Venice.] 1703. WISDOM-affectation of it. There is a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pool, 1704. LUXURY and TEMPERANCE Contrasted. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs; but Competency lives longer. 1705. KNOWLEDGE and PRACTICE. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, Chapels had been Churches, and poor Men's Cottages Princes' Palaces*. 1706. HYPOCRISY. The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. 1707. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek. 1708. O what a goodly outside Falsehood hath. 1709. INEQUALITY. O that Estates, Degrees, and Offices, Pickt from the chaff and ruin of the times, This latter consequence does not very clearly follow; but it is clear that Cottages would be more numerous and more comfortable. 1710. SHEW deceives the wORLD. Venice.] The World is still deceiv'd with Ornament. 1711. There is no Vice so simple but assumes Some mark of Virtue on his outward parts. 1712. DIVINITY-Errors in it made plausible. In Religion What damned error but some sober brow In Law what Plea so tainted and corrupt 1714. MILITARY-Imposture in that Profession. How many Cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars. 1715. ORNAMENT deceitful. Ornament is but the gilded shore To a most dangerous sea. 1716. GOOD never to be repented. One never did repent for doing good. 1717. CRUELTY once habitual, can not be softened. You may as well use question with the Wolf Why he hath made the Ewe bleat for the Lamb; You may as well forbid the mountain pines Το wag their high tops, and to make no noise When they are fretted with the Gusts of Heaven; You may as well do any thing most hard As seek to soften that (than which what's harder) A cruel Heart. Venice.] .1718. FRUIT-the weakest falls soonest. The weakest kind of Fruit Drops soonest to the ground. 1719. MERCY. The quality of Mercy is not strain'd; Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of Kings. It is enthroned in the hearts of Kings: It is an attribute to GoD himself: And earthly power doth then shew likest God's When Mercy seasons Justice. 1720. RECOMPENCE. He is well paid that is well satisfied. 1721. MUSIC best suited to Night and Silence. Soft Stillness and the Night Become the touches of sweet Harmony*. 1722. HARMONY celestial. There's not the smallest Orb which thou beholdst *To one who truly loves Music, the most perfect stillness is requisite. Vide TINDAL's ESS. + Where are the sublimest Theories of the Platonic Philosophy more classically, more beautifully, more sublimely expresst? S Like It. 1723. MUSIC-Dislike of it a bad Symptom. The man that hath no Music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Let no such man be trusted. 1724. OPPORTUNENESS. How many things by Season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection. 1725. WIFE. A light Wife doth make a heavy Husband. AS YOU LIKE IT. 1726. FORTUNE-governs in adventitious Things; not in those of NATURE. Fortune reigns in the gifts of the World; not in the lineaments of Nature. 1727. TREASON not inherited. Treason* is not inherited. 1728. ADVERSITY profitable. Sweet are the uses of Adversity, Which, like the Toad, ugly and venomous, 1729. RETIREMENT contemplative, finds GOOD in every thing. A Life that is exempt from public haunt Finds tongues in trees; books in the running brooks; Sermons in stones; and GOOD in every thing. This shews, by implied consequence, how much the Punishment of Attainder and Forfeiture, in cases of Treason and other Felony, ought to be mitigated, to be,consistent with Justice. Like It.] 1730. QUALITIES Good-sometimes the occasion To some kind of men [of EVIL. Their Graces serve them but as Enemies. 1731. often of OBLOQUY. O what a World is this, when what is comely 1732. PROVIDENCE-it's Care over all. Yea providently caters for the Sparrow; 1733. DISTRESS neglects the forms of Politeness. The thorny point Of bare Distress doth take from us the shew Of smooth Civility. 1734. MISERY —we should think of that of Others. One is not alone unhappy : This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein one plays. 1735. LIFE compared to a Theatre. All the World's a Stage*, And all the men and women merely Players: 1736. PAST and PRESENT. Was is not Is. 1737. SUFFERING anxious for REMEDY. Wherever Sorrow is Relief should be. Σκηνη Πας ο Βιος και Παιγνιον. EP. VET. |