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LIST OF AUTHORS QUOTED.
AUTHORS QUOTED.
* * * * *
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY America, 1767-1848 ADDISON, JOSEPH England, 1672-1719 AKENSIDE, MARK England, 1721-1770 AKERS, ELIZABETH (ALLEN, ELIZABETH AKERS) America, 1832- ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY America, 1836- ALGER, REV. WILLIAM R. America, 1823- ALLEN, ELIZABETH AKERS (See AKERS, ELIZABETH) ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM Ireland, about 1828-1889 ANGELO BUONAROTTI, MICHAEL Italy, 1474-1563 ARMSTRONG, JOHN, M.D. England, 1709-1779 ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN England, 1832-1903 ARNOLD, GEORGE America, 1834-1865 ARNOLD, MATTHEW England, 1822-1888
BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES England, 1816- BAILLIE, JOANNA Scotland, 1764-1851 BALL, REV. JOHN England, d. 1381 BARBAULD, ANNA LETITIA England, 1743-1825 BARON, ROBERT England, about 1630-1680 BARRETT, EATON STANNARD Ireland, 1785-1820 BASSE, WILLIAM England, BATES, LEWIS J. America, 1832- BAXTER, REV. RICHARD England, 1615-1691 BAYLEY, THOMAS HAYNES England, 1797-1839 BEATTIE, JAMES Scotland, 1735-1803 BEAUMONT, FRANCIS England, 1585-1615 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER (See BEAUMONT, FRANCIS, and FLETCHER, JOHN)
BEDDOME, BENJAMIN England, published 1787 BELLINGHAUSEN, VON MUeNCH Germany, BERKELEY, BISHOP GEORGE Ireland, 1684-1753 BERRY, DOROTHY
BICKERSTAFF, ISAAC Ireland, about 1735-1805 BLACKER, COLONEL WILLIAM Ireland, 1777-1855 BLACKIE, JOHN STUART Scotland, 1809-1895 BLACKMORE, SIR RICHARD England, 1650-1729 BLAIR, REV. ROBERT Scotland, 1699-1746 BLANCHARD, LAMAN England, 1803-1845 BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT England, 1766-1823
BONAR, HORATIUS, D.D. Scotland, 1808-1890 BOOTH, BERNARD England, 1681-1733 BOWRING, EDGAR ALFRED England, 1826- BOWRING, SIR JOHN England, 1792-1872 BRADLEY, MARY E America, 1835– BRADSTREET, ANNE England, 1613-1672 BRADY, REV. NICHOLAS Ireland, 1659-1728 BRAINARD, JOHN GARDINER CALKINS America, 1796-1828 BRETON, NICHOLAS England, 1535-1624 BRIDGES, ROBERT SEYMOUR, M.D. England, 1844- BROOKS, HENRY Ireland, 1706-1783 BROOKS, BISHOP PHILLIPS America, 1835-1896 BROWN, REV. JOHN England, 1715-1756 BROWN, TOM England, 1650-1704 BROWNE, SIR THOMAS England, 1605-1682 BROWNE, WILLIAM England, 1590-1645 BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT England, 1805-1861 BROWNING, ROBERT England, 1812-1889 BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN America, 1794-1878 BRYDGES, SIR SAMUEL England, 1762-1837 BUCHANAN, ROBERT England, 1841- BULWER-LYTTON, EDWARD, LORD England, 1805-1873 BURNS, ROBERT Scotland,1759-1796 BUNYAN, JOHN England, 1628-1688 BURTON, JOHN England, 1773-1822 BURTON, ROBERT England, 1576-1640 BUTLER, SAMUEL England, 1612-1680 BYROM, JOHN England, 1691-1763 BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD England, 1788-1824
CAMPBELL, THOMAS England, 1777-1844 CANNING, GEORGE England, 1770-1827 CAREW, THOMAS England, 1589-1639 CAREY, HENRY England, 1700-1743 CARLETON, WILL America, 1845- CARNEY, JULIA A America, CARPENTER, JOSEPH E. America, 1813- CASWELL, EDWARD England, 1814- CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY America, 1818-1901 CHAPMAN, GEORGE England, 1557-1634 CHAUCER, GEOFFREY England. 1328-1400 CHESTERFIELD, EARL OF England, 1694-1773 CHURCHILL, CHARLES England, 1731-1764 CIBBER, COLLEY England, 1671-1757 CLARE, JOHN England, 1793-1864 COLERIDGE, HARTLEY England, 1796-1849 COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR England, 1722-1834 COLES, ABRAHAM, M.D. America, 1813-1881 COLLINS, WILLIAM England, 1720-1756 COOKE, ROSE TERRY America, 1827-1892 CONGREVE, WILLIAM England, 1670-1729 COOK, ELIZA England, 1817-1889 COWLEY, ABRAHAM England, 1618-1667 COWPER, WILLIAM England, 1731-1800 CRABBE, GEORGE England, 1754-1832 CRAIK, DINA M. MULOCK England, 1826-1887 CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER PEARSE America, 1813-1892 CROLY, GEORGE England, 1785-1804 CROSS, MARIAN EVANS LEWES (_George Eliot_) England, 1819-1880
