old, nor young, nor at the years Which certain people call a " certain age," Which yet the most uncertain age appears. BYRON. Beppo, st. 22. Laura was blooming still, had made the best Of time, and time returned the compli- ment. BYRON. Ib., st. 23. Of all the barbarous middle ages, that Which is most barbarous, is the middle age Of man : it is I really scarce know what, But when we hover between fool and sage. BYRON. Don Juan, 12, i. A lady of a " certain age," which means CerMinly aged. BYRON. Ib., c. 6, 69. MIDDLE CLASSES MILITARISM Fat old women, fat and five and fifty. FLETCHER AND BEAUMONT. Women Pleased, Act 3, 2. Life declines from thirty-five. JOHNSON. To Mrs. Thrale. Our youth began with tears and sighs, With seeking what we could not find ; . . . We sought and knew not what we sought ; We marvel, now we look behind : Life's more amusing than we thought. A. LANG. Ballade of Middle Age. For ah ! rny heart, how very soon The glittering dreams of youth are passed ! And long before it reach its noon The sun of life is overcast. MOORE. Elegiac Stanzas. A man not old, but mellow, like good wine. STEPHEN PHILLIPS. Ulysses, 3, 2. On his bold visage middle age Had slightly pressed its signet sage, Yet had not quenched the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, c. i, 21. At your age, The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 4. Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV ., Pt. 2, Act i, 2. He is more than half way On the road from Grizzle to Grey. SOUTHEY. Robert the Rhymer. A' men begin to get into a kind o' dotage after five-and-twunty. They think their- sels wiser, but they're only stupider. JOHN WILSON. Nodes, 19 (Eltrick Shepherd). A fool at forty is a fool indeed. YOUNG. Love of Fame, Sat. 2. MIDDLE CLASSES Tenants of life's middle state, Securely placed between the small and great, Whose character, yet undebauched, re- tains Two-thirds of all the virtue that remains. COWPER. Tirocinium, 807. All great men come out of the middle classes. "Tis better for the head ; 'tis better for the heart. EMERSON. Conduct of Life : Considerations by the \\'av. " Bourgeois," I observed, " is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respect- able, and the aristocracy to what is decent." SIR ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS. Dolly Dialogues. Froth at top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. VOLTAIRE. Description of the English Nation. MIDNIGHT The hour, o' night's black arch the key- stane. BURNS. Tarn o' Shantcr. Is it for work ? There comes no fool to bore us. Midnight intoxicates the human swine ; I, pen in hand, with all the gods for chorus, Write then my clearest thought, my noblest line. Midnight is mine. MORTIMER COLLINS. Midnight is Mine. But wouldst thou hear the melodies of time, Listen when sleep and drowsy darkness roll Over hushed cities, and the midnight chime Sounds from their hundred clocks, and deep bells toll, Like a last knell over the dead world's soul. HOOD. Plea of Midsummer Fairies. There is a budding sorrow in midnight. KEATS. Sonnet to Homer. Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 5, 667. We have heard the chimes at midnight. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. 2, Act 3, 2. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve : Lovers, to bed ; 'tis almost fairy time. SHAKESPEARE. Mid. Night's Dream, Act 5, i. Not to be abed after midnight is to be up betimes. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 2, 3. MILITARISM Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. i, c. i The flames of Moscow were the aurora of the liberty of the world. BENJ. CONSTANT. Esprit de Conqutte, Pref. (1813). The good orator is despised ; the fierce soldier is loved. ENNIUS. Quoted by Aulus Gellius Bk. 30, 10 3'3 MILITARY MUSIC MIRTH Brutes never meet in bloody fray, Nor cut each other's throats for pay. GOLDSMITH. Logicians Refuted. MILITARY MUSIC The trumpets' round clangour Excites us to arms. DRYDEN. St. Cecilia's Day, st. 3. For the rum-tum-tum Of the military drum, And the guns that go boom ! boom ! SIR W. S. GILBERT. Princess Ida. And nearer yet, and yet more near, The martial chorus strikes the ear. BISHOP HEBER. Lines written to a March. MILTON Milton's the prince of poets so we say, A little heavy, but no less divine. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 3, 91. MIND The mind is invincible when it turns to itself and relies upon its own courage. If this is so when only obstinacy is your defence, what must the strength of a mind be when fortified with reason ? MARCUS AURELIUS. Bk. 8, 48. The mind is the man. BACON. In Praise of Knowledge. The power of thought the magic of the Mind. BYRON. Corsair, c. i, 8. The mind itself does not know what the mind is. CICERO. Founded on Pro Milone, c. 31. The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man. DRAYTON. Baron's Wars, Bk. 5, st. 36. 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, Bk. i, 253. Mind is ever the ruler of the universe. PLATO. Philebus, 57 (see also under " Intellect "). O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, i. He who seeks the mind's improvement, Aids the world in aiding mind. CHAS. SWAIN. What is Noble ? Straining breaks the bow, relaxation breaks the mind. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God or Nature hath assigned. Byrd's Collection (c. 1585). MINISTRIES To be acquainted with the merit of a ministry, we need only observe the con- dition of the people. JUNIUS. Letter i, Jan. 21, 1769. MINORITIES To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. G. K. CHESTERTON. Heretics. Minority is no disproof : Wisdom is not so strong and fleet As never to have known defeat. L. HOUSMAN. Advocatus Diaboli. The minority is always right. IBSEN. An Enemy of Society. They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. J. R. LOWELL. Freedom. The fewer men the greater share of honour. SHAKESPEARE. Henry V., Act 4, 3. MIRACLES There never was miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to con- fess a God. BACON. Adv. of Learning, Bk. 2. The one miracle which God works ever- more is in Nature, and imparting himself to the mind. EMERSON. Sovereignty of Ethics. For myself I believe too much in God to be able to believe in so many miracles which are so little worthy of Him. ROUSSEAU. Emile, Bk. 4. Miracles are to those who believe in them. Prov. MIRTH For wicked mirth never true pleasure brings, But honest minds are pleased with honest things. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Knight of the Burning Pestle, Prol. Flower o' the rose ! If I've been merry, what matter who knows ? BROWNING. Fra Lippo. The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. BURNS. Tarn o' Shanter. And all went merry as a marriage bell. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 3, 21. Mirth makes the banquet sweet. CHAPMAN. Blind Beggar. 3'4 MISANTHROPY MISERY A merry fellow was never yet a respect- able man. LORD CHESTERFIELD. Advice to his Son. Nothing but mirth can conquer fortune's spite ; No sky is heavy if the heart be light. CHURCHILL. Prophecy of Famine, v. 360. Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. JOHNSON. Rambler, 74. Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span. Laugh, and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. JOHN MASEFIELD. Laugh and be Merry. 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' 'Allegro, 25. I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 4, i. Where be your gibes now ? your gam- bols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar ? SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 5, i. Woe to philosophers who do not know how to unbend ! I regard austerity as a disease. I would prefer a thousand times to languish and be subject to fever as I am than to think dismally. It seems to me that Virtue, Study and Gaiety are three sisters who should never be separated. VOLTAIRE Letter to Frederick, 1737. Hang sorrow ! care will kill a cat. And therefore let's be merry. G. WITHER. Christmas. MISANTHROPY He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he whom nobody can please. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. To be the friend of the human race is not at all in my line. MOLI&RE. Misanthrope. How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't ! O fie ! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ! Things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 2. I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. SWIFT. Letter to Pope, Sept., 1725. Alas, poor dear ! his only scope Was to be held a misanthrope. This into general odium drew him, Which, if he liked, much good may't do him. SWIFT. On the Death of Dr. Swift. MISCHIEF He wolde sowen som difficultee Or springen cokkel in our clene corn. CHAUCER. Shipman's Prologue. The devil is diligent at his plough. BISHOP LATIMER. Sermon. Marry, this is miching mallecho ; it means mischief. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 2. Now let it work ; mischief thou art afoot ; Take thou what course thou wilt ! SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ccesar, Act 3, 2. Nay, whether he kill Cassio, Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other, Every way makes my game. SHAKESPEARE Othello, Act 5, i. Factious and rich, bold at the council- board, But cautious in the field, he shunned the sword, A close caballer and tongue-valiant lord. VIRGIL. &neid, Bk. n (Dryden tr.) (OfDrances). MISERY He felt as if he ne'er should cease to feel A wretch live-broken on misfortune's wheel. CAMPBELL. Theodric. Who calls that wretched thing that was Alphonso ? CONGREVE. Mourning Bride, Act 2, 2. O Misery ! where once thou art possessed, See but how quickly thou canst alter kind, And, like a Circe, metamorphosest The man that hath not a most godlike mind. DRAYTON. Baron's Wars, Bk. 6, st. 77. The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery, baptised in tears ! J. LANGHORNE. Country Justice, Intro. 164. A wretched man is a sacred thing. SENECA. Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, i. Famine is in thy cheeks, Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes, Contempt and beggary hang upon thy back. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. 315 MISFORTUNE MISTAKES Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. SHAKESPEARE. Tempest, Act 2, i. Preach to the storm, and reason with despair, But teli not Misery's son that life is fair. H. K. WHITE. On reading Pref. to N. Bloomfield's Poems. MISFORTUNE When anything brings trouble, remem- ber this maxim : This accident is not a disaster, but bearing it well may turn it into an advantage. MARCUS AURELIUS. Meditations, Bk. 4, 49. The amiable Fortune deceyveth folk ; the contrarie Fortune techeth. CHAUCER. Boethius, Bk. 2, 8. For of Fortunis sharp adversite The worst kinde of infortune is this, A man to have been in prosperite, And it remembren, whan it passed is. CHAUCER. Troilus, Bk. 3, v. 1625. This is the worst of all worst worsts that hell could have devised. BEN JONSON. Epiccene. It is a kind of happiness to know exactly how far one ought to be unhappy. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 512. The good are better made by 111, As odours crushed are sweeter still. ROGERS. Jacqueline, Pt. 3. I do not read unavoidable evils into the future, but I cultivate hope, and I see it within day by day. Alas ! what serves it to water the leaves when the tree is cut off at the foot ? ROUSSEAU. Julie. Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven, Ere I had ever seen that day, Horatio ! SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 1,2. I am a man More sinned against than sinning. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act 3, 2. O, no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., Act i, 3. The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, i. Meseemes the world is runne quite out of square From the first point of his appointed sourse ; And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. 5, Intro i . These [Lutherans and Calvinists] had lived in much friendship and agreement ... as it is the talent of fellow sufferers to do, men in misfortune being like men in the dark, to whom all colours are the same. SWIFT. Tale of a Tub. Fortune is not satisfied with injuring a man only once. PUBLILIUS SYRUS. If our hard fortune no compassion draws, Nor hospitable rights nor human laws, The gods are just, and will revenge our cause. VIRGIL. JEneid, Bk. i (Dryden). My flocks feed not, My ewes breed not, My rams speed not, All is amiss. From Thos. Weelkes's Madrigals (i597)- Adapted. For every ill beneath the sun There is some remedy or none ; If there be one, resolve to find it ; If not, submit, and never mind it. ANON (c. 1843). MISGIVINGS Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 4. MISOGYNY No, you were too stern for an amorous turn, For Venus and Cupid too stern and too stupid. (Of Mschylus.) ARISTOPHANES. Frogs, 1039 (Frere tr.). He seldom errs Who thinks the worst he can of woman- kind. J. HOME. Douglas, Act 2, 3. MISREPRESENTATION And charge His mind with meanings that he never had. COWPER. Garden, 148. He cannot 'scape their censures, who de- light To misapply whatever he shall write. MASSINGER. Emperor of East, Prol. There is nothing which cannot be per- verted by being told badly. TERENCE. Phormio, Act 4. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ! Isaiah v, 20. MISTAKES The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. E. J. PIIELPS. Speech, 1889. 316 MISUNDERSTANDING MODERATION The best may slip, and the most cautious fall; He's more than mortal that ne'er erred at all. J. POMFRET. Love Triumphant over Reason, 145. Probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. S. SMILES. Self-Help. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. R. L. STEVENSON. Crabbed Age. To make mistakes as we are on the way to knowledge is far more honourable than to escape making them through never having set out to seek knowledge. ARCHBP. TRENCH. Study of Words. With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue, For ever most divinely in the wrong. YOUNG. Love of Fame, Sat. 6. MISUNDERSTANDING All battle is well said to be Misunder- standing. CARLYLE. French Revolution, Pt. 3, Bk. 3, ch. 2. 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. Christabel. Mai-information is more hopeless than no information. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. Pale famine and frightful pestilence cannot equal the evils and diversity of troubles which misunderstandings scatter throughout the universe. DE RULHIERES. Disputes. MOB A mob is a compound mass of human beings in which each one has for the moment all the follies and evil passions of the rest, in addition to his own. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council : Slavery, ch. 4. MODERATION Nothing which is moderate pleases the crowd. BACON. Instauratio, Pt. i, Bk. 6. A good cause needs not to be patroned by passion, but can sustain itself upon a temperate dispute. SIR T. BROWNE. Religio Medici, Pt. i, 5. I know many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason. BURKE. Letter to Sheriffs of Bristol. This only grant me that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. COWLEY. Of Myself. To find the medium asks some share of wit And therefore 'tis a mark fools never hit. COWPER. Conversation, 884. To be content with moderate fortune is the best proof of philosophy. All others seem to me doubtful. FRANCOIS DROZ (1773-1851). The Art of being Happy. His best companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. The flaming patriot, who so lately scorched us in the meridian, sinks tem- perately to the west, and is hardly felt as he descends. JUNIUS. Letter, 1771. Mesure is medecyne. LANGLAND. Piers Plowman, Passus 2, 33. Joy and Temperance and Repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose. LONGFELLOW. From the German. If thou well observe The rule of not too much, by temperance taught. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. u, 530. By moderation doubling victory. F. T. PALGRAVE. Alfred the Great, Sonnet, 3. Give me again my hollow tree, A crust of bread and liberty. POPE. Imit. of Horace, Bk. 2, Sat. 6, 220. In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. POPE. Satires of Horace, Bk. 2, 67. Over the doors of every school of Art I would have this one word, relieved out in deep letters of pure gold Moderation. RUSKIN. Modern Painters, vol. 2, sec. 2, ch. 6, 8. I swear 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up, in a glist'ring grief, And wear a golden sorrow. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 2, 3. The moderation of the feeble man is only idleness and vanity. VAUVENARGUES, Maxim 73. 3'7 MODERNITY MONARCHY Ye sumph, I'm a hce-flyer rnysel, one o' the wild men ; o' a' things whatsomever, be it in sacred matters or profane, I detest moderation. JOHN WILSON. Nodes (Ettrick Shepherd). Man's rich with little, were his judgment true ; Nature is frugal, and her wants are few. YOUNG. Love of Fame, Sat. 5. Give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me. Proverbs xxx, 8. A little house well filled, A little land well tilled, A little wife well willed. Old Saying. MODERNITY But we, brought forth and reared in hours Of change, alarm, surprise What shelter to grow ripe is ours ? What leisure to grow wise ? M. ARNOLD. Memory of " Obermann." I am indignant when I hear something abused, not because rudely or ungrace- fully framed, but simply because it is modern. HORACE. Ep., Bk. 2, i, 75. Motions and Means, on land and sea at war With old poetic feeling, not for this Shall ye, by poets even, be judged amiss ! Nor shall your presence, howsoe'er it mar The loveliness of Nature, prove a bar To the mind's gaining that prophetic sense Of future change, that point of vision whence May be discovered what in soul ye are. WORDSWORTH. Poems during a Summer Tour, 1833, No. 42. (Steamboats, Viaducts and Railways.) MODESTY Ever with the best desert goes diffidence. BROWNING. Blot in the 'Scutcheon. Modesty does not long survive innocence. BURKE. Impeachment of Hastings (Feb., 1788). And though that he were worthy, he was wise And of his port as meek as is a maid. CHAUCER. Cant. Tales, Prol. On their own merits modest men are dumb. G. COLMAN, JR. Heir-at-Law. William was such a bashful youth ; His modesty was such, That one might say (to say the truth) He rather had too much. COWPER. Of Himself. He [Capl. John Brown] held the belief that courage and chastity are silent con- cerning themselves. EMERSON. Courage. Wherever valour true is found True modesty will there abound. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Yeomen of the Guard. All men have their faults : too much modesty is his. GOLDSMITH. Good-Natured Man, Act 2. The maid who modestly conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveals. E. MOORE. Fables, No. 10. Greediness is rich and shame poor. PH^EDRUS. Bk. 2. I have marked A thousand blushing apparitions start Into her face ; a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness bear away those blushes. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 4, i. A maiden never bold ; Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion Blushed at herself. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act i, 3. No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy, No. 9. We see him as he moved, How modest, kindly, all-accomplished, wise, With what sublime repression of himself, And in what limits, and how tenderly. TENNYSON. Idylls, Dedication, I. 16. In me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great. TENNYSON. Lancelot and Elaine, 447. It is easy, but it is a fine thing neverthe- less, to be modest when one is great. VOLTAIRE. La Pucelle. Methinks Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop, Than when we soar. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 3. Modesty is a very good thing, but a man in this country may get on very well with- out it. Motto said to liave been inscribed on a banner in a Western State. Bashful dogs get little meat : Bravely take thy proper seat. Old Saying. MONARCHY Never does liberty appear more pleasing than under a righteous King. CLAUDIAN. 24, 113. 318 MONARCHY MONEY All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. DRVDEN. MacFlecknoe, 1. i. The Prince exists for the sake of the State, not the State for the sake of the Prince. ERASMUS. Fam. Coll. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. JOHNSON. Quoted (paraphrastically) as from Milton. The prince is not above the laws, but the laws above the prince. PLINY THE YOUNGER. Paneg. Traj. A King may be a tool, a thing of straw ; but if he serves to frighten our enemies and secure our property, it is well enough ; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it pro- tects the corn. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. For a King to make an amiable character he needs only to be a man of common honesty, well advised. POPE. Ib. Entire and sure the monarch's rule must prove, Who founds her greatness on her sub- jects' love. PRIOR. Prologue. For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. SCOTT. Marmion, c. 5, 9. No worthier victim and none more acceptable can be sacrificed to Jove than an evil-minded King. SENECA. Hercules Furens. And what so fair has the world beholden, And what so firm has withstood the years, As Monarchy bound in chains all golden, And Freedom guarded about with peers ? SWINBURNE. Midsummer Holiday. A Word from the Psalmist. Princes are mortal, the commonwealth is immortal. TACITUS. Annals, Bk. 3. A doubtful throne is ice on summer sea. TENNYSON. Coming of Arthur. In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot. TENNYSON. Idylls, Dedication. Her court was pure ; her life serene ; God gave her peace ; her land reposed ; A thousand claims to reverence closed In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen. TENNYSON. To the Queen. That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate Kings. TENNYSON. On Wellington, si. 7. The passing poor magnificence of Kings. THOMSON. Liberty. Hail to the crowii by Freedom shaped to gird An English sovereign's brow 1 and to the throne Whereon he sits ! whose deep foundations lie In veneration and the people's love. WORDSWORTH. Excursion, Bk. 6. The King reigns but does not govern. JAN ZAMOISKI (of Poland ; d. 1605} . MONASTICISM I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that im- mortal garland is to be run for, not with- out dust and heat. MILTON. A reopagitica. Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars, White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 3, 474. Here Man more purely lives, less oft doth fall, More promptly rises, walks with stricter heed, More safely rests, dies happier, is freed Earlier from cleansing fires, and gains withal A brighter crown. WORDSWORTH. Eccles. Sonnets, Pt. 2, 3. MONDAY Monday is parson's holiday. SWIFT. Letter, 1712. Monday is the key of all the week. Prov. Monday religion is better than Sunday profession. Prov. MONEY No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being. BACON. Adv. of Learning, Bk. 2. Wealth is a good servant ; a very bad mistress. BACON. Instauratio, Pt. i, Bk. 6. Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. BACON. Of Seditions. She is the Soveraigne Queene of all Delightes : For her the Lawyer pleades ; the Souldier fights. R. BARNFIELD. Pecitnia (1598). He may love riches that wanteth them, as much as he that hath them. R. BAXTER. Christian Ethics. MONEY MONEY Money is honey, my little sonny,' And a rich man's joke is allis funny. T. E. BROWN. The Doctor. Then hey for the lass wi' a tocher, The nice yellow guineas for me ! BURNS. Song. What makes all doctrines plain and clear ? About two hundred pounds a year. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. 3, c. i. Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way, where seraphs might despair. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. i, 9. Kill a man's family and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches pocket ! BYRON. Don Juan, c. 10, 79. Yes, ready money is Aladdin's lamp. BYRON. Ib., c. 12, 12. Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less. CARLYLE. Frederick the Great, Bk. 4, 13. But one thing is, ye know it well enow, Of chapmen, that their money is their plough. CHAUCER. Shopman's Tale, 287. Mirabeau was capable of everything for money, even of a good action. A. DE RIVAROL. It is not the longest sword but the long- est purse that conquers. DEFOE. (A " favourite maxim " several times repeated by him.) He [Sir Cpndy Rackrent] could never God bless him again ! I say, bring him- self to ask a gentleman for money, des- pising such sort of conversation himself. Miss EDGEWORTH. Castle Rackrent, ch. 2. Gold is the touchstone whereby to try men. FULLER. The Good Judge. And gold can make of hate love, And wene of pees, and right of wrong, And long to short, and short to long. Without gold may be no fest ; Gold is the lord of man and best. GOWER. Con/. Amantis, Bk. 5, 238. Money, thou bane of bliss and source of woe! HERBERT. Avarice. Use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone. HERBERT. Church l\inh. Fight thou with shafts of silver and o'er- come, When no force else can get the masterdom. HERRICK. Money gets Mastery Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould, Price of many a crime untold ; Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! Good or bad a thousand-fold ! How widely its agencies vary ! HOOD. Miss Kilmansegg. Make Money ! If you can, make money honestly ; if not, by whatever means you can, make money. HORACE. Ep., Bk. i. O citizens, citizens ! Money is the first thing ; cash first, and virtue afterwards. HORACE. Ib. Wealth sanctions folly. HORACE. Ep. i, 16. The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land. WASHINGTON IRVING. Creole Village. There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. JOHNSON. Remark. Get money, still get money, boy ; No matter by what means ; money will do. BEN JONSON. Every Man in his Humour, Act 2, 5. " I wish the good old times would come again," she said, " when we were not quite so rich. I do not mean that I want to be poor ; but there was a middle state." LAMB. Last Essays of Elia : Old China. Men who make money rarely saunter ; men who save money rarely swagger, (ist) LORD LYTTON. My Novel, Bk. n, 2. The picklock That never fails. MASSINGER. Unnatural Combat, Act i, i. Mammon led them on ; Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From heaven ; for e'en in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downwards bent. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 6/8. Worth now means what a man is worth ; property gives honours ; property brings friendship : the poor man is everywhere at a discount. OVID. Fast. Happy the man who, void of cares and strife. In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling. J . PHILIPS. Splendid Shilling. 320 MONEY MONEY The wealthy and the poverty-stricken are in like case : both are too preoccupied with finance to use time to better purpose. Perhaps that is a sound argument for sweeping both classes away. EDEN PHILLPOTTS. A Shadow Passes. ' Even wisdom surrenders to desire of gain. PINDAR. He must expend money who wants to make it. , PLAUTUS. More passionately fond of money than of glory, in order to live in abundance they die in obscurity, and leave to their children as their only example the love of the treasures they have amassed for their benefit. ROUSSEAU. Julie. To few is good faith dearer than money. SALLUST. Jugurtha. He that wants money, means, and con- tent, is without three good friends. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 3, 2. Seven hundred pounds, and possibilities, is good gifts. SHAKESPEARE. Merry Wives, Act i, i. If money go before, all ways do lie open. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 2, 2. O, what a world of vile, ill-favoured faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year ! SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, 4. Put money in thy purse. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act i, 3. Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. SHAKESPEARE. Taming of Shrew, Act i, 2. Money is indeed the most important thing in the world, and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. Every teacher or twaddler who denies it or sup- presses it, is an enemy of life. Money controls morality. G. B. SHAW. Irrational Knot, Pref.(igo5). In losing fortune, many a lucky elf Has found himself. HORACE SMITH. Moral Alchemy A toiling man Intent on worldly gains, one in whose heart Affection had no root. SOUTHEY. Joan of Arc, Bk. i. There is nothing an honest man should fear more timorously than getting and spending more than he deserves. R. L. STEVENSON. Profession of Letters. The world's chief idol, nurse of fretting cares, Dumb trafficker, yet understood o'er all. EARL OF STIRLING. Doomsday. Every door is barred with gold and opens but to golden keys. TENNYSON. Locksley Hall. But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels. TENNYSON. Ib. Or that eternal want of pence Which vexes public men. TENNYSON. Will Waterproof. The great rule is to be frugal in great matters and liberal in small ones. J. TRUSLER. System of Etiquette (1804). There was worlds of reputation in it, but no money. MARK TWAIN. A Yankee at Court of King Arthur, ch. 9. O love of Gold ! thou meanest of amours ! YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 4. The strongest castle, tower, and town, The golden bullet beats it down. No. 17 in " The Passionate Pilgrim " (1599), Adapted from Thos. Weelkcs's " Madrigals " (1597). Wine maketh merry ; but money answereth all things. Ecclesiastes x, 19. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. Proverbs xxii, j . He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. Proverbs xxviii, 20. Not greedy of filthy lucre. i Timothy iii, 3. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. i Timothy vi, 10 (R.V.). God send us siller, for they're ill-thought o' that want it. Prayer of the " good Earl of Eglinton." Earn all you can ; save all you can ; give all you can. Attrib. by C. H. Spurgeon to John Wesley Put not your trust in money, put your money in trust. American saying. If a little cash does not go out, much cash will not come in. Chinese prov. Nothing more eloquent than ready money. French prov. A guinea it will sink, and a note it will float, But I'd rather have a guinea than a one- pound note. Popular Sof, c. 1830-1840. 321 MONOPOLISTS MORALISING Money is flat and meant to be piled up. Scottish prov. (The English prov. is said to be " Money is round, and meant to roll.") The best foundation in the world is money. Spanish prov. found in " Don Quixote." Honour and money are not found in the same purse. Spanish prov. Money is often lost for want of money. Prov. Hard got, soon gone. Prov. (quoted by T. Carlyle). When money's taken Freedom's forsaken. Old Saying. MONOPOLISTS 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. On Two Monopolists. MONSTERS Worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear con- ceived, Gorgons and Hydras and Chimapras dire. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 2, 626. MONUMENTS Death comes even to monumental stones, and the names inscribed thereon. AUSONIUS. Ep. xxxv, 9. And, talking of epitaphs, much I admire his, " Circumspice, si monumentum requiris," Which an erudite verger translated to me, " If you ask for bis monument, Sir come spy see ! " R. H. BARHAM. In allusion to Sir C. Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's Cathedral. No marble and recording brass decay, And, like the graver's memory, pass away. COWPER. Conversation, 551. Toils much to earn a monumental pile, That may record the mischiefs he hath done. COWPER. Task, 276. 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. FLETCHER AND MASSINCER. The False One, Act 2, i. The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. FULLER.' Holy and Profane State : Of Tuntbs. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of Death ? GRAY. Elegy. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon his oath. JOHNSON. Remark. Protect his memory, and preserve his story Remain a lasting monument of his glory. QUARLES. Drayton's Monument. Vanity dies hard ; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. R. L. STEVENSON. Prince Otto. A warrior with his shield of pride Cleaving humbly to his side, And hands in resignation pressed, Palm to palm, on his tranquil breast. WORDSWORTH. White Doe of Rylstone t c. i. MOON What is there in thee, Moon ! that thou should'st move My heart so potently ? KEATS. Endymion, Bk. 2. Till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 4, 606. Sing, minstrel, sing us now a tender song Of meeting and parting, with the moon in it. STEPHEN PHILLIPS. Ulysses, Act i, i. If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight. SCOTT. Lay of the Last Minstrel, c. 2, i. That orbfed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon. SHELLEY. The Cloud. With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ! How silently and with how wan a face ! SIR P. SIDNEY. Aslrophel, 31. Late, late yestreen, I saw the new moone, Wi" the auld moone in hir arme ; And, if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm. Ballad, "Sir Patrick Spens<" (circa * 1 5th century). MORALISING AND MORALISTS Thou art an endless moralist. WM. BLAKE. Edward III. A moral (like all morals) melancholy. " BYRON. Don Juan, c. 5, 63 322 MORALITY MORNING Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, There is no sterner moralist than Pleasure. BYRON. Don Juan, 3, 65. Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. (Mr. Pecksniff.) DICKENS. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. 10. " Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. " Everything's got a moral if only you can find it." C. L. DODGSON. Alice in Wonderland, c. 9. Neckband pedants, dismal critics of pleasures which they do not possess. VOLTAIRE. MORALITY Men talk of " mere morality " which is much as if one should say, " Poor God, with nobody to help Him ! " EMERSON. Conduct of Life-Worship. The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of legis- lation . . . Morality is the object of govern- ment. EMERSON. Fortune of the Republic. We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. MACAULAY. Moore's Byron. The plain good man, whose actions teach More virtue than a sect can preach. MOORE. Morality e An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is really only uncomfortable. G. B. SHAW. Man and Superman Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries or distinctions of race. H. SPENCER. Study of Sociology, ch. 23 Morality was made for man, and not man for morality. I. ZANGWILL. Children of the Ghetto, Bk. 2, ch. 6. MORNING Now had the poore man's clock, shrill chaunticleare Twice given notice of the Morne's approach, That then began in glorie to appeare, Drawne in her stately coloured saffron coach. R. BARNFIELD. Cassandra. The morn is up again, the dewy morn, With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 3, st. 98. When genial Morn appears, Like pensive Beauty, smiling in her tears. . CAMPBELL. Pleasures of Hope, 2. Each matin bell, the Baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death. COLERIDGE. Christabel, PL 2. The lark now leaves his watery nest, And climbing, shakes his dewy wings. SIR W. D'AVENANT. Song. Awake, awake, the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. SIR W. D'AVENANT. Ib. The rosy-fingered morn appears, And from her mantle shakes her tears In promise of a glorious day DRYDEN. Albion. None can tell how sweet, How virtuous the morning air. EMERSON. May-Day. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn. GRAY. Elegy. Beloved, it is morn ! A redder berry on the thorn, A deeper yellow on the corn, For this good day new-born. EMILY H. HICKEY. Beloved, it is morn. A poet's face asleep is this grey morn. ALICE MEYNELL. In February. Under the opening eyelids of the morn. MILTON. Lycidas, 26. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the Sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 4, 641. Now morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 5, i. Till morn, Waked by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarred the gates of light. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 6, 2. Till morning fair Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice grey. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. 4, 426. Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes ; With everything that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise ! SHAKESPEARE. Cymbeline, Act 2, 3. But look the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, i. 323 MORTALITY MOTHERS-IN-LAW Night's "candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain's tops. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, 5. Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, hath flown. TENNYSON. Maud, Pt. i, i, 22. Mornings are mysteries ; the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud, Shroud in their births. H. VAUGHAN. Rules and Lessons. Few folk hae seen oftener than me Natur gettin' up i' the mornin' . . . Never see ye her hair in papers. JOHN WILSON. Nodes, 19 (Ettrick Shepherd). All the speed is in the morning. Saying attnb. by Gabriel Harvey (c. 1600) to his mother, Alice Harvey. The morning hour has gold in its mouth. Prov. MORTALITY The earth is a host who murders his guests. HAFIZ. A s given by Emerson, Essay on Persian Poetry. How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ! There should I rest And sleep secure. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 10, 775. War its thousands slays ; Peace, its ten thousands. BISHOP PORTEUS. Death. The form remains, the Function never dies While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We men, who in our morn of life defied The elements, must vanish. Be it so ! WORDSWORTH. River Duddon, 34. All men think all men mortal but them- selves. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, i. MOTHERS A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. COLERIDGE. Three Graves. Many men, my lord, Of hardihood sufficient, have been known To hold the memories of their mothers dear. J. DAVIDSON. The Ordeal, 241. In the first days Of my distracting grief, I found myself As women wish to be, who love their lords. J. HOME. Douglas. Beer will grow " mothery," and ladies fair Will grow like beer. HOOD. Slag-Eyed, Lady. In the heavens above The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, amid their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of " mother." E. A. POE. To my Mother. Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime. SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet, 3. Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well ? My Mother I ANN TAYLOR. My Mother. Happy he With such a mother ! Faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay. TENNYSON. Princess, c. 7, 308. Is not a young mother one of the sweetest sights which life shows us ? THACKERAY. Newcomes, Bk. 2, f. 13. Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. THACKERAY. Vanity Fair, vol. 2, ch. 12. They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre O'er lesser powers that be : But a mightier power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled, And the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. W. R. WALLACE. What rules the World ? All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is bis. OSCAR WILDE. Importance of being Earnest. Thou, while thy babes around thee cling, Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made. WORDSWORTH. To a young Lady. One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. Prov. There is no mother like my mother. Prov. MOTHERS-IN-LAW While thy wife's mother lives, expect no peace. GIFFORD. Juvenal, 6, 333. 324 MOTIVES MOURNING There is no good mother-in-law but she that wears a green gown [i.e. who is under the turf]. Old Prov. MOTIVES It was a favourite remark of the lat Mr. Whitbread's, that no man does any- thing from a single motive. COLERIDGF. Eiog. Literaria, fh. xx. And set his heart upon the goal, Not on the prize. SIR W. WATSON. I.aleham Churchyard. And rare is noble impulse, rare The impassioned aim. SIR W. WATSON. Shelley's Centenary. MOUNTAINS I live not in myself, but I become, Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities, torture. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 3, 72. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. BYRON. Manfred, i. i. The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wand'ring pas- senger. MILTON. Comus, 38. Two voices are there ; one is of the sea, One of the mountains, each a mighty voice : In both from age to age thou didst reioice ; They were thy chosen music, Liberty ! WORDSWORTH. On the Subjugation of Switzerland. Thou wear'st upon thy forehead clear The freedom of a mountaineer. WORDSWORTH. To a Highland Girl. MOURNING Nature's law That man was made to mourn. BURNS. Man was made to Mourn. Happy long life, with honour at the close, Friends' painless tears, the softened thought of foes ! J. R. LOWELL. Memories Positum, R. G. S., 2 Whom universal Nature did lament. MILTON. Lycidas, 60. Weep not for her ! Her memory is the shrine Of pleasant thoughts, soft as the scent of flowers, Calm as on windless eve the sun's decline, Sweet as the song of birds among the bowers, Rich as a rainbow with its hues of light, Pure as the moonshine of an autumn night ; Weep not for her ! D. M. MOIR. A Dir%e. He who general tears can shed For folks that happen to be dead, May e'en with equal justice mourn For those who never yet were born. PRIOR. The Turtle and the Sparrow 'Tls not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, . . . Nor the dejected 'haviour of the visage. Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act x, 2. I have that within which passeth show. These but the trappings and the suits of woe. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. i, Act i, i Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave. To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou vrouldst not save. TENNYSON. Come Not. Peace ; come away : the song of woe Is after all an earthly song r Peace : come away, we. do him wrong To sing so wildly : let us go TENNYSON. In Memyriam, c. 57. I count it crime To mourn for any overmuch. TENNYSON. Ib. t c. 85. All gentle things that live will moan thee, All fond regrets for e\ er wake ; For earth is happier having known thee, And heaven is sweeter for thy sake ! WM. WINTER. (New York). Vagrant Memories. On Henry Irving. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. WOLFE. Burial of Sir J. Moore. Not without hope we suffer or we mourn. WORDSWORTH. Elegiac Stanzas, 1805. He mourns the dead who lives as they desire. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 2. How wretched is the man who never mourned ! YOUNG. Ib., 5. 325 MULTITUDE, THE MUSIC It is better to go to the house of mourn- ing, than to go to the house of feasting. Ecclesiastes vii, 2. MULTITUDE, THE That great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the Multitude. SIR T. BROWNE. Religio Medici, Pt. 2, i. Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. BURKE. Reflections on French Revolution, Serves and fears The fury of the many-headed monster, The giddy multitude. MASSINGER. Unnatural Combat, Act 3, 2. Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce and vain ? Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, 5, 30. MURDER I come fairly to kill him honestly. FLETCHER AND MASSINGER. Little French Lawyer, Act 4, i . Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 5. For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 2, 2. Simple, plain Clarence, I do love thee so, That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven. SHAKESPEARE. Richard III., Act i, i. They cut his throat from ear to ear, His brains they battered in. His name was Mr. William Weare, He dwelt in Lyons Inn. ANON. Alluding to the murder of Wm. Weare by John Thurtell (1823). MUSIC Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. ADDISON. St. Cecilia's Day. Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. ADDISON. Spectator, vol. i, 18. Rugged the breast that music cannot tame. J. C. BAMPFYLDE. Sonnet. If musique and sweet poetrie agree, As they must needes, the Sister and the Brother. R. BARNFIELD. Poems in Divers Humors, Sonnet i. His harp the sole companion of his way. BEATTIE. The Minstrel, Bk. i, 3. Is there a heart that music cannot melt ? Alas ! how is that rugged heart forlorn. BEATTIE. Ib., Bk. i, 56. 'Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it. I. BICKERSTAFF. Maid of the Mt7/,Act i, i There is a music wherever there is har- mony, order, or proportion : and thus far we may maintain the music of the Spheres ; for those well-ordered motions and regular paces, though they give no sound to the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. SIR T. BROWNE. Religio Medici, Pt. 2, sec. 9. There are few such swains as he Now-a-days for harmonic. WILLIAM BROWNE. Shepherd's Pipe. Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once. BROWNING. Balaustion's A dventure. There is no truer truth obtainable By man, than comes of music. BROWNING. Chas. Avison. Such sweet, Soft notes as yet musician's cunning Never gave the enraptured air. BROWNING. Pied Piper, c. 12. For this did Paganini comb the fierce Electric sparks, or to tenuity Pull forth the inmost wailing of the wire No cat-gut could swoon out so much of soul. BROWNING. Red Cotton Nightcap Country. In fact he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tune- less fellow. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 4, 87. There's music in the sighing of a reed ; There's music in the gushing of a riJl ; There's music in all things, if men had ears, Their earth is but an echo of the spheres. BYRON. Ib., 15, 5. Her fingers witched the chords they passed along, And her lips seemed to kiss the soul in song. CAMPBELL. Theodric. When music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung. COLLINS. The Passions. A solemn, strange and mingled air, 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. COLLINS. Ib. O Music ! sphere-descended maid, Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid. COLLINS. Ib. As if an angel's harp had sung of bliss In some bright world beyond the tears of this. REV. W. COLTON. Byron. 326 MUSIC MUSIC Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. CONGREVE. Mourning Bride, Act i, i. Music is the stalk And flower of health, and most remedial. J. DAVIDSON. Selfs the Man, Act 4. No dinner goes off well without him [Apollo]. [Jupiter.] DISRAELI. Ixion, c. i. Sound the trumpets ; beat the drums ! Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face ; Now give the hautboys breath ; he comes, he comes ! DRYDEN. Alexander's Feast, st. 3. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. DRYDEN. Ib., st. 5. Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. DRYDEN. Ib., st. 6. What passion cannot Music raise or . quell ? DRYDEN. St. Cecilia's Day, st. 2. The soft, complaining flute. DRYDEN. Ib., st. 4. Music is the poor man's Parnassus. EMERSON. Poetry and Imagination. Where through the long drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. GRAY. Elegy. There is no music in Nature, neither melody or harmony. Music is the creation of man. H. R. HAWEIS. Music and Morals, Bk. i, i. Emotion, not thought, is the sphere of music. H. R. HAWEIS. Ib. Their discords sting through Burns and Moore, Like hedgehogs dressed in lace. O. W. HOLMES. Music Grinders. Of all noises I think music the least dis- agreeable. JOHNSON. Reply to an enquiry whether he was fond of music. Music is the only sensual pleasure with- out vice. JOHNSON. Remark recorded by Sir John Hawkins. Fair Melody ! kind Siren ! I've no choice ; I must be thy sad servant evermore ; I cannot choose but kneel here and adore. KEATS. Endymion, Bk. 4. Let me have music dying, and I seek No more delight. KEATS. Ib. Popular favourites, I apprehend, please by the sequence rather than by the com- bination of sounds. Only a few highly trained experts can appreciate the masters of intricate Harmony. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry, No. 3 (E. K. Francis tr.). I even think that sentimentally I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune. LAMB. A Chapter on Ears. Though cheerfulness and I have long been strangers, Harmonious sounds are still delightful to me : There's sure no passion in the human soul But finds its food in music. G. LILLO. Fatal Curiosity. Music's the medicine of the mind. J. LOGAN. Danish Ode. The sound of singing and the gurgling throb Of lute and viol, meant for many things, But most for misery. ERIC MACKAY. Lover's Litanies, 8. 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'Allegro, 135. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. MILTON. Arcades, Song, i. Musical as is Apollo's lute. MILTON. Comus, 478. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death. MILTON. Ib., 560. Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek. MILTON. II Penseroso, 104. Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse. MILTON. At a Solemn Music. None knew whether The voice or lute was most divine, So wondrously they went together. MOORE. Lalla Rookh. Music doth all our joys refine, And gives the relish to our wine. J. OLDHAM. St. Cecilia. Music's the cordial of a troubled breast, The softest remedy that grief can find ; The gentle spell that charms our care to rest And calms the ruffled passions of the mind. J. OLDHAM. Ode. 327 MUSIC MUSIC The half of music, I have heard men say, Is to have grieved ; when comes the lonely wail Over the mind. STEPHEN PHILLIPS. Marpessa, 244. Dealt to the wise, delight they bring ; To vulgar ears unmeaning ring. PINDAR. 01., 2, 154 (Moore lr.). Philosophy is the highest music. PLATO. Phado, 12 (Carylr.). I know not what I was playing, Or what I was dreaming then, But I struck one chord of music Like the sound of a great Amen. A. A. PROCTER. Lost Chord. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell. ROGERS. Human Life. The only universal tongue. .-^ Italy. It [music] is either the vain noise of a language you do not understand, or it is a vehemence of sentiment, which forces you along with it and which it is impossible for the soul to resist. ROUSSEAU. Julie. Music is the nearest at hand, the most orderly, the most delicate, and the most perfect of all bodily pleasures. It is the only one which is equally helpful to all the ages of man helpful from the nurse's song to her infant, to the music, unheard of others, which so often haunts the deathbed of pure and innocent spirits. RUSKIN. Letter XI., 1867. So sweet, so soft, so faint, It seemed an angel's whispered call To an expiring saint. SCOTT. Bridal of Triermain, 1,4. As sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair. SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour's Lost, Act 4, i. And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 2, 5. Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 4, i. I am never merry when I hear sweet music. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, j. Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus ; Let no such man be trusted ! SHAKESPEARE. Ib. O she will sing the savageness out of a bear ! SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 4, i. " Music with her silver sound," because musicians have no gold for sounding. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, 5. That strain again it had a dying fall ; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act i, i. True concord of well-tuned sounds. SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet, 8. At every one of those concerts in Eng- land you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. G. B. SHAW. Man and Superman. Hell is full of musical amateurs. Music is the brandy of the damned. G. B. SHAW. Ib. If I were to begin life again, I would dedicate it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. SYDNEY SMITH. Letter to Lady Carlisle, Aug., 1844. Discord ofte in music makes the sweeter lay. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, 3, 2, 15. Music bright as the soul of light, for wings an eagle, for notes a dove. SWINBURNE. A strophel. Some dead lute-player, That in dead years had done delicious things. SWINBURNE. Ballad of Life. The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built for ever. TENNYSON. Garelh, I. 2/2. Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes. TENNYSON. Lotos Eaters. Blow, bugle, blow ! set the wild echoes flying. TENNYSON. Princess, c. 4, Song, Music is the real universal speech of mankind. C. F. WEBER. 328 MUTABILITY NAMES Music is the universal language. JOHN WILSON. Nodes (July, 1826). MUTABILITY For this and that way swings The flux of mortal things. M. ARNOLD. Westminster Abbey. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, iato thin air ; And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. SHAKESPEARE. Tempest, Act 4, i. MUTINY But were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar, that should move The very stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Casar, Act 3, 2. MYSTERY Veil after veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind. SIR E. ARNOLD. Light of Asia, Bk. 8. I love the doubt, the dark, the fear, That still surroundeth all things here. A. AUSTIN. Hymn to Death. Plain truth will influence half a score men at most in a nation, while mystery will lead millions by the nose. BOLINGBROKE. Letter, 1721. The lucrative business of mystery. BURKE. Vindication of Natural Society. Things that do almost mock the grasp of thought. H. F. GARY. Dante's "Purgatory," c. 29, 41. Take care never to seem dark and mys- terious, which is not only a very unamiable character, but a very suspicious one too. LORD CHESTERFIELD. Advice to his Son. Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. There was the Door to which I found no key : There was the Veil through which I might not see. FITZGERALD. Rubdiydt, st. 32. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting ; dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. E. A. POE. Raven. Everything unknown ffi.e. mysterious] is taken for something transcendent. TACITUS. A gricola. So now I am in for Hobbes's Voyage ; a great Leap in the Dark. SIR J. VANBRUGH. Provoked Wife, Act 5, 5- MYSTICISM Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argu- ment About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door wherein I went. FITZGERALD. Rubdiydt, st. 27. Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. SWIFT. Tale of a Tub: Author's Preface. N NAMES The glory and the Nothing of a Name. BYRON. Churchill's Grave. Oh, Amos Cottle ! Phoebus ! what a name To fill the speaking trump of future fame ! BYRON. English Bards. Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name ? CAMPBELL. Pleasures of Hope, Pt. 2. Giving a name, indeed, is a poetic art ; all poetry, if we go to that with it, is but a giving of names. CARLYLE. Journal. It is not names which give confidence in things, but things which give confidence in names. CHRYSOSTOM. Charmed with the foolish whistlings of a name. COWLEY. Of Agriculture. Some to the fascination of a name Surrender judgment hoodwinked. COWPER. Winter Morning Walk. Pride lives with all ; strange names our rustics give To helpless infants, that their own may live. CRABBE. Parish Register, Pt. i. I am not a man scrupulous about words or names or such things. OLIVER CROMWELL. Speech, 1657. 329 NAMES NATIONS A man's name is not like a mantle, which merely hangs about him, and which per- haps may be safely twitched and pulled. It is a perfectly fitting garment, which has grown to him like his very skin, and one cannot scratch and scrape it without wounding the man himself. GOETHE. Autob., Bk. 10. Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. O. W. HOLMES. The Boys. A name ? if the party had a choice, What mortal would be a Bugg by choice ? As a Hogg, a Grubb, or a Chubb rejoice ? Or any such nauseous blazon ? HOOD. Miss Kiltnansegg. What's in a name ? as the white blackbird said when 'e sat on a wooden milestone eat- ing a red blackberry. H. G. HUTCHINSON. A Fine Ear for the Haspirate. Punch (Jan. 29, 1919). Indeed there is a woundy luck in names, sir, And a main mystery an' a man knew where To vind it. BEN JONSON. Tale of a Tub. A name and also an omen. PLAUTUS. Persa, Act 4. Smith's no name at all. POPE. Epitaph. What's in a name ? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, 2. Human pride Is skilful to invent most serious names, To hide its ignorance. SHELLEY. Queen Mob, c. 7. A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak, and no one can spell. SOUTHEY. March to Moscow, c. 8. The superstition of a name. TACITUS. Hist., Ch. 3. Let be my name until I make my name. TENNYSON. Gareth, I. 563. I cannot love my lord and not his name. TENNYSON. Marriage of Geraint, 92. And a wee bit name canna it carry in it a wecht o' love ! JOHN WILSON. Nodes (Ettrick Shepherd). A good name endureth for ever. Ecclesiasticus xli, i, 3. It is not fair to tell names. Given as " a saying " in Mrs. Centlivre's " Beau's Ideal " (1702). NAPLES Naples, the paradise of Italy, As that is of the earth. FLETCHER AND MASSINGER. Double Marriage, Act i. NATIONS Look to life in every part ; in all they prac- tise, all they know, Every nation has derived the best instruc- tion from the foe. ARISTOPHANES. The Birds (Frere tr.) A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one ; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. BROWNING. Luria, Act 5. It is with nations as with men, One must be first. We are the mightiest, The heirs of Rome. J. DAVIDSON. Self's the Man, Act 3. Some people may be Rooshans and others may be Prooshans ; they are born so and will please themselves. Them which is of other naturs thinks different. [Mrs. Gamp.] DICKENS. M. Chuzzlewit, c. 19. Our backs is easy ris. We must be cracked-up, or they rises and we snarls. You'd better crack us up, you had ! DICKENS. Ib. t c. 33. Each nation grows after its own genius and has a civilization of its own. E MERSON . Civilizatio n . If there be one test of national genius universally accepted, it is success. And if there be one successful country in the universe for the last millennium, that country is England. EMERSON. English Traits, 3, Land. A nation with whom sentiment is nothing is on the way to cease to be a nation at all. FROUDE. The Premier. Nations are but enlarged schoolboys. FROUDE. Exceptional Conditions. 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. The celebrated apophthegm that nations never profit by experience, becomes yearly more and more untrue. SIR J. HERSCHEL. Influence of Science. There is no extremity of distress, which, of itself, ought to reduce a great nation to despair. JUNIUS. Letter i. Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. KIPLING. East and West. 330 NATIONS NATIVE LAND Nations are long results, by ruder ways Gathering the might that warrants length of days. J. R. LOWELL. Under the Old Elnt, 4, 2. It is better to remain a nation capable of displaying the virtues of a nation, than even to be free. MAINE. The world in all doth but two nations bear, The good, the bad, and these mixed every- where. A. MARVELL. Loyal Scot. The worth of a State in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it. J. S. MILL. Liberty, ch. 5. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam. MILTON. Areopagitica. An old and haughty nation, proud in arms. MILTON. Comus, 33. To a brave man every country is a native land. OVID. Fast., i. England has saved herself by her own energy ; I hope that she will save Europe by her example. WILLIAM PITT. Speech, 1805 (after- wards compressed into the Latin inscription on a medal, " Seipsum virtute, Europam exemplo "). Study a people apart from its cities ; it is only thus that you can know it. ROUSSEAU. Emile, Bk. 5. That country is the richest which nour- ishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. RUSKIN. Unto this Last, Essay 4. A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by its character. HERBT. SPENCER. Social Statics, ch. 16, 5. Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last. SWINBURNE. Word for the Country. If a state submit At once, she may be blotted out at once, And swallowed in the conqueror's chron- icle. TENNYSON. The Cup. lie was probably fond of them, but he was always able to conceal it. [Referring to Thomas Carlyle and Ameri- cans.] MARK TWAIN. My First Lie. A people rude in peace, and rough in war. VIRGIL. Mneid, Bk. i (Dryden) (Of the people of Libya). This was the race that sure portents fore- shew, To sway the world and land and sea subdue. VIRGIL. lb., Bk. 7 (Dryden tr.). O citizens ! we wage unequal war With men, not only heaven's peculiar care, But heaven's own race, unconquered in the field, Or conquered, yet unknowing how to yield. VIRGIL. Ib., Bk. n (Dryden tr.). Just pride is no mean factor in a State ; The sense of greatness keeps a nation great. SIR W. WATSON. Ver Tenebrosum. The mainners o' a' nations are equally bad. JOHN WILSON. Nodes, 39 (EUrick Shepherd). Minds like ours, my dear James, must always be above national prejudices, and in all companies it gives me true pleasure to declare that, as a people, the English are very little indeed inferior to the Scotch. JOHN WILSON. Nodes, The Land we from our fathers had in trust, And to our children will transmit or die : This is our maxim, this our piety. WORDSWORTH. Feelings of the Tyrolese. Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West. WORDSWORTH. On the Venetian Republic. A fatherland focuses a people. I. ZANGWILL. Children of the Ghetto, c. 15. She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary ! Lamentations i, i. Righteousness exalteth a nation. Proverbs xiv, 34. The land that feeds me is my fatherland. Paraphr. of Euripides. Every land is his native land to a brave man. Greek prov. The Italians are wise before the deed ; the Germans in the deed ; the French after the deed. Italian prov. NATIVE LAND Because all earth, except his native land, To him is one wide prison, and each breath Of foreign air he draws seems a slow poison, Consuming but not killing. BYRON. TwoFoscari, i, i. Nothing is more discreditable than to be ignorant of one's own native land. GABRIEL HARVEY. Note in Lluyd's " Breviary of Briiayne." 33' NATURALNESS NATURE We have learned the lesson of time, and we know three things of worth : Only to sow and sing and reap in. the land of our birth. R. LE GALLIENNE. Cry of the Little Peoples. My foot is on my native heath, and my name is McGregor. SCOTT. Rob Roy, ch. 24. NATURALNESS To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. Nothing so much hinders being natural as the longing to appear so. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Ah, no ! the conquest was obtained with ease ; He pleased you by not studying to please. GEO. LORD LYTTELTON. Progress of Love, 3. Various arts mankind delight, But he that tempts the field of fame Must march with Nature to the fight. PINDAR. Nemean Odes, i, 26 (Moore tr.). Let your precept be, " Be Easy." SIR R. STEELE. Spectator, vol. 3, 196. Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This child I to myself will take, She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own." WORDSWORTH. Three Years. NATURE If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be ? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality. A. AUSTIN. Nature. There never was miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him toconfessa God. BACON Adv. of Learning, Bk. z. Nature is not governed, except by obey- ing her. BACON. Aphorism, 129. I beseech you that next after the Scrip- tures you study that great volume, the works and created objects of God, strenu- ously and before all books, which should only be regarded as commentaries. BACON. Epistola, 6. About Nature consult nature herself. BACON. Instauratio, Pt. 3,Introd. [Described by Bacon as " the only way in which the foundations of true and active philosophy can be established."] There's the wind on the heath, brother ; if I could only feel that I would gladly live for ever. BORROW. Lavengro. Nature is the Art of God. SiRT. BROWNE. Religio Medici, Pt. i, 16. Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God ; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes. The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries, And daub their natural faces unaware More and more from the first similitude. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 7. God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. E. B. BROWNING. Sonnets from the Portuguese, 26. God is the perfect poet, Who in His person acts His own creation. BROWNING. Paracelsus, pt. 2. Now is the time for those who wisdom love, Who love to walk in virtue's flowery road, Along the lovely paths of Spring to rove, And follow Nature up to Nature's God. MICHAEL BRUCE. Elegy : To Spring. To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. W. CULLEN BRYANT. Thanatopsis, i. Go forth under the open sky and list To Nature's teaching. W. C. BRYANT. Ib., 14. Set him before a hedgerow in a lane, And he was happy all alone for hours. R. BUCHANAN. E. Crowhurst. Never, no never, did Nature say one thing and wisdom say another. BURKE. Letters on a Regicide Peace (Borrowed from Juvenal, Sat. 14). Yet nature's charms the hills and woods, The sweeping vales and foaming floods, Are free alike to all. BURNS. Epistle to Davie. Dear Nature is the kindest mother still, Though always changing, in her aspect mild. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. 2, 37. Art, Glory, Freedom fail, but Nature still is fair. BYRON. Ib., c. 2, 87. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture in 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, 332 NATURE NATURE From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. BYRON. Ib., c. 4, 178. Nature admits no lie. CARLYLE. Latter Day Pamphlets, 5 . Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord. CHAUCER. Assembly of Foules. Habit can never conquer Nature ; she is for ever unconquered. CICERO. Tusc. Quasi., 5, 27. In nature there is nothing melancholy. COLERIDGE. The Nightingale. Full often too Our wayward intellect, the more we learn Of nature, overlooks her Author more. COWPER. Garden, 235. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. COWPER. Winter Morning Walk. Time is as young as ever now, Nature as fresh and sweet. J. DAVIDSON. Ballad of Euthanasia. For Nature in man's heart her laws doth pen. SIR J. DAVIES. Nosce Teipsum, sec. 26, 2. Nature is more powerful than education ; time will develop everything. DISRAELI. Contarini Fleming, c. 13. For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. DRYDEN. Cock and Fox, I. 452. Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view ? JOHN DYER. Grongar Hill. The ancient precept, " Know Thyself," and the modern precept, " Study Nature," become at last one maxim. EMERSON. The American Scholar (1837)- Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. EMERSON. Farming. For what are they all in their high conceit When man in the bush with God may meet ? EMERSON. Good-bye, Proud World. And in the vaunted works of Art The master-stroke is still her part. EMERSON. Nature. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other ; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. EMERSON. Ib. Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of Nature. EMERSON. Resources. Nature paints the best part of the picture, carves the best part of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration. EMERSON. Society and Solitude. Keep Nature's great original in view, And thence the living images pursue. P. FRANCIS. Horace, Art of Poetry. The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise. GRAY. Ode on Pleasure from Vicissitude, I- 53- The house is a prison, the schoolroom's a cell; Leave study and books for the upland and dell. ' J. H. GREEN. Morning Invitation. He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature. HERBERT. The Pulley. You may drive out nature with a fork, but she will ever return. HORACE. Ep., Bk. i, 10, 24. I am tired of four walls and a ceiling ; I have_need of the grass. R. HOVEY. Spring. A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may read and read. And read again, and still find something new. JAMES HURDIS.D.D. Village Curate (1788). Nature never says one thing, and wisdom another. JUVENAL. Sat. 14, 321. The poetry of earth is never dead. KEATS. Grasshopper and Cricket. Tracing out wisdom, power, and love, In earth or sky, in stream or grove. KEBLE. Evening. Thou, who hast given me eyes to see And love this sight so fair, Give me a heart to find out Thee And read Thee everywhere. KEBLE. Septuagesima. I am in love with this green earth. LAMB. New Year's Eve. As one awaked out of sleep, I saw the Lord passing by eternal, infinite, omni- scient, omnipotent, and I stood as in a trance. LINNAEUS. Systema Naturce, ad init. (as translated by Ruskin). 333 NATURE NATURE And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying, " Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." LONGFELLOW. Fiftieth Birthday of A gassiz. In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an in- jury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing. MILTON. Of Education, Unspeakable desire to see and know All these His wondrous works, but chiefly man. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 3, 663. Thy desire which tends to know The works of God, thereby to glorify The great Work Master, leads to no excess That reaches blame, but rather merits praise The more it seems excess. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 3, 694. But neither breath of Morn, when she as- cends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising Sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by Moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. MILTON. Ib., Bk. 4, 650. These are thy glorious works, Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair ; thyself how wondrous then ! MILTON. Ib., Bk. 5, 153. Nature hath need of what she asks. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. 2, 253. Nature's cult is above all things reason- able and thus fulfils the conditions of a good working faith. Much is hidden ; much is lucid and practical. Mystery does not lack, for there are many holies, where no foot has trodden. EDEN PHILLPOTTS. A Shadow Passes. From Nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. POPE. Essay on Man, i, 245. Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. POPE. Ib., Ep. 4, 331. Never does nature deceive us ; it is we who deceive Nature. ROUSSEAU. Emile. Clouds and mountains have been life to inc. RUSKIN. Pr&terita. The saddest heart might pleasure take To see all nature gay. SCOTT. Marmion, 4, 15. New Art would better Nature's best, But Nature knows a thing or two. SIR OWEN SEAMAN. Ars Poster a.. O Nature ! how we worship thee, even against our wills ! SENECA. Hippolytus. And thisour life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the run- ning brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 2, i. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. SHAKESPEARE. Troilus, Act 3, 3. Nature's rales have no exceptions. HERBT. SPENCER. Social Statics, Intro. What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature ; To raigne in th' aire from th' earth to highest skie : To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature ? SPENSER. Muiopotmos, st. 26. But any man that walks the mead, In bud or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humours lead, A meaning suited to his mind. TENNYSON. Day-Dream, Moral, 2. So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, c. 55. I care not, Fortune ! what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brighten- ing face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : THOMSON. Castle of Ignorance, c. 2. When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity. VAUGHAN. The Retreat. Happy is he who has known the rural divinities. VIRGIL. Georgics, 2. Happy the man, who, studying Nature's laws, Through known effects can trace the secret cause. VIRGIL. Georgics, 2, 490 (Dryden tr.). 314 NATURE NAVY ove, " Is this," I cried, " The end of prayer, and preaching ? Then down with pulpit, down with priest, And give us Nature's teaching ! " WHITTIER. A Sabbath Scene. I never knew a Naturalist who was not a good man. JOHN WILSON. Nodes, zi. Few folk hae seen oftener than me Natur gettin* up i' the mornin". . . . She sleeps a' nicht in her claes, yet they're never run- kled. Never see ye her hair in papers. JOHN WILSON. Nodes, ig (Ettrick Shepherd). As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die. WORDSWORTH. Old Cumberland Beggar. Vain is the glory of the sky, The beauty vain of field and gr< Unless, while with admiring eye We gaze, we also learn to love. WORDSWORTH. Poems of Fancy, 20. Come forth into the light of things ; Let nature be your teacher. WORDSWORTH. Tables Turned, st. 4. One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil, and of good, Than all the sages can. WORDSWORTH. Ib., st. 6. Sweet is the love which Nature brings. WORDSWORTH. Ib. I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing often- times The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. WORDSWORTH. Tintern A bbey. Nature never did betray The heart that loved her. WORDSWORTH. Ib. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion. The tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love. WORDSWORTH. Lines, nr. Tintern Abbey (1798). Read Nature ; Nature is a friend to truth ; Nature is Christian ; preaches to mankind : And bids dead matter aid us in our creed. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 4. The course of Nature is the art of XJod. YOUNG. Ib., 9, ad fin. Take God from Nature, nothing great is left. YOUNG. Ib., 9. Nature does nothing in vain. Latin prov. It's merrye walkyng in the fayre forest, To heare the smalle birdes song. Old Ballad, Robin Hood. NAVY Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls. T. A. ARNE. Britain's Best Bulwarks. Not all the legions of the land Shall ever wrest from England's hand The Sceptre of the Sea. A. AUSTIN. Look Seaward. He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will. BACON. Of Expense. Let us think of them that sleep, Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep Elsinore ! CAMPBELL. Battle of the Baltic. While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. CAMPBELL. Ye Mariners. Naval matters involve great expenditure. CICERO. It was the opinion of Themistocles that whoso can hold the sea has command of the situation. CICERO. Ep. ad At Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more ! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore. COWPER. Loss of "Royal George." With the submitted fasces of the main. DRYDEN. Astrtza Redux, 249. Heart of oak are our ships, Heart of oak are our men, We always are ready, Steady, boys, steady ! We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again. GARRICK. Hearts of Oak. The British army should be a projectile to be fired by the British navy. VISCOUNT GREY. Quoted by Lord Fisher, in " Memories," as " the splendid words of Sir Edward Grey." The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world. LEMIERRE. Commerce. But on the sea be terrible, untamed, Unconquerable still. THOMSON. Britannia. 335 NECESSITY NEW YEAR They that the whole world's monarchy designed Are to their ports by our bold fleet confined. WALLER. Of a War with Spain. Thus did England fight : And shall not England smite With Drake's strong stroke in battles yet to be? T. WATTS-DUNTON. Christmas at the Mermaid. Chorus. NECESSITY Thanne is it wisdom, as it thinketh me, To maken vertu of necessitee. CHAUCER. Knight's Tale, v. 3043. Necessity hath no law. Feigned neces- sities, imaginary necessities, are the great- est cozenage men can put upon the Provi- dence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. CROMWELL. Speech, Sept. 12, 1654. Necessity makes an honest man a knave. DEFOE. Robinson Crusoe. So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 4, 393. Necessity is the plea for every infringe- ment of human freedom. It is the argu- ment of tyrants ; it is the creed of slaves. WM. PITT. Speech, 1783. There is no necessity to live in necessity. SENECA. Ep. 58. There is no virtue like necessity. SHAKESPEARE. Richard II., Act i, 3. Necessity, thou mother of the world ! SHELLEY. Queen Mab, c. 6. Necessity, thou tyrant conscience of the great ! SWIFT. Ode to Bancroft. Wit's whetstone, Want, there made us quickly learn. JOHN TAYLOR. Penniless Pilgrimage. NEGLECT On Butler who can think without just rage? The glory and the scandal of the age ! J. OLDHAM. A Satire, 175. The wretch, at summing up his misspent days, Found nothing left but poverty and praise. J. OLDHAM. Ib., 182. O negligence, Fit for a fool to fall by ! SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 3, 2. Ah me ! how sorely is my heart forlorn, To think how modest worth neglected lies, SHENSTONE, Schoolmistress. 336 NEGROES Our Captain counts the image of God, nevertheless his image, cut in ebony, as if done in ivory. FULLER. The Good Sea-Captain. NEIGHBOURS A bad neighbour is as great an evil as a good neighbour is an advantage. HESIOD. Surely it is your concern when the wall of your neighbour's house is burning ; fire neglected is apt to gain in power. HORACE. Ep., Bk. i, 18, 84. There is no being alone but in a metro- polis. The worst place in the world to find solitude is the country. Questions grow there, and that unpleasant Christian com- modity, neighbours. HORACE WALPOLE. Letter. A hedge between keeps friendship green. Prov. Love 'your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge. Prov. (Geo. Herbert). NEMESIS The sword of heaven is not in haste to smite, Nor yet doth linger. H. F. CARY. Dante's " Paradise" C. 22, l6. No less he knows The day fast comes when all men must de- part And pay for present pride in future woes. The deeds that frantic mortals do In this disordered nook of Jove's domain All meet their meed. PINDAR. Olympian Odes, 2, 105 (Moore tr.). NEUTRALITY Here I am between two fires. Shall I be an honest man or a rogue ? I think it is most prudent to remain neutral. E. SCRIBE. Cascaro in " Les Freres invisibles." Something between a hindrance and a help. WORDSWORTH. Michael. NEVERMORE " Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door ! " Quoth the Raven, " Nevermore." E. A. POE. Raven. NEW YEAR A towmont, sirs, is gane to wreck ! O Eighty-eight, in thy sma' space, What dire events hae taken place ! Of what enjoyments thou hast reft us ! In what a pickle thou hast left us ! BURNS. Elegy on 1788. NEWS NEWSPAPERS For hark ! the last chime of the dial has ceased, And Old Time, who, his leisure to cozen, Has finished the Months, like the flasks at a feast, Is preparing to tap a fresh dozen ! HOOD. The New Year. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. SCOTT. Marmion, c. 6, Intro. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow ; The year is going ; let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, c. 106. NEWS 111 news hath wings, and with the wind doth go; Comfort's a cripple, and comes ever slow. DRAYTON. Barons' Wars, Bk. 2, 28. Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news, much older than their ale, went round. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. And are ye sure the news is true ? And are ye sure he's weel ? W. J. MICKLE. Song. For evil news rides post, while good news baits. MILTON. Samson A gonistes, 1. 1538. Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burned. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. 2, Act i, i. Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office ; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remembered knolling a departed friend. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper. SHAKESPEARE. Mercht. of Venice, Act 3, 2. The messenger of good news is always an object of benevolence . . . No one envies his reward, though no one pretends to say that he has deserved it. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy, No. 22. The times are big with tidings. SOUTHEY. Roderick. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace. Isaiah lii, 7. As cold waters to a thirsty sou), so is good news from a far country. Proverbs xxv, 25. NEWSPAPERS If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it ; A chiel's amang you takin' notes, And, faith, he'll prent it ! BURNS. On Capt. Grose's Peregrinations. The true Church of England, at this mo- ment, lies in the Editors of its newspapers. CARLYLE. Signs of the Times. This folio of four pages, happy work ! Which not even critics criticise. COWPER. Winter Evening. The tyrant on the throne Is the morning and evening press. J. DAVIDSON. New Year's Day. Then hail to the Press ! chosen guardian of freedom ! Strong sword-arm of justice ! bright sun- beam of truth ! HORACE GREELEY. The Press. News, the manna of a day. MATTHEW GREEN. Spleen, 169. A reply to a newspaper attack resembles very much the attempt of Hercules to crop the Hydra, without the slightest chance of his ultimate success. THEOD. HOOK. Gilbert Gurney, vol. 2, ch. i. The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman. JUNIUS. Dedication. He hath sold his heart to the old Black Art, We call the daily Press. KIPLING. The Press. Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. LAMB. Thoughts on Books, The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. MACAULAY. On Hallam. Can it be maintained that a person of any education can learn anything worth knowing from a penny paper ? MARQUIS OF SALISBURY. Speech, 1861. Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them ! Here they find then- law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars." Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain. JOSEPH STORY. Salem Register. The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gen- tlemen for gentlemen. THACKERAY. Pendennis, Bk. i, ch. 32. 337 NICKNAMES NIGHTINGALE It [yellow journalism] means, according to my belief, a newspaper which glows with the colour of sunshine and throws light into dark places. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. The Worlds and I. In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. OSCAR WILDE. Soul of Man under Socialism. NICKNAMES His intimate friends called him " Candle- ends," And his enemies, " Toasted-cheese." C. L. DODGSON. Hunting of the Snark. Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise ; of all arguments the most un- answerable. HAZLITT. Nicknames. Nicknames and whippings, when they are once laid on, no one has discovered how to take off. W. S. LANDOR. Imag. Conversations, Du Paty. Then you can call me " Timbertoes," thet's wut the people likes ; Sutthin' combinin' morril truth with phrases sech ez strikes. J. R. LOWELL. Billow Papers, No. 8. A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. Quoted by Hazlitt in " Essay on Nicknames." Sticks an' stanes may break my banes, But names will never hurt me. Scottish prov. NIGGARDLINESS That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives but nothing gives ; Whom none can love, whom none can thank, Creation's blot, creation's blank. THOS. GIBBONS. When Jesus dwelt. Never was scraper brave man. Get to live ; Then live and use it. HERBERT. Church Porch. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Deut. xxv, 4. NIGHT And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky. CAMPBELL. Soldier's Dream. Night, with her train of stars, And her great gift of sleep. W. E. HENLEV. Margarita Sorori. And all the little birds had laid their heads Under their wings, sleeping in feather-beds. HOOD. Bianca's Dream. God makes sech nights, all white and still Fur 'z you can look or listen. J. R. LOWELL. Biglow Papers, 2nd Series, The Courtin'. Sable-vested Night, eldest of things. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 2, 962. 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear, And the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear. MOORE. Irish Melodies. Oft in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me. MOORE. Song. In complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 4. 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion. SHAKESPEARE Ib., Act 3, 2. Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act i, 2. Soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. SHAKESPEARE. Mercht. of Venice, Act 5, i O comfort-killing night, image of hell ! Dim register and notary of shame ! Black stage for tragedies and murders fell ! Vast sin-concealing chaos ! nurse of blame ! SHAKESPEARE. Lucrece, no. 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. Westminster Bridge. Creation sleeps. 'Tis, as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, i. By night an atheist half believes in God. YOUNG. Ib., 5. Night is a good herdsman : she brings all creatures home. Gaelic prov. NIGHTINGALE Like to that tawny one, Insatiate in her wail, The nightingale, who still with sorrowing soul And " Itys, Itys " cry, Bemoans a life o'erflourishing in ills. /ESCHYLUS, Agamemnon, 1141 (Plumptre tr.). 3 8 NOBILITY NONENTITIES Ah, for the doom of clear-voiced nightin- gale ! The Gods gave her a body bearing wings, And life of pleasant days With no fresh cause to weep. /ESCHYLUS. Ib., 1146 (Plumplre tr.). The nightingale among the thick-leaved spring That sits alone in sorrow, and doth sing Whole nights away in mourning. FLETCHER. Faithful Shepherdess, Act 5. Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy. MILTON. // Penseroso, b. 61. All but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 4, 602. But she [the " mother nightingale "] sup- plies the night with mournful strains, And melancholy music fills the plains. VIRGIL. Georgics, Bk. 4, 511 (Dryden tr.). NOBILITY Nobility of birth commonly abateth in- dustry. ' BACON. Of Nobility. Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. BURKE. Reflections on French Revolution. It becomes noblemen to do nothing well. CHAPMAN. Gentleman Usher. The nose of nice nobility. COWPER. Time Piece, 259. Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. DEFOE. True-Born Englishman, Pt. i, 374. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. Virtue is the one and only nobility. JUVENAL. Sat. 8. As one lamp lights another, nor grows less, So nobleness enkindleth nobleness. J. R. LOWELL. Yussouf, 3. Let wealth and commerce, laws and learn- ing die, But give us still our old nobility. LORD J. MANNERS. England's Trust. " My nobility," said Iphicrates to Har- modius, " begins with me ; yours ends with you." PLUTARCH. Morals, Bk. i. This was the noblest Roman of them all. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ceesar, Act 5, 5. Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronet?, And simple faith than Norman blood. TENNYSON. Clara Vere de Vere. Without fear and without reproach. Description of the Chevalier Bayard (d. 1524 ). NOISE The blast that blows loudest is soon over- blown. SMOLLETT. Reprisal, Act 2. Music is the sound which one's own children make as they romp through the house. Noise is the sound which other people's children make under the same cir- cumstances. Given as a Quotation by C. H. Sptirgeon, in " Salt-Cellars." NONAGENARIANS Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years, Vet freshly ran he on ten winters more : Till, like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels ot weary life at last stood still. DRYDEN. CEdip'ts, Act 4, i f NONCONFORMITY Whoso would be a man must be a Nonconformist. EMERSON. Self-Reliance. When we talk of non-conformity it may onlv be that we non-conform to the im- mediate sect of thought or action about us, to conform to a much wider thing in human nature. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. i, ch. 2. NONENTITIES But Tom's no more and so no more of Tom. BYRON. Don Juan, n, 20. Some men were born for great things ; Some were born for small ; Some it is not recorded Why they were born at all. W. CARLETON. Uncle Sammy For three-score years this life Cleora led ; At morn she rose, at night she went to bed COWPER. On a Worthless Old Maid. Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name DRYDEN. Ep. to John Driden, 18 To do nothing is the way to be nothing DR. N. HOWE. Proverbs: Unwept, unnoted, and for ever dead. POPE. Odyssey, Hk. 5, 401. 339 NONSENSE NOVELTY It is a terrible advantage to have done nothing at all, but it is not right to abuse such an advantage. DE RIVAROL The earth's high places who attain to fill By most indomitably sitting still. SIR W.WATSON. A Political Character. Find in the golden mean their proper bliss, And doing nothing, never do amiss ; But lapt in men's good graces live, and die By all regretted, nobody knows why. SIR W. WATSON. Ib. 'Tis infamy to die and not be missed. C. WILCOX. Religion of Taste. NONSENSE For learned nonsense has a deeper sound Than easy sense, and gees for more pro- found. S. BUTLER. Upon the Abuse of Human Learning. For daring nonsense seldom fails to hit, Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit. S. BUTLER. Modern Critics. The rest to some faint meaning make pre- tence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. DRYDEM. MacFlecknoe, 19. And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff As puts me from my faith. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 3, i. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat, hid in two bushels of chaff. You shall seek all day ere you find them ; and when you have found them, they are not worth the search. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act i, i. NOON With twelve great shocks of sound, the shameless noon Was clashed and hammered from a hun- dred towers. ^TENNYSON. Godiva. NORTH, THE The pale unripened beauties of the North. ADDISON. Goto, Act i, 4. And dark and true and tender is the North. TENNYSON. Princess, c. 4, 80. Out of the North All ill comes forth. Quoted as an old English prov. in 1588. NOSES When I want good headwork, I always choose a man, if otherwise suitable, with a long nose. NAPOLEON. If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed. PASCAL. Pensies, Pt 1,9, 46. And lightly was her slender nose Tip-tilted like the petal of a flower. TENNYSON. Gareth, 577. Folks wi* lang noses aye tak' till them- selves. Scottish prov. NOTHING From nothing nothing can proceed, and nothing can be resolved into nothing. PERSIUS. Sat. 3. Nothing ! thou elder brother even to shade. EARL OF ROCHESTER. On Nothing. NOTORIETY Sir, if they should cease to talk of me I must starve. JOHNSON. Remark, 1784. There are such as fain would be the worst Amongst ah 1 men, since best they cannot be, So strong is that wild lie that men call pride. W. MORRIS. HUl of Venus, st. 184. It is a fine thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear people saying, " That's he ! " PERSIUS. Sat. i, 28. As industry has brought others to fame, so knavery has brought this man. TACITUS. Annals, Bk. 16, 18. Peregrinus is content as long as people talk of Peregrinus. Jean Jacques'FRous- seau] would be charmed to be hanged, provided that they put his name in the sentence. VOLTAIRE. Letter to d J Alembert,Jan. 15, 1765. NOVELTY To innovate is not to reform. BURKE. Letter to a Noble Lord. There is no new thing under the sun. Perhaps that sun himself, which now beams so impressively, is only an old warmed-up jest. HEINE. Confessions. It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as super- stitions. T. H. HUXLEY. Science and Culture. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. LOCKE. Human Understanding: Dedicatory Epistle. It is the nature of man to be greedy for novelty. PLINY THE ELDER. New faces and new ties Wash away old memories. D. W. THOMPSON. Sales Attici. 340 NOVEMBER OBEDIENCE The one thing that the public dislike is novelty. OSCAR WILDE. Soul of Man under Socialism. Under the sun There's nothing new ; Poem or pun, Under the sun, Said Solomon, And he said true Under the sun There's nothing new. ANON. Triolet (Love in Idleness). NOVEMBER Oh ! for a day of a burning noon, And a sun like a glowing ember, Oh ! for one hour of golden June In the heart of this chill November ! LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS. In Winter. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease No comfortable feel in any member No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, No-vember ! HOOD. No! (1844). The month was November, And the weather a subject for prayer. E. NESBIT. Unofficial. November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear. SCOTT. Marmion, Introd. NUMBER A few honest men are better than numbers. CROMWELL. Letter, 1643. And if you want it he makes a reduction on taking a quantity. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Sorcerer. As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. MILTON. II Penscroso. Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. i, 302. But Hercules himself must yield to odds ; And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest timbered oak. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. 3, Act 2, i. They say that God is always for the big battalions. VOLTAIRE. Letter, 1770. My name is Legion : for we are many. St. Mark v, 9. NUMISMATICS To have a relish for ancient coins it is necessary to have a contempt for the modern. ADDISON. Ancient Medals. NUNS Her hopes, her fears, her joys were all Bounded within the cloister wall. SCOTT. Marmion, 2, 3 o OAK The builder oake, sole king of forests all. SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. i, i, 8. OATHS Some fresh new othe that is not stale, but will rin round in the mouth. R. ASCHAM. Scholemasler. Oaths are but words, and words but wind. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. 2, c. 2. You may depend upon it, the more oath- taking, the more lying generally among the people. COLERIDGE. Table Talk (1830). Oaths terminate, as Paul observes, all strife ; Some men have surely then a peaceful life. COWPER. Conversation, 55. I'm Gormed and I can't say no fairer than that ! DICKENS. David Copperfield (Mr. Peggotty), ch. 63. " I'll take my world-without-end ever- lasting Alfred David," answered Riderhood. DICKENS. Our Mutual Friend, Bk. 2, ch.iz A woman's oaths are wafers, break with making. FLETCHER. Chances (1625), Act 2, r. When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need. HERBERT. Church Porch. A good mouth-filling oath. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act 3, i. That in the captain *s but a choleric word, Which in the solaier is flat blasphemy. SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure t Act 2, 2. Dp not swear at all ; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, 2. Rather too close an imitation of that language which is used in the apostolic occupation of trafficking in fish. SYDNEY SMITH. Third, Letter to Arch- deacon Singleton. OBEDIENCE Obedience is the mother of success, the wife of safety. /ESCHYLUS. Septem Duces. 341 OBLIVION OBSCURITY (OF LIFE, ETC.) Only obedience can be great ; It brings the golden age again. J. DAVIDSON. Ballad of a Workman. For who is bounden, he must bowe ; So will I bowe unto your best. GOWEK. Confessio Amantis, Bk. 2. OBLIVION Therefore eternal silence be their doom ! MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 6, 385. But when the prosperous hour returns, O'er woes long wept Oblivion softly lays Her shadowy veil. PINDAR. Olympian Odes, 2, 34 (Moore tr.). You'll be forgotten, as old debts By persons who are used to borrow. W. M. PRAED. Portrait of a Lady. A name to be washed out with all men's tears. SWINBURNE. Atalanta Out of the world's way, out of the light, Out of the ages of worldly weather, Forgotten of all men altogether. SWINBURNE. Triumph of Time. Oblivion, the cold shadow of dead hope. F. TENNYSON. Anaktoria, 2, 184. One Caesar lives : a thousand are forgot. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 8. OBSCURITY (OF LANGUAGE OR THOUGHT) In the natural fog of the good man's mind. BROWNING. Christmas, Eve, c. 4. Obscurity illustrated by further ob- scurity. BURKE. Impeachment of Hastings, May, 1798. Darkness is more productive of sublime ideas than light. BURKE. Vindication of Natural Society. What is clear is wise, but what is not clear is not wise. EURIPIDES. Orestes, 397. Labouring to be brief, I become obscure. HORACE. De Arte Poelica. Whoever wrote it could, if he chose, make himself understood ; but 'tis the letter of an embarrassed man, sir. JOHNSON. Remark (to Mrs. Piozzi) concerning a letter difficult to interpret. A great interpreter of life ought not him- self to need interpretation. LORD MORLEY. Miscellanies: Emerson. Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. SWIFT. Tale of a Tub, Preface. Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers. Philosopher's reply to Alexander (according to Plutarch). That must be fine, for I cannot under- stand a word of it. French prov., see Moliere, " Mtdecin malgrt lui," Act 2,5. OBSCURITY (OF LIFE, ETC.) While glory crowns so many a meaner crest. What hadst thou done to sink so peace- fully to rest ? BYRON. Childe Harold, c. r, 91 . Ah, reader, ere you turn the page, I leave you this for Moral, Remember those who tread Life's stage With weary feet and scantest wage, And.ne'er a leaf for laurel. AUSTIN DOBSON. Before the Curtain. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. GRAY. Elegy . Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. GRAY. Ib. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air. GRAY. Ib. Some village Hampden, that with daunt- less breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. GRAY. Ib. Deeds Above heroic, though in secret done, And unrecorded left in many an age. MILTON. Paradise Regained, Bk. i, 14. And passed content, leaving to us the pride Of lives obscurely great. SIR H. NEWBOLT. Minora Sidera. 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 342 OBSERVATION OBSERVATION Men who lived and died without a name, Are the chief heroes in the sacred list of fame. SWIFT. To the Athenian Society. Others too, There are among the walks of homely life, Still higher, men for contemplation framed, Shy, and unpractised in the strife of phrase, Words are but under-agents in their souls. .WORDSWORTH. Postscript (to Preface) (1835). God, who feeds our hearts For his own service, knoweth, loveth us, When we are unregarded by the world. WORDSWORTH. 76. OBSERVATION Not deep the poet sees, but wide. M. ARNOLD. Resignation. He learns the look of things, and none the less For admonition from the hunger-pinch. BROWNING. Fra Lippo Lippi. I'm eyes, ears, mouth of me, one gaze and gape, Nothing eludes me, everything's a hint, Handle, and help. BROWNING. Mr. Sludge. Still he beheld, nor mingled with the throng, But viewed them not with misanthropic hate. BYRON. Childe Harold, c. i, st. 84. He had the skill, when Cunning's gaze would seek To probe his heart and watch his changing cheek, At once the observer's purpose to espy, And on himself roll back the scrutiny. BYRON. Corsair, c. i, 9. Stolen glances, sweeter for the theft. BYRON. Don Juan, c. i, st. 74. Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. COWPER. Winter Walk at Noon, 85. He listens to good purpose who takes note. DANTE. Hell, c. 15, 100 (Carytr.). " He's got his eyes on me ! " cried Stagg. " I feel 'em, though I can't see 'em. Take 'em off, noble captain. Remove 'em, for they pierce like gimlets." DICKENS. Barnaby Rudge, c. 8. When found, make a note of. [Captain Cuttle.] DICKENS. Dombey and Son, ch. 15. " Yes, I have a pair of eyes," replied Sam, " and that's just it. If they wos a pair of patent double million magnifyin" gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o* stairs and a deal door ; but bein' only eyes, you see, my wision's limited." DICKENS. Pickwick, c. 34 The difference between landscape and landscape is small ; but there is a great difference between the beholders. EMERSON. Nature. It' you would learn to write, 'tis in the street you must learn it. EMERSON. Society and Solitude. One man does not see everything. EURIPIDES. Phcenissa. Without doubt beauty is to be found everywhere : but it needs an artist to see it, and. to understand it. IBSEN. Love's Comedy, Art 3 (1862). I describe not men, but manners ; not an individual, but a species. FIELDING. Joseph Andrews, Bk. 3, c. I. Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru. JOHNSON. Vanity of Human Wishes. Some are more strongly affected by the facts of human life ; others by the beauty of earth and sky. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry, No. 31 (. K. Francis lr.). His vigorous and active mind was hurled Beyond the flaming limits of this world, Into the mighty space, and there did see How things begin, what can, what cannot be. LUCRETIUS. De Rerum Natura, i, 73 (Creech tr.) (Of Epicurus). From such like thoughts I mighty pleasure find, And silently admire thy strength of mind, By whose one single force, to curious eyes, All naked and exposed whole Nature lies. LUCRETIUS. 76., 3, 28. He who has looked upon earth Deeper than flower and fruit, Losing some hue of his mirth, As the tree striking rock at the root. GEO. MEREDITH. Day of the Daughter of Hades. For him there's a story in every breeze, And a picture in every wave. MOORE. Boat Glee (from " M.P. ; or the Blue-Stocking ")_ 343 OBSESSION OCTOBER And yet the fate, of all extremes is such, Men may be read, as well as books, too much. POPE. Moral Essays, Ep. i, 9. For he is but a bastard to the time, That doth not smack of observation. SHAKESPEARE. K. John, Act i, i. The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart. WORDSWORTH. A Poet's Epitaph. Vain is the glory of the sky, The beauty vain of field and grove, Unless, while with admiring eye We gaze, we also learn to love. WORDSWORTH. Poems of the Fancy, No. 20. O let me gaze ! Of gazing there's no end. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 9. Seeing many things, but thou observest not. Isaiah xlii, 20. Where I look I like, and where I like I love. Saying quoted by R. BURTON, Anal. Melan. OBSESSION Mr. Dick had been for upwards of ten years endeavouring to keep King Charles the First out of the Memorial ; but he had been constantly getting into it, and was there now. DICKENS. Copper field, ch. 15. His name in my ear was ever ringing ; His form to my brain was ever clinging. SHELLEY. Rosalind. OBSTINACY The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. W. BLAKE. Marriage of Heaven and Hell. And obstinacy's ne'er so stiff As when 'tis in a wrong belief. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. 3, c. 2. Wilful will do't, that's the word. CONGREVE. Way of the World, Act 4, 2 (Sir Wilfull Witwould). Where Obstinacy takes his sturdy stand To disconcert what Policy has planned. COWPER. Expostulation, 298. The gods that unrelenting breast have steeled And cursed thee with a mind that cannot yield. POPE. Iliad, Bk. 9, 749. As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. SHERIDAN. Rivals, Act 5, 3 (Mrs. Malaprop) . There is nothing gained by arguing with an enthusiast. It is no good trying to tell a man the faults of his mistress, or to con- vince a litigant of the weakness of his case, or to give reasons to a devotee. VOLTAIRE. Letters on the English. The crest of the southern English is a hog, and their motto is " We won't be druv." Saying (quoted by C. H. Spurgeon). OBVIOUS, THE What need of books these truths to tell, Which folks perceive who cannot spell ? And must we spectacles apply, To view what hurts our naked eye ? PRIOR. Alma, c. 3, 590. There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act i, 5. An obvious case carries its own decision. PUBLII.IUS SYRUS. OCCUPATIONS I hold every man a debtor to his pro- fession. BACON. Elements of Common Law. Business whets the appetite and gives a taste to pleasures, as exercise does to food. LORD CHESTERFIELD. Advice to his Son. For this of old is sure, That change of toil is toil's sufficient cure. SIR L. MORRIS. Love in Death. Hath this fellow no feeling of his business ? SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 5, i . Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 3, 3. A man who has no office to go to I don't care who he is is a trial of which you can have no conception. G. B. SHAW. Irrational Knot, ch. 18. Did I not give you ten, then fifteen, now twenty shillings a week to be sorrowful ? And the more I give you, I think the gladder you are. STEELE. Funeral, Act i, sc. i [Sable, the undertaker, to his man], There is no need for a sculptor to be him- self made of marble. French saying. OCTOBER Hail, old October, bright and chill, First freedman from the summer sun ! Spice high the bowl and drink your fill ! Thank heaven, at last the summer's done ! REV. THOS. CONSTABLE. Old October. 344 OLD AGE Then came October, full of merry glee, For yet his noule was totty of the must, [his head was unsteady from the wine- juice.] SPENSER. Of Mutabilitie, c. 7, 39 (Oc- tober was anciently called " Wine-month"). ODD NUMBERS They say there is divinity in odd num- bers, either in nativity, chance, or death. SHAKESPEARE. Merry Wives, Act 5, i. Unequal numbers please the gods. VIRGIL. Pastoral 8 (Dry den tr.). ODOURS Virtue is like precious odours, most fra- grant when they are incensed and crushed. BACON. Of Adversity. Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 4, 162. The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still. ROGERS. Jacqueline, Pt. 3. OFFENCES O ! my offence is rank, it smells to heaven. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, 3. And where the offence is let the great axe fall. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 4, 5. Raise no more spirits than you are able to lay. Prov. (Ray.) OFFICE (PUBLIC) O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you ! ALEXANDER THE GREAT. (Quoted by Carlyle.) Men in great place are thrice servants. BACON. Of Great Place. All countries are a wise man's home, And so are governments to some. BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. 3, c. 2. Upon my soul, you mustn't come into this place saying you want to know, you know. DICKENS. Little Dorrit, PI. i, ch. 10. Taper and Tadpole were great friends. Neither of them ever despaired of the Commonweal th . DISRAELI. Coningsby, Bk. i, ch i. Stick close to your desks, and never go to sea, And you all may be rulers of the Queen's Navee. SIR VV. S. GILBERT. H.M.S. Pinafore. Great positions render great men still greater ; small positions make little men smaller. LA BRUYERE. De I'Homme, 95. The proverb says true : " Leave the court and the court will leave you." So is it with me. MALORY. -Morte d' Arthur (Sir Gawain to Merlin). The insolence of office, and the spurns Which patient merit of the unworthy takes. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 3, i. But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure, Act 2, 2. We shall generally find that the tri- angular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy, No. 9. OFFICIOUSNESS O fate of fools ! officious in contriving ; In executing puzzled, lajne and lost. CONGREVE. Mourning Bride, Act 5, i. Who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do ? THACKERAY. Newcomes, Bk. i, ch. 20. OLD ACQUAINTANCE Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min' ? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne ? BURNS. Song (founded on older songs). Old wood, old friends, and old wine are best. Prov. Old loves and old brands rekindle sud- denly at any moment. French prov. OLD AGE Old age is charming, but what a mis- fortune that it lasts so short a time ! EMILE AUGIER. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon. BACON. Essays, youth and Age John Anderson, my jo, John, We clamb the hill tbegither, And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi* one anither ; 345 OLD AGE OLD AGE Now we maun totter down, John, But baud in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson, my jo. BURNS. John Anderson. I've seen sae mony changefu' years, On earth I am a stranger grown ; I wander in the ways of men, Alike unknowing and unknown. BURNS. Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn. 'Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth. MRS. CENTLIVRE. Basset Table, Act i. As sooth is sayd, elde hath great avantage ; In elde is bothe wisdom and usage [ex- perience] ; Men may the olde at-renne [out-run], and noght at-rede [surpass in counsel]. CHAUCER. Knight's Tale, I. 1589. Yet in our asshen olde is f yr y-reke. CHAUCER. Reeve's Prologue, 28. No one is so old that he does not think h e has a year to live. CICERO. De Senectule, 7. I am very thankful to old age, which has increased my eager desire for information. CICERO. Ib., 14. But age is froward, uneasy scrutinous, Hard to be pleased, and parsimonious. SIR J. DENHAM. Old Age, PL 3. These are the effects of doting age, Vain doubts and idle cares and over- caution. DRYDEN. Sebastian. Few envy the consideration enjoyed by the oldest inhabitant. EMERSON. Old Age. The creed of the street is, Old age is not disgraceful, but immensely disadvan- tageous. EMERSON. Ib. It is time to be old, To take in sail. EMERSON. Terminus. His head was silvered o'er with age, And long experience made him sage. GAY. Fables : Introduction. There is beauty in extreme old age : Do you fancy you are elderly enough ? SIR W. S. GILBERT. Mikado. As newer comers crowd the fore, We drop behind, We who have laboured long and sore Times out of mind, And keen are yet, must not regret To drop behind. Tuos. HARDY. Superseded. Wen folks get old en stricken wid the palsy, dey mus 'speck ter be laff'd at. Goodness knows I bin used ter dat sence de day my whiskers 'gun to bleach. J. C. HARRIS. Nights with Uncle Remus, ch. 23. And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. O. W. HOLMES. Last Leaf. Call him not old whose visionary brain Holds o'er the past its undivided reign : For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul. O. W. HOLMES. Old Player. When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die ? HOOD. Ballad. Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage. JOHNSON. Vanity of Human Wishes. Life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy. And shuts up all the passages of joy. JOHNSON. Ib. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping, thou sat'st whilst all around thee smiled ; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. SIR W. JONES.-- Frowt the Persian. When our vices leave us, we flatter our- selves with the idea that we are leaving them. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 192. Few people know how to be old. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 423. For you the To-come, But for me the Gone-by ; You are panting to live, I am waiting to die. R. LE GALLIENNE. An Old Man's Song. Time hath laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. LONGFELLOW. Golden Legend. So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature. This is old age. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. u, 535. Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face. MONTAIGNE. 346 OLD AGE OLD AGE His golden locks time hath to silver turned ; O time too swift ! O swiftness never ceasing ! G. PEELE. Polyhymnia. A man not old, but mellow, like good wine. STEPHEN PHILLIPS. Ulysses, Act 3. 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. MRS. PIOZZI. Three Warnings. In life's cool evening, satiate of applause. POPE. Ep. of Horace, Ep. i, /. 9. Old men for the most part are like old chronicles, that give you dull but true accounts of time past, and are worth know- ing only on that score. POPE. Thoughts on Various Subjects. When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. POPE. Ib. Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks ; He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise ex- perience. ROWE. Jane Shore. His withered fist still knocking at death's door. T. SACKVILLE (LORD DORSET). Mirrour for Magistrates Doubts, horrors, superstitious fears Saddened and dimmed descending years. SCOTT. Rokeby, i, 17. Let me not live, quoth he, After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff Of younger spirits. SHAKESPEARE. All's Well, Act i, 2. The satirical rogue says here, that old men have grey beards ; that their faces are wrinkled ; their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum ; and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams. SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, 2. You yourself, sir, should be as old as I am, if, lake a crab, you could go backward. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. How subject we old men are to this vice of lying ! SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Act 3, 2. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 3. An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye. Give him a little earth for charity. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 4, 2. O, sir, you are old ! Nature in you stands on the very verge Of her confine. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act 2, 4 T confess that I am old ; Age is unnecessary. SHAKESPEARE. Ib A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 3, 2 I am a very foolish, fond old man. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 4, 7. Vex not his ghost ! Oh, let him pass ! He hates him, That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 3. The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act 2, 3, I have lived long enough, my way of life Is fall'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. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 5, 3. I am declined Into the vale of years. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 3, 3 To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet 104. But spite of Heaven's fell rage, Some beauty peeped through lattice of seared age. SHAKESPEARE (?). Lover's Complaint, st. 2 . Old men are testy, and will have their way. SHELLEY. Cenci, Act i, 2. You are old, Father William, the young man cried, And pleasures with youth pass away ; And yet you lament not the days that are gone: Now tell me the reason I pray. SOUTHEY. Old Man's Comforts. O ! why do wretched men so much desire To draw their dayes unto the utmost date ? SPENSER. Faerie Qvtene, Bk. 4, c. 3, i. Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. R. L. STEVENSON. Crabbed Age. 347 OLD AGE ONIONS When an old gentleman waggles his head and says : " Ah, so I thought when I was your age," it is not thought an answer at all, if the young man retorts . " My vener- able sir, so I shall mostprobably thinkwhen I am yours." And yet the one is as good as the other. R. L. STEVENSON. Crabbed Age. Let life burn down, and dream it is not death. SWINBURNE. Anactoria. Ah ! there's no fool like the old one. TENNYSON. The Grandmother. O good grey head which all men knew. TENNYSON. On Wellington. For Age, with stealing steps, Hath clawed me with his crutch. THOS. LORD VAUX. Aged Lover. Old age is reputed to be incorrigible ; for myself, I believe one ought to think of correcting one's errors even when a hun- dred years old. VOLTAIRE. Irene (Pref. Letter, 1778). The soul's dark cottage, battered and de- cayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. WALLER. On the " Divine Poems." How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on ! WHITTIER. Snowbound. Thus fares it still in our decay, And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. WORDSWORTH. The Fountain (1799). The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. WORDSWORTH. Intimations of Immortality, c. 1 1 . The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. WORDSWORTH. Resolution and Independence. But an old age, serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. WORDSWORTH. To a Young Lady. We see Time's furrows on another's brow, And Death entrenched, preparing his as- sault. How few themselves in that just mirror see ! YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 5. And gently slope our passage to the grave. YOUNG. Ib. The man of wisdom is the man of years. YOUNG. Ib. With the ancient is wisdom ; and in length of days understanding. Job xii, 12. Crabbed age and youth Cannot live together. ANON.-^-Sowg in " Passionate Pilgrim " (pub. 1599). Fear old age, for it does not come alone. Greek prov. No Greek was ever an old man. Greek prov. (implying that the ancient Greeks remained children all their lives). I'm ower auld a dog to learn new tricks. Scottish prov. Little may an old horse do if he mauna nicher (neigh). Scottish prov. The feet are slow when the head wears snow. Prov. OLD FASHIONS I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches and all that, Are so queer ! O. W. HOLMES. Last Lea). O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for need ! SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 2, 3. Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that, do choke their service up. SHAKESPEARE. Ib. OMENS " A jolly place," said he, " in times of old, But something ails it now ; the spot is cursed." WORDSWORTH. Heart-leap Well. A House, but under some prodigious ban Of excommunication. HOOD. The Haunted House OMISSION Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. WALLER. On Roscommon's " Horace." ONIONS Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, half-suspected, animate the whole. SYDNEY SMITH. Recipe for Salad Dressing. 348 ONLOOKERS OPINION For this is every cook's opinion, No savoury dish without an onion ; But lest your kissing should be spoiled, Your onions must be thoroughly boiled. SWIFT. Onions. ONLOOKERS As many more Crowd round the door, To see them going to see it. HOOD. Miss Kilmansegg. The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight. PRIOR. To C. Montague. OPEN-MINDEDNESS A person who derives all his instruction from teachers or books ... is under no compulsion to hear both sides. Accord- ingly it is far from a frequent accomplish- ment, even among thinkers, to know both sides. J. S. MILL. Liberty, ch. 2. He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. J. S. MILL. Ib. One man's speech Is no man's speech ; Let a man give ear to each. German saying. OPINION Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please. MARCUS AURELIUS. Bk. 12, 22. The absurd man is he who never changes his opinions. BARTHELEMY. An illogical opinion only requires rope enough to hang itself. A. BIRRELL. Via Media. Who doth not know with what fierce rage Opinions, true or false, engage ? S. BUTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. And nothing's so perverse in nature As a profound opiniator. S. BUTLER. Ib. It is opinion governs all mankind, As wisely as the blind that leads the blind. S. BUTLER. Upon the Abuse of Human Learning, Pt. 2 (Fragment). We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another on points on which we agree. C. C. COLTON. Lacon. His sole opinion, whatsoe'er befall, Centering at last in having none at all. COWPER. Conversation, 133. Mr. Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence. . . . He had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in often clearing the world of its most difficult problems, by sweeping them behind him. DICKENS. Our Mutual Friend, Bk. i, ch. ii. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long. DRYDEN. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. i, 545. As long as words a different sense will bear. And each may be his own interpreter, Our airy faith will no foundation find ; The word's a weathercock for every wind. DRYDEN. Hind and Panther, 462. A heap er sayins en a heap er doins in dis roun' worl* got to be tuck on trus". You got yo' sayins, en I got mine. J. C. HARRIS. Nights with Uncle Remus, ch. 42. We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion. HAZLITT. Court Influence. Men fear public opinion now as they did in former times the Star Chamber : and those awful goddesses, Appearances, are to us what the Fates were to the Greeks. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. i, ch. 5. Opinions are a great care and a great trouble ; but still they are acquisitions. SIR A. HELPS. Ib., Bk. 2, ch. 2. Opinion is that high and mighty Dame Which rules the world. J. HOWELL. Before " The Vocal Forest." Opinions are like fashions, beautiful when we first assume them ugly when we discard them. THEODORE JOUFFROY (1796-1842). We scarcely ever find any people of good sense, excepting those who are of our own opinion. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 347. Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions. SIR J. MACKINTOSH. Ethical Philosophy. Sir, though I would persuade, I'll not con- strain : Each man's opinion freely is his own Concerning anything, or anybody. MASSINGER. Fatal Dowry, Act 2, 2. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion ; and if we were sure, stifling would be an evil still. J. S. MILL. Liberty, ch. 2. Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. MILTON. Areopagitica. My opinion, my conviction, gains in- finitely in strength and success, the moment a second mind has adopted it. NOVALIS (aj lr. by Carlylt). 349 OPINION OPPORTUNITY He who does not know the truth, but hunts after opinions, will, as it appears, produce but a ridiculous and inartistic art of speaking. PLATO. Phcsdrus, 99 (Gary tr.). 'Tis with our judgments, as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. POPE. Criticism, 6. Some praise at morning what they blame at night, But always think the last opinion right. POPE. Ib., 431. Whenever opposite views are held with warmth by religious-minded men, we may take it for granted there is some higher truth which embraces both. All high truth is the union of contradictions. F. W. ROBERTSON. Opinion obeys the same law as the pen- dulum. If it goes beyond the centre of gravity on one side, it must go as far be- yond on the other. It is only after a time that it finds its true resting-place and becomes settled. SCHOPENHAUER. Psychological Observations. Human nature causes us to be depen- dent on other people's opinion in a way completely out of proportion to its value. SCHOPENHAUER. On Women. Hear you this Triton of the minnows ? mark you His absolute shall ? SHAKESPEARE. Coriolanus, Act 3, i. Hath there been such a time, I'd fain know that, When I have positively said, " 'Tis so," And it proved otherwise ? SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet, Act 2, z. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 2, 2. His own opinion was his law. SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII., Act 4, 2. I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people. SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth, Act i, 7. A plague of opinion ! A man may wear it on both sides like a leather jerkin. SHAKESPEARE. Troilus, Act 3, 3. Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. H. SPENCER. Social Statics, Pt. 3, sec. 8. In war, opinion is nine parts in ten. SWIFT. Letter, 1711. But foolish man still judges what is best In his own balance, false and light, Following opinion, dark and blind, That vagrant leader of the mind, Till honesty and conscience are clear out of sight. SWIFT. Ode to Sancroft. So many men, so many opinions. TERENCE. Phormio, 2. " So many heads, so many opinions " fie ! Is't not a shame for Proverbs thus to lie I've known, though my acquaintance be but small, Heads which have no opinion at all. Epigram. Founded on lines in Camden's " Remains " (1657). OPPORTUNISM " It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do." " But suppose there are two mobs ? " suggested Mr. Snodgrass. " Shout with the largest," re- plied Mr. Pickwick. DICKENS. Pickwick Papers. Let fools the name of loyalty divide ! Wise men and gods are on the strongest side. SIR C. SEDLEY. Marc Antony. An thou canst not smile as the wind sits, thou'lt catch cold shortly. SHAKESPEARE. Lear, Act i, 4. There is a right way and a wrong ; You cannot travel both along. Choose this or that without delay, But don't pretend a middle way. C. H. SPURGEON. " Salt-Cellars" OPPORTUNITY Give me a standing place, and I will move the earth. ARCHIMEDES (traditional). Time, so complained of, Who to one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimmed hours. M. ARNOLD. Consolation. A wise man will make more oppor- tunities than he finds. BACON. Of Ceremonies. 'Tis clear if we refuse The means so limited, the tools so rude To execute our purpose, life will fleet, And we shall fade, and nothing will be done.: BROWNING. Paracelsus. Youth, once gone, is gone : Deeds, let escape, are never to be done. BROWNING. Sorddlo, Bk. 3. Any nose May ravage with impunity a rose. BROWNING. Ib., Bk. 6. 350 OPPORTUNITY OPPRESSION Never had mortal man such opportunity, Except Napoleon, or abused it more. BYRON. Don Juan, c. g, 9. We must beat the iron while it is hot ; but we may polish it at leisure. DRYDEN. Dedication of JEneid. Thou strong seducer, opportunity 1 DRYDEN. Conquest of Granada, Pt. 2, Act 4, 3. Use May, while that you may, For May hath but his time : When all the fruit is gone, it is Too late the tree to climb. R. EDWARDS. May. There is an hour in each man's life ap- pointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it. FLETCHER AND MASSINGER. Custom of the Country, Act 2, i. Her case may any day Be yours, my dear, or mine. Let her make her hay While the sun doth shine. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Pirates of Penzance. Give ample room and verge enough. GRAY. Bard. Here is the sum, that when one door opens, another shuts. HAFIZ. As given by Emerson, Essay on Persian Poetry. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying ; And this same flower, that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. HERRICK. To the Virgins. The man who loses his opportunity, loses himself. G. MOORE. Bending of the Bough, Act 5. Every French soldier carries in his knap- sack the baton of a French field-marshal. NAPOLEON. Saying. Jupiter himself cannot bring back lost opportunity. PH.SDRUS. Bk. 5. Know the proper season. PlTTACUS OF MlTYLENE (C. B.C. 55O). Oh how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes ! SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It, Act 5, 2. For courage mounteth with occasion. SHAKESPEARE. King John, Act 2, i. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done ! SHAKESPEARE. /&., Act 4, 2. 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. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ccesar, Act 4, 3. Opportunity, thy guilt is great ! 'Tis thou that execut'st the traitor's treason. SHAKESPEARE. Lucrece, 126. Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold. WORDSWORTH. Desultory Stanzas. 1 do but wait a time and fortune's chance ; Oft many things do happen in one houre. SIR T. WYATT. (Tottel, 1557.) Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered. Wisdom of Solomon ii, 8. Be in time at the hedge if you would dry your linen. Prov. quoted by Goethe. The open door tempts a saint. Spanish prov. OPPOSITION Without contraries is no progression. WM. BLAKE. Book of Thel. No Government can be long secure with- out a formidable Opposition. DISRAELI. Coningsby, Bk. 2, c. I. Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house, with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea water, and vigor- ously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic was aroused. Mrs. Parting- ton's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle but she should not have meddled with a tempest. SYDNEY SMITH. Speech at Taunion,i83i. When I first came into Parliament, Mr. Tierney, a great Whig authority, used always to say that the duty of an Opposi- tion was very simple it was to oppose everything and propose nothing. LORD STANLEY. Speech, June 4, 1841. The tiny-trumpeting gnat can break our dream When sweetest ; and the vermin voices here May buzz so loud we scorn them, but they sting. TENNYSON. Lancelot and Elaine, 137. OPPRESSION Oppression makes the wise man mad. BROWNING. Luria, Act 4. 351 OPTIMISM ORATORY All oppressors . . . attribute the frus- tration of their desires to the want of suffi- cient rigour. Then they redouble the efforts of their impotent cruelty. BURKE. Impeachment of Hastings. Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, And freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell. CAMPBELL. Pleasures of Hope. yrd Fisher, Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. ist Fisher. Why, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones. SHAKESPEARE. Pericles, Act 2, i. It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear the sheep, not to flay them. SUETONIUS. Given as a saying of Tiberius Cezsar. Mastiffs on whom their master has placed collars of iron can strangle dogs who have none. VOLTAIRE. Historical Fragments on India, etc. My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. i Kings xii, 10. (Also z Chron. x, 10.) My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions, i Kings xii, n. (A Iso 2 Chron. x, 14.) And he looked for judgment, but behold oppression ; for righteousness, but behold a cry. Isaiah v, 7. Then has not the gude cause to grumble That's forst to be a slave ? Oppression does the judgment jumble, And gars a wise man rave. May chains then and pains then Infernal be thair byre, Wha dang us and flang us, Into this ugsum myre ! ANON. The Vision (c. 1715 ? printed 1783). OPTIMISM The barren optimistic sophistries Of comfortable moles. M. ARNOLD. To a Republican Friend. I find earth not grey but rosy, Heaven not grim, but fair of hue. BROWNING. At the Mermaid. world as God has made it ! All is beauty. BROWNING. Guardian Angel. God's in His heaven All's right with the world ! BROWNING. Pippa Passes. Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care. EMERSON. To the Humble Bee. For some there are who say the ills which wait On man exceed his joys ; but I maintain The contrary opinion, that our lives More bliss than woe experience. EURIPIDES. Suppliants, 198 (Woodhull tr.). And I am right, And you are right, And all is right as right can be. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Mikado, Act i. By happy alchymy of mind They turn to pleasure all they find. MATTHEW GREEN. Spleen. 630. 'Tis always morning somewhere, and above The awakening continents, from shore to shore, Somewhere the birds are singing evermore. LONGFELLOW. Birds of Killingworth. Youth goes ; childhood need never be lost. EDITH SICHEL. Thoughts. The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you ; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion. THACKERAY. Vanity Fair (1847). Heed not the folk who sing or say In sonnet sad or sermon chill, " Alas, alack, and well-a-day ! This round world's but a bitter pill." We too are sad and careful ; still We'd rather be alive than not. GRAHAM R. TOMSON. Ballade of the Optimist. " What is optimism ? " said Cacambo. " Alas," said Candide, "it is the passion for saying that everything is well when it is evil." VOLTAIRE. Candide. Age brought him no despairing Of the world's future faring ; In human nature still He found more good than ill. WHITTIER. An Autograph. Love lights more fire than hate extin- guishes, And men grow better as the world grows old. ELLA W. WILCOX. Optimism. ORACLES The oracles are dumb. MILTON. Christmas Hymn. There is no truth at all i' the oracle. SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act 3, 2. ORATORY Their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. BACON. Adv. of Learning. 