304 SUPERSTITION-SUSPENSE-SUSPICION-SWAN. SUPERSTITION. 'Tis a history Handed from ages down; a nurse's tale Which children, open-ey'd and mouth'd, devour; We learn it and believe. Southey's Thalaba, b. 4. SUSPENSE. But be not long, for in the tedious minutes, Frowde's Fall of Saguntur. Uncertainty! Fell dæmon of our fears! The human soul, SUSPICION. Mallet's Mustapha. Suspicion is a heavy armour, and With its own weight impedes more than it protects. Byron's Werner. Suspect !-that's a spy's office. Oh! we lose Byron's Sardanapalus, a. 1, s. 2. SWAN. The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 7. The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale; And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet Thomson's Seasons.-Spring. SWIMMING. There was one did battle with the storm With careless, desperate force; full many times His life was won and lost, as though he recked notNo hand did aid him, and he aided noneAlone he breasted the broad wave, alone That man was saved. Maturin's Bertram, a. 1, s. 3. How many a time have I Cloven with arm still lustier, breast more daring, Byron's Two Foscari, a. 1, s. 1. T. TEARS. thee fix'd, Yet on she moves, now stands and eyes Milton's Samson Agonistes. But these are tears of joy! To see you thus, has fill'd By Heav'ns, my love, thou dost distract my soul! I found her on the floor In all the storm of grief; yet beautiful! Sighing such a breath of sorrow, that her lips, Which late appear'd like buds, were now o'erblown! Pouring forth tears, at such a lavish rate, That were the world on fire, they might have drown'd The wrath of Heav'n, and quench'd the mighty ruin. I could perceive with joy, a silent show'r Ι Ibid. Lee's Junius Brutus. weep, 'tis true but Machiavel, I swear They're tears of vengeance; drops of liquid fire! So marble weeps, when flames surround the quarry, And the pil'd oaks spout forth such scalding bubbles, Before the general blaze. Lee's Casar Borgia. And know that when Sebastian weeps, his tears These thanks I pray you : Come harder than his blood. Dryden's Don Sebastian. Believe these tears, which from my wounded heart, Bleed at my eyes. Dryden's Spanish Friar. Stop, stop those tears, Monima! for they fall I feel them chill me to the very heart. Otway's Orphan. Down her cheeks flow'd the round drops : Casting forth light and tears together. Lansdown's Heroic Love. Thou weep'st, O stop that shower of falling sorrows, Trap's Abramule. Hide not thy tears; weep boldly-and be proud Hill's Alzira. From his big heart, o'ercharg'd with generous sorrow; See the tide working upward to his eye, And stealing from him in large silent drops, Without his leave. Young's Busiris. Her tears, like drops of molten lead, With torment burn the passage to my heart. Ibid. The eye, that will not weep another's sorrow, Should boast no gentler brightness than the glare, Mason's Elfrida. Heav'n, that knows The weakness of our natures, will forgive, Nay, must applaud Love's debt, when decent paid: Which glitters on the bier of fallen worth. Shirley's Parricide. Her eye did seem to labour with a tear, With its own weight, swelling, dropp'd upon her bosom. Which, by reflection of her light, appear'd As nature meant her sorrow for an ornament. Shirley's Brothers. How, thro' her tears, with pale and trembling radiance, Francis's Eugenia. Like a pent-up flood, swoln to the height, He pour'd his griefs into my breast with tears, Such as the manliest men in their cross'd lives Are sometimes forced to shed. Joanna Baillie's Rayner, a. 1, s. 1. Hide thy tears I do not bid thee not to shed them-'twere Easier to stop Euphrates at its source His best of man, and Byron's Sardanapalus, a. 4, s. 1. A space, till firmer thoughts restrained excess. Call Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 11. TEMPEST. you these peals of thunder but the yawn Of bellowing clouds? By Jove, they seem to me The world's last groans! And these vast sheets of flame Are its last blaze! The tapers of the gods, The sun and moon, run down like waxen globes, Lee's Edipus. |