DABORNE, ROBERT England, 1590-1660 DANIEL, SAMUEL England, 1562-1619 DANTE ALIGHIERI Italy, 1265-1321 DARWIN, ERASMUS England, 1731-1802 DAVENANT, SIR WILLIAM England, 1605-1668 DAVIES, SIR JOHN England, 1570-1626 DEFOE, DANIEL England, 1661-1731 DEKKER, THOMAS England, about 1580-1639 DELAUNE, HENRY England, XVII. Century DENHAM, SIR JOHN England, 1615-1668 DE STAEL, MADAME ANNE L.G. NECKAR,
France, 1766-1817 DE VESE, SIR AUBREY Ireland, 1788-1846 DICKINSON, EMILY America, 1830-1886 DICKINSON, JOHN America, 1732-1808 DILLON, WENTWORTH Ireland, 1633-1684 DISRAELI, ISAAC England, 1766-1848 DOANE, BISHOP GEORGE WASHINGTON America, 1794-1851 DOBBIN, REV. ORLANDO THOMAS Ireland, DODDRIDGE, PHILIP, D.D. England, 1702-1751 DONNE, DR. JOHN England, 1573-1631 DORR, JULIA C.R. America, 1825- DOW, LORENZO America, 1777-1834 DOWDNEY, SARAH England, DRAYTON, MICHAEL England, 1563-1631 DRYDEN, JOHN England, 1631-1700 DWIGHT, TIMOTHY America, 1752-1817 DYER, JOHN England, 1700-1758
EASTMAN, ELAINE GOODALE America, 1863- EDWIN, JOHN England, 1749-1794 ELIOT, GEORGE (See CROSS, MARIAN EVANS LEWES) ELIZABETH, QUEEN England, 1533-1603 ELLIOTT, EBENEZER England, 1781-1849 ELLIOTT. JANE England, 1727-1805 EMERSON, RALPH WALDO America, 1803-1882 ENGLISH, THOMAS DUNN America, 1819-1902 EVERETT, DAVID America, 1769-1813
GRIMOALD, NICHOLAS England, d. about 1563 GUINEY, LOUISE IMOGEN America, 1861-
HABINGTON, WILLIAM England, 1605-1645 HAFIZ, MOHAMMED SHEMS-ED-DIN Persia, about 1300-1388 HALLECK, FITZ-GREENE America, 1790-1867 HALPINE, CHARLES GRAHAM (_Miles O’Reilly_) Ireland, 1829-1869
HARRINGTON, SIR JOHN England, 1561-1612 HARNEY, WILLIAM WALKER America, 1881- HARVEY, GABRIEL England, about 1545-1630 HATHAWAY, BENJAMIN America, XIX. Century HAWKER, REV. ROBERT STEPHEN England, 1753-1827 HAYNE, PAUL HAMILTON America, 1831-1886 HEBER, BISHOP REGINALD England, 1783-1826 HEGGE, ROBERT England,
HEINE, HEINRICH Germany, 1800-1856 HEMANS, MRS. FELICIA DOROTHEA England, 1794-1835 HERBERT, REV. GEORGE England, 1593-1632 HERRICK, REV. ROBERT England, 1591-1674 HERVEY, THOMAS KIBBLE England, 1804-1859 HEYWOOD, JOHN England, about 1500-1565 HEYWOOD, THOMAS England, d. 1649 HIGGONS, BEVIL England, 1670-1735 HILL, AARON England, 1685-1750 HOGG, JAMES Scotland, 1772-1835 HOLIDAY, REV. BARTEN England, 1593-1661 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL America, 1809-1894 HOME, JOHN England, 1722-1808 HOMER Greece, uncertain, between 1000 and 700 B.C. HOOD, THOMAS England, 1798-1845 HOPKINSON, JOSEPH America, 1770-1842 HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS), Italy, 65-8 B.C. HORNE, RICHARD HENRY HENGIST England, 1807-1884 HOUGHTON, LORD. (See MILNES, R.M.)
HOVEY, RICHARD America, 1864-1900 HOW, WILLIAM WALSHAM England, 1832- HOWARD, SIR ROBERT England, 1626-1698 HOWIIT, MARY England, 1800-1888 HUDSON, MRS. M. CLEMMER AMES America, 1839-1884 HUGO, VICTOR MARIE France, 1802-1885 HUNT, SIR A. England,
HUNT, [JAMES HENRY] LEIGH England, 1784-1859 HURDIS, JAMES England, 1763-1801
INGELOW, JEAN England, 1830-1897
JEFFREYS, CHARLES England, 1807-1865 JEFFREYS, GEORGE England, 1678-1755 JOHNSON, CHARLES England, 1679-1748 JOHNSON, DR. SAMUEL England, 1709-1784 JONES, SIR WILLIAM England, 1746-1794 JONSON, BEN England, 1574-1637 JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNTOS JUVENALIS) Italy, 40-125
KEATS, JOHN England, 1796-1821 KEBLE, JOHN England, 1789-1866 KELLY, REV. THOMAS Ireland, 1769-1855 KENNY, JAMES Ireland, 1780-1849 KING, WILLIAM England, 1663-1712 KINGSLEY, REV. CHARLES England, 1819-1875 KNOLLES, RICHARD England, about 1545-1610 KOeRNER, KARL THEODOR Germany, 1791-1813 KRUMMACHER, FRIEDRICH ADOLPH Germany, 1767-1845
LAMB, CHARLES England, 1775-1834 LANSDOWNE, LORD (See GRANVILLE, GEORGE)
LANDON, LETITIA E. England, 1802-1839 LANIER, SIDNEY America, 1842-1881 LAROOM, LUCY America, 1826-1893 LEE, NATHANIEL England, 1658-1691 LEIGH, HENRY S. England, 1837-1883 LEMON, MARK England, 1809-1870 LILLY, J. (See LYLY, JOHN.)