352 ORATORY The clear harangue, and cold as it is clear, Falls soporific on the listless ear. COWPER. Progress of Error, 19. The Chadband style of oratory is widely received and much admired. DICKENS. Bleak House, ch. 19. A man may speak very well in the house of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two dis- tinct styles requisite ; I intend in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both. DISRAELI. Young Duke, Bk. 5, c. 7. I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me. DISRAELI. Maiden Speech in House of Commons, 1837. The orator must be, to a certain extent, a poet. EMERSON. Eloquence. The finest eloquence is that which gets things done ; the worst is that which delays them. D. LLOYD GEORGE. Conference of Paris, Jan., 1919. Sheridan once said of some speech . . . that it contained a great deal of what was new, and what was true ; but that what was new was not true, and what was true was not new. HAZLITT. In orations of praise, and in invectives, the fancy is predominant ; because the design is not truth, but to honour or dis- honour. HOBBES. Leviathan, ch. 8. See how he throws his baited lines about, And plays his men as anglers play their trout. O. W. HOLMES. Banker's Dinner. Ha ! my friend, rescue me from my danger. You can deliver your speech afterwards. LA FONTAINE. Fables. Begin low, speak slow ; Take fire, rise higher ; When most impressed, Be self-possessed ; At the end wax warm And sit down in a storm. DR. LEIFCHILD (?) (i8th Century). Knowin' the ears long speeches suit air mostly made to match. J. R. LOWELL. Biglow Papers, znd Series, 3. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator, a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import. MACAULAY. (On Gladstone.} What orators lack in depth, they make up in length, MONTESQUIEU. ORDER He who would be a good orator ought to be just, and skilled in the knowledge ef things just. PLATO. Gorgias, 136 (Gary tr.). Cicero used to ridicule loud speakers, saying that they shouted because they could not speak, like lame men who get on horseback because they cannot walk. PLUTARCH. Life of Cicero. " Young man," he [Phocion] said [to Leosthenes], " your speeches are like cypress-trees, stately and tall, but no fruit to come of them." PLUTARCH. Life of Phocion. There are three qualities which an orator ought to display, namely, that he should instruct, he should move, and he should delight. QUINTILIAN. There is not less eloquence in the tone of the voice, in the eyes, and in the de- meanour, than in the choice of words. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 249 (1678 ed.). Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. LORD ROSEBERY. Life of Pitt, ch. 13. If you look for a good speech now, you undo me. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. 2, Epilogue. I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend. SHAKESPEARE. Julius C&sar, Act 3, 2. The right honourable gentleman is in- debted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. SHERIDAN. Speech (reply to Mr. Dundas, but borrowed from " Gil Bias"). Ye may say I am hot ; I say I am not ; Only warm, as the subject in which I am got. SWIFT. Famous Speech-maker. On the day of the dinner of the Oyster- mongers' Company, what a noble speech I thought of in the cab ! THACKERAY. Roundabout Papers. It is with men as with asses ; whoever would keep them fast must find a very good hold at their ears. Slavonian prov. ORDER Good order is the foundation of all good things. BURKE. Reflections on Fr. Revolution, 553 ORGANS OUTLAWS If God had laid all common, certainly Man would have been th' incloser ; but since now God hath impaled us, on the contrary Man breaks the fence, and every ground will plough. HERBERT. Church Porch. Method is good in all things. Order governs the world. The devil is the author of confusion. SWIFT. Letter, 1710. ORGANS There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced choir below, In service high and anthems clear, As may, with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies And bring all heaven before mine eyes. MILTON. II Penseroso, 162. While in more lengthened notes and slow The deep, majestic, solemn organs blow. POPE. St. Cecilia's Day. ORIENTALISM The East bowed low before the blast, In patient deep disdain ; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. MATTHEW ARNOLD. Obermann once more. The practice of politics in the East may be denned by one worddissimulation. DISRAELI. Contarini Fleming, Pt. 5, ch. 10. ORIGINALITY You must not pump spring-water un- awares Upon a gracious public full of nerves. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 3. Originality is the one thing which un- original minds cannot feel the use of. They cannot see what it is to do for them. How should they ? J. S. MILL. Freedom, ch. 3. All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. J. S. MILL. Ib. That virtue of originality that men so strain after is not neumess, as they vainly think, there is nothing new. It is only genuineness. RUSKIN. Modern Painters, vol. z, Pt. 3, ch. 3, 6. ORNAMENT His locked, lettered, braw brass collar Showed him the gentleman and scholar. BURNS. The Twa Dogs. Often in the case of weighty enterprises and great objects professed, one or two purple patches are sewn on to make a fine show in the distance. HORACE. De Arte Poetica. A carelessness about personal appear- ance becomes men. OVID. Ars Amat., Bk. i. Ornament cannot be overcharged if it is good, and is always overcharged when it is bad. RUSKIN. Seven Lamps: Lamp of Sacrifice. The world is still deceived with ornament. SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act 3, 3. For Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. THOMSON. Seasons: Autumn. OSTENTATION Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. GRAY. Long Story. Does it come to this, that your know- ledge is nothing to you unless some other person knows that you know it ? PERSIUS. Sat. i, 27. Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. POPE. Moral Essays, Ep. 3, 285. One who paraded with a certain amount of art all that he said or did. TACITUS. Hist., Bk. 2, 80. That jewelled mass of millinery, That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull. TENNYSON. Maud, Pt. i, 6. But all their works they do for to be seen of men : they make broad their phylac- teries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the syna- gogues. St. Matthew xxiii, 5, 6. Prudent the man who builds his habitation, Mansion or hall or villa as preferred ; Yet let him curb his j^ride with modera- tion, " Fine cage feeds not the bird." ANON. Tr. of Old French Inscription on a Manor House in Normandy. OUTCASTS Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in. J. R. LOWELL. The Forlorn. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. Genesis xvi, 12, OUTLAWS A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy ! And Scotland has a thief as good, 354 PAGEANTRY An outlaw of as daring mood ; She has her brave Rob Roy. WORDSWORTH. Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, ii. (Rob Roy's Grave.) OUTLOOK Two men look out through the same bars : One sees the mud, and one the stars. F. LANGBRIDGE. Quiet Thoughts. The man who sees both sides of a ques- tion is the man who sees absolutely nothing at all. OSCAR WILDE. Intentions. OUTSPOKENNESS To a poure man men sholde his vyces telle, But nat to a lord, thogh he sholde go to helle. CHAUCER. Somnour's Tale, 370. " Not to put too fine a point upon it " a favourite apology for plain-speaking with Mr. Snagsby. DICKENS. Bleak House, ch. u. Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation. MASSINGER. Gt. Duke of Florence, Act 5, 3. We drank the pure daylight of honest speech. GEO. MEREDITH. Modern Love, st. 48. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor power of speech To stir men's blood ; I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Ccesar, Act 3, 2. Plain dealing is the best when all is done. WM. PRYNNE. Histrio-Mastix, Act 3, i. Speak thy purpose out ; I love not mystery or doubt. SCOTT. Rokeby, c. 3, n. Do you not know I am a woman ? What I think I speak. SHAKESPEARE. .4s You Like It, Act 3, 2. His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges that his tongue must vent. SHAKESPEARE. Coriolanus, Act 3, i. I will a round unvarnished tale deliver. SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act i, 3. On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. OSCAR WILDE. Importance of being Earnest. OXFORD Oxford, of whom the poet said That one of your unwritten laws is To back the weaker side, and wed Your gallant heart to wobbling causes. SIR OWEN SEAMAN. Scholar Farmer. OYSTERS " It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, " that poverty and oysters always seem to go together." DICKENS. Pickwick Papers, ch. 22. He had often eaten oysters, but had never had enough. SIR W. S. GILBERT. Etiquette. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. SWIFT. Polite Conversation. A month without an R has nae richt being in the year. JOHN WILSON. Nodes, 13. What desperate breedy beasts eisters maun be ! JOHN WILSON. Nodes, 16 (Ettrick Shepherd). Eisters dinna interrupt talkin*. JOHN WILSON. Ib. There's really no end in natur* to the eatin' o* eisters. JOHN WILSON. Ib., 17 (Ettrick Shepherd). Hech, sirs ! but the month o' Sep- tember's the month after my ain heart and worth ony ither twa in the year comin' upon you, as it does, after May, June, July, and August, wi' its R and its Eisters. JOHN WILSON. Ib., 17 (Oct., 1828). The oyster is a gentle thing, And will not come unless you sing. Old Rhyme. PACIFICATION When the victors show themselves more regardful of justice and equal laws than the vanquished, then all things will be full of security and felicity, and there will be an escape from every ill. PLATO. Epistle 7 (After the assassination of Dion of Syracuse). PAGEANTRY And pomp and feast and revelry With mask, and antique pageantry. MILTON. L' Allegro, 127. Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Vir- tues, Powers. MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. 5, 601. 355 PAIN PARIS PAIN All that the proud can feel of pain. BVRON. Prometheus. For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain. DRYDEN. Indian Emperor, Act 4, r. There are two things to be sanctified pains and pleasures. PASCAL. Pensees, Pt. 2, 17, 28. He loves to make parade of pain. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, c. 21. Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan ; For we are born in other's pain, And perish in our own. F. THOMPSON. Daisy. The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of the strain. SARAH WILLIAMS. Twilight Hours. PAINTING And Painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. CAMPBELL. To J. P. Kemble. The violently increasing number of ex- tremely foolish persons who now concern themselves about pictures, may be counted among the meanest calamities of modern society. RUSKIN. Note (1882) to Rev. Ed. of Modern Painters, Vol. 2, sec. i, ch. i. The essential difference between painting and daubing is that a painter lays not a grain more colour than is needed. RUSKIN. Ib., Vol. 2, sec. 2, ch. 5. No author can live by his work and be as empty-headed as an average successful painter. G. B. SHAW. Unsocial Socialist, ch. 12. (Sidney Trefusis.) Whate'er their errors, they no more remain, For Time, like fuller's earth, takes out each stain : Nay more, on faults that modern works would tarnish, Time spreads a sacred coat of varnish. J. WOLCOT. Odes for 1786, No. 7. PALESTINE In those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross. SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. i, Act i, i. PARADISE One universal smile it seemed of all things ; Joy past compare. DANTE. Parodist, c. 27, 6 (Gary tr.) If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful, beyond compare, Will paradise be found ! J. MONTGOMERY. The Earth full of God's Goodness. I have been there, and still would go ; 'Tis like a little heaven below. I. WATTS. Lord's Day. PARADOX Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other. S. T. COLERIDGE. Christabel, Pt. 2 (Conclusion). This will be found contrary to all ex- perience, yet it is true. LEONARD EULER (1707-1783). On his law of Arches. Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified. SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, 3. PARASITES So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey : And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. SWIFT. On Poetry. Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves in turn have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on. Quoted in Prof. De Morgan's " Budget of Paradoxes " (c. 1850). PARENTS Lovers grow cold, men learn to hate their wives, And only parents' love can last our lives. BROWNING. Pippa Passes. A great distinction, and among mankind The most conspicuous, is to spring from sires Renowned for virtue. Generous souls hence raise To heights sublimer an ennobled name. EURIPIDES. Hecuba, 379 (Woodhull tr.). The virtue of parents is a great dowry. HORACE. Odes, Bk. 3. PARIS Nothing is more excellent than the legend that the Parisian women come into this world with all possible failings, but 356 PARKS that a kind fairy has mercy on them and lends to each fault a spell by which it works as a charm. That kind fairy is Grace. HEINE. Florentine Nights. Paris is the New Jerusalem, and the Rhine is the Jordan which separates the land of Freedom from the land of the Philistines. HEINE. The Liberation. Adieu, Paris ! Famous city, city of noise, of smoke, of mud, where the women have ceased to believe in virtue, and the men in honour. ROUSSEAU. Emile. I think every wife has a right to insist upon seeing Paris. SYDNEY SMITH. Letter to Countess Grey, Sept. ii, 1835. VVhen good Americans die they go to Paris. Ascribed to Thos. Gold Appleton. PARKS Public money is scarcely ever so well employed as in securing bits of waste ground and keeping them as open spaces. SIR A. HELPS. Friends in Council, Bk. i, ch. 10. PARLIAMENT England, the mother of Parliaments. JOHN BRIGHT. Speech, Jan. 18, 1865. I like a parliamentary debate, Particularly when it's not too late. BYRON. Beppo, st. 47. Beautiful talk is by no means the most pressing want in Parliament. CARLYLE. Latter Day Pamphlets, 5. A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven mill- ions, mostly fools. CARLYLE. Ib., 6. Liberty to send your fifty-thousandth part of a new Tongue-fencer into the National Debating Club. CARLYLE. French Revolution. The notion that a man's liberty consists in giving his vote at election-hustings, and saying, " Behold, now I too have my twenty-thousandth part of a Talker in our National Palaver." CARLYLE. Past and Present, ch. 13. " You have not imparted to me," re- marks Veneering, " what you think of my entering the House of Commons." " I think," rejoins Twemlow feelingly, " that it is the best club in London." DICKENS. Our Mutual Friend, Bk. 2, ch. 3 . PARTIES Only through the accident of being a hereditary peer can anyone, in these days of Votes for Everybody, get into parliament, if handicapped by a serious modern cul- tural equipment. G. B. SHAW. Heartbreak House, Pref. The Cherry Orchard. PAROCHIALISM We never come to be citizens of the world, but are still villagers, who think that everything in their petty town is a little superior to the same thing anywhere else. EMERSON. Domestic Life. The parish makes the Constable, and when the Constable is made he governs the Parish. SELDEN. People. Ye think the rustic cackle of your bourg The murmur of the world. TENNYSON. Marriage of Geraint, I. 276. O Lord, bless and be gracious to the Greater and the Lesser Cumbrays, and in thy mercy do not forget the adjacent islands of Great Britain and Ireland. Prayer of the Minister of the Cumbrays, " two miserable islands in the mouth of the Clyde." (Sir W. Scott's Diary, 1827.) The sun and the moon may go wrong, but the clock of St. Johnston (Perth) never goes wrong. Scottish saying (Chambers). PARODY It is not right to intrude the ludicrous into what is not ludicrous. To do so is to spoil taste, to corrupt one's own judgment and that of other people. LA BRUYERE. Quoted by Geo. Eliot in " Theophrastus Such " in support of a con- demnation of burlesque and parody. PARTIES Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things in- separable from free government. BURKE. Observations on " Present State of the Nation." The consequence is, being of no party, I shall offend all parties. BYRON. Don Juan, c. 9, 26. In a world which exists by the balance of Antagonisms, the respective merit of the Conservator or the Innovator must ever remain debatable. CARLYLE. On Boswell's Life of Johnson. I have never loved any parties, but with my utmost zeal have sincerely espoused the great and original interest of this na- tion, and of all nations I mean truth and liberty, and whoever are of that party, I desire to be with them. DEFOE. History of the Union. 357 PARTIES PARTIES The grand contention's plainly to be seen, To get some men put out and some put in. DEFOE. True-Born Englishman, Intro. I believe that without party, parlia- mentary government is impossible. DISRAELI. Speech, 1872. At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace. DRVDEN. Astraa Redux, 312. Of the two great parties which, at this hour, almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men. EMERSON. Politics. Party Government the crown and glory of the British constitution is a peculiar structure, and involves a peculiar assumption. . . . Nature has created us with two eyes, but in matters of state, either of necessity or deliberately, we must extinguish one. FROUDE. Short Studies : Party Politics. I often think it's comical How nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal, That's born into this world alive, Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative. SIR W. S. GILBERT. lolanthe. I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking for my- self at all. SIR W. S. GILBERT. H.M.S. Pinafore. He serves his party best who serves the country best. R. B. HAYES. Address, 1877. [Government! is like an hour-glass ; when one side's quite run out, we turn up the other and go on again. D. JERROLD. Prisoner of War. A wise Tory and a wise Whig, I believe, will agree. Their principles are the same, though their modes of thinking are diff- erent. JOHNSON. Written Memorandum, 1783. Ez to my princerples, I glory In havin' nothin' of the sort ; I ain't a Wig, I ain't a Tory, I'm jest a candidate, in short. J. R.LOWELL. Biglow Papers, ist Series, ?. We're clean out o* money, an* 'most out o' lyin'. J. R. LOWELL. Ib., znd Series, 4. Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the State : Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great. MACAULAY. Horatius, st. 32. 35* In politics, again, it is almost a common- place that a party of order or stability and a party of progress or reform are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. J. S. MILL. Liberty, ch. 2. Party spirit, which, at best, is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. POPE. Letter to E. Blount, Aug. 27, 1714. The three chief qualifications of a party writer are to stick at nothing, to delight in flinging dirt, and to slander in the dark by guess. POPE. Letter. There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent. POPE. Ib. When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increase tenfold, your admiration and attachment to any particular party or opinion fall away altogether. J. H. SHORT-HOUSE. John Inglesant, Vol. i, ch. 6. I have never given way to that puritan- ical feeling of the Whigs against dining with the Tories Tory and Whig in turns shall be my host ; I taste no politics in boiled and roast. SYDNEY SMITH. Letter to John Murray (c. 1834). The outs and the ins are as like as two pins : they both want to stick in good places. C. H. SPURGEON. "Salt- Cellars." Abundance of political lying is a sure sign of true English liberty. SWIFT. Art of Political Lying. In this quarrel whole rivulets of ink have been exhausted, and the virulence of both parties enormously augmented. SWIFT. Battle of the Books. He could not forbear taking me up in his right hand, and, stroking me gently with the other, after a hearty fit of laugh- ing, asked me whether I was a Whig or Tory. SWIFT. Brobdingnag. It is alleged, indeed, that the high heels are most agreeable to our ancient consti- tution, but, however that may be, his majesty has determined to make use only of low heels in the administration. SWIFT. Voyage to Lilliput. Ring out a slowly-dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife ; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. TENNYSON. In Memoriam, c. 106. PARTING PASSIONS Let Whig and Tory stir their blood ; There must be stormy weather ; But for some true result of good All parties work together. TENNYSON. Will Waterproof. " Fancy a party all Mulligans ! " thought I, with a secret terror. THACKERAY. Mrs. Perkins's Ball. The puzzling sons of Party aext appeared, In dark cabals and nightly juntos met. THOMSON. Castle of fndolence, c. i, st. 54- When two parties divide a kingdom, no more pleasures, no more tranquillity, no more tenderness, no more honesty ! VOLTAIRE. Guerre civile de Geneve. It is true that there are always two parties amongst us [the English] which fight with the pen and by intrigues ; but it is also true that they always unite to- gether when it is a question of taking arms in defence of country and liberty. These two parties watch over each other ; they mutually prevent any violation of the sacred depositary of the law ; they hate each other, but they love the state ; they are jealous lovers who serve with emula- tion the same mistress. VOLTAIRE. Princesse de Babylone. It is a pleasure to read the books of the Whigs and the Tories : listen to the Whigs, and the Tories have betrayed England ; listen to the Tories, every Whig has sacri- ficed the state to self-interest. So that if you believe both parties there is not a single honest man in the nation. VOLTAIRE. Pyrrhonism of History. Toryism is an innate principle o' human nature. Whiggism but an evil habit. JOHN WILSON. Nodes, 4 (Ettrick Shepherd). All political parties die at length of swallowing their own lies. Attrib. to Dr. J. Arbuthnot. PARTING Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart. BYRON. Maid of Athens. When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years. BYRON. W*hen we two parted. Weep not, she says, at Nature's transient pain; Congenial spirits part to meet again. CAMPBELL. Pleasures of Hope. Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part. DRAYTON. Ideas, Sonnet 61. In every parting there is an image of death. GEO. ELIOT. Amos Barton. There's sma' sorrow at our pairting, as the auld mear [marc] said to the broken cart. SCOTT. Rob Roy (Andrew Fairservice). 1 remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met ; You hoped we were both broken-hearted, And knew we should both forget. SWINBURNE. Interlude. But Fate ordains that dearest friends must part. YOUNG. Love of Fame, Sat. a. PASSIONS And creeping things can tell the vehement rage Of whirling storms of winds. But who man's temper overbold may tell, Or daring passionate loves Of women bold in heart Passions close bound with man's calam- ities ? AESCHYLUS. Choephorce, 585 (Plumptre tr.). His madness was not of the head, but heart. BYRON. Lara, c. i, 18. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast. BYRON. So. we'll go no more a roving. In all disputes, so much as there is of passion, so much there is of nothing to the purpose. SIR T. BROWNE. Religio Medici, Pt. 2, 3. Angry friendship is sometimes as bad as calm enmity. BURKE. Appeal from New to Old Whigs. It was not strange ; for in the human breast Two master-passions cannot co-exist. CAMPBELL. Theodric. Nor can a man of passions judge aright, Except his mind be from all passions free. SIR JOHN DAVIES. Nosce Teipsum. His passion cast a mist before his sense, And either made, or magnified the offence. DRYDEN. Palamon and Arcite, Bk. 2, 334. But love the sense of right and wrong con- founds, Strong love and proud ambition have no bounds. DRYDEN. Ib., Bk. 3 , 808. Where passion rules, how weak does reason prove ! DRYDEN. Rival Ladies. 359 PASSIONS PAST Sensuality, vanity, and avarice, these are the three things that destroy a man. VV. E. GLADSTONE. Remark as reported by Lord Morley (" Recollections)." Whatever wild desires have swelled the breast, Whatever passions have the soul possessed, Joy, Sorrow, Fear, Love, Hatred, Trans- port, Rage, Shall form the motley subject of my page. JUVENAL. Sat. i, 86 (Gifford tr.). The passions are the only orators which always persuade. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxim 8. A man might preserve himself from all the dangers and errors of vice, if, before yielding to the voice of imperious desire, he would consult the past and read a li ttle of the future. LE S^GUR. Galerie Morale. There's sure no passion in the human soul But finds its food in music. G. LILLO. Fatal Curiosity, Act 1,2. But all subsists by elemental strife, And passions are the elements of life. POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. i, 169. What Reason weaves by Passion is un- done. POPE. Jb., Ep. 2, 42. And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. POPE. Ib., Ep. 2, 131. Search then, the ruling passion : there alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. POPE. Moral Essays, Ep. i, 174. And you, brave Cobham ! to the latest breath, Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death : Such in those moments as in all the past, " Oh, save my country, Heaven ! " shall be your last. POPE. Ib., Ep. i, 262. The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. POPE. Ib., Ep. 3, 153. Passions are likened best to floods and streams ; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. SIR W. RALEGH. Silent Lover. Conscience is the voice of the soul ; pas- sions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that these two languages are often contradictory ? ROUSSEAU. Emile. His soul, like bark with rudder lost, On passion's changeful tide was lost. SCOTT. Rokeby. I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable. SHAKESPEARE. Mercht. of Venice, Act 2, 8. Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes ? G. B. SHAW. Man and Superman. Of all the tyrants that the world affords, Our own affections are the fiercest lords. EARL OF STIRLING. Julius Ctesar. O daughter of Death and Priapus, Our Lady of Pain. SWINBURNE. Dolores. " Consider well," the voice replied, " His face, that two hours since hath died ; Wilt thou find passion, pain, or pride ? " TENNYSON. Two Voices. Love, anguish, wrath, and grief, to mad- ness wrought ; Despair and secret shame and conscious thought Of inborn worth his labouring soul op- pressed, Rolled in his eyes and raged within his breast. VIRGIL. Mneid, Bk. 10 (Dryden tr.). (Of Mezentius.) As it were a ramping and a roaring lion. Church Psalter xiv, 6. We also are men of like passions with you. Acts xiv, 15. PAST The world but feels the present's spell, The poet feels the past as well. MATTHEW ARNOLD. Bacchanalia. The past is in its grave, Though its ghost haunts us. BROWNING. Pauline. The light of other days. A. BUNN. Bohemian Girl. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestor's. t BURKE. Reflections on Fr. Revolution. The " good old times " all times when old are good. BYRON. Age of Bronze. And learn the future by the past of man. CAMPBELL. Pleasures of Hope, Pt. i. While Memory watches o'er the sad review Of joys that faded like the morning dew. CAMPBELL. Ib., Pt. 2. 360 PAST To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times ? CICERO. Orator, 34, 120. The Knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust ; His soul is with the saints, I trust. COLERIDGE. Knight's Tomb. Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year. SIR J. DENHAM. The Sophy. A proverb haunts my mind, As a spell is cast ; " The mill cannot grind With the water that is past," SARAH DOUDNEY. Another symptom, therefore, in all noble peoples is to admire, and perhaps ex- aggerate the greatness of the past. FROUDE. Short Studies: Party Politics. Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. GIBBON. Decline and Fall, ch. 49. " Ah, Lord, Sis Tempy ! " he [Uncle Remus] exclaimed sorrowfully, " don't le's we all go foolin' roun* mungs* dem ole times. De bes' kinder bread gits sour." J. C. HARRIS. Nights with Uncle Remus, ch. 41. Even men who have warmly espoused the cause of modernism, ever retain a secret sympathy with the heritages of olden time. Those ghostly voices of the past, no matter how faint their echo, stir our souls marvellously. HEINE. The Romantic School. Hours of work and hours of play Fade away Into one immense Inane. . . . Life goes crooning, faint and fain, One refrain, " If it could be always May ! " W. E. HENLEY. Ballade of Truisms. Let's consider the past with a lingering gaze, Like a peacock whose eyes are inclined to his tail. HOOD. Parthian Glance. Be fair or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed are mine ; Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. HORACE. Odes (Dry den tr.). Where is the heart that doth not keep Within its inmost core Some fond remembrance, hidden deep, Of days that are no more. ELLEN C. HOWARTH. 'Tis but a little faded flower. PAST Pindar blended passing events with ancient times in such wise that he does not seem to be praising the past, but rather fanning into flames the embers of a dying beauty. KEBLE. Lectures on Poetry, No. 24 (E. K. Francis tr.). The best friend one can have is the past. BARONESS DE KRUDENER. (Russian.) (1766-1824.) Hans Breitmann gife a barty Vhere is dat barty now ? C. G. LELAND. Breitmann's Party. This is the place. Stand still, my steed, Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy Past Tl^e forms that once have been. LONGFELLOW. Gleam of Sunshine. For Time will teach thee soon the truth, There are no birds in last year's nest. LONGFELLOW. It is not always May Old loves, old aspirations, and old dreams, More beautiful for being old and gone. J. R. LOWELL. Parting of the Ways Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. MILTON. Christmas Hymn. Who ever saw old age which did not praise the past time, and blame the present ? MONTAIGNE. Bk. 2, 13. To joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. J. MONTGOMERY. The Little Cloud. The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. MOORE. Irish Melodies. When Time, who steals our years away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past will stay And half our joys renew. MOORE. Song. For hope shall brighten days to come, And memory gild the past ! MOORE. Song. I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old. CAROLINE E. S. NORTON (LADY STIRLING MAXWELL). The Lonely Harp (Song). Prince, I counsel you, never say, Alack for the years that are left behind ! Look you, keep love when your dreams decay ; All else flits past on the wings of the wind. JOHN PAYNE. Ballad of Past Delight. 361 PAST PATIENCE The glory and the glow Of the world's loveliness have passed away; And Fate hath little to inflict to-day, And nothing to bestow ! W. M. PRAED. Stanzas. Where is the man whose soul has never waked To sudden pity of the poor torn past ? ROSSETTI. Ver sides. Where is the life that late I led ? SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. 2, Act 5, 3. Let us not burden our remembrance with An heaviness that's gone. SHAKESPEARE. Tempest, Act 5, i. What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief. SHAKESPEARE. Winter's Tale, Act 3, 2. So far as the contemplation of the past does not go to put us out of conceit with the future, it is wise : when it does, it is the idleness of genius and feeling. SYDNEY SMITH. Lectures on Moral Philosophy, No. 22. The good of ancient times let others state ; I think it lucky I was born so late. SYDNEY SMITH. Modern Changes. An intelligent man judges the present by the past. SOPHOCLES. (Edipus Tyrannus. Man hath a weary pilgrimage As through the world he wends : On every stage from youth to age Still discontent attends ; With heaviness he casts his eye Upon the road before, And still remembers with a sigh The days that are no more. SOUTHEY. Remembrance. Danger well past remembered work's delight. EARL OF SURREY. Bonum est. I have put my days and dreams out of mind, Days that are over, dreams that are done. SWINBURNE. Triumph of Time. We praise things which are ancient, careless of those which are modern. TACITUS. Annals, Bk. 2, 88. Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavour. TACITUS. Dialogus de Oratoribus, 18. Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a b'ttle while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last ? All things are taken from us and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. TENNYSON. Lotos Eaters. So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. TENNYSON. Princess, c. 4, 35- O Death in Life, the days that are no more ! TENNYSON. Ib., c. 4> 4- For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid. TENNYSON. Recollections of Arabian Nights. The past, at least, is secure. D. WEBSTER. Speech. Old customs, habits, superstitions, fears, All that lies buried under fifty years. WHITTIER. The Countess. What lies before me is my past. I have got to make myself look on that with dif- ferent eyes, to make God look on it with different eyes. This I cannot do by ig- noring it, or slighting it, or praising it, or denying it. OSCAR WILDE. De Profundis. What are mony o' the pleasures o* memory, sirs, but the pains o' the past spiritualeezed ? JOHN WILSON. Nodes, 31 (Ettrick Shepherd). The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction. WORDSWORTH. Intimations of Immortality, c. 9. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours : And ask them what report they bore to Heaven. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, 2. Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thpu dost not enquire wisely concerning this. Ecclesiastes vii, 10. He praises al thing that es gon, O present thing he praises non. Cursor Mundi (i^th Cent.). There are no birds in last year's nest. Spanish prov. PATHOS Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache. BUNYAN. Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. 2, Pref. Strains that sigh and words that weep. D. MALLET. Funeral Hymn. PATIENCE With close-lipped patience for our only friend, Sad patience, too near neighbour to despair. M. ARNOLD. Scholar Gipsy, st. 20. 362 PATIENCE PATRIOTISM I worked with patience, which means almost power. E. B. BROWNING. Aurora Leigh, Bk. 3. O he is patient, and he will await Century after century in peace, So that he hears sweet songs of her he seeks, So that his guides do speak to him of her, So that he thinks to clasp her in the end. R. BUCHANAN. Titan and Avatar, 2. Our patience will achieve more than our force. BURKE. Reflections on the Revolution, Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity. BURTON. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. 2, 3, 3. Pacience is an high vertu certeyn ; For it vanquisheth, as these clerkes seyn, Thinges that rigour [harshness] sholde never atteyne. CHAUCER. Franklin's Tale, 45. This vertu [Patience] maketh a man lyk to God, and maketh him Goddes owene dere child, as seith Crist. CHAUCER. Parson's Tale, sec. 50. He hasteth wel that wysely can abide. CHAUCER. Tale of Melibeus. Patience is sorrow's salve ; what can't be cured, So Donald right areads, must be endured. CHURCHILL. Prophecy of Famine, 360. A patient man 's a pattern for a king. DEKKER. Honest Whore, Pt. 2, Act 5. Great Prize Competition for Patience Hawkins, First Prize ; Job, Honourable Mention. MR. JUSTICE HAWKINS. At Nottingham Assizes. For troubles wrought of men Patience is hard I tell you it is hard. JEAN INGELOW. Brothers and a Sermon, 503- It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. JOHN KEPLER (1571-1630). We should be lowe and loveliche, and leel eche man to other, And pacient as pilgrimes, for pilgrimes are we all. LANGLAND. Piers Plowman t Passus 13, 129. Patience is an important part of justice. PLINY THE YOUNGER. Patience is bitter, but its truit is sweet. ROUSSEAU. Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. i SHAKESPEARE. Henry V., Act 2, i. "Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow. SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado, Act 5, i. How poor are they that have not patience ! What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? SHAKESPEARE. Othello, Act 2, 3. Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubim ! SHAKESPEARE. Ib., Act 4, 2. She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night, Act 2, 4. Keep a thing, its use will come. TENNYSON. The Epic. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger. So she rests a little longer, Then she flies away. TENNYSON. Sea Dreams. God's ways seem dark, but soon or late They touch the shining hills of day ; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait. WHITTIER. Lines to Friends. Ye have heard of the patience of Job. St. James v, 1 1 . The king himself must wait while his beer is being drawn, and the queen cannot eat honey till the bees have made it. Given as a " saying " by C. H. Spurgeon. Though God take the sun out of heaven , yet we must have patience. Prov. (Geo. Herbert). Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone's garden. Prov. (Ray). Patience is the greatest prayer. Hindu prov. (a saying of Buddha). Patience conquers the world. Italian prov. Patience ! and shuffle the cards ! Spanish prov. found in " Don Quixote." Patience is the key of Paradise. Turkish prov. PATRIOTISM These gentry are invariably saying all they can in dispraise of their native land ; and it is my opinion, grounded upon expe- rience, that an individual who is capable of such baseness would not hesitate at the perpetration of any villainy, for next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. BORROW. Bible in Spain. 363 PATRIOTISM PATRIOTISM Here and here did England help me : how can I help England ? say Whoso turns as I, this evening, turn to God to praise and pray, While Jove's planet rises yonder, silent over Africa. BROWNING. Home Thoughts, from the Sea. One likes to die where his father before him Died, with the same sky shinin' o'er him. R. BUCHANAN. White Rose and Red. He who loves not his country can love nothing. BYRON. Two Foscari. The patriot's blood 's the seed of Free- dom's tree. CAMPBELL. Spanish Patriots. " My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like say- ing, " My mother, drunk or sober." G. K. CHESTERTON. The Defendant. Who loves his country cannot hate man- kind. CHURCHILL. The Farewell, 300. Dear are our parents, dear are our chil- dren, our neighbours, our companions ; but all the affections of all men are bound up in their own native land. CICERO. De Officiis, Bk. i, 17. Our country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right ; but our country, right or wrong. S. DECATUR. Toast, April, 1816. Then, seized with fear, yet still affecting fame, Usurped a patriot's all-atoning name. DRYDEN. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. i, 178. Never was patriot yet, but was a fool. DRYDEN. Ib., Pt. i, 969. Is it an offence, is it a mistake, is it a crime to take a hopeful view of the pro- spects of your own country ? Why should it be ? Why should patriotism and pessi- mism be identical ? Hope is the main- spring of patriotism. D. LLOYD GEORGE. House of Commons, Oct. 30, 1919. Strike for your altars and your fires ! Strike for the green graves of your sires ! God and your natiye land ! FiizGREENE HALLECK. Marco Bozzaris. When shall the saner, softer polities, Whereof we dream, have play in each proud land, And patriotism, grown Godlike, scorn to stand Bondslave to realms, but circle earth and seas ? T. HARDY. Departure. Life is good and joy runs high Between English earth and sky : Death is death : but we shall die To the Song on your bugles blown, England. W. E. HENLEY. Rhymes. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoun- drel. JOHNSON. Remark, 1775. Far dearer the grave or the prison, Illumed by one patriot name. Than the trophies of all who have risen On liberty's ruins to fame ! MOORE. Forget not the field. A patriot is a fool in every age. POPE. -Satires, Epilogue. Where there is no longer such a thing as native land there can be no citizens. Those two words patrie (native land) and citoyens (citizens) ought to be expunged from modern languages. I know the reason very well, but I do not choose to tell it. ROUSSEAU. Emile. Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? SCOTT. Lay of the Last Minstrel, c. 6, i. Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land ? SCOTT. Ib., c. 4, 30. Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colours to the mast. SCOTT. Marmion, c. i, Intro. He died a gallant knight, With sword in hand, for England's right. SCOTT. Ib., c. 6, 37. Who is here so vile that will not love his country ? If any, speak ; for him I have offended. SHAKESPEARE. Julius Casar, Act 3, 2. You '11 never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. G. B. SHAW. O'Flaherty, V.C. My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty Of thee I sing. DR. S. F. SMITH. National Hymn. True patriotism is of no party. SMOLLETT. Sir L. Greaves. " Libertas et natale solum ! " Fine words, indeed ! I wonder where he stole 'em. SWIFT. On Chief Justice Whitshed's Motto. 364 PATRONAGE PEACE None loves his king and country better, Yet none was ever less their debtor. SWIFT. Pastoral Dialogue, 1727. Yet all things good await Him who cares not to be great, Hut as he saves or serves the state. Not once or twice in our rough island-story The path of duty was the way to glory. TENNYSON. On Wellington. Yet in whose fiery love for their own land No hatred of another's finds a place. SIR W. WATSON. Wales. Hands across the sea ! Feet on English ground ! The old blood is bold blood the whole world round. BYRON WEBBER. Song. Go, tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie. Greek epitaph. This have I done (quoth he) For lovely England's sake. Old Ballad. Honour of a London Prentice. PATRONAGE The mud of English patronage Grows round his feet, and keeps him down. R. BUCHANAN. Edward Crowhurst. i. Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? JOHNSON. To Lord Chesterfield, 1755. Patron : Commonly a wretch who sup- ports with insolence, and is paid with flattery. JOHNSON. Dictionary. Let there be Maecenases and there will not be wanting Virgils. MARTIAL. Bk. 8, 56. Getting Patronage is the whole art of life. A man cannot have a career without it. G. B. SHAW. Capt. Brassbound. PATTER This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter Isn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter ! SIR W. S. GILBERT. Ruddigore. PAUPERISM AND POOR LAWS Parish pay is hush money. H. SPENCER. Social Statics, PL 3. The right of the state to require the services of its members, even to the jeoparding of their livss in the common defence, establishes a right in the people . . . to public support, when, from any cause, they may be unable to support themselves. WORDSWORTH. Postscript [to Preface) PAYMENT Alas ! how deeply painful is all payment ! BYRON. Don Juan, c. 10, 79. Wise men aver it is the English way Never to grumble till they come to pay. DEFOE. True-born Englishman. Britannia, 84, Base is the slave that pays. SHAKESPEARE. Henry V. t Act 2, I. Pay beforehand and your work will be behindhand. Prov. PEACE Calm soul of all things ! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jeer, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar. MATTHEW ARNOLD. In Kensington Gardens. There's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war. BUTLER. Hudibras, PL 2, c. 3. Peace is to be produced by victory, not by negotiation. CICERO. You [Meneclides] are counselling slavery in the name of ease. For peace is pro- duced by war. CORNELIUS NEPOS. 15, Epaminondas. Peace itself is war in masquerade. DRYDEN. Absalom and Achitophel, PL i, 752. Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. J. GAY. Fables, Pt. i, 34. So were it good if at this tyde That every man upon his syde Besought and prayed for the peace Which is the cause of all increase, Of worship, and of worldes wealth, Of hertes rest, and soules health. GOWER. Confessio Amantis, Bk. i. Without peace stondeth nothing good. GOWER. Ib. Plenty breeds Pride ; Pride, Envy ; Envy Warre ; Warre, Poverty ; Poverty, humble Care. Humility breeds Peace and Peace breeds Plenty. Thus rounde this world doth roale alter- nately. ROBERT HAYMAN. Quodlibels (1628) (Founded on traditional sayings to this