Abuse young lays of love."-Ibid. p. 96. "A MONASTERY, A most strict house; a house where none may whisper, Where no more light is known but what may make ye Believe there is a day: where no hope dwells, Nor comfort, but in tears." Ibid. Thierry and Theodoret, p. 124. "WOULD It could as soon be buried to the world "THE world's a labyrinth, where unguided As it should die to me.”—Ibid. p. 138. "AND can it be that this most perfect crea ture, This image of his maker, well-squared man, Should leave the handfast' that he had of grace?"-Ibid. Woman Hater, p. 239. "HE that intends well, yet deprives himself Of means to put his good thoughts into deed, Deceives his purpose of the due reward That goodness merits." Ibid. Honest Man's Fortune, p. 377. "Dost know what 'tis to die? -Thou dost not, And therefore not what 'tis to live; to die Is to begin to live. It is to end An old, stale, weary work, and to commence A newer and a better. 'Tis to leave Deceitful knaves for the society Of gods and goodness." Ibid. Triumph of Honour, p. 491. Flatterers. "THESE very slaves shall when these great beasts die Publish their bowels to the vulgar eye." i. e. the hold. On the technical sense of "handfast," and "handfastning." See TODD'S Johnson, in v. J. W. W. "OURSELVES change most; yea, all things Col callo del costume il senso indura." change below, Ibid. vol. 2, p. 9. "BUT such is the perverseness of our nature, That lust, that pleasure, that security, "MEN speak ill of thee: so they be ill men, If they spake worse, 'twere better; for of such To be dispraised, is the most perfect praise. What can his censure hurt me, whom the world Hath censured vile before me!" A lasting, high and happy memory, They should, without being satisfied, pursue. Contempt of fame begets contempt of virtue." Ibid. Sejanus, vol. 3, p. 36. "THE way to put A prince in blood, is to present the shapes Of dangers greater than they are, like late Or early shadows; and sometimes to feign Where there are none, only to make him fear; His fear will make him cruel." Ibid. p. 55. "You equal gods Whose justice not a world of wolf-turned men Shall make me to accuse, howe'er provoked." Ibid. p. 72. "NESSUNO è reo, Se basta a'falli sui Per difesa portar l'esempio altrui." METASTASIO, vol. 1, p. 17. Artaserse. "ORDINA in guisa Gli umani eventi il Ciel, che tutti a tutti Ibid. p. 181. Adriano. "Poco è funesta L'altrui fortuna, Nè di pentirsi, nè d'arrosser." "Arts, Arrantius ? "YEARS are beneath the spheres; and time None but the plain and passive fortitude, "WHAT a wild muster's here of attributes T'express a worm,—a snake."—-Ibid. p. 115. Said of the serpent which came out of his statue, but applicable to adulatory epithets of dignity. "Ir is a note Of upstart greatness, to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns. Aye, and they think themselves Deeply dishonoured where they are omitted, (As if they were necessities that helped To the perfection of their dignities,) And hate the men that but refrain them." Ibid. p. 137. "BEAUTY, wit, and grace, The elements of active delicacy, Those all-eye-pleasing harmonies of sight Which do enchant men's fancies, and stir up The life blood of dull earth." MACHIN'S Dumb Knight. Old Play, vol. 4, p. 383. "AYE! well done! Promises are no fetters: with that tongue Thy promise past, unpromise it again. Wherefore has man a tongue of power to speak, But to speak still to his own private purpose? Beasts utter but one sound; but men have change [them, Handsome and neat; but then as they grew out At the elbows again, or had a stain or spot, They have sunk most wretchedly." "I WONDER gentlemen And men of means will not maintain themselves [highest: Fresher in wit, I mean in clothes, to the For he that's out of clothes is out of fashion, And out of fashion is out of countenance, And out of countenance is out of wit." BEN JONSON. Staple of News, vol. 5, pp. 177-8. A RICH piece of French eloquence. The night after the battle of Toulouse." Le silence, muet de sa nature, n'y parlait pas, mais il poussait des gemissemens confus qui perçaient l'âme."— Precis Historique de la Battaile, part 3, p. 156. "GOOD Master Picklock, with your worming brain And wriggling engine-head of maintenance, Which I shall see you hole with very shortly. A fine round head, when those two lugs To trundle through a pillory." [are off, BEN JONSON. Staple of News, vol. 5, p. 298. "A POOR affrighted Of speech, and reason, even by nature given And guilty race of men, that dare to stand CHAPMAN. All Fools. Old Play, vol. 4. p. 129. "BELIEVE it, sir, That clothes do much upon the wit, as weather Does on the brain: and thence, sir, comes your proverb, [perience The tailor makes the man. I speak by exOf my own customers. I have had gallants Both court and country, would have fool'd you up In a new suit, with the best wits in being, And kept their speed as long as their clothes lasted No breath of truth, but conscious to them selves TRUE Valour. "It is the greatest virtue, and the safety Of all mankind; the object of it is danger. A certain mean 'twixt fear and confidence. No inconsiderate rashness, or vain appetite Of false encountering formidable things, But a true science of distinguishing What's good or evil. It springs out of reason And tends to perfect honesty; the scope Is always honour, and the public good, It is no valour for a private cause.” Ibid. p. 412. "FEAR to do base unworthy things is valour; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too." Ibid. "I NEVER thought an angry person valiant. Virtue is never aided by a vice. What need is there of anger and of tumult, "THE things true valour's exercised about "AND as all knowledge when it is removed "Rosy modesty."—Ibid. p. 113. This is in Albumazar's impudent mouth, and said of himself; but for bashfulness it is the prettiest of epithets. CONDITION of man. แ "A baser state than what was first assign'd; Whereon (to curb the too-aspiring mind), The better things were lost, the worst were left behind."-PH. FLETCHER. C. 2. "THE Sun with gentle beams his rage disguises, And, like aspiring tyrants, temporises, Never to be endured, but when he falls or rises." Ibid. C. 3. "WOULD God I then had chanced this life to leave, [did give; The tomb straight taking what the womb Then always buried, changing but the grave, I had not lived to die, but died to live." LORD STERLINE. Cræsus, p. 40. ONE of Alexander's victories. "Unburied bodies buried all the fields." Ibid. Darius, p. 69. "LOVE hath larger scopes, New joys, new pleasures, of as fresh a date As are his minutes; and in him no hopes Are pure, but those he can perpetuate.” BEN JONSON, vol. 8, p. 91. Love's Triumph. แ p. 415. "How most ridiculous quarrels are all these! Notes of a queasy and sick stomach, labouring With want of a true injury."—Ibid. p. 417. "BE watchful; have as many eyes as Heaven, And ears as harvest." Albumazar. Old Play, "FOR good men but see death; the wicked taste it."-Ibid. p. 195. Epigrams. |