LINLEY, GEORGE England, 1798-1865 LLOYD, ROBERT England, 1733-1764 LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK England, 1821- LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH America, 1807-1882 LONGFELLOW, REV. SAMUEL America, 1819-1892 LOVELACE, COLONEL RICHARD England, 1618-1658 LOVELL, MARIA England,
LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL America, 1819-1891 LYLY, JOHN England, 1553-1606 LYTTELTON, GEORGE, LORD England, 1709-1773 LYTTON, E. ROBERT BULWER, LORD
(_Owen Meredith_) England, 1831-1891 MACKAY, CHARLES Scotland, 1814-1889 MADDEN, REV. SAMUEL Ireland, 1687-1765 MALLET. DAVID England, 1700-1765 MANNERS, LORD JOHN England, 1721-1770 MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER England, 1564-1593 MARVELL, ANDREW England, 1620-1678 MASSEY, GERALD England, 1828-1894 MASSINGER, PHILIP England, 1584-1640 MATURIN, CHARLES ROBERT Ireland, 1782-1824 MAY, THOMAS England, 1595-1650 MELEAGER, Gadara, Palestine (Greek) I. Century B.C. MEREDITH, LOUISE A England, 1812- MEREDITH, OWEN (See LYTTON, LORD)
MERRICK, REV. JAMES England, 1720-1769 MILES, REV. JAMES WARLEY America, 1818-1875 MILLER, CINCINNATUS HEINE
(_Joaquin Miller_) America, 1841- MILMAN, REV. HENRY HART England, 1791-1868 MILNES, RICHARD MONCKTON (LORD HOUGHTON) England. 1809-1885 MILTON, JOHN England. 1608-1674 MONTAGU, LADY MARY WORTLEY England, 1690-1762 MONTGOMERY, JAMES Scotland, 1771-1854 MONTGOMERY, REV. ROBERT England, 1807-1855 MOORE, EDWARD England, 1712-1757 MOORE, THOMAS Ireland, 1779-1852 MORE, HANNAH England, 1745-1833 MORELL, REV. THOMAS England, 1703-1784 MORSE, JAMES HERBERT America, 1841- NABBES, THOMAS England, 1600-1641 NEW ENGLAND PRIMER America. 1691- NEWTON, JOHN England, 1725-1807 NORRIS. JOHN England, 1657-1711 NORTON. CAROLINE E.S. (LADY STIRLING-MAXWELL) England, 1808-1877
OBERHOLTZER, SARAH L. America, O’DONOGHUE, NANNIE L., MRS. POWER, Ireland, began writing 1881 OLD BALLADS Ireland,
OLDMIXON, JOHN England, 1673-1742 O’REILLY, JOHN BOYLE Ireland, 1844–America, 1890 ORRERY, ROGER BOYLE, EARL OF Ireland, 1621-1679 OSGOOD, FRANCES SARGENT America, 1811-1850 OTWAY, THOMAS England, 1651-1685 OVERBURY, SIR THOMAS England, 1581-1613 OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Italy, 43 B.C.-18 A.D. OWEN, DR. JOHN England, 1616-1683
PARDOE, JULIA England, 1806-1862 PARNELL, THOMAS Ireland, 1679-1717 PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE England, 1785-1866 PEELE, GEORGE England, about 1558-1598 PERCIVAL, JAMES GATES America, 1795-1856 PERCY, BISHOP THOMAS England, 1729-1811 PETRARCH (FRANCISCO PETRARCA) Italy, 1304-1374 PHILLIPS, CATHARINE England, 1631-1664 PLAYFORD, JOHN England, 1613-1693 POLLOK, ROBERT Scotland, 1798-1827 POMFRET, JOHN England, 1667-1703 POOR ROBIN’S ALMANACK England, 1695 POPE, ALEXANDER England, 1688-1744 PORTEUS, BISHOP BEILBY England, 1731-1808 PRAED, WINTHROP MACKWORTH England, 1802-1839 PRESTON, MARGARET JUNKIN America, 1838-1897 PRIOR, MATTHEW England, 1664-1721 PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE England, 1825-1864 PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER (_Barry Cornwall_) England, 1787-1874
QUARLES, FRANCIS England, 1592-1644
RABELAIS, FRANCOIS France, about 1495-1553 RADCLIFFE, MRS., ANN WARD England, 1764-1823 RALEIGH, SIR WALTER England, 1552-1618 RANDOLPH, THOMAS England, 1605-1635 RAYMOND, ROBERT RAIKES America, 1814-1889 RAYMOND, ROSSITER WORTHINGTON America, 1840- READ, THOMAS BUCHANAN America, 1822-1872 RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB America, 1852- ROBERTS, CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS Canada, 1860- ROCHE, JAMES JEFFREY Ireland, 1847- ROCHESTER, JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF England, 1647-1680 ROGERS, SAMUEL England, 1762-1855 ROSCOE, MRS. HENRY England, ROSCOMMON, EARL OF England, 1633-1684 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA G England, 1830-1894 ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL England, 1828-1882 ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES Switzerland, 1712-1778 ROWE, NICHOLAS England, 1673-1718 RUTTER, JOHN England,
SAVAGE, RICHARD England, 1698-1743 SAXE, JOHN GODFREY America, 1816-1887 SCHILLER, JOHANN C. FRIEDRICH VON Germany, 1759-1805 SCOTT, SIR WALTER Scotland, 1771-1832 SEDLEY, SIR CHARLES England, 1639-1701 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM England, 1551-1616 SHEFFIELD, JOHN, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE England, 1646-1721 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE England, 1792-1822 SHENSTONE, WILLIAM England, 1714-1763 SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY England, 1751-1810 SHILLABER, BENJAMIN PENHALLOW America, 1814-1890 SHIRLEY, JAMES England, 1596-1666 SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP England, 1554-1586 SIMONIDES Island of Ceos, Greece, 556-468 B.C. SMITH, ALEXANDER Scotland, 1830-1867 SMITH, ELIZABETH OAKES America, 1806- SMITH, HORACE England, 1780-1849 SMITH, JAMES England, 1775-1889 SOMERVILLE, WILLIAM C England, 1692-1742 SOUTHERNE, THOMAS England, 1660-1746 SOUTHEY, ROBERT England, 1774-1843 SPENSER, EDMUND England, 1553-1599 SPRAGUE, CHARLES America, 1791-1875 SPOFFORD, HARRIET PRESCOTT America, 1835- SPROAT, ELIZA L. America, STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE America, 1833- STERNHOLD, THOMAS England, about 1549 STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS England, 1850-1895 STILLINGFLEET, BENJAMIN England, 1700-1771 STODDARD, RICHARD HENRY America, 1825-1903 STORY, JOSEPH America, 1779-1845 STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE America, 1819-1895 STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER America, 1812-1890 SUCKLING, SIR JOHN England, 1609-1641 SWIFT, JONATHAN England, 1667-1745
TAPPAN, REV. WILLIAM BINGHAM America, 1794-1844 TATE, NAHUM Ireland, 1652-1715 TATE AND BRADY. (See TATE, NAHUM,
and BRADY, NICHOLAS.)
