An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse. 2333

Gay: Fables. Pt. i Fable 17

A serpent with an angel's voice! a grave
With flowers bestrew'd.

2334

Pollok: Course of Time. Pt. viii. Line 641

The hypocrite had left his mask, and stood
In naked ugliness. He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of heaven
To serve the devil in.

2335

Pollok: Course of Time. Pt. viii. Line 615 In sermon style he bought, And sold, and lied; and salutations made In scriptare terms. He pray'd by quantity, And with his repetitions, long and loud,

All knees were weary.

2336

Pollok: Course of Time. Pt. viii. Line 628 A man may cry Church! Church! at ev'ry word With no more piety than other people — A daw's not reckoned a religious bird Because it keeps a cawing from a steeple.

2337

Hood: Ode to Rae Wilson, Esq. Line 171

Hypocrisy infects the holy priest!

ICE.

2338 Robt. Greene: Looking-Glass for London and England

I.

Look! the massy trunks

Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,
Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven,
Is studded with its trembling water-drops,
That glimmer with an amethystine light.
But round the parent-stem the long, low boughs
Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbors hide
The glassy floor. Oh! you might deem the spot
The spacious cavern of some virgin mine.

2339

William Cullen Bryant: A Winter Piece

If his chief good, and market of his time,

Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.

Sure, He, that made us with such large discourse,

Looking before and after, gave us not

That capability and godlike reason

To fust in us unused.

2340

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iv. Sc.

A lazy, lolling sort,
Unseen at church, at senate, or at court,

Of ever listless loit'rers, that attend
No cause, no trust, no duty, and no friend.
2341
Pope: Dunciad. Bk. iv. Line 337
Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven designed;
He that has none, must make them, or be wretched.
Cares are employments; and without employ
The soul is on a rack; the rack of rest,

To souls most adverse.

2342

Young: Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 162

An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
As useless if it goes as when it stands.

2343

Absence of occupation is not rest,

Cowper: Retirement. Line 681

Cowper: Retirement. Line 629

A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
2344
Come hither, ye that press your beds of down
And sleep not: see him sweating o'er his bread
Before he eats it. - "Tis the primal curse,
But soften'd into mercy: made the pledge
Of cheerful days, and nights without a groan.
2345

-

Cowper: Task. Bk. i. Line 362

Like a coy maiden, Ease, when courted most,
Farthest retires — an idol, at whose shrine
Who oftenest sacrifice are favored least.
2346

Cowper: Task. Bk. i. Line 409

How various his employments, whom the world
Calls idle, and who justly, in return,

Esteems that busy world an idler too!

2347

Cowper: Task. Bk. iii. Line 350

Of those forlorn and sad, thou might'st have marked,

In number most innumerable stand

The indolent: too lazy these to make

Inquiry for themselves.

2348

Pollok: Course of Time. Pt. viii. Line 299

GNORANCE see Knowledge.

Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

2349

Ignorance is the curse of God,

Shaks.: 2 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc 7

We, ignorant of ourselves,

Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit,

By losing of our prayers.

2350

Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act ii. Sc. 1

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,

As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.

2351

Pope: Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 315

Where blind and naked Ignorance

Tennyson: Vivien. Line 515

Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed,
On all things all day long.

2355

What mortal knows

Whence come the tint and odor of the rose?

What probing deep

Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

2356

T. B. Aldrich: Human Ignorance

MAGINATION - see Fancy.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,

Are of imagination all compact:

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

That is, the madman; the lover, all as frantic,

Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt;

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation, and a name.

2357

Shaks.: Mid. N. Dream. Act v. Sc 1

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?

2358

Shaks.: Richard II. Act 1. Sc. 3.

Where are the charms and virtues which we dare

Conceive in boyhood and pursue as men,

The unreach'd Paradise of our despair,

Which o'er informs the pencil and the pen,

And overpowers the page where it would bloom again!

2359

Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 122

Imagination is the air of mind.

2360 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Another and a Better World

O Fancy, if thou flyest, come back anon,
Thy fluttering wings are soft as love's first word,
And fragrant as the feathers of that bird,
Which feeds upon the budded cinnamon.

2361

Jean Ingelow: Fanc

Do what he will, he cannot realize
Half he conceives - the glorious vision flies;
Go where he may, he cannot hope to find
The truth, the beauty pictur'd in his mind.

2362

IMITATION.

Rogers: Human Life. Line 119

To copy beauties forfeits all pretence
To fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
2363

Churchill: Rosciad. Line 457

We love in others what we lack ourselves, And would be everything but what we are. 2364

IMMORTALITY.

R. H. Stoddard: Arcadian Idyl

It must be so, Plato, thou reasonest well!-
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?

Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror
Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
'Tis the divinity that stirs within us,

'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.

2365

Addison: Cato. Act v. Sc. 1

The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amidst the war of elements,

The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
2366

Addison: Cato. Act v. Sc. 1

Immortal! Ages past, yet nothing gone!
Morn without eve! A race without a goal!
Unshorten'd by progression infinite!

Futurity forever future!

Life

Beginning still, where computation ends!

"Tis the description of a deity!

2367

Young: Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 542

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live for ever?
Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all?

This is a miracle, and that no more.

2368

Young: Night Thoughts. Night vii. Line 1396

Can it be?

Matter immortal? and shall spirit die?
Above the nobler shall less noble rise?
Shall man alone, for whom all else revives,
No resurrection know? Shall man alone,
Imperial man! be sown in barren ground,
Less privileg'd than grain, on which he feeds?
2369

Young: Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 701

MPLACABILITY.

Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish.

2370

{MPLORING.

Shaks.: Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4

Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery;
For, where a heart is hard, they make no battery.

With that dull, rooted, callous impudence,
Which, dead to shame, and ev'ry nicer sense,
Ne'er blushed, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.

2375

INCOME

Churchill: Rosciad. Line 135

see Money, Prosperity.

I've often wished that I had clear,
For life, six hundred pounds a year,
A handsome house to lodge a friend,
A river at my garden's end.

2376

Pope: Im. of Horace. Bk. ii. Satire vi. Line L

INCONSTANCY see Change.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more;
Men were deceivers ever;

One foot in sea, and one on shore;

To one thing constant never.

2377

Shaks.: Much Ado. Act ii. Sc. 3. Song