The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The Revenge. Act v. Sc. 2. And friend received with thumps upon the back.1 Universal Passion BISHOP BERKELEY. 1684-1753. Westward the course of empire takes its way;2 A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last. On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America. Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old. Can Love be controlled by Advice ? 3 [Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.1 Siris. Par. 217. The picture placed the busts between. But Folly 's at full length. On Beau Nash's Picture at full length between the Busts of 5 DYCE: Specimens of British Poetesses. (This epigram is generally ascribed to Chesterfield. See Campbell, "English Poets," note, p. 521.) AARON HILL. 1685-1750. First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't; And it stings you for your pains; And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures: And the rogues obey you well. Verses written on a window in Scotland. THOMAS TICKELL. 1686-1740. Just men, by whom impartial laws were given; Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed There taught us how to live; and (oh, too high Line 45. The price for knowledge!) taught us how to die." Line 81. 1 The following lines are copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury: Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't; And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on 't. The Examiner, May 31, 1829. 2 He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live. - MONTAIGNE: Essays, book i. chap. ix. I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid. To a Lady with a Present of Flowers I hear a voice you cannot hear, I see a hand you cannot see, Colin and Lucy. SAMUEL MADDEN. 1687-1765. Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind. Boulter's Monument. Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.1 Ibid. ALEXANDER POPE. 1688-1744. Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 1. and I will show you in a very short time how to die. - SANDYS: Anglorum Speculum, p. 903. Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson! how to die. PORTEUS: Death, line 316. He taught them how to live and how to die. - SOMERVILLE: In Memory of the Rev. Mr. Moore. 1 See Herbert, page 206. 2 See Milton, page 223. There is no theme more plentiful to scan DU BARTAS: Days and Weeks, third day. Together let us beat this ample field, Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 9. Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, Line 13. Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know ? 'T is but a part we see, and not a whole. Line 17. Line 60. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, Line 77. Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. Line 83. Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, Line 87. Line 95. Epistle i. Line 99. In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; 1 See Milton, page 242. Line 111. 2 Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing our selves to be happy. - PASCAL: Thoughts, chap. v. 2. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 123. Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; Why has not man a microscopic eye? Line 139. Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." Line 217. Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide!3 Line 225. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Line 267. Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Line 271. As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns Line 277. All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, Line 289. 1 All the parts of the universe I have an interest in the earth serves me to walk upon; the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me.- - MONTAIGNE: Apology for Raimond Sebond. 2 See Sir John Davies, page 176. 3 See Dryden, page 267. 4 There is no great and no small. - EMERSON: Epigraph to History. 5 See Dryden, page 276. |