TAYLOR, BAYARD America, 1825-1878 TAYLOR, SIR HENRY England, 1800-1886 TAYLOR, JANE England, 1783-1824 TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD England, 1809-1892 THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE England, 1811-1863 THAXTER, CELIA LAIGHTON America, 1835-1894 THOMAS, FREDERICK WILLIAM America, 1808-1866 THOMPSON, FRANCIS England, about 1861- THOMSON, JAMES England, 1700-1748 TICKELL, THOMAS England, 1686-1740 TIGHE, MRS. MARY Ireland, 1773-1810 TOBIN, JOHN England, 1770-1804 TOURNEUR, CYRIL England, about 1600 TRUMBULL, JOHN America, 1750-1831 TUCKERMAN, HENRY THEODORE America, 1813-1871 TURNER, CHARLES TENNYSON England, 1808-1879 TUPPER, MARTIN FARQUHAR England, 1810-1889 TUSSER, THOMAS England, about 1515-1580 VAUGHAN, HENRY, M.D. Wales, 1621-1695 WADE, J.A. England, 1800-1875 WALLACE, JOHN AIKMAN.
WALLACE, WILLIAM ROSS America, 1819-1881 WALLER, EDMUND England, 1605-1687 WARNER, ANNA B. America, XIX. Century WARTON, THOMAS England, 1728-1790 WATSON, WILLIAM England, 1858- WATTS, ALARIC ATTILA England, 1797-1864 WATTS, ISAAC, D.D. England, 1674-1748 WEBB, CHARLES HENRY America, 1834- WEBSTER, DANIEL America, 1782-1852 WEBSTER, JOHN England, about 1580-1662 WELSH, CHARLES England, 1850- WESLEY, REV. CHARLES England, 1708-1788 WESTMACOTT, CHARLES M. England, 1788-1868 WHITE, HENRY KIRKE England, 1785-1806 WHITEHEAD, PAUL England, 1710-1774 WHITMAN, SARAH HELEN POWER America, 1803-1878 WHITMAN, WALT America, 1819-1892 WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF America, 1807-1892 WILDE, RICHARD HENRY Ireland, 1789-1847 WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER America, 1806-1867 WINTER, WILLIAM America, 1836- WITHER, GEORGE England, 1588-1667 WOLCOTT, DR. JOHN (_Peter Pindar_) England, 1738-1819 WOLFE, REV. CHARLES Ireland, 1791-1823 WOOLSEY, SARAH CHAUNCEY (_Susan Coolidge_) America, about 1845-
WOOLSON, CONSTANCE FENIMORE America, 1848-1894 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM England, 1770-1850 WOTTON, SIR HENRY England, 1568-1639 WROTHER, MISS England,
YALDEN, REV. THOMAS England, 1671-1736 YOUNG. DR. EDWARD England, 1684-1765 YOUNG, SIR JOHN England,
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY:
“AFTER ALL, WHAT IS POETRY?”
By _John Raymond Howard_
PREFACE.
INDEX OF TOPICS, WITH CROSS-REFERENCES
LIST OF AUTHORS QUOTED
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
POETICAL QUOTATIONS
GENERAL INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES
GENERAL INDEX OF FIRST LINES AND TITLES
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
ALEXANDER POPE _Frontispiece_ _After photograph from a portrait_.
JOHN GODFREY SAXE
_After a photograph from life_.
JOHN DRYDEN
_From an engraving after a painting by Hudson, in Trinity College, Cambridge, England_.
SAMUEL, BUTLER
_After an engraving from contemporary portrait_.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
_From an etching after a life-photograph_.
VICTOR MARIE HUGO
_After a life-photograph of Walery, Paris_,
POETICAL QUOTATIONS
“_Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it…. We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates_.”–R.W. EMERSON.
From “QUOTATION AND ORIGINALITY.”
ABSENCE.
‘T is said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not.
I’ve tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.
_Absence Conquers Love_. F.W. THOMAS.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder; Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
_Isle of Beauty_. T.H. BAYLY.
Though absent, present in desires they be; Our souls much further than our eyes can see. _Sonnet_. M. DRAYTON.
There’s not a wind but whispers of thy name. _Mirandola_. B.W. PROCTER.
Short absence hurt him more,
And made his wound far greater than before; Absence not long enough to root out quite All love, increases love at second sight. _Henry II_. T. MAY.
How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December’s bareness everywhere. _Sonnet XCVII_. SHAKESPEARE.
Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow’s dark array,– Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
_Days of Absence_, J.J. ROUSSEAU.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age.
_Amphictrion_. J. DRYDEN.
What! keep a week away? Seven days and nights? Eightscore eight hours? And lovers’ absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times? O, weary reckoning!
_Othello. Act_ iii. _Sc_. 4. SHAKESPEARE.
Long did his wife,
Suckling her babe, her only one, look out The way he went at parting,–but he came not! _Italy_. S. ROGERS.
With what a deep devotedness of woe
I wept thy absence–o’er and o’er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! _Lalla Rookh: Veiled Prophet of Khorassan_. T. MOORE.
Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more. _Eloise to Abelard_. A. POPE.
ACTION.
The flighty purpose never is o’ertook, Unless the deed go with it.
_Macbeth, Act_. iv. _Sc_. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
If our virtues
Did not go forth of us, ‘t were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched, But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence. But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor–
Both thanks and use.
_Measure for Measure, Act_ i. _Sc_. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
We must not stint
Our necessary actions, in the fear To cope malicious censurers.
_King Henry VIII., Act_ i. _Sc_. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. _Merchant of Venice, Act_ v. _Sc_. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill. Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. _An Honest Man’s Fortune_. J. FLETCHER.
ADMIRATION.
She is pretty to walk with,
And witty to talk with,
And pleasant, too, to think on.
_Brennoralt, Act_ ii. SIR J. SUCKLING.
But from the hoop’s bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.
_Fables: The Spider and the Bee_. E. MOORE.
That eagle’s fate and mine are one.
Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own,
Wherewith he wont to soar so high. _To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing_. E. WALLER.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!
_Romeo and Juliet, Act_ ii. _Sc_. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
The light that lies
In woman’s eyes.
_The time I’ve lost in Wooing_. T. MOORE.
Is she not more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy when they love? _The Fair Penitent, Act_ iii. _Sc_. 1. N. ROWE.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. _Faustus_. C. MARLOWE.
The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound. _Odes, CXLIII_. HAFIZ.
Beauty stands
In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abashed. _Paradise Regained, Bk. II_. MILTON.
ADORNMENT.
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven’s sweetest air. _Sonnet LXX_. SHAKESPEARE.
A native grace
Sat fair-proportioned in her polished limbs, Veiled in a simple robe their best attire. Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. _The Seasons: Autumn_. J. THOMSON.
She’s adorned
Amply that in her husband’s eye looks lovely,– The truest mirror that an honest wife
Can see her beauty in.
_The Honeymoon, Act iii. Sc. 4_. J. TOBIN.
Terrible he rode alone,
With his Yemen sword for aid;
Ornament it carried none,
But the notches on the blade.
_The Death Feud. An Arab War Song.
Anonymous Translation_.
ADVENTURE.
Naught venture, naught have.
_Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. October’s Abstract_. T. TUSSER.
We must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
_Julius Caesar, Act iv. Sc. 3_. SHAKESPEARE.
Fierce warres, and faithful loves shall moralize my song. _Faerie Queene, Bk. I. Proem_. E. SPENSER.
Send danger from the east unto the west, So honor cross it from the north to south, And let them grapple: O! the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
* * * * *
By Heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honor by the locks. _K. Henry IV., Pt. I. Act i. Sc. 3_. SHAKESPEARE.
A wild dedication of yourselves
To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. _Winter’s Tale, Act_ iv. _Sc_. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
ADVERSITY.
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. _As You Like It, Act_ i. _Sc_. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Calamity is man’s true touchstone.
_Four Plays in One: The Triumph of Honor, Sc_. 1. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues. _Paradise Lost, Bk. VII_. MILTON.
Tho’ losses and crosses
Be lessons right severe,
There’s wit there, ye’ll get there, Ye’ll find nae otherwhere.
_Epistle to Davie_. R. BURNS.
By adversity are wrought
The greatest work of admiration,
And all the fair examples of renown Out of distress and misery are grown.
_On the Earl of Southampton_. S. DANIEL.
Aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crushed or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around. _The Captivity, Act_ i. O. GOLDSMITH.
The Good are better made by Ill,
As odors crushed are sweeter still. _Jacqueline_. S. ROGERS.
Daughter of Jove, relentless power,
Thou tamer of the human breast.
Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best!
_Hymn to Adversity_. T. GRAY.
‘T is better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content. Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
_King Henry VIII., Act_ ii. _Sc_. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
As if Misfortune made the throne her seat, And none could be unhappy but the great. _The Fair Penitent: Prologue_. N. ROWE.
None think the great unhappy, but the great. _Love of Fame, Satire I_. DR. E. YOUNG.
My pride fell with my fortunes.
_As You Like It, Act i. Sc. 2_. SHAKESPEARE.
We have seen better days.
_Timon of Athens, Act iv. Sc. 2_. SHAKESPEARE.
If ever you have looked on better days; If ever been where bells have knolled to church. _As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7_. SHAKESPEARE.
O, who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow,
By thinking on fantastic Summer’s heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. _King Richard II., Act i. Sc. 2_. SHAKESPEARE.
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. _King Lear, Act iii. Sc. 2_. SHAKESPEARE.
Eating the bitter bread of banishment. _King Richard II., Act iii. Sc. 1_. SHAKESPEARE.
For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. _Merchant of Venice, Act i. Sc. 8_. SHAKESPEARE.
Lord of himself,–that heritage of woe! _Lara, Canto I_. LORD BYRON.
Lord of thy presence, and no land beside. _King John, Act i. Sc. 1_. SHAKESPEARE.
Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those whom most he likes. _Verses to his Friend under Affliction_. J. POMFRET.
As sunshine, broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still. _Fire Worshippers_. T. MOORE.
On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button. _Hamlet, Act ii. Sc. 2_. SHAKESPEARE.
Cheered up himself with ends of verse, And sayings of philosophers.
_Hudibras, Pt. I. Canto III_. S. BUTLER.
O life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!
_Despondency_. R. BURNS.
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. _Comedy of Errors, Act ii. Sc_. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Affliction’s sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! _A Winter Night_. R. BURNS.
Henceforth I’ll bear
Affliction till it do cry out itself, Enough, enough, and die.
_King Lear, Act iv. Sc_. 6. SHAKESPEARE.
On me, on me
Time and change can heap no more!
The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf.
Time and change can do no more.
_Dirge_. R.H. HORNE.
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, For when at worst, they say, things always mend. _To a Friend in Distress_. DR. J. OWEN.
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
_Macbeth, Act ii. Sc_. 8. SHAKESPEARE.
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward To what they were before.
_Macbeth, Act iv. Sc_. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
I am not now in fortune’s power;
He that is down can fall no lower. _Hudibras, Pt. I. Canto III_. S. BUTLER.
The worst is not
So long as we can say, _This is the worst. King Lear, Act iv. Sc_. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
ADVICE.
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts, _Festus: Sc. A Village Feast_. P.J. BAILEY.
I pray thee cease thy counsel.
Which falls into mine ears as profitless As water in a sieve.
_Much Ado About Nothing, Act v. Sc. 1_. SHAKESPEARE.
O Life! how pleasant in thy morning. Young Fancy’s rays the hills adorning!
Cold-pausing Caution’s lesson scorning, We frisk away,
Like schoolboys at th’ expected warning, To joy and play.
_Epistle to James Smith_. B. BURNS.
Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings. _Hesperides’ Caution in Councell._ R. HEBRICK.
AGE.
I’m growing fonder of my staff;
I’m growing dimmer in the eyes;
I’m growing fainter in my laugh;
I’m growing deeper in my sighs;
I’m growing careless of my dress;
I’m growing frugal of my gold;
I’m growing wise; I’m growing,–yes,– I’m growing old.
_I’m Growing Old_. J.G. SAXE.
And his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
_As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7_. SHAKESPEARE.
Time has 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. _The Golden Legend, IV_. H.W. LONGFELLOW.
Years steal
Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb; And life’s enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. _Childe Harold, Canto III_. LORD BYRON.
For we are old, and on our quick’st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.
_All’s Well that Ends Well, Act v. Sc. 3_. SHAKESPEARE.
Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.
_Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Bk. II_. DR. I. WATTS.
Thus aged men, full loth and slow,
The vanities of life forego,
And count their youthful follies o’er, Till Memory lends her light no more.
_Rokeby, Canto V_. SIR W. SCOTT.
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility;
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly.
_As You Like, It. Act_ ii. _Sc_. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
But grant, the virtues of a temp’rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
_Vanity of Human Wishes_. DR. S. JOHNSON.
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old,
And life’s latest sands are its sands of gold! _To the “Bouquet Club.”_ J.C.R. DORR.
The spring, like youth, fresh blossoms doth produce, But autumn makes them ripe and fit for use: So Age a mature mellowness doth set
On the green promises of youthful heat. _Cato Major, Pt. IV_. SIR J. DENHAM.
My May of life
Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. _Macbeth, Act_ v. _Sc_. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth as I am now.
_Childe Harold, Canto II_. LORD BYRON.
His silver hairs
Will purchase us a good opinion,
And buy men’s voices to commend our deeds; It shall be said–his judgment ruled our hands. _Julius Caesar, Act_ ii. _Sc. 1_. SHAKESPEARE.
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise. _King Lear, Act i. Sc. 4_. SHAKESPEARE.
So may’st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother’s lap, or be with ease
Gathered, not harshly plucked for death mature. _Paradise Lost, Bk. XI_. MILTON.
AIR.
DUNCAN. This castle hath a pleasant seat: the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
Unto our gentle senses.
BANQUO…. The heaven’s breath
Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle: Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air is delicate.
_Macbeth, Act i. Sc. 6_. SHAKESPEARE.
Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whispered it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odors from the spicy shrub. _Paradise Lost, Bk. VIII_. MILTON.
HAMLET. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.
HORATIO. It is a nipping and an ‘eager air. _Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 4_. SHAKESPEARE.
The parching air
Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. _Paradise Lost, Bk. II_. MILTON.
Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer’s noontide air.
_Paradise Lost, Bk. II_. MILTON.
As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air. _Paradise Lost, Bk. IX_, MILTON.
Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air. _Gotham, Bk. II_. C. CHURCHILL.
AMBITION.
Ambition is our idol, on whose wings Great minds are carried only to extreme; To be sublimely great, or to be nothing. _The Loyal Brother, Act i. Sc. 1_. T. SOUTHERNE.
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. _Paradise Lost, Bk. I_. MILTON.
Rather than be less
Cared not to be at all.
_Paradise Lost, Bk. II_. MILTON.
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.
_Julius Caesar, Act ii. Sc. 1_. SHAKESPEARE.
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent; but only Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself, And falls on the other.
_Macbeth, Act i. Sc. 7_. SHAKESPEARE.
But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune’s ice prefers to Virtue’s land. _Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. I_. J. DRYDEN.
Ambition’s monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour. _Playhouse to Let_. SIR W. DAVENANT.
But see how oft ambition’s aims are crossed, And chiefs contend ’til all the prize is lost! _Rape of the Lock, Canto V_. A. POPE.
O, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains to the skies? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. _Essay on Man, Epistle IV_. A. POPE.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
_Hamlet, Act ii. Sc. 2_. SHAKESPEARE.
Why then doth flesh, a bubble-glass of breath, Hunt after honour and advancement vain, And rear a trophy for devouring death?
_Ruins of Time_. E. SPENSER.
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise By mountains piled on mountains to the skies? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. _Essay on Man_. A. POPE.
ANGEL.
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.
_Ballad of Babe Christabel_. G. MASSEY.
Around our pillows golden ladders rise, And up and down the skies,
With winged sandals shod,
The angels come, and go, the Messengers of God! Nor, though they fade from us, do they depart– It is the childly heart:
We walk as heretofore,
Adown their shining ranks, but see them nevermore. _Hymn to the Beautiful_. R.H. STODDARD.
For God will deign
To visit oft the dwellings of just men Delighted, and with frequent intercourse Thither will send his winged messengers On errands of supernal grace.
_Paradise Lost, Bk. VII_. MILTON.
But sad as angels for the good man’s sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in. _The Pleasures of Hope, Pt. II_. T. CAMPBELL.
What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel-visits, few and far between. _The Pleasures of Hope, Pt. II_. T. CAMPBELL.
ANGER.
Anger is like
A full-hot horse; who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.
_King Henry VIII., Act i. Sc 1_. SHAKESPEARE.
Being once chased, he cannot
Be reined again to temperance; then he speaks What’s in his heart.
_Coriolanus, Act iii. Sc. 3_. SHAKESPEARE.
I am very sorry, good Horatio,
That to Laertes I forgot myself,
* * * * *
But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion.
_Hamlet, Act v. Sc. 2_. SHAKESPEARE.
Senseless, and deformed,
Convulsive Anger storms at large; or, pale And silent, settles into fell revenge.
_The Seasons: Spring_. J. THOMSON.
Be advised;
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun. By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running.
_King Henry VIII., Act i. Sc. 1_. SHAKESPEARE.
Never anger made good guard for itself. _Antony and Cleopatra, Act iv. Sc. 1_. SHAKESPEARE.
ANGLING.
All’s fish they get
That cometh to net.
_Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry_. T. TUSSER.
In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade, Where cooling vapors breathe along the mead, The patient fisher takes his silent stand, Intent, his angle trembling in his hand; With looks unmoved, he hopes the scaly breed, And eyes the dancing cork, and bending reed. _Windsor Forest_. A. POPE.
Now is the time,
While yet the dark-brown water aids the guile, To tempt the trout. The well-dissembled fly, The rod fine tapering with elastic spring, Snatched from the hoary steed the floating line, And all thy slender wat’ry stores prepare. _The Seasons: Spring_. J. THOMSON.
Just in the dubious point, where with the pool Is mixed the trembling stream, or where it boils Around the stone, or from the hollowed bank Reverted plays in undulating flow,
There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook: Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow-dragging some, With various hand proportioned to their force. _The Seasons: Spring_. J. THOMSON.
Give me mine angle, we’ll to the river; there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes; my bended hook shall pierce Their shiny jaws.
_Antony and Cleopatra, Act_ ii. _Sc_. 5. SHAKESPEARE.
His angle-rod made of a sturdy oak;
His line a cable which in storms ne’er broke; His hook he baited with a dragon’s tail, And sat upon a rock, and bobbed for whale. _Upon a Giant’s Angling_. W. KING.
ANIMALS.
A harmless necessary cat.
_Merchant of Venice, Act_ iv. _Sc_. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Confound the cats! All cats–alway– Cats of all colors, black, white, gray; By night a nuisance and by day–
Confound the cats!
_A Dithyramb on Cats_. O.T. DOBBIN.
I am his Highness’ dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? _On the Collar of a Dog_. A. POPE.
The little dogs and all,
Tray, Blanche, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me. _King Lear, Act_ iii _Sc_. 6. SHAKESPEARE.
How, in his mid-career, the spaniel struck, Stiff, by the tainted gale, with open nose, Outstretched and finely sensible, draws full, Fearful and cautious, on the latent prey. _The Seasons: Autumn_. J. THOMSON.
A horse! a horse! My kingdom for a horse! _King Richard III., Act_ v. _Sc_. 4. SHAKESPEARE.
The courser pawed the ground with restless feet, And snorting foamed, and champed the golden bit. _Palamon and Arcite, Pt. III_. J. DRYDEN.
Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide: Look, what a horse should have he did not lack. Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
_Venus and Adonis_. SHAKESPEARE.
Oft in this season too the horse, provoked While his big sinews full of spirits swell, Trembling with vigor, in the heat of blood, Springs the high fence…. his nervous chest, Luxuriant and erect, the seat of strength! _The Seasons: Summer_. J. THOMSON.
Champing his foam, and bounding o’er the plain, Arch his high neck, and graceful spread his mane. _The Courser_. SIR R. BLACKMORE.
Is it the wind those branches stirs? No, no! from out the forest prance
A trampling troop; I see them come! In one vast squadron they advance!
I strove to cry,–my lips were dumb. The steeds rush on in plunging pride;
But where are they the reins to guide! A thousand horse,–and none to ride!
With flowing tail, and flying mane, Wide nostrils, never stretched by pain, Mouths bloodless to the bit or rein,
And feet that iron never shod,
And flanks unscarred by spur or rod, A thousand horse, the wild, the free,
Like waves that follow o’er the sea, Came thickly thundering on.
_Mazeppa_. LORD BYRON.
I holde a mouses herte nat worth a leek. That hath but oon hole for to sterte to. _Preamble, Wyves Tale of Bath_. CHAUCER.
When now, unsparing as the scourge of war, Blast follow blasts and groves dismantled roar; Around their home the storm-pinched cattle lows, No nourishment in frozen pasture grows. _The Farmer’s Boy: Winter_. R. BLOOMFIELD.
Rural confusion! on the grassy bank
Some ruminating lie; while others stand Half in the flood, and, often bending, sip The circling surface. In the middle droops The strong laborious ox, of honest front, Which incomposed he shakes; and from his sides The troublous insects lashes with his tail, Returning still.
_The Seasons: Summer_. J. THOMSON.
Tossed from rock to rock,
Incessant bleatings run around the hills. At last, of snowy white, the gathered flocks Are in the wattled pen innumerous pressed, Head above head: and ranged in lusty rows, The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding shears. _The Seasons: Summer_. J. THOMSON.
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. _Essay on Man, Epistle I_. A. POPE.
Welcome, ye shades! ye bowery thickets, hail!… Delicious is your shelter to the soul,
As to the hunted hart the sallying spring, Or stream full-flowing, that his swelling sides Laves, as he floats along the herbaged brink. _The Seasons: Autumn_. J. THOMSON.
A poor sequestered stag,
That from the hunter’s aim had ta’en a hurt, Did come to languish;…
… and the big round tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase.
_As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 1_. SHAKESPEARE.
Cruel as Death, and hungry as the Grave! Burning for blood! bony, and gaunt, and grim! Assembling wolves in raging troops descend; And, pouring o’er the country, bear along, Keen as the north wind sweeps the glossy snows. All is their prize.
_The Seasons: Winter_. J. THOMSON.
ANTHOLOGY.
Infinite riches in a little room.
_The Jew of Malta, Act i_. C. MARLOWE.
APPARITION.
Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts. _Odyssey_. HOMER. _Trans. of_ POPE.
My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls, A noise of falling weights that never fell, Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand, Door-handles turned when none was at the door, And bolted doors that opened of themselves; And one betwixt the dark and light had seen _Her_, bending by the cradle of her babe. _The Ring_. A. TENNYSON.
Great Pompey’s shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio’s ghost walks unavenged amongst us! _Cato, Act ii. Sc_. 1. J. ADDISON.
Now it is the time of night,
That the graves, all gaping wide,
Every one lets forth his sprite,
In the church-way paths to glide.
_Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act v. Sc_. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
For night’s swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora’s harbinger;
At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there, Troop home to churchyards.
_Midsummer Night’s Dream_, iii, 2. SHAKESPEARE.
APPEARANCE.
Such was Zuleika! such around her shone The nameless charms unmarked by her alone; The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, And oh! that eye was in itself a Soul.
_Bride of Abydos, Canto I_. LORD BYRON.
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. _The Tempest, Act i. Sc_. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare.
_All Fools, Act i. Sc_. 1. G. CHAPMAN.
Her glossy hair was clustered o’er a brow Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth; Her eyebrow’s shape was like the aerial bow, Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth, Mounting, at times, to a transparent glow, As if her veins ran lightning.
_Don Juan, Canto I_. LORD BYRON.
The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observed of all observers!
_Hamlet, Act_ iii _Sc_. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy, a mountebank,
A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller, A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man.
_Comedy of Errors, Act v. Sc_. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Falstaff sweats to death,
And lards the lean earth as he walks along; Were’t not for laughing, I should pity him. _K. Henry IV., Pt. I. Act ii. Sc_. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Yond’ Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. _Julius Caesar, Act i. Sc_. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Seemed washing his hands with invisible soap In imperceptible water.
_Miss Kilmansegg_. T. HOOD.
Her pretty feet
Like snailes did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at bo-peep,
Did soon draw in agen.
_Upon her Feet_. R. HERRICK.
Who the silent man can prize,
If a fool he be or wise?
Yet, though lonely seem the wood,
Therein may lurk the beast of blood; Often bashful looks conceal
Tongue of fire and heart of steel; And deem not thou in forest gray,
Every dappled skin thy prey,
Lest thou rouse, with luckless spear, The tiger for the fallow-deer!
_The Gulistan_. BISHOP HEBER.
HORATIO. I saw him once: he was a goodly king. HAMLET. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
_Hamlet, Act_ i. _Sc_. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
On his bold visage middle age
Had slightly pressed his signet sage, Yet had not quenched the open truth,
And fiery vehemence of youth;
Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare,
The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire Of hasty love or headlong ire.
_The Lady of the Lake, Canto I_. SIR W. SCOTT.
Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbor, and near bred. Bring me the fairest creature northward born, Where Phoebus’ fire scarce thaws the icicles, And let us make incision for your love, To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine. _Merchant of Venice, Act_ ii. _Sc. 1_. SHAKESPEARE.
Incensed with indignation Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned,
That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In th’ arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.